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Showing 1 to 20 of 1119 for “"mexican"”.
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Mexican Peasants and the Mexican State: Reform and Continuity
State-rural poor relations in Mexico remained fairly stable (between 1970 and 1994) in regard to their political role and consequences for the majority of the rural poor. A small subset of the rural poor, those able, or potentially able, to compete in the national and international agricultural …
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Colores Mexicanos: The Mexican Art Song and Setting Mexican Texts to Music
… and his other, 20th-century contemporaries, the Mexican art song tradition has established its own, unique place and role within Western art music. In this thesis, after briefing exploring the history of the Mexican tradition, I will compose and analyze my own art song cycle, using exclusively …
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Is Parenting Style Related to Overweight in Mexican or Mexican-American Preschoolers?
… continues to rise and children from low-income, Mexican or Mexican-American families are disproportionately affected. The preschool years have been identified as a critical period for excessive weight gain and during this time children respond to parental cues as they form their early eating …
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Ancient West Mexican bellmaking
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1998.
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Mexican and Mexican American Mothers’ and Fathers’ Experiences of Social Emotional Support for Children
This dissertation explored the experiences of Mexican and Mexican American mothers and fathers as they support the social-emotional development of their young children with disabilities. Despite the significant representation of Latine children in special education, many caregivers continue to face …
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Making Transnational Adults From Youth: Mexican Immigrant Youth in Pursuit of the Mexican Dream
… examines the lives of recently-arrived Mexican immigrant youth who arrive to New York City from both rural and urban Mexico, and either enter into formal school settings, or remain out of these settings, foregoing formal schooling altogether or entering into non-formal educational …
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Valor Wrought Asunder: The Mexican General Officer Corps in the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847.
… presents a reappraisal of the performance of the Mexican general officer corps during the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847. Often negatively libeled, Mexicos defeat is often attributed in no small part to the moral shortcomings of the generals who led her armies. By a detailed analysis of their …
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Portable housing for Mexican migrant workers
A capable migrant labor force is critical in sustaining the United States' agriculture industry. Yet, migrant farm workers are among the most economically disadvantaged people in the United States (NCFH). The housing available to migrant workers in the United States is typically substandard and …
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The Contemporary Body Of Mexican Masculinities
… as a mechanism to exercise control over Mexican bodies. I conceptualize this process in terms of a violent colonial strategy of subjection which coerces men to internalize normative codes of masculinity based on essentialist categories of race, sexuality, biological sex, and space. I …
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Sustainable construction in Mexican housing markets
This thesis examines recent developments in Mexico's housing markets as an example of how sustainable construction is being adapted and applied in developing countries. The recognition that the construction, operation, and demolition of buildings greatly impact the environment has spurred industry …
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Migration and development in Mexican communities
… and motivated workers. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project and exploiting stickiness in migrants' choice of U.S. destination, I examine the effects of migrant demand shocks on business ownership and job choice in Mexican communities. I find little evidence to support the …
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Investigating Mexican paleoclimate with precisely dated speleothems
… I present three records from newly-analyzed Mexican stalagmites using stable isotope (oxygen and carbon) and trace element to calcium (Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca) ratios as proxies for changing hydroclimate. Chapter 2 presents a precisely dated, mid-Holocene record of high rainfall and limited …
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Dental Variation in Central Mexican Latinx Individuals
… to explore the population history of a Central Mexican Latinx sample through dental morphological variables and odontometric crown and cervical measurements. Biological distance, or biodistance statistics, fuzzy c-means analyses, and linear discriminant function analysis were utilized to analyze …
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Conrad Wise Chapman and the Mexican Landscape
This thesis focuses on several paintings of the Mexican landscape produced by Conrad Wise Chapman (1842 – 1910) and held by the Valentine Richmond History Center in Richmond, Virginia. Chapman lived in Mexico from 1865 to 1867 and from 1883 to 1908 (with a few short absences), and during this …
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The representation of Mexican immigration in film
The history of Mexican immigration in the U.S. is long and complicated. Many of the complexities of the issue can be observed within different media such as televisions shows, news programs, newspapers, books, film and radio. This thesis will focus specifically on how Mexican immigration has been …
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