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Egolf, Jennifer A. ""Keep America American" Great Depression, government intervention, and conservative response in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1920s-1940 /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2008. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=5851.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2008.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 348 p. : ill., maps. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-348).
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Oestreich, Julia. "They Saw Themselves as Workers: Interracial Unionism in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and the Development of Black Labor Organizations, 1933-1940." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/156801.
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'They Saw Themselves as Workers' explores the development of black membership in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in the wake of the "Uprising of the 30,000" garment strike of 1933-34, as well as the establishment of independent black labor or labor-related organizations during the mid-late 1930s. The locus for the growth of black ILGWU membership was Harlem, where there were branches of Local 22, one of the largest and the most diverse ILGWU local. Harlem was also where the Negro Labor Committee (NLC) was established by Frank Crosswaith, a leading black socialist and ILGWU organizer. I provide some background, but concentrate on the aftermath of the marked increase in black membership in the ILGWU during the 1933-34 garment uprising and end in 1940, when blacks confirmed their support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and when the labor-oriented National Negro Congress (NNC) was irrevocably split by struggles over communist influence. By that time, the NLC was also struggling, due to both a lack of support from trade unions and friendly organizations, as well as the fact that the Committee was constrained by the political views and personal grudges of its founder. Yet, during the period examined in "They Saw Themselves as Workers," the ILGWU and its Local 22 thrived. Using primary sources including the records of the ILGWU and various locals, the NLC, and the NNC, I argue that educational programming was largely responsible for the ILGWU's success during the 1930s, not political ideology, as others have argued. In fact, I assert that political ideology was often detrimental to organizations like the NLC and NNC, alienating many blacks during a period when they increasingly shifted their allegiance to the Democratic Party. Conversely, through educational programming that brought unionists of various racial and ethnic backgrounds together and celebrated their differences, the ILGWU assimilated new African American members and strengthened interracial working-class solidarity. That programming included such ostensibly apolitical activities as classes, dances, musical and theatrical performances, sporting events, and trips to resorts and places of cultural interest. Yet, by attracting workers who wanted to expand their minds and enjoy their lives outside of work to combat the misery of the Depression, the ILGWU cemented their devotion to the union and its agenda. Thus, through activities that were not overtly political, the ILGWU drew workers into the labor movement, and ultimately into the New Deal coalition in support of President Roosevelt and the Democratic Party. As the union flourished, part of an increasingly influential labor movement, it offered African American workers a better path to political power than the Negro Labor Committee or the National Negro Congress during the mid-late 1930s.
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Porter, Noah. "Real challenges, virtual challengers : the Democracy for America movement." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002078.
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Greene, Tyler Gray. "Accessible Isolation: Highway Building and the Geography of Industrialization in North Carolina, 1934-1984." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/431217.
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Between the 1930s and mid-1980s, North Carolina became one of the most industrialized states in the country, with more factory workers, as a percentage of the total workforce, than any other state. And yet, North Carolina generally retained its rural complexion, with small factories dispersed throughout the countryside, instead of concentrated in large industrial cities. This dissertation asks two essential questions: first, how did this rural-industrial geography come to be, and second, what does the creation of this geography reveal about the state of the American political economy in the post-World War II era? I argue that rural industrialization was a central goal of North Carolina’s postwar political leaders and economic development officials. These industry hunters, as I call them, wanted to raise their state’s per capita income by recruiting manufacturers to develop or relocate operations in North Carolina. At the same time, they worried about developing large industrial cities or mill villages, associating them with class conflict, congestion, and a host of other ill-effects. In the hopes of attracting industry to its countryside, the state invested heavily in its secondary roads and highways, increasing the accessibility of rural communities. In their pursuit of rural industrialization, however, North Carolina also constructed a political economy that anticipated the collapse of the New Deal state. While historians typically see New Deal liberalism as the prevailing form of statecraft in the postwar United States, North Carolina achieved economic growth through a model that state officials termed “accessible isolation.” What accessible isolation meant was that North Carolina would provide industries with enough of a state apparatus to make operating a factory in a rural area possible, while maintaining policies of low taxes, limited regulations, and anti-unionism, to make those sites desirable. Essentially, industry hunters offered industrial prospects access to a supply of cheap rural labor, but isolation from the high wages, labor unions, government regulations, and progressive tax code that defined New Deal liberalism. Accessible isolation was attractive to businesses in postwar America because it offered a “business-friendly” alternative to the New Deal, and factories began sprouting throughout rural North Carolina. But the success of accessible isolation was built on a shaky foundation. Indeed, most of the employers persuaded by its promises were those in low-wage, labor-intensive industries, making North Carolina’s rural communities especially vulnerable to transformations in the global economy by the late twentieth century.
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Beemer, Lawrence W. "American Superhero Comics: Fractal Narrative and The New Deal." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1303837053.
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Bahr, Christian. "Zur Übersetzung von Eigennamen am Beispiel der Entwicklung und Übersetzung der Ortsnamen Amerikas." Master's thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-124179.
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Mit der Namenforschung, der Sprachkontaktforschung und der Translatologie existieren drei Teilbereiche der Linguistik, die sich als solche seit einiger Zeit etabliert haben und zu denen
ausgiebig geforscht wird. Doch obwohl diese drei Bereiche der Sprachwissenschaft stark interdisziplinär ausgerichtet sind, scheint die Problematik der Übersetzung von Eigennamen,
welche zwischen diesen drei Bereichen diskutiert werden müsste, nur unzureichend erforscht worden zu sein. „Die Forschungslandschaft zu dem Thema“, so das internationale Handbuch zur Onomastik, ist „immer noch karg“ (Kalverkämper 1996, 1021).
Da Eigennamen häufig als „semantisch reduziert“ oder „denotativ bedeutungslos“ (vgl. die Übersicht über die verschiedenen Forschungsstandpunkte zur Namensemantik in
Kalverkämper 1978, 62-85) angesehen werden, hat ihnen die Übersetzungswissenschaft auch nicht besonders viel Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Zugespitzt formuliert werden Eigennamen im Allgemeinen unverändert übernommen, und wenn nicht, dann ziehe man eine Liste der Übersetzungen, wie jene der deutschen und spanischen Ländernamen von Martínez/Wotjak (1979) zu Hilfe.
