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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Bravery"”.
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Heroes of Peace:The Royal Humane Society and the Award of Medals in Britain,1774-1914
… to reward such deeds became the first British bravery medal to be widely distributed to both men and women of all social classes and also served as a model both for other societies and the Crown. Unlike continental countries such as France, Britain had been slow to adopt the medal as a means of …
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Coaching for Brave Leadership: an Action Research Study
… and explore a coaching model designed to enhance bravery. An action research approach was undertaken with six leaders who undertook to help evolve and also be coached using this particular coaching model. The action research took place over a six month period in various locations within the U.K. …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… created on the frontier such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, "manliness," patriotism, self-reliance and concern for others. Local boosters and cultural commentators celebrated Indian captivity because they lamented that the country was forgetting what they saw as pioneer …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… created on the frontier such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, "manliness," patriotism, self-reliance and concern for others. Local boosters and cultural commentators celebrated Indian captivity because they lamented that the country was forgetting what they saw as pioneer …
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Strategies in Acting for Operatic Performance: Empowering the Powerful
… through my work are that the “how” is in bravery, kindness, and empowerment of the singer. Through scaffolded and varied techniques, each performer can cultivate their own collaborative strategies when developing characters and integrating movement into their vocal performances and …
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Dialogue as the Labor of Care: Welcoming a Unity of Contraries
… into the communicative life of caring requires bravery and courage and thus creates strong and rare natures.</p><p> The impetus of this vision comes from the work of Martin Buber whose ideas have changed the way we view communication and enrich the way we view caring. The additional metaphor of …
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Personality, Character Strengths, Empathy, Familiarity and the Stigmatization of Mental Illness
… strengths (i.e., Open-mindedness, Perspective, Bravery, Integrity, Kindness, Social Intelligence, Fairness, Forgiveness and Mercy, and Hope), Empathy, and Familiarity with mental illness. Participants also completed measures of stigmatizing attitudes (i.e., perceived dangerousness, personal …
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Social and cultural inclusion of queered and racialized performance during Chicago’s black pansy craze
… the largely overlooked historical narrative of bravery, defiance, emancipation, and self-determination of Black queer performers in Bronzeville during the period.</p>
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the Letters of Saint Cyprian
… replete with praise for their consummate bravery in facing the torture, with encouragement and exhortation to remain steadfast while keeping the thought of Heaven ever in their minds, and particularly letters to those in the mines all lend themselves especially to poetic diction. The …
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Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) programme:Child-centred approach, building trust, listening and valuing children’s voices: A grounded theory analysis.
… of the current research includes staff’s views (Bravery & Harris, 2009; Burton, Traill, & Norgate, 2009; Cardiff Educational Psychology Service, 2012; Dodds & Brake, 2015; Dorset Targeted Mental Health Schools, 2010; Litten, 2012; Russell, 2011) and has major methodological limitations (Burton et …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… hero, one akin to the cowboy hero in character, bravery, and wit, yet seemingly birthed from urbanity as undeniably as the cowboy was birthed from the open range. Chapter Two illustrates the primarily linguistic work of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op in Red Harvest and Raymond Chandler’s …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… hero, one akin to the cowboy hero in character, bravery, and wit, yet seemingly birthed from urbanity as undeniably as the cowboy was birthed from the open range. Chapter Two illustrates the primarily linguistic work of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op in Red Harvest and Raymond Chandler’s …
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Medical Vulnerability in Natural Disasters: The Ethics of Responsibility and Response
… for others, generosity, dedication, and even bravery in the face of extreme circumstances. Perhaps because of our admiration, disaster relief activities have largely escaped the scrutiny of bioethics; there are relatively few publications dealing with the ethics of disaster relief. Recent …
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"""Critical reading of our worlds"": an ethnographic study of dialogue as praxis in a community-founded school in Indonesia"
… We also unpacked our fears. The teachers showed bravery and inquisitiveness throughout the dialogues. These dialogues were also a conduit for the teachers to voice their opinions. The dialogue meetings functioned as a support system for the teachers at this community-founded school. Within these …
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Physical disability, disabled veterans and the American Revolution
… never became the symbol of patriotism and bravery that the empty sleeve of the Civil War amputee did. Using the experiences of disabled former Revolutionary servicemen and contrasting this with the public discourse and national memory of the war, this thesis presents the reasons why this …
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Exploring Transient Identities: Deconstructing Depictions Of Gender And Imperial Ideology In The Oriental Travel Narratives Of Englishwomen, 1831-1915
… constructed an identity that was British in its bravery, middle-class in its refinement, feminine in appearance and speech and Christian in its intolerance of Oriental heathenism. Studying Victorian female travel narratives that described journeys to the Orient provides an excellent opportunity …
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O le Soga'imiti: An embodiment of God in the Samoan male body
… synonymous with embodied cultural pride, beauty, bravery, ability and potentiality. In contemporary Samoa, not all males have a tatau, but all males are expected to live the same embodied life and have the same embodied qualities as those of soga‘imiti described above, to enable them to serve …
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A Study Of The Pokot Cultural Worldview: Missiological Implications For Seventh-Day Adventist Witness Among The Pastoral Nomads Of Kenya
… acts of heroism, generosity, respect, trust, bravery, wealth, versatility, and high moral standards. From early ages, younger people are groomed and expected to be loyal, patriotic, respectful, brave, and morally upright members of the community. The concept of <em>poghishyo</em> (peace and …