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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"hometown"”.
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Hometown
<p>Instead of meeting his dealer at the park, one-month-clean addict Will Colman runs into Robbie Fowler, his old high-school classmate tasked to help Will maintain his sobriety through the vessel of the church, run by Robbie's father. Will continues to feel a pull toward Robbie, the crush he …
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Memories of My Hometown
My orchestral piece, Memories of My Hometown, has two movements: I. Pine Trees Standing on the Snowy Mountain; II. Passionate Land. After studying abroad for many years, I yearned for my hometown in China and hoped to express personal attachment to my hometown through this piece. The first movement …
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Dorchester Is My Hometown
Novel.
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Empowering cooperation : Dominican hometown associations and the politics of transnational community development
This dissertation examines how three Dominican hometown associations (HTAs) define, negotiate and practice transnational community development, by carefully analyzing the processes through which state, migrants and non-migrant actors engage in "messy" local projects. I identify two interrelated …
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Migrant-Funded Development: The Influence of Mexican Hometown Associations on Development Indicators
… affected by migrants' participation in a hometown association (HTA). The study relied on data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), using the historical Mexican sending state of Jalisco. The MMP, using an ethnosurvey method, gathers data on individual migrant experiences, including …
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After work or study abroad: Chinese return migration and Kunming’s ‘Jia Xiang Bao’ - hometown babies.
… The first two key findings - jia xiang bao `hometown babies' and the desire to be a `big fish in a little sea' - can motivate future policy decisions that seek to attract returnees. The third, unexpected finding - xiao xiong xin or `little ambition' of younger generations - acknowledges the …
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The Hometown Band Director: An Autoethnographic Study on the Needs of Rural High School Instrumental Music Educators
<p>The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the needs of the rural high school instrumental music educator. Three research questions guided the inquiry: 1) How do the needs of practicing rural high school instrumental music teachers compare to the unique needs of rural music educators …
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Comparing Students' Perspectives on a Rural University's Special District Police Department and Student's Traditional Hometown Police Departments
… of two different police departments; traditional hometown police departments and special district police. This study targeted a specific population, college students, that needs additional research to understand what factors contribute to their perceptions of police. This study gathered students’ …
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Hometown as fatherland : Nanyang Chinese under Japanese pan-Asianism and Pribumi nationalism in Malaya and Indonesia, 1937-1955
I argue that for Southeast Asian Chinese the shift from China-oriented identity to local-oriented identity was a particular historical dynamic that came about largely through internal responses to changing political and social conditions. This special historical event can be traced through the …
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Hometown as fatherland : Nanyang Chinese under Japanese pan-Asianism and Pribumi nationalism in Malaya and Indonesia, 1937-1955
I argue that for Southeast Asian Chinese the shift from China-oriented identity to local-oriented identity was a particular historical dynamic that came about largely through internal responses to changing political and social conditions. This special historical event can be traced through the …
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Where did you come from? The effects of culture, hometown region, and gender on the perception, endorsement, and justification of aggression
… whether individual factors, including culture, hometown region, and gender, would affect the likelihood of a person perceiving and justifying an aggressive act. Previous literature explored the differences between distinctive cultural subtypes, hometown regions, and gender on the acceptance of …
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Culture, surprise, and adaptation: Examining undergraduate students’ matriculation processes
… (b) explore how the cultures of students’ hometowns influenced student culture at the university, and (c) provide a conceptual model which has analytical generalizability across higher education.</p> <p>This ethnographic research focuses on developing a cultural knowledge of hometown …
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Not So Correct: Rebuilding with the Fragments of Memories
… (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 of rebuilding is difficult in the absence of …
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Mongolian Folklore Expressed through Music Technology Original Multimedia Soundtrack on Horseback
I returned to my hometown and recorded Mongolian folk music- Mongolian Long Song and Mongolian Throat Singing. I wanted to combine technology and traditional folk music and write an electronic piece based on Mongolian vocal materials. I used what I've sampled, manipulated the sounds, composed the …
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Getting over a mountain
… my messages -- Four letter word -- The fixer -- Hometown girl -- Grow up -- From what I remember -- Communion -- The hulk -- Teacher's pet.</p>
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Until We Sink and other stories
… place in a fictionalized version of the authors hometown, Carbondale, in northeastern Pennsylvania, home of the first underground coal mines in the nation. The stories explore life in a town wrought by violence and environmental degradation.'</p>
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The Small-Town NFL Player
… or professional player based on an athlete’s hometown. The research is evident that a player from a smaller town has better odds of making it to the elite level of sport compared to a player from a large urban city. Where an athlete is raised is important in understanding how they were …
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An Analysis of the Subjective Socioeconomic Scale among Hispanic Immigrants and Caucasians
… SES scale is examined in a participant's hometown, community, and nation. Both an immigrant Hispanic and a Caucasian sample were studied (31 Hispanic males; 42 Hispanic females; 38 Caucasian males, 40 Caucasians females). Childhood SES was the most significant predictor of self-reported …
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Building communities through communication: Understanding community development success and failure using a narrative approach
… The subjects are participants of the Indiana HomeTown Competitiveness program, an initiative that seeks to develop local economic capacity to move rural communities beyond outdated economic models and generate more innovative, sustainable community development. Indiana HomeTown Competitiveness …
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