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Sargent, Carey, Rachel Thompson, and Wendy Hsu. "Performance Art at the (Virginia) Margins: Anthony Restivo's Far Off and All Aflame." TDR/The Drama Review 56, no. 2 (June 2012): 178–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00173.
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In a small college town in western Virginia, writer Anthony Restivo searches for unmediated honesty through his very public endurance art. In the midst of media attention, misinformation, and his physical struggle to complete a 22-day piece, Restivo creates fleeting moments of intimacy in the town's first known work of performance art.
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Laycock, Joe. "Mothman." Fieldwork in Religion 3, no. 1 (July 19, 2009): 70–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.v3i1.70.
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From 1966 to 1967, a small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia was abuzz with sightings of a creature known as “the Mothman.” At the crescendo of these sightings, the town suffered a bridge collapse killing 46. Today, Mothman has become a patron of Point Pleasant and is honored with a statue, a museum and research center, and an annual festival. This paper analyzes the religious dimensions of the relationship between the sightings and the disaster. It is argued the Mothman legend has served an important role in the community's recovery from the disaster. In turn, the disaster had a key role in transforming Mothman from a creature of terror into a source of community and shared identity.
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Bodenhorn, Howard. "Private Banking in Antebellum Virginia: Thomas Branch & Sons of Petersburg." Business History Review 71, no. 4 (1997): 513–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3116305.
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This article investigates the role of the private banking house of Thomas Branch & Sons of Petersburg, Virginia, in promoting entrepreneurship and economic development in the early United States. It argues that while Branch adopted many of the methods and practices of antebellum commercial banks in that he accepted and created deposits and followed a real-bills philosophy in his lending, he also differed from them by extending his services to a particular market niche. Many of his borrowers were young entrepreneurs who were just embarking upon their own commercial ventures. In addition, many of his customers had accumulated only limited wealth. If Branch's actions, then, can be considered indicative of those of private bankers more generally, this article reveals the importance of small town private bankers in supplying monetary and intermediary services to local communities, and moreover, helps clarify their place in the history of antebellum banking.
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Bohland, Jon D. "Look Away, Look Away, Look Away to Lexington: Struggles over Neo-Confederate Nationalism, Memory, and Masculinity in a Small Virginia Town." Southeastern Geographer 53, no. 3 (2013): 267–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2013.0026.
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Ge, Y., H. T. Nguyen, T. A. Arcury, A. J. Johnson, W. Hwang, H. D. Gage, T. Reynolds, J. J. Carr, and J. C. Sandberg. "Insight into the Sharing of Medical Images." Applied Clinical Informatics 03, no. 04 (2012): 475–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/aci-2012-06-ra-0022.
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SummaryBackground: Scant knowledge exists describing health care providers’ and staffs’ experiences sharing imaging studies. Additional research is needed to determine the extent to which imaging studies are shared in diverse health care settings, and the extent to which provider or practice characteristics are associated with barriers to viewing external imaging studies on portable media.Objective: This analysis uses qualitative data to 1) examine how providers and their staff accessed outside medical imaging studies, 2) examine whether use or the desire to use imaging studies conducted at outside facilities varied by provider specialty or location (urban, suburban, and small town) and 3) delineate difficulties experienced by providers or staff as they attempted to view and use imaging studies available on portable media.Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 85 health care providers and medical facility staff from urban, suburban, and small town medical practices in North Carolina and Virginia. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, then systematically analyzed using ATLAS.ti.Results: Physicians at family and pediatric medicine practices rely primarily on written reports for medical studies other than X-rays; and thus do not report difficulties accessing outside imaging studies. Subspecialists in urban, suburban, and small towns view imaging studies through internal communication systems, internet portals, or portable media. Many subspecialists and their staff report experiencing difficulty and time delays in accessing and using imaging studies on portable media.Conclusion: Subspecialists have distinct needs for viewing imaging studies that are not shared by typical primary care providers. As development and implementation of technical strategies to share medical records continue, this variation in need and use should be noted. The sharing and viewing of medical imaging studies on portable media is often inefficient and fails to meet the needs of many subspeciality physicians, and can lead to repeated imaging studies.Citation: Sandberg JC, Ge Y, Nguyen HT, Arcury TA, Johnson AJ, Hwang W, Gage HD, Reynolds T, Carr JJ. Insight into the sharing of medical images. Physician, other health care providers, and staff experience in a variety of medical settings. Appl Clin Inf 2012; 3: 475–487http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2012-06-RA-0022
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Ward, Cynthia W. "Teens’ Knowledge of Risk Factors for Sports Injuries." Journal of School Nursing 20, no. 4 (August 2004): 216–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10598405040200040601.
