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Kinship
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Lawrence A. Cunningham
Published: 21 October 2014
...This chapter examines the advantages and challenges of family businesses through the experiences of the following Berkshire companies: Nebraska Furniture Mart Inc., RC Willey Home Furnishings, Star Furniture Company, Helzberg Diamond Shops Inc., and Ben Bridge Jeweler Inc. Many families selling...
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A New Art for a New Art Form: Roxy and the Development of Motion Picture Exhibition (1908–1913)
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Ross Melnick
Published: 17 June 2014
...This chapter discusses Roxy's early life and career. Roxy was born on July 9, 1882 in Germany. His family emigrated to the United States in 1886 where they initially settled in the logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. In 1896 the family moved to the growing Jewish hub in Brooklyn. From May 1902...
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Jim Crow Era (1877–1954)
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Rhonda M. Roorda
Published: 03 November 2015
...Evelyn Rhodes, great grandmother and matriarch W. Wilson Goode Sr., first black mayor of Philadelphia (1984–92) Cyril C. Pinder, mentor and former National Football League player Adoption Transracial Identity Discrimination Family 29 the legal system of slavery in the United States...
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Mountain Rituals
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Matt J. Rossano
Published: 13 August 2013
... are their assigned task everyday. At midday, they would line up for their main meal. Everyone had his place in line, and they filed along, cafeteria style, to receive their ration. Two months of living in the closed quarters had turned the survivors into a family bonded by domestic routines and rituals...
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Published: 28 January 2014
.... the hopeful realization of a “freedom from want” that had characterized the discussions of world population at the time. Despite the pressing need for the implementation of fertility regulations, family planning, and a general lowering of infant mortality rates during the Cold War, particular associations...
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Family-Focused Assets
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Melvin Delgado
Published: 09 December 2014
...The family can be a particularly powerful asset in the lives of baby boomers of color and its importance increases as boomers enter later life. This chapter focuses on the importance of the family and four specific aspects: grandparents raising grandchildren; family support; transmission...
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Friendship as a Family of Practices
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P.E. Digeser
Published: 06 September 2016
...Sets out what it means for friendship to be understood as a set of social practices that bear a family resemblance to one another. The core of the argument responds to objections to friendship as a set of practices. Epstein Joseph friends friendship Friendship Atticus Titus Pomponius Cicero...
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The Idiotics of the Intimate Universal
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William Desmond
Published: 29 November 2016
... explores what lies at the deepest ontological intimacy of our being, what he call the porosity of being, the patience of being, the endeavor to be, the love of being as good and its mutation into evil and will to power, the piety of the family. Aesthetics Determinacy Dialectic Erotics Univocity...
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But Who Were They?
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Ann Burack-Weiss
Published: 06 October 2015
...A poetic and poignant discussion of memory: Memories of mothers. Memories of fathers. The lifelong influence of memories of parents. Memory Parents Family dynamics But who were they? Though I’ve squinted through the keyhole at their past, read through their private letters ...
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Narrating Palestine, Transmitting Its Loss
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Anaheed Al-Hardan
Published: 12 April 2016
...This chapter explores the roles as well as the ways in which the generation of Palestine narrate and transmit memories in the family home. Abu Durra As‘ad Muhammad al Atfal al Nada al As‘ad Shammas Anton “Then How Will the Poem Come?” Shammas generation of Palestine guardians of memory...
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The Long Reprieve
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G. G. Rowley
Published: 18 December 2012
... encounter with the villagers. It then analyzes the manuscripts Nakako left behind, which included an eclectic collection of texts from her father, Nakanoin Michikatsu. It also discusses Nakako’s fourteen-year stay with the Kutta-Suzuki family in Nijō and how Nakako came into their care. Finally...
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Moral Cultivation, Filial Piety, and the Good Society in Classical Confucian Philosophy
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Erin M. Cline
Published: 05 May 2015
... between the family and a good society. Through the analysis of the texts, the chapter also presents the different and unique insights of Kongzi, Mengzi, and Xunzi regarding the relationship between the family, moral education, and political philosophy. Analects Lunyu Confucianism elders family Ivanhoe...
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Conclusion
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Erin M. Cline
Published: 05 May 2015
... members of a family—including fathers, elder siblings, and grandparents—have identifiable roles as well. Confucianism parent child relationships society Bell Daniel Cultural Revolution in China 1966 1976 humanities sciences Nurse–Family Partnership NFP social change Faust Drew Not for Profit...
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The Return of the Maternal Uncle
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
Published: 08 March 2016
... matrilineal filiation patrilineal filiation consanguinity incest kinship atom domestic cell kinship Marco Polo Na society archaic societies marriage systems primitivism maternal uncle Princess Diana Earl Spencer British royal family kinship structures The industrial or military applications...
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Family and Form in Ulysses
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Barry McCrea
Published: 14 June 2011
...This chapter makes a queer narratological case for Ulysses on the basis of its vision of the family. Queerness here is not by any means coterminous with homosexuality or sexual deviance, but the structural consequences of homosexuality in narrative terms are foundational...
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Prologue: Uncle Stu’s Question
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Roger Horowitz
Published: 16 February 2016
...Explains book’s inspiration in a particular family episode, personal impact of Uncle Stu’s questions and parents’ deaths, and relationship between family stories in book and its role as a work of history. Romania Schwartz Doris Schwartz Ernest Schwartz Stuart Mohun Arwen Putting Meat...
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Day of the Dead
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Tony Williams
Published: 14 April 2015
... represented by zombies who replace an existing social order of humans. Ironically, the moral is that nothing really changes at all. Day of the Dead continues the radical tradition of the American family horror film in revealing psychic darkness existing within the midst of an institution...
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Applying Family Therapy Principles to the Body Politic Through Sustained Dialogue
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Neal Newfield and Susan Newfield
Published: 18 October 2011
...This chapter discusses family therapy in relation to the first two stages of a sustained dialogue. Family therapy is a psychotherapeutic applied within families in order to nurture development. Just like a sustained dialogue, family therapy aims to change patterns of interaction and relationships...
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Published online: 24 January 2019
Published in print: 21 February 2017
..., depression, anxiety, religion, peer pressure, sexual identity, and family dynamics. He captures the currents that turn self-destruction into an act of self-determination and proposes more effective solutions to resolving the suicide crisis....
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Escalating the Risks
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Robert Wyss
Published: 07 June 2016
... climbing National Parks Association Wilderness Society Goldsworthy Patrick Hildebrand Joel Litton Martin Porter Eliot Stegner Wallace University of California Berkeley Dinosaur National Monument Colorado River Management budget staff family friendships concern You are villains not to share...