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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Disillusionment"”.
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Spellbound...?: A hermeneutic response to disillusionment in the contemporary university
… attention. In recent years, a state of disillusionment among UK academics has been observed, and attributed in part to a belief that the economic mandate of the contemporary university has become alienated from its academic mission. This thesis aims to further explore and understand this …
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The Decades Of Disillusionment: Essays On Indian Literature And Cinema After Nehru
This dissertation is a study of themes of disillusionment and disappointment in modern Indian literature and cinema. The death of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, marks the symbolic starting point for the project. Part I of the dissertation focuses on the period of crisis between …
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Dialectic of Disillusionment: The Political Thought of Ex-Communists, c. 1929 - c. 1939
… to make sense, that drove the dialectic of disillusionment. At the same time, other factors worked in the opposite direction, preventing a total break. Didn’t the coming of the Second World War confirm Lenin in his forecast of an epoch of wars and revolutions? Wasn’t the Great Depression a …
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Dominance, Deference, and Disillusionment: An Empirical Comparison Between Ambivalent Sexism and the Red Pill Ideology
Some scholars have suggested that blatant expression of negative and antagonistic attitudes toward women has become rare over the last several decades. However, proliferation of the manosphere—a group of online communities that promotes misogyny and anti-feminism—suggests otherwise. Within the …
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Storying disillusionment : a decolonial reading of selected plays by Cheela Chilala, Blessing Hungwe, and Dunduzu Chisiza Jr
… thread that connects all these texts is that of disillusionment with post- independence, postcolonial contexts. Using a constructivist research paradigm, critical discourse analysis as a methodological approach, and script analysis as a method, the study seeks possible traces of colonial patterns …
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Gender Revolution of the Jazz Age: The Source of Disillusionment in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
The Lost Generation was forced to develop their own principles regarding gender identity in an environment of ever-shifting cultural norms, which called into question all of their predetermined ideas on femininity, masculinity, and the ways in which members of the opposite sex should interact with …
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If I Tell Them, Will They Listen? Voices of Former Teachers
… decisions to leave teaching were initiated by disillusionment with teaching. Disillusionment stemmed from unexpected problems in motivating and disciplining students, in giving a fair amount of time and attention to each student, and in overriding their own emotions, particularly the empathetic …
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"L'illusion Dans Le Cinema De l'Afrique Noire Francophone: Une Lecture De ""La Vie Est Belle"", ""Le Franc"", ""Saaraba"" Et ""touki-Bouki"""
… certain binary relationships such as dreams and disillusionment, and being and becoming.
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Saints of Grand Rapids
… and attempt to empathize with the despair and disillusionment many working class Americans express in response to their economic and social realities, and the stories attempt to walk a non-judgmental line regarding the attitudes these characters espouse. Instead of judging the characters or …
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Counselling psychologists’ experience of their professional identity whilst working in an IAPT service : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… in this setting, contributing to burn-out, disillusionment and job dissatisfaction. Semi-structures interviews were conducted with six counselling psychologists with experience of working in IAPT services, which were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Their experience …
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In the eternal shade
This is a novella concerning modern disillusionment, gender roles, and interpersonal relationships. Leon, Cheryl, and Alex are a family that lives outside of a small Indiana town, near a small stand of trees. Leon is working on a graphic novel based on the journal of great-great-great-grandfather, …
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The Best of the Wreck
… This childlike imagination is juxtaposed with disillusionment, coming-of-age, and the failures of intimate relationships. Written in a range of forms and meters, including fable-like rhymes and gnomic stanzas, these poems investigate our instincts for physical pleasure while questioning what we …
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Who is this self I'm supposed to be expressing? : narrative inquiry into the art and learning of twelve women visual arts students
… and assist the student through the inevitable disillusionment. The study focuses on positive learning experiences and defines the concepts of the "good enough teacher" who models the skills and knowledge of art making, who makes knowledge available to students, and who fosters the student's …
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CRACKING OUR WEARINESS AND CONTRITION: CONFRONTING THE LAST STATE OF THE HEART IN JORGE LUIS BORGES’S “THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS” AND JORGE VOLPI’S IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR
… traditions of the historically great authors. Disillusionment occurs not only from the type of writing entering mainstream society, but also because of a shift in cultural values: video games, television, and virtual reality have replaced the epistemological search for knowledge and identity. …
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CRACKING OUR WEARINESS AND CONTRITION: CONFRONTING THE LAST STATE OF THE HEART IN JORGE LUIS BORGES’S “THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS” AND JORGE VOLPI’S IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR
… traditions of the historically great authors. Disillusionment occurs not only from the type of writing entering mainstream society, but also because of a shift in cultural values: video games, television, and virtual reality have replaced the epistemological search for knowledge and identity. …
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Calpurnius Siculus: Exploring pastoral en route to the city
… optimism with the pastoral genre in Eclogue 1 to disillusionment in Eclogue 7 is explored with particular focus on his ambiguous use of language and his representation of ‘unnatural’ nature. His imperial panegyric is considered alongside contemporary writers of the early Empire to counter …
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A morphological-poetic approach to Hemingway's "Up in Michigan"
… concealing the inward psychological phenomena of disillusionment within linguistic substructures which only release their meaning when seen as poetic forces playing against each other beneath the narrative level, Hemingway forces “form” to express the theme that appearance is deceptive.
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A Light Divided (Original short stories)
… This volume treats themes of isolation, longing, disillusionment, fear of the unknown, within a context of reflective living. These characters live deliberately, sucking out the "marrow" of life; they are characters who live simple, unglamorous, yet courageous lives.
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An Analysis of Sales People's Perceptions of Performance Appraisal Criteria at a Telecommunications Corporation.
… The study was prompted by the perceived disillusionment of the sales people with the current performance appraisal criteria. The perceptions of 67 sales people were assessed using a questionnaire developed by the researcher. One-way analysis of variance procedures (ANOVA) were used to …
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More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
… expectations, but 1914 quickly tumbled into disillusionment and violence. For John Purroy Mitchel, New York City's new "boy mayor," the trouble started in January, when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow and dozens of the city's homeless froze to death. By April, anarchist …
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