melting pot of race‚ culture‚ and religion. Transculturations between countries were becoming more frequent throughout the world‚ while Normal citizens‚ travelers‚ explorers‚ and scholars of the Silk Road experienced it first hand. Scholars such as Pratt and Clifford theorized transculturation through documents of modern European imperialism‚ while the Silk Road historians theorized it through documents found along the Silk Road. Although modern imperialism differs substantially from the Silk Road
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Pratt says that rewarding a good behavior provides an enjoyment which is derived from the behavior and this enjoyment reinforces the sustainability of that behavior (67). Coopersmith also comes with a supportive claim that parents who used rewarding report that their application are effective than parents who used punishment (qtd. in Pratt 67). Finally‚ it can be concluded that fear-oriented techniques are less likely
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were made in exchange for land; the U.S. government would provide medical‚ educational‚ and essential needs to the tribes (BIA ix). Captain Richard Pratt convinced parents on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations in Dakota Territory to let the United States take boys and girls to Carlisle‚ Pennsylvania‚ over 1‚500 miles away (Indian Country Diaries). Pratt was convinced that only by removing children from the supposedly corrupting tribal environment and by schooling them among white people could they
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texts written by child or adolescent authors‚ such as Daisy Ashford ’s The Young Visiters (1919) or ANNE FRANK ’s Het Achterhuis (1947; The Diary of a Young Girl‚ 1952)‚ are exceptions to the rule. Many famous children ’s authors‚ such as Louisa May Alcott and LEWIS CARROLL‚ produced family magazines as children‚
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(Melrose‚ 2013; Pratt et al‚ 2001); seven were American (All‚ Huycke‚ & Fisher‚ 2003; Budd‚ 2012‚ Huffines et al‚ 2013; Kostovich et al‚ (2007); Manthey & Miller‚ 1994;Oermann & Gaberson‚ 2010; Picton‚ 2009) and the remainder from countries such as Brazil‚ the United Kingdom‚ and Australia. Of the resources‚ nine were descriptive (All‚ Huycke‚ & Fisher‚ 2003; Bunzan & Bunzan‚ 1993; Davies‚ 2013; Manthey & Miller‚ 1994; Melrose‚ 2013;; Oermann & Gaberson‚ 2010‚ Picton‚ 2007; Pratt et al‚ 2001; Zinn
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writing‚ dreaming of being a famous writer and making money to have her family live a better life. She looks like a boy‚ and reacts with impatience to the many limitations placed on women and girls. Her character is based in large part on Louisa May Alcott herself. Beth is thirteen‚ with a shy manner‚ a timid voice‚ and a peaceful expression which was seldom disturbed. She has a close relationship with Jo‚ despite their different personalities. She seemed to live in a happy world of her own‚ only
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1.Name at least 6 different types of bridge trusses: Pratt‚ Parker‚ K-Truss‚ Warren‚ Howe‚ Camelback http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/common-types-truss-bridges 2. Name and describe the 3 most common types of bridge truss types: Warren: The Warren Truss uses equilateral triangles to spread out the loads. The triangles reduce the forces to only compression and tension. Pratt: A Pratt truss includes vertical members and diagonals that slope down to the center. The inner diagonals are under
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Henry David Thoreau lived through a time of great change in America and in the world. Born in 1817 in Concord‚ Massachusetts‚ Thoreau grew up in an environment that inspired many famous American authors such Nathanial Hawthorne‚ Louisa May Alcott‚ and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau was ‘mentored’ under Emerson and started writing in the transcendentalist fashion. In the 1840s‚ Thoreau wrote poetry about nature and started to follow the transcendentalist movement. The transcendentalist movement was
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original pioneering gentrifiers tend to differ. Pratt (2008 : 1054) looks at the creative class in Hoxton‚ London. The pioneers who originally moved to Shoreditch and Hoxton were actually artists and creatives with a bohemian attitude rather than being consumers. Pratt (2008) continues to then imply Hoxtons success is down to the fact it produces culture. “Hoxton’s rise as a cultural powerhouse was in its phase as a producer rather than as a consumer” (Pratt‚ 2008:
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of view. “States” by Edward Said is a transcultural text. A contact zone is the space in which transculturation takes place. Mary Pratt defines “Transculturation is a process whereby members of subordinated or marginal groups select and invent from materials transmitted by a dominant metropolitan culture” (323). Palestinians are surrounded by dominant cultures. Pratt uses “transcultural” to describe the dominant groups or cultures because there are so many
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