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Miller, Margaret Ada. "The left's turn : labor, welfare politics, and social movements in Washington state, 1937-1973 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10380.
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Lambert-Habib, Marie-Laure. "Le commerce des espèces sauvages : entre droit international et gestion locale : réflexions sur la CITES, Convention de Washington sur le commerce international des espaces [i.e. espèces] de faune et de flore sauvages menacés [i.e. menacées] d'extinction /." Paris ; Montréal (Québec) : l'Harmattan, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37116288z.
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Gregory, Stephen William George Modern Language Studies UNSW. "The collapse of dialogue:Intellectuals and politics in the Uruguayan crisis, 1960-1973." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Modern Language Studies, 1999. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17231.
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In the context of the growing political instability and deepening economic crisis in Uruguay during the 1960s and early 1970s, the thesis examines two propositions. The first is that politically informed intellectuals, though disaffected or marginalised, will integrate themselves into the political mainstream if circumstances demand and a suitable vehicle allows them to participate usefully in the political process. The second is that, in the Uruguayan case, an expanded notion of dialogue is essential in analysing how this was accomplished, partly because the idea of dialogue was a necessary part of how they worked together and communicated with their public, and partly because dialogue was seen as a crucial element in reforming the nation and as the basis of the relationship between the political party that was to be the agent of such reform and its potential constituency. The thesis begins by examining how the so-called 1945 and 1960s generations overcame intergenerational squabbles and worked together, with the help of an expanding publishing industry, to create a public for their meditations on Uruguay's problems. Then, after briefly outlining the importance of dialogue to the essay as a genre and its role in developing national identity in Latin America, the study examines essays on the state of Uruguay by four major writers in the 1960s: Roberto Ares Pons, Alberto Methol Ferr??, Carlos Maggi and Washington Lockhart. The thesis then traces the intelligentsia's role in the several attempts to heal the rifts within the Uruguayan left and in the formation of the centre left coalition, the Frente Amplio, in 1971, to show how the notion of dialogue was incorporated into its structure, mode of operation and political program. The final section, a case study of Mario Benedetti's political activities and propagandist essays of 1971-1973, examines the contradictions of working as a committed intellectual when the very conditions necessary for intellectual life are breaking down. The thesis concludes that the resurrection of the nation as a site for dialogue with and among all members of society, a project in which the intelligentsia had enthusiastically participated, foundered because drastic political polarisation permitted only one militarist and monologic solution.
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Guzman, Perez Rosa Amilli. "Convention de Washington : l'approche de l'Amérique latine." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCD035/document.
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Trois pays d’Amérique latine – la Bolivie, l’Équateur et le Venezuela – ont dénoncé la Convention pour le règlement des différends relatifs aux investissements entre États et ressortissants d’autres États. Cette « vague » de dénonciations témoigne d’un rejet du système d’arbitrage, créé par la Convention de Washington, considéré comme déséquilibré, antidémocratique, onéreux et discriminatoire. Aux yeux de l’Amérique latine, l’arbitrage CIRDI serait conçu pour bénéficier exclusivement aux investisseurs au détriment des États hôtes des investissements. Dans ce travail de recherche, l’approche de l’Amérique latine relative à la Convention de Washington sera présentée en deux étapes. D’abord, les évolutions liées au cadre économique et juridique latino-américain, des prémices de la Convention en 1964, jusqu’á son adoption définitive dans les années 90, seront analysées. Puis seront abordées les principales critiques émises actuellement contre le système d’arbitrage CIRDI. Quels sont les facteurs déterminants du changement dans les politiques en matière d’investissements étrangers en Amérique latine ? Les pays, qui ont dénoncé la Convention de Washington, ont-ils des raisons suffisamment valables de rejeter l’arbitrage transnational en matière d’investissements ? Le CIRDI a-t-il failli dans l’accomplissement de ses fonctions ? Ce travail de recherche vise à répondre à ces questions en analysant la Convention de Washington sous un angle latino-américainThree countries in Latin America - Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela - have denounced the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of other States. This "wave" of denunciations reflects a negative perception of the arbitration system created by the ICSID Convention, which is described as unbalanced, undemocratic, expensive and discriminatory. In Latin America’s view, ICSID arbitration was created to benefit only to investors at the expense of investments’ host states. This research focuses on the Latin America’s approach on the Washington Convention addressing it in two stages. First, the Latin American economic and legal framework in the early discussions on the draft of the Convention in 1964 and its subsequent adoption in the 1990s will be addressed. Secondly, the subjects that currently arouse the main criticisms to the ICSID arbitration system will be detailed. What are the reasons of change in foreign investment policies in Latin America? Do the countries that denounced the Washington Convention have acceptable reasons for rejecting investments’ transnational arbitration? Did ICSID failed in the performance of its duties? This research aims to answer these questions by analyzing the Washington Convention from the Latin American perspective
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Sabín, Díaz Patricia. "Washington Monument a visitor's center /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1867.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Caterina, Gianfranco. "O regime militar brasileiro visto desde Washington (1967-1978)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12754.
