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Differing Death Scenarios: Self Esteem and Death Anxiety.
… research has found a correlation between death anxiety and self esteem. Researchers have found that both self-esteem and death anxiety play a significant role in an individual's behavior.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate a correlation, if any, between death anxiety and …
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Courting Death
… blend of literary fiction and folktale, Courting Death is a novel about women at the fringes, marginalized women, and women who have been direct targets of gender-based violence. The narrative draws from conventions of traditional African oral storytelling and the conventions associated with …
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Death becomes her : the death aesthetic in/as fashion advertising
… that equate woman, fashion, aesthetics and death carry such a cachet in the fashion magazine? What is the communication that obtains when one pairs aesthetics and death? Can the aestheticization of death in the fashion magazine be seen as a site of rupture in the sign system of "the …
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Nurse's Anxiety from Death, Attitude to Death and Terminal Care.
… 이루어졌다. 연구 도구는 Templer(1970)가 개발한 ‘죽음 불안 척도(DAS : Death Anxiety Scale)를 고효진, 최지욱 및 이흥표(2006)가 수정·번안한 총 15문항과 Thorson과 Powell(1988)이 개발한 Death Orientation 측정도구를 박석춘(1992)이 번안하고 전재수(2014)가 수정·보완한 도구 25문항과 Frommelt(1991)가 간호사를 대상으로 개발한 임종간호 태도에 대한 척도(FATCOD : Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the …
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A Good Death
While death is surely inevitable, the timing and circumstances of our deaths may vary widely and are likely to be negotiable in response to the changing needs of patients and families for physical, emotional and spiritual support as their diseases and illnesses evolve. Patients and families need to …
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Buffalo Death Mask
… and closes with a detailed look at Buffalo Death Mask, the short digital movie I made in 2013 about AIDS. In between are a pair of what moviemakers like to call establishing shots. There are a couple of chapters on emotional establishing shots narrating fear and death. And there is a chapter …
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Redefinitions of Death
… controversy surrounding the definition of death in certain rare situations which arise in response to advances in medical technology. In relation to these, I criticise various approaches which seek a resolution to such problems, arguing that all of them involve unjustified and unexamined …
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Personification of Death
… was to determine the primary personifications of death as perceived by college students. One hundred fifteen students from private and public institutions of higher learning were invited to participate in the study. Surveys from one hundred nine were useable. The questionnaire consisted of a …
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$2 cheesecake death.
$2 Cheesecake Death is a piece of fiction. It details the life of a twenty-four year old girl, Amy Brugger, who finds herself trapped in a life she never wanted. She works as a telemarketer and she is one in a room of a hundred others just like her. Suddenly, without trying too hard, she discovers …
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Molecular Mechanisms of Programmed Necrotic Death Initiated by Intrinsic Death Signals
<p>Proper regulation of cell death is critical for tissue development and homeostasis, with deregulation implicated in many illnesses. Cell death is morphologically categorised as apoptosis, autophagy, and necrosis, with apoptosis being the best studied. BCL-2 family members are critical apoptosis …
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Scared to death: an examination of underlying terror following death awareness
According to Terror Management Theory, when mortality is made salient the potential to experience terror causes powerful worldview defenses to manifest to suppress this potential. Recently, however, the theory has been criticized because no actual evidence has been found to show this potential to …
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Unconscious death-thoughts as a mediator between death awareness and self-forgiveness
… mechanism in unconscious avoidance of death-related anxiety. I posited that Terror Management Theory encapsulates existential motivations for self-forgiveness; that is, I suggested self-forgiveness might buffer self-esteem reductions secondary to guilt and shame. Indeed, accumulated …
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An Examination of Death Salience: A Component in the Death Anxiety Model
… theoretical approaches in the assessment of death anxiety and death attitudes for patients diagnosed with a potentially life threatening illness, such as cancer. This illness experience forces patients to contemplate their mortality. The present study employed a portion of the Death Anxiety …
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Writing of Death: Ethics and Politics of the Death Fast in Turkey
… relationship between the individual right to death and political sovereignty by insisting on the irreducible excess of death over the totalizing closure of the performative acts of political institution. Anchored in participant observation and in-depth interviews with surviving hunger …
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The Death of Lily
… the pathway to notoriety with his theory on the “Death of Philosophy” when a past lover begins stalking him. In the midst of tracking down his pursuer, Thierry will have to deal with an alcoholic Philosophy Chair who can’t prevent the fate of the department, carry on an affair with a professor’s …
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Death of a Journalist
… My thesis is the first six chapters of my novel, Death of a Journalist, and lays the foundation for the conflict between the past and the present the protagonist endures throughout the rest of the work. By focusing on the protagonist's inability to leave his own past and the dying newspaper at …
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Life: Told by Death
<p><em>Life: Told by Death</em> is the story of Sam, a reluctant reaper of souls who isn’t cut out for his fate. This novel follows him from his unwitting entrance into the life of a reaper to his struggle with his new existence and all the way through to his eventual escape into the afterlife.</p>
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