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Poor Anima
At the root of this project is the struggle of my bicultural identity—the practice of composing in a non-native language and the act of speaking one’s native language that possesses no written form (though captured in the synthetic Romanized Popular Alphabet, initially for religious conversion, and …
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Poor Anima
At the root of this project is the struggle of my bicultural identity—the practice of composing in a non-native language and the act of speaking one’s native language that possesses no written form (though captured in the synthetic Romanized Popular Alphabet, initially for religious conversion, and …
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Competencies and problems of poor and non-poor American emerging adults
… among emerging adults.</p><p>Being very poor is associated with more than twice the relative risk of being in a multiple problem profile that includes high levels of offending and serious concomitant problems such as mental illness, substance dependence, arrests and academic failure. The …
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Why do the poor stay poor? Three essays on asset dynamics and poverty traps
… at testing that the main reason some people are poor is due to a poverty trap, i.e., to some contextual mechanisms which limit their ability to escape poverty, reproducing it over time. To investigate this hypothesis, this thesis is guided by three different questions. First, does a poverty trap …
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The Working Poor: Negotiating Life
… part of the negotiation process that the working poor use to bring balance and control to their lives. This work challenges those who explore the contexts of people in poverty to recognize leisure as a significant life domain. It also challenges leisure researchers to recognize the situated nature …
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Consumption patterns of poor households
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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
… by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) represented a bold attempt to revitalize the black freedom struggle as a movement explicitly based on class, not race. Incorporating African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and poor whites, …
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The mobility of the urban poor.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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Revenue sharing : minorities and the poor.
Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Controlled growth strategies and the poor.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. M.C.P.
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The urban-poor challenge : delivering services for the urban poor : government organizations versus non-government organizations (NGOs)
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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Rich and Poor Divide: How Portrayals of the Poor and Poverty in News Media Perpetuate Stigma and Inequality
… about people who are rich and those who are poor are pervasive in our society. Online news media is one of the ways in which these power dominated messages are disseminated. Forty online news articles from four major news outlets in Canada were examined using Critical Discourse Analysis. …
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Are poor people healthier in rich or poor areas?: The psychosocial effects of socioeconomic incongruity in the neighbourhood
… status neighbourhoods were more likely to have poor average health than those within low status neighbourhoods.
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The Construct of Substance Abuse Enabling Applied to Poor Performance Management: How Managers Deal With Poor Performing Employees
… attributions and responses that managers make to poor performance using the construct of enabling from the field of substance abuse. Approximately 200 government and 55 non-government managers responded to a three-part questionnaire exploring managers' enabling behaviors, attribution of the causes …
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Simulation of annealed polyelectrolytes in poor solvents
Polymere sind lange kettenartige Moleküle. Sie bestehen aus vielen elementaren chemischen Einheiten, den Monomeren, die durch kovalente Bindungen aneinander gekettet sind. Polyelektrolyte sind Polymere, die ionisierbare Monomeren enthalten. Aufgrund ihrer speziellen Eigenschaften sind …
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Economy and beliefs among the Cairo poor
… methodology, this thesis is a study of a poor community in a residential slum quarter of Cairo. Both objective and subjective aspects of the poor’s everyday life were studied with a view to giving a rounded picture of their life-world, life-style, problems, coping responses and the social …
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Unravelling the nature of hydrogen-poor thermonuclear supernovae
Thermonuclear supernovae take many forms, as demonstrated by the increasing evidence of diversity among type Ia supernovae, particularly at early times, and subclasses of peculiar objects. This thesis presents new observations and modelling tools that explore the diversity of thermonuclear …
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Prairie Paupers: North Dakota Poor Farms, 1879-1973
<p>This study examines the history of county poor farms in North Dakota and places them within the wider perspective of poor relief in the United States.</p> <p>North Dakota inherited its system of poor relief from the Elizabethan and American colonial poor laws. Poorhouses were a part of poor …
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