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The aim of this study is to assess the delicate relationship between Brazil and the United States in a global scenario of détente between the two political-ideological blocs of Cold War. The superpower has, yet, as its main challenge the need to conciliate a search for its own interests as a nation, with ideals of democracy and respect for human rights. Brazil, on the other hand, was looking for prestige between powers, and more independence and autonomy on its foreign policy. In this process, it s possible to characterize, at least, three different overviews. First, a relative decline in U.S. power, political repression and high economic growth in Brazil. Second, oil international crisis, Watergate scandal, new military coups in South America, new human rights movements articulations and the beginning of abertura in Brazil. At last, the rise of Carter, and a dispute, on and off institutional level, on nuclear energy issues and human rights. I ll try to approach how the main political actors, the emergence of the human rights issue, and the constraints imposed by the international order have impacted on bilateral relations in the period from 1967 to 1978
O estudo procura discutir a intrincada relação entre Brasil e Estados Unidos em um cenário global de distensão entre os dois blocos político-ideológicos da Guerra Fria. A superpotência tem, ainda, como principal desafio em sua atuação internacional, conciliar a busca por seus interesses como nação, com ideais de democracia e respeito aos direitos humanos. O Brasil, por outro lado, ansiava por reconhecimento entre os grandes, além de maior independência e autonomia em sua política externa. Nesse processo, podem-se caracterizar, pelo menos, três conjunturas distintas. Na primeira; o declínio relativo do poder americano, a repressão política e alto crescimento econômico brasileiro. A seguir; a crise internacional do petróleo, escândalo Watergate, novos golpes militares na América do Sul, articulação de movimentos em defesa dos direitos humanos e início da abertura política no Brasil. Por último; a ascensão de Carter e o atrito, em âmbito institucional e fora dele, em torno das questões de energia nuclear e direitos humanos. Procuramos abordar de que forma os principais atores políticos, a emergência da questão dos direitos humanos, e as limitações impostas pela ordem internacional incidiram nas relações bilaterais no período de 1967 a 1978
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Johansson, Martin. "Presidentvalen i USA 1968 och 1972 i den svenska diplomatrapporteringen från Washington." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-918.
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Kaag, Cynthia Stewart. "The science of wine Washington State University scientists and the development of the Washington wine industry, 1937-1992 /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Fall2008/c_kaag_092908.pdf.
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Spiers, John. "Managing Growth: Suburbanization and Environmental Protection in Metropolitan Washington Since 1970." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104414.
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Thesis advisor: Marilynn JohnsonThis study examines widespread efforts to manage the environmental impact of suburbanization in metropolitan America since 1970. Using the Washington, DC area as a site for analysis, I demonstrate how residents, public officials, and organized interests balanced suburban development and environmental protection. Featuring cases from the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, this project considers environmental conflicts resulting from housing, commercial, and highway projects as well as efforts to preserve rural land and farming from suburban encroachment. As metropolitan Washington decentralized, the environmental impact of suburbanization worsened, producing different approaches to managing development and protecting the environment. These responses reflected new social and spatial inequalities, as well as differences in political leadership and civic activism. While communities in Maryland benefited from more progressive public concern, local leadership and strong support from the state for growth management, their counterparts in Virginia struggled to overcome strong and pervasive protections for property rights. This project rewrites our understanding of suburbanization and environmental protection in two ways. First, it urges scholars to rethink a traditional emphasis on federal policies; even in the suburbs of the nation's capital, the active participation of the public at large, as well as officials at the local and state levels, was critical to the success or failure of environmental protection. The present study thus demonstrates how and why different approaches to growth management emerged across metropolitan areas. Second, this study differs from the existing social science literature by moving away from policy analysis to focus on the broader context of decision-making in planning suburban development. Drawing on correspondence, publicity materials, and public testimony from residents, environmental groups, local officials, business organizations, and federal agencies, this study offers a more complete picture of growth management, providing a historically informed and policy relevant argument about environmental protection in metropolitan America. Ultimately, it reveals that even with an unprecedented degree of expansion of state regulation and civic engagement, the legal and cultural regimes surrounding the use of property often continued to privilege private gain over environmental protection as localities competed for economic investment. In a few cases, however, we can see how residents and public officials pursued more holistic forms of growth management in metropolitan America, laying the groundwork for a model of more meaningful public participation to enhance environmental protection in the future
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
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Hedrick, James E. "A Case Study in the Desegregation of George Washington High School and Langston High School in Danville, Virginia during the 1970-1971 School Year." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26624.
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This paper provides a historical analysis of the desegregation of George Washington High School and Langston High School in Danville, Virginia in 1970. The author focuses on the related desegregation litigation on a national, state, and local level as well as the historical context for desegregation in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
In August of 1970, Danville, Virginia embarked on a new era in education as its schools would be totally desegregated. It would no longer operate under the freedom of choice plan that had been in effect since 1965 and permitted African-American parents to send their children to the all-white schools. The school system was to be fully integrated and operating as a unitary system.
