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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"forties"”.
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Becoming Catholic: Story, Sacrament, Conversion and the Emergence of Faith in Postconciliar Autobiographies
… in their early twenties through their early forties. It argues that their life writings, when taken together as a whole and read through the dual lens of Story and Sacrament, evidence an emergent process of conversion, of "becoming Catholic" in the modern American milieu.
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Life histories of two Korean women who marry American GIs
… women, Sunhi and Aeran. These women in their forties married American GIs stationed in South Korea and have since then lived with their husbands in the U.S. One of my objectives is to understand them through their life histories told to me in their own plot with their own pace. The other is to …
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Bombs, Bikinis, and Godzilla: America's Fear and Fascination of the Atomic Bomb as Evidenced Through Popular Media, 1946-1962.
… towards the atomic bomb during the nineteen forties to early nineteen sixties by examining the popular culture that they produced and consumed. These Americans described the bomb as being an object of beauty, a powerful savior, an object of prosperity, and a weapon of fear. Each of these …
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Clothing interest, leisure activity continuity and their association to clothing fit satisfaction for women 55 years and older
… at ages spanning decades in their twenties and forties. A Duncan’s (MRT) of the solo leisure activities and the group leisure activities show there to be a significant difference across the sample for the subjects in their twenties and forties. The subjects in the over 75 age group results were …
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A qualitative study of couples'experience of the Preventative and Relationship Enhancement Program
… couples were surveyed, ranging in age from mid-forties to mid-fifties and ranging in years married from 8.5 to 29 years. Content analysis was employed to examine the data. Two themes emerged—motivation and impact, and results were organized under these themes. Clinical implications were …
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Concretismo brasileiro: a singularidade do movimento construtiro nacional
By the end of the forties, it emerges in Brazil a core of reaction against the artistic convenience pattern demonstrated by the remnants of the modernist movement. A group of young artists gets together in the attempt to implement a geometric universal art-compatible with the now industrialized …
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English Periodical Criticism of the Novel From 1845 to 1865: A Search for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty (Victorian)
… change in the nature of the criticism. In the forties, critics showed interest primarily in the moral effects of novels, even of such artistic elements as plot, characterization, and style. By the sixties, these artistic elements were the main force of critical discussion; moral concerns were …
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THE COMIC DIMENSION: A NEW READING OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS' LONG POEM "PATERSON"
<p>When Williams decided in the early forties to accelerate work on the "magnum opus" he had begun fifteen years earlier, his ambitions were enormous, yet the literary establishment treated him more like a pygmy than a giant. T. S. Eliot, reigning literary pontiff, embraced the European literary …
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Importing French Drama for the American Stage: Giraudoux, Anouilh, Sartre, and Genet
… of New York theatre seasons in the late forties, fifties and early sixties. As these products of the French theatre were imported, however, many changes were made in the texts in order for them to appeal to the American dramatic sensibility, which centered on emotional involvement (rather …
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Missed opportunities: NACA and jet propulsion
… and led to the difficulties of NACA in the mid-forties and the 1950s. That chapter will look at the rise of the aviation industry, the criticism it expressed against NACA, and finally NACA's strategy as one of the causes of failure.
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Storytelling as a Teaching Tool: A Workshop for Parents
… participants range between late-twenties to mid-forties, their ethnicity is European-American.</p>
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Adolescent Mothers' Relationships With Their Mothers: Communication, Support and Shared Caregiving
… in the sample, grandmothers in their forties expressed role enhancement in grandmotherhood via their activity levels and involvement with their grandchildren. This research offered increased insight into the experiences of three generational households, augmented by the inclusion of …
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A Heterosynaptic Spiking Neural System for the Development of Autonomous Agents
… of neural systems was developed in the nineteen forties in the context of analogue electronics and the theoretical research in logic and mathematics that led to the first digital computers in nineteen forties and fifties. The second generation of neural systems implemented on digital computers …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing for Contemporary Issues, a left wing journal edited by Josef Weber, Bookchin became an important part of the …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing for Contemporary Issues, a left wing journal edited by Josef Weber, Bookchin became an important part of the …
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Moms are survivors, because our kids are more ours': narratives of middle-class, white mothers in Cape Town
… South African mothers aged between early forties to early fifties. The data collected was obtained through participant observation, casual conversations and formal, semi-structured, one-on-one interviews. This minor thesis draws on a body of literature that focuses on the multiple …
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Uncommon Knowledge: A History of Queer New Mexico, 1920s-1980s
… the construction of the security state in the forties and fifties, and the development of intentional lesbian land and gay male radical faeries communities in the seventies. These pivotal moments show how lesbians and gay men opposed institutions and practices of heteronormativity, resisted the …
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Self-efficacy, the Innovation-Decision Process, and Faculty in Higher Education: Implications for Faculty Development
… with technology self-efficacy. Those in their forties, fifties and sixties have higher college teaching self-efficacy than those in their twenties. Full-time instructors have higher college teaching self-efficacy than doctoral GTAs and assistant professors. Those who rate themselves as having …
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"Yours For Freedom": The Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Leader Victoria Gray Adams
… group of leaders who were in their thirties and forties. This thesis highlights the leadership and life of Victoria Gray Adams, who was remarkable for her independence, organizing skill, and high-profile Civil Rights activism. Throughout Adams's life, she pushed for black self-determination by …
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