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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Self-realization"”.
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INTIMACY AND AUTONOMY: TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE QUEST FOR SELF-REALIZATION
… or assert themselves in their quest for self-realization. Each relationship examined in this dissertation sheds light on a different aspect of the same cultural dilemma. The first couple examined is Joyce Johnson and Jack Kerouac. Joyce Johnson was a young writer herself when she met …
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From Alienation to Self-Realization: Pathologies of Late Modernity, Work, and the Successful Life
… needs, I identify two principal obstacles to the self-realization of late-modern subjects: (i) social pathologies, which, I argue, contemporary political philosophy is unable to adequately diagnose and (ii) the tyranny of work, which remains peripheral to modern political theory. Both of these …
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Desire And Influence: Male Self-Realization And Film Progression Due To The Influential Women In The Films Of Wes Anderson
… the men that surround them to come to a self-realization and in the progression of the film as each character finds closure, despite critic's claims. Critics Jesse Mayshark and Greg Carlson examine Anderson's films to be basically about men stuck in arrested development that as they rival …
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A Study of Prevocational Students’ Vocational Choices Versus Actual Job Attainment and Social Adjustment Versus Employability for Educable Mentally Retarded
… personality; vocational level of attainment; and self-realization of abilities.
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The effect of technology upskilling on the quality of life of elderly people in Iran : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
… sub-scales (control, autonomy, pleasure, self-realization) mean values increased and the overall mean score of Quality of Life increased between the pre-test and the post-test and between the pre-test and the follow-up test. The control sub-scale had the lowest effect size (η2 =0.11), …
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Mysticism in Indian English Poetry (Sri Aurobindo, Puran Singh, Sri Ananda Acharya, Krishnamurti, India)
… the quest for, and the attainment of, complete self-realization, this dissertation examines the work of four major and nine minor Indian English mystical poets. The study devotes a chapter each to mysticism in the poetry of Sri Ananda Acharya, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Puran Singh, and two chapters to …
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GLASS SHOULDERS
… as catalysts in the process of integrating myself emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. In the poetry, the speaker searches for spiritual knowledge, and is guided toward meditation of Spirit as an internal reality to find healing. The narrative of the manuscript portrays the speaker’s …
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Defining Self Through Symbol: A Psychological Analysis of the Cinderella Fairy Tale
… relevance of symbolic work as a means to achieve self-realization.</p>
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The Historic Inability of the Haitian Education System to Create Human Development and its Consequences
… if the Haitian people are to achieve self-realization and actualization, which essentially equates to what the United Nations Development Program calls "Human Development". Only after human development is achieved for the vast majority of Haitian people, will Haitians achieve a stable …
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Maps, metaphor and memory : a personal investigation through image manipulation and textile embellishment
… and the role of Images in reconstructing self-realization, identity and social history. The artist-researcher also links Efland's model to Gardner's (1996) Inter and Intra Personal Intelligences. The artist-researcher introduces the work of influential artists in Australia, Canadian , and …
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Creator and Creation: Artistic Development in Herman Melville’s Pierre; or, the Ambiguities and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
… representations and perspectives on self-realization. This thesis will draw on the major concepts of the artist and artist fiction as put forth in Otto Rank’s <em>Art and Artist</em> (1916), Herbert Marcuse’s “Der Deutsche Künstlerroman” (“The German Artist Novel”, 1922), and Maurice …
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Snap
… of this short story collection and its theme of self-realization (the awakening from an illusionary self-identity or ego).</p> <p><em>Snap</em> is a progression of stories that revolves around waking up. Novels such as <em>Ralph Ellison’s</em> <em>Invisible Man</em>, Margaret Atwood’s …
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Unveiling the Inner Self
… every time I am in contact with them, I reveal myself onto myself. My early life experiences of not settling down in one place and moving from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and later to America have left me with this sense of homelessness. In order to find connections between my roots, and myself, I …
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AUTISM AND SELF-DETERMINATION: MEASUREMENT AND CONTRAST WITH OTHER DISABILITY GROUPS
… Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the self-determination literature documenting the importance of promoting the self-determination of transition and secondary age students with disabilities, as well as a summary of research examining the self-determination of students with disabilities …
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Preparing for Uncertainty: Exploring Access to Higher Education in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi
… education. This desire is linked to first, a self-realization that is expressed as control over their lives in a context of heightened uncertainty and second, an increased potential to contribute to the current betterment of their own and their families’ lives. Despite increasingly protracted …
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Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility and Guilt as Re-imagination of Human Value
… that to be aware of others is to be aware of oneself. Ultimately, reading this way will reveal that workers have value beyond the dominant logic of late capitalism and Wall Street. Tragedy becomes an organic narrative device for self-realization for the readers, suggesting in the power of …
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Really Daddy: A Collection of Stories
… characters move through conflicts on a path to self-realization. Ostensibly the responsible ones, the protagonists’ identities are elucidated in the context of the burdens that they carry. At the center of this collection are women and fathers in crisis, as they attempt to save their families or …
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Parasitic and symbiotic character relationships in the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne
… cold, obsessive intent to fulfill a particular, selfish need. Symbiosis presupposes a relationship between two characters who willingly render reciprocal services to each other. These characters' basic motivation represents a need to relate fully to themselves and other characters. Thus, the …
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Desire for Transformation: The Actualization of Self-identity Through Change In the Films <em>Raw</em> and <em>Titane</em>
… to how these films handle transformation and self-identification. Ducournau explores themes of cannibalism, the linking of desire and violence, and transformation in order to disrupt hegemonic conceptions of sex and gender binaries. the disruptions to these binaries are initially perceived as …
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Wearables as witness : sensing and categorizing violent forces in a wearable system
… potentially assist the victims in the process of self-realization by confronting them with the cumulative history of their experienced abuse, while anonymous publishing of this information could lead to more supportive communities for them. The proposed system is in the form of apparel or smart …
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