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The Culture of the Floor
A beautiful floor, a forgotten element, draws the eye down, a rare direction to view architecture. The presence of a floor, realized through travel, led to a curiosity about the patterns adorning the surface and an architecture generated by the floor. A pattern becomes a floor when lines turn into …
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Drug Abuse and the Culture of Learning
This study encompasses the phenomenon of drug abuse in the context of learning and teaching. The researcher endeavoured to explore certain aspects of this phenomenon in this particular context in view of a growing concern about the apparent demise of a culture of learning in our schools and related …
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Isaac Watts and the Culture of Dissent
<p>Although Isaac Watts wrote hymns in the early eighteenth century, some of his hymns, such as “Joy to the World,” “Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?,” and “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” survive today as well-known hymns. However, little has been written about the rhetorical effects of his …
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Trilobites and the Culture of Wonder in Antebellum America
This thesis examines a “culture of wonder” in the United States from 1800-1850 through the exploration of invertebrate fossils, especially the trilobite, in historical sources. A short discussion of Charles Willson Peale’s Repository allows the reader to understand the culture of wonder at the …
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A Civilized Society? The Culture of Punishment in Canada
… behaviour; at its core, it is a reflection of the cultural, social, and political trends of a society. In Canada, our cultural and emotional sensibilities have long been recognized as producing a moderate and balanced penal system. However, a recent series of ‘tough on crime’ laws and …
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Social Order and the Culture of Corruption in India
… in India and is prevalent in every sector of the Indian society. The purpose of this paper is to discuss selected cases to understand the widespread corruption that occurs in various sectors of the society such as academia, business, banking, law enforcement and other everyday services. …
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Phytohormones and the Culture of Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Pilat
Addition of synthetic phytohormones (auxin, gibberellin and cytokinin) to Agaricus bisporus culture matte promoted mycelial growth significantly at concentrations of 16° - 107 M. Most of the tested phytohormones were more effective in growth promotion in liquid culture rather than on semi-solid …
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William H. Sheldon and the culture of the somatotype
The burden of this dissertation is to show that William Sheldon’s somatotype project should be seen as an integral aspect of modernist culture. Sheldon engaged the same problems with modernity and the "Second Industrial Revolution" (urbanization, overpopulation, industrialization, alienation) that …
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Exploring the Culture of Coaching in North Vancouver Secondary Schools
… rely almost entirely on unpaid volunteers. In the context of rising living costs and the increasing demands of modern life, this study examines what motivates individuals to dedicate substantial time to volunteer coaching and how schools can better recruit and retain them. This qualitative …
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The culture of the Mayas as shown by their ruins
<p>It is the purpose of this paper to deal with the high state of culture attained by the mysterious Mayas of Central America and Yucatan.</p><p> How old is their civilization? No one knows.</p><p> Where did they come from? Who can say?</p><p> What did they wish to tell us in their writings that …
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An ethnographic journey to uncover the culture of dialysis units
A major challenge of the 21st century for the health-care professionals is to provide care for the ever-expanding population of people with renal-failure. Patient numbers are rising and specialist nurses, who are the pivotal factor in haemodialysis units, are becoming increasingly scarce. In this …
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The culture of learning in Khayelitsha secondary schools: teachers' perspectives
… focused on teachers' perspectives on improving the culture of learning in their schools. The 'culture of learning' is a term which has achieved widespread popular usage, serving as a catch phrase to describe the overall crisis in education. Broadly defined, the 'culture of learning' refers to …
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Survival of the preppers : an exploration into the culture of prepping
This dissertation is an exploration of the culture of prepping in the Midwest. The research aims to provide a better understanding of why people engage in prepping and how they go about doing so. Thirteen preppers were interviewed during 2014 - 2016. Drawing upon Swidler's (1986) definition of the …
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The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
This dissertation argues that most of Mexico City's Seventeenth-century subjects believed in and practiced the Good Death. The culture of the Good Death in seventeenth-century Mexico City shows that their Mexican Catholicism represented a localized religious practice that was completely …
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