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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Call to action"”.
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Increasing the Number of African American Students in Undergraduate Level Classes of Chinese: A Call to Action
… language classrooms (Li, Wen, & Xie, 2014). This call to action argues that this low representation of African American students lies on a course promotion system that denies African American students a preliminary learning opportunity that systematically limits their representation in Chinese …
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Being a Leader in Higher Education with a Concealable Differences: Empathic Executives with a Call to Action
This study tells the story of thirteen executive leaders in higher education from across the nation who identified themselves as having a concealable difference. These differences included being gay or lesbian, experiencing an auditory or visual disability, or being from a poor socio-economic …
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A Call to Action: How the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has influenced policing policy and practice in Ontario.
… an environment for reconciliation through the Calls to Action. The current research aims to examine how police policy, practice, and training in Southern Ontario has been modified to include the justice Calls for Action set out by the TRC and the extent to which police interactions with …
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Madly in Love: A Meditation on the Capacity of Love and Madness
… contends that madness is not merely a condition to be pathologized buta 'supernatural' universal energy that transcends realms, moving through and around all bodies and leaving profound bio-physiological imprints. This dissertation introduces the concept of neo- madness, which recognizes the …
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The Sound a Body Makes : and Other Ruminations on Navigating Roadkill
… of poetic forms, as well as essay forms. Altogether, the collection is a call to action for radical change regarding how society views and treats more-than-human bodies.</p>
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Effects of content on Google ad success : the case of Icelandair
The purpose of the following study is to create a framework helping Icelandair determining the types of ads and content their Google Ads should possess in order to maximize their effect and efficiency. This company was chosen as a support for multiple reasons. Firstly, Icelandair is a successful …
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The Art of Flourishing: Integrating Positive Psychology with Art Therapy to Promote Growth from Trauma
This capstone project analyzes potential opportunities for integration between the fields of positive psychology and art therapy in the treatment of trauma. The experience of trauma is widespread: between 60-89% of people will likely experience at least one traumatic event during their lifetime …
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Inclusion of Adoption as a Pregnancy Management Option in Prenatal Genetic Counseling Practice
<p>Prenatal genetic counselors are essential to providing education, psychosocial support, and guidance on pregnancy options to patients who receive a fetal diagnosis of an anomaly or genetic condition. Therefore, genetic counselors should be well-educated on comprehensive pregnancy management …
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Malleable Measures: A Systematic Literature Review of Character Strengths
… introduced a number of measures that can be used to quantify and enhance human flourishing. Surprisingly little is known, however, about which of those measures is most malleable. A systematic literature review was conducted to begin addressing this gap. The aim of this review was to rank the most …
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Stressing Leadership, Spirituality and Legacy. A Purpose-Driven Approach to Sustainable Business Longevity
This study attempts to bring out not only the notion of business longevity in terms of its temporal dimension but the impact it leaves to every stakeholder- to every person that continually builds the company and for those for which the company has been created. One of Kurt Lewin's most famous …
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Menstrual Equity within the Homeless Community: The Good, the Bad, and the Bloody
… a severe lack of academic literature on the topic. This paper is a call to action for feminist and public health scholars to conduct more theory-based research in order to implement effective and inclusive solutions for problems associated with homeless menstruation. I utilized feminist media …
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The therapeutic alliance within residential treatment centers
… and externalizing and internalizing symptoms. There is a current call to action for residential treatment facilities to utilize trauma-informed care as well as data-based decision making and progress monitoring to promote positive outcomes for residents and their families. Researchers …
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Latino Males in the Borderland: A Case Study Analysis of Successful Transfer From the Community College to the University
… educational journey at a community college due to cost, proximity to family, and open access policies. The current literature on Latina/o community college students has primarily focused on a deficit view of the educational aspirations and educational completion of this population. The current …
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"Women of Vision" : how females lead photojournalism departments in a male-dominated field
… male leadership characteristics differ according to perceptions of photo editors. The goal is to understand how women feel about working in photo editing positions and to explore the challenges they face in a male-dominated industry. This study consisted of six in-depth interviews with women who …
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Providing early childhood education in public schools : perceptions of elementary principals in Indiana
… works through his second term, he has recently called on the country to embrace, promote, and extend the early childhood services for the majority of this country’s four year-old children. This call to action has captured the attention of government officials, school officials, policy …
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Sovereignty, Political Economy, and Economic Development in Native American Nations
The severe and chronic lag in the empirical indicators for Native American socio-economic development has created, in the words of President Obama, “a moral call to action.” Although collective statistics indicate substantial development problems among the 566 federally recognized tribes, these …
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Treatment Integrity in Tiered Systems
… (Ci3T) models of prevention. We begin with a history of treatment integrity measurement, followed by a call to action for further research on methods of assessing treatment integrity at the educator-level in the context of tiered systems (Chapter 1). Next, we present a map of the literature in …
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U.S. National Park Service Climate Change Interpretation: A National Study
… change has become an increasingly controversial topic in the United States. Because U.S. National Park Service (NPS) sites are both beloved and increasingly threatened by climate change, NPS interpretive programs are a unique context to study climate change communication. In this manuscript, we …
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Artists for Humanity's Sake: An Ameliorative Project Concerning Artists and the Existentialist Struggle Against the Dominant Narrative
… in which cultural violence have been used historically and today as a means to withhold power from the people, we find that participating in the arts grants a great deal of power to the people. Thus, accessibility to participating in artistic acts or the creative process become fundamental to …
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