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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"fairs"”.
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A Study of Curation, Location and Temporality in Contemporary Art Fairs
… within curated exhibitions at contemporary art fairs requires a conceptualisation of these three factors as being a single entity; secondly, that this entity can encompass, without contradiction, multiple definitions of both location and temporality.
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Perceptions and attitudes of students, teachers, and parents about middle school science fairs
… a science fair, and whether they believe science fairs accomplish their goals. Attitudes toward competition, awarding of prizes, voluntary versus required participation, and alternatives to science fairs were also examined and compared among the groups.
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Indiana science fairs : a study of student perception of benefits and teacher influence of student participation
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Imperial Objects and Transpacific Subjects: Japan, China, and the United States at World's Fairs 1867-1915
… the United States, China, and Japan at world’s fairs. My project serves two purposes. First, I propose that the control of representational legibility, the disciplinary function of new epistemologies, and the material reproduction of hegemonic ideologies were expositionary tools through which …
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Fair Treatment? African-American Presence at International Expositions in the South, 1884 - 1902
… surprisingly high level of recognition at these fairs given their status as second-class citizens, and the rise of Jim Crow, disfranchisement, and racial violence during this time period. This study examines the details of African-American presence and representation at each of these fairs and …
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Stroke Outreach in the Lao Community
… implementation of sustainable stroke health fairs for non-English speaking communities were evaluated to assess primary healthcare concerns that the SEA community face and to suggest long-term solutions to these issues. Initial investigation required researching population-specific minority …
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A feira de ciências como espaço multirreferencial de investigação, construção e difusão do conhecimento
… dissemination of scientific knowledge in science fairs, focusing on the Bahia Science, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Fair (FECIBA) and the 4th Science Fair of the Manoel Benedito Mascarenhas State Rural School (CEMBEMA). The general objective was to investigate how multireferentiality manifests …
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The influence of St. Louis 1904 World's Fair on Japonisme that appeared in periodicals
… its traditional arts and crafts in World's fairs from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century. In addition, victories in the Sino-Japanese war and the Russo-Japanese war increased the Japanese position in Asia. As Japan was becoming politically more influential in the world, the …
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Moved by the Spirit: Evangelical Presbyterian Woman in the Early Modern Atlantic World
… revivals have been examined, such as the Holy Fairs, historians and scholars have largely overlooked the extensive body of memoirs and accounts featuring Scottish Presbyterian women in Scotland and the greater Atlantic world, and their experiences within these revivals. This study seeks to …
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Life after mega-events : strategically reusing legacy parks
… legacy of staging "mega-events" such as World's Fairs (or Expos) and Olympic Games. Host cities regularly invest billions of dollars building the facilities and supporting infrastructure needed to accommodate millions of visitors over a fixed period of time. In doing so, they also consume …
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The Protection of television formats: intellectual property and market based strategies.
… format sellers at international television trade fairs, as well as senior managers at Fremantlemedia (a leading format originator and distributor). The qualitative data is synthesized into a theory of format trade using IP and market based means of protection. Format developers appear to use three …
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A Program Evaluation of the Necessary Attributes, Accommodations, and Resources Neurodivergent Students Require for Success in Higher Education
… those colleges in high school College and Career fairs.</p>
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Remolding Mexican Identity: The Wax Art of Francisco Vargas in 19th Century New Orleans
… Louisiana's agriculture at two World's Fairs in New Orleans and Buffalo. Francisco received a contract from Mississippi Commissioner R. H. Henry to produce the 30-foot King Cotton for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase International Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Though the family's success …
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Images of Violence from Mexico: A performance art based enquiry
… can be displayed in galleries, libraries, art fairs, book fairs. They demonstrate an important testimony for this research, situated as it is between two cultures, Mexican and British. The overall methodology not only appropriates performance methods such as Ewa Partum’s active poetry, but it …
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Leisure, War and Marginal Communities: Travelling Showpeople and Outdoor Pleasure-Seeking in Britain 1889-1945.
… and amusements as part of travelling fairs. The primary focus of the thesis is the development of the relationship between this marginal community and local and national authorities between 1889 and 1945. As part of this investigation the relationship between showpeople and settled …
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The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House of 1759: From Colonial America to the Colonial Revival and Beyond
… Washington and its appearance in two World’s Fairs, the house gained further popularity around the American Centennial. This thesis provides the most expansive history of the house’s impact on American architecture to date and is the first to connect the house to both the Greenhouse at Mount …
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Remembering Together: Native Boarding School Stories on Display
… about two model schoolhouse exhibits at world’s fairs. Each of these exhibits, old and new, was engaged with the anthropology and museum theory of the time. The two current exhibits offer updated scholarship and multivocal narratives but designed for and aimed at audiences of very different …
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Celebrating the Texas Centennial: A National Register Nomination for the Stone Fort Museum
… the 1936 Texas Centennial with smaller fairs, erected monuments, museums, restored historic buildings, and completed other projects. As a testament to local and state history, the Stone Fort Museum has lacked the national recognition it deserves as a representation of early Nacogdoches …
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