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Youth participation in sports has increased greatly over the past 20 years. Consequently, there has been a rise in the number of sports injuries. A study was conducted to determine teen’s level of physical activity, knowledge about risk factors for sports injuries, use of protective equipment, and parental involvement. Two groups of teens, one of which was required to take a physical education class, were given a self-administered, written survey. The study found that the teens in this small Virginia town have a high level of involvement in sports and other physical activity and good general knowledge of sports injury prevention. Improvement is needed in the use of protective equipment when participating in informal sports activities and in the provision of sports injury prevention education to parents. As advocates for student health, school nurses are in a unique position to educate students, parents, staff, and the community about prevention of sports-related injuries.
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Rovniak, Liza S., Melbourne F. Hovell, Janet R. Wojcik, Richard A. Winett, and Ana P. Martinez-Donate. "Enhancing Theoretical Fidelity: An E-mail—Based Walking Program Demonstration." American Journal of Health Promotion 20, no. 2 (November 2005): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/0890-1171-20.2.85.
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Purpose. To examine the extent to which theoretical fidelity, or precision in replicating theory-based recommendations, influenced the effectiveness of two walking programs based on social cognitive theory (SCT). Design. Two-group randomized controlled trial. Setting. College town in Virginia. Subjects. Sixty-one sedentary adult women. Intervention. Two 12-week e-mail–based walking programs were compared. The high fidelity program was designed to more precisely follow SCT recommendations for operationalizing mastery procedures than the low fidelity program, which was designed to simulate how mastery procedures were operationalized in most existing SCT-based physical activity programs. Treatment contact and walking prescription were controlled across groups. Measures. The 1-mile walk test of physical fitness and SCT measures were completed at baseline and posttest. Self-reported walking quantity was assessed at baseline, posttest, and 1-year follow-up. Walking logs were completed during the program. Process evaluation measures were completed at posttest. Results. Fifty women completed the study. The high fidelity group improved more than twice as much as the low fidelity group on 1-mile walk test time (86 vs. 32 seconds, p < .05), goal setting (p < .05), and positive outcome expectations (p < .05) and reported greater program satisfaction (p < .01). Conclusion. Theoretical fidelity could advance the quality of physical activity interventions, which have often shown small effects.
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Sullivan, Kristin. "CARVING CHINCOTEAGUE." Practicing Anthropology 34, no. 3 (June 29, 2012): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.34.3.bx072t72mr3r854t.
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The first time I went to Chincoteague Island, Virginia, was during their peak tourist season. Vacationers buzzed around on motor scooters and bicycles, and the streets were lined with beach shops selling T-shirts, saltwater taffy, beach towels featuring horses and dolphins, and other usual beach town fare and souvenirs. One shop stuck out at me, however, and I had to check it out. I stopped at a garage attached to a small home with the word Decoys written on the outside, and a couple of crab pots and a neon Open sign by the garage door. Inside I found shelves with wooden birds, and a man came out of the house and explained that he was the homeowner and the birds' carver. I looked around a while and commented that I especially liked one bird; it was rough wood, gestural, or interpretive. Something about it spoke to me about nature; there was a ruggedness to it that appealed to me, the suburbanite. I was quickly chastised for my lack of knowledge, however, and it was explained to me that the bird wasn't finished. I asked what he still had to do to it. The shop owner showed me pictures of his family, from whom he learned to carve, and told me about decoys being used in hunting practices on and around the island. The birds, even if they weren't to be used for hunting now, needed to look somewhat like they were, painted with distinctive markings, glass eyes set in, and so forth. There was a very different aesthetic at play here than I anticipated, and there was emotion tied to what the bird was supposed to be, which, I quickly learned, was not my idea of rugged nature. Clearly I was missing something, and I was intrigued.
