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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"Personal stories"”.
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Personal stories go worldwide: the ritual of storytelling through Weblogs.
… In general, weblogs authors are communicating stories online to an interactive mass audience and forming new rituals in a new electronic forum.
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Managing the Medicalization of Madness: A Narrative Analysis of Personal Stories about Mental Illness Online
Emancipatory in spirit this thesis asserts personal narratives are an essential and active contributor to the development of meanings in discourse about mental illness and they have an influential role managing medicalization. The medicalization of madness is increasingly contested as people …
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Making meaning out of high tech: A critical ethnographic retelling of personal stories about the information age
… purportedly global phenomena with their own life stories, or personal biographies."
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Why is the hidden disability of autism so visible in mental health inpatient services? The autistic view from personal stories.
… this study takes a life story approach to gather personal stories of autistic people through loosely semi-structured interview to gain their perspective. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), analysis was checked with each participant to agree a shared interpretation, guarding …
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Examining the Effect of Education Type on Common Misconceptions of Traumatic Brain Injury
… education materials – either a TBI factsheet or personal stories of people with TBI. These materials are currently easily accessible online, but the effect they have on those who read them has not been studied. I explored the influence of these tools on both misconceptions of TBI and …
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More than Words, More than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women and Healing Pedagogies
This project reconceptualizes how women and their personal stories of trauma have been read and represented in literary, feminist, and pedagogical studies, asserting that these authors and their texts should be recognized respectively as wounded healers and healing narratives. By situating my study …
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Mothers' Stories: Influences on Vocabulary and Syntax of African American Children With and Without Language Impairment
… interesting vocabulary and vary their syntax in personal stories told to their children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). It is also concerned with children's gains in vocabulary and syntactic knowledge as a result of listening to these parental stories. The purposes of the …
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The personal experiences of liver transplant and the interactive processes of self-redefinition
… to learn their lived experiences through personal stories. These interviews provided insight into the interactive processes of self-redefinition in response to the threat of fatal disease, miraculous but uncertain reprieve, and guarded recovery.
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As It Seams
Using personal stories, found shopping lists, and symbols of home, this paper examines the aesthetics of the everyday through textile recreations. The works produced for this thesis are informed by my cultural heritage as a settler on the island of Newfoundland, my desire to create a more inviting …
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The Function of Landcape Description in Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
… develops a complex plot involving a number of personal stories, interrelated by their reference to the development of a silver mine near Sulaco, and by their connection with a series of political changes. He shifts his chronology from modern times to primitive, and to stages in between these …
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Berättelser om adoption
This dissertation explores adoption stories in a Swedish context. The aim is two-fold: First, how adoption is presented by adopted adults; second, how adoption is constructed in the press. The way adoptees create meaning of “being adopted” is investigated; the way those stories are shaped …
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Shielded by Athena: Mythical and Biblical Allusions and the Aesthetic Sensibilities of Louise Gluck's Poetry
… often using personae from those sources to frame personal stories. Glück's poetry can be read in light of the New Aesthetics movement; her subject matter, though personal, speaks on larger societal themes in carefully crafted work with layers of meaning that reflect the complexities of truth, …
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When the Invisible Punishing Machine is everywhere ... : the mechanism of social control (mass incarceration, institutionalized racism, slavery and repression) in the USA shapes the individual as well as the social space
… serves first as a testimony of the author's personal stories. Second it illuminates the machine as a punitive and disciplinary system affecting the body in visceral ways (although the author resists its power by inventing critical and artistic counter narratives that are described). Thirdly, …
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"Homesick for You:" An Archival Analysis of Love Letters from World War II
… and family, valuing their insights to touching personal stories that nuance the dominant narratives of history. I contend for the preservation and discussion of these letters and similar artifacts, advocating for their lasting significance within both past and present contexts and their …
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Trying to make sense of the Trojan Horse incident: using historical documents to prompt discussion of politically sensitive issues in secondary schools in Cape Town
… during classroom interactions for emotions and personal stories. The power/knowledge structure of the discourse of schooling seemed to be very strong, although it was also a matter of personal choices by teachers and learners. An 'official' image of Apartheid, with clear differentiations between …
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“NYAM CHIEM” RECONSTRUCTING AND PERFORMING NIGHTMARE: A DANCE RESEARCH IN PERFORMANCE OF SLEEP PARALYSIS.
… the phenomenon of sleep paralysis through a personal reflexive research. The work challenges the notion that sleep paralysis is evil, revealing the phenomenon as a part of the human experience. The research is in two parts, practical and theory. The practical component includes; dance …
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Stories of war and restitution Curating the narratives of the !xun storyteller Kapilolo Mahongo (1952 – 2018)
… ways. Previous research has not addressed the personal stories of the immigrant !xun community living on the San farm, Platfontein, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province. My thesis works towards filling this gap. The focus of my research was to open up a space in which the !xun leader …
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THE INVERSION LAYER: ESSAYS
… examines the ways in which places with rich histories exist through time. Five sites are examined, four of them in the Upper Peninsula and one of them in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The sites in “The Best Souvenir” and “The Cloud Chamber” are official museums, the site in “Comfort in …
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Threatening Discourse: Cultural and Contextual Challenges to Constructing Antiracist Narrative and Practice Among One Elementary School Staff
… discourse, local politics, community histories, and personal stories all work to inscribe and maintain racism in this school even as it is actively contested. Implications for educational policy and future research on the culture of teaching, antiracist education, culturally relevant …
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Their Story: College Persistence Of Hispanic/Latino Students At Predominantly White Institutions
… collected through individual interviews where personal stories were examined by using the student integration model and theory of mattering and marginality to identify reoccurring themes. Identifying these factors was the key motivating factor in determining success and persistence through …
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