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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"Self Discovery"”.
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Student Disability and Employability: Empowering Self-Discovery
University students with disabilities are supported in a variety of ways designed to help all students realise their academic potential. Students are supported whether they have physical disabilities or cognitive learning difficulties. When these students leave higher education and enter the …
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Self-Discovery Journals in the College Composition Classroom
What is it that makes writing so enjoyable to some people, and such a troublesome task to others? What, if anything, can teachers of composition do to promote an enthusiasm for writing? As I have found examination of my past experiences a key to answering these questions, I am persuaded that the …
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Towards self-discovery: Elucidating adolescent intra-psychic tensions
… casting their recovery in terms of processes of self-discovery. I specify that participants universally evoke a sense of themselves as being composed of various constituent "parts". Recovery, for participants, involves a redefinition of how one relates to one's vulnerable parts within the context …
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A colorful examination of self-discovery and emotional awareness
… artistic boundaries and going into new areas of self-expression. Over the course of thirty days, I conducted a personal ethnographic research, documenting my emotions three times per day, translating them into a color palette, and then into illustrative works in which colors and objects represent …
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Black Existential Philosophy: Truth in Virtue of Self-Discovery
In the past 20 years, within the discipline of philosophy there has been a burgeoning interest in the fields of Race theory, Africana, and African American philosophy, especially in the scholarship and questions concerning the experience and meaning of black existence; that is, within black …
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From journals to production : a journey of self-discovery
… relevant to teenagers? Could they transform the self-exploration done in their journals into personal, visual imagery? In what ways would they do so? Would these high school students be able to make the connection between what they had expressed on the pages of their journals and their creative …
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The quest for self-discovery : the reconstruction of self identity stories in alternative therapy groups
This thesis explores the reconstruction of self identity stories in a defined area of alternative therapy. An initial document analysis of advertisements in directories, described as alternative to promote views and practices on complementary health and environmental issues, suggested that the …
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Reaching for the Stars: A Constructivist Investigation of Astrology as a Tool for Self-Discovery in a New Age of Leadership
… tool. It is an entire epistemology of <em>self in relation</em> <em>to</em> the cosmos that addresses the transcendent nature of human beings. In our increasingly uncertain world, millions of people are turning to astrology in search of greater self-knowledge and meaning for their …
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Dynamics of self-discovery in Hermann Hesse’s novels (1919–43): an analysis of the influence of Jung, Freud and Nietzsche on Hesse
… more emphasis on the ongoing process of personal self-discovery than any other works by Hermann Hesse. I examine the influence of Jungian and Freudian psychoanalytical patterns of thought on the specific narrative composition of Hesse’s novels and also how Nietzsche’s psychology of …
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The things I left behind
… collection explores one character's journey of self-discovery and transformation.
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WHAT IS DONE IN THE DARK WILL COME TO LIGHT: A NOVELLA
… a story about immigration, culture, family, and self-discovery<strong>.</strong></p>
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The drop out
… follows a young European woman's quest for self-discovery. Manja Levsky's journey commences amid the South African white Left during the late 1980s. Manja has two aims: to discover what it means to be a woman; and to create personal independence from the status quo.
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Walking Through Fire: Black Men’s Quest for Autonomy in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and King Hedley II
… District. The roads they take are filled with self discovery, humility and peril.</p>
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The Man with the Blue Boots
… and adults. It is a story of friendship, self-discovery, and childish enthusiasm. I wrote this story in response to a strong friendship, full of creative energy and imagination. This friendship reminded me to keep actively dreaming and creating. Things that seem unattainable or impossible …
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Carved
… poems in Carved take the reader on a journey of self-discovery and explore the inequalities of human relationships: between being silent and the discovery of one's voice. The collection also addresses humanity's destructive imprint and the resiliency of nature in reclaiming what humanity sought …
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A Bruised Sky Falling
… life. The fragmentation of the story lends itself to what Roland Barthes called a readerly text. That is, a reader may enter the text at any point and read the chapters in an order, and by doing this, the reader creates his/her own version of the author's life. The overall narrative arch is …
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No One is Looking For You
… opposing themes of isolation and connection; self-denial and self discovery; and rage and hope. It is perpetually nighttime for this speaker, and the poems often take place in surrealist, haunting impressions of ordinary settings, mostly in the domestic sphere. This collection features …
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Coasting '71: a memoir
… in the summer of 1971. Along this journey of self-discovery they meet a series of experiences that at once characterize each protagonist, Ric (the narrator) and John his buddy from college, as well as the tenor of the times and the experiences they have during their travels.</p>
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