Die Namenforschung hingegen zeigt sich sehr interessiert an der Bedeutung der Namen, ihrer Geschichte und den Sprachkontakten, denen sie unterlagen. Dennoch scheinen die daraus hervorgegangenen Erkenntnisse nicht für Untersuchungen zur Problematik, wie in Texten und hierbei insbesondere bei Übersetzungen mit Eigennamen umzugehen ist, herangezogen worden zu sein. Auch die Antworten auf die Frage nach den Faktoren, die dazu führen, ob ein bestimmter Name aus anderen Sprachen unverändert übernommen, in irgendeiner Weise übersetzt oder gänzlich neu vergeben wird, beschränken sich häufig auf Kommentare wie „...liegen im pragmatischen Bereich und sind von Zufälligkeiten abhängig“ (Jäger/Jäger 1969, 110). Die Bedeutung dieser Problematik wird deutlich, wenn man sich vor Augen führt, dass fast jeder Text, der in der Praxis übersetzt wird, Eigennamen enthält. Gerade die im Studium häufig übersetzten Zeitungstexte sind durch eine große Fülle von Orts- und Personennamen gekennzeichnet, die nur dann kein Problem für den Übersetzer darstellen, wenn die benannten Personen und Dinge allgemein bekannt sind. Im Laufe meines Studiums ist mir jedoch aufgefallen, dass bei weniger bekannten Namen das mangelnde Bewusstsein über ihr Wesen selbst in wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten zu schwerwiegenden Fehlern führen kann. So haben bspw. trotz wissenschaftlicher Beschäftigung mit seinem Werk weder Prüfer Leske noch Beck bei der Übersetzung des von Alexander von Humboldt auf Französisch verfassten „Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba“ erkannt, dass Saint-Domingue und Santo-Domingo nicht
die französische und die spanische Version desselben Ortes sind, sondern dass es sich einmal um die französische Kolonie im Westen und einmal um die spanische Kolonie im Osten der
Insel Hispaniola handelt. Auch die Übersetzung eben jener Insel, im Französischen nach ihrem ursprünglichen (indigenen) Namen als Haïti bezeichnet, mit dt. Haiti wird den deutschen Leser eher an die heutige Republik Haiti denken lassen und ist somit äußerst
problematisch (vgl. Humboldt 1992, 5-7 und Humboldt 2002, 57-60).
Aus diesen Gründen halte ich es für wichtig, den Einfluss des Sprachkontakts auf die Vergabe und die Entwicklung von Eigennamen eingehender zu untersuchen und seine Auswirkungen auf die Übersetzungsproblematik zu klären. Die vorliegende Arbeit soll am Beispiel der Untersuchung eines bestimmten Sprachkontaktgebiets und ausgewählter Namenarten einen Beitrag dazu leisten.
Gegenstand dieser Arbeit soll eine Untersuchung zur Übersetzung von Eigennamen sein.
Damit eine solche Untersuchung jedoch im Rahmen einer Diplomarbeit und mit wissenschaftlicher Exaktheit durchgeführt werden kann, muss das Thema zwangsläufig weiter eingegrenzt werden. Die Wahl fiel dabei auf die Untersuchung von Ortsnamen in Amerika, die aus den im Folgenden dargelegten Gründen als günstiger Studiengegenstand erachtet werden: Die Beschränkung auf Ortsnamen liegt zunächst schon allein aus dem Grund nahe, dass sich die meisten bereits veröffentlichten Arbeiten zur Übersetzung von Eigennamen überwiegend oder ausschließlich mit Ortsnamen befassen. Dies hat jedoch konkrete Gründe, die auch bei dieser Arbeit dazu geführt haben, den Untersuchungsgegenstand auf Ortsnamen zu begrenzen.
Zum Einen benennen Ortsnamen langlebigere Namenträger als bspw. Personen-, Erzeugnis oder Institutionsnamen. Zum Anderen sind Orte unbeweglich und haben zumeist einen
Besitzer, so dass eine klare Zuordnung in einen Sprachraum oder ein Sprachkontaktgebiet möglich ist. Hinzu kommt, dass Ortsnamen seit frühester Zeit auf Karten, in Reiseberichten
und in offiziellen Dokumenten verzeichnet wurden und dadurch historischen Untersuchungen zugänglich sind. Dieser hohe Grad an Vertextung macht sie schließlich für die ÜÜbersetzungswissenschaft besonders interessant, da er von ihrer Bedeutung in der schriftlichen Kommunikation zeugt.
Örtlich soll die Untersuchung auf den amerikanischen Kontinent beschränkt werden, wobei selbstverständlich kein Anspruch auf eine vollständige namenkundliche Untersuchung desselben erhoben wird. Im Mittelpunkt des Interesses sollen insbesondere englische, französische und spanische Ortsnamen stehen, an einigen Stellen könnte jedoch auch die Untersuchung portugiesischer und niederländischer Namen notwendig sein. Die Möglichkeit der Untersuchung von Ortsnamen, die europäischen Sprachen entstammen, ist selbstverständlich auch eines der wichtigsten Argumente für die Wahl Amerikas als Untersuchungsgegenstand. Der entscheidende Vorteil gegenüber dem europäischen Kontinent ist dabei jedoch, dass der Großteil der heutigen Städte und Länder erst nach der Entdeckung
Amerikas durch die Europäer entstanden ist, d.h. zu einem Zeitpunkt, als sich die europäischen Sprachen bereits in etwa in ihrer heutigen Form stabilisiert hatten und als durch die Erfindung der Druckerpresse bereits gute Möglichkeiten der Publikation und Verbreitung von Informationen bestand. Eine Untersuchung europäischer Toponyme hingegen würde die
Kenntnis keltischer und altgermanischer Sprachen sowie des Griechischen, des Lateins und der Übergangsformen zu den verschiedenen romanischen Sprachen voraussetzen. Während in
Amerika historisch meist hinreichend geklärt ist, welche Sprache zu welchem Zeitpunkt an einem bestimmten Ort vorherrschend war und wann bestimmte Siedlungen entstanden oder andere geographische Einheiten benannt worden sind, liegen die Ursprünge vieler europäischer Namen nach wie vor im Dunkeln, da die großen Bewegungen der Völkerwanderung und der Quellenmangel viel Raum für Fehlinterpretationen lassen. In
Amerika ist demgegenüber leicht zu erkennen, welche Namen auf indigene Sprachen zurückgehen und welche erst zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt entstanden sein können. Durch den kolonialen Wettstreit der europäischen Mächte ist zudem gegeben, dass ein intensiver Sprachkontakt vorlag, der vor allem in Gebieten wie der Karibik zur Verbreitung der Ortsnamen in verschiedenen Sprachen beigetragen hat. Daher ist zu erwarten, dass in der vorliegenden Arbeit klare Erkenntnisse darüber gewonnen werden können, was mit Ortsnamen geschieht, wenn sie in andere Sprachen übergehen und wie sich dies auf ihre
heutige Übersetzung auswirkt.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit sollen bestehende Erkenntnisse zur Übersetzung von Eigennamen analysiert und anhand der Untersuchung amerikanischer Ortsnamen erweitert werden. Eine
Grundüberzeugung ist dabei, dass bei der Übersetzung von Eigennamen die Geschichte der Namenträger und insbesondere der Sprachkontakt, dem sie unterlagen, eine wichtige Rolle
spielen.
