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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"fortitude"”.
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Investigating the relationship between fortitude and academic achievement in students from historically disadvantaged backgrounds
… weaknesses, the focus is on positive outcomes. Fortitude, more specifically, is the strength gained from appraising oneself, one’s family, and one’s social support,in a positive manner. This strength equips people to cope successfully in stressful situations. Fortitude as a construct in the …
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Food and Fortitude: A Story of Life Within Presidio San Saba as told through Zooarchaeological Analysis
Presidio San Sabá was the largest military outpost in the Texas region during the mideighteenth century. This research project is a continuation of Arlene Fradkin, and Tamra Walters’ previous faunal analysis conducted on a portion of the site’s assemblage. This inquiry will focus on comparing the …
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Courage to Speak, Fortitude to Listen: A Model for the Study of First-Person LD Narratives
<p>Learning disabled (LD) is both a politically and socially contentious term. In the eyes of the public, the label is synonymous with special education (SE). SE's vision of LD remains the dominant discourse of deficit-based understanding of human differences. This has resulted in its adherence to …
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Fresh, Frugal, and Fabulous: A Woman's Guide to Cooking with Life
… managing a downturn in finances with style and fortitude.
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Ren Leadership: An Interpretive Biography of Bai Fangli
… [li], wisdom [zhi], trustworthiness [xin], fortitude [yong], and frugality [jian] and Western virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance, the second finding recognized that moral leadership is applicable to both Eastern and Western world views. The third finding describes an …
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Ren Leadership: An Interpretive Biography of Bai Fangli
… [li], wisdom [zhi], trustworthiness [xin], fortitude [yong], and frugality [jian] and Western virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance, the second finding recognized that moral leadership is applicable to both Eastern and Western world views. The third finding describes an …
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Affect and Its Disorders in a Northern Plains Indian Community: Issues in Cross -Cultural Discourse and Diagnosis
… the local cultural discourse linking trauma and fortitude. As a result, CIDI responses were channeled into culturally appropriate self-representations that primarily associated personal distress in terms of the traumatic social disruptions that respondents had experienced as opposed to the more …
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Choose Jesus: A Theology of the Book of Hebrews
… that truth believers must respond with faith and fortitude (Heb 10-13; chaps. 8-9). This project proposes that the theology of the book of Hebrews can be thus summarized: Choose Jesus because he is better.
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The relationship of band directors’ personal characteristics, professional skills, and external factors to student achievement: A comparison of in-service and pre-service band directors’ perspectives
… characteristics linked to personability, moral fortitude, and ethical behavior were most significant to both groups of survey participants. Additionally, this study determined that in-service band directors value personal characteristics more than pre-service band directors and the pre-service …
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Right Reverend Stephen Elliott: Political Influence and the Protestant Episcopal Church in Georgia, 1840-1866
… Southern strength in both victory and defeat. As fortitude subsided, religion also played a prodigious role in perpetuating the Confederate experience. For a generation, its theology had endorsed the South's social arrangement, asserted the morality of slavery, expunged Southern sins, and …
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Resilience: Appalachia's Journey to Hope and Restoration
… These events, the lessons learned, and spiritual fortitude formed by them bless me and my community with a deeper understanding and appreciation of our world. I invite you to embark on a journey through resilience as expressed in my artworks, where each piece serves as a testament to endurance, …
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"By Popular Demand": The Hero in American Art, c. 1929-45
… imagery by creating icons of leadership and fortitude. Heroes took the form of political leaders, unionized workers, farmers, folk icons, historical characters, mothers, and women workers. The ideas they manifest are as varied as the styles and motivations of the artists who developed them. …
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FISTFUL OF DEBRIS
… not overcoming the initial grief, but having the fortitude to sift through the wreckage of their life, and steadfastly rebuild with what is left. Only then can they begin to heal.
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Bourgeois heroics: Commercial anxieties and the rise of the mercantile hero in the early modern period
… trend away from an heroism associated with moral fortitude and noble birth (embodied in contemporary notions of the "courtier") towards one characterized by responsible economic policy and household management. This cultural shift, I contend, reflects the demands of a bourgeois identity deeply …
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What is a girl worth: the role of discourse in the perpetuation and obfuscation of institutional abuse in USA gymnastics
… discourses surrounding weight and diet, mental fortitude, incredibly high expectations, and discourses that explicitly objectify gymnasts, contributed to the perpetuation and obfuscation of abuse at USA Gymnastics.
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Contribution of the Sisters of Loretto to Education in Colorado
… these Lorettines set the example of courage and fortitude in the cause for the spread of Christ's kingdom.
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Lucretia Coffin Mott: Early Leader in the Struggle for Women's Rights Within the Society of Friends and the Anti-Slavery Movement
… in the Anti-Slavery Movement. Because of Mott’s fortitude, the rights of women advanced in the early nineteenth century and propelled the impetus for the Women’s Rights Movement. This research suggests that the Women’s Rights Movement began prior to the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention of …
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Roman Catholics Developing a Moral Compass: Parochial School Graduates' Experiences and Reflections of Living the Cardinal Virtues
… The four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) provided an organizational tool from which to understand moral beliefs and actions over time. One key result of this study demonstrated that the majority of participants learned to think independently and critically about …
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Making Decisions: A three‐year ethnographic study of child health student nurses
… practice is more, the data suggests, through the fortitude of the participant rather than the skills and tools provided through the timetable. Like many ethnographic studies that examine familiar topics, the results are not always palatable. This study gives insight into the world of the …
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EQ, Not Just IQ: The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and the Success of High School Principals Who Have Been Awarded the Illinois Principals Association's High School Principal of the Year Award
… of these traits is the principal's emotional fortitude. Emotional intelligence is as complicated as it is organic, in that its foundation rests on an individual's awareness of himself/herself and how these emotions drive his/her ability to relate with others. With this comes the question, what …
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