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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"The Silence"”.
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The Silence Within: A Writing Portfolio
Short fiction, essays, and a screenplay.
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Stain Upon the Silence: Samuel Beckett’s Deconstructive Inventions
<p>In recent years, deconstruction theory has emerged as a key method for exploring public address, organizational culture, and literary discourse. Deconstruction theory encourages tearing apart hierarchy and established order to gain insights about the artifact being studied. Furthermore, the …
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Puncturing the Silence: Painting Over the Found Photograph
Set up as a visual investigation, the research explores how the addition of paint and graphite materials onto the surface of found and discarded photographs, creates a visual and conceptual disjuncture by punctuating and altering the temporal frame of the photograph. The research is positioned in …
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Psychotherapist suicidality: breaking the silence using interactive interviewing
… autoethnographic research project explores psychotherapist suicidality as a human reality that has been given little attention in psychotherapy and counselling psychology affiliations. It addresses the importance of acknowledging, understanding and supporting psychotherapists who are, or have …
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Breaking the silence on violation in South African prisons
… to violational forms remain testimony to the residues of the authoritarian ideology which plagued South Africa for decades. By locating violation within its socio-political and institutional contexts, I use lessons from the past as a starting block from which to introduce a theoretically …
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Deciphering the Silence: A Literary Journey to Alice E. Kober
… blunt panic attacks from being tucked away under the plastic roof of the compartment at night. 48 hours of hope and expectations regarding the archive material, of finding what has been lost. My journey to Alice Kober’s archive, to her still-existing traces, to her home, but also to her as a …
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Breaking the Silence: Forgotten Stories in the Mental Health Field
<p>Stories make us human, and people respond to them. The importance of mental health nonprofits is clear given the number of individuals who lean on them for support, and stories can enhance that importance. What if the leaders, volunteers, and staff members of mental health nonprofits shared …
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Breaking the silence: institutional responses to people who use atypical communication strategies
This study compares the introduction and expansion of non-speech communication for people with receptive impairments with the introduction and expansion of non-speech communication for people with expressive impairments. It documents the introduction of specific nonspeech communication …
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GENDERED EDUCATION: NARRATING THE SILENCE OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE CLASSROOM
In this study, I focus on the experiences of self-identified quiet or silent female graduate students in order to understand the reasoning behind our classroom communication. I start by defining silence and continue by reviewing literature surrounding the topic of silence. Then, I focus on my own …
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Breaking the Silence: Women's Experiences With Sexual Violence During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
… how wartime rape was accepted or dismissed in the past, and how today, while this practice continues, international courts are beginning to identify the harm being done to women, making explicit how rape is used as a tool of genocide. In this thesis I argue that wartime rape serves as a means …
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Categories of Mystical Experience in The Voice of the Silence by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.
The Voice of the Silence (1889), compiled by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, is widely regarded as one of her most influential works, yet it has been relatively overlooked in academia. This dissertation seeks to fill this gap by identifying, classifying, and establishing the categories of mystical …
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Voicing the silence: the maternity care experiences of women who were sexually abused in childhood.
… care for women who have been sexually abused. The purpose of this study was to address the gap in our understanding of women’s maternity care experiences when they have a history of childhood sexual abuse with the aim of informing healthcare practice. <br/>This narrative study from a feminist …
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No Soldier Left Behind? Breaking the Silence on Military Service, Values and Identity in Israel
<p>This dissertation explores the relationship between observed incidents and perceptions of value violation or confirmation among Israeli soldiers. Through content analysis of 900 testimonies, the work explores the intersection of social identity, military ethics and nonviolent movements. The data …
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A formative evaluation of the Silence The Violence programme : a school-based violence prevention programme
This report presents the findings of a formative evaluation of the Silence The Violence (STV) programme, a school-based violence prevention initiative. The programme is implemented by an organisation known as Khulisa Services, which has service points in all nine provinces of South Africa. The main …
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Behind the silence: A critical exploration of the sexual harassment of women in the hospitality workplace
This study provides a unique insight into the experience and impact of sexual harassment on female employees working in the hospitality industry. The evidence suggests that sexual harassment is a pervasive problem in hospitality settings; however, it continues to be a silenced phenomenon. …
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Breaking the silence : the necessity of memory in Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle.
This thesis examines Tillie Olsen's use of memory in the four short stories included in her collection Tell Me a Riddle: "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, What Ship?" "O Yes," and "Tell Me a Riddle." In Olsen's collection personal and collective memory breaks the silence engendered by personal …
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