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The Acting of Otis Skinner
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The Fifth Sparrow: In Memory of Mollie Skinner
… a portrait of West Australian writer Mollie Skinner (1876- 1955). Sources included her autobiography (both the original manuscript and that edited and published by Mary Durack), Mollie’s novels and her letters—particularly her extensive correspondence with the British author D.H. Lawrence, …
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Skinner stories : a community's perspective on the representation of coloured people today
This work investigates the meanings coloured people derive from media representations of' colouredness'. To position coloured identity in post apartheid South Africa, it pays close attention to the ways apartheid stereotypes play themselves out in particularly television media today. It looks at …
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A study of the processes of charging and discharging constant volume tanks with air by C.K. Wagner, F.D. Skinner.
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1953.
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Maternal Depression and Child Maladjustment: The Role of Parental Style
… style. Building upon Baumrind’s work, Ellen Skinner has further refined the concept of parenting and identified six dimensions of parenting: warmth, structure, autonomy support, rejection, chaos, and coercion. Prior research supports a link between undesirable parental practices and maternal …
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Maternal Depression and Child Maladjustment: The Role of Parental Style
… style. Building upon Baumrind’s work, Ellen Skinner has further refined the concept of parenting and identified six dimensions of parenting: warmth, structure, autonomy support, rejection, chaos, and coercion. Prior research supports a link between undesirable parental practices and maternal …
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Is the Written Component of Tootling Effective? A Comparison of the Group Contingency to a Comparison Writing Procedure
… in settings from elementary school (e.g., Skinner, Cashwell, & Skinner, 2000) to high school (e.g., Lum et al., 2019). Several studies have shown meaningful effects for the tootling intervention on increasing class-wide academically engaged behavior (AEB) and decreasing disruptive behaviors …
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COPING WITH MOTHERHOOD: THE ROLE OF MOBILE PHONES FOR FIRST TIME MOTHERS IN SINGAPORE
… of motherhood. Subsequently, this study adopted Skinner and colleagues’ (2003) coping strategies of distraction, problem solving, support seeking, avoidance and cognitive restructuring, as its main framework for analysis. Through this study, four out of five of the coping strategies by Skinner …
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An American Actor's Dialect
… dialects that I have studied in depth are Edith Skinner's 'American Classical Stage Standard' and Kenneth Crannell's 'Career Speech'. I have found something lacking in both the Skinner dialect and Crannell's 'Career Speech'. Yet, I believe that each has a strength from which the other could …
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The Effects of the Tootling Intervention Using Daily Reinforcement
… of a classroom intervention known as Tootling (Skinner, Skinner, & Cashwell, 1998) in decreasing disruptive classroom behavior as well as increasing academically engaged classroom behavior. Tootling is a strategy that encourages and prompts students to report instances of their peers’ positive …
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Szabadság, demokrácia és politikai közösség : A republikánus-liberális vita
… többsége – köztük Philip Pettit, Quentin Skinner és mások – úgy vélik, hogy a republikánus elmélet jobb szabadság- és ezzel összefüggésben egyenlőség-elmélettel rendelkezik, mint a tágan értett liberalizmus, adekvátabb demokrácia-képe van, és a társadalom megfelelő közösségi …
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A multi-contextualist approach to Albert Camus's 'The New Mediterranean Culture': A case study in Intelletual-Historical Method
… to textual interpretation developed by Quentin Skinner. Whereas Skinner rejects text-centred and crude socio-historical approaches and focuses on the argumentative context of previous texts on the same subject, I argue that different parts of the text need to be placed in different contexts - …
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Cognitive Engagement Across Academic and Extracurricular Activities
… and apply the efforts necessary for success (Skinner & Raine, 2022). It is linked to positive outcomes for youth, such as learning and skill development (Skinner & Raine, 2022; Vandell & Simpkins, 2024). Despite the apparent developmental benefits of cognitive engagement in both school and …
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Voice and body incorporated into actor training
… in the styles of vocal specialists: Edith Skinner, Cicely Barry, and Kristin Linklater. I then explore various forms of "body use" technique's used in an acting student's learning process, such as: Alexander Technique, Laban, Neutral Mask work, T'ai Chi, and Modern Dance. Finally, this text …
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Divergence and Disagreement in Contemporary Anarchist Communism: Social Ecology and Anarchist Primitivism
… uses a methodological approach suggested Quentin Skinner. Skinner argued that in order to fully understand a text in the history of ideas, it is necessary to understand the author's intention in writing it. The study therefore examines not only the texts, but also the backgrounds of the writers …
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"The Silent Classroom": A Study of One Classroom Management Strategy on Disruptive Ninth Grade Classrooms
… grounded in ‘he philosophies of Dewey, Skinner and Plato and guided by state and district learning standards.</p>
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An Examination of Self-Editing Behavior on the Part of the Listener
… listener. Following this conceptualization by Skinner in 1957, very few experimental preparations have examined this verbal phenomenon from a behavior analytic perspective (Hyten & Chase, 1991; Epting, 2003). The current study suggests a reconceptualization of self-editing behavior using an …
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(Anti)imperializmo idėja Džozefo Konrado romane "Tamsos Širdis" /
… later on it was developed by many scholars. Q. Skinner criticism of A. O. Lovejoy approach is especially significant in this work since it provided groundwork for synchronic micro-study which is used to analyze “Heart of Darkness”. Q. Skinner offers research strategy which involves both text and …
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Incorporating Digital Storytelling in the English Language Class for Korean University Students
… the students’ motivation for learning (Hagood & Skinner, 2008; Reinders, 2011). Each activity and lesson is focused on students being able to create their own digital story. Student will select a topic for their digital story and each lesson outlines how to develop the story using a step-by-step …
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