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Last Rites for Uptown
This autobiographical poetry collection is about identity, belonging, and brokenness, dealing with the aftermath of a dead mother, a deadbeat father, and a decaying home filled with years of trash and memory. In many ways, this collection is a buildungsroman. For me, what seem like ordinary …
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The gay rites of passage
1 PDF file (v, 88 pages)
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Rites of conflict among North American Indians
… challenged in certain traditional societies by rites of conflict, North American Indian tribes, mostly within the United States, are studied herein as traditional societies of cultural and ecological diversity, The life of the Indian was rich in ceremony. Pueblo males were estimated to have …
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Water rites : a city stage for Boston
This thesis focuses on the design of a public theatre for the entire city of Boston, a "city stage." The intention is to explore through design the boundaries of an architectural setting for large scale performance art; one that could be enjoyed by the entire city at once. Further, the idea is to …
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Grief (w)rites: Composing loss in the composition classroom
<p>This dissertation studies first-year college student essays about grief, loss and death. It begins with the author's own narrative of grief and moves on to explore the complications of revealing grief in an academic context, discussing the personal and political implications of doing so. The …
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Resistance, education, and rites: An ethnographic study on Afrocentric community education
<p>In 2016, the Detroit Independent Freedom School Movement (DIFS) was established out of the need for positive educational activities for children of the dismantled Detroit Public Schools (DPS). The movement was organized by Detroit community members who created grassroots organizations in …
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Pre-Christian Survivals in the Festivals, Rites, and Symbols of the Church
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. May 1909. Major: Sociology and Anthropology. 1 computer file (PDF); 74, iii pages.
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Rites of Passage: The Role of Induction in the Enculturation of Beginning Teachers
Researchers have reported that by the year 2010, two million teachers will be needed in classrooms across the country. The shortage has been attributed to population increases and a rise in the number of teacher retirements. Other researchers contend that the shortage is due to rising attrition …
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ANTYESTI (LAST SACRIFICE): FUNERAL RITES PERFORMED BY HINDU FROM WESTERN REGION OF NEPAL
… directed, produced and edited. It will cover the rites performed by people residing in the western part of Nepal. It will recount how the concept of making a documentary about the last rites came into my mind. </p>
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Muslims ritualising death in the Netherlands: Death rites in a small town context
Contains fulltext : 107695.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Rites of Offering: Stability, Outcomes, and Observational Signatures of Mass Transfer in Binary Stars
Contains fulltext : 332404.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
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Voices of New Music on National Public Radio: Radio Net, RadioVisions, and Maritime Rites
… production, and radio broadcast of Maritime Rites (1984). I argue that the differences between Maritime Rites and RadioVisions were, in part, representative of changes in NPR from 1981-85, particularly the role of the newly established Satellite Program Development Fund in supporting …
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A re-evaluation of the kernos, with special reference to the kernos in Demeter's rites
The focus of this paper has therefore become the objects excavated throughout the Mediterranean, which have been called "kernoi." An examination of these vessels of various shape and a survey of the finds from excavated Demeter and Kore sanctuaries will show that the Eleusinian vessels, which may …
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The Rise and Rites of Tantric Kingship in the Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā, a Hybrid Nibandha from Vijayanagara
The little studied Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā is known to a small number of Sanskritists and historians as an encyclopaedic work on kingship from the Vijayanagara period. The work is, however, catalogued as a Tantric text, probably owing to its title (which includes the name of a Tantric goddess), …
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Intersecting religion and culture: A comparative study of circumcision rites in the Old Testament and Yorùbá culture
The study explores circumcision in both the Old Testament and Yorùbá tradition, examining how the ritual conveys and perpetuates communal identity, religious meaning, and cultural belonging. The Old Testament provides the main focus, where in Genesis 17, circumcision is established as a divinely …
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Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland: An Analysis of Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves
… and thus utilised specifically in funerary rites. The results from this research shed more light on past cosmologies and the importance of non-human species to humans in both life and death.
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Rites of passage as the basis of programme development for young people at risk in South Africa
In traditional indigenous communities, rites of passage provide a binding and supportive function which facilitates the transition of young people from childhood to adulthood. However, in contemporary western society transition rites have largely been forgotten or neglected and this loss has …
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Rites of Passage in Rafoarty: Curriculum Continuity and Transition from Primary to Post-primary in an Irish Town.
Literature on student transition between primary and post-primary illustrates that how schools integrate students and choose to organize teaching and learning supports or contributes to transition difficulties for students. This qualitative study finds that despite statements in official …
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