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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"life experience"”.
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A Life Experience: Making a Health Care Treatment Decision
… this study is inductive discovery of what people experience when making a health related treatment decision.
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Travel experience and everyday life experience in the mobilities paradigm
… inter-connected world, tourism activities and experiences are closely bound up with people’s everyday life. The purpose of this study is to explore the complex relationship and interactions between travel experience and everyday life experience through the lens of mobilities theory. By …
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Life Experience: <em>Freddy Got Fingered</em> As Neo-Surrealist Masterpiece
<p>The late Roger Ebert was known for his entertainingly harsh reviews. The review he wrote of the 2001 film<em> Freddy Got Fingered</em> is one notable example. "The day may come when '<em>Freddy Got Fingered</em>' is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as …
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The Spiritual Dimension Of Social Work Practice In And Through Research, Education, And Life Experience
… of variance demonstrated that the greater the lifetime frequency of participation of social workers in spiritual or religious activities, the more likely they were to believe it is appropriate to raise the topics of religion and spirituality. Over 90% of social workers in this sample agreed …
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The life experience of intellectually gifted women tested as adults, an existential-phenomenological exploration of being proven intelligent
… gifted girls, little is known on the experience of intellectually gifted women tested as adults and the meaning they make of both their late testing and proof of their intelligence. Method: Through in-depth semi-structured online interviews of ten adult British women having done an IQ …
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Using Study Circles in the Workplace as an Educational Method of Facilitating Readjustment After a Traumatic Life Experience
Employees who have had a traumatic life experience (TLE) and are returning to the workplace face a difficult road to recovery. The workplace as it exists today is not well equipped to handle such individuals. Managers and co-workers lack knowledge of a recovery framework to facilitate and support …
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Things That Send Women Running
… of the female identity by the way of ordinary life experience, including domestic responsibilities, familial relationships, and interaction with men. The majority of the poems are written in free verse, though a few loosely follow the tradition of the Shakespearean sonnet.
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Interactions with Dying Patients: Nurse Practitioners' Attitudes
… have changed the concept of death and the experience of dying. As health care professionals. Nurse Practitioners may have a role in caring for dying persons. Attitudes toward interactions with dying patients may influence behavior towards the dying patient.<br> The purpose of this study was …
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Health and Well-being: Definitions, Identity and Experience
In this thesis, I explore the meanings and experience of health and well-being in the lives of individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Taking an auto/biographical approach and utilising in-depth qualitative online interviews, I draw on the experience and narratives of seventeen …
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Creative Project: Choices We Made in the Past Ten Years
… Two of the stories are based on my personal experiences, and the other two are based on my friends’ experiences. Living abroad by myself has been an adventurous life experience, and I would like to document my professional and spiritual growth to encourage those who may feel alone and lost to …
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Newer Versions of the Same Thing
… in the role photographs play in the everyday life of contemporary society, and more specifically the people and memories that occupy those photographic images. In my work I attempt to take the specific moments caught in seemingly meaningless photographs and elevate their importance through …
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A Rationale for Teaching Folklore in Secondary English Classes of Agricultural Community Schools
… the conceptual development of farm youth. When life experience is not integrated in the classroom it may be that teachers believe teaching and learning should revolve around that which is new to students and they consider prior knowledge of daily work as too familiar; they may fail to make the …
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Observation & Light
Our life experience can be enriched by observation; acknowledging this as a way of "seeing" can positively influence architectural design. This thesis records personal observation of light and looks to historical precedents in which natural light is revered as an element that both defines space and …
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Plasticity as an adaptive mechanism to environmental change in wild house mice
… how developmental environments affect later-life performance; and the silver spoon hypothesis, which suggests that favourable early-life experience provides long-lasting benefits in behaviour, physiology and life-history.
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Sense and Sexuality: From Teen to Teen Mom: Redefining the Label
… student, and worker. Throughout my studies and life experience, I realized that there was a lack of teen parent literature, for or by teen parents, and a lack of teen parents being open about their experiences, good or bad. At that point, I realized that I needed to complete my memoir about teen …
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The Quest to Humanize Policy Interventions: Exploring the Relationship between Neighborhood Revitalization Programs and Subjective Well-being of Low-Income Communities in the United States
… programs on the resident's overall quality of life outcomes. This study uses an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design to explore the relationships between best practices, state aid incentives, neighborhood revitalization, and residents' subjective well-being (SWB) in distressed …
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Wise, well off and tired: a qualitative study of over-35 mothers raising their teens
… a phenomenological approach to understand the experience of 10 later-life mothers who had a first child at age 35 or older and were in the process of raising a teenager. Data were collected with semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic coding. Initial findings suggest maternal age …
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La résilience chez les enfants atteints de leucémie: Mythe ou réalité?
… will learn us to improve better the real-life experience of childhood cancer. Moreover we highlight certain risk factors and protective factors in the development of resilience.
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The effects of biographical data on the prediction of domain knowledge
This study examined the effects of life experience information on the prediction of domain knowledge. Specifically, it was hypothesized that individuals with a higher level of experience within a domain would have a higher level of domain knowledge, and that attribution of experience (e.g., …
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