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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Cultural Expectations"”.
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African authors' perceptions of women's achievements : exploring cultural expectations in selected isiZulu literary texts
In indigenous African societies, cultural expectations compel women to restrict themselves from excelling in whatever they do as a way of conforming to prevailing customary expectations. This is because those women who are said to disregard cultural expectations by aspring to achieve more than …
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The Tension Between Opportunity and Outcome: The University of Michigan's Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action and the Implications of Cultural Expectations
… but also cater to and adapt to the variety of cultural expectations and interpretations that may guide their various stakeholder publics when creating messages about controversial issues. One of the most controversial issues our society faces today is affirmative action. The rationales for the …
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Using visual culture to address gender expectations in middle school art education: Visual art curriculum design based on the Manga Ranma1/2
… to middle school art curricula that address the cultural expectations of gender in visual culture media. I use images from the Japanese comic Manga: Ranma1/2 to develop units of instruction with goals of engaging students in relating the study of art to their visual culture outside the classroom. …
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@twohead
"@twohead," a hypertext, explores the divine and cultural expectations of discretion, tradition, and inheritance that come with writing poetry and practicing divination for the public in a digital landscape, which ultimately becomes a playground for her transformation and deprogramming.
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The Factors Influencing the Role of Teachers in Imparting Leadership Skills in Jesuit Schools in Kerala, India
… policies, teacher training programs, cultural expectations, and resource availability. By employing a qualitative methodology, this research draws on transformational leadership theory and social constructivism to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding leadership …
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Coming of Age in Spite of the Contrast of Vagueness: Native Speaker and The House on Mango Street as Erziehungsroman
… students to misunderstand one another. Differing cultural conceptions of education perpetuate this mutually detrimental relationship between education policy and ELL students, forcing Henry and Esperanza to choose between satisfying the cultural expectations of their ethnic communities and …
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Remembering Elderly Women in Early America: A survey of how aged women were memorialized in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirs
… sermons, and memoirs, this thesis reviews how cultural expectations placed on women during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries impacted the reputation of aged women. Specifically, it demonstrates how the ideology of domesticity contributed to the reputation of aged women as women …
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Shout Me Home
… of familial trauma and societal, religious, and cultural expectations. The speaker juxtaposes their mental health struggles with that of their grandmother’s, referred to as granmé, and questions their life growing up with her and their identity as a Haitian American/Afro-Caribbean woman. The …
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Phenomenology in the works of Robbe-Grillet
… Robbe-Grillet's formal strategies of challenging cultural expectations, result in a "making strange" of perceptual experience, with repercussions for the subversion of conventional fictional and filmic narratives. Subsequent chapters explore further consequences of the reduction, beginning in …
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Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer Chican@ Identity Struggles in the Chican@ Novel and in America
… their identity formations despite the limiting cultural expectations that they constantly face
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The spaces of sex : perversion, performance and place in literature between the wars
… to examine the ways that space collides with cultural expectations to produce characters whose spatial performances are marked as incorrect, out of place, and ultimately perverse. Each chapter includes historical and social background to culturally frame extensive close readings within a …
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Hearing Africa: Auditory Perception and the Construction of Race In Early Modern England
… how they measured up to prevailing societal and cultural expectations of what civility, prosperity and Christianity sounded like. Racial thinking about Africans in the Anglo-American world began much earlier than has been acknowledged, and the senses played a critical role in its development.</p>
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The Rhetoric of Mom Blogs: A Study of Mothering Made Public
… struggle with the judgment of others based on cultural expectations for body image and performance of motherhood, and they themselves struggle with their own tendencies to judge other mothers similarly. The content analysis of the comments from the same three blogs indicates that readers most …
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Experiences of Asian Indian American Students in US Undergraduate Medical Education
… school and the challenges in navigating family expectations and, (5) gendered cultural expectations, specifically with respect to medical specialty choice. Implications for medical school administrators, faculty, and support staff are discussed.
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Exploring the role of family on the career development of Xhosa-speaking graduates
… culture, like other African cultures, endorses cultural values of deference and strong familial connections with extended family. Data from fourteen semi-structured in-depth interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. The key themes that emerged were (1) cultural beliefs, (2) social …
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Risk Environment Framework: A Patient Centered Approach to a Cultural Model of Recovery
… the features and domains that make up a cultural model of recovery. This study took place at a treatment center in Metro-Portland, Oregon among 13 emerging adults, 18-25 years of age. The emerging adults’ population are a high risk, understudied group with significantly lower rates of …
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At the margins of intersecting identities: What does it mean to be a Black queer woman?
… it is imperative that psychologists are aware of cultural differences and are competent in addressing them (APA, 2002). For persons with marginalized racial, gender, and sexual identities, identity is crafted in ways that create meaning for the individual despite experiences of racism, sexism, or …
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An intersectional exploration of the motherload among black mothers in professional occupations in South Africa
… experienced the motherload as they navigated the cultural expectations in the household and community, as well as their professional workplace identity. Three key themes were analysed which underscored the cultural care load placed on Black women and how that shapes the motherload through (1) …
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Broken Expectations, Broken Concepts: A New Diagnosis of Dark Patterns
… emerge when a given design breaks users’ expectations and harms their interests. To formally define and analyze expectations, I use an existing design framework called concept design, which defines applications in terms of independent building blocks called concepts. I present a new type …
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