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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Brothers and sisters"”.
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The Feelings and Emotions of Normal Siblings With Handicapped Brothers and Sisters as Presented in 23 Young Adult Novels--How Realistic?
Normal siblings with handicapped brothers and sisters experience a unique gamut of both positive and negative feelings and emotions as the result of their family relationships. This study seeks to identify those feelings and emotions, explore how bibliotherapy might help the psychological …
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Father Involvement in Intact Families and Stepfamilies
… was examined multidimensionally using fathers' and children's reports. A total of 61 fathers and 143 children (intact families and stepfather families) from the Avon Brothers and Sisters Study (ABSS) participated in the current study. Measures of father involvement including engagement in shared …
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Sibling training for early future planning (step) project for adult siblings of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A pilot study
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are having increasingly longer lives. Their families often face challenges with sustained caregiving. Thus, future planning is a key issue for families of individuals with IDD. Given that many siblings expect to be caregivers for …
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Nanostructural engineering of vapor-processed organic photovoltaics for efficient solar energy conversion from any Surface
… to electricity. To be empowered they need robust and lightweightrenewable energy conversion technologies that can be easily transported with high yield from our manufacturing centers to their (often) rural homes. Few conventional photovoltaic technologies are robust enough to fill this need, …
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Perceptions of An Inclusive Program By Secondary Learning Disabled Students, Their Teachers, and Support Staff
The tension between exclusion and inclusion has been a shaping force in U.S. society and education. Public schools, in particular, have experienced stages of incorporating a larger number of children with disabilities into classrooms. In the United States, until approximately 1800, the great …
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The Experiences of Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities: A Holistic View
… cultures, I sought to capture the experiences of brothers and sisters who have siblings with disabilities. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationships of siblings with disabilities and typical developing siblings, and present a holistic picture from the perspective of the typical …
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The effectiveness of teaching indigeous languages under the team teaching arrangement in primary(Basic)Colleges of Education in Zambia
… of the study involved both qualitative and quantitative data which was collected through questionnaires, lesson observations, curriculum materials and structured interview schedules. The sample comprised twelve teacher educators from Kitwe and Malcolm Moffat Colleges of Education in …
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The effectiveness of teaching indigeous languages under the team teaching arrangement in primary(Basic)Colleges of Education in Zambia
… of the study involved both qualitative and quantitative data which was collected through questionnaires, lesson observations, curriculum materials and structured interview schedules. The sample comprised twelve teacher educators from Kitwe and Malcolm Moffat Colleges of Education in …
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Gustav Mahler and psychasthenia : a musical and psychological investigation of the Kinder-Totenlieder
… through his family history with the demise of brothers and sisters and his own beloved daughter, Putzi. An analysis by Sigmund Freud discusses his relationship with his wife, Alma, and his mother. Another area of interest includes his feelings towards his siblings, especially his brother, Otto, …
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The Ogbanje in Little Bee by Chris Cleave
… spirit-child for the purpose of political and post-colonial examination. Cleave's intentions are revealed through a full study of this traditional Nigerian concept. The Nigerian spirit-child, known as the ogbanje in the lgbo language and the abiku in the Yoruba language of Western Nigeria, …
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Examining personal memory in film: A reflection of documenting memory-stories in Reimagining Memories
My film, Reimagining Memories, explores my grandmother's childhood. Some of her most cherished memories are her trips between Lesotho and Cape Town and the time she would spend in the city. With clarity, attachment and a sense of longing, she often never misses an opportunity to reminisce about her …
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Examining personal memory in film: A reflection of documenting memory-stories in Reimagining Memories
My film, Reimagining Memories, explores my grandmother's childhood. Some of her most cherished memories are her trips between Lesotho and Cape Town and the time she would spend in the city. With clarity, attachment and a sense of longing, she often never misses an opportunity to reminisce about her …
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The Confederate Pension Systems in Texas, Georgia, and Virginia: The Programs and the People
… family members, including mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters. Union veterans did not hesitate to "wave the bloody shirt" in their attempts to liberalize pension laws. Pension programs for Confederate veterans were much slower to develop. Lacking any higher organization, each southern …
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Catholic Identity and Mission in Post Ex Corde Ecclesiae Catholic Highter Education: The Perceptions and Experiences of Lay Faculty at a Jesuit University
… substantial contribution of bishops, priests, brothers, and sisters dedicated to teaching and leadership at Catholic institutions of higher education. The past several decades have seen a decline of religious members' involvement and the laicization of faculty members at Catholic colleges and …
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Sibling relationships in Shakespeare's plays : course, quality, and function
… into the following chapters: twins, rival brothers, civil brothers, sisters, and brothers and sisters. Each chapter shows similarities in Shakespeare's presentation of three broad aspects of the relationship: course (what happens between the siblings); quality (the emotion and realism of …
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Validación empírica de una escala para medir la Inteligencia Emocional, desde un modelo mixto, en una muestra de estudiantes de la Bahia de Cádiz
… Mayer, 1990) but it is not until the publication and diffusion of the writings of Daniel Goleman (1995) and Bar-On (1992, 1997) that the term EI begins to be known. However, even though in a short term these works have stimulated interest in EI, in a long term these writings have brought confusion …
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The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
… City's Seventeenth-century subjects believed in and practiced the Good Death. The culture of the Good Death in seventeenth-century Mexico City shows that their Mexican Catholicism represented a localized religious practice that was completely hispanicized. Death permeated Mexico City's population …
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Maternal Effects on Brood Reduction in Common Grackles
… can have positive effects on nestling growth and survival especially early in the nesting period, but those effects are largely overwhelmed by asynchronous hatching. Adaptive evidence is lacking in the two other maternal effects---sex and yolk hormones---in which I focused. I found that …
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The Immune Status of Two Bloom's Syndrome Siblings
The problem. Two sibling brothers have been previously diagnosed as Bloom's Syndrome (BS). Due to lack of demonstrable increased sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in their blood cells and fibroblasts, diagnosis of BS is in question. Procedure. This study examined the immune reactions of these …
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Analyse thematique de : Ngemena de Paul Lomami Tchibamba
… particularly in Congo (DRC). He gives a concise and precise picture to show what happened from 1950 to 1960 under Belgian rule. This study consists of an analysis of the themes present in the book of Paul Lomami Tchibamba: Ngemena. This analysis allows us to assess and understand some social and …
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