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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Breaking the Silence"”.
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Psychotherapist suicidality: breaking the silence using interactive interviewing
… autoethnographic research project explores psychotherapist suicidality as a human reality that has been given little attention in psychotherapy and counselling psychology affiliations. It addresses the importance of acknowledging, understanding and supporting psychotherapists who are, or have …
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Breaking the silence on violation in South African prisons
… to violational forms remain testimony to the residues of the authoritarian ideology which plagued South Africa for decades. By locating violation within its socio-political and institutional contexts, I use lessons from the past as a starting block from which to introduce a theoretically …
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Breaking the Silence: Examining Rachel Carson and the Environmental Movement
Rachel Carson has achieved legendary status in the environmental movement. Her literary contributions introduced generations of people to the intricate splendors of the sea, and she is credited with introducing and legitimating the idea of ecology in public discourse. Carson's final work, Silent …
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Breaking the Silence: Forgotten Stories in the Mental Health Field
<p>Stories make us human, and people respond to them. The importance of mental health nonprofits is clear given the number of individuals who lean on them for support, and stories can enhance that importance. What if the leaders, volunteers, and staff members of mental health nonprofits shared …
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Breaking the silence: institutional responses to people who use atypical communication strategies
This study compares the introduction and expansion of non-speech communication for people with receptive impairments with the introduction and expansion of non-speech communication for people with expressive impairments. It documents the introduction of specific nonspeech communication …
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Breaking the Silence: Women's Experiences With Sexual Violence During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
… how wartime rape was accepted or dismissed in the past, and how today, while this practice continues, international courts are beginning to identify the harm being done to women, making explicit how rape is used as a tool of genocide. In this thesis I argue that wartime rape serves as a means …
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No Soldier Left Behind? Breaking the Silence on Military Service, Values and Identity in Israel
<p>This dissertation explores the relationship between observed incidents and perceptions of value violation or confirmation among Israeli soldiers. Through content analysis of 900 testimonies, the work explores the intersection of social identity, military ethics and nonviolent movements. The data …
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Breaking the silence : the necessity of memory in Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle.
This thesis examines Tillie Olsen's use of memory in the four short stories included in her collection Tell Me a Riddle: "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, What Ship?" "O Yes," and "Tell Me a Riddle." In Olsen's collection personal and collective memory breaks the silence engendered by personal …
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Breaking the silence: an intersectional approach to sexual violence and harm narratives of women living in Lebanon
Lebanon has experienced war and conflict for the last four decades, yet there is an absence of literature on Lebanese women’s lived experience of the Lebanese Civil War (LCW) (April 1975 – October 1989), and the ongoing conflict that has occurred thereafter. There are limited accounts of Lebanese …
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Breaking the silence in classroom participation: A study of a regular classroom and a computer-mediated setting
… study of classroom processes focuses on the roles students play in two different environments, a regular classroom and an anonymous, collaborative, technological environment using GroupSystems. As students from an urban high school engaged in a brainstorming session about complex, ethical …
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Breaking the Silence: An IPA study exploring the experiences, thoughts, feelings and perspectives of teachers working with Selectively Mute children.
… Selective Mutism occurs more frequently within the school setting particularly when children first start school. A great deal of the research available on Selective Mutism within the school setting is based on evaluating intervention and there is currently a gap in the literature concerning the …
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Breaking the Silence Again: A Retrospective Study Investigating the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Disclosures Upon Symptoms and Coping in Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse
"This study addresses the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse upon psychological symptoms and coping abilities in a sample of 88 women who were sexually abused as children. The goal of this study was to reach a better understanding of the ways in which childhood disclosure experiences …
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Breaking the silence, addressing the confusion and challenging denial surrounding HIV and AIDS by engaging tradition : a study of the mnemonic oral style with special reference to Marcel Jousse
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Technology: Education, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2013.
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Breaking the silence: A rhetorical analysis of selected works by Sandra Cisneros and Toni Morrison through the lens of Northrop Frye's rhetorical theories of speech and style
Since antiquity there has been a debate centered on the female voice. Thousands of years later, two modern American ethnic writers, Sandra Cisneros and Toni Morrison, examine the topic of the female voice through their literary works, including Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Woman …
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"Quiet as it's Kept": Secrecy and Silence in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Paradise
Secrets and silence appear frequently in the work of Toni Morrison. In three novels, The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Paradise, she repeats a specific phrase that acts as a signal to the reader. Morrison three times writes, “Quiet as it’s kept” in her novels to alert readers to the particular significance …
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Language and Identity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Caf and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
… Lees "Disappearing Moon Cafe" and Wayson Choys "The Jade Peony" for breaking the silence over issues that Chinese Canadians faced in the 1990s such as racism and lack of representation. However, there has not been much discussion on Lee and Choy's exploration of language and identity. These …
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An investigation into prisoners' awareness about HIV/AIDS with reference to the Empangeni Qalakabusha Prison
It gives me pleasure to present the first report on "Prisoner's awareness on HIV-AIDS with reference to Empangeni Qalakabusha prison. The compilation of this research emanates from the willingness to inform, educate, advice and guide the Government and Prison management on the issues relating to …
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Answering machine, auto-tune, spectrograph : queer vocality through sonic technology
… as shorthand for inclusion, empowerment, and the like, occasioning bromides about having or not having a voice, giving voice to the voiceless, breaking the silence, and speaking truth to power. Such metaphysically inflected phrasings often serve to reinforce a binary between sound and silence …
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The bald truth: Determining the need for a Canadian alopecia association
The main objective of this research was to determine if Canadians with alopecia areata and their families perceive there is a need for the creation of an organization providing support and services to them in Canada. Previous research has documented the psychological devastation resulting from hair …
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