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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"William Penn"”.
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An Evaluation of the Teacher Education Program at William Penn College
… the undergraduate teacher education program at William Penn College based upon a survey of the graduates' perceptions of the program from 1983-1987, as to the effectiveness and expected benefits of the program. Procedure. Graduate records were used to identify the names and addresses of all …
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Nature and the city : ecohistory and environmental planning in Philadelphia, 1681-2000
… planning in the city and region of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, over more than three centuries and examining current challenges and practices of ecological planning as outgrowths of that history. In establishing his colony in the late seventeenth century, William Penn articulated a vision of a lush …
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The Lincoln tradition in American poetry
… an ideal.|Names such as George Washington, Roger Williams, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Dolly Madison, Barbara Frietchie, U. S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt are familiar to all of us because of the countless stories we have read and heard about them. Some of these tales have …
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The Contested Ground of the "Peaceable Kingdom": Environmental Change and the Construction of Identity in Early Pennsylvania.
… that attended the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania and its capital city of Philadelphia in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Through engagement with the analytical methods of environmental history, ethnohistory, and ecocriticism, this dissertation demonstrates that …
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Education in Paradise: Learning for Profitable Employment Among the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
… century, the Amish originally put down roots in Pennsylvania, an English colony founded by the Quaker William Penn. Many other German pioneers, who stemmed from a variety of denominations, joined the Amish in settling the south-eastern part of the colony, where most of them found employment in …