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Carnevali, Vincenzo, Benjamín Nogueda-Torres, María E. Villagrán-Herrera, José A. De Diego-Cabrera, Gonzalo Rocha-Chávez, and José A. Martínez-Ibarra. "Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi and organ alterations in Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana) from western Mexico – short communication." Acta Veterinaria Hungarica 65, no. 4 (December 2017): 505–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/004.2017.048.
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Small populations of Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in western Mexico are endangered by hunting and natural predators as well as by different kinds of diseases. After two serological analyses using Serodia® latex particle agglutination and indirect haemagglutination (IHA) tests, 35 (53.03%) of 66 collected opossums in two small towns in western Mexico were positive for the presence of Trypanosoma cruzi. Twenty-eight of the 35 seropositive opossums had pathological lesions: 11 had changes in only one organ, 13 in two organs, and four had pathological changes in three organs. Splenomegaly was the most common finding in the examined opossums, followed by hepatomegaly. These potentially fatal pathological changes could contribute to the scarcity of the opossum population, even leading to the extinction of this species in western Mexico.
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McAvoy, Thomas J., Loke-Tuck Kok, and Warren T. Mays. "DISPERSAL OF TRICHOSIROCALUS HORRIDUS (PANZER) (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE) IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA." Journal of Entomological Science 22, no. 4 (October 1, 1987): 324–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.18474/0749-8004-22.4.324.
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Following the establishment of Trichosirocalus horridus (Panzer) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a rosette feeding weevil which was initially released in Southwest Virginia from 1974 to 1977 for the biocontrol of thistle, a study of its dispersal was conducted from 1981 to 1985. Trichosirocalus horridus covered an area of 609 km2 by 1981 and extended its range to 4,345 km2 by 1985. Thirty to 50% of the area was forested and did not support thistles. The remainder of the land consists of small farms with crops, pasture, and small towns, with adequate hosts in most areas. Four thistle species were found infested by T. horridus: Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Tenore (39% of the total plants found), C. discolor (Muhl.) Spreng. (32%), Carduus thoermeri Weinmann (23%), and C. acanthoides L. (6%). Of the thistles examined, 54% of C. thoermeri, 20% of C. acanthoides, 20% of C. vulgare and 6% of C. discolor were infested with T. horridus.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Small virginia town"
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Blankenship, Amy Renee. "Small town urban revitalization : the effect of Pullman Square on Downtown Huntington West Virginia /." [Huntington, WV : Marshall University Libraries], 2008. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=883.
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Allen, April Diane. "The Social Importance of a Small-town Theater: A Case Study of the Pulaski Theatre, Pulaski, Virginia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11164.
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The purpose of this study was to discover the various meanings that the Pulaski Theatre held for the residents of Pulaski and the theatreâ s social importance to the town. The following research objectives directed this study: 1) to document the theatreâ s history from the time it was built in 1911 until the present day, 2) to uncover memories or feelings associated with the theatre, and 3) to determine if design features of the theatre building influenced those feelings/memories. In documenting the history of the theatre, design features of the original 1911 building were examined as well as changes over time. To determine if design features of the building influenced the feelings/memories that were associated with the structure it was important first to discover which architectural and design features people remembered, if any, and then to determine if these design features reflected a meaningful association, i.e. sense of place to participants. Also of interest was whether this association or sense of place would be similar or different for all.
