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Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"hard work"”.
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Attributional beliefs in music learning: 'talent' or hard work?
… groups regarding the sources of musical skill—hard work or innate/internal -- were explored through two separate studies. Subjects for the pilot study consisted of thirty-seven private university music majors compared with adult chancel choir members, while the thesis study compared the …
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Soft Skills and Hard Work: Organizing as a Political Behavior Rooted in Relational Labor
… what makes individuals choose to do the work of recruitment can help to expand our understanding of the conditions that will produce an active and engaged citizenry. I, therefore, evaluate how a potential organizer's disposition, skills, and positionality uniquely shapes their willingness …
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The Dark Side of the American Dream: Individual Agency, Hard Work, and Public Mass Shootings
… The American Dream refers to the belief that hard work will result in success and upward mobility for future generations. In other words, American culture views each individual as the master of their own destiny, provided they work hard. Though America’s culture has changed drastically over …
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“It’s Hard Work” — K-12 Teachers’ Enacted Curriculum of Computational Thinking and Computer Science Integration
… pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) framework with the incorporation of computational thinking (TPACK-CT) as a lens and conceptual framework, this study highlights the pedagogical and technological strategies for how a K-5 STEM specialist, a fourth grade teacher, and a high school computer …
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“The Hard Work is Done in the Looking”: Analyzing Representations of and Responses to Appalachia in Popular Culture
<p>For many Americans, the concept of Appalachia as a singular place has been created through images in popular culture, often stereotypical. This thesis presents an evolution of Appalachian representations—or, more appropriately, a chronology of images in stasis, as they seem to have remained …
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Soft skills for hard work: an exploration of the efficacy of the emotional literacy of practitioners working within the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) with high risk offenders
… to how practitioners understand, regulate and work with emotion; how the organisational ‘silence’ on the subject is maintained and reinforced; the costs of this silencing and how practitioners endeavour to surmount it in their daily working practices. The term ‘emotional literacy’ (Killick …
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Depravity and the Protestant Work Ethic: Creativity in Western Religions
… of guilt and transgression on creativity and hard work. Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish male participants were given two different tasks designed to elicit a sense of temptation and transgression in specific conditions. Subsequently participants completed several tasks measuring creativity …
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Arashi in Black and White
After a great deal of hard work and experimentation, several changes were identified as necessary to enable Arashi to run in Black and White. Additionally, several optimisations were identified to improve the speed on lower performance black and white models.
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Examining the Influence of Race, Class and Gender Inequalities on Perceptions of the American Dream Since the 2008 Economic Recession
… achieved through one’s own perseverance and hard work, the quintessential American Dream. The first use of the phrase American Dream was by James Truslow Adams to characterize the ideal that every man should live a richer and fuller life than his ancestors based on opportunity according to …
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Prevailing Attitudes Toward Work and The Relationship Between Religious Orientation and Work Ethic Dimensions
… pertained to the prevailing attitudes toward work and the relationship between religious orientation and work ethic dimensions. The study probed the most frequent or very common attitudes toward work among students in the Teacher Education Program at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, …
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From Classrooms to Community: An Ethnographic Narrative
… story of my journey as a novice teacher, as I worked to create a positive classroom ecology and learned countless lessons while assuming the roles of student, teacher, and observer. Through the analysis of multiple artifacts, intended to reflect my teaching practices, this narrative challenged …
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"Celtic Pride": White Nostalgia and Working-Class Masculinity in 1970s Professional Basketball
… basketball, a style of play that emphasized teamwork, intelligence, efficiency, hard work, grit, and selflessness. They were upheld as a bulwark against the invasion and takeover of the NBA by "black" basketball. If the Celtics and "white" basketball represented everything good and honorable …
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An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891-1924
… newly-arrived immigrants showed a propensity for hard work, and natives of the region expected them to eventually assimilate into their new surroundings. However, Italians held little understanding of race relations between blacks and whites in Louisiana as well as in the South. Because of this …
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Culture and entrepreneurship in Fiji's small tourism business sector
… good educational facilities, risk-taking skills, hard work and perseverance, sound financial management, ability to raise capital, values of materialism and capitalism, prudent business planning, skills of savings and investment, good management skills, and building investment capital. It was …
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Operation Untitled
… becomes known by the moniker “the Prophet,” is a hard-working student from a lower class background who’s infatuated by his school and society’s promise that hard work = success. When he learns that he loses a life-changing scholarship simply because the recipient, “the Golden Boy” Richard …
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Sarah T. Hughes: Her Influence in Texas Politics
… active in politics for the next fifty years. Hard work, intelligence, and ability allowed her to form solid friendships with Texas's most powerful politicians. She became the first woman in Texas to hold a district judgeship, the first woman from Texas appointed to the federal bench, and the …
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From camp to community: musical and cultural exchange in the 2008 International Choral Ensemble
… challenging musical repertoire, presenting their hard work as musical gifts and the content of cultural exchange to host families and communities. The choir’s flexibility to adapt to situations requiring them to participate in regional and national celebrations highlights the strengths of the …
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Ending Poverty? Critical Interrogations of Class Subjectivities, Agency, and Ideologies in Discursive and Embodied Texts From a U.S. Nonprofit
… dominant societal ideologies about individual hard work as a pathway to success, individual responsibility to create change, the normalization of the middle class, and a reinforcement of whiteness. The author takes a praxical approach in using theories from critical intercultural communication, …
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Housie as leisure pursuit for older working class women
… this research suggest that after a life time of hard work and family commitment, the world view of older working-class women focuses on housie as an enjoyable medium for non-intimate social interaction which is both economically viable and convenient to access. Future research needs to focus on …
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TO NEIGHBOR: Stories from Melville, Montana, a Crossroads of Land, Community, and a Way of Life
… three to four generations, these people value hard work and all the lessons it brings, neighbors, and the lifestyle of a rancher. But life in the ranching industry is a tough one. Profits are hard to come by and land prices are high where there is a view. And there is a view in Melville: the …
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