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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"retreats"”.
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Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940
… unconfident, arguing that we can position their retreats as progressive through reading resistance to capitalism as motivating them.
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The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865--1920
This dissertation examines the political meanings of consumption and racial segregation in the public and commercial leisure spaces of the New Jersey shore during the Reconstruction era. Moving beyond issues of identity, racial violence, and labor disputes, I show how Jim Crow unfolded and operated …
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Exploring the Effects of the Leadership Academy Scholar Course on Student Well-Being
… that the addition of positive psychology retreats to positive education programs can be a valuable tool for educators. |Keywords: Positive Psychology Retreats, Positive Education, Positive Psychology. Secondary Education Retreats
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A Needs Assessment of People Living with HIV in Montana
… health care providers, and HIV-positive retreats. This assessment also identified three important objectives to best meet unmet service needs and address barriers to accessing available services. These objectives included working toward increasing the general public’s awareness of HIV …
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A Needs Assessment of People Living with HIV in Montana
… health care providers, and HIV-positive retreats. This assessment also identified three important objectives to best meet unmet service needs and address barriers to accessing available services. These objectives included working toward increasing the general public’s awareness of HIV …
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The effects of viscous stressed and mantle velocities on subduction : finite difference modeling
… the rate, Vr , at which the subduction boundary "retreats" are affected by the negative buoyancy of the subducting lithospheric slab and the viscous forces that arise where the mantle and subducting slab are in motion relative to one another ...
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An investigation of wellness retreat tourism experiences: a mixed-methods study from perceived value perspective
… wellbeing. Despite this growth, wellness retreats—a distinctive and transformative subsector of wellness tourism—remain underexplored in academic literature. Grounded in the increasing urgency of mental health as a global development priority (United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal …
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Modern sedimentation in the Northern Barents Sea : input, dipersal and deposition of suspended sediments from glacial meltwater
… sediments are disturbed by glaciers advances and retreats which mechanically rework the sediment surface. The southwestern portion of the glacier front, Brasvellbreen, surged 18km between 1936 and 1938. An end moraine was deposited at the maximum extent of the surge. The ice then stagnated and …
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This all works well up to a point
… by the accident and how the speaker initially retreats from and then confronts the changes death brings to her family. The poem's five sections explore the untrustworthy nature of memory, a family's history of accidental deaths, and the rich geological history of the landscape the speaker's …
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A room of one's own, revisited: An existential-hermeneutic study of female solitude
… of the study, who underwent three solitary retreats in the interest of this project, adding an autoethnographic component to the work. Theory from the existential-phenomenological, monastic, ecopsychological, and feminist literatures was applied to the data, enabling us to interpret the …
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Shaping Cows' Approach to Humans Using Positive and Negative Reinforcement
… still, the human operates a clicker, and then retreats from the animal. Gradually, the human moves closer to the animal through the clicking and retreating shaping process. Once the human is standing close enough, food may be offered as a positive reinforcer, and the negative reinforcer is …
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Common Higher Callings to Social Compassion: A Phenomenological Study of Civic Praxis
… narratives of six counselors who lead week-end retreats for youth to confront prejudice, bigotry, and racism for the purpose of building and nurturing pluralism. Because this research is a narrative study, it is essentially a study of language. It assumes that language is not to be understood as …
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Realism, sentimentalism, and popular fiction
… it cloaks itself in the guise of realism but retreats into the ideology and conventions of the feminine and sentimental. This study attempts a historical, cultural, and generic reading of Freeman's diverse fiction that productively turns these critical commonplaces upside-down and moves beyond …
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The late Cenozoic geology of west-central Minnesota from Moorhead to Park Rapids
… geologic episodes:</p> <p>Glacial advances and retreats over all or part of the study area occurred during the first six geologic episodes. The glaciers advanced either southward across northern Minnesota, entering the study area from the northeast; or across eastern North Dakota and …
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Foreign perceptions of American casualty sensitivity : is your reputation worth fighting for?
… sustain casualties based upon America's previous retreats and defeats. I conclude that, in disagreement with the central conclusions of the reputation literature to date, it is indeed right for a state to fight for its reputation. In addition, the evidence suggests that the reputation hypothesis, …
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Earth in Architecture: An Exploration of Malawian Vernacular and Healing
… also organized in cloisters which were places of retreats from the mundane. The idea of hospitals today is to diagnose, treat and heal patients which has proven to be effective with most diseases being prevented and eradicated entirely from our day to day lives. However, these conditions aren't as …
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South-east Greenland Ice Sheet short term response to environmental conditions
… by temperature changes. The rapid stepped retreats observed over short timescales indicate that future outlet glacier response to climate change is likely to be non-linear and that the findings of mass balance studies based upon comparisons between specific years may not be robust. …
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The future of Narsap Sermia: Documenting the retreat of a tidewater glacier in Southwest Greenland
… were pivotal in triggering and sustaining these retreats. Drainage of ice-dammed lakes or increased meltwater resulting from heatwaves over the ice sheet suddenly increased subglacial freshwater discharge, subsequently instigating these retreat events. Once initiated, exposure to elevated ocean …
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Historical and Self-Imposed Asylums in Samuel Beckett’s <em>Murphy, Malone Dies</em>, and “First Love”
… the recurring motifs of sanity, asylums as retreats for the wealthy, and the links between prisons and asylums. I also examine Michel Foucault's theory of the Panopticon guards as an alternate reading of Beckett's views on sanity. In Murphy and Malone Dies, for example, Beckett questions …
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