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Manhood, Rivalry, and the Creation of a Canadian "Hockey World": Media Coverage of Early Stanley Cup Hockey Challenges, 1894-1907
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This study examines media narratives of high-level amateur and professional hockey in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, this project analyzes English Canadian newspaper coverage of Stanley Cup “challenge” games and championship series between 1894...
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Fall 2019
Defining and characterizing leisure remains a central issue in the field of leisure and recreation studies; yet there are different views of what constitutes leisure, and researchers have yet to come to an agreement. This issue is more complicated for researchers from non-Western countries like...
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Moving through uncertain times: A morphogenetic approach to understanding people's response to crisis in two forest community contexts in rural British Columbia
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The degree to which individuals have agency to respond during crisis, and the degree to which social structure and culture influence their course of action, present compelling questions for understanding social change. The tradition of examining the interplay between agency and social structure,...
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Spring 2022
Abstract Background: Upon graduation, nursing students continue to be ill-prepared in gerontological nursing care and lack a desire to work with older persons. Although nurse educators are expected to facilitate students’ learning about how to provide appropriate older person care, they lack...
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Ohitika Chade Wiya – Brave Hearted Woman: A Narrative of Recovery, Reclamation and Renewal of an Indigenous woman’s body image
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Body image research with Indigenous women typically focuses on the concept of health and their understandings of health. However, it is necessary to acknowledge how Indigenous women’s body image has been shaped through heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism. The purpose of this autoethnography...
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Fall 2009
When European children’s literature is adapted to North American film, parts of the stories are removed and changed in the hopes of producing something that will be considered acceptable in the target culture. Much of what is educational and cultural in the stories to begin with is removed...
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Participation in sports programs as a vehicle of acculturation for indigenous northern youth
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Masters thesis. A study to examine the impact of participation in organized sport programs on the acculturative processes occuring among indigenous northern youth of the Mackenzie Delta, in particular the TEST ski program.
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Planning for the Future of Urban Mobility: Interviews with Planning Professionals in Five Major Canadian Cities
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Given that our urban centres have been dominated by the private car for a hundred years, this thesis asked what is next for Canadian cities. Previous research on the future of urban mobility, and specifically city planning and autonomous vehicles, has been from an American or Australian context....
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Spring 2013
This work discusses the complexity of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita. It investigates the challenges encountered when translating the novel into a different language as well as into a different medium. The first part of the thesis briefly examines the history of creation of the...
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Fall 2009
Skeletal muscle is a heterogeneous, multinucleated, post-mitotic tissue that contains many functionally diverse fibre types that are capable of adjusting their phenotypic properties in response to altered contractile demands. This plasticity, or adaptability of skeletal muscle is largely...