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Showing 1 to 20 of 253 for “"explication"”.
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Criteria, Anthology, and Explication of Poetry for First Grade
In recognition of this multi-faceted problem of selecting poems to use with first grade, it is the purpose of this study (1) to establish criteria of evaluation and selection, relating that criteria to the bases of poetry criticism, (2) using that criteria, to compile an anthology for use with …
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Curriculum Evaluation and Literary Criticism: The Explication of an Analogy
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Race Day An Explication of the Documentary Film One Mind
This qualitative research paper is an explication in support of my twenty-five-minute documentary film entitled One Mind. One Mind follows Ashwill Petersen's journey as he prepares and competes in his first 100km trail running race at George Mountain Ultra Trail (MUT) 2022. Even though the film …
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Edward Taylor's "brightest gem" : a religio-aesthetic explication of Gods determinations
This study examines intensively Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations touching his Elect: and The Elects Combat in their Conversion, and Coming up to God in Christ together with the Comfortable Effects thereof. This poetic history was probably written immediately prior to one of Taylor's spiritual …
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An Explication of the Text of John Keats' Ode on Melancholy
… <p>The primary objective of this study is the explication of the text of the ”Ode on Melancholy.” It is hoped that this explication will demonstrate Keats’ theory of the relation between beauty and melancholy as he presents it in this ode. I do not hold that all the facets of Keats’ theory of …
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Explication, similarity, and analogy: a defense and application of philosophical method
… concepts. One option is to concentrate effort on explication of familiar concepts; explication is an alternative to conceptual analysis in that it does not aim to dig out analytic truths about given concepts. Rather, it identifies what is interesting about a certain vague concept, and generates a …
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Digital story explication as it relates to emotional needs and learning
Too often, efforts toward re-thinking learning environments focus solely on the cognitive aspects of education. By expanding our view to consider other aspects of adolescent development involved in education, we can begin to address the needs of the whole child. This research aims to 1) gain a …
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Difficulties faced by homosexual students at the University of Zululand: a phenomenological explication
The objective of this study was to describe the difficulties faced by homosexual students, their perception and understanding of social discrimination. A phenomenological approach was employed. The sample consisted of 10 participants, 7 males and 3 females. All participants were registered students …
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The experience of performing caesarean sections on patients with HIV : a phenomenological explication
… Six protocols were selected for phenomenological explication based on the interviews with the 9 original participants. The sample consisted of 3 females and 3 males, from different cultural backgrounds, who regularly perform surgical gynaecological procedures on patients with HIV/AIDS. The results …
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The process and dimensions of family member marginalization: A mixed-method construct explication
<p>This dissertation builds upon social psychology, organizational studies (i.e., social identity theory, social network theory), family studies, and interpersonal communication (i.e., hurt, confirmation theory) literature to understand how marginalized family members, or "black sheep," come to …
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Prehensile: an explication of this is Africa, a travel memoir by Jack Rathmell
“Prehensile” is a 10,000 word explication analyzing T.I.A, a travel memoir by Jack Rathmell (the candidate). Prehensile examines the various philosophical themes running throughout the book, as well as addressing the ethical dilemmas and other problems the Western world faces as regards the outside …
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An explication of agency theory with theoretical and practical considerations for school-based management
Agency theory is a relatively new theoretical approach to the study of control loss and delegation in organizations. Several educational researchers have applied agency theory to an analysis of school-based management, however they have reached inconsistent conclusions.
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A phenomenological explication of the meaning of the concept self-respect in high school learners
Self-respect is defined as pride and confidence in oneself, a feeling that one is behaving with honor and dignity. The objective of the study was to find out the conceptualization of self-respect from high school learners. This study adopted a phenomenological approach to facilitate the …
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Towards an explication of the presence effects on information processing and persuasion: A construal level framework
<p>Dissatisfied with the existing theoretical account of the effects of presence on the mode of information processing (i.e., heuristic vs. systematic processing) and how this leads to persuasion in the context of mediated communication, the current study suggests an alternative framework that …
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Scientific literacy: a multi-disciplinary explication and empirical study of the conceptions of science graduate students
… umbrella term. What is missing is a systematic explication of this complex concept, stemming from its two constituent parts: science and literacy. Chapter one examines the natural intersections between science and literacy to build a theoretical typology of the components that define SL. Chapter …
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An Ontological Explication of Electronic Benefit Transfer as an Institutional Mechanism of Reification and Relations of Ruling
This study explicates Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) as a textually mediated discursive management tool. EBT is the mandatory method for food benefits and replaces the previous food stamp coupons, but the broad reaching significance is that this program is just a developmental infrastructure. …
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Dramatization and philosophy of history in Orange Book explication of a site-responsive work and its research
The explication presents Orange Book as a piece of site-responsive public space performance, showing how similar patterns of thought and feeling emerging in both research and artwork led to elaborating the notion of an art methodology for the work. The explication further considers a process of …
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Form and the picturing of mining : an epistemology of form with special reference to the explication of iconography
The work presented here is a bounded excerpt of a broader programme of creative endeavour. Framed by the constraints of the MFA degree , the special value of this project has been the opportunity it has presented to articulate some of the ideas that have developed over a period of time and have …
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The Best Interests of the Child in Custody Evaluations: An Explication of the Construct and Preliminary Content Validation Study
Forty percent of marriages with children end in divorce in the United States, ten percent of which require a child custody evaluation. Approximately 100,000 child custody evaluations are conducted annually (Bow, 2006). Despite the fact that these evaluations affect the lives of thousands of …
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