Aus diesem Grund sollen in einem theoretischen Teil zunächst Berührungspunkte zwischen den Phänomenen „Sprache“ und „Geschichte“ gefunden werden, um eine sprach- und geschichtswissenschaftlich fundierte Untersuchung zu ermöglichen (siehe Kapitel 2.1.). Die Beschäftigung mit Eigennamen setzt zudem eine Erörterung der Grundlagen der
Namenforschung voraus, insbesondere ihrer interdisziplinären Ausrichtung (siehe Kapitel 2.2.1.1.) und der Namenarten (siehe Kapitel 2.2.1.2.). Daraufhin soll die Bedeutung des Sprachkontakts für die Namenforschung erläutert werden (siehe Kapitel 2.2.2.), um im Anschluss daran konkrete Beispiele bereits bearbeiteter Problemfelder der amerikanischen
Toponymie zu geben (siehe Kapitel 2.2.3.) und so die Grundlagen der empirischen Untersuchung im zweiten Teil dieser Arbeit zu legen.
An die Darstellung der bereits vorhandenen Arbeiten zur Übersetzung von Eigennamen (siehe Kapitel 2.3.) können dann auf Basis der erarbeiteten Grundlagen auf den Gebieten der Geschichte, des Sprachkontakts und der Namenforschung sich aus der Analyse dieser Arbeiten ergebende Probleme erörtert werden. Dies ermöglicht die anschließende Konkretisierung der Zielstellung (siehe Kapitel 2.4.) und die Erarbeitung einer geeigneten Vorgehensweise zur Untersuchung der Ortsnamen in Amerika im empirischen Teil dieser Arbeit (siehe Kapitel 3.).
Die Bedeutung der dort gewonnenen Erkenntnisse für den Übersetzer soll dann in einem Schlussteil (siehe Kapitel 4.) zusammengefasst und im Sinne der Zielstellung dieser Arbeit ausgewertet werden.
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Wang, Chao, and 王超. "Sign language and the moral government of deafness in antebellum America." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/211119.
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Many Deaf people today consider themselves a linguistic minority with a culture distinct from the mainstream hearing society. This is in large part because they communicate through an independent language——American Sign Language (ASL). However, two hundreds years ago, sign language was a “common language” for communication between hearing and deaf people within the institutional framework of “manualism.” Manualism is a pedagogical system of sign language introduced mainly from France in order to buttress the campaign for deaf education in the early-19th-century America. In 1817, a hearing man Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851) and a deaf Frenchman Laurent Clerc (1785-1869) co-founded the first residential school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. These early manualists shaped sign language within the evangelical framework of “moral government.” They believed that the divine origin of signs would lead the spiritual redemption of people who could not hear. Inside manual institutions, the religiously defined practice of signing, which claimed to transform the “heathen deaf” into being the “signing Christian,” enabled the process of assimilation into a shared “signing community.” The rapid expansion of manual institutions hence fostered a strong and separate deaf culture that continues to influence today’s deaf communities in the United States. However, social reformers in the mid-nineteenth century who advocated “oralism” perceived manualism as a threat to social integration. “Oralists” pursued a different model of deaf education in the 1860s, campaigning against sign language and hoping to replace it entirely with the skills in lip-reading and speech. The exploration of this tension leads to important questions: Were people who could not hear “(dis)abled” in the religious context of the early United States? In what ways did the manual institutions train students to become “able-bodied” citizens? How did this religiously framed pedagogy come to terms with the “hearing line” in the mid 19th century? In answering these questions, this dissertation analyzes the early history of manual education in relation to the formation and diffusion of religious governmentality, a topic that continues to influence deaf culture to this day.published_or_final_version
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Borchmeyer, Florian. "Die Ordnung des Unbekannten : von der Erfindung der neuen Welt /." Berlin : Matthes & Seitz, 2009. http://d-nb.info/994146361/04.
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Scroop, Daniel Mark. "Jim Farley, the Democratic Party and American politics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365516.
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Coil, William Russell. "Mayoral politics and new deal political culture: James Rhodes and the African-American voting bloc in Columbus, Ohio, 1943-1951." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1399627321.
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Davis, Joshua Samuel. "Laughter in the Americas: Native American Humor in Almanac of the Dead, Bearheart, and Green Grass, Running Water." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1557496462044708.
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Moylan-Brouff, Glenda Silko Leslie Marmon. "Writing counter-histories of the Americas Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Almanac of the Dead' /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060314.105816/index.html.
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Janssen, Daria K. "The First Lady's Vision. Women in Wartime America through Eleanor Roosevelt's Eyes." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1213036108.
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Chin, Jim Cheung. "Realism and the hierarchy of racial inclusion : representations of African Americans and Chinese Americans in post-Civil War literature and culture /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9403.
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Alexander, Tara Lynn. "Substance abuse screening with deaf clients : development of a culturally sensitive scale /." Thesis, Connect to online resource, 2005. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2005/alexanderd51431/alexanderd51431.pdf#page=3.
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Lee, Daven. ""Hearing like me:" one hearing person's experience in the deaf community." Thesis, Boston University, 1994. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/28577.
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Murray, Joseph John. ""One touch of nature makes the whole world kin" the transnational lives of deaf Americans, 1870-1924 /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2007. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/132.
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Minoff, Elisa Martia Alvarez. "Free to Move? The Law and Politics of Internal Migration in Twentieth-Century America." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10957.
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The history of the United States in the mid-twentieth century is, in significant measure, a history of internal migration. Between 1930 and 1970, as national quota laws kept the nation's foreign-born population at record low levels, the attention of journalists, lawmakers, jurists, social workers, civil rights activists, and the broader public turned to internal migration. The rapid pace of urbanization and the industrialization of agriculture made internal migration a pressing national question and a flashpoint in American politics. Migration was implicated in many of the seminal events of the era: from the Dust Bowl Migration to the Second Great Migration, the New Deal to the Great Society, the Bonus Army to the Watts Riots. Historians have largely overlooked this period of intense interest in internal migration and they have entirely neglected its significance. This dissertation offers the first historical appraisal of the law and politics of internal migration in the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on a broad source base—including federal and state court casefiles, the records of Congress and presidential administrations, personal and organizational papers, and contemporary published accounts—it explains how the debates over migration took shape and what their long-term effects were for policy and polity. During this period, a community of migrant advocates recommended fundamental reforms to social welfare and labor market policies. These social workers, legislators, public welfare officials, social scientists, and lawyers often faced indifference and resistance from lawmakers and the general public. They were not able to accomplish all that they hoped. But they convinced Congress and the Supreme Court to reform central pillars of the welfare state and redefine citizenship. At the beginning of the period, migrants, like all Americans, were defined by law and custom as local citizens, and local laws determined whether they could receive benefits or even move from one place to the next. By the end of the period, migrant advocates had convinced policymakers that the federal government bore some responsibility for migrants and that migrants, as national citizens, were entitled to the same rights and privileges as long-time residents. The contemporary welfare state and conception of national citizenship emerged out of these debates over internal migration.History
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Petermann, Kirsten. "American Spotlights." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-ds-1237559187090-26167.
