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Showing 1 to 20 of 238 for “"hardships"”.
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Juggling Demands and Resources: Low Wage Women Making Sense of Bill-Paying Hardships
… make sense of lived experiences with bill-paying hardships. Two themes with subthemes and corresponding meaning making processes emerged into a conceptual framework. The first theme is caring for others with subthemes of responsibility, isolation, and survival and a meaning-making process called …
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Becoming Transcultural: Filling The Cultural And Communication Gap Within The Black American Community
… the ability to be transcultural and minority hardships. Results revealed that the Pre-encounter, Immersion, Emersion and Internalization phases of Black identity are predictors of minority hardships. There were also significant results for the Internalization phase of Black identity and the …
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Lost in transition: welfare to work in Louisiana
… relationship to the poverty level and material hardships. Finally, I report the findings from in-depth qualitative interviews with a select subsample of these respondents to gauge their survival strategies, vulnerability to hardships, and experiences with welfare reform policy. The findings …
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Confronting the "Ugly American" Stereotype: A Study of the Acculturation of Peace Corps Volunteers
… (RPCVs) I gain insight into the potential hardships encountered during their first few months in the service. I also use literature from both critical and instructional sources on the topics to supplement my inquiry. These critique and demonstrate the various methods RPCVs use to acclimate …
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Birthday
… at the same time separating them through the hardships of immigration.
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A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Just Transition
… fears that there will be job losses and economic hardships as the world transitions away from the carbonheavy dependence of the past. The Just Transition principle has emerged globally as a framework of ensuring these potential job losses and economic hardships are planned for, and the people …
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"Against My Destiny": Reading an Italian Immigrant's Memoir in the Early 20th-century South
… The Story of My Life (1958), represents the hardships of immigration and assimilation through meditations on home, family, and religion. I read his narrative in contrast with white elite narratives that express nostalgia for sharecropping and the segregation era. I see his narrative as a …
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Federal assistance to education in localities affected by federal activities : with Shasta Dam as a basic study
… contractor employees resulting in educational hardships for children in that area. This is a study of the problem that is involved when a Federal activity enters an area previously devoid of such activity.
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Exploring the functioning of families living in the socially disorganized communities of Khayelitsha and Delft: A family resilience perspective
… maintain a sense of integration in the face of hardships and to recovering from trauma following adverse circumstances”, (Green, 2007). South African families experience a number of unique circumstances that not only affect their family structure but also extend to the socioeconomic and …
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Childhood Illnesses Effects on Nurses Well-Being
… they go through many different struggles and hardships. Most of these lead to mental health issues like compassion fatigue, burnout, or secondary traumatic stress. The purpose of this literature review is to explore the stress that oncology health care workers who are working with children are …
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SEPARATION DUE TO DEPORTATION: PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND ECONOMIC AFFECT ON CHILDREN OF DEPORTED PARENTS
… addressed psychological, emotional, and economic hardships suffered by children in face of being separated from their families and becoming vulnerable to emotionally triggered dysfunctional behavior, abuse, neglect, and poverty. Qualitative methods were used for this research as it aimed to …
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Libraries, Community and Change in Post -Soviet Russia: The Case of the Bryansk Regional Public Library System
The librarians did not let the hardships and constraints they faced dictate their path, and they have found ways to make their libraries into community centers and to engage members of the community in civic and social activities. Part of the reason librarians in Bryansk were successful in their …
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Transition to university : perceptions of first year Humanities students from impoverished backgrounds at the University of Cape Town
… previously disadvantaged backgrounds negotiated hardships stemming from their historically deprived backgrounds in their transition to university. Purposive sampling was employed in this study and seventeen first year humanities students from rural and township backgrounds were interviewed using …
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PyrSat - Prevention and response to wild fires with an intelligent Earth observation CubeSat
… property damage, injuries, displacements and hardships experienced by the affected citizens. This project proposes a low-cost intelligent hyperspectral 3U CubeSat for the production of fire risk and burnt area maps. It applies Machine Learning algorithms to autonomously process images and …
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Specialiojo pedagogo iššūkiai įtraukiojo ugdymo kontekste /
… education and responsibilities and professional hardships a special education teacher faces in inclusive education; disclosing different special education teacher’s roles and attitudes toward the process of inclusive education; detecting ways physical environment can be adapted to meet special …
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The use of alternative energy systems in housing design
… rise in fuel costs has created extreme hardships on those persons living on restricted or fixed incomes. The objective of this design study was to create affordable housing for these people through the use of three areas: 1) energy conservative construction, 2) alternative energy …
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Coping with food vulnerability: the role of social networks in the lives of Missouri food pantry clients
… neighbors and coworkers. The number of reported hardships is found to be highly significant in influencing who persons are likely to turn to.
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An analysis of the ability of Virginia's water systems to finance system improvements
… rates expected as a result may, however, impose hardships on low-income households.
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Phenomenological Study on Veteran Resource Center (VRC) in California Community Colleges
… are more prone to experience non-academic hardships than their peers. Mitigating all aspects of each student's personal issues may be outside the scope of influence of any campus service provider. Nonetheless, VRCs strive to enhance student veterans' quality of living and learning. …
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Study of an American Civil War chaplaincy: Henry Clay Trumbull, 10th Connecticut Volunteers
… chaplain. Because he exposed himself to the hardships and uncertainties of warfare, he earned the respect, admiration and affection of both officers and enlisted men.
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