Using newspaper accounts, correspondence from key figures, and interviews with key people in Danville in 1970, the author addresses four areas of research: (a) What led to the desegregation of schools in Danville, Virginia? (b) Who were the key players in the desegregation movement? (c) How were the community, the students, and the staff prepared for desegregation? and (d) What were the attitudes and the concerns about desegregation? The data was collected and analyzed using qualitative methodology. The constant-comparative method espoused by Maykut and Morehouse was used to analyze the data and Bronfenbrennerâ s concept of the â nested environmentâ was the theoetical model used to organize the data.Ed. D.
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Vinha, Katja Pauliina. "The impact of the Washington Metro on development patterns." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3175.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Agricultural and Resource Economics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Fishman, Ian Coleman. "Embassy of Cuba in Washington, DC : image, site, program." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8608.
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Thesis (M.Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture . Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Sheehy, Michael W. "From Watergate to Lewinsky : unnamed sources in the Washington post, 1970-2000 /." View abstract, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3220619.
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Orssaud, Geneviève. "Histoire et fiction dans le roman argentin contemporain : d'Operación masacre de Rodolfo Walsh à Las aventuras del Sr. Maíz de Cucurto." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030041.
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Le but de ce travail est d’étudier les apparitions de l’Histoire dans la littérature argentine contemporaine. La littérature crée des univers autonomes dont l’impossibilité est le corps, et partant l’action. Elle s’inspire néanmoins du réel ; il est sa seule limite. Dans le réagencement que la littérature opère sur le réel, on peut donc trouver des traces de l’Histoire. L’historiographie, quant à elle, peut sembler être un récit partiel, découlant des nombreuses sélections des documents de l’historien influencé par son temps et par le pouvoir qui le régit : l’histoire officielle, à de nombreux égards, est une construction artificielle. En Argentine, dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle, les régimes militaires interrompent l’écriture de l’Histoire. Le roman argentin contemporain préserve la mémoire collective en évoquant des faits que le pouvoir militaire fait disparaître de l’Histoire. En outre, la littérature nationale ayant émergé dans les années 50, elle devient l’espace de préservation d’une identité nationale, face à l’instrumentalisation de l’Histoire par le pouvoir et à l’écriture conquérante de l’Histoire par l’EuropeThe purpose of this work is to study the manifestations of History in contemporary Argentinean literature. Literature creates autonomous universes whose impossibility is the body, and therefore the action. However it draws its inspiration from the reality that is its only limit. Then in the reconstruction operated by literature upon real, traces of history may be found. As regards historiography it may appear as a partial account, following from many selections of documents by the historian, himself under influence of his time, and the power he is governed by: the official history, in many respects is an artificial construction. In Argentina, during the second half of the XXth century, the military governments suspended the writing of History. Argentinean contemporary novels preserve collective memory evoking facts that military power gets disappear from History. Moreover, as national literature has emerged in the 50’s, its becomes a mean of preservation for the national identity, that stood up to the misuse and distorting of History by the power, and Europe’s conquering writing of History
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Markus, Richard. "Washington, D.C. Center for Filmmaking." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52132.
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The Washington, D.C. Center for Filmmaking is placed in the middle of a growing area of different uses, on the block bordered by 8th, 9th G and H streets. Across G street, the old Patent Office now houses the national Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery. Churches, schools, and other buildings for study exist in the blocks directly surrounding the proposed buildings and the Martin Luther King Library. The Washington Convention Center and Techworld allow space for large exhibitions and trade shows. Also, office space and the shops and restaurants of Chinatown are just one block east. Access to the site by Metro is across G street at the Gallery Pace Metro stop.
The Center for Filmmaking addresses the street with commercial store-fronts of shops or restaurants, accessible from the street as well as from the interior gathering space. The building attempts to embrace the framework of the city openly. The main entry into the gathering space is off the major street of the site, 9th Street. Service access is off of the least traveled street, 8th Street.Master of Architecture
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Heurtebize, Frédéric. "L'attitude de washington face à l'euro-communisme en france et en italie 1974-1981." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030129.
