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First Set
<p><em>First Set </em>is a collection of poetry by Alfonso Zapata, with poems contained therein from as long ago as 2015. This thesis and project examines art, especially music, and its effects on memory and emotion. The world that these poems explicate is charged with passion and drive, spurred on …
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First Light
<p>What I have attempted in this thesis is first to let go of the gaze that accompanies the myth and expectations of African literature and secondly and most importantly, to claim and make of the craft a space of freedom, devoid of any burdens or preassigned symbolic representation— a space where …
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Love first
… and carrying out the beginnings of a love-first approach to ethics. The ideal of love for all (agape) has religious origins, and in my first chapter, I show that it can be detached from this religious context and still serve as a foundation for ethics. Ordinary love we have for friends and …
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First house
First House is geometry, material and light. Geometry gives order. Material gives reality. Light gives space.
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Predicting Academic Success among First-Year, First Generation Students
… who are at risk in terms of academic success. First generation status denotes one group of students who are at risk in terms of persistence towards a bachelor's degree. The purpose of this study was to examine what factors predict the academic success of first year, full-time first generation …
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Marguerite Inman Davis: first progressive first lady of Virginia
… her talents as an equestrienne and gardener. As first lady of Virginia during World War I, Marguerite Davis consciously set an example for women·of the state and nation to enter war work. She volunteered, as president of the Woman's Munition Reserve, to sew silk bags and fill them with smokeless …
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Reading First Sustainability
… achieved by participating in the Reading First program in first, second, and third grade in a Northern Nevada urban school district elementary setting. A t-test compared 449 Reading First students' ELA mean Scale Scores from the Nevada CRT to a comparative group of 621 students who did not …
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The First Gesture
A collection of poems by Masters candidate Jeff Whitney.
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The First Gesture
A collection of poems by Masters candidate Jeff Whitney.
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First year reading
This thesis will concern itself with first year reading, and it will have the following aims: 1. To examine the subject matter of first year reading in order to see what values the literature presuppose the child capable of controlling and appreciating, to find a criterion for selecting subject …
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Action-first attitudes
In this thesis, I present an action-first theory of knowledge and belief. We have a mutual interest in the successful action of our peers, and the significance of belief and knowledge stems from their role in promoting this success. Knowledge states tend to guide successful action, in an …
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First in, last out: time-to-degree of first-generation students
… study of factors which affect time-to-degree in first-generation students from a Midwestern research university. Astin’s (1993) Input-Environment-Output (I-E-O) model was utilized to determine the effects of various input and environment variables. Chi-Square tests were performed to find …
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Signatures of the first stars in relics of the first galaxies
In the billion years following the big bang, the first stars and galaxies fundamentally transformed the universe. They polluted the universe with the first heavy elements, and they produced high energy photons that reionized the intergalactic medium. Understanding this early era is at the frontier …
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