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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"dolls"”.
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The Language of Dolls
… in the short story collection The Language of Dolls spring up from the poor, the resource less multitudes of society. Caught in their culture, locale, and state in life, these characters struggle to manifest their potential to the fullest. In a way, they stretch their boundaries and distinguish …
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Paper Dolls Ride Shotgun
<p>Each of the four characters represent four approaches to the dynamic between the academy and the inner city because the novel lies at the intersections of four critical frameworks. First, the post and post-postmodern literary theory of Calinescu, McHale, and Huber, who do excellent work in …
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Guys and Dolls: Scenic Design
… University's Fall 2017 production of Guys and Dolls. We will discuss the production process through analysis, research and communication of the design.
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Young Children's Use of Dolls to Represent Themselves
… level of difficulty mapping between people and dolls, but not between two dolls or two people. Additional experiments revealed that children's difficulty was due to the requirement that they reason between elements of different categories, and that the lack of categorical similarity, and not …
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Remaking China Dolls: Imitation and Visual Rhetoric in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production
… and social symptoms of contemporary China. Dolls become the emblem of such a postmodern rhetoric of imitation for their nature of empty signification, the existence of which relies in its function of referencing others. An overarching theme throughout this project is the contemporary …
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Some of My Best Dolls Are Black: Colorblind Rhetoric in Online Collecting Communities
<p>While dolls are beloved play objects, they have also been the subject of social critique for many years. From the generic "baby" to the sexualized Barbie, they have been alternately praised and vilified for their role in forming the behaviors and identities of the children who play with them. …
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Some People Call Them Dolls: Capturing the Iconic Power of the Female Form in Non-ferrous Metals.
<p>The artist discusses her Master of Fine Arts exhibition at East Tennessee State University, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee, October 28-November 8, 2002. Her exhibition was a personal narrative of her southern upbringing in small town Appalachia as well as a reflection of her inner …
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Persona dolls and anti-bias curriculum practice with young children : a case study of early childhood development teachers
Anti-discrimination, one of the central principles of South Africa's Constitution and Bill of Rights, is central to the Early Childhood Development curriculum. The anti-bias, or anti-discrimination, approach challenges prejudice and oppression of all kinds and aims to develop self-esteem, respect …
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Uncanny valleys: sex, power, & the artificial person
… well as profiles on prospective clients for such dolls, the author outlines the highly gendered power dynamics inherent in their construction, marketing, and sale. Furthermore, this research utilizes three separate speculative fiction narratives to extrapolate out the social impact of the …
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“Girls Play with Dolls and Boys Play with Soldiers”: Examining Teachers and Parents' Gender Beliefs and the Gender Identity of 8-10 Year Old Jamaican Boys
This multi-case ethnographic study examined the gender beliefs of two teachers and 12 parents and the gender identity of thirty 8-10 year old boys in two primary schools in Jamaica. The study was conducted against the background of gross underachievement among Jamaican boys and the research …
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Selling the British Empire Exhibition 1924 Through Mass Media and Material Culture
… and this is explored along with the Queen’s dolls’ house, presented to Queen Mary at the exhibition and described in the press as the highlight of the exhibition. The dolls’ house was designed to be the epitome of upper class material culture of the 1920s and this work considers how the …
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The Characteristics of Play Therapy Sessions with Children: A Preliminary Investigation
… the following variables: a) males and use of dolls (.01), animals (.007) and weapons (.014), and males and expression of happy (.048), confident (.042) curious (.007) and flat (.029) during play therapy sessions; b) young children and use of vehicles (.050) during play therapy sessions; c) …
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Recovering Grace: How One Man's Religious Movement Turned into a Homeschool Cult
… the rules about Cabbage Patch kids and Troll dolls weren’t the only things that would leave lasting impressions on ATI students. This curriculum, as I was finding out, was more than just restrictions on toys and media consumption. ATI was the homeschooling program, but IBLP had rules and …
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Pop/Rock Compositions Lyrically Targeting an "At-risk" Constituency
… of alt-rock exemplars, Marianas Trench, Goo Goo Dolls, and Hedley, and also from the distinctive electronic dance music (EDM) textures found on current radio playlists. Musical transcriptions from a selection of contemporary artists are discussed in tandem with my compositional method (i.e., …
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Pop Culture and Protofeminism: The Novels of Jacqueline Susann and the Second Wave of the Women's Movement.
… of Susann's best-selling novels, Valley of the Dolls (1966), The Love Machine (1969), and Once is Not Enough (1973) was combined with a study of the author's biography, works by second-wave feminists, and reviews and criticism of the novels. Further evidence was gathered through research of the …
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Social discourse in the media interpretation of Christiane Pflug's doll paintings
… to the painted image of the black and white dolls which are shown in an interior environment and placed against altering land- and cityscape views. This thesis also examines Pflug's experience as a German immigrant woman in Canada and relates the reviews of her works to the social environment …
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Dança, performance e artes visuais: imagens e discursos do corpo
… (Líbano) e ―Prohibido el cante‖ e ―Dancing Dolls‖, de Pilar Albarracín (Espanha). Paralelamente, foi desenvolvido o espetáculo Desplante, como um campo de experimentação das questões teóricas levantadas no que diz respeito ao deslocamento da tradição flamenca num diálogo com a arte …
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ΟΙΚΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΦΟΡΑΣ ΠΑΙΔΙΩΝ ΠΡΟΣΧΟΛΙΚΗΣ ΗΛΙΚΙΑΣ. ΠΡΟΣΧΟΛΙΚΗ ΤΑΞΗ ΚΑΙ Η ΕΠΙΔΡΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΔΙΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟΥ ΧΩΡΟΥ ΣΤΗ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΦΟΡΑ
… THE SAME FIVE ACTIVITY AREAS, NAMELY KITCHEN, DOLLS, LIBRARY, DRAWING, AND CONSTRUCTIONS; THEY DIFFERED IN THEIR SPACE ARRANGEMENT. THE TIME SAMPLING METHOD OF DIRECT OBSERVATION WAS EMPLOYED. ALL CHILDREN WERE INDIVIDUALLY OBSERVED OF 15 SEC EACH FOR EACH SUBJECT. FIVE SETS OF BEHAVIOURS WERE …
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