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LEAVING NORMAL
<p>The poems in my thesis were written in the classes I’ve taken since Summer 2010. I have added poems this current semester, Winter 2014. When I embarked on this journey to learn the craft of poetry I had no idea where it would take me. I have been challenged and inspired by my fellow students, by …
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Barriers to Leaving Poverty
… disabilities as a barrier to employment and leaving poverty.</p>
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User Leaving Detection Via MMwave Imaging
… and immediate device locking based on user leaving detection is an indispensable way to secure the devices. Current user leaving detection techniques mainly rely on acoustic ranging and do not work well in environments with multiple moving objects. In this paper, we present mmLock, a system …
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Leaving and after care in Ghana : the experience of young people leaving a private and public children's home
… reform residential care in Ghana, including the leaving and after-care processes. Although this was a laudable effort, it was based on concepts and research findings from the ‘developed’ world. There was no conscious reflection of the social, economic and political conditions pertaining to Ghana. …
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Young people leaving care: plans, challenges and discourses
… study explored plans for four young people leaving care and the perspectives of twelve key adults supporting them. Using Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis, the rationale for this research was concern about the difference in outcomes between care leavers and young people in …
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Outcomes for Young People Leaving Care in Ireland
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Exploring the Occupational Transition of Leaving a Cult
… by examining the occupational transition of leaving a cult. By increasing the knowledge base of this topic, it will not only increase occupational therapist’s understanding of this population, but provide an opportunity to provide occupational science informed intervention. Additional …
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Young people and the Baptist church: Staying and leaving
… relationships were the key aspect of staying or leaving. Positive relationships (including with the leadership) motivated young people to engage with church, and negative relationships motivated young people to disengage. It was found that many described a change in culture to be a cause, but …
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Essays in labour economics: School leaving, unemployment and retirement
… three topics related, respectively, to school leaving, unemployment and retirement. It consists of three independent research articles, accompanied by a general introduction and a conclusion section. Chapter 1 investigates the extent to which the demand for post-compulsory education of British …
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Leaving Certificate Applied and Beyond: A School-Based Investigation o f the Experiences o f Students who have taken the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme.
… granted parity of esteem with students of other Leaving Certificate programmes. > The literary and numeracy elements of LCA must be enhanced if the programme is to offer challenge to the more able students. > Support must be provided for LCA students in third level. > A campaign is needed to …
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Early School Leaving: A Narrative Inquiry of the School Dropout
… most studies of the phenomenon of early school leaving, otherwise known as school dropout, seems to have become complacent and has therefore settled on merely identifying labels for the characteristics and or symptoms of this growing silent epidemic, Milliken (2007). While being able to identify …
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Learning, Living, and Leaving the Closet: Making Gay Identity Relational
… and acting as if it does not exist; and (3) "Leaving the Closet," a moment when a person discloses gay identity to others. I conclude by describing the "double-bind of gay identity"-the dilemma that forms when a person cannot escape the closet-and argue that once a person identifies as gay, …
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The Leaving Certificate Applied Experience in Five Case Study Schools
… who show little interest in the traditional Leaving Certificate programme. The modular structure, emphasis on practical applications and active learning methods, work experience dimension, and the use of short term accreditation may encourage the students to complete the programme at a …
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Early School Leaving in Ireland The Matrix of Influences Explored
… twenty per cent leave without attempting the Leaving Certificate. Early school leaving is associated with poor labour market outcomes, social exclusion and a range of other difficulties. Explanations tend towards the epidemiological and focus on the action of a matrix of risk factors and …
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Leaving mathematics as it is: Wittgenstein’s later philosophy of mathematics
Wittgenstein’s later philosophy of mathematics has been widely interpreted to involve Wittgenstein’s making dogmatic requirements of what can and cannot be mathematics, as well as involving Wittgenstein dismissing whole areas (e.g. set theory) as not legitimate mathematics. Given that Wittgenstein …
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Leaving California: The Price Impact of Announcing a Headquarters Relocation
… is a pronounced impact on stock prices for firms leaving California and moving to Texas.</p>
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Living or Leaving History: Temporality, Identity and Great Power Aspiration
Rising great powers have always been a central focus of world politics. One reason is that the emergence of a new powerful state implies uncertainty and may pose a threat to the world order, as the anxious discourse around China’s rise implies. More recent studies have begun to investigate the …
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