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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"young girls"”.
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Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon
<p>Set mainly in Los Angeles in 2008, <em>Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon</em> is a novella that explores familial relations and what truly constitutes a family. Joni and Grace face the sudden, violent death of their estranged mother, Beverly, and decide to search for their father’s family. As …
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Young girls in the countryside: growing up in South Northamptonshire
… rural childhoods. Few studies have investigated girls’ use of outdoor environments, particularly those beyond urban settings. The dominance of pro-urban and ‘malestream’ research tends to hide the experiences of girls living in rural areas. This thesis explores difference and diversity in the …
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Soft Tissue Composition, Cardiometabolic Risk, and Bone Development in Young Girls
… from the “Soft tissue and bone development in young girls (STAR)” study to examine the relationship of soft tissue composition with measures of bone density, geometry, and strength in young girls and assess the influence of cardiometabolic risk factors, which are biomarkers of metabolic …
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The Education of Young Girls: The Case of Fouta Toro, Senegal
… with regard to females. The schooling of young girls is impacted by diverse socio-economic and curricular factors that pertain to patriarchal conceptions that have gone unquestioned. If girls are to be given the same social opportunities as their male counterparts, some of those concepts …
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Constructing ideas of femininity: a contextual exploration of young girls’ advertising experiences
The research explores how pre-adolescent girls interact with representations of femininity in advertising messages, through an in-depth, mixed-methods and mainly qualitative approach with a purposive sample of primary school girls (age 8-11). The study evolves through three major stages: …
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Identifying young girls at risk for eating disorders : a multi-faceted self-inadequacy risk model
… for eating disorders. It was hypothesized that girls who display a self-profile characterized by extremely low self-esteem, high fear of negative evaluation and body dissatisfaction will report more of the eating, psychiatric and family problems found in eating disordered patients than girls who …
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The LEGACY Girls Hormone Pilot Study: Implications for Breast Cancer Prevention through Exploring Hormone Biomarkers in Young Girls
… hours on a research study called the LEGACY Girls Hormone Pilot Study. This pilot study seeks to gather preliminary data on urinary hormones steroids in developing girls and assess the feasibility of multiple urine samplings across menstrual cycles. Results will assist in planning a future …
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Social Competence Difficulties, Loneliness, and Victimization by Peers as Predictors of Eating Disturbance in Young Girls: A Longitudinal Investigation
… study utilized a large community sample of girls who were assessed at age 9 and again at age 10. Further, the study examined a more racially and economically diverse sample than typically assessed in the eating disorder literature. First, the study examined the prevalence and stability of …
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Peluchi : product development of a programmable robotic toy to stimulate interest in the fields of science and technology amongst young girls
… of a programmable robotic toy targeted towards young girls in hope of promoting more interest in these areas. Peluchi is an educational toy designed to both appeal to girls aesthetically and stimulate them creatively and intellectually. The toy began as a group project for a class called SP. …
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Young girls' lived experiences of 'going online': an exploration into the relationships between social media use and well-being for primary age girls
… in contemporary social media practices that young girls aged eight to eleven, from a London primary school, choose to participate in. This thesis investigates how interactions in both the online and offline ‘figured worlds’ (Holland et al., 1998) of blogs influence children’s identity …
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A Grant Proposal for an Art Therapy Program for Young Girls Focusing on INcreasing Self-Esteem and Reducing the Development of Eating Disorders
… Health Awareness Council (CHAC), for adolescent girls in the elementary and middle schools of Mountain View, Los Altos, and Los Alto Hills, California. Funding in the amount of $3 [sic] is requested in order to conduct this eight-week art therapy program to help build the self-esteem and reduce …
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Samuel Parris: minister at Salem Village
In mid-January of 1691/2 two young girls in the household of Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began exhibiting strange behavior. "It began in obscurity, with cautious experiments in fortune telling. Books on the subject had 'stolen' into the land; and all over New …
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The Needs of Young Daughters Being Raised By Single Parent Fathers
… purpose of this study is to analyze the needs of young daughters being raised by single parent fathers in order to create a program that will assist in addressing these needs. Daddy’s Girl, a program to be founded by the Nicoma Narjett Foundation will be created to provide inspiration, support, …
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The making of a good woman : analysing children’s narratives on female gender identity and role in pre-school Saudi Arabia
In this research, I explored young girls’ (4 – 6 years) perceptions of female identity and role in in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Exploring the ways in which their gender identities were interpreted and manifested in narratives and stories to identify and analyse the influences, apparent …
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The Impact of Female Circumcision on primary school pupils: The Case of Moshi Rural District
… effects of female circumcision to primary school girls in Moshi district. The study was a case study research design, the population of which was selected using stratified and simple random sampling procedures, while three instruments, face to face interview, questionnaire and focus group …
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Early adolescent girls in transition in a peri-urban northern Thai community: perceptions of gender role and sexuality
… and socioeconomic transformation on young girls' perceptions of their gender roles and sexuality which places them at risk for contracting STDs and AIDS through sexual transmission. Ethnographic approaches were used to develop a fuller understanding of the specific social and cultural …
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Blood money: The commodification of menstrual education in the United States
… passage into womanhood. However, most girls within the United States who experience menarche fail to view it as a rite of passage, and instead see it as an event they must <em>endure</em> rather than celebrate. Menstruation is a mystifying process for young girls, and the mystification …
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“I decided to change the world”: a case study on three girls’ perceived abilities in STEM
… the literature about the factors that influence young girls to envision themselves as individuals who are valued and capable in the realm of STEM. Through the implementation of maker pedagogies, this research addresses the question of how motivation, passion, and environmental factors (including …
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Girl Scouts Empower Other Girl Scouts to Consume 3-A-Day™ of Dairy
… in knowledge about osteoporosis prevention in young girls and no research has been completed in which osteoporosis education is delivered by peers in children. A 3-A-Day™ of dairy peer education program was developed by local Girl Scouts with the purpose of teaching other Girl Scouts about the …
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