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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Twenties"”.
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“The Seventies Meet the Twenties”: Charlotte Wolff as writer, public figure and “period piece”
Between 1969 and 1980 Dr Charlotte Wolff (1897-1986) wrote a memoir, a novel and an autobiography – alongside two psychologically focused works which challenged assumptions regarding gender and sexuality. In this period she also made the difficult decision to visit Berlin, the city which had once …
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Hispanic Migration to Northeastern Colorado During the Nineteen Twenties: Influences of Sugar Beet Agriculture
<p>Growing beets to process into sugar was a large and important industry in 1920s Northeastern CO. The infrastructure to support the sugar beet industry was built and expanded in the first decades of the 1900s. Beyond infrastructure requirements the sugar beet industry relied on seasonal low …
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Adolescence in the Twenties as Represented in American Novels, Popular Magazines, and Literature Anthologies of the Decade
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Adrift
… opens in 2005, when Telemaka is in her late twenties, and works its way backward through her twenties, teens, and adolescence to the moment in her childhood when her father left the family.</p>
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An examination of the anti-foreign attitude in the United States between 1919 and 1929, based upon the periodical literature of the time
… feeling in America during the nineteen-twenties and to determine reasons for these attitudes by examining articles in periodical literature of the time. Over two hundred sixtyfive articles from twenty-six different periodicals, as well as government documents and some of the better-known …
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Persons Unknown
… conversion to Orthodox Christianity in my early twenties.</p>
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Military fictions: Stories about soldiers, 1914-1930
… and that the disillusioned fiction of the late twenties belatedly revealed the 'truth about the War. This thesis asks what the literature looks like if these propositions are not taken for granted. It finds in wartime Britain a 'culture of consent' regulated more by public opinion than by …
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Becoming Catholic: Story, Sacrament, Conversion and the Emergence of Faith in Postconciliar Autobiographies
… adult Catholic men and women in their early twenties through their early forties. It argues that their life writings, when taken together as a whole and read through the dual lens of Story and Sacrament, evidence an emergent process of conversion, of "becoming Catholic" in the modern American …
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Parenting Practices in Emerging Adulthood: Development of a New Measure
… young people are living at home well into their twenties, and parents no longer see their children as adults until well into their mid to late twenties (Nelson, Walker, Carroll, Madsen, Barry, & Badger, 2006), parents may continue to "parent" for much longer than we have typically believed. …
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Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
… friends as teenagers but drift apart in their twenties. The women find each other again, later in life, and ease into an unsettled truce. As a writer I am interested in questions of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity; in these stories, I have tried to explore the intersections of these …
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Brown Girl Chromatography
… Bangladeshi-American female's birth to her mid-twenties adulthood.
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The effects of family planning type and prevalent use on fertility and under-five mortality in Tanzania.
… use of oral contraceptives through a woman's twenties and thirties, while injectables are mostly used by women in their twenties. These results suggest that sterilization immediately impacts on a region's total fertility rate. However, long-term investments in oral and injectable …
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Race differences in infant mortality
… with infants born to mothers in their early twenties having the highest birthweights, and infants born to mothers in their late twenties having the highest probabilities of survival. Among African Americans, the effects of maternal age on birthweight are linear, with infants born to teenagers …
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Figurative art in Soviet Russia circa 1921-1934 : situating the realist-anti-realist debate in the context of changing definitions of proletarian culture
… repeat the argument as it was articulated in the twenties and thirties, which is to ignore the possibility of a critical analysis of the theoretical principles and constraints informing the debates current at that time. Categorising leftists as anti-realist and figurative artists as realist is not …
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Clothing interest, leisure activity continuity and their association to clothing fit satisfaction for women 55 years and older
… for subjects at ages spanning decades in their twenties and forties. A Duncan’s (MRT) of the solo leisure activities and the group leisure activities show there to be a significant difference across the sample for the subjects in their twenties and forties. The subjects in the over 75 age group …
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A study of political and sectional voting alignments in the United States Senate, 1921-1929
<p>Several common and casual assertions about "twenties" politics should come under critical reanalysis, including traditional descriptions of the extent and character of party division. The usual historical generalization is that, although conservativism was the predominant political attitude, …
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Dollo & Me (Aftermath with Permutations) and The Relenting
… for survival. It specifically looks at my twenties and thirties and tackles the various manifestations of trauma in my life. Two essays frame the manuscript: one as Chapter Zero and one as Chapter Oh. The body of the manuscript is contained in seventeen numerical chapters. The second part …
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Waiting for Paternity: Interpersonal and Contextual Implications of the Timing of Fatherhood
… was born when both parents were in their early twenties (mean age = 23.1) or past age thirty (mean age = 34.3) and whose child was between the ages of 3 and 5 at the time of the study, participated. Videotaped observations of father-child play were collected, along with self-reports of fathers' …
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Partying Like It's 1925: A Comparison and Contrast of Fitzgerald's <em>The Great Gatsby</em> and Azuela's <em>The Underdogs</em>
… two iconic novels published during the nineteen-twenties: <em>The Great Gatsby</em> (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald and <em>The Underdogs</em> by Mariano Azuela (originally published in 1915, re-written and redistributed in the 1920s, and then given a final version in 1925 that was translated into …
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North of Sixty-Six
… crisis. Realizing he has made it to his mid-twenties without accomplishing much of anything, Cole and two friends decide they're going to make it big in Hollywood. On the way out of town, he takes revenge against Sears, his employer, which he feels has been treating him unfairly. The road …
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