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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Misfortune"”.
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Mitigating misfortune
As flooding continues to be a major issue in cities across the United States, there is an increasing need to manage stormwater on private property rather than allowing the water to run off into sewer systems. This project explores why homeowners should retrofit their single-family residential …
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Aristotle and the Cynics on happiness and misfortune
… its relation to fortune, and in particular, misfortune, as it is treated in both Aristotle and his contemporaries, the ancient Cynics. It is my thesis that fortune has a problematic status in relation to happiness in Aristotle’s ethical and political thought: Aristotle’s consideration of …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
… The understanding that immorality is linked to misfortune is so tightly woven into the fabric of social life that people define this axiom as a 'commandment', linking it to biblical scripture, as well as to their own identity as Christians (Catholics and Anglicans). The plurality of religious …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
… The understanding that immorality is linked to misfortune is so tightly woven into the fabric of social life that people define this axiom as a 'commandment', linking it to biblical scripture, as well as to their own identity as Christians (Catholics and Anglicans). The plurality of religious …
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The things they carried: The biological residue of childhood misfortune
… well-established relationship between childhood misfortune and adult health, but how these early-life experiences “get under the skin” to later manifest as poor health is less clear. To elucidate this process, this dissertation investigates (1) how childhood conditions influence immune …
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The imagined wealth and real misfortune in nineteenth-century Russian prose
ABSTRACT This dissertation is an endeavor to read Russian classics by concentrating on the economic mechanisms underlying the works' plot development, rather than on the metaphysical and psychological issues involving the protagonists’ disillusionment with life and society. This work analyzes …
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Schadenfreude: The Impact of Another's Misfortune on the Mood of College Students
… scores increase after viewing an example of misfortune which would demonstrate the psychological phenomenon of <em>schadenfreude</em>-defined as a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction when something misfortunate happens to someone else. Measures used in the study included the Positive and …
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Living in the navel of Waag: ritual traditions among the Daasanech of South West Ethiopia
… as a means to induce wellbeing and to tackle misfortune. The dissertation starts with a brief situating of the Daasanech in their environmental and historical context. Chapter two an outline of the different social categories a Daasanech is born into or requires during his life. Special …
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Sacred ceremony and magical praxis in Jewish texts of early and late antiquity
… and disobedience resulted in the infliction of misfortune. A state of disorder, labelled “the ways of the Emorites”, was perceived by Judaeans as the realm of superstition and foreign practices, typified by idolatry, incest and bloodshed. Sacrifice in the Temple allowed people to fulfil God's …
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Dasteh-Gül
… who stumbles through the gardens of divinity and misfortune. As a physical exhibition is not feasible at the time of writing, the thesis is left in a state of unforeseeable incompletion.
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The long arm of childhood bereavement : parental death and pathways to adult health and educational inequalities.
… parental death is a distinct form of childhood misfortune that sets in motion chains of risk leading to disparities in health and educational attainment among young adults. This dissertation uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to examine the …
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Beyond Dissolution and Dispersion: A Phenomenological Analysis of Student Perception as Related to Resiliency
… "the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change (Henderson, 2004, p. 7). Students from the former Duquesne City High School endured a difficult event in their school closure. Other various events and aspects of social and academic development were interacting simultaneously. …
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Drivers of Climate Change? Political and Economic Explanations of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
… reforms are unlikely to change this misfortune; and (2) that ambitious public emission limits may lead to emission reductions, but such policies are not necessarily driven forward by economic growth.
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The Eighteenth North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
… of the autumn. In May, 1863, it had the misfortune to be the "friendly" unit that wounded Gen. Stonewall Jackson in the woods near Chancellorsville. At Gettysburg, the 18th North Carolina assaulted the Union center with the rest of the ill-fated soldiers in Pickett’s Charge. The regiment …
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Delivered Without Peril: Birth Girdles and Childbirth in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
… dangers: death in battle, disease, weather, or misfortune, among others. Some prayer rolls promised specific protections for pregnant and laboring women. These prayer rolls have been designated as "birth girdles." During the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, both hand produced and printed birth …
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The Impact of Schadenfreude as an Emotional Frame in Crisis Communications on Perception of Corporate Reputation
… when a person or organization suffers a misfortune or set back) was re-introduced to the field to better assess its potential role in the crisis communication process, specifically its relationship with perceived corporate reputation. Additionally, both third-person effect and social …
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At Risk Students and Resiliency
… as the ability to recover or adjust easily from misfortune or change. Resiliency might also be defined as an individual’s ability to effectively cope with challenges in a stressful environment. However, this definition does not account for those who are, at one point, not able to effectively cope …
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