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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Desperation"”.
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Transformational leadership theory: creative advance or theoretical desperation
… leadership theory represents "theoretical desperation" in a sociological sub-discipline increasingly perceived to be unproductive of significant results. While the relationship between charisma and extra effort holds up in the present study, the connection is problematic, since extra effort …
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Cultivating the Desperation Point: Amplifying the Perceptibility of Climate Resilient Design
Utilizing the psychology of emotional connection and response to art, this thesis aims to amplify climate-resilient site and ecosystem design methods through the use of art - pavilions, exhibits, sculpture, and art installations –to connect the visitor emotionally with the facts and effects of …
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Nietzsche’s “Toys of Desperation” or <i>The Birth of Tragedy</i> as dramaturgical alternative
<p>This thesis provides a close reading of Friedrich Nietzsche’s <i>The Birth of Tragedy</i>, with particular attention paid to his use of the “principle of individuation.” The major question this thesis confronts is whether Nietzsche’s text might provide illuminative insights for the study of …
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The Essence of Desperation: Accounting for Counterinsurgency Doctrines as Solutions to Warfighting Failures in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Why does counterinsurgency emerge during periods of warfighting failure and in crisis situations? How is it conceptualized and legitimized? As the second counterinsurgency era for the United States military ends, how such a method of warfare arises, grips the military, policy makers, and think …
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Necessary Fire
… about the deluge of joy, grief, fear, passion, desperation, wonder, salvation, and destruction that accompanies devotion to children, partners, relatives, and friends.
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Craving What You Still Have
… an almost euphoric realization of the need and desperation that is attached with being a woman.</p>
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Herstory : Maidei Chivi, an HIV positive Zimbabwean woman
… characterised by poverty, coerced sex and desperation. Maidei's story demonstrates that economic security does not necessarily result in women taking decision making roles during sex.
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Domino Effect and Other Stories
… these stories involve the themes of employment, desperation, domino effect, and moral judgments. The first three stories are episodic in nature, and thus connected. They chronicle the life and downfall of a serial burglar. The last three stories are not connected in any way to the first three. …
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Shadowgraph and Zoltan's food
… a multicultural, multiracial home. Matsumoto's desperation to blend her father's Japanese heritage and her mother's Irish legacy into a unified whole is illustrated in poems dealing with racism, identity, and acceptance. The second set of poems, Zoltan's Food, chronicles the life of Zoltan, a …
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A Translation with an Introduction of Paolo Zardi's XXI Secolo
… bring this novel about collapse and survival, desperation and hope, betrayal and love, to a wider audience.
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Until it's Safe to Return to My Body
… humans hurt each other and the links between desperation and survival. Ultimately, this novella is a powerful exploration of the complexities of human relationships and the ways in which people navigate the trauma and violence of their pasts.
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The Dirty Five
… starts with a thought. That thought taps into desperation, which causes the imagination to run wild. When Aqua suggested to us that we take what we wanted, at first it didn’t seem like stealing.</p> <p>If only the world had been kinder to us. If the world told us the truth about how cold it was …
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Eugenic Utopia or Postmodern Peril? A Discussion of the Ethics of Reproductive Technology
… large number of multiple births. In their desperation, parents choose to ignore the myriad of health effects children of multiple births will likely suffer, as well as the unfair economic pressure placed upon the surrounding communities to sustain what would otherwise be an unsustainable …
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Cultural policy, state politics, and rural economic development : lessons from Maine
… Initiative. Largely attributable to the state's desperation for economic development, the anomalous political success story of the Creative Economy Initiative is a revealing one, providing a look at how cultural policy can garner high priority status on state policy agendas as well as lessons on …
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The Mirrored Walls Of Reality:a Journal Of Shattered Reflection
… theatrical message: Truth is both the seed of desperation and discovery.
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Environmental refugees : defining environmental migrants, and long term solutions to deal with environmental migration
… to leave their homes and will feel a sense of desperation similar to that of the millions of refugees around the world today who flee political and social unrest. Those who migration due to the degradation of their environment are environmental refugees. Environmental refugees will only be …
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The Mediterranean Crisis
… into Europe, fleeing conflict and economic desperation. European countries felt threatened by this sudden influx of people who either looked different or practiced different religions, and this caused a major backlash in these predominantly Christian countries. Anti-immigrant fever has …
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The impact of exclusion of the urban ultra-poor from public housing on the lives of those excluded
… in this study to accept that people, out of desperation fed by social factors, would continue to occupy land illegally. Policymakers must thus find ways to amicably regulate these invasions. This would help attain a degree of inclusivity and compliance with the Constitutional requirement of …
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