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Chicago And Hope Vi: Examining The Dislocation Of Urban Poor, Todd W. Sink

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The inception of HOPE VI in 1992 was proposed as a solution to concentrated poverty and disinvestment in inner city neighborhoods. The US General Accounting Office estimates that as of November 2003, approximately 49,000 people have been forced to relocate to permanent or temporary residences since the nationwide implementation of HOPE VI. Today, the effects of HOPE VI on the urban poor of Chicago have received little attention. This research examines the dislocation of urban poor and possible gentrification in Chicago's public housing areas, and the socioeconomic condition of new destinations for voucher movers. 111 Twenty public housing tracts and …

Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2007 Fall, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Fall 2007.

Land Use And Settlement Patterns In Michigan, 1763-1837, Ray De Bruler Jr.

Dissertations

This dissertation examines various types of land use practices and settlement patterns from the end of the French era through statehood at Detroit, the Straits of Mackinac and the St. Joseph River Valley. In addition, this work describes a series of land ordinances, treaties, land office practices and acts and demonstrates how they shaped, or tried to shape, the ways people viewed the land and what they did with it. Michigan is an excellent case study for analyzing land use because it was the point of interaction among three distinct cultural and political groups, French, British and American, and each …

Nietzsche's Unconscious And Nineteenth-Century Thought, Joseph Anthony Kranak

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Discourse, Science, And The Ideology Of Race: The Concept Of Race Struggle In Michel Foucault's 1975-1976 Lectures, Christopher Buckman

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Charles Lang Freer And His Gallery Of Art : Turn-Of-The-Century Politics And Aesthetics On The National Mall., Patricia L. Guardiola

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This qualifying paper examines the contradiction of a public museum dedicated to one man's vision of art collecting. Charles Lang Freer established the Freer Gallery of Art in 1906, regarded as the first national public art museum on the National Mall. Section One presents the biographical history of Freer, and clarifies his place in the contexts of collecting and aestheticism at the turn of the century. Section Two presents the political situation in Washington, D.C. that gave way to President Theodore Roosevelt's efforts to use Freer's private collection for a public museum on the National Mall. This paper concludes with …

Acceptance Of Evolution And Knowledge Of Related Scientific Tenets: A Survey Of Science Center Visitors, Dustin Growick

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Modeling Biotic Causes Of Extinction: Vertebrate Case Studies At The Intersection Of Evolutionary Ecology, Paleontology, And Conservation Biology., Jeffrey Vincent Yule

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Never Alone: A "Look" At Imaginal Companions, Mary Koegel

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

American culture tends to consider imaginary friends (or imaginal companions, as I refer to them) as a folk belief belonging in the realm of childhood. If an adult believes in imaginal companions, they are potentially subject to the social stigma of psychological labeling. The mass media reflects this perception of reality and influences social interactions regarding experiences and beliefs in imaginal companions. Fear of this social stigma limits folk group size, which potentially creates an issue with informant group size. I gathered my informants from a group of friends, whom I interviewed over a one-year period. Although there is a …

Shovel Testing Around The Santa Elena Kiln, Chester B. Depratter

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Greater Horn Or Africa: Priming A Strategy And Mechanism For Greater Horn Of Africa Peace, Security And Development, Bt Costantinos

International Conference on African Development Archives

The paper will address threats to national security, real and potential, that include, among others: lack of constitutional order; incapacity to manage disputes; threats of invasion and destabilisation; terrorism; contested borders and natural resource jurisdiction – blood diamonds; small arms; poverty related unrest; ethnic conflicts; feeble governance institutions; human displacement and pandemics.

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 69, No. 2, August 2007, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

Catalog, 2007-2008, Roger Williams University

Catalogs

No abstract provided.

