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“I know what I am and what I am not”: heterosexual male cross-dressing in postwar America, 1960-1990 (2018-08-23)This thesis uncovers and historicizes an overlooked aspect of America’s transgender history. The heterosexual male cross-dressers, or transvestites, of mid-century America constituted a group of individuals that espoused ...
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(2011-07-20)Social networking sites are the contemporary agora: where individuals share their lives, understand the world, exchange cultural artefacts and tend to relationships. Yet, these sites are paradoxically lauded for their ...
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(2017-08-31)This thesis examines the symbiotic relationship between the meanings of tattoos and social norms through a comparative analysis of three distinct periods in twentieth-century American history. I use extensive archival ...
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(2015-06-22)The orthogonal, or rectangular, grid plan arose out of a need to organize the sprawling cities of Ancient Greece. To one particularly enigmatic figure in history, this problem was met with a blueprint and a philosophy. The ...
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(2018-08-17)Illustrations accompanying medieval literary works have often been disparaged as “crude” or judged as inaccurate “translations” of the text. These determinations, based on modern expectations of what constitutes good “art,” ...
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(Scholarly and Research Communication, 2015-10-23)“Social knowledge creation,” an emergent area of research interest for digital humanists, promotes experimental critical interventions into more traditional knowledge production processes. The Electronic Textual Cultures ...
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(Scholarly and Research Communication, 2012-03-26)In this 2009 article, we present details of the first year work of the INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, ...
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(Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada (NRSC), 2015)Le présent article est une réflexion sur le concept d’improvisation dans l’espace virtuel. A partir d’une étude de cas basée sur des utilisations variées de microblogues dans un cours de langue universitaire de niveau ...
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(2012-01-03)As the Catholic revival that followed the Wars of Religion in France brought about the proliferation of new monasteries and religious orders, spiritual biographies of the founders and leaders of these houses were composed ...
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(2014-09-02)Previous studies have shown that learners' individual differences have dissimilar impacts on their improvement in accuracy in the target language (DeKeyser, 1993; Mackey, Adams, Stafford, & Winke, 2010; Mackey & Sachs, ...
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(2012-12-21)This thesis argues for a more expansive historiography rooted in Indigenous peoples’ oral, social and land-based modes of sharing knowledge. Such an approach may help to decolonize the practices and narratives of history ...
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(2009-09-02)The vitality of most Indigenous languages in North America, like minority languages in many parts of the world, is at risk due to the pressures of majority (in most cases colonial) languages and cultures. The transmission ...
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(2017-05-10)This study examines how the systems of production of the commodity exporting industries of pre-1885 British Columbia contributed to the social formation of the region. Such industries provided the economic base for ...
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The information front: the Canadian Army, public relations, and war news during the Second World War (2009-03-02)War news and public relations (PR) was a critical consideration for the Canadian Army during the Second World War. The Canadian Army developed its PR apparatus from nothing to an efficient publicity machine by war’s end, ...
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(2014-09-03)From 1908 to 1955, readers of conservative Protestant journals (Moody publications and The Sunday School Times) and more mainline journals (Zion’s Herald and Christian Herald), both asked questions about God’s role in ...
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(2012-07-12)This thesis is an examination of the role of artistic intentions in the interpretation of art. Chapter 1 is a survey of the recent theories of interpretation that attempts to establish the shortcomings of anti-intentionalism ...
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(2008-12-19)Interactional feedback has received a lot of attention recently in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). In particular, the literature on the effects of recasts (correct reformulation of a learner’s utterance) ...
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(2017-09-19)My doctoral dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of music and literature and stems from my M.A. thesis (U.N.B., 1992) which examined musical form and dramatic theme in three of Shakespeare's comedies. As the survey ...
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(2013-08-23)In metaethics, moral irrealists argue that moral facts are neither ontologically real nor mind-independent. In moral semantics, irrealists who are descriptivist error theorists argue that typical moral claims attempt to ...
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(2011-05-30)This thesis seeks to explain some of the factors influencing British colonial officials in mandate Palestine, in particular, British colonial officials‟ response to the 1929 Arab Revolt. The various groups in Palestine at ...
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