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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"personal letters"”.
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A Comparative Study of the Methods Employed in the Teaching of Oral English
… several books, magazines, educational journals, personal letters, and questionnaires. As a basis of what a good course in Oral English should be several letters from selected speech authorities were used. The results of this survey have been tabulated in this study. A dally assignment schedule …
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A Tumultuous Tenure: The Presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
… thesis is a culmination of polls, editorials, personal letters, and memos from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Through use of these sources and a number of secondary materials, one is able to witness the period in which the popularity of the Johnson Administration began to …
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Fiction as History: James Jones, <em>From Here to Eternity</em>.
… that the novel was a distillation of Jones' personality and experience.</p><p>Jones felt fiction must be pieced from real experiences, but also contain original emotions disguised in the pages of a novel. Analyzing Jones's personal letters, interviews, and experiences offers, with some degree …
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A variação entre formas de futuro do pretérito e de pretérito imperfeito no português informal no Rio de Janeiro
… spoken (sociolinguistic interviews) and written (personal letters) in Rio de Janeiro. First of all, we delineate a definition for the notion which the variants have in commom: the irrealis. We adopt the theoretical and methodological principles of the Theory of Linguistic Variation and Change, …
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Fiction for the Intermediate Grades
… publishers of children’s books, and from personal letters from a few of each of these groups. |There has been a general opinion that few good books of fiction had been written for children; that authors devoted their time to the writing of adult fiction to the exclusion of juveniles; that …
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Liszt’s Heroes: An investigation into the Artistic Interdependence of Franz Liszt and his Contemporaries
… artists and their place in society, and Liszt's personal letters. The four composers featured in this study (Chopin. Wagner. Berlioz and Schumann) were chosen because of their importance as seminal figures in the musical life of the nineteenth century, as well as their importance in Liszt’s own …
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Tempo in Puccini's Soprano Arias
… contemporary commentaries, as well as various personal letters and references. Based on the results of my research, I hope to determine workable guidelines for dealing with the tempo in these soprano arias by Puccini.
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Barriers to Expansion of Supervision Networks At Genetic Counseling Training Programs
… an online survey; Program Directors were emailed personal letters of invitation. Twenty-three Program Directors, 216 supervisors, and 98 non-supervisors completed surveys. Respondents rated the impactfulness of 35 barriers (scale: 1=not impactful to 4=very impactful); Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon …
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Oral history heirlooms: vitality and substance in learning
… with documented resources to create and preserve personalized history. The author obtained information through personal interviews with family members from the descendents of Vito Antonio Mevoli, Filomena (Onorato) Mevoli, Dominick Abate, and Catherine (Lorusso) Abate and researched data from the …
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Buddhist imagery in the work of Paul Gauguin: the impact of primitivism, theology and cultural studies
… takes a deeper look at Gauguin and examines the personal context in which his works were created. This will show Gauguin's immense suffering and unhappiness as a result of separation from family, financial and health struggles. The personal context of the artists' life, I argue, influenced the …
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Thomas Jefferson: Life lines
… based on excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's personal letters. The material presented focuses on the intimate, human qualities of the man. The musical treatment of this material illuminates and amplifies different aspects of the inner Jefferson. The music is as diverse and varied as …
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Those Magnificent Men in their Fighting Machines: An Investigation into the Lives of WWI Tankmen
… at the immense backlog of war diaries, journals, personal letters, government documentation, and oral histories left behind by British tank crewmen of the First World War. The purpose of this investigation is mainly to uncover the reasons that individuals were chosen for transferal into the Royal …
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Efforts to Reduce Infant and Maternal Mortality in Saskatchewan During the Settlement Period
… research on which this thesis is based includes personal letters, emails and telephone interviews from people who responded to a letter I submitted to several small town newspapers requesting information on childbirth experiences during the settlement period. The McNaughton Papers housed at the …
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A history of schooling in Alleghany County, Clifton Forge, and Covington, Virginia
… information as well as newspapers of the period. Personal letters and interviews also provide a perspective on the topic. The purpose of the dissertation is to document one aspect of local heritage, the development of schooling, and preserve various facts of history in a readable form. There is …
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"Loving all People Regardless of Race, Creed, or Color": James L. Delk and the Lost History of Pentecostal Interracialism
… Using local and regional newspapers, as well as personal letters, books, archival collections, interviews, and secondary sources, one is able to see how Delk’s path to interracial religion began not far from where many early white Pentecostals also started. In the end, the reason many white …
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"Ourselves to know" : the problem of evil in the poetry of Alexander Pope.
… In chapter one, I examine in Alexander Pope's personal letters how his reliance upon religious resignation, sovereignty, heavenly compensation, prayer, and biblical imagery reveal a theodician search. In chapter two, I show how together Eloisa to Abelard, the 1717 Rape of the Lock, and other …
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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
… the emergence of the concept of privacy as a personal right, as the very core of individuality, is connected in a complex fashion with the history of reading. Amid the religious, political, and technological changes of seventeenth-century England, the printed book became the site for authors' …
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Marital Miseries: A History of Marital Conflicts in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, 1828-1900
… study attempts to fill around the individual, personal experiences of the breakdowns of the institution of marriage and what it was imagined to symbolise as a sign (and the foundation) of social stability. This dissertation is particularly invested in what people's individual experiences, …
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The making of clothing and the making of London, 1560-1660
… guild records, to portraits, travel accounts, personal letters, diaries and account books, plays, sermons and poems. With a focus on urban experience, this dissertation discusses not only elite luxury consumption, but also investigates the wardrobes of guildsmen, immigrant craftspeople, …
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A Failure of Policy: How U.S. Leaders Neglected to Shape, Lead, and Leverage Intelligence Concerning Japan During the Interwar Period, 1918-1941
… decrypted, and translated Japanese cablegrams; personal letters by and concerning U.S. intelligence professionals; and other primary source materials related to intelligence professionals and services available via the U.S. National Archives in College Park, Maryland. Some of these official and …
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