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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Self-definition"”.
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Neighborhood self-definition and design imagery : case studies
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch. in Advanced Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1977.
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Exploring the Self Definition and Individuality of Black Professional Women
… foundation of each of the participants' sense of self and to understand how this has shaped their present view of themselves. The study reports on accounts from semi-structured interviews with ten female participants, which was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). This …
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Browning's Monologuists: Self-Definition as Theme in 'The Ring and the Book'
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Willa Cather: Male Roles and Self-Definition in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and "Neighbor Rosicky"
… also spent time dissecting frogs and called herself “William Cather, M.D." Cather's cross-dressing reveals her unconventional core and her desire to define herself regardless of societal expectations. Cather also had many close relationships with woman, and these close relationships have led …
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Exploring The Imaginary Domain: An Investigation Of The Interplay Of Alterity, Literature, And The Process Of Self-Definition
… how six secondary English students imagined definitions and redefinitions of themselves through encounters with self and other within the context of semiotic engagements with literature. A conceptual lens for exploring these imaginary spaces was fashioned by the braiding together of current …
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The theme of tribulation as a literary strategy of an alternative self-definition in the book of revelation: a sociolinguistic perspective
… norms of the wider society, and therefore sees itself as a conscious alternative to it. The language generated by such a social collectivity serves to express its alternative view of social reality and becomes a mode of resistance to the prevailing social order. This study proposes that the author …
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Bed and breakfasts in Virginia: identification and success factors
… bed and breakfast operations based upon their self definition of success; (3) identify the attitudes and beliefs operators believe are necessary for success in running a bed and breakfast operation and correlate attitudes with operators' actual behaviors; and (4) based upon the operator's …
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Us: Identity, Queer Romance, and Dramatic Writing
… themes of identity, generationality, and self-definition, and the stakes of representing such complex themes onstage.
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Autobiographical constructions
… discussion of my understanding of the process of self - definition and discusses how my work in the media of performance and video have united my ideas concerning contemporary and conventional forms of auto-biography.
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The Development of a Computerized Text Analysis Measure of Differentiation Relatedness: A Pilot Study
<p>Self-definition and relatedness are considered two important processes for psychological development. Self-definition refers to an individual’s ability to maintain a stable, agentic, integrated sense of self that is differentiated from others. Relatedness refers to one’s ability to establish and …
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Solitary Souls: Awakening Responses in American Literature
… society in general. During this process of self-definition, these characters frequently experience an awakening, an epiphany that encourages them to alter permanently their attitudes or behavior. How American characters react to their awakening is the subject of this dissertation. This …
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An exploration of learner autonomy in an international university in Japan
… of identity construction), which amounts to self-definition through self-direction on the basis of authentic values arrived at through self-reading; in relation to the affordances and constraints inherent to the embodied, sociohistorical and emplaced self. This universal construct is …
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Describing the Cultural Perceptions of Weight and Perceived Body Size with Obese African American Women: A Descriptive Focused Ethnography
… desirable within the African American community. Self-definition and self-worth, concepts found in Black Feminist Theory, play a pivotal role in the perceptions that obese AAW have about weight loss and weight management. The interconnectedness of the two concepts provided a strong basis for this …
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Conversion, crisis, and growth : the religious management of change within the St John's Apostolic Faith Mission and the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Cape Town, South Africa
… They each draw from both these resources for self-definition. Christianity has become part of the South African religious landscape. None of the members in the two churches consider it as an alien or foreign religion but they consider it as an indigenous one. The two models mobilise resources …
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An Analysis of the Factors That Influence Older African-Americans to Self-Define as Retired
… specifically focusing on how the process of self-definition as retired occurs among African-American men and women. Using data from Wave I of the Americans' Changing Lives Survey, this investigation identified the gender-and class-specific paid and unpaid productive activities that …
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Hot Girls Don't Worry About Copyright: Trans/Formative Works and the Femmage Lifestyle
… center around dichotomies, juxtaposition, and self-definition, collage is the best equipped to communicate these experiences in innovative ways. Through interrogations of feminized labor and the ways in which the art world upholds harmful gender binaries, as well as discussions of Femmage, …
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"The object of their life": defining female self in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Miss Marjoribanks
… we catch glimpses of acts of female self-definition which radically contradict individualistic notions of self. Essentially, this thesis seeks to trace the perspective these texts offer which is founded on the integration of masculine and feminine and not on the exclusion of either.
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Home making and identity: a psychology of personality processes in North East Scotland.
… of the dwelling has been argued to function in self-definition and self-presentation, yet only a small body of research corroborates such theories. Personalisation of the dwelling therefore presents an ideal context within which to explore identity processes in the physical environment. The …
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Intersection : poems and permutations
… engagement with home is ultimately a quest for self-definition through relation: in the public, external world of community and place, and in the more private contexts of love and belonging. Poems ostensibly located in rooms or adjunct spaces of a house are venues for consideration of …
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Conservative Modernism at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris
… to bring economic prosperity, confirm a cultural self-definition for France, and restore confidence in the country's future. The study is quite timely, as France in the late 1990 s faces crucial decisions on such things as further European integration, the place of immigrants in French society, …
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