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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"rural life"”.
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Rural life in English poetry of the mid-eighteenth century
… century poems, assessing their portrayal of rural life, its literary and historical significance, and the aesthetic and ideological issues it presents. An introductory essay on developments in rural poetry sets the scene for two extended essays. The first essay is a comparative reading of the …
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A place to belong? The changing place of Church in rural life.
Many church buildings are finding a new lease of life as multi‐functional public spaces. Alongside their traditional role as places of worship, ‘sacred space’ is being opened‐up to new purposes by local communities and therefore to a reinterpretation of ‘place’. Consequently, in a diverse and …
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Trucking country : food politics and the transformation of rural life in Postwar America
… replaced railroads as the primary link between rural producers and urban consumers in the mid-twentieth century. With this technological change came a fundamental transformation of the defining features of rural life after World War II. Trucking helped drive the shift from a New Deal-era …
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The village shop and rural life in nineteenth-century England: cultural representations and lived experience
… is known about the long-term development of rural services, particularly shops, which are often ignored as marginal and undynamic. Moreover, whilst their recent decline has highlighted their perceived importance to the vitality of village life, the extent to which this is based on a …
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Recovering the roots: exploring myth, rural life, and the pastoral in W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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Redesigning rural life : relocation and In Situ urbanization in a Shandong village by Saul Kriger Wilson.
… rebuild some villages as more densely populated "rural communities." I present a case study on a financially troubled, partially complete village reconstruction project in Shandong. Villagers outside the leadership were minimally involved in project planning, and the village leadership put …
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The Contributions Made by Teachers in Catholic Rural Schools Toward the Solution of the Rural Life Problem in Southern Minnesota
… tilled and more often unrecognized--Catholic rural life. Since the lapse of twenty-three years, when a small group of rural-minded clergy met at St. Louis in 1923," the National Catholic Rural Life Conference has grown phenomenally until today its roots are anchored in almost every diocese of …
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‘Let's build houses': the order of housing development shaping childhood topography in Mafuyana, Maphisa
… (Garikai), an urban township in Maphisa, a rural growth point in Matobo District in Matabeleland South province, Zimbabwe. It explores the ways in which this ordering informs the social construction of childhood. The township was constructed as part of Operation Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle, a …
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Multispecies Entanglements and Rural Mental Wellbeing: An Ethnographic Situational Analysis
Rural mental health has become an increasingly prominent site of scholarly, governmental, and public concern, with growing investments in research, policy, and programming aimed at addressing rural populations' mental health needs. Yet, much of this burgeoning topic remains narrowly framed—steeped …
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Dirt Work
… of voice, feminism, queer theory, mythology, rural life, Appalachian identity, gender equality. </p>
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Scrapbooking cultures in twentieth-century Britain
… century, I use the themes of war, monarchy, rural life, and pornography, to illustrate the different ways in which historical actors engaged with the scrapbook genre. I argue that the twentieth century witnessed the emergence and consolidation of new types of scrapbooking: Britons scrapbooked …
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Goddess in Flux: Devotional Intimacy and Everyday Life at a Regional Indian Pilgrimage Site
… by exploring devotional intimacies and everyday life in the shadows of the regional pilgrimage temple of Rani Bhatiyani, a Hindu goddess, in rural Rajasthan. Informed by scholarship on lived religion, it examines aspects of rural life that have hitherto been unrecognized as important to religious …
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Social investigation in rural England, 1870-1914
… group of social investigators who were active in rural areas in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It follows on from studies of the investigations of Charles Booth, Seebohm Rowntree, Henry Mayhew and others, and shows how the investigation of rural life proceeded on different …
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How Love is Like Drowning
… gifted baseball player and as an outsider in a rural East Texas community that does not look kindly on difference. Throughout the novel, Isabeau attempts to negotiate what it means to be female, academically ambitious, physically active and independent in a rural life that does not encourage …
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‘Return to roots’: an examination of the re-presentations of rurality within post-apocalyptic survival video games
… This study examines the re-presentations of rural culture, violence, and the production of rural stereotypes within PAS video games applying a cultural criminology foundation and elements of social control theory (Hirschi, 1969). Nine video games were examined or their setting; conflict; …
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Shelter + A Domestic Violence Response Network in Newfoundland and Labrador
… the industries that have historically sustained rural life are diminishing and leaving these economies behind. Canada is experiencing rising incidences of domestic violence in affected rural communities like those found in the Maritimes. With little geographic access to urban resources, survivors …
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Water dispossession at the Llano en Llamas : a research study by a daughter of Mexican farmworkers in the land of her consciousness
… a collection of realistic short stories about rural life in the land of his childhood in Jalisco, Mexico. About 60 years after El Llano en Llamas, this daughter of Mexican campesinos, has also decided to write about the land of her childhood: the same El Llano en Llamas. This thesis examines …
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Urban agriculture as a tool for neighborhood fabric repair in post-industrial Detroit
… agriculture uses that can be integrated into the life and form of the neighborhoods. I began my work with an investigation of shrinking cities precedents in Leipzig and Youngstown, and urban agriculture precedents in Milwaukee, Havana, and Boston. I arrive at a set of policy and design …
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A Comparative Study of Religious Vocations of Women from Various Types of Schools
… that some hold to the Influence of urban or rural settings; whilst others assert that "calls do not follow a distinct pattern—that the most unlikely people sometimes receive a surprise invitation to go higher up."|The National Catholic Rural Life Conference in Its efforts to stem "the drift …
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Women of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Historical legacies impacting contemporary involvement
… education system, and the problems related to rural life is utilized to explain the divergent paths of the two nations. It is concluded that a primary factor in the development of gender relations is due to the pre-Soviet traditions that have resurfaced in the post-Soviet era with the …
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