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Showing 1 to 20 of 382 for “"way of life"”.
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The Logistical Mode of Production: Logistics as a Total Way of Life
… is being reshaped by the increasing centrality of logistical science to everyday lived experience. Formerly confined to the governance of commodity chains, logistics’ influence has grown into a pervasive social rationality that promotes endless circulation and perpetual uncertainty as …
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A way of life: Saranac Lake and the 'Fresh Air' cure for tuberculosis
<p>In 1884, Edward Livingston Trudeau officially opened The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium for the treatment of tuberculosis in Saranac Lake, New York. For the next seventy years, what became known as the Trudeau Sanatorium was the model of American sanatoria, promoting fresh air, rest, and …
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Augustine against the academic doctrine, way of life, and use of philosophical writing.
… philosophical, ethical, and literary elements of the text. However, these works neglect the polemical role of the dialogue as a response to Cicero's Academic Skepticism. I offer a reading of the first of Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues, the Contra Academicos, that shows how his work can be …
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Inherent Threats to the American Way of Life: Privacy and Isolation in the U.S.
… societies, and build a quality and meaningful ways to live. Americans value their privacy and personal space to an extent that could be damaging to their social ecology. The values that the United States was built on have become individualized and selfish and have detrimental potential for …
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Being Chinese in Honolulu: A Political and Social Status or A Way of Life
… in DSpace on 2014-12-14T05:35:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7804092.pdf: 12347337 bytes, checksum: 60ac2c8f13261f70d45b737399053f1a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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The Methane Range: Coalbed Methane Development, Sage-Grouse protection, and The Ranching Way of Life
Coalbed methane development has proliferated across much of the western United States. Campbell County, Wyoming, in the Powder River Basin is one area that has seem some of the highest amounts of this development, most of it occurring on land where the surface use is livestock grazing, resulting in …
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The Methane Range: Coalbed Methane Development, Sage-Grouse protection, and The Ranching Way of Life
Coalbed methane development has proliferated across much of the western United States. Campbell County, Wyoming, in the Powder River Basin is one area that has seem some of the highest amounts of this development, most of it occurring on land where the surface use is livestock grazing, resulting in …
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Way of tea, way of life, and way of art education: learning through performative metaphor
This research is a journey of finding my way to understand Chado class in the context of art education. I observed the Chado class at the Midwestern University where eighteen students participated in weekly tea ceremonies. The students learned abstract concepts and meanings through the physical …
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TO NEIGHBOR: Stories from Melville, Montana, a Crossroads of Land, Community, and a Way of Life
This collection of essays revolves around several trips I made to Sweet Grass County and most specifically, Melville, Montana, population approximately 140. I discovered Melville on a class trip to Sweet Grass County and couldn’t get the community out of my mind. Relatively unchanged for the past …
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TO NEIGHBOR: Stories from Melville, Montana, a Crossroads of Land, Community, and a Way of Life
This collection of essays revolves around several trips I made to Sweet Grass County and most specifically, Melville, Montana, population approximately 140. I discovered Melville on a class trip to Sweet Grass County and couldn’t get the community out of my mind. Relatively unchanged for the past …
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The analysis, presentation and sustainability of a past Northeast of Scotland 'way of life' through video capture.
… upon which the outputs submitted as part of this thesis are based examines the socio-cultural environment of the Northeast of Scotland, from Aberdeen to Cabrach and from Portsoy to Laurencekirk. In total, five hundred and twenty hours of research data were collected as part of a project …
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Freedom as the Way of Life: Power, Truth-Telling, and the Politics of Michel Foucault’s Critical Philosophy
Since 2016, the proliferation of post-truth discourse has created a condition that affects the order of democracy in the west. Though many scholars have explored this condition through various frameworks, one of the topics that is rarely investigated is the new character of freedom and truth, as …
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Discovering a new way of life after an accident or illness : accessibility for disabled individuals in Icelandic society
The main goal of this study was to get a general overview of the status of accessibility for disabled people in an unfamiliar environment. This was done from the participants point of view. The focus of this qualitative study was to find out if there were any specific facilities and areas that were …
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Fishing as a way of life: a cultural geography of fishing communities in Castletownbere (Ireland) and Le Guilvinec (Brittany)
Using the lens of contemporary cultural geography, this research develops an understanding of fishing as a way of life in Castletownbere (County Cork) and Le Guilvinec (Brittany) through relational and reciprocal processes. Drawing on the hermeneutics of both Gadamer and Ricoeur, I argue that …
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Comparisons to Others, Past Experience, and Present Status as Determinants of Satisfaction With Material Consumption and Satisfaction With Way of Life
The objectives of this study were: (1) to investigate the relative importance of comparisons to others, past experience, and present status as determinants of satisfaction with material consumption and with way of life; and (2) to examine individually satisfaction with material consumption and with …
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"A nation of priests" : the world-view of the Temple scroll and its application to the way of life prescribed in the sectarian scrolls from Qumran
Too often in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls the relationship between the Temple Scroll and the sectarian scrolls is dismissed as minimal, or non-existent due to one of two general lines of reasoning. The first line of reasoning begins with the premise that whereas the Temple Scroll is concerned …
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Parent and Therapist Perceptions of Sensory Based Strategies Used by Occupational Therapists in Family-Centered Early Intervention Practice
… approach was used to explore the perceptions of parents and therapists in early intervention regarding sensory diets and their efficacy, particularly their goodness of fit within family routines and occupations. Open-ended interviews were conducted with therapist and parent participants and …
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Chroma Cowboy
<p><em>Chroma Cowboy </em>consists of eleven canvases wrapped in used feed sacks layered with vinyl to create brightly colored narrative scenes. Pulling from Pop Art colors, cubism shapes and a consciousness of materials, I designed this body of work to give the hard-working cowboys, ranchers, and …
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