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Am 16. Januar 2009 besuchte die Generalkonsulin der USA in Leipzig, Katherine Brucker zum ersten Mal in ihrer Amtszeit die Stadt Glauchau. Anlass war eine Veranstaltung in der Stadt- und Kreisbibliothek, zu welcher am Vormittag ca. 70 Schüler der 11. und 12. Klassen des Leistungskurses Englisch des Georgius-Agricola- Gymnasiums Glauchau in den Konzertsaal des Schlosses Forderglauchau eingeladen waren.
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Kartchner, Ruth Elizabeth Claros. "Ideologies of deafness: Deaf education in Hispanic America." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284219.
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Minority language people are sometimes simplistically viewed as lacking the language of the majority, and Deaf people are simplistically viewed as lacking hearing, thus ignoring the sociocultural realities of both groups. It is only in the last two decades that attempts have been made to articulate a Deaf ideology that considers deafness as a sociocultural characteristic rather than a defect. This dissertation asserts that there are three different types of ideologies that have co-existed since the beginning of time, and that influence deaf education even today: (1) Deafness as a terminal trait: this is defined as the type of ideology that places deaf individuals on a track that leads to a dead end. (2) Deafness as a limiting trait: This ideology views the deaf as handicapped people with limited possibilities for attaining the highest possible intellectual goals; and (3) Deafness as a socio-cultural trait: This ideology views deaf people as having their own language and culture who can fully develop their intellectual capacity through their natural language and culture and the language and culture of the hearing society in which they live, thus becoming bilingual and bicultural. This dissertation will answer the following question: How have these ideologies shaped deaf education in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela, in the areas of (a) language use; (b) educational trends; and (c) societal aims for the deaf population? The results of this research can help Latin American educators to re-evaluate deaf educational systems in use today, and educators of the deaf around the world. The Deaf in Hispanic America are witnessing the evolution of national paradigms as their languages are recognized as official in Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba. Governments are taking legal action to recognize and to accept other forms of communication, such as sign language for the Deaf and Braille for the blind in Ecuador. The remaining countries do not recognize their sign language as official. Educators are implementing programs different approaches, such as oralism, Total Communication, and bilingual education, and integrating Deaf students into regular classes.
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Holzrichter, Amanda Sue. "A crosslinguistic study of child-directed signing : American Sign Language and sign language of Spain /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Leyhe, Anya A. "An Ethnographic Inquiry: Contemporary Language Ideologies of American Sign Language." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/473.
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Historically, American Sign Language (an aspect of Deaf culture) has been rendered invisible in mainstream hearing society. Today, ASL’s popularity is evidenced in an ethnolinguistic renaissance; more second language learners pursue an interest in ASL than ever before. Nonetheless, Deaf and hearing people alike express concern about ASL’s place in hearing culture. This qualitative study engages ethnographic methods of participant observation and semi-structured interviewing as well as popular media analysis to understand language ideologies (ideas and objectives concerning roles of language in society) hearing and Deaf Signers hold about motivations and practices of other hearing Signers. Although most hearing ASLers identify as apolitical students genuinely seeking to build bridges between disparate communities, I argue that ASLers are most concerned with hearing Signers’ colonization of the language through commoditization and cultural appropriation.
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Moore, Gabrielle. "Magic Mae." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525191279688537.
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Pizzo, Lianna. "Vocabulary Instruction for the Development of American Sign Language in Deaf Children: An Investigation into Teacher Knowledge and Practice." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3237.
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Thesis advisor: Susan BruceThe acquisition of vocabulary is an important aspect of young children's development that may impact their later literacy skills (National Reading Panel, 2000; Cunningham and Stanovitch, 1997). Deaf children who are American Sign Language users, however, often have smaller vocabularies and lower literacy levels than their hearing peers (Lederberg and Prezbindowski, 2001; Schirmer and McGough, 2005). Despite the importance of teaching vocabulary for young deaf children, there are very few investigations on this important topic (Luckner and Cooke, 2010). This study examines the nature of vocabulary instruction by four early childhood teachers of deaf children (TODs) from two classrooms through a qualitative collective case study. Findings indicated that the Four-Part Vocabulary Program (Graves, 2006) could account for the nature of vocabulary in these classrooms; however, within this framework TODs used qualitatively different language strategies to address the unique aspects of teaching a visual language. Furthermore, there was interplay of teacher knowledge about learners, curricula, and pedagogy that informed their instructional planning and decision-making. Implications of this study include the varying roles of teacher knowledge, experience, and evidence in guiding ASL vocabulary instruction for TODs
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Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
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Hatzinger, Kyle J. "Establishing the American Way of Death: World War I and the Foundation of the United States’ Policy Toward the Repatriation and Burial of Its Battlefield Dead." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804852/.
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This thesis examines the policies and procedures created during and after the First World War that provided the foundation for how the United States commemorated its war dead for the next century. Many of the techniques used in modern times date back to the Great War. However, one hundred years earlier, America possessed very few methods or even ideas about how to locate, identify, repatriate, and honor its military personnel that died during foreign conflicts. These ideas were not conceived in the halls of government buildings. On the contrary, concerned citizens originated many of the concepts later codified by the American government. This paper draws extensively upon archival documents, newspapers, and published primary sources to trace the history of America’s burial and repatriation policies, the Army Graves Registration Services, and how American dead came to permanently rest in military cemeteries on the continent of Europe. The unprecedented dilemma of over 80,000 American soldiers buried in France and surrounding countries at the conclusion of the First World War in 1918 propelled the United States to solve many social, political, and military problems that arose over the final disposition of those remains. The solutions to those problems became the foundation for how America would repatriate, honor, and mourn its military dead for the next century. Some of these battles persist even today as the nation tries to grapple with the proper way to commemorate the nation’s participation in the First World War on the eve of the conflict’s centennial.
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Glenn-Smith, Sarah K. "The use of social media as a conduit to promote social justice in the Deaf Community, as a cultural and linguistic minority, through the visual language of American Sign Language: A movement against Audism." Diss., NSUWorks, 2017. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/81.
