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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"coming of age"”.
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Coming of Age in Neoliberal New York
<p>Thirty years of neoliberal policies have left New York a divided city, with ever-rising rates of income inequality and widening social disparity. Structural transformations associated with global capitalism have led to divergent experiences for male and female youth coming of age in the 21st …
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COMING OF AGE: A TALE OF TWO MATURITIES
… Supreme Court cases concerning the legal status of juveniles have consulted psychological science to decide where to draw these boundaries. However, little is known about the robustness of the relevant research, because it has been conducted largely in the U.S. and other Western countries. To the …
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Growing Up Tween: Femininity, Masculinity, And Coming Of Age
<p>The construction and performance of gender reveal conceptions of femininity and masculinity that are exclusive to individuals and groups of individuals. As research suggests, societal gender norms are rooted in heteronormative ideologies suggesting that heterosexuality is ideal, and therefore to …
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Young-Adult Gay Literature: Coming of Age for LGBTQ Teenagers
… and overview that will explore the evolution of Young Adult (YA) Gay literature from 1969 to the present. It will explore the impact this genre has had on the LGBTQ community, the gradual societal shifts in attitudes towards homosexuals, the reciprocal influence within the scope of Queer …
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Small islands and global action: Coming of age in global change
… aims at advancing theoretical understanding of the role of small island developing states (SIDS) in contemporary international relations (IR). It does this by examining their interaction between, participation in, and contribution to, IR within the framework of the UN. The literature on small …
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Girls coming of age: possibilites and potentials within young adult literature
"Although the primary purpose of the adolescent novel may appear to be a depiction of growth, growth in this genre is inevitably represented as being linked to what the adolescent has learned about power. Without experiences gradations between power and powerlessness, the adolescent cannot grow" …
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How to Participate: A Multi-Genre Coming-of-Age Story of a Student Anthropologist
In this dissertation I explore the role of the relational self in ethnographic research. The dissertation stems from ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted in Barcelona between 2018-2020 among anarchist community organizers who participated at an occupied courtyard in the center of the city. …
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Reading Through the Doldrums: Engaging Adolescence Reparatively Through Contemporary Coming of Age Comic Texts
… I explore the complicated emotional landscape of girls’ adolescence as represented in contemporary coming of age comic texts, to two ends. First, following the work of Eve Sedgwick, I seek to conduct and model reparative readings, which require the reader’s emotional investment in and …
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A Study of Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club As a Coming of Age Novel
… focuses on Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters’ Club as a coming of age novel. The first chapter will examine how Coe illustrates the coming of age of British society in the 1970s, specifically the transition from an era of post-war consensus politics to a different society driven by Thatcherite policies …
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The space between Beirut and the moon : the spatial Lebanese coming of age novel
This thesis consists of a novel and a critical thesis. My novel, The Space between Beirut and the Moon, follows the story of a young boy’s coming of age within the confines of post-civil-war Beirut, around the first decade of the twenty-first century. The protagonist’s relationship with his father …
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Growing Up Faulkner: Coming of Age, Identity, and Parental Responsibility in Three Faulkner Families.
… and <em>As I Lay Dying</em>, the impact of parents who intimately know failure and loss figure largely in the strange coming of age of their children. In the Compson family, the Sutpen family and the Bundren family, the influence of the parents' action or paralysis confuses the identities …
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Coming of age in Khayelitsha: gendered identity, sexual partnerships and the transition to adulthood
The lives of young people in Khayelitsha are characterised by a series of intersecting challenges. These include inadequate access to education, limited opportunities to find gainful employment, exposure to violence and the risk of contracting HIV. Several conventional avenues of transition to …
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Coming of age : focusing the human rights lens on older men and older women
It is most appropriate to open an exploration of the human rights of older persons with the poignant words of Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, in a statement to the Second World Assembly on Aging in Madrid: I turned 64 today. I therefore feel empowered to quote a Beatles' …
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Sunny with a chance: coming of age as coming out and coming into one's own
… award, but makes the critical mistake of falling for her greatest rival. Despite facing crippling cultural expectations and biases, Sunny discovers that being different - and loving who she wants to love - is not a crime, but an imperfect truth. The screenplay explores the protagonist's …
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From Bushwick to Portland: Bori Girls of the Diaspora Revolutionizing the Puerto Rican Coming-of-Age Narrative
… women in the diaspora have challenged dominant imagery and fought against patriarchy, U.S. imperialism, and white supremacy through their writing. Writers like Esmeralda Santiago and Nicholasa Mohr have transformed the literary canon via the bildungsroman, highlighting the unique struggles of …
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Coming-of-age, photography and animalization in El color del crepúsculo, Maquis and La noche inmóvil of Alfons Cervera.
This thesis explores coming-of-age, photography and animalization in El color del crepúsculo, Maquis and La noche inmóvil, the first three novels of the memory cycle of Alfons Cervera. My study focuses first on the childhood learning of the protagonist in El color del crepúsculo, especially in the …
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Coming of Age in Spite of the Contrast of Vagueness: Native Speaker and The House on Mango Street as Erziehungsroman
… as Erziehungsroman—that is, stories whose coming-of-age process depends on the characters' education—reveals the similar process that both Esperanza Cordero and Henry Park experience as they navigate the 1960s and 1970s American school system. The most important obstacle in Esperanza's and …
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Coming of Age or an Age of Becoming? The Role of Childhood in Identity Formation at Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom Egypt
This thesis explores the role of childhood in identity formation. The concept that childhood contributes to an individual’s identity—how a person becomes who they are, and how childhood influences this—is universally relevant. However, whilst the influence of childhood is universal, exactly what …
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