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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"farm life"”.
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Everyday Farm Life in the Moxee Valley 1915-1950: Historical Ethnography
… records the historical and cultural processes of farm life and its evolution for people living in this foremost hop-growing region of the United States. The larger goal is to characterize the community and social processes for use as primary source documentation to create historically accurate …
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A Rationale for Teaching Folklore in Secondary English Classes of Agricultural Community Schools
Educators may not understand the contribution farm work makes to the conceptual development of farm youth. When life experience is not integrated in the classroom it may be that teachers believe teaching and learning should revolve around that which is new to students and they consider prior …
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Weldings (Original writing)
… whether or not he should break from his past farm life with Gretchen and move into a town apartment. Other characters enter the shop with their own problems. The clashes observed and experienced through these other characters lead Ernest, Gretchen, and Jenna to solve their conflict. Ernest …
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Motivating male primary underachievers through a technoliteracy curriculum
Boys of primary school age growing up on family farms frequently make a significant contribution to the labour force of the farm. Observation suggests, however, that boys from such families who have knowledge, skills and talent beyond their years in relation to farm life, often have poor academic …
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Quiltmaking and Social Order in the Tennessee Delta in the Middle 20th Century
In an area dominated by large-farm cotton agriculture, a vernacular small-farm quilt culture was established in the Tennessee Delta by the early 1900s. Its improvisation-friendly methods allowed makers to make design decisions during construction while assuring a successful outcome: a visually …
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Culture care values, beliefs, and practices of Mexican American migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors
… care values, beliefs, and practices of migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors in context of their temporary living accommodations and work setting in two small towns in east central Indiana. The goal of this study was to generate knowledge regarding culture care values, …
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Eastern Shore Stories: Technology, Place, and Local Culture
… sense of place reinforced by an agricultural lifestyle. Storytelling around dinner tables and on front porches at dusk, speeches at high school graduations, family recipes talked through in a grandmother’s kitchen – it is through oral language that Eastern Shore people have primarily shared …
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The Pink Papers
… titled Blanchard, OK, is set in a rural farming town in Oklahoma. The novel tells the stories of 24-year-old Robin, her Aunt Paula, and Paula's boyfriend, Sam.
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Feminism from the farm: rural and farm women’s authorship and the future of rural America, 1920-1929
… rhetoric of predominantly white U.S. rural and farm women from the 1920s and argues that their public arguments crafted a particular idea of feminism that is both grounded in and enabled by their experiences as rural and farm women. Turning to women’s rhetorical practices as they manifested in …
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A regional study of American genre painting from 1830-1880
… the genre painter records everyday scenes from life in a non-historical, impersonal manner. This was the time characterized by the rise of the common man; the moment when Jeffersonian principles were furthered by the President of the people, Andrew Jackson. Now many American artists became less …
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Voices I Have Heard
… poems dealing with the changing of the seasons, farm life, observing wildlife, and the spiritual world. Although each is divided according to a general topic, they both hopefully convey the presence of a dual world in which we live every day and are occasionally allowed a glimpse into. It's a …
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The Other Vanishing American: Disappearing Farmers in American Literature, 1887-1939.
… late nineteenth century, literary depictions of farmers borrow from the established trope of the Vanishing American' Indian to portray farmers as disappearing before the forces of modern civilization. I argue that writing about farmers from this era ought to be approached as a type of extinction …