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This research employed a case study approach to understand emerging themes that may be garnered through documenting the lived experiences of online Deaf activists who have used the video feature available through social media outlets, such as YouTube, as a way to overcome the language barrier typically present for linguistic minorities who are leading social movements within an English-speaking, hearing majority. The focus of this study was the members of the Deaf Community that have taken to an online podium in their fight for autonomy and equality. They champion their Deaf identity, their right to agency and autonomy in areas of language, access, education and employment, in what has exploded into the largest social movement in their cultural history. Therefore, two questions were at the center of this research: 1. "How has experiencing audism affected the lives of Deaf people?", and 2. "How has the use of social media as a platform to fight against audism through natural linguistic expression in American Sign Language impacted that experience?". The growth of individual Deaf identity has created a community action network for the Deaf Community, and access to the technology of videophones and instant access to wireless Internet has brought with it the use of video blogs, or vlogs, within the Deaf Community at explosive rates. The movement from disability to a place of diversity and cultural, ethnic and linguistic minority personhood for the Deaf is a path that is still being forged. Presented in this study is a glimpse into this journey, through a case study of their lived experience.
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Morsi, Gamal. ""Amerika ist immer woanders" : die Rezeption des American Dream in Italien; ein exemplarischer Vergleich anhand der Prosa Cesare Paveses und Elio Vittorinis /." Marburg : Tectum Verl, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38879614t.
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Kollm, Stephanie. "Divorce and the American novel the shifting definition of modern marriage /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1827193691&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Jessee, Margaret Jay. "Narrative, Gender, and Masquerade in the American Novel, 1853-1920." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222893.
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Narrative, Gender, and Masquerade tracks the way the American novel of manners structures itself on representations of a pair of purportedly opposite and opposing women, the fair, innocent girl and the dark, tempting seductress. This opposition increasingly merges into sameness even as the novel in which it appears labors to keep the two characters separate in order to stabilize its textual architecture of thematic and formal binaries. Presenting itself as a text closely related to a social reality, the American novel of manners is structured as a masquerade: purporting to reveal as it conceals, conjuring readerly doubt as to the nature of both mask and reality. There are two main theoretical traditions in the study of masquerade. The first, the anthropologically-inflected cultural and literary historical approach to masks and masquerade, typically is applied to literary texts to explain religious and political historical exigencies as reflected in a given work of literature. The second, the psychoanalically-based theory of femininity as a masquerade, is most often deployed to use the text as a means of explaining the male gaze, desire, and gender performance. My reading of the American novel as gendered rests on dissolving the disciplinary borders between the two, thereby focusing reading on the form of the novel as well as its relation to its cultural, historical, and literary context. The novels I analyze situate women into stereotypical binary roles of the virgin and the seductress. These narratives register a duality between reality and representation that is analogous to the gender masking the novels take as their theme.
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Patton, Patrick. "Standing at Thermopylae: A History of the American Liberty League." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/323479.
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This dissertation re-examines the history of the American Liberty League, building upon observations in recent works by Kimberly Phillips-Fein and David Farber that trace the origins of the modern American conservative political movement back to the reaction against the New Deal programs implemented by Franklin Roosevelt. The Liberty League, it is argued here, established a tradition of what I describe as Constitutional conservatism. The Liberty League, established in 1934 with the expressed purpose of "upholding the Constitution," represented the most forceful and coherent contemporary resistance against a trend toward centralization of power in the federal government and the executive branch that took shape during the Progressive Era and was cemented by the New Deal. Historians writing about conservatism in the the U.S. have most often highlighted other explanations for the motivations underpinning the movement, most notably the "racial backlash" thesis, but a theme of Constitutional conservatism can be traced through many of the conservative political organizations that have emerged in the United States since the demise of the Liberty League in 1936. The first chapter discusses the origins of the Liberty League, which to a considerable extent evolved out of the Association Against the Prohibition Movement. In addition to their shared focus on Constitutional issues, the two organizations utilized the same tactics and showed considerable overlap in terms of membership, leadership and financial backing. Leaders of the organization, discussed in a separate chapter, included Jouett Shouse, William Stayton, Al Smith, Raoul Desvernine, along with a number of wealthy industrialists that provided financial backing, including Pierre du Pont, his brother Irénée du Pont, John Raskob and E. F. Hutton. Further chapters examine the activities of the local and state branches of the Liberty League, the League's attempts to coordinate efforts with other organizations professing a desire for upholding the Constitution and analysis of the publications produced and distributed by the Liberty League. While the organization was funded largely by a small group of wealthy individuals with a vested interest in protecting their vast fortunes, the Liberty League devoted itself in practice to arguing in favor of the more strict interpretation of the Constitution that had largely prevailed in the United States before the New Deal era. Of course, the League failed utterly to convince the electorate, as evidenced by the overwhelming electoral triumph achieved by President Roosevelt in 1936, but it's relentless attempts to highlight the perceived excesses of the New Deal helped fill the void left by the virtual absence of any meaningful Republican opposition, perhaps helping to place some limits on the extent of the New Deal and laying the ground work for future generations of conservatives that continue to draw on the theme of Constitutional conservatism in their efforts to turn back some of the advances made by proponents of a more activist federal government during the Twentieth Century.
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Farrington, Susan J. "An ecological study of American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) in the Missouri Ozark Highlands : effects of herbivory and harvest, ecological characterization and wild simulated cultivation /." Diss., View online, 2006. http://edt.missouri.edu/Winter2006/Thesis/FarringtonS-042806-T908600/research.pdf.
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Fekete, Emily. "SIGNS IN SPACE: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AS SPATIAL LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL WORLDVIEW." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1279060612.
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Hever, Tamas. "“Nobody speaking his native language:” The Problem of the Post-Western in Contemporary American Cinema." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1430.
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This senior thesis has two major purposes: One, to investigate and critique how experts characterize contemporary American post-westerns, second, to demonstrate, and suggest a more inclusive perspective through an analysis of Jim Jarmusch`s Dead Man (1996).Experts from the fields of film and American studies claim that there is a new phase in the genre’s development where post-western films move away from the conventions of the old, racist westerns. Accomplished authors have suggested that these films do not rely on the mythical west or on the regionalist culture but examine the west closely to determine the ways in which it differs from the representations and themes of the classical western. However, the films do not challenge the systematic misrepresentation of the crimes committed against Native Americans during the westward expansion which means that the films have not fully moved away from the old westerns. This cinematic perspective sickens the American conscience through the national narrative, as these films explore the early days of U.S. history. Nevertheless, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man provides a new, much fuller perspective on the west, and faces the genocidal forces that America has thus far avoided within the western genre. Dead Man is a revisionist western that can help the genre to evolve even further, to include Native Americans and the truth of their history.
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Calton, Cindee Jean. "Teaching respect: language, identity, and ideology in American sign language classes in the United States." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4950.
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This dissertation examines the connection between language ideologies and second language learning, specifically in the case of American Sign Language.
