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Showing 1 to 20 of 129 for “"Human relationships"”.
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Dynamic human relationships with wilderness: Developing a relationship model
… Ph.D., Summer 2008 Forestry</P> <P /> <P>Dynamic human relationships with wilderness: Developing a relationship model</P> <P /> <P>Chair: William T. Borrie</P> <P /> <P>Wilderness managers are charged with the challenging goal of balancing resource protection and experience quality across a broad, …
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Dynamic human relationships with wilderness: Developing a relationship model
… Ph.D., Summer 2008 Forestry</P> <P /> <P>Dynamic human relationships with wilderness: Developing a relationship model</P> <P /> <P>Chair: William T. Borrie</P> <P /> <P>Wilderness managers are charged with the challenging goal of balancing resource protection and experience quality across a broad, …
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Indigenous worldviews meet Western paradigms: a path to renewal of human/non-human relationships
… Western and Indigenous worldviews regarding our human relationship with more-than-human nature. Issues of discrimination and epistemic injustice are contextualised with existing minority and intersectional thought, and distinguished from particular incommensurabilities between the two worldviews …
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The space and time of human relationships in the philosophies of David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
… in this study with the grounds and nature of human relationships as they are conceived in the thought of Hume and Rousseau. By implication, therefore, the notion of the grounds and nature of human relationships varies from person to person. We can hardly think otherwise than that our notions …
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Claiming identity: The effect of the American myth on human relationships in David Mamet's "American Buffalo", "Glengarry Glenn Ross", and "Speed-the-Plow"
… the damage American business has done to the human spirit. The frontier myth has evolved into exploitative capitalism where competition becomes an obstacle for community and friendship. The characters in these plays try to establish and define their identities by their particular status within …
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How do different kinds of contemporary Anglo-American storytelling engage audiences with the complexities of human / nonhuman and more-than-human relationships in the Anthropocene?
This PhD examines the complexities of human / nonhuman and more-than-human relationships in contemporary Anglo-American storytelling. Analyzing Timothy X Atack’s podcast Forest 404, Richard Powers novel The Overstory and Hideo Kojima’s videogame Death Stranding, this thesis explores various …
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Living in virtual communities : an ethnography of life online
… of the issues involved in the development of human relationships in cyberspace. Set within the wider context of the Internet and society it investigates how geographically distant individuals are coming together on the Internet to inhabit new kinds of social spaces or virtual communities. …
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The relationship between abused adolescents and their pets
… Specifically, the differences in the human-animal and human-human relationships among abused adolescents and non-abused ("normal") adolescents were investigated. Additionally, for both types of relationships, differences among owners of abused and non-abused pets were analyzed. …
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The effects of human relations studies on high school students' values
… of high school students. A treatment group (Human Relationships) received specific training in communication skills, intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. Two control groups (Gourmet Foods and Chemistry) followed subject course outlines. The results of independent one-way analysis of …
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Bridging Environmental Education and Nonviolent Communication: The Role of Empathy and Place in Ecological Identity From the Inside Out
… environmental education (EE) because it forges human–nature connection, fosters ecological identity, and motivates proenvironmental behaviour. While EE often cultivates empathy through experiences in nature, it rarely teaches empathic skills explicitly; conversely, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) …
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The Rhythms of Our Bones
… and how the “small,” personal griefs of human relationships echo and form dialogues with the larger, more global griefs of war and violence. Ultimately, at the core of this collection, lies an investigation of family, masculinity, and how all griefs are absorbed and passed down by the …
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Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa
… you, my sister, Palesa – meditating on the dog-Human relationships as sites of racial violence. The core analytic framework and theory I employ to explore these extreme, mundane, and in-between forms of violence, is Afro-Pessimism.
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Participants' lived experiences of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) - an exploratory study
… Through these dynamics between horse and human, participants begin to make links between their experiences in the EAP arena and their world outside of therapy. Often the horse-human relationships mirror those of the participants' human-human relationships. In addition, participants …
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Entangled Relationships Illustrated Through Parasitic Plants
… use of natural forms to metaphorically represent human bonds in my creation of the series of works for my MFA Thesis Exhibition based on interacting relationships between plants. My images focus on parasitic plants, as a metaphor for restrictive and binding aspects of human relationships. Several …
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Carved
… self-discovery and explore the inequalities of human relationships: between being silent and the discovery of one's voice. The collection also addresses humanity's destructive imprint and the resiliency of nature in reclaiming what humanity sought to exploit and conquer. The poems expose the …
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"That Hateful Prairie Wind": Violence and Ecophobia in Twentieth Century American Gothic
… of the natural world, as a way of understanding human relationships with the nonhuman world. This thesis also examines ecophobic tendencies of characters in two twentieth century Gothic novels, Toni Morrison’s <em>The Bluest Eye</em> and Truman Capote’s <em>In Cold Blood</em>. American Gothic …
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Real relationships without divine risk: The biblical portrait of divine-human relationality
… to define and describe the nature of divine-human relationships exists in contemporary evangelicalism. This dissertation presents the biblical case for genuine relationships between God and humans given that God takes no risks. These relationships occur within the context of a world which God …
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A collaborative design process for educational digital resources in African higher education
… higher education. <br></br><br></br>Following a Human Computer Interaction research approach, eleven best practice digital library projects identified from three case studies of African universities (in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa) were investigated. Data was drawn from interviews, …
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Physiological and behavioral responses of genetic lines of chickens to physical and auditory stimuli
… libitum</i>. Socialization, to enhance chicken-human relationships, and auditory playbacks of contentment calls were used as husbandry procedures in the context of environmental enrichment. Socialization involved gentle handling of a sample of the birds while playbacks were of 30 minute …
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Pets' Position within the Family Structure from the Owners' Perspective: Sources and Consequences of Owners' Views
Advances in the study of human relationships abound, but one area is lacking. It is still uncommon to include people's relationships with their pets in these studies. With secondary survey data and regression analysis, the understanding of a pet as a person by its' owner is established. This thesis …
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