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Showing 1 to 20 of 276 for “"Strangers"”.
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Strangers
<p>Strangers, with the exception of 'Boyish,' is a collection of stories written between the years 2010 and 2012. All explore themes of home, family, estrangement, youth, and finally the day-in day-out business of connecting with any other. Most are set in the Washington D.C. area. 'Space Coast,' …
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Between strangers
1 PDF file (vi, 52 pages)
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Please Talk to Strangers: Using Communication Privacy Management Theory to Analyze Disclosure Between Strangers
… and share their private information with strangers. This study found that college students place different kinds of information on a privacy hierarchy and enlist several different negotiation strategies that help them decide when to share their private information and when not to when …
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The Duty to Grieve Strangers
… that we have a duty to grieve the deaths of strangers. Specifically, I argue that we have a moral duty to grieve the deaths of fellow members of our social-political communities when their deaths result from systemic injustice. This grief is not identical to the grief one experiences with …
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Sheltered by Strangers: The Story of Kenya’s Orphans
… three chapters of a book titled Sheltered by Strangers: The Story of Kenya’s Orphans.
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Out of network : technologies to connect with strangers
… an unconscious sense of our connection to strangers. Both devices use shared physical warmth as a way to cultivate empathy and a novel sense of connection with anonymous others. With the understanding that the aesthetic qualities of a technology greatly influence its effectiveness, I …
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Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust
… Surprisingly, we found that people trust strangers as much as they trust a friend's friend. In contrast, people distrust strangers when they are told that there exists no social connection to the strangers. These methods and results point to a number of future research topics that leverage …
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Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
"On June 24, 1916, the New Republic published an editorial that began: ""The average Pole or Italian arriving at Ellis Island does not realize that he is the deadly foe of the native Negro . . . It is a silent conflict on a gigantic scale."" While this statement illustrates only a limited view of …
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Pilgrims and strangers : the theological motivation of Irish Peregrinatio
This paper traces the origins and the influences on Irish monastic peregrinatio beginning with Biblical exemplars, particularly Abraham, Moses, and the peregrini in Hebrews 11 who undertake travel as they seek a land promised to them by God. Despite being a physical land, the land they seek is more …
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Safety with strangers : a preventive program for deaf children
… as their hearing counterparts. The "Safety with Strangers slide series was presented in classrooms of hearing impaired students at both the middle school level and elementary school level. Program trainers gave students information regarding stranger approaches, demonstrated the safe, appropriate …
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A Comparison of Infant and Toddler Reactions to Strangers who Have Similar Attributes to an Established Attachment Figure vs. Strangers who Have Different Attributes
<p>A child's early attachment experiences can have a lasting impact on later development. Early attachment relationships often result in greater Social and cognitive skills, as well as better school performance (Peisner et al., 1999). For these reasons, it is important to address those components …
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Enchanted welfare : Islamic imaginary and giving to strangers in Turkey
This study explores welfare provision by non-states in contemporary Turkey. It analyses the phenomenon neither as an extension of the redistributive functions of the state nor as part of market mechanisms but through the theoretical lens of gift-giving. It argues that contractual relations of the …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
Exotic flora in the long eighteenth century (1666-1800) embodied a point of contact between the natural and imaginary worlds, bearing witness to the ways that ideology relocates living things according to human desire. Most accounts view these exotics through the lens of ecological imperialism and …
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Romancing Strangers: The Intimate Politics of Beach Tourism in Kenya
The tension between institutionalized power---largely rooted in racial hierarchies, and individual power---which is directly contingent upon gender, nationality and socioeconomic status, reveals the contradictions and complex pressures behind interpersonal relationships between Western women and …
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Soldiers as strangers: morally and culturally critical situations during military missions
Contains fulltext : 140647.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Perpetual Strangers: Buriyad Citizenship in the Russia-Mongolia Borderlands, 1822-1939
… this dissertation argues that Buriyads were strangers – collectives or individuals who were separated from the mainstream of political life – under every manifestation of citizenship between the 1822 advent of the Baikal region’s Steppe Dumas and the 1939 end of the Great Terror. Yet across …
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Friends and strangers : experience and commonality in a James Bay town
This thesis, based on three months of fieldwork in 1998, is a study of inter-cultural friendships between Native and non-Native residents of Chisasibi, Quebec in which I examine the factors that hinder and/or enable friendships to form between individuals of different cultural backgrounds. I …
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