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Showing 1 to 20 of 496 for “"Virgin"”.
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Virgin Capital: Foreign Investment and Local Stratification in the US Virgin Islands
<p><italic>Virgin Capital</italic> explores the impact of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) program in the US Virgin Islands and asks, "How do contemporary circulations of capital and people alternately build upon and complicate long-present hierarchies?" This dissertation approaches the …
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Virgin State of Mind
Virgin State of Mind is a literary young adult thriller about a 17-year-old named Charlie who struggles to maintain normalcy in his life in the months following a devastating sexual assault, and how an unexpected reunion with his assaulter one snowy December night sets Charlie on a path toward …
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Brunch with the Virgin Mary
Cookbook
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US Virgin Islands renewable energy future
The US Virgin Islands must face drastic changes to its electrical system. There are two problems with electricity production in the USVI-it's dirty and it's expensive. Nearly one hundred percent of the electricity in these islands comes from imported diesel, brought in by ship. Expensive fuel and …
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The Schizophrenic Virgin (Original writing, Short stories)
The Schizophrenic Virgin is an experimental look at how stories interrelate and "congeal" to form one. Each chapter is in the semblance of a short story. The point of view changes, while characters reappear to continue their development and growth through the eyes of another. The intended effect is …
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Becoming-Virgin: Re-Virginisation Practices in Turkey
Re-virginisation refers to the regaining of women’s ‘technical’ virginity even though the woman might have had penile-vaginal intercourse before. While virginity takes on many different meanings that are culturally determined and socially constructed, ‘technical’ virginity refers to ‘proving’ …
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Lithic analysis of three Lowland Virgin Anasazi sites
… This report is the first comparison of Lowland Virgin Anasazi lithic assemblages ever done. Comparisons reveal a temporal trend toward increasing sedentism at the early to middle Pueblo II interfacing time period. This finding may be important to future arguments for fully sedentary Virgin …
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Abdominal-B Neurons Control Drosophila Virgin Female Receptivity
… (Abd-B), a homeobox transcription factor, in virgin female sexual receptivity. Silencing adult Abd-B neurons in the abdominal ganglion and reproductive tract decreased female receptivity. Whereas previous work measured copulation, we quantified movement using automated tracking and vaginal …
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A comparative study of cropped and virgin soil
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1932
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Preceramic procurement patterns at Krum Bay, Virgin Islands
… Krum Bay site on St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. Located in a cluster of three related sites with a long history of investigation, the deposit is a small, preceramic period stratified shell midden that is composed predominantly of pearl oysters. Radiocarbon results indicate its …
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Virgin hardwood forest soils of western North Carolina
… original properties of soils in the East. Eight virgin soils and associated southern Appalachian hardwood vegetation were studied in western North Carolina. The study sites ranged in elevation from 720 to 1200 m on steep slopes. Overall these soils are quite deep and highly weathered due to high …
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Water reuse and conservation in the United States Virgin Islands
… and reuse practices in the United States Virgin Islands was undertaken by administering surveys to Territory Permit Discharge Elimination System permit holders and performing interviews. Currently, many resorts and condominiums in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) reclaim wastewater in response …
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God's Chosen: The Cults of Virgin Martyrs in Anglo-Saxon England
… forms—was expressed in the cult of saints. The virgin martyr became one of the most popular forms of sanctity, yet with hundreds of possible martyrs who could have been venerated, the question becomes which ones ultimately thrived in Anglo-Saxon England and why? Moreover, the very need for these …
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Reclaiming the virgin birth narrative in Latin America feminist liberation theology
… Church fathers' andocentric miss-reading of the Virgin Birth narrative. Secondly, it looks at feminist theologians' critical analyses of Marian devotion in Latin America as being about the veneration of an archetypal figure working in the interests of patriarchal social control and the oppression …
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VIRGIN POLITICS: AN IDEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF "VIRGINITY" IN THE EGYTPIAN VIRGINTY TESTS
… to seventeen female Egyptian protesters, virginity tests. This thesis analyzes the military's justification and Samira Ibrahim's discursive response to the virginity tests. I analyze the military's use of "virginity" in their justification for the virginity tests, through the theoretical …
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