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Principalement représentée par les partis communistes italien et français, quoiqu'à des degrés divers, la mouvance eurocommuniste entendait mettre en œuvre un socialisme compatible avec le système politique occidental. Cette volonté se traduisait par un engagement en faveur des libertés et du pluralisme politique, par une prise de distance avec le modèle soviétique et par la volonté de former des alliances. En 1972, en France, socialistes et communistes scellent l’Union de la gauche tandis qu’en Italie, en 1973, le PC appelle à un compromis historique avec la Démocratie chrétienne. Quoique différente à maints égards, la situation dans les deux pays fait renaître outre-Atlantique une crainte qu’on croyait écartée : l’arrivée au pouvoir de PC en Europe de l’Ouest. Cette étude s’attache à examiner l’attitude des États-Unis – notamment l’exécutif et son appareil diplomatique – face à cette menace. La période à l’étude (1974-81) couvre l’émergence, l’apogée et le déclin de l’eurocommunisme et correspond aux présidences Ford (1974-77) et Carter (1977-81). Cette thèse se fonde principalement sur l’examen des archives américaines (présidence, département d’État et CIA) ainsi que sur de nombreux entretiens. L’administration Ford, et Henry Kissinger en particulier, se montra plus inquiète que l’administration Carter. Par ailleurs, quels que furent les dirigeants au pouvoir, la situation italienne suscita plus de craintes que la situation française, à tel point que, sous Carter, le Parti socialiste jouit d’un capital de sympathie élevé au sein de l’administration. Cette étude souligne aussi des différences significatives d’appréciations entre l’exécutif, d’un côté, et les ambassades, les différents services d’analyse et de renseignement américains de l’autre. Pour ces derniers, la participation de ministres communistes dans des gouvernements d’Europe occidentale eût certes causé de réelles difficultés, mais des difficultés surmontablesEurocommunism refers to a trend among West European communist parties that aimed at promoting a communism compatible with Western-style democracy. It entailed embracing democratic "bourgeois" values, criticizing the Soviet model and fostering political coalitions with long-despised parties. French communists and socialists thus formed the Union of the Left in 1972 while the Italian CP called for a "historic compromise" with the Christian Democrats one year later. The period under study (1974-81) spans the birth, climax and decline of that trend but also the presidencies of Gerald Ford (1974-77) and Jimmy Carter (1977-81).Though different in many respects, the political situation in both countries – however sincere, or not, those CPs were in Washington’s view – exacerbated one long-gone fear: the coming to power of communists in Western Europe. This dissertation examines how the US – mainly the White House and its diplomatic and intelligence bureaucracy – regarded that threat. It draws substantially from American archival material (White House, State Department and CIA) and from numerous interviews with former actors and witnesses of that period. This dissertation argues that the Ford administration, whose diplomacy was led by Henry Kissinger, was more concerned about Eurocommunism than the Carter administration. It also argues that the Italian situation caused more concern than the French situation, so much so that members of the Carter team had sympathies for the French socialists. Finally, this study reveals significant differences in judgment – between, on the one hand, the executive branch, and, on the other hand, the embassies and the analytical and intelligence services – as to how threatening Eurocommunism was to American and Western interests. Throughout the decade, overall, the latter proved more relaxed than American leaders about the possible consequences of the CPs’ coming to power
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Jantz, Claire Ann. "Analyzing forest change and policy in Washington, DC suburban environments." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2642.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Geography. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Holly, Janice E. "Irving Lowens and the Washington Star the vision, the demise /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6837.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Music. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Bello, Mark Richard. "Urban Regimes and Downtown Planning in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, 1972-1992." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1196.
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Portland and Seattle are often considered to be divergent in character, partly because civic leadership in each city has a different vision. The adoption of contrasting downtown core plans, projects, and policies in each city allows us an opportunity to understand the nature of each city's regime. As defined by Elkin, an urban regime is the community's governing coalition, those who exercise public authority in a legal sense and those private actors able to act collectively and bring concerted influence to bear.
The time frame for this study begins with the first modern planning document, the 1972 City of Portland Downtown Plan. During this period, both central business districts were transformed, simultaneously losing some retail, commercial and industrial functions while gaining further control of regional economies.
Portland perfected the entrepreneurial urban regime. The linkage among the land use alliance (property owners, investors and private professionals); the bureaucracy; and politicians was established by the success of the 1972 Downtown Plan. There is little conflict in Portland. Systemic bias is masked by overly extensive citizen involvement processes; city subsidies and grants which influence activists' positions; and use of tax increment money to hire consultants who reinforce the business point of view.
Seattle never perfected the entrepreneurial regime. The business community was fractured into conservatives and progressive camps. Also, the bureaucracy was caught in the Mayoral-Council crossfire. There is great controversy in Seattle. The prodevelopment decisions are still made but activist groups can successfully make it to the ballot box.
Primary sources of information included planning studies; reports; memoranda; minutes of meetings; resolutions; budgets; and activists' printed materials. Participants in each city were interviewed. Secondary sources of information included articles, and census materials.
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Richardson, Bradley Dale. "The Forgotten Front: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Camas, Washington, and the Northwest Paper Industry, 1913-1918." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2534.
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Southwest Washington labor history has received little examination by scholars. Focusing mainly on Seattle, Everett, Centralia, and Spokane, historians view Southwest Washington, a traditionally conservative community, to be of little importance in the state's overall historical narrative. This thesis corrects that assumption and the omission of Southwest Washington. The failure of the unionization effort in Camas impacted organization in Pacific Northwest paper mills for nearly a decade. Although workers failed to sustain their union, the events in Camas between 1913 and 1918 present an excellent new laboratory and case study to explore the intersection of gender, labor, and politics. Despite rough edges and sometimes missing voices within the extant record of the time, this thesis suggests the potential for historians to dig deep into the archives, produce original scholarship, and tell a forgotten story.
