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Showing 1 to 20 of 343 for “"celebration"”.
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Bridges the celebration of passage
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the architectural appearance and the evolution of bridges. It is to show the intentions and consequent symbols of civilizations who built bridges. The paper also investigates bridge types, foundations and falsework.
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The Vast Unsaid: Lesbian Erasure and Celebration
<p>Lesbian erasure negatively impacts the accessibility to literature, archives, and records of lesbian history as a result of being buried within queer and feminist discourse. As a result, scholars often classify lesbians into other categories, effectively rendering them invisible and unimportant. …
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Urban Data Center: An Architectural Celebration of Data
Throughout the last century, the popularization of the automobile and development of roads and highways has changed the way we live, and how cities develop. Bridges, aqueducts, and power plants had comparable impact in the past. I consider each of these examples to be "icons" of infrastructures …
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Impact of Disability on Celebration of Wedding Anniversaries
… disability within the couple affects anniversary celebrations. Several themes emerged that were common among all participants including: an exchange of items, participants, reminiscing about the past, change within the marriage and celebration (which encompasses ritual and tradition). Few …
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Celebration of place : processional rituals and urban form
The celebration of processional rituals of festivity is a significant, dynamic, social and temporal dimension of the static form of the built environment. This study endeavors to understand the means by which meaning was added to the form, space and character of the built environment by these …
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The Role of Celebration in Building Classroom-Learning Communities.
… strong classroom communities that incorporate celebration is one technique some teachers have developed to enhance a sense of belonging in their classroom.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of teachers regarding what the practice of celebration accomplishes for …
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Landscapes For Celebration; An Investigation and Design of Wedding Gardens
This thesis explores the design of landscapes for celebration. These celebrations include all types of events or rituals that mark special times in people's lives. The focus of this work is landscapes for weddings. The goal is to illuminate the importance of these spaces for celebration as well as …
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Beyond Celebration: A Call for the Study of Traditions of Dominance
… current model of folkloristics, a paradigm of celebration. In so doing, following the suggestions of feminist folklorists who have come before me, I present an example of how folklore serves to benefit from feminist theory. The central purpose of this thesis is to challenge folklorists to begin …
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Life is a One-Way Ticket: Herman Leonard's Eightieth Birthday Celebration
… performed. Within the documentary, I show the celebration as an analogy for the life of Herman Leonard. In short but moving passages, Herman Leonard reflects upon the nature of his longevity, the world today, and the "luck" he has had with photography. In addition to the voice of Herman …
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SOLHOT: black girlhood celebration of love, literacy, hip-hop and motherhood
In order to create pedagogical methods and practices committed to educational attainment and healthy lifestyles one must recognize the impact of love as pedagogy. In my paper, I demonstrate how I utilize a concept I call “love practices” within a Black-girl-centered space entitled “Saving Our Lives …
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Peripheral meanings : constructing a celebration of the Jamaica Plain Lantern Festival
… is a ritual that to me represents a rich celebration of community, life, place, time . .. My thesis explores this notion of the construction of meaning via a proposed architectural intervention that involves the cross-programming of a park, a public tower, an after-school art center (a …
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Masculinity Threat, Misogyny, and the Celebration of Violence in White Men
This study aims to understand the relationship between masculinity and the endorsement of attitudes towards guns and violence and aggressive fantasies. I examine threatened masculinity and masculine gender role stress in addition to a newly developed measure, which assesses traits associated with …
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Celebration of arrival and departure : airport as threshold between sky and ground
An airport terminal building celebrates arrival and departure as the gate to a city and the sky. However, many contemporary airport terminals do not play the role as a gate. Circulation is often uninspiring and monotonous, and as a result disengages the city from the sky. These terminals adopt the …
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Borders, Bridges, and Beer: Performances of Cultural Identities in the Washington Birthday Celebration
… their experiences in the Washington Birthday Celebration (WBC). By focusing on communication as means for creating cultural identities, this study provides insight into how communication is used in the construction and performance of cultural identities. Specifically, I focus on The Society of …
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Being in Deep, Authentic, Dramatic Celebration: Narratives of Community Cultural Workers for Social Change
<p>The common discourse in the field of education in the United States during the years 2002 through 2013 centered on the approach of making schools accountable for their students' performance, while aiming to bring proficiency to all students regardless of their socio-economic background. Prior to …
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The Colton Celebration Congregation: a Case Study in American Adventist Worship Renewal 1986-1991
<p>This study investigates the experience of Celebration Center (Colton, California), its milieu, and its impact on the North American Seventh-day Adventist Church through what has been perceived as the celebration movement and controversy, while addressing underlying historical, sociological, and …
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Black girlhood celebration: The political courage of Black girls and women in everyday experiences
Bridging critical pedagogy, hip-hop and education, hip-hop feminism, and literature on Black girlhood, this thesis shows how Black girls in Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), a community of girls and women in Illinois, make sense of the images they receive through hip-hop. Specifically, I …
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Celebration of change : an exploration of meaning, form and material on the Chelsea waterfront
Change as a physical and psychological process is the connecting thread of the three themes explored in this thesis. First, the AA and AI-Anon programs are used as a framework for an exploration of spirituality or meaning. The programs are about finding a route to positive change in one's life …
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