State Of The Art, Fall 2007, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

State Of The Art, Fall 2007, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Uah Humanities Center, 2007, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Sciaa’S Military Site Program Assists Historic Brattonsville In Locating Williamson’S Plantation Battlefield, Steven D. Smith

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

There Is Much To Learn From Distant Shores, Cultures, And Colleagues, J. Christopher Gillam

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Uah Women's Studies, Fall 2007, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

A Question Of Culture For Overweight Individuals, Heather A. Macdonald

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This qualitative study was designed using flexible research methods to explore the experiences and beliefs of overweight individuals in a cultural context. Two research questions were undertaken: the first being Do overweight individuals experience a subculture?, and the second exploring How do overweight individuals' experiences of oppression relate to whether they have a subculture or not? As an analysis of the literature revealed, the overweight population's oppression and stigmatization is often unrecognized within our greater society. With millions of Americans being classified as overweight this population is increasing in number, warranting further notice within social research. This exploratory study includes …

Can Developing Women Create Primitive Art? And Other Questions Of Value, Meaning And Identity In The Circulation Of Janakpur Art, Coralynn V. Davis

Faculty Journal Articles

In this article, I examine the values and meanings that adhere to objects made by Maithil women at a development project in Janakpur, Nepal – objects collectors have called ‘Janakpur Art’. I seek to explain how and why changes in pictorial content in Janakpur Art – shifts that took place over a period of five or six years in the 1990s – occurred, and what such a change might indicate about the link between Maithil women’s lives, development, and tourism. As I will demonstrate, part of the appeal for consumers of Janakpur Art has been that it is produced at …

Legacy - August 2007, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Magazine - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

SCIAA Welcomes New Director Dr. Charles Cobb.....p. 1
Director’s Note.....p. 2
Russian Scholar to Visit SCIAA in October.....p. 3
Japanese Colleagues Visit Archaic Sites in South Carolina.....p. 4
Distant Shores, Cultures, Colleagues.....p. 6
Locating Williamson’s Plantation Battlefield.....p. 7
Research in the South Carolina Upstate.....p. 10
Shovel Testing Around the Santa Elena Kiln.....p. 12
Charleston Foodways.....p. 14
ArchSites Training.....p. 18
SCIAA/ART Donors 2006-2007.....p. 19
South Carolina Archaeology Month 2007.....p. 20

Informe Preliminar Del Trabajo, 2007, John H. Walker, Jaime Bocchietti

ProSIGAB Documents

No abstract provided.

Research In The South Carolina Upstate, Tommy Charles, Christopher Clement, Terry Ferguson

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Public Administration Theory And Views Of The Human Person, Gerald L. Zandstra

Dissertations

Public administrative theory, despite its reach into American life, lacks broad agreement about its field of inquiry, its underlying presuppositions, and its purpose. Theorists such as Herbert Storing, Stephen Bailey, Richard Stillman, David Hart, Vincent Ostrom, William Dunn, Bahman Fozouni, Mark Rutgers, Michael Harmon and others have observed and lamented these shortcomings. Without well-developed theory, the objectives of public administration are a moving target.

This project does not attempt to resolve this deficiency. Instead, it is intended to address a primary question pertaining to public administration's core principles: what is the nature of the human person? The line of argumentation …

State Of Play V: Building The Global Metaverse, Institute For Information Law And Policy

Institute for Information Law and Policy at NYLS (Event Posters)

Welcome to the State of Play Conference

Presented by:

• Institute for Information Law and Policy New York Law School
• The Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Law School
• Nanyang Technological University
• Trinity University
• Information Society Project Yale Law School

August 19-22, 2007 at Marina Mandarin Hotel

6 Raffles Boulevard

Marina Square

Singapore 039594

The Biographic And Poetic Dimensions In Gary Synder’S Green Buddhism Poetry: Cold Mountain, Mountains And Rivers Without End, And Danger On Peaks, Byoungkook Park

Dissertations

From the perspective of ecology, many scholars have examined works of Gary Synder, who is an environmental activist, a peasant-Buddhist, and one of the most beloved and significant poets in the East and West. While his poems have been widely read, they have been rarely articulated from the perspective of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism or, which I would call, Green Buddhism. Considering this, my dissertation focuses on Snyder's Green Buddhism poetry and delineates the concept of Green Buddhism and how it has emerged in his Green Buddhism poetry over the past fifty years. According to my research, his poetic dimensions …

What Kind Of Law Making In A Global World? The Case Of Africa, Jacques Vanderlinden

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Unitary Law Re-Form, Pluralistic Law Re-Substance: Illuminating Legal Change, Roderick A. Macdonald

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ltc Newsletter, University Of Dayton. Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center

LTC Newsletter

Fall 2007