This work is also ambitious, striving to examine the role gender, labor, and leftists' politics played in the paper mill city of Camas and Washington State. Chapter one examines the first-ever strike of forty women in the Camas bag factory. Chapter two explores the organization of the mills' first union. Chapter three accounts for the rise and fall of the town's only Socialist mayor. Each of these chapters alone could be the topic of a single study and each involves a particular segment of historical scholarship. The chapters are layered and refer to each other, with layers of context added in each one.
The themes of this thesis also orbit around a fight over meaning and historical memory. My research shows that during the tumultuous social, economic, and political events from 1913 to 1918 there was an active erasure and forgetting of people and events. These silencings amid a major uproar in a "labor village" partly accounts for the thinness of the archives and the haunted, subjugated quality of the memory of working peoples' activism in Camas. I suggest that labor, management, and the political establishment were all invested in a particular mythos of Camas as a "labor village." Camas was, and is, a company town and "labor village." Camas had a face-to-face quality to its social relations and members of the community felt pressure to maintain this quality, sometimes in opposition to "outside" voices. This scenario put special demands on the people involved with organizing and activism, as they functioned without the big city anonymity of Seattle or Portland. The Camas story is shorter, more concentrated, and more intimate than the stories of these large urban centers. The brief moment of change around the war strained the fraternal bonds of the town. The pain and injury of this strain in Camas were rhetorically covered and hidden. Most of the residents either never spoke of what happened or willed themselves to forget. The memory and knowledge of the events remain to this day imprisoned within their minds and town. This work intends to, after nearly a hundred years, bring back the memories and question the story told about Camas and about ourselves.
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Ramos, Stephen Anthony. "Reconnecting to the waterfront a maritime aquarium for Southwest, Washington, DC /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3634.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Gibson, Susan Elizabeth. "An arts community for the Logan Circle neighborhood in Washington, D.C." College Park, Md., : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2309.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Peters, Matthew Aaron. "The Side Stage a critical cultural awareness forum in Washington, D.C. /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2676.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Ryder, Marianne. "Forming a New Art in the Pacific Northwest: Studio Glass in the Puget Sound Region, 1970-2003." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1096.
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The studio glass movement first arose in the United States in the early 1950s, and was characterized by practitioners who wanted to divorce glass from its industrial associations and promote it as a fine arts medium. This movement began in a few cities in the eastern part of the country, and in Los Angeles, but gradually emerged as an art form strongly associated with the city of Seattle and the Puget Sound region. This research studies the emergence and growth of the studio glass movement in the Puget Sound region from 1970 to 2003. It examines how glass artists and Seattle's urban elites interacted and worked separately to build the support structures and "art world" that provided learning and mentoring opportunities, workspaces, artistic validation, audience development, critical and financial support, which helped make glass a signature Puget Sound art form, and the role that artist social networks, social capital, cultural capital and cultural policy played in sustaining this community. In particular, the research seeks to explore the factors that nourish a new art form and artist community in second-tier cities that do not have the substantial cultural and economic support structures found in the "arts super cities" such as Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. This study contributes to the growing literature on artist communities, and the roles played by social capital, cultural capital, urban growth coalitions and policy at different stages of community development. Results can assist policymakers in formulating policies that incorporate the arts as a form of community development.
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Lloyd, James M. "Community Development, Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle against Redlining in Washington, DC, 1970-1995." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1346782041.
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Wing, Shannon M. "Building community a Town Hall and Firewise Resource Center in Quilcene, Washington /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3636.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Catania, Jonathan James. "A ballpark for the city the Washington National's Ballpark and urban district /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3641.
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Thesis (M.Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Ladki, Said M. "Consumer involvement in ethnic restaurants: a measure of satisfaction/dissatisfaction." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40139.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether consumer orientation (active/passive) and psychological involvement (attitude, opinion, belief, and behavioral intention) affect satisfaction when dining in an ethnic restaurant. The sample represented 232 consumers who dined in participating Washington D.C. metropolitan area ethnic restaurants. Information was obtained by asking consumers to answer a four part, 86 item questionnaire. Correlation analysis revealed that opinion (r = 0.17, P < 0.04), belief (r = 0.28, P < 0.01), and behavioral intentions (r = 0.19, P < 0.02) of the active consumer significantly affect satisfaction. Whereas, for the passive consumer no significant effect was found. Results of the stepwise regression analysis revealed that consumer psychological involvement and restaurant attributes affect satisfaction with service (R² = 0.57, p<0.05), satisfaction with lunch (R² = 0.8, p<0.05), satisfaction with dinner (R² = 0.33, p<0.05), and satisfaction with the overall dining experience (R² = 0.39, p<0.0l). Further, it was found that consumers' future visitations, within the next few weeks, were affected by consumer's psychological involvement (R² = 0.53, p<0.0l). Restaurant attributes (speed of service; employee courtesy; and food quality and prices) affected overall satisfaction in dining (R² = 0.4, p<0.0l), but it weakly affected future visitations (R² = 0.04, p<0.04, negative Mallows' Coefficient). The findings of this study contribute not only to consumer self-concept theory and satisfaction theory but also have practical implications to the ethnic restaurant industry.Ph. D.
