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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"doll"”.
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Paper Doll: A Writing Portfolio
Short fiction and poetry.
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Social discourse in the media interpretation of Christiane Pflug's doll paintings
… the reviews of Christine Pflug's exhibition of doll paintings at the Isaacs Gallery from May to June 1964 and uncovers the gendered politics behind the art discourse surrounding the critical interpretations of Pflug's works. I consider how the reviewers establish the painter as a mother and …
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"Only Connect": A Journey of Teaching Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House to Play Analysis Students
… examines the author's experience in teaching A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen to students in the course Play Analysis, THEA 2440, at the University of North Texas in the Fall 2003 and Spring 2004 semesters. Descriptions of the preparations, presentations, student responses, and the author's …
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Nora's Transformative Journey: From A Doll's House and The Little Mermaid to The Way Home
This critical engagement paper employs the practical work and research conducted for my MFA graduating installation performance The Way Home. For decades, domestic violence researchers analyzed abused women coping with abuse based on their psyche, which portrayed them as having certain needs that …
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The Doll Project As A Liberatory Art Intervention For Conscious Raising And Trauma Relief In A Chicago Marked By Violence
… gun violence; using an ecological model. This "Doll Project" developed as a grassroots approach to arts-based social change, an ongoing cycle of creation, reflection and action with the hope to create a wave of healing and understanding through impacted Chicago communities. This process was …
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Like a doll made of old cloth : a critical analysis of the influence of the radio programme Khalamdumbadumbane on Swazi discourses of femininity
This project concerns the way the radio programme "Khalamdumbadumbane" functions as non-formal education and influences discourses of femininity in Swaziland. I have engaged in critical research in an attempt to show how the media (more specifically radio in this context) influence women's …
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“I’ll Make a Captain Among Ye, and Do Somewhat to be Talk of Forever After”: Female Civic Agency in Sir Thomas More’s Staged Insurrection
… similar histories written by Shakespeare. Doll Williamson, the play’s strongest female character, assumes a leadership position in initiating, as well as ultimately quelling, the Evil May Day riots, which provide the play’s initial dramatic impetus. Despite the critical tendency to overlook …
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Remaking China Dolls: Imitation and Visual Rhetoric in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production
… dissertation investigates contemporary Chinese doll imageries as an emblem of a rhetoric of imitation playing out a variety of possibilities of identities in an increasingly globalized yet unequally developed world. Grounded in a postmodern interpretation of Barthes' flowing signification chain …
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The petrogenesis and geochemistry of the dioritic complexes south of Balmoral forest, Angus
The Glen Doll and Juan Jorge Complexes are two contrasting late Caledonian calc-alkaline plutons intruded into Middle Dalradian metasediments at the northern end of Glen Clova, in the Angus district of Tayside, Scotland. The Glen Doll Complex (12 km squared) constitutes a wide range of rock types …
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Persona dolls and anti-bias curriculum practice with young children : a case study of early childhood development teachers
… This study examines the use of the Persona Doll Approach as a component of anti-bias practice in order to learn more about the approach, and about how it is used to engage with the realities of bias in the ECD phase of education in the South African context of poverty, and past and present …
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Ethnic identity in Nigerian children of black-white mixed marriages. The relationship between child rearing practices and ethnic identification in interracial (Yoruba/Oyinbo) and Yoruba familes in Nigeria.
… Three methods of measuring ethnic identity (a doll choice technique, Draw-A-Person and 'Tell me about yourself') were administered to 20 interracial and 20 Yoruba children (aged 6-9 years) in the home environment. A questionnaire was administered to the mother in each family to measure the …
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Dichotomy of Self
… body of work explores, through a character named Doll, the impressions, emotions, and realizations I have experienced while undergoing a transformation of self, both inside and out. This collection of images also explores the dichotomy of solitude vs. companionship. (Abstract by OPUS staff from …
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Affective social quest (ASQ) : teaching emotion recognition with interactive media & wireless expressive toys
… movie clips, together with a set of stuffed dolls through which a child can interact with the movies. Each doll embodied an emotional expression: happy, angry, sad, and surprise. In operation, the test children are shown one of 200 emotive clips and they respond by touching the doll whose …
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Somatic Embryogenesis of Pathogen-Free Horseradish (Armoracia Rusticana) Plants in Vitro
… somatic embryogenesis, the Illinois Horseradish 'Doll' cultivar ('Doll') was tested with 2,4-D (0.25 to 1.0 mg/l) and BA in vitro. Somatic embryogenic callus was successfully induced from leaf explants on MS medium supplemented with 2,4-D. Somatic embryos (SEs) were collected from the callus, …
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Somatic embryogenesis of pathogen- free horseradish (Armoracia Rusticana) plants in vitro
… somatic embryogenesis, the Illinois Horseradish ‘Doll’ cultivar (‘Doll’) was tested with 2,4 -D (0.25 to 1.0 mg/l) and BA in vitro. Somatic embryogenic callus was successfully induced from leaf explants on MS medium supplemented with 2, 4-D. Somatic embryos (SEs) were collected from the callus, …
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Matryoshka genetics: identification of disease-associated mutations in the human genome
… The Matryoshka, or Russian nesting doll, analogy refers primarily to the way that each assay takes a snapshot of the genome at a variable degree of resolution, depending on the type of mutation targeted – ranging from whole genome copy number analysis (the largest doll), through …
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A study of the relationship of preschoolers' perceptions of parental attributes to behaviors exhibited in nursery school
… school.A pilot study, using a semi-structured doll play instrument constructed by the researcher, was conducted to determine significant scenes which would evoke necessary information for the categories of the research study. Twelve scenes were selected on the basis of highest scoring averages …
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The absence of cradling bias in autism spectrum disorders: illustrating deflicits in basic empathis processes
… children, aged 5-15, were asked to cradle a doll as if it were an infant she/he were trying to put to sleep or soothe on three separate occasions. These participants were perfectly matched on age and gender. In the main study, 53 ASD children, aged 6-16, and 40 Control children, aged 6-15, …
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