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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Coming to Terms"”.
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Coming to Terms: Nineteenth -Century British Women Writers and Their Publishers
… analyzes the place of gender in the Victorian literary marketplace, focusing particularly on four women writers and their dealings with the London publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son between the years 1860 and 1895. My primary sources include novels and biographies as well as …
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Coming to Terms with Our Routes: The Impact of Family Estrangement on Asian American Identity
… been widely problematized, “culture” continues to be utilized as a reductive explanation for complex family dynamics. This study used reflexive thematic analysis to examine 30 in-depth interviews with Asian Americans who experienced family estrangement. Analysis focused on how participants …
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Coming to Terms with Abusive Childhood Sexual Experiences: A Listening Guide Study of Women's Stories
… presents a qualitative study of how women come to terms with abusive childhood sexual experiences. In in-depth interviews, five women described how they have come to terms and the ways in which their experiences of sexual abuse influenced their identities, their relationships with others, and …
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The Problem of Coming to Terms with the Past: A Post-Holocaust Theology of Remembrance
<p>This dissertation examines the problem of coming to terms with the past in post-World War II Germany in the wake of the Holocaust by examining the philosophical critiques of Theodor Adorno and Eric Voegelin. It then extends these critiques into the ongoing discussion of post-Holocaust philosophy …
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\"Coming To terms\": A grounded theory of dementia caregivers' journeys and expectations of care
“Coming to Terms” presents the subjective narratives of family members about what constitutes quality long-term care (LTC) for loved-ones with dementia. It uses those narratives to develop a grounded theory of shared meanings of dementia care that reflects the basic social process by which family …
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How Coming to Terms with Difficulties in the Family of Origin Positively Influences Adult Children's Relationship/Marital Quality
… experiences are generally important predictors of individuals' later relationship/marital quality. On average, the healthier these experiences are, the healthier adult children's relationships and marriages tend to be. The focus of this study was to investigate how coming to terms with …
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Architecture, ‘coming to terms with the past’ and the ‘world in common’: Post-war urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo
… and the increased expectations for societies to deal with difficult pasts. Departing from studies that approach post-war reconstruction focusing on the functional dimension of infrastructural repair and housing relief or on debates about architectural form, this dissertation examines …
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Freedom and change : coming to terms with the end of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa : a case study
This dissertation is intended to promote an understanding of the challenges of transition faced by a multi-racial couple of South African anti-apartheid activists after the struggle ended. It aims to illustrate how a narrative therapy approach was helpful in assisting them to come to terms with the …
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Taken In
Taken In is a collection of poems about coming to terms with death, love, and the social responsibilities people owe to each other.
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A pound of flesh
… through the eyes of a girl who is not only coming of age but is also coming to terms with the sociopolitics of modern Britain.
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The Title
<p>The present dissertation seeks to address and redress clinical psychology’s disciplinary silence around the title of ‘Doctor’ and attempts to uncover possible meanings gathering around it by following several angles of disclosure: The self-disclosure angle recounts my own resistances and …
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A Long Low Whistle in the Distance
<p>Erin is returning to her childhood home on a Native reservation in New Mexico. She hopes to see her father one more time before he dies, but she has other motives as well. Her relationships with her family, and with her lover Maddie come under pressure through this change in her life. Between …
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The Monument: The Shoah and German Memory
The aim of this research project is to analyse forms of remembrance and memory of the Shoah in Germany in its and their political and cultural formations. The underlying question driving the research project is Adorno's famous essay 'What does it mean: coming-to-terms with the past? ''. The thesis …
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Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012
… past has both dominated the politics of history in Estonia and been a key determining factor in building a national post-Soviet European identity. As a result, the Holocaust in Estonia has played a less substantial role in both scholarship, and public debate, specifically regarding the …
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The Rhetoric of Transitional Justice: Negotiating the Years of Lead in Morocco
Transitional justice refers to the variety of rhetorical practices and discourses (restorative and retributive) that nations engage in during the aftermath of state criminality. While examples of mass political violence abound, this inquiry focuses on the Moroccan experience of coming to terms with …
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Tiptoeing through the Tulips at Seventy: A Memoir
… identity. My primary goal for the project was to catalog the steps I took in the sometimes-tortured and confusing path I followed over the course of my life, from childhood to late adulthood, striving to understand who and what I am in terms of my identity and how, once it was clarified in my …
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Punch-Drunk
… the ways in which humans navigate loss and come to accept hard truths. Therefore, this collection shows the ways in which humans are not static creatures, but instead beings that are continually changing and achieving some kind of growth. By the end, the speakers have gone on personal journeys in …
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Hometown
… park, one-month-clean addict Will Colman runs into Robbie Fowler, his old high-school classmate tasked to help Will maintain his sobriety through the vessel of the church, run by Robbie's father. Will continues to feel a pull toward Robbie, the crush he thought gone simply lying dormant. Along …
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Toxic Landscapes and Technofossils: A Speculative Anthology of Flin Flon, Manitoba
… created by the mining industry in Flin Flon, Manitoba. Named after an explorer from the novel, The Sunless City, Flin Flon is a terrain born from the curious intersection of geological possibility, mining, and science fiction. The town is negotiating its exploitation of mineral wealth while …
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Dispatches
… heart and mind. Using a small chamber ensemble to help emphasize the intimate qualities of ourselves, and exploring both typical and extended techniques, Dispatches leads the listener through an epistolary melodrama of two lovers’ collective experience of separating and coming to terms with that …
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