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Gilli, Ludivine. "La ville de Washington dans l'après-Seconde Guerre mondiale (1945-1955) : une capitale instrumentalisée, enjeu et outil de politique nationale." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00904560.
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Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la capitale étatsunienne connaît une croissance sans précédent et acquiert une position incontestée de quartier général des Alliés. La Washington de 1945 n'a plus rien à voir avec le paysage urbain peuplé mais somnolent de 1939. Suite à la guerre, que va-t-il advenir du District de Columbia ? Nombre d'acteurs de différents types et niveaux veulent avoir leur mot à dire dans le futur de la capitale. La plupart d'entre eux espèrent utiliser la ville pour promouvoir des intérêts particuliers.Au cours des années d'après-guerre, le District est le théâtre de nombreuses joutes symboliques, qui voient s'affronter l'ensemble des acteurs politiques, économiques et sociaux du pays. Les enjeux sont locaux, nationaux ou internationaux, ils concernent l'administration locale, le droit de vote, la ségrégation, les conditions de logement, etc., ils rejaillissent sur Washington à la fois en tant que ville-symbole et que ville habitée. Ces affrontements et leurs résultats incarnent la capitale et dessinent son futur tout à la fois. Nous étudions ici pourquoi et comment ces évolutions se produisent. Le combat pour l'égalité entre Noirs et Blancs dans le District, par exemple, ouvre la voie à des progrès sur le plan national. La lutte contre les taudis se déroule dans le cadre des programmes de redéveloppement urbain souvent associés au déclin des centres-villes. La lutte pour l'autodétermination et les efforts fournis pour développer les rôles national et international de Washington sont d'autres exemples des dynamiques à l'œuvre dans la capitale entre 1945 et 1955. Après une première partie consacrée à la situation dans le District à la fin de la guerre, afin d'exposer les enjeux qui se posent en 1945, nous examinons les spécificités et implications de son rôle de capitale, tant sur le plan national que sur le plan international. La troisième partie porte sur les évolutions urbaines et sociales dans la ville d'après-guerre.
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Choi, Yu-Jin. "A study of ground-level ozone over the Baltimore/Washington ozone nonattainment area." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1789.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Chemical Engineering. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Ryder, Jonathan. "Measuring Accessibility and Explaining Trends in Commute Mode Choice in Washington, D.C. from 1970 - 2000." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/955.
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This study attempts to find a correlation between commuting modes in Washington DC and characteristics of the city and the people that they serve. It investigates why some census tracts have experienced increases in the commuting share of alternative transportation, such as public transit, walking, and bicycling, while others haven't. Findings demonstrate that demographic variables such as percent Hispanic and foreign born were the strongest predictors of change in commute mode share followed by distance to train station. Land use variables demonstrated weak correlations with variations in mode share due most likely to a lack of density gradient within the study area. The creation of variables to determine land use mix by census tract posed technical challenges as well. Recommendations include policy addressing rising demand for more diverse transportation systems be implemented and further research be conducted on creating more accurate land use variables to include in the model.
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Olshausen, Mattias. "From Company Town to Company Town: Holden and Holden Village, Washington, 1937-1980 & Today." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/717.
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In 1937, Howe Sound Company built the town of Holden, Washington, to support its copper-mining operation at Copper Peak, located in the North Cascade Mountains, approximately 10 miles west of Lake Chelan. The operation produced concentrate from 1937 to 1957, during which time the town was home to a lively community featuring many families, a variety of organized recreational activities, and a public school. It was a company town, in which most property, business, organized activity, and public utilities and services were either directly or indirectly controlled by Howe Sound. After the operation shut down in 1957, the town was abandoned. Three years later, the property was donated to the Lutheran Bible Institute of Issaquah, Washington. It subsequently became Holden Village, an independent, non-profit Lutheran retreat center. Though different in purpose and character from the community that preceded it, life in Holden Village during its formative years (the 1960s and, to a lesser extent, the 1970s), and in the 2010s, was and is similar in a number of ways to life in the mining town. This thesis argues that Holden Village, too, might be considered a company town within a loose definition of the term. The many parallels between the two communities support this argument, and point to the role of the remote setting and the environment in shaping the lives of the town's residents.
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Bertolini, David. "Permanence and poetics: a monument to individual achievement, Washington, D.C." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53343.
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Have we lost the Art of Architecture? In this post-industrial epoch economics, capitalism, apathy, and popular culture are causing modern man to neglect aspects of his humanity. The essence of his existence and the quality of his life are quietly becoming a superficial image, T.S. Eliot sees this decay as the desacralization of modernity:
"(the) assertion is that no culture has appeared or developed except together with a religion ......I see no reason why the decay of culture should not proceed much further...."
