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Showing 1 to 20 of 235 for “"Self-Expression"”.
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Make it Mine, Technology's affordance for self-expression
… they are now existential embodiments of self. Today, for Generation Y, significance is not found solely in an object's design but rather in the malleability the platform affords. The purpose of design has shifted from aesthetics and performance to self-structured e-media platforms. This …
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Soundtracking American smart cinema: self-expression, identity and alienation
… other characters and regulate their sense of self-identity. The thesis has therefore assembled a new and effective method of viewing this cycle of films, one that is characterised by its treatment of music, situated diegetically within the narrative. Rather than view the interrelationship …
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Paper electronics : circuits on paper for learning and self-expression
… the theme of wonder in technology, learning and self-expression through the lens of paper electronics, which is circuit building on paper using conductive tapes and circuit components as electronic craft materials. This new medium blends the interactive functionality of electronics with the …
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Doodling as Self-Expression: Building Self-Efficacy in Normally Functioning Adults
… if doodling can build creative or emotional self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is an individual’s belief in their own capacity to express behaviors necessary to attain specific performance goals. The current study also sought to determine if doodling can be a form of self-care. Research collected …
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The closet door, the gateway to the self? : fashion, identity, and self-expression
… we make surrounding fashion, our sense of 'self,' and our attempts at self-expression through fashion. This thesis is based on the premise that material items and first impressions or appearances are important in our culture. Referring to postmodern theories of identity and symbolic …
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The Self and Social Freedom: A Paradigm of Leisure (Interaction Theory, Self-Expression)
… and the social milieu which allows a form of self-expression often inhibited in other social contexts. This view is strongly supported by theories of social interaction and the self; however, it is somewhat different than other current models of leisure. In order to evaluate this perspective, …
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Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing
… of the cultural discourses surrounding female expression by situating textual examples within their respective cultural contexts: eighteenth-century etiquette, celebrity culture and gossip, the marriage market, and aesthetic rhetoric. Like the diffuse strategies employed by the characters and …
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Architecture as a stage for play and self expression : an intervention of public open space in Istanbul, Turkey
… places which allow for human interaction and self expression. Unfortunately, in Istanbul, a city of twelve million people where public space has historically been associated with the mosque, historical precedents for secular public places such as this do not exist. Since the decline of the …
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Why Did You Post That GIF? Understanding Relationship between User Identity and Self Expression through GIFs on Social Media
GIFs afford a great degree of personalization as they are often created from popular movie and video clips, with diverse and real characters, each expressing a nuanced affect state through a combination of characters' own unique bodily gesture and distinctive visual background. This highly …
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Art as Occupation: A Phenomenological Study of Art as a Means of Self-Expression for an Individual Recovering from Severe Physical, Sexual, and Ritual Abuse
… individual experience emerged through self-reflection and discussion of meaning units with the participant and outside expert. Member checking and bracketing were utilized continually to increase trustworthiness and avoid bias. Through integration of both the textual and structural …
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Surveys as communication : it's not just what you ask, but how you ask it
… on time to complete the survey, feelings of self-expression, fatigue, survey enjoyment, willingness to endorse a related campaign, and willingness to participate in a future survey. Results demonstrate that using open-ended survey questions may increase the self-expression of the respondent. …
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Fighting with Reality: Considering Mark Johnson's Pragmatic Realism Through Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do Method
… condition and its relationship with metaphor and self-expression are the primary focus. First, this work involves providing an introduction to and an exploration of Johnson’s understanding of embodiment and his pragmatic realism with its foundation in metaphorical expression. Second, Bruce Lee’s …
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Millennials’ lived experience of navigating having a voice in a collective country: a hermeneutic phenomenological approach
… authenticity in many conceptualizations is true self-expression. In fact, it has gained the modern reputation in recent times for being almost synonymous with being true to one self. Existing research has questioned if this is solely a Western ideal as this seems to contradict with the …
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The Value of NFTs
… the public’s views on art, finances, and the self. The emergence of Web 3 redefined ways of self expression with the help of NFTs. What are NFTs, how are they valuable, and how will they shape the future of digital art? The data visualization for this project indicates that the most popular …
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Occupational development among upper elementary school age children
… adult workers. The six factors included money, self-expression, leadership, working conditions, independence on the job, and status and prestige.The Instrument, the Kuldau Occupational Development Inventory (KODI), was administered to students enrolled in grades four, five and six in three …
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PictureBlocks : constructing and deconstructing picture-driven literacy development
… creating and drawing pictures as a means of self-expression. Despite the evidence from the literature and the data, there is a lack of constructionist approaches towards picture-based learning apps for children. The goals of this thesis are two-fold: 1. Successfully design and evaluate a …
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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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National curriculum on its way' and a challenging art education
… members of the focus group on 'Creativity and Self-Expression' and other educators' views about the kind of art education that is offered to Maltese children, and also discussed ways of improving it and making it more challenging. We discussed the following issue: Does art education simply …
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Sentimentalism Made Strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau
… spaces for autobiography, and compares love and self-expression as two literary phenomena that, for these three authors, demand the undoing of cultural mores as the means for their artistic portrayal. For the bulk of my analysis, I take the three authors' "Julie" texts--Rousseau's Julie, or The …
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