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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"retelling"”.
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Retelling Michel de Certeau
This study is a theoretical exploration of Michel de Certeau's theories. The emphasis is placed on his notion of "tactics". Some of the issues to be addressed are: the tension existent in every social organization in terms of controlled "places" and dynamic "spaces", and the theorization of the …
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Amplifying the Griot: Technology for Preserving, Retelling, and Supporting Underrepresented Stories
As we develop intelligent systems to handle online interactions and digital stories, how do we address those stories that are unwritten and invisible? How do ensure that communities who value oral histories are not left behind, and their voices also inform the design of these systems? How do we …
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Disarming the canon : exploring Tepper’s and Atwood’s retelling of classical (her)story
This dissertation explores the ways in which two contemporary texts, Sheri S. Tepper’s (1990) The gate to Women’s Country and Margaret Atwood’s (2005) The Penelopiad, adapt classical texts by Euripides and Homer in order to make and strengthen statements about contemporary gender ideologies that …
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Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives
<p>This study examines the literacy narratives of disfranchised educators. It unveils the toll the “literacy myth” has taken on their educational pursuits in American institutions. Through these published narratives, the study explores the ways in which the Eurocentric ideology dominates academic …
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Retelling Conversion: The Making of Christian Histories of Sweden, c. 1100–1550
This dissertation explores how medieval Swedish writers understood early narratives of the Swedish conversion to Christianity, and how they used them to write and rewrite their Christian history despite — and frequently, in response to — their pagan past. This is taken as a starting point for a …
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Retelling an Old Wife’s Tale: Postpartum Care of Taiwanese and Chinese Immigrant Women
<p>The focus of this dissertation is the Chinese postpartum tradition <em>zuoyuezi</em>, often translated into English as doing-the-month. Having its roots in ancient China, this set of practices has maintained its salience today in Taiwan, China, and among first generation immigrant women in the …
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"The Second Side" A Historic Retelling of African American Life in Iberia Parish, Louisiana
<p>In 1834, new living quarters emerged in the Main Street District of New Iberia for the Weeks family, who were prominent white sugar cane planters that owned a fully operating plantation twenty-five miles away. With their sixteen-room home sited twenty feet above the banks of the bayou, the Weeks …
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Blackness and Periphery: A Retelling of Marginality in Hip -Hop Culture of Sao Paulo, Brazil
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: QuickTime; Flash Player.
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Performing "Camp, Vamp & Femme Fatale": Revisiting, Reinventing & Retelling the Lives of Post-Death, Retro-Gothic Women
This thesis examines the production process for "Camp, Vamp and Femme Fatale," performed at the University of North Texas in April of 1997. The first chapter applies Henry Jenkins's theory of textual poaching to the authors' and cast's reappropriation of cultural narratives about female vampires. …
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Retelling the old, old story: a study of six mass evangelistic missions in twentieth-century New Zealand
Modern revivalistic evangelism developed from the British Evangelical Revivals and the American Great Awakening of the eighteenth century. The theological and practical foundations were laid for the development of new approaches and techniques to persuade hearers of their sinfulness and need to …
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Making meaning out of high tech: A critical ethnographic retelling of personal stories about the information age
"The principal concern of this study is to explore the character and origins of people's everyday knowledge about phenomena that are typically considered as part of an ""information age,"" ""computer revolution,"" or ""high-tech society."" Based primarily on ethnographic interviews, the research …
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“Tell Them about the Dream Martin!”: The Retelling, Reframing, and Re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement through a Black Feminist and Postmodern Lens
<p>This research seeks to explore the intersectionality of race, gender, and class that existed during the Civil Rights Movement, and the tensions that were a result of that intersectionality. This is accomplished through a re-examination of The Movement through a post-modern and Black feminist …
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Kindergartners' Oral Responses to Stories Either Told or Read to Them
… of words generated by kindergartners when retelling a story read to them from a book (read aloud) as compared to when a story was told orally, without a book (storytelling). The subjects of this study were 42 kindergarten students attending an urban school district in Western New York. The …
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Kindergartner’s Oral Responses to Stories Either Told or Read to Them
… of words generated by kindergartners when retelling a story read to them from a book (read aloud) as compared to when a story was told orally, without a book (storytelling). The subjects of this study were 42 kindergarten students attending an urban school district in Western New York. The …
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Florilegia, a fictional dialogue with the works of Anna Atkins: How does a fictional response to the works of Anna Atkins provide a new retelling of her work?
… in a subversive narrative that explores a retelling of Atkins’ hidden biography. Each chapter is accompanied by an explicatory clef that seeks to anchor the fiction in current and historical debates. Following Atkins’ lead and creating my own cyanotype album led to the discovery that Atkins …
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Journaling as a Tool to Improve Story Comprehension for Kindergarten Students.
… B, with 3 focus participants from each group retelling the story. The retelling was audio taped and analyzed using Morrow's (2001) procedures. Group B experienced the intervention of story journaling on the third week of the study and showed an improvement in story comprehension during the …
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The incorporation of graphic and semantic organizers, answering and generating questions, retelling, and making connection strategies to foster ninth grade students´ reading comprehension skills at c.e. insa, santa ana, during the year 2019.
… organizers, answering and generating questions, retelling, and making connection. This will generate development of interest on the field that will teachers and students know that the improvement on the skill is stimulated by reading in different strategic ways that undoubtedly will help in the …
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Narrative Skills in Children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
… the same vocabulary age (VA) performed on story retelling and story generation tasks. The children were asked to retell two stories of different lengths (Stein and Glenn's Melvin, the Skinny Mouse and The Tiger's Whisker) and generate two stories from different stimuli (wordless picture book and …
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Narratives in music: Schelmo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
… power and Bloch’s own musical language in retelling the story of King Solomon. The project is going to be organized as follows: Chapter 1 will provide information about Ernest Bloch’s biography and works. Chapter 2 will discuss Bloch’s influences as they relate to his compositions. Chapter …
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Castles in the Air
<p><em>Castles in the Air</em> is a retelling of <em>Dracula</em> that uses elements of the original Stoker text while also diverging from the story and exploring victim narratives and queer subtext. The project explores the limitations and possibilities of transformative texts, such as, …
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