Modernity has blinded man, he is unable to see any significance between reality or representation, poetry or banality, the eternal or the temporal. The ontological view of man is being lost to a historical view of man. Thus the actuality which gives meaning, significance, and value to man's existence - the poetics; and the actuality that transcends man over time - the eternal, are slowly being dissolved in a solution of neglect, opinion, and apathy.
Architecture is the making of sacred space. Permanence and poetics are the signification for Architecture and the sacred. The poetics are man's desire to express, create and understand meaning in this world. Being a significant act of man, this expression of the infinite, manifests itself in Architecture. This is the ability to transcend beyond the need for a basic shelter toward something which expresses the aspirations, desires, wisdom and tragedies of man. The eternal has both physical and spiritual attributes. The physical aspect is man's skill and ability to make things. By joining together material, structure, gravity and geometry man assembles an artifact with the intent that it will endure and weather over time. The spiritual aspect is man's memory of things compelled by his own mortality which leads him toward permanence.
Modern Architects are faced with the fact that their abilities are disappearing. The ability to define meaning, to profoundly seduce materials, to perform the ritual of construction and to mark a place - the ability to make a work of Architecture is slowly becoming extinct. If permanence and poetics cannot be reconciled with modernity, if man cannot create an artifact which is transcendent, existential, and eternal; the Art of Architecture - a language of man - will be lost.Master of Architecture
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May, Peter Ian. "Alternate state theory and tidal freshwater mudflat experimental ecology on Anacostia River, Washington, D.C." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7589.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Marine, Estuarine, Environmental Sciences Graduate Program. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Zandian, Nastaran. "Bridging the worlds through art and culture, an Iranian cultural center in Washington D.C." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7839.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Jorgensen, Rick B. "A History of the Latter-Day Saints in the Columbia Basin of Central Washington 1850-1972." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4840.
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The Columbia Basin of Central Washington has a relatively recent Latter-day Saint history among the regions of the western states. Most of the sparsely populated rural areas in the west that have large concentrations of Latter-day Saints were originally established as "Mormon" settlements. The basin referred to lies between the Snake and Columbia Rivers and now has thousands of Latter-day Saints who have chosen to inhabit the historically barren land and call it their home. A brief visit or casual observance of the area leads many to question what were the major factors and characteristics leading to the twentieth century growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Columbia Basin of Central Washington?
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Harris, Joseph Russell. "Preposition-position design strategies in a master plan for redevelopment, McMillan Sand Filtration Site, Washington, DC /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/209.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Lourie, Alexander J. "'Have honestly and fairly laboured for money' William and Washington Tuck and Annapolis cabinetmaking, 1795-1838 /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1575.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in paper. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Oliver, Robert Michael. "National theater or public theater the transformation of the theatrical geography of Washington, D.C., circa 1970 - 1990 /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2917.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Theatre. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Falkenbury, Paul H. "An artists' community in Georgetown: a study of the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular in architecture." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53730.
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Architecture occurs at the meeting of interior and exterior forces of use and space. These interior and environmental forces are both general and particular, generic and circumstantial. Architecture as the wall between inside and outside becomes the spatial record of this resolution and its drama. And by recognizing the difference between the inside and the outside, architecture opens the door once again to an urbanistic point of view. Robert Venturi
It is the role of design to adjust to the circumstantial. Louis Kahn
The existential purpose of building (architecture) is therefore to make a site become a place, that is, to uncover the meanings potentially present in the environment. Christian Norberg-SchulzMaster of Architecture
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Quinn, Kelly Anne. "Making modern homes : a history of Langston Terrace Dwellings, a New Deal housing program in Washington, D.C. /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7177.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Horner, S. Scott. "The relationship between administrative function and position elimination during periods of retrenchment at community colleges." Diss., This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-165504/.
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Herbert, G. Paul. "The proposed marriage preparation guidelines of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. in the light of the 1983 code." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Nuzum, Kathleen A. "A cycle of American educational reform : Garfield and Bellingham High Schools in the state of Washington, 1958-1983." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14467.
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This thesis examines the educational experience from 1958 to 1983 in two Washington State high schools: Bellingham High School and Garfield High School, Seattle. It focuses on what happened to the structure, curriculum content and environment within these schools, and also discusses the process of centralisation in Washington State educational administration. The period of study was bounded by two reports: James Bryant Conant's The American High School Today (January 1959), and A Nation at Risk (issued in 1983) by the U.S. Secretary of Education, Terrell Bell, and the National Commission on Excellence in Education, reports which were issued in response to the Cold War and to growing international economic competition. Conant and his generation of educators sought a system of secondary education that, by opening educational opportunities to all young Americans, would close the critical Soviet- US gap in missile and space technology, and would give the Cold War victory to the United States. However, national policies, state administration and socio-cultural change in American life all contributed to a shift in classroom emphasis away from traditional academics and measures of students' achievement during the quarter-century after Conant - a condition made clear by the National Commission in 1983. Whatever the other values of these educational reforms, they had a negative effect on student attitudes towards academic achievement, resulting in a disengagement from all aspects of school life. Despite cultural differences, the parallel institutional experiences of Bellingham and Garfield, and the similarities that emerged between the schools' administrative structures, educational goals, teaching strategies and learning styles, imply that class was also an important factor shaping the educational experience in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Martin-Breteau, Nicolas. "Corps politiques : sport et combat civiques des Africains-Américains à Washington, D.C., et Baltimore (v. 1890 - v. 1970)." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0097.
