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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Running away"”.
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running away, running towards: a collection of sestinas
… The thesis consists of three parts. The first, “running away,” grapples most deeply with what it means to lose and fear love; the second, “on the edge,” focuses on moments spent in uncertainty, where we are not so confident about what comes next or what to do. The final, “running towards,” pushes …
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Some characteristics of a group of coloured runaway boys aged 8 - 16 years and factors that these boys and their mother perceived as contributing to their runaway behavior
… was of a group of street children who had run away from home. The writer sought to discover factors that led to their running away. Interviews were conducted with both the boys and their mothers (or mother substitutes). Interview schedules with both open-ended and closed questions were used to …
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A Faint, Blue Idea of Order
… on their budding love affair, but they are also running away from obligations and people they are trying to leave behind. On Kythera, they realize that even in the most distant locales, the past is never far below the surface.</p>
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Rehoming animals from animal rescue shelters in New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Animal Science) at Massey University, Palmerston North
… aggression towards humans and regularly running away. In a larger study, contact was made with 103 of 354 persons who had adopted a dog from one of three shelters between January 2001 and April 2002. 90% of the persons interviewed stated that the adoption had been a success. There was no …
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Trancending meaninglessness : seeking the meaning of life in the post-apocalyptic scenarios of J. Crace and C. McCarthy
… Crace writes a tale which has its protagonists running away in search for meaning, only to have them return back to their point of departure. McCarthy depicts a land devastated with ruin and death, where a man and a boy struggle to keep hold of their humanity. The discussion outlines the manner …
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From child abuse to prostitution: predictors and intermediaries of exchanging sex for money
… including: initial sexual intercourse, running away, juvenile crime, and drug use, along with the additional preventative mediators of internal resilience/self-esteem and external resilience. Results showed two different developmental models that indicated mediation effects of these …
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Life Stories of Aboriginal Juvenile Prostitutes in Taiwan
… relationship with friends, ""bad girl"" concept, running away, early sexual experiences and promiscuity and having friends and relatives in the pornography industry. The findings suggest that the keystone risk factors could be problems in the family. Protective factors that influence girls' …
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Home Suite Home: An Analysis of Comfort in Americana and Motel Culture
… traveling for cancer treatment to suicide to running away from home, hypothetical realities, far from comforting, glamorous, or sleek, illustrate themselves to be entirely possible and even painfully relatable for some. Looking at the motel’s successes and failures as a symbol of a souvenir, …
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"""What I Did Is Who I Am"": African American Women and Resistance to Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New England"
… resistance, working slower, theft, running away, suing for freedom---I incorporate memory, self-definition of identity, and use of Christianity as strategies of survival. What has been read as accommodation should be understood as choices, decisions made within a particular context. …
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Unruly Sisters: Moravian Women, Dissent, and the 18th Century North Carolina Piedmont
… concerned with the conduct of women. Young women running away with outsider men reflected poorly on their patriarchal control. Married women who conducted their households in a way that contradicted the guidance of the Elders, seemed to threaten the future of their community by corrupting the …
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Gender-Specific Programs for Female Juvenile Offenders: Purpose, Practice, and Perceived Success
… juvenile justice system, often as a result of running away, drug use, truancy, and other misdemeanor offenses. Many of these females have experienced negative relationships, abusive situations, and psychological problems. Past research has led to gender-specific programming that is developed to …
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Partir marron: Un parcours sémantique à travers les trous de la mémoire collective haïtienne
… <em>lieu</em> , the colonial plantation. While running away, the fugitive slave engages materialistically his own survival. It is through this dual, sometimes pluralistic, register that I intend to decipher the paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations of <em>marronnage</em> , as well as the …
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High Spirits - With an accompanying exegesis - Behind Dry Ink in Set Patterns
… the narrative starts with Rose at thirteen running away from the family farm to Perth. The novel has six flashbacks in the first third to tell the story of how the parents adopted and treated her: her adoptive mother was unbalanced and her adoptive father was a weak man. When she arrives in …
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The Halloween Party
… busy with their work. Hurt, Clarisse runs away, but gets cold and lonely, so eventually goes back home, where her parents have not noticed her running away, but have made her a delicious dinner. The book investigates the magic of childhood, as well as the feelings of sadness, hurt, and …
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The Function of Christ's Suffering in I Peter 2:21
… Century, enduring unjust punishment rather than running away from it was the only Christian alternative. Thus to submit was a reference to maintain impeccable civic behavior by remaining with cruel master. Such submission is nevertheless doing good and benefits not the masters but the believing …
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Mer
… that impacts Mer so much she ends up walking away from them and into the Brooks Range, the northernmost mountain range in Alaska, alone.</p> <p>After that, the novel functions as three novellas told from three different first person perspectives -- that of Ada, Mer's grandmother, that of …
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Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China
… nuns whom I have known in Yachen are escapees, running away from their homes to become nuns in this remote region; their mobilities, against all odds—both physical and social—are what initially make Yachen possible (Chapter 2). Upon arrival, in the face of the harsh spatial regulations imposed …
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E-AI an emotion architecture for agents in games & virtual worlds
… statistically reduced, even when the bots were running away when afraid, or attacking when angry even if close to death. In summary, an architecture grounded in formal psychology is presented that is suitable for interactive characters in games and virtual worlds, but not perhaps ideal for …
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La famille et la fugue : une approche systémique et cognitive des dysfonctionnements interactionnels entre les parents et l’enfant
En effet, nous avons constaté en consultant la littérature que les explications étiologiques de la fugue étaient associées aux expériences familiales de l’enfant et que de nombreux autres enfants vulnérables rapportaient les mêmes expériences familiales sans pour autant fuguer. Nous nous sommes …