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Giving the Ghost
Giving the Ghost is the written masters thesis that accompanies the exhibition of the same title by the artist Will Hutchinson.
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Giving the Ghost
Giving the Ghost is the written masters thesis that accompanies the exhibition of the same title by the artist Will Hutchinson.
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Cognitively-inspired direction giving
Online mapping services and portable GPS units make it easy to get very detailed driving directions. While these directions are sufficient for an automaton to follow, they do not present a big picture description of the route. As a result, while people can follow these detailed turn-by-turn …
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Giving Architecture to Fire
For centuries, fire has been a sacred symbol from the eastern cultures to western regions. As one of the four states of matter, fire represents the great essence in our daily lives as an energy source with its warmth, light and aura, kindling feelings of truth and spirituality within us. In his …
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Giving Money versus Giving Time: The Effect of Moral Compensation on Evaluation of Transgressions
… who compensate with money (versus time), by giving to an unrelated charitable cause, feel less guilty about their past misdeed and perceive the behavior to be less immoral. Conversely, when the charitable cause is related to the transgression, compensating with time or money both reduce guilt …
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Charitable Giving: Motivations, Deterrents & Consequences
<p>Charitable giving has been suggested to be beneficial to everyone involved in the activity. This study has shown charitable giving can be costly to involved participants. Motives, deterrents and outcomes of charitable giving will be discussed in this paper. Implications for future practice and …
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Giving Voice to Life's Experiences
Short fiction and poetry.
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Giving Up and Giving In: Young Adolescents' Dilemmas when Caring for a Grandparent with Alzheimer's Disease
… and adult children, negating the impact caregiving has on younger family members. Importantly, 75% of caregivers are female; 31% of these women have children at home under the age of 12 and 23% live with a child aged 12–17. As such, adolescents will be increasingly involved in the care of …
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Some economic aspects of corporate giving
This study examines corporation giving for charitable and philanthropic purposes. There has been a substantial increase in the scale of this activity during the past few decades. Three alternative hypotheses have been advanced to explain the economic motivation of corporate giving. This study tests …
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An Analysis of the Variables Associated with Alumni Giving and Employee Giving to a Mid-Sized Southeastern University
… the body of knowledge of the variables of alumni giving and employee giving at the participating university.</p>
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Giving Voice To The Values Of Nurses
… A moral courage course was developed based on “Giving Voice to Values” written by Mary Gentile (Gentile, 2009). The course was modified to address the specific work setting of frontline nurses. This training we taught in four-hour virtual sessions via Zoom: Video Conferencing software. …
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Factors of Giving to a Midwestern University
… the factors that contribute to alumnae/i giving at a Midwestern university. Creswell’s (2014) post-positivist perspective was used as the theoretical framework, which is consistent with quantitative research and the scientific method. A need for further exploration of the factors and …
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Gift-giving of toys from adults to children.
… study is the consumer behaviour habits of adults giving of toys to children aged 11 and under as gifts. It is borne out of a need to understand why adults buy gifts for children adding to the issues on consumption practices and materialism. It begins by discussing the issues of researching with …
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Giving up the Ghost: Death in the Depression
<p>The preceding section is the human evidence behind this paper: what did the Great Depression feel like? What was it like to live in a Hooverville? To travel across the country in a rundown Jalopy? To Jump freight trains and live in box cars? To go on relief? What impact did the depression have …
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Voicing desistance: Female perspective on giving up crime
Criminological theory and research has historically focused on explaining how people get into crime and much less on how and why they stop, despite the perennial finding that most of those with convictions do eventually stop offending. The very meaning of ‘desistance’ however has been much …
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An Investigation of Advice Giving in the Íslendingasögur
This thesis examines the advice-giving practices depicted in the *Íslendingasögur* (Sagas of the Icelanders), especially how they form, structure, and alter relationships. It argues that Icelandic society as depicted in these sagas benefits from advice-giving norms, which can facilitate …
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The Demographics, Psychographics, Reasons for Giving, and Reasons for Not Giving of Alumni Donors and Nondonors to Two Seventh-day Adventist Universities
… support. The predictors of Adventist alumni giving behavior are vital in order to optimize the fundraising capability of a university, but perceptions of who gives among Adventist alumni and why they give or do not give are not based on research.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>This empirical study …
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Giving voice to the vulnerable: Advocacy and oncology nursing
Despite common use of the term, there is no consensus among nursing professionals on a definition of advocacy, how to teach it, measure it, and determine its effectiveness. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to generate descriptions of the cognitive and social processes of advocacy as it …
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Begging and Alms-Giving in Urban Ireland, 1815-1850
… coupled with traditional practices of alms-giving, ensured that mendicancy prevailed to a considerable extent. Beggary was never far from discussion and debate, in a period when the poor law question was arguably central to public discourse. This thesis examines contemporary efforts to …
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