BASKETBALL
COLLEGE BASKETBALL SQUAD
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SQUAD
The B. A. C. basketball squad traveled far and wide this year and enjoyed
some marvelous experiences, but perhaps they did come out on the wrong
side of the score once too often,...
Martha and Gertrude Shoot
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Two of a Kind
The First Snow Help!
The Student Life and Campus Personalities of the Branch Agricultural Col-lege
have given color to the 1937-1938 school year. There are so many humor-ous
events perhaps many of...
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Acknowledgments
There are many wonderful people in my community who made this thesis possible. First,
I would like to thank my third-grade students and their parents from the 2010-2011 school year
who participated in this study. The trust and...
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of how Purcell-Gates (1995) provided reading intervention for Donny in exchange for
documentation and careful examination of literacy development through the social and cultural
perspectives of a family from the “white underclass, a minority...
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are working. The children speak Spanish to their parents, and both English and Spanish to each
other. While the interview is conducted in Spanish with the mom, she mentioned that she is
learning English from her children and likes to practice...
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English classes. Parents with low-literate children spoke only their native Spanish during the
home visit interview and never mentioned that they were learning English. All parents
interviewed for the home visits were either from Mexico or...
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followers to remain full members of the LDS Church because they continued to believe that it was the proper organization of God’s kingdom on earth created by Joseph Smith. Before his death in 1934, Lorin Woolley called and...
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for the beleaguered believers. The strongest threat to the Work came in 1953 when Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle ordered Arizona state officers to drive a convoy of police vehicles and buses into Short Creek in an attempt...
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’40’s and ‘50’s, which had broken their families apart for up to ten years. Understandably, the Centennial Park Action Committee (CPAC) tentatively began shedding light on their lifestyle that was considered strange,...
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purposes for practicing polygamy. Their work gave a holistic and broadly based understanding of what life was like for people in the two fundamentalist communities in which they worked.
Power Differentiation
To establish the...
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by the dominant faction. Surrounding this dominant society there are many peripheral groups that make up the remainder of general society. Members of these muted groups are distinguished from “mainstream” culture because...
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Chapter 3: Method
Ethnography
An ethnographic approach to research allows researchers to immerse themselves into a culture and collect naturalistic data. Naturalistic data consists of real-world observations rather than...
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acts, events, and styles, which are composed of specific symbols, symbolic form, norms, and their meanings” (Carbaugh, 2007; p 169).
Carbaugh’s (2007) five modes of inquiry: theoretical, descriptive, interpretive,...
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the findings of this study (Carbaugh, 2007). Although this study evaluates the Centennial Park community and communication through the lens of a critical theory, the results and conclusions of this study are only intended to...
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many younger polygamists dressed very conservatively, the clothes they wore were stylish and modern. An older woman in the community demonstrated the modesty standard as she pointed to her collar bone and stated, “You...
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their community and help their own children become well-rounded and “comprehensively literate” members of the community.
The people of Centennial Park recognized that the stigma associated with the polygamous lifestyle...
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treated like inferiors when they felt like they were living a higher standard. Because of this frustration at being misrepresented in the media, and in mainstream society, they decided that they needed to confront the...
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family’s income. These decisions are agreed upon by the husband and wives based on each person’s preference and the needs of the family.
“Home mothers” divide the responsibilities and further delegate duties to the...
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she saw the benefits of having multiple mothers in a family, she also explained that sometimes it was difficult to watch one of her biological children go to other mothers to get their needs met:
Sometimes that almost hurts...