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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Search for meaning"”.
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Going and going : a contemporary search for meaning
Meaning provides the individual with a sense of a purpose to live, being himself, and feeling at ease. Finding meaning on a daily basis is paramount. Yet, the search is constant since meaning is lost and regained persistently. Humans strive to find it, especially in the XXIst century. The high …
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The search for meaning in large text databases
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Down These Mean Streets: Textuality & the Search for Meaning in Crime Fiction
… of systematic analysis. Closely tied in to this search for meaning is the genre's interest in textuality, encompassing related issues such as the reading process and the nature of language. This dissertation examines how interpretive frameworks are formed, employed and developed through various …
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The Search for Meaning: What Do the Narratives of Grieving Individuals Reveal?
This qualitative research project is a narrative inquiry into the loss experiences of four bereaved individuals who have lost an immediate family member; one of them is myself. In particular, the meanings assigned to the losses and how those meanings impacted the grieving process were explored by …
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Legitimating a theodicy : Peter Berger and the search for meaning in post-Enlightenment society
… Berger is concerned with the issue of how meaning is constructed in modern, secular, bureaucratic society. Furthermore, this thesis seeks to outline, and trace the development of, Berger's thought. To achieve this the thesis examines Berger's use of the disciplines of the sociology of …
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A Search for Meaning in Politically Motivated Music: Rhetoric versus Pragmatics in the Zambian Political Soundscape
… context of political rhetoric. It evaluates the meaning and influence of music in the political processes on the choices citizens make for supporting their preferred political parties. The study identifies rhetorical and pragmatic music as the two types of political music, which are responsible …
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Coping with parental loss during young adult development: The search for meaning and reconstruction of identity
… interviews and diary notes. The research, which was carried out in two phases from September to June 2005-6 in one academic year, had the objective of examining whether there was any change of motivation for learning English. Ten students from a vocational institute were selected …
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Understanding how a spiritual retreat enhances the search for meaning and fulfillment in a large corporate workplace /
… explored the concept of a spiritual retreat for frontline employees of a large corporate call centre. During a 1 day retreat, 4 call centre employees were introduced to various meditation and retreat activities. Follovsdng the retreat the participants were asked to incorporate the various …
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A search for meaning during financial crisis: An interpretative phenomenological study of highly educated and unemployed Greek young professionals
… objective of this study was to understand what meaning young Greek professionals make of the Greek socio-financial crisis. In addition, it explored the impact of the crisis in their daily life and how and if the crisis affected their attitudes and values in life. Eight volunteers, highly …
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Searching for Meaning in Life: The Moderating Roles of Hope and Optimism
While research links the presence of meaning in life to better psychological well-being, the relationship between the search for meaning and psychological well-being is less clear. The search for meaning is generally thought to be psychologically distressing, but there is evidence that this process …
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A library as a temple
… is the study of a library as a temple. It is a search for meaning in architecture through material, form and the idea of a sacred place.
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Exploring travel and spirituality: The role of travel in facilitating life purpose and meaning within the lives of individuals
… individuals who are seeking personally meaningful experiences. With the exception of the religious tourism literature, there is a paucity of research exploring ‘spirituality’ within a tourism framework and, specifically, what role travel plays in the search for meaning and life purpose …
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The concept of educatedness : an analysis of the current perspectives of a population of university teachers on the personal qualities indicative of educatedness, and its implications for university teaching
… of educational development. A survey was performed to determine which of these qualities are most widely agreed to be indicators of advanced educational development (that is, qualities which would indicate that a person had developed his or her potential as a functioning human being to an …
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Still
… unanswerable, the investigation is vital to the search for meaning.
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Pleasure as a source of meaning or a motivator for meaning search: The Cross-cultural investigation
… how the relation between pleasure and meaning may vary across cultures, focusing on comparisons between Koreans and Euro-Canadians. Guided by the idea that culture shapes people’s perceptions on pleasure, I proposed that the presence of pleasure would serve as a source of meaning in …
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The immortal now : visualizing the place where spirituality and today’s families meet
… is a keen interest in spirituality today - a new search for meaning. As Tacey (2003, p.2) comments; “We are caught in a difficult moment in history, stuck between a secular system we have out-grown, and a religious system we cannot fully embrace. “Clearly, a spirituality exists in Australia that …
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COGNITIVE ADAPTATION AND THE SCHOOLAGER WITH ASTHMA.
… of Taylor's (1983) Cognitive Adaptation Theory for schoolagers with asthma. In addition, the influence of Taylor's (1983) themes on the children's social behavior was also tested. The three themes of Taylor's (1983) theory included A Search for Meaning, Restoration of Self-Esteem, and Gaining a …
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Trancending meaninglessness : seeking the meaning of life in the post-apocalyptic scenarios of J. Crace and C. McCarthy
The meaning of life is always an intriguing issue. This research paper explores the lack of meaning put forward in the post-apocalyptic scenarios of Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Meaninglessness is analysed on a theoretical level in terms of evil. The thrust of the …
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Uncertainty, Individual Differences, and Paranormal Beliefs
… paranormal beliefs, inconsistent with previous research. The search for meaning in life has a positive correlation with paranormal beliefs, which is consistent with past research in relation to religiosity. Further research needs to be conducted in order to understand the relationship between …
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