I argue that students' and teachers' ideologies about American Sign Language (ASL) influence the goals and pedagogies of ASL teachers. ASL students enter the classroom with ideologies that conflate ASL with gesture or view it as simplified visual English. ASL students also view deafness as a disability that needs to be fixed.
This contrasts with ASL teachers' view that Deaf people are a distinct cultural minority who wish to remain Deaf. As a result, ASL teachers' goals focus on teaching ASL students to respect Deaf people and their language.
This leads to three major pedagogical differences with teachers of spoken languages.
First, ASL teachers focus their cultural lessons on teaching their students a non-pathological view of Deafness.
Second, ASL teachers are far more likely than spoken language teachers to think that a member of Deaf Culture should teach ASL.
Finally, ASL teachers go to greater lengths than spoken language teachers to avoid the use of English in their classrooms.
This research was conducted at five different public universities in the United States. I observed ASL classes at all five universities and a Spanish class at one university. I administered a survey at four of the five universities. I interviewed ASL teachers and teachers of other languages at all five universities.
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Ruhl, Janice Elisabeth. "American Deaf Students in ENNL Classes: A Case Study." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4920.
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Many deaf students who seek post secondary education need some sort of developmental education in reading and writing to ensure success in college. These students often end up in college preparatory or remedial classes that are designed for native speakers of English. For many of the deaf students entering college, English is a second language or a first language that they have failed to achieve fluency in. This study describes the experience of two deaf students enrolled in English as a Non-Native Language classes for the first time at an Oregon community college. The Office of Students with Disabilities and the ENNL department cooperated in this trial to determine whether the ENNL program is an appropriate place for American deaf students needing developmental education in English. Observations, interviews and writing sample analysis were used to provide a multi-layered description of the experience from several perspectives. The deaf students were found to display similar errors in their writing samples as traditional ENNL students at the same level and benefited from instruction geared to non-native speakers of English. The rehabilitation counselor and ENNL instructors agreed that placement of the deaf students in ENNL classes is appropriate and the program continues in fall term. The deaf students of this study stated that they were better served by ENNL classes than by Developmental Education Classes. Curriculum and methodology used in ENNL classes were found to meet the educational needs of the deaf students, and only minor modifications were made to accommodate the students. The experience from these classes has convinced the ENNL department to continue accepting deaf students to the program and enrollment of deaf students in ENNL classes is expected to increase.
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Martins, Nekita Évely Ximenes. "Helmintos de veados-mateiros (Mazama americana) dos municípios de Axixá do Tocantins e Araguaína, Tocantins, Brasil." Universidade Federal do Tocantins, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11612/528.
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Mazama americana é conhecido popularmente como veado-mateiro, existindo diversos outros nomes que designa o mesmo cervídeo, habitante de florestas e proximidades de rios, podendo ser encontrado em quase todo o território nacional. A espécie é distinguida por meio da coloração do pelo, marrom avermelhada, e demais características, como região posterior arqueada, corpo robusto, cauda curta, orelhas médias, rosto alongado e membros delgados que lhes conferem agilidade. São considerados herbívoros frugívoros e seletivos, preferindo as partes das plantas de maior conteúdo energético e de fácil digestibilidade. Os veados-mateiros não estão inclusos na lista dos animais ameaçados de extinção, contudo as alterações antrópicas no ambiente natural dos animais silvestres podem contribuir com a diminuição da população desses animais, assim como a diversidade parasitária, principalmente, a agropecuária, em que bovinos e pequenos ruminantes têm sido criados extensivamente, em pastos nativos e florestas naturais. Diversas espécies de helmintos, como cestódeos, trematódeos, protozoários e, principalmente nematódeos podem ser encontrados parasitando ruminantes domésticos e silvestres. Já foram observados parasitando cervos, as seguintes espécies de helmintos: Haemonchus contortus, Haemonchus similis, Trichostrongylus axei, Trichostrongylus colubriformis, Cooperia punctata, Cooperia pectinata, Physocephalus lassancei, Physocephalus sexalatus, Pygarginema verrucosa, Mammonogamus sp, Strongyloides sp, Capillaria sp, Trichuris sp., Thelazia californiensis e Monodontus sp. Contudo, dos estudos realizados com parasitos de cervos, a maioria tratam da descrição e redescrição das espécies, embora, a determinação dos indicadores de infecção aprimora o conhecimento da relação parasito-hospedeiro. O conhecimento da fauna helmintológica de cervos é de suma importância para determinar a possibilidade de transmissão desses agentes pra animais domésticos e ao homem, bem como na necessidade de realização de monitoramentos periódicos por meio de testes de diagnósticos, visando o conhecimento da magnitude das infecções causadas por esses agentes e orientar possíveis programas de prevenção e controle de parasitos de hospedeiros silvestres. O trabalho objetivou conhecer a fauna helmintológica e os indicadores de infecções de veados-mateiros (M. americana) capturados nos municípios de Axixá do Tocantins e Araguaína. Para tanto, foram utilizados seis cervos adultos, cinco machos e uma fêmea, eutanasiados e necropsiados a campo, onde realizou-se a incisão e lavagem de cada segmento anatômico do trato digestório separadamente. Os conteúdos obtidos das lavagens foram fixados em solução de formol-acético, adequadamente envasados e encaminhados ao Laboratório de Higiene e Saúde Pública da Universidade Federal do Tocantins para identificação das espécies e determinação dos indicadores de infecção. Os parasitos foram separados por gênero e sexo e, posteriormente, estudados para identificação das espécies. Dos seis cervos necropsiados, três apresentavam infecção, dos quais foram coletados 477 nemátodeos e um cestódeo. As espécies de nematódeos observadas foram H. similis, H. contortus, T. axei e C. punctata, sendo os maiores valores dos indicadores de infecção para C. punctata e H. similis. Já a espécie de cestódeo observada foi Moniezia expansa. As mesmas espécies que são relatadas parasitando ruminantes domésticos, além disso, os cervos podem albegar parasitos transmissíveis ao homem, e por isso, de suma importância em saúde pública.Mazama americana is better known as Red Brocket Deer. There are many other names designating the same species of deer which live in forests and nearby rivers. It can be found in almost everywhere inside the national territory. The species is distinguished by its reddish brown color and other characteristics such as posterior arcuate region and robust body, short tail, middle ear, face and elongated slender members which give them flexibility. They are considered frugivorous and selective grazers that prefer parts of plants of higher energy content and easy digestibility. The Red Brocket Deer is not included in the list of endangered animals, but the anthropogenic changes in the natural environment of wild animals may contribute to the population decline of these animals as well as the parasite diversity, mainly from agriculture, where cattle and small ruminants have been created extensively on native pastures and natural forests. Several species of helminths, such as flatworms, trematodes, protozoa and especially nematodes can be found parasitizing domestic and wild ruminants. The following helminth species were observed parasitizing deer: Haemonchus contortus, Haemonchus similis, Trichostrongylus axei, Trichostrongylus colubriformis, Cooperia punctata, Cooperia pectinata, Physocephalus lassancei, Physocephalus sexalatus, Pygarginema verrucosa, Mammonogamus sp, Strongyloides sp, Capillaria sp, Trichuris sp., Thelazia californiensis e Monodontus sp. However the studies of parasites deer are only concerned in describing and redescribing species, although the determination of infection indicators improves the knowledge of the host-parasite relationship. Knowledge of helminth fauna of deer is very important to determine the possibility of transmitting these agents to domestic animals and humans as well as is the need to conduct periodic monitoring through diagnostic tests to aknowledge the magnitude of the infections caused by these agents and guide possible programs to prevent and control parasites of wild hosts. The study aimed to understand the helminth fauna and indicators of brocket deer infections (M. americana) captured in Axixá municipalities of Tocantins and Araguaína. Therefore, six adult deer were used, five males and one female, euthanized and necropsied in situ, where the incision and washing of each anatomical segment of the digestive tract was made separately. The contents obtained from washings were preserved in formalin-acetic acid solution and properly packaged and sent to the Laboratory of Hygiene and Public Health of the Federal University of Tocantins for species identification and determination of infection indicators. Parasites were separated by gender and sex and later studied for species identification. Of the six autopsied deer, three had infection, of which 477 were collected nematodes and flatworms. The species of nematodes observed were H. similis, H. contortus, T. axei e C. punctata, with the highest values of the infection indicators for C. punctata e H. similis. The kind of flatworm observed was Moniezia expansa. The same species are reported parasitizing domestic ruminants, in addition deer can host human infecting parasites, and therefore, are of great importance to public health.
