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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Warriors"”.
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Rhetorical Construction of Masculinity Among Wounded Warriors
… Wars</em> publish stories praising wounded warriors returning to duty. This praise complicates the conception of masculinity and ability among service-members. One reading of Judith Butler’s chapter “Bodies that Matter” aids understanding how the military forms bodies of service-members and …
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Wives, Witches, And Warriors: Women In Arabic Popular Epic
This dissertation consolidates the known corpus of the medieval Arabic popular epic (sīrah shaʿbīyah) in order to examine the roles of its female characters and how they relate to power. Borrowing from feminist theory, the study takes as its organizing principle the categories of “power-over,” …
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Sunset Warriors: Cowboys, Samurai, and the Crisis of Masculinity
In the writing on men and masculinities there is a pervasive sense that the essence of masculinity has somehow been lost. While often attributed to the angst-ridden exaggerations of privileged white men, the notion that masculinity has become synonymous with loss is a global theme and this …
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(Re)Turning Warriors: A Practical Theology of Military Moral Stress
<p>The concept of military moral injury emerged in the past decade as a way to understand how traumatic levels of moral emotions (not posttraumatic fear) generate moral anguish experienced by some military service members. Interdisciplinary research on moral injury has included clinical …
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Wives, Warriors, and Womanhood: A Study of Women’s War Roles
<p>Since starting the War, Diplomacy, and Society program, my interests have included a focus on the soldier’s experience in war, women’s changing roles in war, and the study of war journalism, ranging from World War II, the Cold War, to the Vietnam War. This thesis project is a culmination of …
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Keyboard warriors: Writing as a tool for positive change. Practitioner thesis
From children’s literature through to the works of poets, scholars and activists such as bell hooks and Audre Lorde, it is widely acknowledged that writing can help create a better world. In this practitioner thesis, I examine the tools that writers can use to help inspire positive social and …
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The efficient and cost effective asynchronous mail sender for road warriors
Email has become a very important communication tool. The rise of SPAM, however, has forced system administrators to restrict the usage of their SMTP servers. Such a restriction causes problems for users who send emails from different locations because it becomes necessary for the users to change …
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Service Dogs for Wounded Warriors with PTSD: Examining the Couple Relational Experience
At least one-quarter of service members who have returned from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan meet the criteria for a mental health diagnosis, of which Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the most common. Social support provided by close relationships has been shown to be a buffer against PTSD …
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'An army of warriors, these Anzacs' : legend and illusion in the first AIF
This dissertation is principally concerned with two myths about the experience and character of Australia's Great War soldiers central to the Anzac legend. The first is the myth of egalitarianism; the second is the myth of the resourcefulness and initiative of Australian soldiers. It argues that …
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Warriors versus experts : managing conflict between professional groups for US Army mental healthcare
Organizational life is rife with conflict between groups with different interests who pursue different goals. Integrative mechanisms to promote goal alignment do not always work, particularly when conflicts involve professional groups with strong commitments to their professional identities and …
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Unravelling Tales of Truth: The Digital Battle Between Greenwashing Giants and Fashion Eco-Warriors
This thesis challenges the contested terrain of sustainability discourses in the global fashion industry, positioning digital platforms as battlefields in the struggle between environmental activism and corporate greenwashing. With a focus on my conceptual contributions, shiny sustainability and …
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On Making Warriors Out of Worriers: the Management of Trait Anxiety in Competitive Sports
There were three broad aims for this thesis. These included (1) an investigation of the relationships between the intensity and directional dimensions of trait anxiety, state anxiety and performance in sport, (2) a detailed exploration of mechanisms mediating observed relationships, using the …
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From Warriors to Wingtips: The Leadership Transition of Retired Officers into the Public Sector
For personal and financial reasons some retired military officers seek second careers in the public sector. In entering local government, they are leaving a unique organization, and encountering a very different organizational culture. This study used grounded theory methodology to identify the key …
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From victims to warriors: collective identity construction at cancer movement assemblies in South Africa
… are portrayed as positive, hopeful heroic warriors tasked with vanquishing cancer. Although ubiquitous at cancer assemblies, the dominant collective identity is nevertheless sufficiently fluid to allow a measure of hybridization, inversion and contestation. This inquiry gives credence to …
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Warriors of choice : the (Re)articulation of militarized masculinities in private and public special forces
My thesis is an examination militarized masculinity in Canada's JTF2 Special Forces and the Private Security Firm Blackwater. I employ a gender analysis to highlight how militarized masculinity impedes women's participation from Special Forces and private security firms. Feminist scholarship by …
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Sport, games, women and warriors: an historical and philosophical examination of the early Irish Ulster cycle
… stages of the physical and martial education of warriors. Finally, the sport-like activity in the tales can be seen to contain evidence of an early sport ethic. In essence, this thesis offers a fresh contribution to the understanding of sport in the ancient world by way of an examination of the …
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