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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"Loving"”.
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In loving memory of young Ella
In Loving Memory of Young Ella is a narrative film about a fourteen-year-old girl named Ella, who must find ways to rebuild both her dream and her relationship with her parents, especially her father after everything in her world seems to be shaken and torn apart. While navigating between the dream …
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Moral Challenges in Loving the Unlovable
Love can be horrible: it can alienate us from others, distort our basic capacities for human connection, turn us into morally worse people. This dissertation is about the morally dark side of love. Chapter One is about how love itself can alienate lovers from one another. This occurs in everyday …
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The carers’ perspective: loving someone with health issues
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a carer training programme delivered alongsideCognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST). Design and Subjects: The project used a mixed methodology design. It comprised a single blind, randomised control trial and a thematic analysis of focus group interviews …
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The politics of loving blackness in the UK
Can ‘loving blackness’ become a new discourse for anti-racism in the UK and the broader black diaspora? This thesis will critically assess the concept of ‘loving blackness as political resistance’ as outlined by the African American feminist bell hooks (1992). The thesis will show the ways in which …
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Anointing as the Iconic Interruption of the Loving God
… as an experience of iconic interruption of the loving God within the context of the suffering, vulnerability, and dying of a member of the Christian community. </p><p> Liessjen, writing on a postmodern understanding of the sacrament of anointing , has proposed an outline, a mere sketch of the …
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Foster carers' perspectives: the dilemmas of loving the bureaucratised child
… and thereby "saving" them via a particularistic loving tie. The official role of most carers is to prepare each child for a move, preferably back to their biological family. But the carers' love of and commitment to each child may be in tension with the maintenance of children's contact with …
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Towards a loving justice: Kinship activism against femicide in Argentina
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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DIFFERENTIATING THE EFFECTS OF BRIEF LOVING-KINDNESS MEDITATION ON PROSOCIAL RESPONSES
Loving-Kindness Meditation (LKM) is a type of meditative practice to cultivate loving-kindness and compassion towards oneself and others. Emerging research has provided encouraging data on the effectiveness of LKM on prosociality. Yet, it remains unclear how and which components of LKM intervention …
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Emotion recogniton in students with social anxiety: loving-kindness as an intervention
… to determine the possible therapeutic effects of loving-kindness meditation for social anxiety disorder. Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is a specific subtype of mindfulness aimed at enhancing empathic understanding of emotional and situational awareness of self and others and, therefore, shows …
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Exploring Loving Kindness Meditation; understanding the practice, and its relationship with wellbeing
… thesis I seek to establish an understanding of Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM), and to identify and evaluate the effects on wellbeing, that are claimed by practitioners and previous research. The context in which the thesis sits is the current focus on finding ways to improve wellbeing in the …
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The effect of loving kindness meditation and student teachers stress and empathy
… guided mindfulness training practice: loving kindness meditation.
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I rest your loving obedient wife: marital relationships in Scotland 1650-1850
… husband, John Clerk, with the words ‘I rest your loving obedient wife’. These words, or a variation on them, were a common subscript for wives during the seventeenth century. The combination of the words loving and obedient could be used through habit or consciously for effect, yet, in most cases, …
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"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
<p>This thesis blends emotions history and political history by exploring the role of indignation in antebellum American politics, focusing on the northern reaction to the May 1856 caning of Charles Sumner. The study begins by situating indignation in its nineteenth-century cultural context. A …
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Loving care for a person with dementia: from phenomenological findings to lifeworld theatre.
Compassion and empathy are essential characteristics of healthcare providers, yet the public sees provider compassion as lacking. Physician empathy also decreases during medical training. While the traditional scientific model of objective principles predominates the medical field, more recent …
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Loving without memory: on the concept of salvation from Deleuze's Spinoza to Spinoza's Deleuze
<p>In this dissertation, I read Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy in light of its debt to that of Benedict de Spinoza to argue that an immanent and non-teleological conception of salvation can be found throughout Deleuze’s later works. I critically examine Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza found in his 1968 …
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Down the rabbit hole: an ethnography on loving, desiring and tindering in Cape Town
This ethnography on loving, desiring and tindering offers insights into how the dating application (app) Tinder is adopted in establishing various kinds of intimacy in Cape Town. Given the scholarly neglect of intimacy's sensory aspects (especially when looking at Africa), the study, based on …
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The Influence of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Everyday Experiences of Being Angry: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
Loving-Kindness meditation is a Buddhist practice than involves sending and receiving mental wishes of well-being and happiness in order to cultivate positive feeling states and relieve suffering. This qualitative study examines the effects of Loving-Kindness meditation on everyday experiences of …
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