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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"home and family"”.
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Young peoples’ experiences and understandings of ‘home’ and ‘family’ living in safety homes, Khayelitsha, Cape Town : exploring the strengths and limits of the ‘social family’.
… research conducted in 2012 with foster mothers and young people living and having lived in three household-style ‘safety homes’ in the township of Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Unlike large formalised residential care facilities, with high staff turnover and high ratios of children to caregivers, …
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A Study of the Functions and Responsibilities of State Supervisors of Home and Family Life Education in the State of Washington and Home Economics Supervisors within the Ministry of Education in Thailand
The intent of the study was to survey functions and responsibilities of State Supervisors of Home and Family Life Education in the State of Washington and their counterparts in Thailand and to raise questions and/or suggestions for improvement in supervision of the home economics program in …
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The home environment in the home economics syllabus and Maltese contemporary interior design
Home Economics education deals with various aspects. The aspects and modules tackled include both Food and Nutrition, Home and Family together with Choice and Management of Resources. The study focuses on Home and Family living. In this module, Home Economics students; in form four and five tackle …
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Cul-de-Sacs
… through creative writing of life at home and family relationships. While the stories are closely related by theme, the form of each piece varies from stories based in realism to stories that take on elements of postmodernism through magical realism. The point of view of each piece …
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Queering the Spheres: Non-Normative Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Three Victorian Texts
… Room,” Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” and J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. I apply queer theory to locate these authors’ attempts to destabilize heteronormativity by depicting non-normative gender roles, sexualities, and families in texts that emphasize the Victorian ideology of separate …
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The impact of work flexibility on home and work satisfaction of employed mothers
Family life satisfaction, work satisfaction, and work flexibility was assessed for a selected sample of employed mothers of school age children. The mothers were divided into flexible and inflexible groups based on answers to the question, "How flexible is your job?" The Work, Home, and Family …
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"When God Takes Away": Gendered Death Customs in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
… funerals, burials, gravestones, commemoration, and mourning. But these customs greatly differed according to gender, both in what they consisted of and who was responsible for carrying them out. This thesis examines wills, diaries, correspondence, grave markers, prints, and newspapers of …
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Stressors and Coping Mechanisms of Married Female Physicians : A Qualitative review
<p>Female physicians live and work in a very complex world fraught with professional demands and personal challenges. Twenty-seven married female physicians were interviewed for this study to assess demands and stressors endemic to them and to determine how they manage them. The breadth of this …
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One woman's nation : Pauline Hanson, femininity and right wing populism in Australia
… history, One Nation Party , was formed and led by Pauline Hanson. Populist parties, like Pauline Hanson's One Nation , have traditionally been a masculine domain yet Hanson masterfully gained support for her views by deploying the powerful rhetoric of home and family. This thesis …
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"A Content Analysis of a Sample of Articles Written on Education in ""The New York Times"
… content analysis was performed on a stratified random sample of 555 newspaper articles identified in the New York Times from 1993 to 1997. The data revealed 168 themes and issues across the following 18 categories: Religion; Home And Family; Community; Education; Schools; Students; School …
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The home satisfaction and work satisfaction of home economics teachers in Virginia
Home satisfaction, work satisfaction and the presence or absence of children were quantitatively assessed using responses from 132 Virginia vocational home economics teachers. Analysis of variance was used to examine whether home satisfaction and the presence or absence of children made a …
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From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer
… Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer. It examines each author’s effort to represent the mixed-race character as a constant “process of becoming” (Hall, Questions of Identity 4). This study aims to convey the distinctiveness of the American mixed-race character in …
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A descriptive study of the preadolescent in North Del Middle School and his problems with special reference to his parents
… perceptions of children's personal problems and those of their preadolescent children.The research was designed to test eight null hypotheses which were formulated to this effect. The instrument utilized in this research was the Mooney Problem Check List (Junior High School Form) for both …
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Gay families in the media in the age of HIV and AIDS
… on gay families in the context of HIV/AIDS and the gay rights movement. Comparing and contrasting reports from the mainstream heterosexual press, the mainstream gay press, and the gay community press, revealed a moral discourse on AIDS that implicated gay men throughout the 1980s. At the …
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From Lost Cause to Female Empowerment: The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1966
… in 1896 primarily to care for aging veterans and their families. In addition to this original goal, members attempted to reform Texas society by replacing the practices and values of their male peers with morals and behavior that UDC members considered characteristic of the antebellum South, …
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Fabulos siela: Juozo Grušo dramų konfliktas /
In the final bachelor’s thesis, the expression and significance of fable conflicts in J. Grušas’ dramas are analysed on the basis of Aristotle’s drama theory: “Father and Son”, “Amber Villa”, “Herkus Mantas” and “The Faceless Man”. One of the most important motifs of J. Grušas’s dramaturgy is the …
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Comparative assessment of the nutritional status of Haitian children during the transitional period in two Haitian communities
… of the nutritional status of pre-school children and the key roles played by the home and family environment. Sample subjects included children in the nutritionally vulnerable years (0-4 years) and their mothers. The sample consisted of 228 Haitian children, 108 from the community of Lalomas, and …
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Citizenship, Gender, and Intimacy: First Ladies in the Television Age
… age, but in the TV era this visibility exploded, and with it came a stark intensification of the potential for intimate connection between figures at the highest levels of national governance and citizen subjects watching at home. In the same years that broadcast television was at the height of …
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Locus of control and native Indian children with histories of hearing loss
… between locus of control (LOC) orientation and mild or temporary hearing losses associated with chronic otitis media. Furthermore, it seems this relationship may never have been studied in the unique cultural context of Northern Canadian Native Indian societies. The present study …
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The airline pilot’s wife: A qualitative study exploring the experiences of wives of male regional airline pilots
Regional airline pilots often work days away from home. For regional airline pilots who are married with children, working away from home can place the responsibilities of the home and family in the care of the pilot’s spouse. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the lived …
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