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Benadum, Brooks Scott. "The Apocalypse Narrative and the Internet: Divided Relationships in New Natures." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6467.
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This project proposes that one factor of growing societal interest in the apocalypse narrative is rooted in these stories reflection on our new landscape of telecommunication flows embodied in the Internet. The apocalypse narrative has steadily been growing in popularity, and many academics have offered potential explanations. While other analyses predominately focus on the actual apocalyptic event itself as representative of various societal fears, this project aims to focus on aspects of how we adapt to being in the new apocalyptic landscape, and how this reflects on our own adaptation to being in the new landscape of the Internet. This project takes the work of Martin Heidegger as its primary theoretical lens in an examination of the popular television series The Walking Dead and the Internet streaming service Netflix. This project finds that both the apocalyptic landscape and the new landscape of the Internet throw us into decentered worlds where it is easy to be alienated from one another. Alleviation of our anxieties brought on by these strange landscapes lies in our recognition of being-towards-others in the world and engaging in acts of community building. However, a greater – more global – sense of community is frequently subverted by the way relationships are revealed by technology as divisive.
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McCullough, Stephen Hugh. "Functional and neural organization underlying face and facial expression perception." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3390061.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2010.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Feb. 18, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-110).
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Kieffer, Christa. "KEEPERS OF THEIR PARTY: HAPPY CHANDLER, ALBEN BARKLEY AND FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT’S FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/56.
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This thesis argues that the 1938 Kentucky Democratic primary was a critical moment for the New Deal and the Democratic Party. Furthermore, it demonstrates the fractures forming within the southern wing of the party. Through this primary the paper examines peoples’ perceptions of a changing democracy. One that they believed included a much more powerful president and meddling bureaucracy. It details the major points of the campaign, including Franklin Roosevelt’s visit to the state the famous poisoning accusations, and the corruption within the Works Progress Administration.
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Hayes, Jon Laurence. "A historical perspective and descriptive approach for American Sign Language and English bilingual studies in the community college setting." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185086.
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The purpose of this dissertation was three-fold. The first intent was to investigate the historical role of English and American Sign Language (ASL) in the communication, education and culture of deaf/Deaf people in America. The second purpose was to investigate sociolinguistical and physiological properties of American Sign Language in light of language learning among the deaf. And the third objective was to research bilingual education methodologies in order to interface knowledge and practices from bilingual education, communication and ASL research to the field of post-secondary education of the deaf within the framework of bilingual education. Evidence demonstrates that the history of language policies and educational practices for the deaf are strongly influenced by the majority language of English. A primary goal of education of the deaf has been the assimilation of deaf people into the hearing society. An avenue for this integration has traditionally involved the exclusion of ASL from the classroom and the mandate of Signed English systems and/or aural/oral communication. The incorporation of a cross-disciplinary blend of communication, bilingual education and ASL sociolinguistic aspects form the foundation for further investigation. This dissertation should serve as an impetus and reference point for others wishing to advance the education of the deaf, utilizing a bilingual approach.
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Taylor, Blaine J. "The development and Writing of a Children's Story to Promote an Awareness of Deaf Culture and AMerican SIgn Language." DigitalCommons@USU, 1993. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2514.
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Many advocates of the deaf fear that a whole generation of deaf children will be lost emotionally, socially, and educationally, this fear stems from the fact that many children who are deaf are not having their linguistic, sociocultural. and communicative needs met at home or at school (King, 1993). Their needs are not met primarily for three reasons. First. the hearing culture is often inaccessible to them because they do not understand most of the spoken language around them. When children lack the communicative abilities to interact with the hearing culture, they can not be expected to be knowledgeable of that culture, to participate in that culture, or to establish an identity as a part of that culture. Secondly, Deaf culture is unknown to many children who are deaf. Ninety percent of children who are deaf are born into hearing families who are unaware of Deaf culture (Moores, 1987). Most children who are deaf and hard of hearing do not know about Deaf culture until they become involved in it through a residential school for the deaf or the Deaf community (Padden & Humphries. 1988). Thirdly. Deaf culture. history. heritage. and American Sign Language are not taught as part of the curriculum in most schools nor in the mainstreamed or self-contained classrooms (Gannon. 1990).
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Shubinski, Barbara Lynn Raeburn John Rigal Laura. "From FSA to EPA project documerica, the dustbowl legacy, and the quest to photograph 1970s America /." Iowa City : University of Iowa, 2009. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/434.
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Riley-Glassman, Nathan David. "Discriminating clinic from control groups of deaf adults using a short form of the Brauer-Gallaudet American Sign Language translation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184734.
