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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"existential crisis"”.
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Growing To Normal Size
… of poems exploring feelings of nostalgia, grief, existential crisis and angst, and feelings of catharsis. </p>
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Contesting identities: a study of the nexus between double-consciousness and belonging in Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give (2017); Samira Ahmed’s Love, Hate & Other Filters (2018) and Gloria Chao’s American Panda (2018)
… lives. The end result of this process is an existential crisis that is directly linked to their contradictory identities. It is in the study that the researcher also asks how societal as well as familial expectations and stereotypes impact on the identity of their members leading to dualism …
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Albert Camus en la obra Carlos Martinez Rivas y Charles Bukowski
… values that spawned the global psychological crisis consequence of the IIWW recently ended. I put forward the idea that in Martinez Rivas and Bukowski's poetics be identified an affiliation with Albert Camus' critique of modernity which is intrinsically related to his theory of the absurd: an …
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‘Being-in-the-world’ as a mother - hermeneutic-phenomenological exploration of lived experiences of eight new mothers’ transition to motherhood - within the theoretical frame of ‘four dimensions of existence’
… as Self-transcendence. The findings evidence the existential endeavour and ontological transformation at the heart of the transition to motherhood. Emergent was the potential for more authentic ways of being for new mothers as a result of choosing to take existential responsibility for the life of …
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The rhetoric of reflection : Hebrew roots of cognition and the final form of the masoretic text of the Psalter.
… arranged collection that resolves the existential crisis caused by the displacement of the Exile by promoting YHWH as king in place of the failed, human Davidic monarchy. In particular, this dissertation seeks to study the role of reflection/cognition in the final form of the Psalter on …
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The poetry of Ruth Miller : the Word and her words
… Metelerkamp's observation, showing how the existential crisis that is made manifest in Miller's poetry is generated by both her compliance with and denial of this patriarchal Judeo-Christian meaning-making system. It also registers a changing development in Miller 's poetic trajectory from …
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Carl Schmitt's Historicity between Theology and Technology
… positivism and natural law theories as posing an existential crisis to the future of jurisprudence, one that could only be overcome by recourse to a self-reflexive history of the discipline.
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The ocean in a drop: a narrative of reintegration for an era of disintegration
… that I believe is required for us to escape our existential crisis. This shift in consciousness has become the foundation for a new work in progress, which I include as an Appendix 6 to this statement.
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The shattering of motherhood: an interpretative phenomenological exploration of child-to-parent violence
… that gap in research and adopts a uniquely existential phenomenological lens. Using qualitative methods, this study explores the lived experience of mothers exposed to CPV by their neurotypical biological children, aged four to 12 years. Five mothers exposed to this phenomenon provided …
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Experience of living with systemic sclerosis - a grounded theory study
… has impacted people's daily lives and cause the existential crisis. They experience disability, social isolation, despair, death anxiety, uncertainty and lack of freedom and responsibility. As a result of these phenomena they experience changed sense of self. Alongside using their regime, they …
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Exiles From Spain's Civil War: Case Studies of Two Literary Figures
… of the period that generated the upsurge of Existentialism increased the profound existential crisis provoked by the personal experience of exile. The years of their exile were prolific for both Juan Ramon Jimenez and Pedro Salinas, but they were affected by the existential realities of exile …
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Successful Regional Integration in the European Union through Vision and Planning
… and fiscal policy, have presented the EU with an existential crisis. My hypothesis is that successful regional integration in Europe, however gradual, was not a spontaneous reaction to acute external pressures. Instead, I argue that successful regional integration was the result of a shared vision …
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New frontiers for Labour Law: Collective Bargaining for Workers in Global Supply Chains and Informal Self-Employed Workers
… and has responded to, what has been called the ‘existential crisis' of labour law. Scholars have questioned labour law's ‘constituting narrative' as ‘the law of collective relations' and the relevance to most of the workforce of its two core institutions — the contract of employment and …
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Cancer Related Symptom Clusters
… symptom cluster may be preceded by anticipatory crisis (end of life care), and existential crisis (finding meaning in the cancer experience).
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The unworlding and worlding of agoraphobia
… worlds coming undone during traumatic events of existential crisis or catastrophe. Yet, human geographers have largely neglected to attend to the phenomenal nature of this unbounded sense of 'unworlding' disintegration, as well as the wild material forces, agencies and passions at loose in the …
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French Philosophy and New Media: Sartre, Foucault and Stiegler on the Technics of Existence
… of care with Foucault’s to stress that the existential crisis diagnosed by Stiegler is a technological problem which has an aesthetic effect and deserves political attention. <br/><br/>I argue, however, that Stiegler’s emphasis on the disastrous reality of psychopower, influenced by his …
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Soggy sovereignty on the Irish border
BREXIT caused an existential crisis in Northern Ireland, by March 2019 the Irish border, between Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland will become the EU's only land frontier with another union. Considering more than double the number of land crossings (275) exist on the …
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Nature connection: An educational outcome for a sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand
… capacity of Earth. This is an unsustainable, existential crisis that requires transformational change. Such a change requires a paradigm shift of the cultural belief and value systems which drive our interactions and relationships with the material world. The global spread of the dominant …
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Towards a theory of trust in libraries and democracy
… a sense of psychological well-being and avoid existential anxiety” (1991). Because ontological security is a concept that is grounded in trust, it serves as the framework to guide this dissertation. The goal is to articulate how ontological security is critical for a functioning democracy and …
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