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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"Disappointment"”.
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Understanding Psychological Control Through Differences Between Shame and Disappointment: Implications for Childhood Agression
… two psychological control dimensions, shame and disappointment, play in predicting children's relational and physical aggression. It was additionally of interest to investigate whether warm/involved parenting would moderate the effects of these forms of psychological control on both types of …
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West German foreign policy towards the Arab states, 1967-1979: history of a disappointment
Over the past ten years, a large amount of research on Germany in the Middle East has been undertaken, with many studies focusing on the period of the World Wars or, later, German-Israeli relations. Less well studied, however, are relations between West Germany and the Arab states after 1945. The …
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Development and disappointment : an ethnographic study of Kosovo informal settlement's water and sanitation system upgrade
In the context of rapid urbanisation and growing numbers of informal settlements in peri-urban areas of Cape Town, South Africa, a development project was undertaken by the municipality, to provide Kosovo Informal Settlement with a new communal water and sanitation system that uses vacuum sewerage …
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Disease, Disuse, and Disappointment: The Volunteer Experience and the Modernization of the American National Guard, 1898-1902
This dissertation combines an intimate study of the common volunteers during the Spanish American War with a look into larger institutional changes within the American military at the turn of the Twentieth Century and the development of a modern National Guard. The Spanish American War left a …
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Cognitive Reappraisal in Middle Childhood
… and asked to self-report on their CR after the disappointment task. As hypothesized, there was variability in level of CR use during the disappointment task. Contrary to hypothesis, children’s CR was not related to parent CR. Nor was the association between parent CR and child CR moderated by …
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The Expectations, Experience, and Consequences of Curiosity Resolution
… strategically heighten anticipated feelings of disappointment in order to protect against actual disappointment when the outcome is revealed; thus, I predict and demonstrate in four studies that curious consumers will display heightened levels of pre-resolution feelings of anticipated …
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The House that Grief Built
… bridges that connect dreams and reality, disappointment and hope, estrangement and love.
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Dialectic of Disillusionment: The Political Thought of Ex-Communists, c. 1929 - c. 1939
… that found it greatest confirmation and final disappointment in the Second World War—a long-expected repeat of the First, and at the same time essentially different. The ground had been prepared over the course of the 1930s, but it was this disappointment that closed this chapter of Marxism’s …
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The paper tiger and its predecessors: An ethnologic history of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act
… Freedom Act has proven to be a terrible disappointment for the Indians all across the country. This act presupposed an analogy between Native American ceremonial practices and Euro-American religions, but Native American ceremonies involve a broader range social institutions than …
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An Examination of the Basis for Poor Growth Performance in the Hybrid Grass Carp
… macrophytes. However, the hybrid proved a disappointment due to its poor growth performance and consumption rate. Investigation of the physiology, morphology, behavior, metabolism, and energy budgets of the hybrid and its parental species shows several traits being responsible for the …
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Tragic philosophy and human desire : bringing Nietzsche and Plato into conversation with contemporary ethics.
… of affairs necessary to fulfill desires-that is, disappointment. And out of disappointment, one may fulfill-without-ceasing the will to power in ever new forms of creation, thus affirming the activity that is life. Chapters five through seven offer an interpretation of Plato, in which he presents …
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Emancipatory education and democratic politics: An analysis of the sociological imagination in a first grade classroom
… in society and education, I have pursued with disappointment existing democratic and humanizing trails in schools. Excited to exit one district and move to another known as “exceptional” in the region, I found myself even more limited by a tightly controlled system. Unwilling to give up hope, I …
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Image repair and the airline industry crisis.
… industry in combating high levels of consumer disappointment. By using the current literature on crisis communication and image repair, this study should lend itself to increased knowledge of what the airlines have done, what they are currently doing, and what they should do in the future …
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Yet trouble came
… theme. This theme, I suppose, is South African Disappointment. The scope of this abstract does not allow a full explain what I mean by this term, but Stephen Watson's immortal essay A Version of Melancholy expresses it beautifully; as does some of Damon Galgut's writing, Don Maclennan's poetry, …
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James White and the Development of Seventh-day Adventist Organization, 1844-1881
… the Millerite movement of the 1840s. After the Disappointment of 1844 the unique features of Sabbatarian Adventism emerged--in particular, the seventh-day Sabbath and the ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary--and were consolidated among scattered groups of believers by the end …
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Small bits of color: stories
… do—by confronting personal loss, professional disappointment, and the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be a person in the twenty- first century. As Katie takes steps towards restarting her life on the opposite side of the country, Johnny struggles to understand the implications of …
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Barriers to Career Advancement in the Music Products Industry: Experiences and Reflections of Women
… feelings of skepticism/withdrawal, apathy, disappointment, depressions/hurt, confusion, worry/worthlessness, and hope/optimism after the experience. The data found that experiencing a barrier to career advancement for these women meant that their feelings about their job changed from mostly …
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A study of marriage relationships in selected poems of Robert Frost
… wife, and of those attitudes which can produce disappointment in marriage. In general, meaningful man-woman relationships were found to be based on these attitudes: a special rapport or intuitive insight which existed between two people; the idea that two-united are sufficient unto themselves, …
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The Impact of Accountability on School Dropouts: The Students' Voices
… study cited a lack of alternative schooling and disappointment with the systems as other factors that influenced their decision to drop out of school. Furthermore, participants did not feel that school accountability had an influence on their decision to leave school.
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Adolescent Mothers' Relationships With Their Children's Biological Fathers: Social Support, Social Strain, and Relationship Continuity
… childcare) but was also associated with more disappointment with fathers. Results indicated that father support was not associated with adolescent mothers' psychological adjustment. On the other hand, father strain had negative effects on psychological adjustment that were buffered by support …
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