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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"War veterans"”.
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The Role of Hardiness in Moderating Parenting Stress in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans
… between combat exposure and parenting stress in veterans of war. Hardiness, a personality variable that describes an individual's sense of commitment, control, and challenge in light of life stress, has been identified as a protective factor that buffers against the development of psychological …
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Effects of War Stressors and Life Events on Gulf War Veterans with CFS Symptoms
… with the development of CFS symptoms in Gulf War veterans. From data collected from Gulf War Health Registry veterans, 113 met CFS criteria and 441 were controls. After hierarchical linear analysis, negative life stressors: wounded, traumatic war experience, frequent battle experiences, …
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An analysis of the effectiveness of existing land reform policy in uplifting the socio-economic standards of the war veterans of the liberation of Namibia
… in uplifting the socio-economic standards of the war veterans of the liberation struggle of Namibia. The researcher used quantitative research methodology through questionnaires to gather information on the benefits that have accrued from the land reform policy and the extent to which the policy …
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Making Their Mark: World War I Memorial and Commemoration Formation by Veterans in Johnson City, TN, 1922-1935
… and civilians alike sought to make sense of the war following the silencing of the guns with the signing of the armistice in 1918. One of the foremost veteran groups leading this effort was the American Legion, founded in 1919. This World War I veteran organization would provide an outlet for …
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The Effects of Historical Alcohol Use on Neuropsychological Functioning in Older Adults Following a Traumatic Brain Injury
… database provided by the Brain Aging in Vietnam War Veterans (DOD-ADNI) database. All participants were Vietnam War veterans between the ages of 61 and 85. The participants were grouped according to presence of a traumatic brain injury and history of alcohol use or dependence. All participants …
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Being and Becoming a U.S. Iraq War Veteran: An Exploration of the Social Construction of an Emerging Identity
… relevant healthcare to our nation's newest veterans. <bold>Research Question:</bold> Based on the premise that each veteran cohort has a characteristically identifiable cultural form and process of cultural identification and negotiated development, the research question guiding this study …
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Physical disability, disabled veterans and the American Revolution
… ideas of physical disability in the era of the War for Independence. In the colonies, physical disability never stood alone as an independent category of difference, but was anchored in discourses of poverty and morality. However, the tumultuous events that occurred during the period 177 5 to …
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Exploring visitor meanings of place in the National Capital Parks - Central
… visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Korean War Veterans Memorial (i.e. the Triangle) seek something of value for themselves, including everything from connecting with the past and rededicating themselves to the ideals of the nation. The study incorporated …
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A Covert From Storm: Race, Rights and Community in Nineteenth-Century Rural Michigan
… and economic assertiveness of the Black Civil War veterans in Covert, and that the white Yankees and European immigrants in the township welcomed and encouraged this assertiveness. This equality between Blacks and whites did not result in people of African descent having to deny their unique …
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A Qualitative Exploration Of Trauma, Familismo, And Resilience In Three Mexican Immigrant Families.
… been well-documented among Holocaust survivors, war veterans, and historically marginalized communities, limited research has examined how such patterns manifest in Latin American immigrant populations, particularly Mexican American families. To address this gap, a narrative approach was used to …
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Veterans of the 1st Persian Gulf War: A Study of Medically Unexplained Symptom Models
<p>In 1990-1991, shortly after the Persian Gulf War, a number of veterans began complaining about a wide range of symptoms, the most common of which were; fatigue, headache, sleep disturbance, low mood, and memory loss. These symptoms were similar to those experienced by individuals with Medically …
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The remembered war: the Korean war in American culture, 1953-1995
After three years of bitter fighting, the Korean War ended on July 27, 1953. It profoundly shaped and directed American Cold War policy for the next four decades. Korea’s place in American culture and memory, however, has seemingly been less profound. This dissertation reassesses the war’s legacy …
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"The father of the revolution": history, memory and the FNLA veterans of Pomfret
… present identities as forgotten and betrayed war veterans.
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Post Traumatic Story Disorder: The Power of Story Telling and Story Hearing to Heal the Invisible Wounds of War
… wounds they suffer, soldiers traumatized by war often experience the debilitating effects of what psychiatrist Jonathan Shay calls moral injury and shrinkage of the social and moral horizon. Shay’s book Achilles in Vietnam argues that soldiers have suffered these moral and social injuries …
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Media induced anxiety in the active duty medical clinic setting: A pilot study
… the majority of research had been focused on war veterans, rape/crime victims, and vehicle accident victims. Post- 9/11, a new surge of research has been focused on survivors, eyewitnesses, and media watchers to the extraordinary events that occurred on that historic day. The current news …
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Housing Demand, Housing Wealth, and Public Policy
… to the VA Loan Guaranty Program during the post-war housing boom during the 1940s and 1950s. The findings show that, for both World War II and Korean War veterans, access to the VA loan program promoted household formation. Specifically, access to the program increased an individual’s probability …
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Identity, Agency, and Emotion: Political Activism Among Anti-War Military Veterans
This case study of members of Iraq Veterans Against the War explores how identity, institutional context and affiliation, emotions, and the notion of healing come together in the experience of activism. Using an interpretive approach, I employ in-depth interviews and observation derived primarily …
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Rewriting post-colonial historical representations: the case of refugees in Zimbabwe's war of liberation
… The case of refugees in Zimbabwe's liberation war' focuses on the historicisation of the experiences of people who were refugees during Zimbabwe's liberation war, fought between 1966 and 1980. It uses the narratives of former refugees from Mutasa and Bulilima Districts as a way of capturing …
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An Analysis of British Army Veterans’ Oral Testimony and the Campaign in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
War veterans have long been seen as natural subjects for oral history, and the task of collecting their reminiscences has been the focus of substantial attention by institutions such as the Imperial War Museum. Military historians often draw upon such interviews in their research; however, their …
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