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Showing 1 to 20 of 278 for “"sisters"”.
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Sisters Before the Fall
… first fourteen chapters of a fiction entitled "Sisters Before the Fall", which brings to the forefront extreme, yet, real abuses faced by women in the Middle East and the northeastern countries of Africa. Those abuses are the result of social, political, and cultural influences, and include …
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Sisters of Sun and Moon
<p>Novel excerpt.</p>
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Girl Talk: Disclosure Between Adolescent Sisters
… years to examine disclosure between adolescent sisters. The content of disclosures between sisters focused on relationships, particularly those with boys, family, and peers. Participants described childhood relationships as play-oriented, whereas adolescent relationships were marked by less …
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Set Design for Three Sisters: An Extraordinary Encounter with Chekhov
… the design of the set for Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. This play was produced in the Spring of 2007, at the University of New Orleans. This production was chosen by the graduate committee, as the final work to complete my Master of Fine Arts degree in set design. I seek to examine the nature of …
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Carol and the Ugly Sisters: A Play in Three Acts
<p><em>Carol and the Ugly Sisters</em>, reflects the trajectory of two teenage African American girls growing up in 1960s Harlem. They met when Anita was 16, and Carol was 17. Anita, the protagonist, is from a lower middle-class family, and goes on to graduate Columbia University. Carol, her …
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Contribution of the Sisters of Loretto to Education in Colorado
… educational field is a record of which the Sisters of Loretto are justly proud. From that memorable day in the July of 1864, when three brave women opened the first Lorettine school in Denver, to the present time which witnesses a group of about two hundred Sisters staffing eight parochial …
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Blithe Spirits: Absent British Women Couturiers – The Rahvis Sisters (1928 – 1981)
… research project explores the Rahvis Sisters as ‘Absent British Women Couturiers’ in the established canon. As my title states, here they become ‘Blithe Spirits’ located in the virtual world. My project is multifarious: it repeats, returns and is polymorphic, in approach, methodology …
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"Sisters of the Capital": White Women in Richmond, Virginia, 1860-1880
This dissertation examines the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction on elite, middle-, and working-class white women in Richmond, Virginia. Anne Firer Scott has written that the Civil War was a historical watershed that enabled southern women's movement into broader social, economic, and …
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Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy (Ireland): Analysis of the governance structures.
… governance structures of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy (Ireland), since its foundation by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831. The topic is subdivided into four questions: (1) What form of governance did the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy inherit from its historical …
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Special daughters of Rome: Glasgow and its Roman Catholic Sisters, 1847-1913
Abstract available: p. i.
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Catholic Sisters: Leaders in the Fight Against Human Trafficking. A Phenomenological Study
… in the leadership literature, Catholic Sisters are an active group that is recognized for their successes in the field of anti-trafficking. This qualitative phenomenological study described and interpreted the lived experience of Catholic Sisters as leaders in anti-trafficking …
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A History of the Schools of the Sisters of Humility in Iowa
… of the schools established and conducted by the Sisters of Humility in Iowa, where this community has labored for over fifty years. An earnest effort has been made to be as accurate as possible in tracing the history of these schools, both public and parochial, from their poor beginnings through …
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Unruly Sisters: Moravian Women, Dissent, and the 18th Century North Carolina Piedmont
… records of the Elders, memoirs, the Single Sisters Diary, and various documents from the congregation, I examine the experiences and actions of Moravian women prior to their arrival in Salem and shortly after, the dissent and desires of Single Sisters, and how Married Sisters navigated the …
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Sisters' curse: sexually antagonistic selection constrains the spread of a rare mitochondrial haplogroup
Females produce relatively few, large and costly eggs. By contrast, males produce large numbers of small and physiologically inexpensive sperm. This differential investment in gametes has long been identified as a force driving the evolution of divergent mating tactics in the sexes. In most …
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My sisters myself: exploring the health and wellness practices of African American women
African American women contribute disproportionately to disease in the United States. Researchers have repeatedly turned to issues related to poverty, access to medical care, and stress to explain this syndrome, however studies have shown that the disparities persist even in the absence of poverty …
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Pilot Study Of Safe Sisters: A Sexual Assault Prevention Program For Sorority Women
… This study assessed the effectiveness of Safe Sisters, a sexual violence prevention program for sorority women that is based on the Health Belief Model. Four sororities (2 for experimental program group, 2 for comparison group) were recruited via email to organization presidents. The study …
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