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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2006-03-24)
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(2010-04-16)Department: SpanishSPANISH WRITING AND REBELLION IN PLÁCIDO’S POETRY JACKIE VERNON WILLEY Thesis under the direction of Professor William Luis Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés – popularly known as Plácido – is considered one of the most ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-05-07)Children learn to tell stories at home and in their communities. Culture influences narrative form and stories are often used as a “culture-preserving instrument” (Sapir, 1949). Thus, the stories they write as they enter ...
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(2022-05-17)Department: Spanish & PortugueseThis dissertation is the most comprehensive survey of slavery in Afro-Latin American literary narrative to date. Of the approximately 12.5 million Africans trafficked in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, an estimated 7 million ...
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(2020-11-14)Department: GermanInspired by Hermano Vianna's 1996 book, O Mistério do Samba, that details the intersection of music, culture and politics, as well as the appropriation and nationalization of Samba in service to Getulio Vargas' government, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-04-07)Writing instruction in pre-kindergarten classrooms meets the need to address students' emerging literacy skills and understandings as well as addresses young children's natural curiosity about the written word. Current ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: SpanishThis dissertation questions the viability of nation-building in nineteenth-century Mexico through an analysis of travel writing, the circulation of documents, and the representation of subjects in transit. I study a wide ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(2020-03-18)Department: English“[O]ur eyes locked,” reflects Chester Himes’s black protagonist Bob Jones about his mutual gaze with the “peroxide blonde,” “then she deliberately put on a frightened, wide-eyed look . . . as if she was a naked virgin and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)This thesis approaches Infinite Jest's revision of Postmodernism and various features of millennial America, including drugs and rehabilitation, as a scriptural undertaking, best understood through the lens of the Qur'an. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-22)Examination of the constitutions of gender and sexuality in three texts centered on vampires.
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)This capstone examines the possibilities of writing instruction to support the reading development of young children in late preschool through early first grade who are just beginning to understand the alphabetic principle. ...
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(2014-06-18)Department: Special EducationIn this study, 69 grade 4 students were randomly assigned to a writing to learn (n = 23), comparison (n = 23), or control (n = 23) condition. In treatment and comparison, students made predictions and recorded results for ...
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(Pepperdine Law Review, 2011)This essay was written for “Supreme Mistakes: Exploring the Most Maligned Decisions in Supreme Court History.” A symposium on the worst Supreme Court decision of all time risks becoming an exercise best described by Claude ...
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WRVU (Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-14)
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(University of California Presshttp://www.ucpress.edu/, 1962)
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(2017-12-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringTotal ionizing dose effects are investigated on a physically unclonable function (PUF) based on CMOS breakdown. Devices irradiated to 2.0 Mrad(SiO2) show less than 11% change in current ratio at 1.2 V. The read-out window ...