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Description:: In the 1910s, groups of middle-class women began organizing voluntary youth organizations to provide a blend of recreation, spirituality, patriotism, and character development for America ...
Copyright Date:: 2010
Contributors:: Foley, Jessica L (creator) Buhle, Mari (Director) Self, Robert (Reader) Meckel, Richard (Reader) Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Keywords:: Girlhood Childhood Activism Postwar Women Girls Children Education

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Description:: Contemporary political theorists have tended to ignore the question of parental authority in their exploration of the nature and origins of political authority. Nevertheless, seminal ...
Copyright Date:: 2012
Contributors:: Silverstein, Jed Daniel (creator) Estlund, David (Director) Larmore, Charles (Director) Brettschneider, Corey (Reader) Brown University. Philosophy (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Keywords:: Parental authority Political Authority Children Parents

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Description:: Paper 1: Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Major Depressive Disorder: The New England Family Study ABSTRACT Objective: Approximately 350 million people of all ages live with ...
Copyright Date:: 2017
Contributors:: Jiang, Tammy (creator) Buka, Stephen (Advisor) Loucks, Eric (Reader) Sullivan, Adam (Reader) Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Keywords:: Depression, Mental Suicidal behavior Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Children Learning ability Birth cohort

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Description:: This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with ...
Contributors:: Mulekwa, Charles (creator) Emigh, John (Director) Ybarra, Patricia (Reader) George, Olakunle (Reader) Bogues, Barrymore (Reader) Brown University. Theatre Studies (sponsor)
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Keywords:: Theatre National Theatre Stage State Song War Northern Uganda Luo Buganda Southern Uganda Colonial Era Colonialism Shakespearean Syncretism Fate Uhuru/Independence Postcolonial Ruler Agency Image Home Epistemic Coup Crisis Rebellion Resistance Fire Displacement Repression Mirth Citizen AK-47 Night Commuters Point of View Winds of Change European Western World African Diaspora Politics Culture. Performance Drama Playwriting Play Theater Legacy World politics Postcolonialism Ritual Time Bananas Exile Violence Peace Hope Children Revolutions Hegemony Jails Murder Political persecution Silence Child soldiers AK-47 rifle Globalization History Political science Culture

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Description:: Representative of the phenomenon of media convergence felt across the globe, the state of contemporary Japanese animation (or anime) is characterized by the proliferation, interrelation ...
Contributors:: Steinberg, Marc Aaron (creator) Doane, Mary Ann (director) Rosen, Philip (reader) Lamarre, Thomas (reader) Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Keywords:: Japanese anime consumer culture seriality Tetsuwan Atomu media mix media theory Character merchandising Convergence Communication Children Marketing

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Description:: Children in developing countries face a myriad of hardships including poverty, household economic shocks, and high disease burden. These adverse conditions curtail children’s human ...
Contributors:: Reda, Ayalu Aklilu (creator) Lindstrom, David (Advisor) Short, Susan (Reader) White, Michael (Reader) Jackson, Margot (Reader) Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
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Keywords:: Social policy Children's Health Developing countries Child health Development economics Adolescent Children Consumption (Economics) Education Multilevel models (Statistics) Adulthood Population Longitudinal studies Social surveys Health surveys Demography Economic policy Poverty Wealth Parent and child Income Households

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