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Chroma Cowboy
<p><em>Chroma Cowboy </em>consists of eleven canvases wrapped in used feed sacks layered with vinyl to create brightly colored narrative scenes. Pulling from Pop Art colors, cubism shapes and a consciousness of materials, I designed this body of work to give the hard-working cowboys, ranchers, and …
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Cowboy: An Agile Programming Methodology for a Solo Programmer
… of a programmer working alone. These so-called cowboys are disdained for not working in teams to build software. In reality many cowboys work by themselves due to the circumstances of their work environment, not because they are unable or unwilling to work with well with others. These solo …
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The Justified Lawman: Cowboy Killings in the Modern Era
<p>Stereotypes advanced by the popular media, do not necessarily have the power to directly determine an individual's ways of thinking, but do help frame and reinforce already existing cultural beliefs, particularly within the context of the seemingly innocuous narrative fictions of cable …
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Stability evaluation for horizontal modified in situ retort at Cowboy Canyon oil shale
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-148).
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The lone cowboy and the wagon train : self-reliance and community in housing
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Leaving Cheyenne: A Study of the Evolution of the Cowboy in Larry McMurtry's Writings
No abstract prepared.
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A Comparative Study of the Cowboy, Gaucho, and Kozak as Protagonists in Selected Novels
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T22:35:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412170.pdf: 10837260 bytes, checksum: 1480158114b515a6e2a96da706f1c0b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Can I Get a Yee-Haw and an Amen: Collecting and Interpreting Oral Histories of Texas Cowboy Churches
<p>With more than 850 Christian cowboy ministries worldwide and approximately 160 individual cowboy churches in Texas, the cowboy church movement is an immensely important religious movement that speaks volumes about contemporary culture. Cowboy churches' "Low Barriers Model" Christianity attracts …
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Música Tejana and the Transition from Traditional to Modern: Manuel “Cowboy” Donley and the Austin Music Scene
… modern electric sound with band leader Manuel "Cowboy" Donley in Austin, Texas in 1955, as an example. This period of transition from acoustic to electric prior to the introduction of the electronic organ represents a lacuna in the existing historical narrative that merits attention and …
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The place of the cowboy novel in American literature : a study of its development from 1900 to 1940
… at some conclusions in regard to one aspect of cowboy fiction - the cowboy novel. In the main, this study will attempt to place the cowboy novel in its proper position in American literature, While doing this, it will try to show that there are two distinct schools of cowboy novels - the …
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The Rise and Fall of the Hillbilly Music Genre, A History, 1922-1939.
… with the arrival of the western hero, the cowboy.</p><p>Chapter 1 examines the origins of traditional music and how instrumental the fiddle and banjo were in that development. Chapter 2 looks closely into the careers of recording artists who recorded what would later be called hillbilly …
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Split Rock Sky
… The story follows the life of Jack Baptist—a cowboy and prospector—and the rise of uranium mining on the Western Slope of Colorado during the late 1800’s.
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Split Rock Sky
… The story follows the life of Jack Baptist—a cowboy and prospector—and the rise of uranium mining on the Western Slope of Colorado during the late 1800’s.
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… tradition between the language-resistant cowboy figure and his more verbally-inclined successor, the detective fiction hero. Chapter One deconstructs the Virginian’s silence in the original film version of Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and demonstrates a male aversion to language as a …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… tradition between the language-resistant cowboy figure and his more verbally-inclined successor, the detective fiction hero. Chapter One deconstructs the Virginian’s silence in the original film version of Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and demonstrates a male aversion to language as a …
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Analysis of Force-Limiting Capabilities of Football Neck Collars
… three collars were tested: the McDavid Cowboy Collar, a collar designed by a Virginia Tech physician called the Bullock Collar, and a prototype device called the Kerr Collar. This study utilized a Hybrid-III 50th percentile male outfitted with a standard collegiate football helmet and …
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods: An Outsider's Critique of American Culture
… as the American con artist, Shadow as the cowboy), I intend to assess this outsider's understanding of what it means to be an American.</p>
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