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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"border crossings"”.
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Discovering Border Crossings in Pagan Epic Literature
<p>This dissertation argues that border crossings were important to the ancient Celts and Norse as evidenced by the vast quantity of occurrences in their literature,and have remained important themes in literature throughout the ages. Border crossings reflect man's fascination with concepts beyond …
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Hybridity, border-crossings and the homeland in contemporary literature by women
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Border crossings : how students negotiate cultural borders during digital video production
… extent to which such patterns signify cultural border crossings in a South African upper income group school context. The investigation was carried out with specific reference to the politics of difference, an educational philosophy defined by Henry Giroux (2006) as border pedagogy. Within the …
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Border crossings: transgressions of national and gender identities in twentieth century Polish fiction
… regime with a need to maintain fixed stable borders, which, whether political or sexual, must be guarded against invasions and pollution. The several works of twentieth century Polish fiction I analyze in these pages refute these attempts at regulation, subverting a nationalist mythos of a …
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Negotiating the border in Song China: foreign policy, border management, and border-crossings, 1005-1122
… thesis discusses the issue of foreign policy, border management, and border-crossing incidents during Song-Liao peacetime (1005-1122). It focuses on one of the earliest borderlines drawn between two great powers of northeast Asia in the eleventh century, the Liao and the Song. This thesis not …
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“I, Too, Am an Occupied Territory”: Border Crossings and Personal Sovereignty in Three Novels by Dominican American Women
<p>Border crossing(s) and personal sovereignty are intimately and complexly connected in novels by and about Dominican American women. Through readings of In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez, Dominicana by Angie Cruz, and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, I argue that patriarchal forms of …
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An analytic-deliberative process for the selection and deployment of radiation detection systems for shipping ports and border crossings
… of nuclear smuggling through shipping ports and border crossings has been recognized as a national priority in defending the US against nuclear terrorism. In light of the SAFE Port act of 2006, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) has been charged with the responsibility of providing the …
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Border inspections in a dual-language, second-grade classroom in the U.S. Midwest
This study employed Border Theory as a theoretical framework and Lugo’s conceptualization of border inspections as a tool for social analysis of the multiple borders faced by four second-grade children of Mexican immigrant families at a 50-50 Dual Language (DL) school in the U.S. Midwest. The image …
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An Investigation of a Theoretical Zigbee-Based Border Crossing System
Excessive delays at border crossings threaten the mobility of people and trading of goods. The management of transportation infrastructure generally requires continuous and real-time monitoring, formulation, and dissemination of information and guidance to motorists and other parties. This thesis …
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Negotiating identities in post-apartheid South Africa : black African managers' experiences in an English-speaking university
… strategies they employ as they navigate borders and boundaries between their home and work worlds, and how they negotiate identity in an environment dominated by Eurocentrism in one of the oldest English-speaking universities in South Africa. The theoretical framework was informed Berger …
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Violence and the Domestic Sphere in Cinematic Representations of the Northern Irish Conflict
… these conventions by parodizing them with many border-crossings. Jordan’s film blurred the apparently stable borders, making way for new modes of representation from the second half of the 1990s.
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Crossing the Line: Censorship, Borders, and the Queer Poetics of Disclosure in English-Canadian Writing, 1967-2000
… “indecent and immoral” material, the nation’s borders have served as discursive sites of sexual censorship for the LGBTTQ lives and literatures that cross the line. While the Supreme Court’s decision in Little Sisters v. Canada (2000) upheld the agency’s power to exclude obscenity, the Court …
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Utilization Of A Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Network For Intrusion Detection And Border Surveillance
<p>To control the border more effectively, countries may deploy a detection system that enables real-time surveillance of border integrity. Events such as border crossings need to be monitored in real time so that any border entries can be noted by border security forces and destinations marked for …
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Working across cultures in indigenous science education
… process, is examined in relation to the ideas of border crossing and culture brokerage. A number of issues were raised, some through the literature, which became foci for the research. Examination of border crossing indicated that some westerners were successful as cross-cultural communicators but …
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Bordering on (In)visibility: The Mobility and Containment of Haitian Migrant Women in the Dominican Republic's Linea Noroeste
… (northwest line) linking the Dominican Rebulic's border town of Dajabon with the urban center of Santiago. The multi-sited study considers the larger network of political, social, and economic structures and relations of power in which these women are positioned in their daily lives and through …
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Student Disposition Towards Discussing Race in the Classroom
… within the Black Lives Matter movement and border crossings, were utilized to examine students’ engagement with discussing race and their willingness to engage with their own racial identities as an audience. This study focused on three students of different racial backgrounds– a …
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Border fusion / Fusión en la frontera : integrating industry, habitation and exchange in a divided city
… along San Diego/Tijuana's la Línea or border wall are characterized by high degrees of spatial fragmentation: -- a condition typical of border interface areas in politically partitioned or divided cities. Despite being centrally located relative to population and activity centers and …
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Non-speech Acoustic Event Detection Using Multimodal Information
… feature representation for person detection at border crossings. Based on phenomenology of the differences between humans and four-legged animals, we propose using enhanced autocorrelation pattern for feature extraction for seismic sensors, and an exemplar selection framework for acoustic …
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Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism
… for bona fide overseas visitors, excluding mere border crossings, were extrapolated, accepting that oscillations about the suggested trend line will become greater in the future. In order to predict the growth of domestic tourism, cognisance had to be taken of the demographic development of the …
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