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A Survey of expatriate teachers in Kuwait
(2009-08)
The purpose of this study was to understand why qualified American and Canadian educators left their home country to teach overseas and more specifically, why they decided to live and work in Kuwait. Fifty-one participants ...
The Heroine's reclamation of the girlish and the portrayal of girl-power in Sailor Moon
(2009-08)
This thesis considers the value of 1990s girl-power as demonstrated by the cartoon Sailor Moon. Girl-power and the girlish body were often chastised in 90s popular culture for providing girls with a negative example of ...
Reading Canada Reads
(2009-11)
The CBC Radio One program Canada Reads launched in 2002 and has had a significant impact on the Canadian book industry from its beginning. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the methodologies of Canada Reads and the ...
This land is our land? This land is your land : exploring the decolonizing journeys of White outdoor environmental educators
(2009-05)
My own decolonizing journey has fostered a curiosity about the experiences of other White outdoor environmental educators who are engaged in the process of decolonizing their own practices and worldview. This qualitative ...
Gendering the muse : reinscriptions of patriarchal authority and the delegitimization of female authorship in selected Stephen King works
(2009-04)
This thesis examines representations of masculinity and authority in selected Stephen Kings works: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Bag of Bones, Misery, and The Tommyknockers. These texts reinscribe writing and authority ...
Self-silencing and depression in women : examining the role of social support as a moderator
(2009)
In almost all populations there is a significant sex difference in the rate of depression, with women being twice as likely to be depressed as compared to men (Bebbington, 1996; Kuehner, 2003) Numerous theories have been ...
Intermediate students at-risk in mathematics : case studies of teachers and students
(2009)
Although there have been changes made to Ontario's mathematics curriculum within the last decade to ensure student success, a significant number of students in Ontario schools have been achieving at or below a level 1 and ...
The mineralogy of NYF pegmatites from the Coldwell alkaline complex, Northwestern Ontario
(2009)
The Coldwell Complex, northwestern Ontario, is a multiphase alkaline intrusion that is host to
rare earth element, actinide and other high field strength element mineralization. Preliminary
studies have shown that these ...
Pictures, actions and words : using photo elicitation to explore the lived experience of outdoor recreation for a person with a developmental disability
(2009)
The purpose of the research was to document the lived experience of outdoor recreation from the perspective of a 19 year old male with a developmental disability and to explore photo elicitation as a method of eliciting ...
A Century of change : documenting ecological landscape patterns in Northwestern Yunnan
(2009)
This thesis provides a biogeographical analysis of the ecological landscape changes that have occurred in northwestern Yunnan over the past century. The practical purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the major changes ...