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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"boyhood"”.
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Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation in the Adolescent Male Rape Novel
This dissertation provides a critical content analysis of contemporary, realist adolescent novels depicting boys experiencing particularly rape taken from a corpus of 64 fictional, Anglophone adolescent narratives depicting the sexual abuse (including attempted abuse and rape) of boys published …
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Transformation and Restoration: Boyhood Masculinity in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
<p>Michael Ende’s 1979 novel, <em>The Neverending Story </em>(<em>Die unendliche Geschichte</em> in its original German), follows Bastian Balthazar Bux, a young boy plagued by bullies, as he steals a book called <em>The Neverending Story </em>and runs away from home to read it. As Bastian reads, …
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The Analysis of the Shonen Protagonist and Aragoto Warrior: The Eternal Strength of Boyhood
<p>This paper is a breakdown of various visual and narrative elements of Kabuki and Anime, using the example of <em>Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura</em>, and <em>One Piece</em>. There is a broad overview of both Kabuki and Anime discussing their various tropes and styles. Following this introduction is a …
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A History of the Omaha Public School System 1859 - 1933
… by a resident of another town who was during his boyhood a pupil in the pioneer schools of the city.
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Becoming a man: the prescriptions of manhood and manliness in early modern England
… were mutable at specific life stages, including boyhood, youth and manhood. This provides a framework for examining the plurality and changing contexts of manhood, allowing for the possibility that there were many and sometimes contradictory prescriptions of male conduct and manliness. Finally, …
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Exploring discourses of masculinity within women track athletes' lives in South Africa
… the women track athletes so that a "temporary boyhood" is no longer granted to them, and they must negotiate their performative proximity to discourses of masculinity without the safety of the "tomboy" label. Rigid power structures continue to dominate, leaving little to no room for the women …
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James Breckinridge
… militia of which he was a member from his boyhood days during the Revolution until the War of 1812, when he attained the rank of brigadier general. But it was Breckinridge's estate, Grove Hill, that gave him the status of frontier aristocrat. Breckinridge amassed a land empire in the Valley …
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The interface between the traditional leadership and the District Health Management Offices in the delivery of health services in Mopani, Vhembe and Sekhukhune Districts in Limpopo Province
… traditional male circumcision is a passage from boyhood to manhood. In the process of this transition, there have been incidents of botched circumcisions which resulted in the deaths of initiates, dehydration, penile mutilation and in worse situations even penile amputation. These adverse events …
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THE EDUCATION OF AN ARTIST: THE AMERICAN YEARS OF JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, 1738-1774
… is explored in terms of his family life, boyhood years, and the educational environment of his household. Examination of Boston's public education system and its private schoolmasters suggests additional information contributing to his education.</p><p>Copley's education was furthered …
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Reconstructing Home in Exile: Ovid's Tristia
… transcendent home on Mount Helicon. He spent his boyhood on Mount Helicon, and in his early years he becomes known and read in the city; in exile he finally becomes known and read in the whole world.
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Mira Muchacha: The Latinx Bildungsroman in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
… and education of the protagonist from boyhood to manhood. In 20th and 21st century literature, the Bildungsroman structure expands to reflect the diverse cultures, lifestyles, and identities of its readers. Acevedo’s Bildungsroman/“coming-of-age” novel is centered on Xiomara Batista, a …
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The Victor Brass Quartet: Its Genesis, History, and Literature
… of Walter B. Rogers, the famous cornetist and boyhood friend of Herbert, is included. Chapter three examines the history of the Schubert Brass Quartette (Walter Rogers and Herbert Clarke, cornets; Edwin Clarke, alto horn; Ernest Clarke, trombone) in Indianapolis during 1884-1885. The original …
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Harmful traditional practices, (male circumcision and virginity testing of girls) and the legal rights of children
… 16 years old to mark the transition from boyhood to manhood. Male circumcision is also performed as a religious practice amongst the Jews and Muslims. A number of human rights groups in South Africa, including the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) as well as the South African Human …
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"Steady Ascension" A Biography of General Walter Krueger
… to Krueger's existence By following the man from boyhood in Indiana to civic-minded retiree in San Antonio, Texas, 1 hope to give readers a thorough understanding of Krueger's life and reputation as a soldier's general. From a man who enlisted as a private in 1898 to a four-star general who stood …
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Displaced romanticism: searching for the self in J.M.Coetzee's autobiographical fiction
… less explicit autobiographical resonance (Boyhood, Youth, Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime), with supplementary forays into two additional books (Age of Iron and The Childhood of Jesus). My argument centres on the observation that Coetzee's work derives its affective …
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Cinema of the Self: A Theory of Cinematic Selfhood & Practices of Neoliberal Portraiture
… scenes of the films The Congress (2013), and Boyhood (2014) propose that cinema is a philosophical mirror collecting loss of selfhood over time for the viewer. Further, the cinematic concert A Trip to Japan, Revisited (2013), and the hyper-film Cool World (1992) disperse a spatial sense of …
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Confrontation and identity in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee
… novel sequence and in his personal confession in Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life. In the specific narratives of his characters and the stories from his own past, he provides fragments of hope which transcend the confines of all discourse. I conclude that his example invites and encourages a …
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Gender values, schooling, and transition to adulthood: a study of female and male pupils from two urban primary schools in Kenya.
… of girlhood and womanhood as well as boyhood and manhood vis-a-vis the dominant socio-cultural definitions and expectations of education and adulthood. Post-structuralism guides this study theoretically and methodologically, helping to underscore the active relationship between agency, …
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