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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Disappointments"”.
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Dreams and disappointments: Chinese undergraduates and investment in the US writing classroom
… can serve this new cohort. In ""Dreams and Disappointments,"" I argue that composition’s post-1970s movement toward student-centered and rhetorical pedagogies has unwittingly left us with classrooms that marginalize these students in the white-dominated institutions their tuition dollars …
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The struggles, successes and disappointments of carrying out Action Research: A reflective analysis of a 25 week syllable intervention across two schools focusing on improving reading and spelling in young children aged between five and nine years old.
… thesis chronicles the successes, struggles and disappointments of carrying out Action Research with 15 members of staff and 300 children from various year groups across two schools. The research centres around a 25 week intervention aimed at improving syllable awareness with the view it might …
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Warm Enough To Undress
… begins to dissolve. These stories are about disappointments and triumphs in love, affinity, and desire.
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A Qualitative Descriptive Study of the Needs of Older Adults Recently Diagnosed with Cancer
… that are generally positive but not without disappointments, (b) Challenges in Managing the Cancer Experience: Barriers to feeling normal and hurdles to overcome, and (c) Coping with the Cancer Experience: Handling the cancer journey with mental adaptation and external support. These themes …
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Hearing the Silenced: Stories From the Borders of Mathematics Education
… Maya's re-membered stories of the past highlight disappointments, frustrations, joys, victories, and failures. These stories merge with the present, and in doing so, provide readers with a better understanding of these women's present day mathematical experiences. One issue of significant …
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The Reasons for Consumption and Non-Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages by Residence Hall Students at State University College at Brockport
… and peer pressure to dealing with crisis or disappointments. Survey questions on the reasons for abstaining from drinking included health concerns, religious beliefs, bad past experiences, and school sport expectations. Quantity and frequency of drinking was also measured based on age, …
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Trackers
… The characters in these stories experience disappointments that result from the physical and emotional distancing of families. In "Tokens," a woman's attempts at revenge on her cheating husband are unsatisfying because she ends up feeling more alone than before. In "Trackers," eleven-year …
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A discursive analysis of children's recreational adult-organized sport : when do children get to play?
… enjoyed their season many also expressed serious disappointments. Size and particularly skill very much determined who was most involved in the action and thus actually played baskethaW. Gender also played a significant role in their sport experiences. My findings invite questions about what …
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An Integrated Literature Review of Trust and Well-being and Implications for Trust Models and Positive Psychology
… other, and 5) continuing to trust in the face of disappointments. The second implication is that positive psychology should embrace trust as an area for research and application and trust researchers should seek out and collaborate with positive psychologists. Further research on the concept of …
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Muted Resistance
… pervasive in them. They depict the depths and disappointments of existence and the potential for defiant aggression. I am embracing the ferocity and hostility of life and the violent reactions that lie dormant.
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The Negotiation of Midlife: Exploring the Subjective Experience of Ageing
… and then accept the natural losses and disappointments that life inevitably brings.
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Consoling frustrated scholars: a copy of a parting gift by Wen Zhengming
… with audiences who empathized with their disappointments. A longing to serve in the government is visible when these paintings are considered in relation to earlier literati art. The sketch-like traces of a ledge that is in all of the copies except Farewell in the Garden, hint to the …
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Building a Secret House of Words. On Writing Come with Me: The Coyote Has Been Howling All Night
… London, where she initially experiences great disappointments, the secret language of her childhood becomes a shelter for her soul and as she grows stronger it continues to enrich her life, while being influenced by a poetic language belonging to the London Underworld, as well as Cockney …
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INDIGENOUS CHRISTIANITY: EARLY MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN NIAS, INDONESIA (1865-1908)
… and how mutual misunderstandings and disappointments arose, as Niasan interpretations often diverged from the transcendentalist vision of the missionaries, leading to selective appropriation and rejection of Christian teachings. Part III addresses the emergence of a distinct Niasan …
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Lucky's : a novel ; and, Changing voices : a study of narration and arrangement
… 2002. Asquith’s daughter, Emily, faces her own disappointments: her marriage ends and she loses her newspaper job. But Emily’s luck changes when a friend (with an ulterior motive) commissions her to write for The New Yorker about the tragic history of Lucky’s empire. Now broke, Lucky is …
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An exploration of customer perceptions of temporality in contemporary customer complaint behaviour using social media: Exceptional experiences in luxury London hotels
… Further research might also explore temporal disappointments and consequences of complaint making, such as customer feelings of regret or embarrassment.
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Down the rabbit hole: an ethnography on loving, desiring and tindering in Cape Town
… manoeuvred by study participants despite disappointments, uncertainties and hurt. What these approaches of stretching oneself beyond profiled essences entailed is at the heart of this ethnography. The resolute, adaptive usage of Tinder despite disillusionments owes to the app offering …
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Practising politics in the Pacific islands : insider perspectives
… see their work, including their triumphs and disappointments, and explores why they seek election, and why they ultimately leave. What emerges from this portrait is a picture of a group of people undertaking a job that is both functional and intrinsically meaningful. I argue that popular …
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Practising politics in the Pacific islands : insider perspectives
… see their work, including their triumphs and disappointments, and explores why they seek election, and why they ultimately leave. What emerges from this portrait is a picture of a group of people undertaking a job that is both functional and intrinsically meaningful. I argue that popular …
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The Historical Development of Higher Education in Bermuda
… was characterized by a series of struggles and disappointments, with neither a sense of continuity nor a marked evolutionary process. It is, therefore, safe to conclude that the evidence presented substantiated the thesis that the development of higher education in Bermuda was a discontinuous …
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