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Narrative and Allusion in Friedrich Kuhlau's Introduction and Variations on Euryanthe for Flute and Piano, Op. 63
(2018-12-14)During his lifetime, Friedrich Kuhlau was a successful composer of opera and incidental music for the stage. Additionally, Kuhlau’s wealth of woodwind chamber music earned him the moniker “Beethoven of the Flute.” Kuhlau’s ... -
A Narrative Inquiry Into A Community School Leadership Experience
(2014-08-15)The focus of this study is on examining the role of an educational leader through the process of developing and implementing a community school. As the primary researcher, I sought to contribute to the body of community ... -
A Narrative Inquiry into an Army School Leadership Experience
(2016-05-13)The focus of this study is to reconstruct meaning through an interpretation of change on who I am and what I am becoming, navigating through a pervasive space that encompasses temporal, personal/social, and place creating ... -
Narrative technique in the fiction of Eudora Welty /
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Narratives of hospice volunteers: Perspectives on death and dying.
(2004)This study found that hospice volunteers' narratives function to make sense of death, warrant decisions for advanced preparation of their own death, illustrated an attempt to control their own death, transformed their ... -
NARROW OPEN TUBULAR LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY: SEPARATION OPTIMIZATION AND COLUMN IMPROVEMENT
(2020-05-08)The continuous progress of life sciences such as genome sequencing, proteomics and metabolomics has facilitated the development of effective tools to better analyze the large numbers of bio-samples with low quantities and ... -
NAT ADDERLEY (1931-2000) AND WORK SONG: AN ANALYSIS OF IMPROVISATIONAL STYLE AND EVOLUTION
(2008)Nat Adderley was a musical innovator and accomplished improviser of the hard bop jazz movement. His abilities as a jazz musician rivaled many of his musical contemporaries, even though nearly half of his career was spent ... -
Nation and Compilation in England, 1270-1500
(2016-05-13)Scholarship has frequently explored how people in medieval England engaged the concept of nation. Scholarship has also investigated the manners in which book production participated in and enacted cultural phenomena. ... -
National Board Certification and Student Achievement in Title I Schools
(2010)The state of Oklahoma and the federal government have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past decade in pursuit of expanding the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) as a means of ensuring ... -
National health insurance and the American Dream: Cultural influences and public opinion.
(1997)This study tests James Davison Hunter's cultural polarization thesis which suggests members within religious denominations are more influenced by "progressive" or "traditional" value frameworks rather than earlier ... -
National Identity in Higher Education: The Guardianship of a Kingdom
(2016-12-17)Changes in the structure of higher education in Saudi Arabia and through advanced scholarship programs abroad have resulted in an educational reformation within the country. Though the Saudi Monarchy desires to create a ... -
National stereotypes about Germans in American travel writings, 1815--1914.
(2000)In the early nineteenth century, Americans believed Germans were sluggish, phlegmatic, kind, and devoted to beer-drinking. By the end of the nineteenth century Americans perceived Germans as efficient, hard-working, ... -
National Symbols and Social Change: A Case Study of Poland
(2014-05-09)This study focuses on national symbols and the communicative role they play in social change as it manifests itself in social movements and revolutions. Symbols in social movements and revolutions play a crucial role in ... -
Native American and Anglo use of compliance-gaining strategies /
(1984)The findings uncover some important information which hopefully will stimulate researchers to investigate populations in other locales in the continental United States. -
The Native American estate :
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Native American Influence in the Piano Music of Louis W. Ballard
(2008)Louis Wayne Ballard (1931-2007) combined his experiences in Native American music with his knowledge of Western art music to form a unique compositional style. As a Quapaw/Cherokee Indian he worked to synthesize Western ... -
The Native American postmodern-mimetic novel.
(2000)This dissertation examines a new literary phenomenon---the Native American Postmodern---Mimetic novel. This genre is heralded by N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, and it is exemplified by his subsequent novel, The ... -
NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH EXPLORING AND EXPRESSING WHO THEY ARE THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING
(2020-05)This holistic single-case study aims to understand the impact of digital storytelling on the identity development of Native American youth. The question that guides the study asks, “How do Native American adolescents in a ... -
NATIVE STORIES: AMERICAN INDIAN REPRESENTATION AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN RHETORIC AND LITERATURE
(2018-05-11)ABSTRACT In this dissertation, American Indian Representation and Self-Representation in Rhetoric and Literature, I examine both positive and negative representations of American Indians in the genres of poetry, fiction, ... -
The natural history of the mosquitoes of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1961)