Browsing by Subject "community"
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(2014-06-04)African American women in Appalachia have lived, survived and long been overlooked by dominant narratives that support stereotypical depictions of the Appalachian region and its inhabitants. A little over twenty years ago, ...
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(2010-07-14)Although there has been a large focus on dark tourism in recent times, there is still limited information on the motivation of consumption and the type of experience that is derived from the visit to a dark tourism site. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This thesis will examine the individual and the community. The question will be, what effect does the community have on the individual, and whether or not this limits individuals’ development and personal freedom. I will ...
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(2009-05-15)Digital animators will save vast amounts of project time by starting with a completed skeleton and some base animations. This result can be accomplished with Web 2.0 technologies by creating a repository of skeletons and ...
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(2015-10-08)Integrating communities into conservation management has become a priority for national and international organizations concerned with natural resource management. Traditional conservation policies aimed to exclude local ...
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Community Planning in Urban Gardens: Integrating Children as Participants in the Local Food System It is well established that urban gardens, when properly managed, positively impact food security, youth development, and social inclusion. However, few researchers focus on how they impact childhood food security specifically, ...
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(2012-07-16)The past few years have seen the rapid rise of all things "social" on the web from the growth of online social networks like Facebook, to user-contributed content sites like Flickr and YouTube, to social bookmarking ...
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(2012-10-29)Landscape fragmentation poses a major threat to biodiversity world-wide. The goal of my dissertation research was to determine the effects of landscape fragmentation on a lizard community in the Mescalero-Monahans shinnery ...
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(2009-05-15)The purpose of this study was to identify important educational goals and valid and feasible outcome measures that could be used in the design and development of campus based service-learning programs. The study was designed ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This study examines women's use of leisure as politics, especially as related to leisure as resistance, leisure and social worlds, and women's body image. Interviews were conducted with fifteen participants and coaches in ...
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Traditional renditions of the idea of community have faced many new critiques in the face of our increasingly globalized world that has come to be organized into national communities, or nation-states. Following a ...
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Pelagic Sargassum and Its Associated Mobile Fauna in the Caribbean, Gulf Of Mexico, and Sargasso Sea (2016-05-06)There are many species of the genus Sargassum distributed in tropical and subtropical waters but only two, S. natans and S. fluitans, have an entirely pelagic life cycle and offer ecologically-supportive structures of ...
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(2012-07-16)Through a combination of personal interviews and participant-observation in three field sites ? the Tim Miller workshop and performance of October 2010 and the student organizations Cepheid Variable and the GLBT Aggies ? ...
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(2014-12-02)In a panoptic society like ours, prison arts programs can guide us in the task of revitalizing human values and building ethical communities. The quasi-ritual practice of theater, especially, has the potential to develop ...
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(2015-04-24)Music is a topic that is not often covered in leisure studies even though it frequently accompanies many of the activities we participate in. Music is central to human development, communication and meaning-making, and as ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Extension programs across the nation have been given the task of education and outreach to citizens of their respective states. Master Gardener programs have been seen as a way to provide horticultural education, while ...
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The Whole as the Part: An Analysis on the Arrangement of Permanent Supportive Housing Neighborhoods There is evidence of a lack of architectural design in the arrangement of permanent supportive housing (PSH) neighborhoods. Many promote or even require community engagement and interaction, which makes the configuration ...
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(2017-07-21)Since initial research on online chatrooms, communities, and fandoms were conducted, the study of online community has burgeoned. Still, the literature that explores racial identity as a distinguishing factor in how ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)This thesis places three sociological figures in discourse with one another: Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim and Friedrich Nietzsche. I argue, within the contexts of the three theorists’ philosophies, that contemporary ...