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  • Exile in one's homeland : Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission

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    Yao, Yingxia
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    This thesis examines the influence of Christian missions on Yung Wing (1828-1912) during the nineteenth century, when China was beginning to encounter the West. Yung was the first Chinese graduate student to enter an American institution of higher education (Yale College, 1854). As a Westernized Christian intellectual, he strove to...
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    . 4 See more articles in Wu Wenlai吴文莱, Rong Hong yu Zhongguo jindaihua容闳与中国近代 化 (Yung Wing and

  • In Pursuit of Literacy

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    Freemole, George Maynard
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    My teaching experiences raised questions about the nature of literacy, especially about its relationship with education and schooling. Common sense, straightforward definitions of literacy failed to address those questions adequately, and that inadequacy led to the study which culminates in this thesis. In Pursuit of Literacy focuses on literacy in...
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    of authorities like Mayher, John Dewey, and Henry Giroux, among others, supports and has at least

  • Change in some aspects of Chinese core values, 1978-1988

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    Qi, Xiaoping
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    Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values represent the most basic aspects of social life, change in some aspects of Chinese core values indicates that China is moving rapidly from being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern industrial society. China today can...
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    needs." Henry (1963:14) defines values as something that we consider good such as "love, kindness

  • Beagle, Oregon, An Unknown Casualty of War: Camp White and the Destruction of a Farming Community During the Second World War

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    Shelnutt, Kay
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    This project examines the landscape of the farming community of Beagle, Oregon prior to and during the Second World War and the effect on it due to the construction of Camp White, a World War II training facility. The Beagle landscape is examined through the prism of current theory that...
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    , Oregon .106 50. The Henry and Sara Glass home, Beagle, Oregon .107 51. Lois (Glass) West's

  • Measurement and meaning of archaeological diversity

    Creator:
    Betz, Virginia Marie
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    Archaeologists use diversity as one way of characterizing their assemblages. Diversity refers to both the number of artifact classes present (richness) and the proportional representation of classes (evenness). Numerical diversity indices measure one or both components. Archaeologists use assemblage diversity to infer behavior of prehistoric cultures. Archaeological inferences about behavior...
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  • The rhetoric of the Dalai Lama

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    Gorsevski, Ellen Weihe
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    This thesis examines the rhetoric (persuasive discourse) of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet. The analysis of this thesis provides an historical foundation of understanding for the international campaign of rhetoric which the Dalai Lama has been leading for the past forty years, culminating...
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