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Cette thèse explore le rôle du sport dans les luttes pour la dignité, l'égalité et les droits des Africains-Américains de Washington, D. C. , et de Baltimore entre les années 1890 et les années 1960. Son propos est de montrer comment le sport a constitué un moyen d'action politique cherchant à renverser les préjugés raciaux sur l'infériorité « naturelle» du corps noir justifiant son oppression sociale. De ce point de vue, la monstration publique de la dignité du corps noir fonctionna comme une revendication d'égalité symbolique, palliant la relative privation de parole subie par les Africains-Américains, alors exclus de la communauté citoyenne. Depuis la fin de la Reconstruction, les élites africaines-américaines promurent en effet le sport comme l'un des éléments centraux de l'entreprise perfectionniste d'« élévation de la race» visant l'intégration civique. Il s'agit donc de montrer que les luttes politiques africaines-américaines eurent le corps comme lieu et enjeu, utilisant le sport comme un moyen performatif d'élévation des corps individuels en vue de l'émancipation collectiveThis dissertation explores the role of sport in the struggles for dignity, equality and rights of the African American communities of Washington, D. C. , and Baltimore between the 1890s and the 1960s. Its aim is to explain how athletics constituted a means of political action seeking to counter racial prejudices on the "natural" inferiority of the black body which legitimized its social oppression. The public display of the dignity of the black body functioned as a claim of symbolic equality, compensating for the relative privation of speech endured by African Americans as they were exduded from the civic community. Since the end of Reconstruction, African American elites have promoted sport as a central element of the perfectionist tactics of "racial uplift" in order to integrate the national community. The main objective of this study is thus to establish how African American political struggles have had the body as place and stake, using sport as a performative means for uplifting individuals' bodies and achieving collective emancipation
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Sprunger, Luke. ""Del Campo Ya Pasamos a Otras Cosas--From the Field We Move on to Other Things": Ethnic Mexican Narrators and Latino Community Histories in Washington County, Oregon." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1977.
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This work examines the histories of the Latino population of Washington County, Oregon, and explores how and why ethnic Mexican and other Latino individuals and families relocated to the county. It relies heavily on oral history interviews conducted by the author with ethnic Mexican residents, and on archival newspaper sources. Beginning with the settlement of a small number of tejano families and the formation of an ethnic community in the 1960s, a number of factors encouraged an increasing number of migrant Latino families--from tejanos to Mexican nationals to Central and South Americans to indigenous migrants of various nationalities--to settle permanently in the county. This work studies how the growth and diversification of the population altered the nature of community among Latinos, how changing social conditions and the efforts of early community builders improved opportunities for new arrivals, and how continuing migration has assisted in processes of cultural replenishment.
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Friedman, Michael Todd. "The transparency of democracy a lefebvrean analysis of Washington's Nationals Park /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8828.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Kinesiology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Pecore, Joanna Theresa. "Sounding the spirit of Cambodia the living tradition of Khmer music and dance-drama in a Washington, DC community /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/196.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Music. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Bidwell, Alice Susan. "Stressors, resources, and parent-child relationships of reentry students in a metropolitan area." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38652.
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The purpose of this study was to explore reentry students' perceived relationships with school-age children during the initial semester of return to undergraduate
school. Change in student stressors, resources, and parent-child relationships were explored and demographic characteristics were described. In addition, predictors of
parent child relationship (PCR) were investigated. A sample of 111 students beginning degree programs at one of four metropolitan Washington, DC colleges in
September 1992 completed a mail survey before the semester began (T-1). Approximately 10 weeks later (T-2), 86 of these completed a follow-up questionnaire. Student resources were measured by the Rosenberg Self-esteem
Inventory, a spouse support measure, and a social support measure. Stressors were measured by the Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes (FILE). PCR was measured by the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale, Index of Parental Attitudes, and Family Satisfaction Scale.Ph. D.
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Janis, Julie B. "Exploring the interactive element in architecture: a children's discovery museum for Washington, D.C." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53351.
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The fresh new approach taken by today's children's museums offers great potential for an equally fresh approach to the architecture which houses these special places. Just as the "exhibits" at the children's museums invite a new relationship between the visitor and the museum collection, so too should the architecture encourage a new interaction between the individual and the built structure, between the institution and the urban environment.
The new Children's Discovery Museum proposed for Washington, D.C. takes the theme of interaction as its basis. The design aims to promote a new level of participation between the people, the building, and the city. In this way, the attitude which is central in making children's museums so special was adapted to form an architectural framework: that all children -- regardless of age -- might discover a more meaningful connectedness to the built world around them.Master of Architecture