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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"grandfather"”.
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Exploring the Influence of Intergenerational Relations on the Construction and Performance of Contemporary Grandfather Identities.
… years, few studies have focused specifically on grandfathers. Existing knowledge is informed by uncritical and dated theoretical approaches or based on gender and generational biased data from women and grandchildren. As a result little is known about how men experience being a grandfather and …
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User fee for wilderness recreation: a comparison of user characteristics and travel cost demand functions for Linville Gorge wilderness area and Grandfather Mountain backcountry, North Carolina
… Gorge Wilderness, a federal free area, and Grandfather Mountain Backcountry, a nearby private fee area, to determine if fees would exclude any socioeconomic or other user group who presently uses wilderness and determine if fees are acceptable to users. The study compares users' …
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Lessons for an Educator: The Real Meaning of Sacrifice and Service
… from three military family members: my maternal grandfather, Edwin, my paternal grandfather, Lloyd, and my husband, Joe. They dedicated their lives to serving others while not asking for anything in return. All three unselfishly sacrificed a part of who they were for the betterment of others. It …
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Frontlines
… in 2020. The story centers around an estranged grandfather and grandson who are forced together in lockdown to face their individual and shared traumas. </p>
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Batty Stories: Ramblings with Gramdad
<p>Batty Stories is a biography of the author's grandfather, Merle Batty. Found in this version are chapters on Merle's time in the army and on his time teaching, plus miscellaneous stories from other parts of his life.</p>
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Grandfathering into professional certification from the perspective of members of the American Home Economics Association
… implications of permitting individuals to grandfather into professional certification, recommendations regarding which purposes for professional certification to advertise if grandfathering is permitted, and recommendations regarding use of professional certification as a qualification for …
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Poison, Power and Perception: A Biography of Mabel of Belleme (1030-1082)
… created in the ninth century by her great-grandfather, Yves, and consolidated Bellême force with Montgomery influence through marriage in c.1050. The Bellême process of fortifying the Norman frontier resulted from the construction of fortresses and churches that maximized influence over the …
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Perceptions of Intergenerational Bonds: The Comparison Between Grandfathers and their Adult Grandchildren
… study was to explore the perceptions held by grandfathers and their adult grandchildren and to compare their perceptions of bonding within their intergenerational relationships. The sample consisted of 8 Latter-Day Saint grandfathers residing in Virginia and West Virginia who were between 62 …
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Tennessee waltz
… What is love? Centered around the death of the grandfather, Tennessee Waltz addresses these questions and tells how these three women come to understand their mortality by learning to have faith in each other.
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In the eternal shade
… novel based on the journal of great-great-great-grandfather, Cheryl is a trained veterinarian who is working at a job below her qualifications, and Alex is an eight-year-old girl with an imagination that is just starting to butt up against the real world.
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Lightless Mornings: A Fine Legacy
… and historical account of my great-great -great grandfather, W.D. McCurdy’s use of forced labor in his coalmines and cotton plantations in the Black Belt region of Alabama during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through personal research including interviews with other descendents of …
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Not So Correct: Rebuilding with the Fragments of Memories
This thesis was motivated by a question my grandfather (1928-2022) asked, "Can you rebuild my hometown?". How can I rebuild a place that remains in memory? Defining success of rebuilding is highly subjective as people value various elements in memory differently. Furthermore, verifying the result …
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Enrico Dandolo: His Life, His Family, and His Venice Before the Fourth Crusade
… of the participation of his father, uncle, and grandfather in the holy enterprise.
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Family Portraits
… The first section is comprised of poems about my grandfather and his genealogy research. It endeavors to explore the ways we see people after they are gone. My grandfather died nine years ago, and much of what he left behind for me were his genealogy records. Through his letters and research, I …
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AFTERIMAGES: Photographs as an External Autobiographical Memory System and a Contemporary Art Practice
… point is a collection of photographs taken by my grandfather, Albert Edward Ingham, which is used both in my studio work and as a basis for my theoretical writing. My concerns as an artist are with the ways in which familiar photographs and their relation to ideas of personal memory can be …
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Spiritual Battle
… hanging from a tower, my relationship with my grandfather following the announcement of my engagement, and the quirky "story behind the story” of my encounter with a woman who called herself "Goat Lady.” For this collection, I utilized the creative writing styles of essay, memoir, and literary …
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Exploring the Intersection of Substance Use, Mental Health, and Mortality Among the U.S. Youth: A Comprehensive Analysis of Trends, Associations and Interventions
… enduring the deep sorrow of losing my beloved grandfather. Despite moments of self-doubt and instances where I almost felt like giving up, this journey has strengthened my wisdom and resilience. Through it all, one constant remained, my passion for driving meaningful change in the field of …
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Tower House
… earth works. It has been farmed by my grandfather since the late 1940s. The house is a pair of rectangles separated by a stair. The concrete block walls are punctured by large windows, aligned to define interior passage and establishing clarity of spatial and formal relationships. The …
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