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Showing 1 to 20 of 156 for “"Lonely"”.
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Lonely Mountains
This thesis examines cuteness as it relates to care, culture, and manipulation. Using both scientific studies and cultural theories, this thesis aims to understand these elements of cuteness and relate them to the artwork discussed herein. Additionally, this paper explores layering as an element of …
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Lonely Monsters
Lonely Monsters is a full-length feature screenplay that explores the ways in which a classic damsel narrative may be reconsidered. It offers ideas on how death and girlhood may find symmetry. The characters within Lonely Monsters deal with loss, identity of the self versus the world's ideas on …
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One Lonely Line
… one of its more painful side effects. One Lonely Line is a collection of linked short stories from varying perspectives and points-of-view that examine the inability to achieve or carry a traditional pregnancy. The protagonists hail from many walks of life and deal with various facets of …
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Lonely This Side of Nowhere
<p>In this creative work, the writer explores familial relationships as well as what is home. Combining nonfiction essays, fiction, poetry, and images in one narrative, this work is comprised of multiple stories to create a related narrative. This project is a celebration of storytelling through …
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Social networks for lonely objects
Visions of ubiquitous computing describe a network of devices that quietly supports human goals, but this may also add complexity to an already frustrating relationship between humans and their electronic objects. As we move from vision to reality, there is an opportunity to rethink how we interact …
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I Am A Lonely Engineer
I Am a Lonely Engineer is a collection of poems dealing with the emotional fallout of a speaker whose life has been uprooted by the absence of his father. Through a series of semi-surreal narratives, the speaker eventually comes to terms with his father's absence and begins the process of healing …
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Lonely reflections: Variations in adolescents' trait and state loneliness
Contains fulltext : 127135.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Lonely Mystics: A Practical Theological Analysis of Emerging Post-Secular Spiritualities
… Karl Rahner wrote about the increasingly lonely experience of the individual seeking an experience of God, a reaction to the continuing decline of church attendance and religious adherence. This prediction echoes today in the emergence of a plethora of spiritual offerings available to …
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Understanding and Helping the Lonely: An Evaluation of the LUV Program
These results suggested that a loneliness intervention program geared towards addressing these three problem areas of attachment styles, social skills, and coping can help young adults not only significantly reduce their loneliness and improve in these problem areas, but also show improvements in …
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The lonely voyage: support or isolation for gay men with AIDS?
Twenty-five gay men, 20 with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and 5 with either AIDS Related Complex (ARC) or who tested positive for the AIDS virus, were asked in semi-structured interviews whether they felt supported or isolated. Areas covered included society in general, employment, …
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Lonely Consumers: When, How, and Why Does Loneliness Influence Consumer Behavior?
… loneliness. In Experiments 6-7, I show that lonely consumers with limited cognitive resources are likely to donate money to a charitable organization. Additionally, I find that consumers can regulate feelings of loneliness by spending money either for themselves (i.e., nostalgic products) or …
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DRUMBEAT© for arthritis “ a shared purpose” rather than a “lonely struggle”
Australia is regarded as a healthy nation, with life expectancy one of the highest in the world. Yet the latest National Health Survey tells a very different story. Almost 50% of Australians are now living with one or more chronic conditions, with arthritis and other musculoskeletal (MSK) …
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To Plow a Lonely Furrow: Indigenismo and Mapuche Politics in Chile, 1920-1960
<p>This study examines Mapuche political organization in Chile from 1920-1960 through the lens of transnational indigenismo. In that period, politicians, academics and social reformers across the Americas were questioning how to incorporate indigenous populations into modern national states. While …
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Lusty Rebels and Lonely Men: Interrogating 1950s Masculinity in the Films of Nicholas Ray
… Ray. The male characters depicted in In a Lonely Place (1950), The Lusty Men (1952), and Rebel Without a Cause (1955) fall victim to the inherently performative nature of hegemonic masculinity. Each film deals with a different arena of masculinity relevant to 1950s audiences, namely World …
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The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology
This minor dissertation engages a theoretical feminist discourse to identify the lack of benevolent female relationships in the development of religious mythology. The study explores two diverse belief systems, Hinduism and Shi'ism, in order to demonstrate that the feminine is reduced to a …
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Multisensory XR: Alleviating the Emotional and Physical Needs of Skin Hunger for Lonely Older Adults
In the context of global population ageing and growing attention to health and well-being, the need for physical touch among older adults—particularly those living alone or experiencing loneliness—emerges as an increasingly important area of research, often described as the phenomenon of 'skin …
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A Community of the Lonely: Using Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Narrative to Cultivate Community in America
… diagnoses community in America as comprised of lonely people; it is a collection comprised of those who do not have a community. But, from the standpoint of narrativity, this is not a simple reiteration of the fact that Americans experience loneliness. The notion of narrative highlights our …
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