Browsing by Subject "environment"
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-06-15)The purpose of this capstone essay is to explain the significance of classroom design and the impact design plays on the learner, the curriculum, the instruction and on assessment.
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(2004-03-26)Department: PsychologyThe prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity in the United States is increasing at alarming rates and these rates vary between ethnicities. It was hypothesized that using an ecological model, childhood predictors leading ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Obesity is a serious disease that affects approximately 24 percent of the population in the United States. With obesity trends continually on the rise, it is important to identify and address the potential factors causing ...
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(2011-12-02)Department: Community Research and ActionThis thesis ethnographically documents the politics of hidden waterways in the city of Nashville, Tennessee using multiple methods, including ethnographic observation, photography, mapping, and the collection of documents ...
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(2014-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesThis paper creates a contextualized narrative of the history of Amazonian development projects. This project will examine understandings and representations of nature and the Amazon, and how these representations, and their ...
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(UCLA Law Review, 2008)The individual and household sector generates roughly 30 to 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and is a potential source of prompt and large emissions reductions. Yet the assumption that only extensive government ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: ReligionHistorically religion has been a powerful agent of social justice and activism within black communities. It has also been a means of organization and agency for countless blacks in areas of politics and education. However, ...
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(2020-10-29)Department: EnglishThe Bureau of Reclamation utilized water infrastructures to create a cultural infrastructure of the irrigated American West most centrally through the creation of its own federally-produced films. In particular, the Bureau ...
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(2021-07-13)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation explores the origins of a pessimistic strand in Kant’s ethical thought and uses it as a lens for understanding contemporary environmental issues. Kant’s ethics is riven by the inevitability of clashes ...
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(2010-04-20)Department: Political ScienceBilateral environmental relations between Canada and the United States have been studied from the perspective of federal, state, and provincial governments including non-state actors. However, the role local governments ...