Participants were fifteen males and females aged 43 to 82 who had attended the theatre over time. All participants grew up in Pulaski and six had lived there their entire lives. Both African Americans and Caucasians participated.
Subjects were asked to draw a picture of the theatre that expressed their experience of the space. After the drawing, they were asked to discuss the picture and its meaning to them. Clare Cooper Marcus and others used this environmental autobiography technique as a method to bring a personâ s experiences of a place to a conscious level. Tape-recorded interviews were conducted and transcribed by the researcher to discover memories of the theatre and the meaning of the theatre to the participants.
Data were analyzed by coding to look for emerging themes or categories that relate to the research question. Of interest was whether or not the Pulaski Theatre represented a sense of place to residents and if that sense of place varied for different participants.
Document research was conducted through old newspapers and artifacts in the Raymond Ratcliffe Museum (the historic museum in Pulaski), documents from scrapbooks, architectural plans, and the files of the Town of Pulaski.
Themes that were identified from the research were (1) the structure was an integral part of the community, (2) the theatre was a reflection of the communityâ s social norms and roles, such as segregation, and (3) the theatre interior contributed to the social atmosphere of the space.
The theatre building, while transformed over time, retained a presence in the town and memories associated with it across time were significant in creating a sense of place in the community. The theatre was remembered as a setting that brought excitement and stimulation to children and adults for many years. Participants felt â at homeâ in the theatre, having favored sections of the theatre where they routinely sat. School children attending the weekly matinees in the summer and African Americans sitting in their special section of the balcony developed a special identity with that particular space within the theatre. Even after segregation, many African Americans continued to sit in the balcony where they had sat for many years and felt at home. The unique characteristics of these spaces were dependent on the people that frequented them rather than the architecture of the building. The sense of place was one of personal relationships and emotional attachments rather than of bricks and mortar. Memories of the theatre were stories of groups or individuals and their interactions in the space. The building represented these individuals and what they brought to this place and time. The Pulaski Theatre played a great role in interactions with friends and neighbors and was significant in reflecting a sense of place in this community.Ph. D.
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Snyder, Cary M. "Return to a Small Town: Sherwood Anderson as a Country Newspaper Editor, 1927-28." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1201747930.
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Martin, Tamra Artelia. "Finding Sundays: A Collection of Stories." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5423.
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Finding Sundays: A Collection of Stories is a collection that explores the lives of people in the fictional town of Hickory Springs, Virginia. The title story “Finding Sundays” follows the life of Deacon Taylor and connects him to the characters around him in the proceeding pieces. These stories explore the lives of Deacon, his family, and his childhood friend, Sandra. The focus of this collection is not meant to be about spirituality or religion in general, although these exist as themes in the background of the stories. Instead, it is meant to look at how the lives of people connected through a church and a small town setting can affect them and lead them on different paths through the choices they make. Their personal struggles and challenges help them to either discover who they are or lose a piece of themselves in the process, which is especially true for Deacon. He is the character who appears as a child, as an adolescent, and as an adult. Self-discovery is not always peaceful or satisfying for him or any of the characters around him, and their individual journeys show this process and the different events that come from the choices they make. This collection focuses on how religious roots, friendships, and familial connections, or the lack of such bonds, affect the characters' own personal views and decisions as well as how they relate to those around them.ID: 031001361; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: Darlin' Neal.; Includes book list (p. 172-176).; Title from PDF title page (viewed May 3, 2013).; Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.
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English, Jesse M. "A rationale for revitalization planning in small rural towns: a case study." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94506.
