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Showing 1 to 20 of 407 for “"Veteran"”.
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"The Veteran Problem''? The American WWII Veteran
… paper is to analyze a specific dimension of the veteran policy discourse in academic and news articles published during the Second World War. I conduct a textual analysis and apply frame theory to structure my study of 45 academic articles taken from JSTOR and 314 news articles taken from …
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VETERAN STUDENTS' NEEDS ASSESSMENT
<p>Military service members are a subpopulation of the postsecondary student body. Many service members report symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Yet, practical and stigma-related barriers prevent these service members from seeking treatment, often when treatment …
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Mateship and the Australian Vietnam veteran
… Vietnam War. Many of the books are written by veterans themselves, and some include chapters or sections on the special bonds of mateship experienced between Vietnam veterans. Today Australia continues to send military personnel to overseas countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, East Timor, …
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Predicting Veteran Entrepreneurial Success with Effectuation
<p>As more U.S. veterans transition from the military, entrepreneurship has become a viable career path due to the abundant transition support programs in higher education, government, and nonprofit organizations. Unfortunately, fewer post-9/11 veterans are choosing the entrepreneurship pathway and …
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Veteran Specific Risk Factors for Delirium
… and delirium diagnosis among hospitalized veterans.</p> <p><strong>Background: </strong>Delirium is a common disorder experienced by 25% of all hospitalized adults 65 years and older. No published studies to date have examined whether combat, TBI and PTSD are associated with the incidence …
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Retention and Motivation of Veteran Teachers.
… workers in the country, are also aging. The veteran teachers in our nation's public schools possess wisdom gained through their on-the-job experience. With looming teacher shortages in our public schools, it is imperative that we retain this wisdom. Administrators, school boards, and the …
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Campaigns of a veteran volunteer organization: the service of the 5th New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry, Duryee's Zouaves, 1863-1865
… the field as a battalion with four companies of veteran men under the command of Lt. Col. Cleveland Winslow. For seven months the unit occupied the defenses of Washington. In Alexandria the outfit performed duty at the provost marshal's office and undertook various responsibilities. In the Spring …
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Veteran-Students in Transition at a Midwestern University
… much research has been conducted on military veterans who enroll in institutions of higher education following their returns from deployment, much of that work has focused on issues such as veterans’ finances or academic achievement, rather than the individuals’ transitions from deployment to …
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Vietnam veteran levels of combat : perceived and actual violence
… between levels of combat experienced by Vietnam veterans and later perceptions of violence, violent attitudes, and violent participants: heavy combat Vietnam veterans; light combat Vietnam veterans; Vietnam era veterans; and non-veteran (civilian) friends of Vietnam veterans.Calvert's Brief …
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An Organizational Guide to Leveraging Military Veteran Human Capital
Military veterans possess a unique set of nontechnical skills from military training and operation that transfer into the civilian workforce. If leveraged appropriately, these nontechnical skills create an economic advantage for organizations and an engaged veteran workforce. The last two decades …
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Vietnam Voices: a Comparative Analysis of Vietnam Veteran Narratives
… the significant narrative elements in Vietnam veteran survivor narratives. the narratives within Al Santoli's Everything we had, Wallace Terry's Bloods, and Lynda Van Devanter's Home before morning are used as representative narratives for the White soldiers, Black soldiers, and women, …
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Veterans Court: examining the effectiveness of veteran-specific rehabilitation
… use disorders are skyrocketing in the returning veteran population. The Veterans Court program directs veterans with certain criminal issues into a program designed to treat veterans in need, as opposed to incarcerating them. The purpose of this study is to conduct an initial examination of the …
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Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War
… representation of the most prominent Vietnam veteran memoirs published between 1967 and 2005. These personal narratives are important because they have affected the collective memory of the Vietnam War for decades. The primary focus of this study is an analysis of how veterans' memoirs depict …
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Complicating Whiteness: Identifications of Veteran White Teachers in Multicultural Settings
… whiteness in education. Moreover, studies on veteran White teachers in multicultural settings explore professional identifications that have emerged along a continuum within authentic educational contexts rather than pre-service teachers in decontextualized settings.</p> <p>Exploring …
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Literature and the Long Postwar: Recuperating the Post-45 Veteran
… and the Long Postwar: Recuperating the Post-45 Veteran” examines the critical omission of the World War II veteran in literary studies. It argues that depictions of an aggrieved, often racialized veteran have been obscured for implying disapproval of a war that has been racially re-remembered …
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Identity and veteran health: Considerations of context, culture, and change
Veterans often have poor physical, psychological, and social health outcomes compared with civilians, including elevated rates of substance abuse, self-harm, and suicidality. These outcomes are exacerbated by the reluctance of military personnel and veterans to engage with healthcare services, and …
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Teacher Resilience in Central Virginia: How Veteran Teachers Become Resilient
… teacher retention. This study identified reasons veteran teachers have remained in the classroom; individual and contextual factors of resilience; significant challenges the teachers have encountered; and strategies the teachers used for dealing with the challenging situations. This was a …
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Veteran Teachers Are Like A Rooted Tree: Comprehensive Formal Mentoring as a Mitigating Factor for Stress, Burnout, and Attrition for K-8 Public School Veteran Teachers
… can lead to teacher burnout and attrition. Veteran teacher attrition, primarily teacher migration, negatively impacts students with the greatest needs and does not address antecedent factors driving the pattern of attrition. Comprehensive formal mentoring has been documented as a mitigating …
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