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Showing 1 to 20 of 1511 for “"Village"”.
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Birth Village
… the historical backdrop of childbirth within a village setting. The primary objective of my thesis is to confront the increasing maternal mortality rates in the United States by examining the pivotal junction of healthcare infrastructure and maternal health. This entails conceptualizing a "birth …
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Johansen Village Hansenarium
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1958.
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Assessing the Village Model and the Village To Village Network in advocating aging in place for older Americans
… to live safely and independently. The Village Model is a component of this movement, recognized as a community-based and peer-support network, which allows older Americans to age in their homes and remain active in their community. While it is generally accepted that the first Village …
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Invisible village: A potential alternative for urban village redevelopment in China
… culturally identifiable community in an urban village redevelopment project in Langfang, China? ABSTRACT This research explores an alternative architectural strategy for urban village regeneration, focusing on Dong Village in Langfang, China. The project investigates how architectural …
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Tamed village “democracy”: elections, governance and clientelism in a contemporary Chinese village
… and governance in a contemporary Chinese village. It is a qualitative case study of one village in Shandong Province, China, using in-depth interviews with villagers, village candidates, township officials as well as national, provincial, township and village documents. It reveals how the …
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Dogs In A Village
Nearly all of the histories of Shays's Rebellion point to debt as the reason why farmers in western Massachusetts rose against the courts and the state government in the fall and winter of 1786-87. Recent scholarship demonstrates a new line of reasoning based on the tax records of those involved. …
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Cloud village: a novel
This thesis examines the moments in which the differences between cultures create new systems of meaning, the moments in which people reinvent themselves and their values, and in which a new language or expression is created. James Clifford calls these moments “Ethnographic Surrealism”, …
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Voice from the village
The Comprehensive Teacher Training Project (CTTP) is a distance education program developed and field tested between July 1990 and June 1992 in St. Lucia, Dominica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It combined instructional modules, telephone tutorials, and periodic group instruction to help …
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(Re)visions of the village: building and participating in the Blacksburg Electronic Village
The Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) project was established as a partnership between C&P Telephone of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and the town of Blacksburg. In this thesis, I describe the formation of this partnership and the evolution of the project from early 1991 to the spring of 1996. The …
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A Line Demarcating Greenwich Village
… occupied space juxtaposing the edge of Greenwich Village is an invisible and a undetermined line in the city. Architecture is the result of thinking of object as act, as transformation, and as invention. The project searches, explores, and makes this line present.
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Esperanza - Village Building in Honduras
… I desire to create a prototypical solution for a village in an area with high unemployment and desperate poverty as a means to give work to people and to serve as an example for other groups of people wanting to do the same. The site I've chosen to illustrate this concept of self-help housing is a …
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Samuel Parris: minister at Salem Village
… of Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began exhibiting strange behavior. "It began in obscurity, with cautious experiments in fortune telling. Books on the subject had 'stolen' into the land; and all over New England, late in 1691, young people were being 'led …
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Roles and responsibilities of chiefs in the village council of chiefs within a village in American Samoa
… traditional culture structure of one village in American Samoa. To provide an understanding of the Council of Chiefs cultural system in this village in American Samoa, the study examined and described Samoan chiefs' duties and responsibilities within the culture; considered how the …
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Mother Grin’s Village: A Creative Drama Program
… the facilitator chose to create Mother Grin’s Village: A Creative Drama Program. In this program, children utilized fairy tales and rhymes to develop alternative solutions to apply to miscommunication. The stories of The Old Woman in the Shoe, the Three Little Pigs, and Goldilocks and the Three …
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THE COMMUNICATING VILLAGE: HUMPHREY JENNINGS AND SURREALISM
… generally overlooked, film, The Silent Village (1943). These explorations allow an examination of the way that Jennings’s films articulate the relationship between surrealism and the everyday, the sublime and the uncanny. The thesis asserts that there is a specifically British form of …
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Provenance in personal documentary: My Mother's Village
My Mother's Village is a personal documentary response to The Sri Lanka Series (1980), a series of ethnographic films produced by the author's anthropologist mother, Sharon Bell, and filmmaker father, Geoff Burton. Four women, a community of fishermen, and a dance instructor were the 'subjects' of …
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