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The Captivity of Opportunity: The Conversation Surrounding Church-Going Hispanic Immigrants
<p>Immigration is a long-standing topic of discussion in the United States. Hispanic immigrants, or families of Hispanic immigrants, living in America face unique challenges. Through focus group interviews, participants from a predominantly Hispanic Protestant church narrated their experience of …
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CAPTIVATING A NATION: WOMEN'S INDIAN CAPTIVITY AND AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1787-1830
Stories of Indian captivity had long interested Anglo-American readers. Throughout the early republic, the genre of women's Indian captivity narratives took on another significance. "Captivating a Nation" places the scholarship of Indian captivity in conversation with American nationalism and …
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CAPTIVITY AND CONVERSION: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF SOVIET POWS IN AFGHANISTAN
… prior to their defection and while in captivity. I discuss several driving factors, such as Soviet propaganda tactics, pre-deployment military training, quality of life in Afghanistan, human rights violations, ethnic conflicts and ritualistic hazing (dedovshchina or starikovshchina) …
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Creating a New Genre: Mary Rowlandson and Hher Narrative of Indian Captivity.
… of literary techniques. The genre of the Indian captivity narrative is a literary construct that she develops out of the following literary forms that existed at the time of her writing. These are the spiritual autobiography, a documentary method meant to archive spiritual and emotional growth …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… to understand the role of tales of Indian captivity in the national cultural identity, historians and scholars have usually focused on narratives from before 1890 or films after the turn of the century, virtually ignoring the tales reprinted during the Progressive Era. Yet as the danger of …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… to understand the role of tales of Indian captivity in the national cultural identity, historians and scholars have usually focused on narratives from before 1890 or films after the turn of the century, virtually ignoring the tales reprinted during the Progressive Era. Yet as the danger of …
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The effect of weather on sleep and the welfare of drills in captivity
… challenges faced when keeping animals in captivity is maintaining normative behaviours and limiting stereotypies, which is especially difficult in species with a sophisticated social system. The role of key husbandry practices during the daytime, such as environmental enrichment and …
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Bonded: Legacies of Captivity and Fugitivity from Enslavement to Incarceration in the Cape
The contemporary hyper-incarceration of ‘Coloured' South Africans is re-situated within the broader historical dialectics of racialisation and creolisation, traversing from colonial slavery to the modern prison regime. This study uses theorisations of marronage, fugitivity, and hauntology to posit …
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Resisting captivity: An analysis of the New Zealand POW experience during World War Two
… a prolonged imprisonment. However, histories of captivity have tended to portray the prisoner-of-war (POW) experience as a continual attempt to disrupt the enemy war effort from behind the wire. More recent scholarly works have challenged this simplistic narrative. This thesis continues this work …
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"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
… interpretation of self and Other. By examining captivity narratives seldom included in North American criticism, this study also contradicts the frequent assertion that the subject's desire to possess determines the representation of the Other.
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The captivity of the Bible in South Africa : toward a pastorally concerned biblical hermeneutics
Various contemporary Liberation methodologies of Biblical interpretation have generally failed to find a firm enough footage amongst communities of the oppressed. This is so, in spite of the fact that these methodologies are born out of the struggles for liberation of these communities. Most of the …
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An Assessment of Suitable Feed Quantity and Quality for Riffleshell Mussels (Epioblasma spp.) Held in Captivity
… riffleshell mussels (Epioblasma spp.) held in captivity. Mussels were fed one of four rations (0.49, 0.72, 1.28, or 1.73 mg dry wt/l) of algae Neochloris oleoabundans for 2-h trials in spring, summer, fall, and winter. The test ration resulting in the most feed absorbed per hour (net absorption …
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Wild Tigers in Captivity: A Study of the Effects of the Captive Environment on Tiger Behavior
… behaviors that are difficult to provide for in captivity. As the numbers of wild tigers decline, captive breeding programs have become a major focus of the zoo community, which magnifies the importance of research on tiger husbandry. A body of research exists on small felids, but little, if any, …
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Comparative morphology of the adrenal glands of wild and domesticated mice and the effect of captivity on adrenal structure.
… structure when wild mice were confined in captivity or bred in captivity. Experimental procedures: All wild mice were caught in live traps either in homes or in and around the wooded areas of Metropolitan Boston. These traps were set in the evening and picked up the following morning. …
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