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This study tested whether an American Sign Language (ASL) MMPI short form, the Brauer-Gallaudet MMPI-168 (B-G MMPI-168), could discriminate between groups of deaf adults with and without psychopathology. B-G MMPI-168 and MMPI-168 profiles were also compared in deaf adults without a history of psychopathology. Independent variables were history of mental health treatment, language of administration and reading ability. Dependent variables were MMPI-168 and B-G MMPI-168 validity and clinical scale evaluations. Fifty-nine deaf adults from the community and outpatient counseling services completed demographic information on a questionnaire developed especially for this study. Subjects were divided into Clinic and Control groups based on history (Clinic) or no history (Control) of mental health treatment. Reading Comprehension scores (Advanced Stanford Achievement Test) of Control subjects determined placement in Control (I), (11th grade and above) and Control (II), (6-11 grade) groups. All subjects took the B-G MMPI-168. Control subjects took the MMPI-168 at home within two weeks. Ten dollars was earned for participation. Results indicated that Clinic and Control (II) groups were not accurately discriminated by B-G MMPI-168 profiles. The "hit rate" for the Clinic group was 96.5 percent, but only 40.0% of the Control subjects were correctly classified as Not Disturbed. This version of the B-G MMPI-168 was judged unacceptable for clinical use until items are revised. Level of reading ability was not a significant factor in the clinical validity of the MMPI-168. The "hit rates" of correct classification of Control (I) and Control (II) subjects as Not Disturbed, 58.8 and 46.2, respectively, were unacceptable. Language of administration was not a significant factor in the clinical validity of Control group "168" profiles. B-G MMPI-168 profiles showed more psychopathology than MMPI-168 profiles, but both tests had unacceptably high percentages of Control subjects classified as Disturbed. Revision of B-G MMPI-168 items was recommended so that profiles can accurately discriminate between Clinic and Control groups. The MMPI-168 was recommended for use as part of a personality assessment battery for deaf adults having 12th grade equivalent or higher reading level.
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Cox, Nikki. "Dear Mr. Hiker Man: Negotiating Gender in a Masculinized American Wilderness." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22703.
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Nature based spiritual pilgrimage in the form of hiking and backpacking demonstrates a deeply rooted connection between the individual and the environment. However, wilderness as a concept has been constructed through a male lens. Male voices have been championed over their female contemporaries. The rigid gender expectations projected within the binary sex/gender system reinforce the idea that nature is a “boys’ club.” By deconstructing the concept of wilderness, I illuminate a gender bias in outdoor pursuits. I explore the ways women have negotiated their own diverse and intersectional identities within the gendered space of wilderness.
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Martin, Maximilian. "Globalization, macroeconomic stabilization, and the construction of social reality : an essay in interpretive political economy /." Münster : London : Lit ; Global, 2004. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=012801517&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Gaines, Sarah Elizabeth, and Sarah Elizabeth Gaines. "Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and Reading with Deaf Students Using American Sign Language (ASL)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621789.
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This study was an investigation of the relationship between rapid automatized naming (RAN) and reading in a sample of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students who use American Sign Language (ASL). Thirty DHH students, 10 to 18 years old, were given a series of assessments including measures of RAN, reading decoding, reading fluency, reading comprehension, expressive vocabulary, receptive vocabulary, and visual-motor integration. Significant correlations were found between RAN colors and reading decoding; RAN colors and reading comprehension; and RAN colors, numbers, and letters and reading fluency. A significant difference was found between symbolic (letters, numbers) and non-symbolic (objects, colors) RAN in this sample, with better performance noted on tasks of symbolic RAN. Hierarchical regression models were created for each type of RAN. Each model as a whole was significant. The proposed model for RAN objects accounted for 26.6% of the variance in RAN performance. The model for RAN colors accounted for 54.1% of the variance in RAN performance. The proposed model for RAN numbers accounted for 53% of the variance in RAN. The model for RAN letters accounted for 32.6% of the variance in RAN. Across all models, reading fluency and vocabulary were unique and statistically significant contributors in the model predicting RAN. Visual-motor integration performance was not a unique contributor to the model.
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Turner, Julie D. "To Make America Over: The Greenbelt Towns of the New Deal." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1270068260.
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Maran, Louise Helena Martins Maran. "Filogenia molecular de Mazama americana (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) como auxílio na resolução das incertezas taxonômicas /." Jaboticabal, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/140141.
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Orientador: José Maurício Barbanti DuarteResumo: Estudos recentes com a espécie Mazama americana apontam duas linhagens cromossômicas dentro deste possível complexo de espécies crípticas e entre elas verificou-se a existência de eficiente barreira reprodutiva por isolamento pós-zigótico. No entanto, o efeito das pequenas diferenças cromossômicas entre populações é ainda pouco esclarecido, não sendo claro se seriam polimorfismos intraespecíficos, diferenças subespecíficas ou específicas. Marcadores moleculares permitem investigar se ocorreu fluxo entre estas populações e se este fluxo ainda ocorre no presente, auxiliando na elucidação dos processos evolutivos que ocorreram na diferenciação cromossômica e qual o real efeito dessas variações no isolamento e especiação no táxon. Diante do exposto, o presente trabalho estudou as relações filogenéticas entre variantes cromossômicas, com alto número diplóide, de M. americana com o objetivo de compreender melhor a história evolutiva da espécie e verificar a existência de unidades evolutivamente significativas dentro deste complexo específico, contribuindo para o delineamento de programas de conservação da espécie. As relações filogenéticas da espécie foram examinadas utilizando genes mitocondriais (citocromo b, citocromo oxidade I, região controladora D-loop e NADH dehigrogenase subunit 5), com 44 indivíduos de veados-mateiro provenientes de diferentes localidades do Brasil. Os resultados encontrados não corroboram a existência de unidades evolutivamente significativas dentro do gr... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: Recent studies on the species Mazama americana point two chromosomal lineages within red brocket deer and among them there was the existence of effective reproductive barrier post-zygotic isolation. However, the effect of these small chromosomal differences between these populations is not clearly established, it is not clear whether they would be intraspecific polymorphisms, subspecific or specific diferences. The molecular markers allow to investigate if there was flows occurred between these populations and whether these flows still occur in the present, helping to unravel the evolutionary processes that have occurred on chromosome differentiation and what the actual effect of these changes in isolation and speciation in the taxon. Given the above, this research project studied the phylogenetic relationships among chromosomal variants of M. americana with the aim of elucidating the evolutionary history of the species and verify the existence of evolutionarily significant units within this particular complex, contributing to the design of programs conservation of the species. The phylogenetic relationships of the species were examined using mitochondrial genes (cytochrome-b, cytochrome oxidase I, control region D-loop and NADH dehidrogenase subunit 5), with 44 individuals of red brocket deer from different locations in Brazil. The results do not support the existence of distinct evolutionary units within the sampled groups. The topologies found in phylogenetic tree show no ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Jaynes, Lindsey. "The Authority of Difference: Culturally Effected Realism in Whitman and Henry James." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1309283371.
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DiLoreto, Elizabeth. "American Sign Language as a Foreign Language Requirement: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Standards." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1364150201.
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