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Central Business Area Revitalization Planning theory and practice has evolved from a concern with physical revitalization to an emphasis on a comprehensive approach which includes areas such as housing and recreation, which had not in most past cases been viewed as relevant to the undertaking. The current thinking views all aspects of town planning as inter-related and approaches the task in a holistic manner. The methodologies utilized in Planning for Central Business Area Revitalization have evolved as well. Detached consultant planning, which included little or no public involvement and which produced inflexible plans which outlined the way to revitalization, has evolved to a flexible, dynamic approach, which involves those responsible for implementation at all stages of planning; thereby, reflecting their beliefs, attitudes and values and having high probability of implementation. Successful efforts to revitalize the central business areas of rural towns require an informed leader who will function as an educator, and a planning and design process which leads to implementation through its participant centered, incremental, multiple objective approach.M.L. Arch.
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Cox, Anna Louise. "Preserving Historic Identity in the United States: Theoretical and Practical Lessons for Maintaining Historic Character in Small Virginia Towns." Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37091.
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This paper explores the preservation and presentation of small town historic identity. The current discussions and dialogue of scholars, theorists and critics of preservation efforts uncover preservation's presence and effect on today and tomorrow's world.
Contemporary development patterns have led to an increasing amount of cities and towns across the United States to adopt preservation policies to maintain their historical identity and character. The preservation movement's acceptance and its increase in scope have also facilitated the integration of its values in planning policies. The successful history of the preservation movement in America is reviewed, along with its present-day use as a cultural and economic revitalization tool. Government and non-profit agencies at the national and state level have facilitated the widespread use of preservation policies with small towns in Virginia.
Preservation policy objectives may include: heritage tourism, community revitalization, preservation and heritage education, economic development, and affordable housing. A diverse set of motivations is found in the psychological benefits of maintaining history. Preserving historic structures may contribute to one's sense of place, nostalgia, collective memory and historical identity.
The preservation of old buildings and environments is used to serve a variety of town agendas. These motives, other than historical, are the focus of the critical literature on preservation efforts. Power, representation, consumerism, and authenticy are common criticisms of historic preservation practice that threaten the historic integrity of the town. These issues form a framework to analyze local preservation practice of small Virginia towns and provide towns with a means to evaluate their preservation policies or programs. This paper provides small towns with information to maintain their historic identity without threatening future vitality and authenticity of the built environment.Master of Urban and Regional Planning
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Morrill, Matthew. "The development of Merchants Square : colonial imagery and the consequences of redevelopment in Williamsburg, Virginia and other small towns, 1910-1955 /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10288/1166.
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Anderson, Joanne M. Small-town restaurants in Virginia. Winston-Salem, N.C: J.F. Blair, 1998.
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Engle, Roger. Stories from a small town: Remembering my childhood in Hedgesville, West Virginia. Martinsburg, WV: Girls on Press, 2012.
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Kirsten, Sparenborg, ed. Lost communities of Virginia. Earlysville, Va: Albemarle Books, 2011.
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Woods, Sherryl. Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia. Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 2017.
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Homecoming Journals: Dreaming Big in a small town, Blacksburg, Virginia. Mountain Trail Press, 2007.
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A Piece of the Moon: A Heartwarming Novel about Small Town Life Set in West Virginia in the 1980s. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2021.
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Burnham, Mary, and Bill Burnham. Rediscovering America: Exploring the Small Towns of Virginia & Maryland. Hunter Publishing (NJ), 2003.
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"Don Johnson." In Writing Appalachia, edited by Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd, 311–14. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0046.
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Poet Don Johnson was born and reared in Poca, West Virginia, a small town near a coal-fired energy plant. He earned a BA (1964) and MA (1966) from the University of Hawaii, where he played football, and a PhD (1972) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Johnson served as editor of ...
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Baer, Ulrich. "From Skokie to Charlottesville." In What Snowflakes Get Right, 54–71. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190054199.003.0002.
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This chapter argues that the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, in summer 2017, present a watershed moment when the general public realized that free speech can become weaponized to undercut discourse and destroy the social order. At a widely publicized event in 1977, a small group of neo-Nazis won the right, in a court decision, to march in a small town in Illinois. That legal decision set the cultural and legal precedent for the mainstream attitude toward hate speech for several decades. Critically, that legal decision was matched by public condemnations of anti-Semitism and racism by political figures all the way up to the US president. When a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville in the summer of 2017 and murdered or come to demonstrate a, the US president failed to unequivocally condemn these events. The chapter examines the assumption that tolerating hate speech does not mean condoning it in light of these two events.
