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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Sense of life"”.
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Seeing things : making sense of life
… the ideas and process involved in making a body of art work which deals with singular experiences of looking and personal efforts to grasp meaning through vision. These projects grew from my understanding that vision is subjective and always mediated, both by technologies and by other bodies. …
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Technical image and the built environment : ideas for a possible design agenda
… Flusser introduces in his 'Into the Universe of the Technical Images' this universe as attracting the' existential interest of future humans'. He describes the technical images as re-assemblies of bits of truth that are leftovers: The universe of texts abstracted the world thoroughly. It also …
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Healthy Aging: Factors that Predict Preservation of Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults
… area due to the exponentially increasing number of older adults experiencing cognitive decline. Preservation of cognitive functioning is one aspect of aging well. Three domains of cognition that have shown to be particularly sensitive to the effects of aging are memory, executive functioning, and …
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Reminiscence Through Collage: Elders newly Transitioning into an Assisted Living Community
<p>The intent of this thesis grant proposal is to secure funding for reminiscence based art therapy group for elders facing a major life transition. The goal is the integration of therapeutic art therapy services, as an integral part of coming to terms with ones circumstances at a particular stage …
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It opens a whole new world: older people’s perceptions of the role of the creative arts as leisure in their lives
… thesis reports on an original qualitative study of older people’s perceptions about how they benefited from participating in a creative arts program. The study brought together the research fields of leisure, arts and ageing well to explore the meaning that 10 older people gave to their creative …
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Relación entre el sentido de vida e ideación suicida en varones que consumen sustancias psicoactivas
… intervene in this problem through the discovery of a meaning of life. The objective of this research was to identify the relationship between the meaning of life and suicidal ideation in male adults who use psychoactive substances. The sample consisted of 151 male adults between 18 and 62 years …
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Diary of A Runagate
… a new one is highlighted by his faith, awareness of his natural surroundings, and an awakening desire to make sense of life and love. Set in Moravia during the early twentieth century’s technological, political and cultural upheaval, the quest takes him away from his family and the tenant farm. …
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How does having a child with profound or multiple disabilities affect the home/school relationship?
This study explored how having a child with a profound or multiple disabilities affects the home school relationship in a multi-cultural Special School for Primary aged children. Research has highlighted the impact upon the family in terms of coping strategies and how families with good and poor …
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Religious education as a multi-process curriculum
… religious character; it is even more of a problem to multi-faith public schools. The root of the problem may lie in the monolithic way that "religion" and "religious education" are perceived. Everyone develops ways of making sense of life, however inadequate, and everyone possesses the …
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Histories of the British people, in their own words, 1945-85
This study explores the autobiographies of ordinary Britons, written in the middle and later decades of the twentieth century. It draws on a little fewer than 300 of these under-studied documents, reading them for their authors’ preoccupations as they sat, writing. Together the autobiographies …
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Poland after 1989: a shift to postmaterialism or a rise of the underclass?
… attempts to evaluate whether or not the theories of social change and conflict formulated in the United States and Western Europe can be applied to postcommunist societies. In particular, with Poland as a case study, the applicability of two theories has been examined. One is Ronald Inglehart's …
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Exploring life changes for patients diagnosed with 'Alcoholic Liver Disease' - A qualitative study in Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's thought.
This thesis explored life change with a diagnosis of Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD). Qualitative, in-depth longitudinal interviews with eight participants attending hospital out-patients, provided a foundation to understand ‘alcoholic'. By applying Thematic Analysis within the social constructivism …
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A comparative study between a faith-based psychoeducational intervention and psychological well-being
The purpose of this study was to examine the difference in participants’ perceived psychological well-being/distress and perceived faith maturity over time based on participation in Walking Worthy a Journey to Freedom (WWJ). The research was designed as a fully mixed sequential equal status design …
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In Defence of the Realm : Mobility, Modernity and Community on the Camino de Santiago
… semiotic and symbolic approaches to the study of pilgrimage, following pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago across Spain. My starting point has been to examine pilgrims’ construction of a different place, time and experiencing self, while on pilgrimage in the company of others engaging in similar …
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Being and belonging among White English-speaking South Africans
… general, and particularly within the discipline of anthropology. In this thesis, I take the reader on an autoethnographic journey of attempting to make sense of life in the suburbs of Cape Town, searching for the elusive middle-class WESSAs and trying to attain an understanding of who they are. …
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Heidegger and the philosophy of life : Kantian and post-Kantian thinking in the work of the early Heidegger as the foundation for a new Lebensphilosophie
The publication of Sein und Zeit in 1927 by the very young Martin Heidegger, a mere thirty-eight at the time, radically changed philosophy in a fashion that made returning to the ways of doing philosophy prior to Sein und Zeit impossible. Heidegger's new way of understanding Being was through …
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Creating meaning - understanding the experiences of people living with mental illness in Switzerland: a qualitative study.
… communities. People living with mental illness often face discrimination and not the least within the health-care system. However, there is an ongoing shift from a paternalistic to a person-centred approach in the treatment of people living with mental illness. User involvement in the …
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Irresistible grace : excerpt from a novel, and, Looking back: on writing, travel and the gaze : an essay
This thesis consists of a creative component, the first half of a novel, ‘Irresistible Grace’, and an exegesis, ‘Looking back: On writing, travel and the gaze.’ The novel begins in Manchester and centres on Caitlin, an Australian woman in her late twenties, who learns of her partner Pedro’s affair. …
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The educative potential of humor
… dissertation explores the educative potential of humor through the lens of the concept of incongruity. Drawing on two definitions of humor grounded in the Incongruity Theory of humor, I argue humor is educative in both instrumental and existential ways. Drawing on literature in philosophy, …
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Experiencias de sentido de vida en jóvenes universitarios limeños en tiempos de pandemia
El presente estudio tiene como propósito explorar la experiencia de sentido de vida de una muestra de estudiantes universitarios de Lima Metropolitana en tiempos de pandemia, en respuesta al vacío teórico y práctico evidenciado en la literatura. Mediante un tipo de muestreo en cadena o bola de …
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