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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Stories and poems"”.
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Kipling and imperialism : the literary significance of the setting of certain short stories and poems that relate to war conditions and to service in India and at sea
… tendentious presentation of imperialism, and from the dispute over forms of political dominance. The purpose of this study being to examine the nature and significance of imperialism in his work, several definitions of the term are given, and the areas in which he had particular interest …
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Stepping Stones
… is a compilation of essays, non-fiction short stories and poems.
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Speaking American
<p>This thesis is a collection of four short stories and four poems. The stories and poems incorporate the usual emotions, experiences and situations that humans encounter on a daily basis.</p>
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Where Light Is: a collection of short stories & The Definition of Snow: a chapbook
Where Light Is and The Definition of Snow are linked manuscripts in which a world is held in lyrical suspension. In the process of speaking alongside one another, the stories and poems in these collections explore the repercussions of grief, loss, and loneliness and how these are affected by …
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Inside of Her
Inside of Her is a collection of linked short stories and poems that illuminate the life of a young woman named Ginnie Mudrich who constantly feels manipulated by her mother, Violet, and her childhood friend Anna. Ginnie realizes their control when she becomes friends with a waitress named …
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Motivation and creativity: The relationship between achievement goals and creativity in writing
… the relationship between motivational goals and the creativity of short stories and poems. Creativity of the stories and poems was measured using a consensual technique based on independent assessments of a group of expert judges. The first study, with 121 undergraduates as subjects, …
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n Geintegreerde taakgebaseerde benadering tot die gebruik van kortverhale en gedigte as taalaanleerhulpmiddel vir tweedetaalstudente
… lessons within the constructivist framework and the integrated approach, using short stories and poems as language teaching aids for students taking the module Afrikaans Language Learning 189 from the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at Stellenbosch University. The ultimate goal of the …
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Learning through Reading: A Handbook of Literature-based Lessons for ESL
<p>Learning through Reading: A Handbook of Literature-based Lessons for ESL A Field Project written by Lota Rygiel in the spring of 2016. This project is a handbook of lessons for adult ESL students at intermediate or advanced proficiency levels of English as a Second Language. The handbook offers …
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Waterworks: Settler Industrialization and Literary Experimentation in Twentieth-Century North America
… River, the Florida Everglades, Lake Superior, and the Colorado River. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, infrastructure such as canals, aqueducts, dredges, and dams transformed the continent. This project tracks settlers’ shifting understandings of water— from something to defend …
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Will the "fight" ever end? : a critical reading of the metaphors and discourses that construct HIV/AIDS in an African context
… two nonfiction texts - Stephanie Nolen's 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa and Jonathan Morgan and the Bambanani Women's Group's Long Life ... Positive HIV Stories - as well as two literary texts - John Le Carre's popular fiction novel The Constant Gardener and an anthology of stories and poems …
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Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity
… 1958. The excavation for tin left the Plateau landscape environmentally depleted, with over forty-six per cent of its land filled with gullies and ponds due to tin mining. However, the discourse on environmental degradation in Nigeria is often associated with oil exploration in the Delta region, …
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Under theCapital Dome:' the Literary Culture of Middle-Class African Americans In Columbia, South Carolina, 1930-1932
… of readers deeply connected with their community and using literature to help shape their world views. This triad of a newspaper, reading group, and library attest to the intense literary engagement practiced by black middle-class Columbians and argues for a revision of long-standing theories …
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After Dark: Reading Canadian Literature in a Light-Polluted Age
A threat to nocturnal ecosystems and human health alike, light pollution is an unnecessary problem that comes at an enormous cost. The International Dark-Sky Association has recently estimated that the energy expended on light scatter alone is responsible for no less than twelve million tons of …
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La monja azul : the political and cultural ramifications of a 17th-century mystical transatlantic journey
… appearances she would make in the Americas and Europe over the next three hundred and seventy years. In the American Southwest, northern Mexico and Spain, stories about the apparating nun resurface and are reshaped in response to the demands of their contexts. Her narrative is transatlantic …
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Original stories and tales emphasizing the theme of conservation for use with kindergarten children to which are attached a group of poems for children of the same age
… following thesis. Webster defines it as "care and wisdom in the management of one's resources." Now, in our national emergency, we find it becoming the mode, and likely to be valued more and more as America assumes her world responsibility.</p>If we have trained to thrift in the necessities of …