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Brown, Jeannette E. "Chemists Who Are Leaders in Academia or Organizations." In African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615178.003.0008.
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Amanda Bryant-Friedrich (Fig. 4.1) is Dean of the College of Graduate Studies at the University of Toledo (Toledo). Amanda was born in Enfield, NC, a small town about fifteen miles from the North Carolina-Virginia border. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a housewife. Her father only had a sixth-grade education and did not read or write much. Her mother graduated from high school in Enfield. Her maternal grandfather was a child of a slave and her mother was one of twenty-two children from two wives. They lived on a farm owned by a man named Whitaker. As her mother’s family had been enslaved by the family that owned the farm, her last name was Whitaker. Amanda’s paternal grandfather was a businessman who owned his own farm, on the other side of town. He was also involved in the illegal production of moonshine. Amanda went to Unburden Elementary School in Enfield. Her first experience with school was dramatic, because she lived at the end of a dirt road and was really isolated from other families. The first day she went to kindergarten she saw all those little kids, and she was afraid because there were too many people there. But the daughter of her mother’s best friend was there and invited her to come in to the classroom. Her first science class was in general science in fourth or fifth grade. She was so fascinated, she changed her mind about her future career of secretary or teacher and decided on science. Amanda went to Enfield Middle school in Halifax County, then the second poorest county in the state. The school had only basic infrastructure for science classes. She remembers her middle school chemistry teacher, Ms. Crowley, who told the students to put a mercury thermometer in a cork and Amanda accidently stuck it in her hand. They did not have much in the school, but her teacher taught her what she could.
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Host, Jim, and Eric A. Moyen. "Growing Roots." In Changing the Game, 1–13. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813179551.003.0001.
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The chapter describes Jim Host’s early childhood through his high school years. He was born in Kane, Pennsylvania, on November 23, 1937, to Wilford and Beatrice Host. His early childhood included moves to small mountain towns in New York, Virginia, and West Virginia before his family settled in Ashland, Kentucky, when Jim was in junior high school. Host developed a deep love of baseball and became a successful pitcher for Ashland High School’s baseball team. After graduating from high school in 1955, he turned down a $25,000 signing bonus with the Detroit Tigers, opting instead to accept one of the first two baseball scholarships ever offered by the University of Kentucky.
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"Pauletta Hansel." In Writing Appalachia, edited by Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd, 497–98. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0072.
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Poet and teacher Pauletta Hansel was born in Richmond, Kentucky, and grew up in several small towns in eastern Kentucky. Hansel began writing poems while still in junior high and was soon published in Appalachian literary journals including Mountain Review and Twigs. These publications brought her to the attention of the newly formed Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC) and, through that group, to the Southern Appalachian Circuit of Antioch College in Beckley, West Virginia, which recruited her as a student when she was sixteen....
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Pavićević, Aleksandra. "Travelling through the Battle Fields. The Cult of the Bogorodica in Serbian Tradition and Contemporary Times." In Traces of the Virgin Mary in Post-Communist Europe. Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, VEDA, Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/2019.9788022417822.234-249.
