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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"Personal Narratives"”.
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Personal Narratives & Their Unique Personalities
… the audience some consolation by sharing one’s personal and emotional experiences. Since memoir-writing is an act of generosity, the essay also endorses the principle of crafting these narratives with love and one’s being—hands, voice, and other tangible ingredients. It focuses primarily on …
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Leadership: Personal Narratives of Practitioners
… of journey and conversation, along with 22 personal narratives to help differentiate the nature of leadership from management theory. Of the 22 narratives the researcher analyzed 5 stories describing the participants' lived experiences fit Rost's definition. Six stories partially reflected …
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Acts of Resistance: Nurses' Personal Narratives
… for their stories of acts of resistance. The narratives were analyzed using an approach that combined the methods of other narrative researchers. The narratives of these eleven nurses revealed their experiences in the hierarchical world health care. The nurses recognized the concepts of acts …
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Deep Emotion Analysis of Personal Narratives
… to investigate this emotion concept, we analyze Personal Narratives (PN) - recollection of events, facts, or thoughts from one’s own experience, - which are rich in emotional information and are less explored in emotion analysis research. PNs are widely used in psychotherapy and thus also in …
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Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives
… thesis, we aim to use NLP systems to humanize personal experiences through identifying similarity in personal narratives based on empathic resonance as opposed to raw semantic or lexical similarity. We present a novel task for the retrieval of empathically similar stories, as well as the first …
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Approaching devices in personal narratives in Lambayeque, Peru
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Cultivating One Woman's Personal Narratives: Harvests From the Heart
Personal writing allows writers to clarify their values, gain a stronger sense of self-esteem, and preserve their identity. Within her thesis, Coberley uses a cultivation analogy to explore the similarities/requirements in the growth processes of personal writing and gardening: adaptability, good …
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The values of nature: personal narratives of conservation in South Africa
… explores the values of nature through the personal narratives of landowners in the Overberg area of Western Cape, South Africa. In the past, scholarly literature has imagined nature as separated from the human world. Historically, mainstream conservation methods have followed ideals of …
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Liberian Refugee Women's Personal Narratives on the Effects of War on Motherhood
… gaps, this phenomenological study utilized the narratives of four</p><p>African refugee mothers from Liberia to further our understanding of how displacement</p><p>by war affects mothers' beliefs about childhood, and the social and cognitive</p><p>competencies they desired and inculcated in …
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Bridging the Gap: An Evaluation of Involuntary Commitment Personal Narratives and Academic Literature
… involuntary commitment academic literature and personal narratives in order to establish the argument that personal narratives can be used to enhance the protection of individuals’ rights and welfare in cases of involuntary commitment. Through a historical analysis, academic literature revealed …
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How I Got Here: Personal Narratives of Youth Mental Health Difficulties and Recovery
… analysis identified five different types of narratives participants used to describe their experiences. This variation was largely based on different causal explanations that young people utilised to account for their difficulties. These explanations appeared to shape their subsequent …
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The Structure of Cultural Orientations to the Good Life and their Expression in Personal Narratives
… and beneficence pole. In Study 2, the content of personal narratives produced by Chinese and South Asian students was analyzed to examine whether their contrasting orientations to the good life would be reflected in the kinds of life experiences they recounted. Some evidence of correspondence in …
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Performing the Personal Within the Organizational: Communicating Professional Identities Through Taiwanese Commercial Airline Pilots' Personal Narratives
… in order to understand how they construct their personal, social, and professional identities. Five narrative themes were identified and demonstrated in this project: (1) It takes a lot to become a commercial airline pilot, (2) Being a professional commercial airline pilot is to build up …
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Too Much Information: Agency and Disruptions of Power in Personal Narratives of Mental Illness and Suffering
… Careful analysis of the rhetoric of published personal narratives written by women describing their experiences with mental healthcare reveals the ways in which medical knowledge is created, owned, and disseminated only by the “authoritative expert,” defined as healthcare professionals who …
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The Personal Is Political: Promoting Empathy Through the Exchange of Personal Narratives About Gender Towards Social Change
<p>This paper explores the potential of personal narrative in promoting empathy-based social change. It begins with the premise that humans are storytelling animals; we use narrative to make sense of the self and the world around us. Moreover, when stories are shared, a kinship is created between …
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What happens when you use multicultural mentor texts as read alouds to generate ideas for writing personal narratives?
… as read alouds to generate ideas for writing personal narratives in 3rd grade readers and writers. By utilizing these mentor texts as read alouds this study seeks to determine what effects they have on writing personal narratives. The students in this study listened to weekly teacher read …
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“They probably got us all on the news”: Personal Narratives and Public Trauma in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… I demonstrate that the ways in which survivors’ personal stories are shared with larger audiences can either confirm or confound stereotypical representations of the narrators’ communities, with material consequences for their immediate aid and ongoing recovery. The approaches that drive my …
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In their own words: an analysis of personal narratives from fathers' perspectives on the death of a child
In this study I assessed a causal model between caregivers’ prior relationship to care-receivers, commitment to the relationship, and depression in parental and spousal caregiving, based on social exchange and commitment theory. Data (N=695) from the National Survey of Families and Households …
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From big data to personal narratives: a supervised learning framework for decoding the course of traumatic brain injury in intensive care
The management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the intensive care unit (ICU) generates vast clinical data, much of which is never analysed or interpreted. At the same time, the dynamic, complex disease course of TBI is not sufficiently characterised for truly patient-tailored treatment. This …
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