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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Togetherness"”.
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Inexorable Burden: Rhetoric and Togetherness
<p>This dissertation employs philology and cultural analysis to reassess longstanding notions in rhetorical theory and moral philosophy (via classical rhetoric and technical communication). In particular, I use diachronic analyses of the terms telos, symbouleutikon, and sympheron (from Aristotle to …
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Dimensions of Time and Social Togetherness
In his Philosophy of the Present, George Herbert Mead urges to "take time seriously." At the opening of the book he declares that "the present implies past and future, and to these we (Mead) deny existence." This leads to the basic proposition that time exists in the present only, and that past and …
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Maloya dance and music: Réunionese Créole togetherness
La Réunion is a former French colony where the coffee, vanilla — and later the sugarcane industry — brought together the mostly enslaved and indentured people from Madagascar, Africa, India, China and France. A quintessential part of this hybrid culture has been the development of maloya, an …
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Tools for Togetherness: Building Social Networks through Public Tool-making
Our world appears connected with pervasive technology and information saturation. However, beneath the surface, a deep sense of disconnection and individualism persists, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed 7 million lives and prompted a reassessment of our societal values towards …
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Education for togetherness and harmony; Learning and teaching through lived experiences
“Learning To Live Together” (LTLT) has been emphasised as one of the four education pillars (Delors et al, 1996). Recently, Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 (at times titled: Learning To Live Together Sustainably, UNESCO, 2018) has provided a renewed focus, emphasising peace education, global …
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Spaces for togetherness: Jason Mraz and RKOPers in concert and online
… cultivating this sense of what he calls togetherness, both on the internet and in the concert setting. It is my assertion that listeners are first attracted to Mraz and his music because of their appeal to young (largely female) cosmopolitans with a certain constellation of dispositions, …
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Preferences for Emotional Dependence and Togetherness in Romantic Relationships: The Impact of Cohort, Race, Gender, and Gender Ideology
… preferences for mutual emotional dependence and togetherness in heterosexual romantic relationships among adults in the United States specifically considering the impact of race, gender, gender ideology, and cohort on preferences. A social structure and personality framework and concepts from …
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I Play For Togetherness: Impacts of Audio-Visual Asynchrony on Feelings of Social Closeness in Adult Community Wind Band Musicians
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the effects of audio-visual asynchrony on feelings of social closeness in adult community band musicians. This study is situated within the fields of music cognition and sociology and explores how changes to the cognitive load of a performing musician …
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Limits of Expression: On Touch, Emotion, and Communication
… communication. Perhaps the perpetual digital togetherness afforded by the networks we find ourselves living in has dulled our sensitivities to the physical realm of human experience and all that it embodies. As we continue to move further away from physical togetherness, we may lose an …
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Am I My Brother's Keeper? A Well Child's Story of Living with a Chronically Ill Sibling
… empathy, normalization, frustration, caretaking, togetherness, and hope. Siblings of chronically ill children in this study demonstrated a great deal of empathy toward both their ill brother or sister and their parents. They expressed a deep sense of caring for them, worry about them, and were …
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Developing Inclusive Community Gathering Places Through Socially Driven Design Strategies
… can lead to communities with a strong sense of togetherness and a vibrancy of local place. As a means of achieving this outcome, this thesis identifies ways in which urban park spaces can promote social interaction between different cultural groups and how these methods can then be used to …
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Motivation for sport spectating among the Taiwanese people
… aesthetic, escape, group-affiliation, and family-togetherness) were examined. In addition, this study looked at the differences in spectating motivation between Taiwanese males and females. Surveys were administrated to 188 Taiwanese people. ANOVA and MANOVA analyses were conducted to examine …
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It’s All About “We”: Negotiating Accounts of We-Building Therapy Interactions and Preferred “We” Identities with Families in Therapy
… that facilitated we-ness (or mutuality and togetherness) for families in therapy. I was also interested in how families defined their “we” identities, or preferred sense of who they are together. Family identity research often privileges individuals and neglects the responsive interactions …
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Adolescents' Perceptions of the Relationships with their Parents in the Context of Parental Military Deployment: A Systems Theory Perspective
… connectedness with the at-home parent, togetherness, and flexibility of roles. Processes that promoted relationship distance included restricted communication, at-home parent disengagement, deployed parent disconnectedness and lack of role shifting. Findings suggest processes evident in …
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The Meeting of Two Minds in the Intermediate State: The Art Therapist as a Guide in the In-Between, Immersed and Assisted by Contemplative and Transpersonal Theory
… client’s minds when working in a “we” state of togetherness. Six professional art therapists who had experience with the liminal space were interviewed about their lived experience. From the phenomenological analysis of qualitative interview, data emerged six themes: The Art Process, The Two …
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Decolonising the media : the use of indigenous African languages in South African television advertisements
… style, or a particular reified postapartheid togetherness and cultural mobility. In this dissertation I analyse six television advertisements, all using African languages or language varieties, broadcast over the years starting 2010 through to 2014. I reflect on how and why the African …
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A Phenomenological Investigation of Suicide and Family Connectedness
… and disconnection. Themes for connectedness were togetherness, openness, acceptance, and peace. Themes for disconnection were conflicting emotions and withdrawal. Increased understandings of how family connectedness might change after suicide offers the counseling profession insight into how the …
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The impact of organisational culture on organisational citizenship behaviour within the South African Police Service in the Western Cape
… cultures that encourage innovation, sense of togetherness and positive competition, are ideal in encouraging employees to perform beyond normal expectations in organisations. Organisational culture is therefore a critical element that contributes to organisational success and effectiveness. …
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Interwoven
… objects are signifiers of history, utility, and togetherness.
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A wounded surface : dissolving the human form
… offers ideal images of certitude, of familial togetherness and of happiness. In this body of work I reject the appearance of stability and search my family photographs for traces of ambivalent and unsettled bodily or emotional experiences.
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