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Showing 1 to 20 of 301 for “"Affirmation"”.
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Affirmation and reaction: Towards a critical biosemiotic sociology
… result of this venture is the conclusion that affirmation, the proof of the reaction, is the foundation of society. From this conclusion follows the postulation that the greatest danger to social change is the subversion of meaningful action through the creation of recursive forms of …
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A Values-Affirmation Model for Higher Education Crisis Communication
… away from image repair and toward values–affirmation is expressed in the rhetorical tradition as a change in genre, a move away from <italic>apologia</italic> toward <italic>epideixis</italic>.
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Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading
This minor dissertation explores the reader's reception of Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. Often considered obscure and even unintelligible, I argue that to read the Trilogy is to affirm Beckett's slippery style of writing. Through a close reading of the three novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The …
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Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation in the Battle for Existentialism
Abstract Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation of the Battle for Existentialism – By Jason Blacklock This dissertation offers an Existentialist interpretation of the life and work of Philip Guston. Discourse regarding avant-garde New York School artists and their knowledge and …
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So very hard to go: An action research project on cultural affirmation
… has been developed as a <em>cultural</em> <em>affirmation</em> method <em>to</em> address the transfer problems faced by Chicano students in community college. The textbook will reach out <em>to</em> students in classrooms and engage them in building social networks that create, support, and …
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An analysis of the affirmation of personhood in United Methodist Church kindergarten curriculum
… examine the curriculum to discover the extent of affirmation of personhood in general. The second objective is to determine significant trends or changes over a six-year period of curriculum surveyed in terms of affirmation of personhood. The third objective is the recommendation of further …
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Affirmation and "Make It New": Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Great Dictum of Modernism
… studies, new modernist studies, and theories of affirmation. In terms of modernist studies, I offer the first and long overdue sustained study of Pound's modernist battle-cry, "Make it new." In doing so, I argue that "make it new" is a style of engagement used by the modernists that coined the …
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The social affirmation of "woman" in selected texts by Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker
The study focuses essentially on the social affirmation of "woman" in selected texts by Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker. It is pointed out how in traditional Mrican patriarchal societies the relationships between male and female have always been determined by social mores put in place by men. By …
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L' évaluation des déficits spécifiques en affirmation de soi chez les étudiantes universitaires
… de vérifier la nature spécifique des déficits en affirmation de soi auprès d'une population d'étudiantes universitaires."
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Whose Community Museum Is It? Collaboration Strategies and Identity Affirmation in the Amache Museum
… the community collaborations and the identity affirmations within the museum, and addresses the question of whose community museum the Amache Museum represents. My research explores the overlapping conceptual models of the Amache Museum: community museum and ecomuseum, and utilizes the …
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Impact of Manipulated Perceived Efficacy and Self-Affirmation on Measures of Risk, Efficacy, and Intention
… program of research examined the effect of self-affirmation and manipulated perceived efficacy on perceptions of efficacy, risk perception, and risk-reducing behavioural intentions. Participants were undergraduate students who were randomly assigned to a self-affirmation manipulation …
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The Affirmation of Life in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
My thesis traces the affirmation of life evident in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, defining the term affirmation by the expansive embrace of suffering demonstrated by Alyosha Karamazov in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I maintain that, similar …
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Comparing the Efficacy of Two Affirmation Interventions to Reduce Stereotype Threat Effects on Women’s Math Performance
… The current thesis project evaluated two self-affirmation interventions designed to reduce the effects of stereotype threat on women’s math performance. Participants completed a math test under one of four conditions: control (no explicit stereotype activation), stereotype threat (activation of …
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Imagination and the affirmation of the ordinary : words and deeds in the films of Frank Capra
This study examines four films by Frank Capra, "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), "Meet John Doe" (1941), and "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946). By discussing these films, the study examines the relation between the good man and community as it appears in the …
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Using Affirmation Theory to Further Understand the Distinction between the Individual Self and the Collective Self
… apparent is that of identity threat and affirmation theory. Although affirming the self has been shown to reduce individual-level biases in the face of threat, affirming the group in response to a collective-level threat has been shown to accentuate biased tendencies. This may be a result …
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The Good Darkness: Affirmation in the Poems of Robert Bly, W. S. Merwin, and James Wright
… often uneasy, and remarkably intense forms of affirmation.
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The Bradlaugh Case: A Study of the Parliamentary Debates Concerning the Affirmation-Oath Controversy, 1880-1891
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The Primacy of the Individual: Its Affirmation in the Declaration of Independence and in the American Scholar
By the very nature of its subject-matter, the present study is both historical and literary.|Historians and political philosophers without number have examined The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson and discussed endlessly the principles which it contains. Innumerable educators and …
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The Effects of Priming on Framing Bias: An Integrative Study Examining Mortality Salience, Self-Affirmation, and Emotional Intelligence
… with mortality salience (MS) or self-affirmation (SA) and, then, evaluated the ability of 10 framed scenarios to alter choice behavior as well as the potential of EI to influence those effects. Three-hundred and sixty-nine participants (252 women, 96 men, and 4 other; <em>Mean</em> age …
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