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  • The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

    Creator:
    Mackaman, Julie Irene
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    The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
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    encouragement. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Prologue: The Anti-Movement 1 II. Inception: The Social Nay-Sayers 10

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

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    Streufert, Mary J.
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    Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
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    determination. Table of Contents Page I. God, Atheism and Reality 1 II. Cultural Forces 14 III. A

  • Estranged Eating

    Creator:
    Lacy, Amber D.
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    The “fat-hunger paradox” is a relatively recent phenomenon in the United States in which people of low socioeconomic status are disproportionately overweight or obese, and yet frequently lack access to adequate food and nutrition. Research indicates additional disparities in the prevalence of overweight and obesity amongst most racial and ethnic...
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    obese is a leading risk factor for heart disease, type II diabetes, multiple forms of cancer

  • Prehistoric Culture Diffusion in the Gran Chichimeca

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    Lee, Eugene C. (Eugene Carlton)
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    The Gran Chichimeca is a North American area extending from the Tropic of Cancer to the south to the thirty-eighth parallel in the north, thus embracing northern Mexico and the American Southwest. The rise of the great mesoamerican civilizations to the south of the Gran Chichimeca and the consequent pressure...
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    Hypothesis 2 Method 4 Background 4 A. The Gran Chichimeca 4 B. The Chichimecs 5 II. A Time of Beginnings

  • Inside, Outside : Light and Dark

    Creator:
    Knotts, L. William
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    In a story of his life Les reflects on what he has gained and what he has lost while seeking success in the moving and shifting of military and academic life through homes and schools all over the United States. He describes himself as between races, languages, and cultures.
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    Photographs Introduction 01 Section I: Something in the Music 03 Section II: Against the Flow 42 Section

  • Cultural integrity and marginality along the South Fork of the Salmon River, Idaho

    Creator:
    Rebillet, S. J.
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    This work examines the varied populations which have inhabited the South Fork region from prehistoric times to the present. It disclosed that even though almost no archaeology has been done in the area, data from contiguous regions suggest that persistent and careful archaeological investigation should reveal valuable and informative sites...
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    OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 1 II. General Prehistory 12 Introduction 12 Prehistoric Cultural

  • The Va : Traditional Culture and Modernization of a Minority Nationality in China

    Creator:
    Chiang, Hung-i and Jiang, Hongyi
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    The Va nationality, despite its small population compared to other nationalities in China, has preserved most of its traditions largely due to limits placed by historical circumstances and geographical isolation. To non-Chinese anthropologists, the Va people still remain unknown, as there is little or no information about them in English...
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    . In the Va language, "si gang" means "stone cave", while "ii" means "come out". Thus, this phrase in

  • Chrysalis

    Creator:
    Harrison, S. S.
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    A creative work of literary fiction, Chrysalis is the story of Rachelle Long: a young woman who struggles to find her identity in a world marked by changing (and often, conflicting) ideas regarding sexuality, economics, gender roles and relations, and individual rights. Just one year into the workforce following her...
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  • From ‘Aints’ to Saints: A Rhetorical Analysis of the New Orleans Saints’ Fan Community

    Creator:
    Vosburg, Matthew D.
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    The purpose of this study is to analyze the rhetoric provided by New Orleans Saints fans and residents from 2004 to 2007. During this time frame there are two particularly significant events that influence a rhetorical change within the community and a shift in the perception of the New Orleans...
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    War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, the Munich Olympics, the Challenger explosion

  • Archival Anthropometry: An Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

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    Kirkpatrick, Kristin A.
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    Franz Boas collected anthropometric data on approximately 15,000 people from over 200 Native American tribal groups between 1888 and 1902. Twelve basic measurements were taken: standing height, shoulder height, height to digit III, arm span, sitting height, shoulder width, head length and width, face height and breadth, and nose height...
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    to and immune No Catch-up' Groth d otherNative I Rtervations l).pression System with Continued Ii