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Patterns of repetition in the novels of Frank Norris
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Patterns of repetition in the novels of Frank Norris
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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"America Beckons, Americans Repel": Nativism, Racial Stereotypes, and the Naturalistic Impulse in Frank Norris's McTeague
This thesis explores the ways in which Frank Norris's naturalism in his novel McTeague is at once compromised and sustained by his use of racial stereotypes. I begin by defining the term "nativism," and go on to clarify Norris's relationship to the nativist movement in America. I also suggest that …
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Childhood Growth In An Oneota Community: Examining Long Bone Growth Differences In The The Juveniles At Norris Farms 36
… numbers of perimortem injuries at the Norris farms 36 cemetery, along with biological markers for poor health, such as cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis. They suggested that the threat of violence may have forced the Oneonta at Morton village to limit subsistence activities to …
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White Devils and So-Called Negroes: Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptists, and the Early Nation of Islam In Detroit
… of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and J. Frank Norris, a Southern Baptist preacher from Texas. Although scholars have studied the connections between NOI teaching and Garvey and Ali, few scholars who study the Nation go beyond simply mentioning the names of Rutherford and Norris.</p> <p> …
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American Multitudes: Immunity and Contagion at the Turn of the Century
… and affective contagion, authors like Frank Norris and Sherwood Anderson, though largely ceding to this description, saw in the crowd the possibility for an entirely new social consistency. Contrary to sociological prescriptives designed to brace the individual against the imminent threat of …
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Fluid Sexualities in Frank Norris's McTeague
Frank Norris's novel McTeague can be read as an intense reflection on the limitations of language surrounding fluid sexualities in late-nineteenth century America. Through a queer theoretical lens, I examine the ways in which Norris collapses his characters and narrative in order to demonstrate …
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Geometry of sub-Riemannian diffusion processes
… of recent work by Bailleul, Mesnager and Norris on small-time fluctuations for the bridge of a sub-Riemannian diffusion, we show, by providing a specific example, that, unlike in the Riemannian case, small-time fluctuations for sub-Riemannian diffusion bridges can exhibit exotic …
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An investigation into the effect of solid particulate phase on the bioleaching performance of Sulfolobus metallicus
… extent of solubilisation (Duarte et al, 1993; Norris and Barr, 1988; Konishi et al., 1995). However, these thermophiles appear to be sensitive to hydrodynamic conditions (Clark and Norris, 1996) and the presence of solids (Le Roux and Wakerley, 1988; Nemati and Harrison, 2000). An understanding …
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Injurious Distances: Mobility, Space, Realism
… spaces. I argue that for Mark Twain, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, physical motion and the continual remaking of the built environment enabled new kinds of subjectivity. Specifically, I assert texts such as Mark Twain’s early narratives, Norris’s The Octopus, and Dreiser’s An American …
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Investigation of Storytelling as a Requirements Elicitation Method for Medical Devices
… in the literature (Martin, Murphy, Crowe, & Norris, 2006; Martin, Norris, Murphy, & Crowe, 2007; Ward & Clarkson, 2007). Standards require the use of user research techniques, yet patient privacy standards prevent designers from observing users in context. The inability to observe users in …
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The rise of populism within the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa: a theoretical case study of anti-establishment, economic inequalities and cultural backlash
… populism theory from especially Inglehart and Norris is applied to the local context to show why the aforementioned factors can explain the rise of populism.
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The Satire of Jane Austen
… inconsistent characters clearly shows. Her Mrs. Norris, Lady Bertram, Mrs. Bennet, and Mrs. Allan are among the best comic characters found in fiction. She was most truly a realist of the school of Crabbe and Cowper, whose influence may easily be seen in her works.
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It Takes Two: a Study of Meaning Negotiation and Multimodal Communication in Collaborative Gaming
… 2003; Varoni & Gass, 1985) and gesture studies (Norris, 2004). Data collection includes screen recordings, audio recordings, and video recordings of participants engaged in cooperative gameplay. The findings reveal that negotiation episodes occur spontaneously during collaborative gaming, and …
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Slumming and the 19th century geographical imagination
… William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane and Frank Norris, reinforced middle-class and bourgeois conceptions of urban social space. The degrees to which existing social space was maintained, and the processes by which it was maintained, depended on the particular geographical features of the cities …
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Le rôle de la production du langage dans l'effet de répétition de Hebb
… les modèles de la mémoire verbale de Page et Norris (2009) et de Burgerss et Hitch (2006), la perception de la séquence répétée est le processus qui mène à son apprentissage. Le rôle que joue la production de la séquence répétée dans l'effet de répétition de Hebb demeure cependant …
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Pre-service student-teachers' perceptions of play in the early childhood classroom after research analysis with discussion-case application: a sequential explanatory mixed methods approach
… with less opportunity for play (Brashier & Norris, 2008; Lynch, 2015; Nicolopoulou, 2011). This sequential explanatory mixed method study was designed to examine the impact and experience of participating in facilitated research analysis with discussion-case application on early childhood …
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Community Resilience: A Meta-Study of International Development Rhetoric in Emerging Economies
… to future shocks and stressors (Adger, 2000; Norris, Stevens, Pfefferbaum, Wyche & Pfefferbaum, 2008; USAID, 2013; Walker et al., 2004). The core of this definition relates to sustainability and the capability of socio-ecological systems and communities to adapt and transform to both day to …
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… cannot affect their worlds), yet unlike Frank Norris or Jack London, for instance, Crane innovatively employs pragmatic elements that work against the very deterministic frameworks that structure his stories. By tracing the dialectic between these theories, I demonstrate how Crane’s fiction not …
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Behold thy doom is mine: The evolution of Guinevere in the eorks of Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
… criticism, including that of Maureen Fries and Norris J. Lacy, in proving how Guinevere’s character marks the societal values and beliefs of each author’s time period, as well as how she exemplifies the struggle to understand female characters in literature.</p>
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