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The chapter deals with the role of the Virgin Mary in the nation- state building process in Serbia. The beginning of the process of religious revival in Serbia coincided with the beginning of the social, economic and political crisis in the former Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, which took place at the beginning of the 1990s. There was an urgent need to find new collective identity, since the earlier had been reduced to rubble. At the individual level, this process primarily implied increased participation in rites within the life cycle of an individual (baptism, wedding, and funeral), followed by popularisation of the practice of celebrating family's patron saint days and, only in the end and on the smallest scale, by an increase in the number of believers taking an active part in regular church services. On the collective level, the traditional closeness of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serb people and the state was the basic paradigm of such restructuring. The attempt to establish continuity with the tradition of the medieval Serb state, which implied active participation of the Church in both social and political matters, as well as the grafting of this relationship in the secular state and civil society in Serbia at the end of the second millennium, turned out to be a multi-tiered issue (Jevtić 1997). At mass celebrations, as well as at revolutionary street protest rallies (which were plentiful in the capital during the last dozen years or so) and at celebrations of the town's patron saint days and various festivities, the image of the ‘Bogorodica’ [Gr. ‘Theotokos’, i.e. The Mother of God]; appears. Leading the processional walks of the towns, it emerges as a symbol which manages to mobilise the nation with its fullness and multi-layered meaning. The main thesis of the chapter is to explain the historical roots of her cult and her embeddedness in the national history and identity in Serbia. The cult of the ‘Bogorodica’ has always had greater importance on the macro than on the micro level. This is corroborated by the fact that a relatively small number of families celebrated some of the ‘Bogorodica’ holidays as their Patron St Day, while a large number of monasteries and churches, as well as village Patron St Days were dedicated to one of them (Grujić 1985: 436). On the other hand, some authors believe that, with the acceptance of Christianity, it was the cult of the ‘Bogorodica’ which was the most developed among the Serb population, because her main and most widely recognisable epithet Baba, connected to giving birth, was directly associated with the powerful female pagan divinities such as the Great Mother, Grandmother etc. (Petrović 2001: 55; Čajkanović 1994a: 339). In the folk perception, the ‘Presveta Bogorodica’ [The Most Holy Mother of God] is unambiguously connected to the phenomenon and process of birth-giving and, that is why, barren women most frequently addressed the ‘Bogorodica’ for assistance. The observance of the image of the ‘Bogorodica’ was specifically connected with the so-called miracle icons, that is, her paintings linked to some miraculous event, either locally or generally. This was most frequently related to the icons which were famous for discharging myrrh, as well as icons which would ‘cry’ in certain situations, as well as those that changed the place of residence in a miraculous manner. The use of icons in wars, either those of conquest or defensive, appears to be a widely spread practice in the Orthodox world. It was noted that Serb noblemen carried standards with images of various saints to wars, and that the cities were frequently placed under the protection of certain icons. The author shows how, travelling through towns and battlefields, throughout the decades and centuries, the ‘Bogorodica’ appeared through its holy image at the end of the second millennium as the protectress, advocate, Pointer of the Way and foster mother of those who were, possibly more than ever, in need of miracles and waymarks.
Conference papers on the topic "Small virginia town"
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Pancorbo, Luis, Alex Wall, and Iñaki Alday. "Architecture as a System: Urban Catalysts for Lynchburg, Virginia." In 2016 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2016.25.
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This paper proposes a critical analysis of “ARCH 2010 Introduction to Urban Architecture” at the School of architecture of the University of Virginia. The studiois part of an overall strategy that tries to subvert the traditional method of teaching in architectural design. In a conventional linear process, students start withthe design of a small-scale architectural object and continue to design buildings in progressively larger scales. Provided with a strong urban context, the 2010 Studio follows a sinusoidal transition of scale, moving from small to large and back again. The ultimate goal of the studio is to put forward/produce an urban architectural project by linking the architectural object with the urban landscape as catalysts for the change within the city. The architectural proposals should be a strategic and thoughtful response to previous research on existing urban systems, and should support the revitalization of public life in their immediate environment and in the whole city. The course was divided in four parts: Elements and infrastructures of the urban environment, developed at Charlottesville Down Town Mall, Urban systems and networks, strategic development plan for 9th street, and design of a mixed-use building and public space (The last 3 parts took place in Lynchburg, Virginia). To connect these four main “problems” there were “transitional exercises” inserted in between them. With the same critical attention, this paper will analyze the final results, the various stages of the course as well as the areas of overlap between different phases, specially designed to ensure the student’s awareness of the consistency of the complete process.