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Living Storied Lives
Philosophy should help guide our lives. After all, the central question of ethics, one of philosophy’s central fields, is “How ought one to live?” Yet, philosophy’s answers are inadequate, not because they are illegitimate, but because they are incomplete, pressingly so. I believe that by and large …
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Dual Lives Assimilation Literacy
<p>In recent years, the field of literacy studies has not given enough attention to exploring the English literacy journeys of immigrants and in particular, Latin immigrants. Furthermore, there has been little dialogue that has encouraged plans to help fix this issue. </p> <p>We, in the academy, …
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Fractured lives : a memoir
Fractured Lives is a non-fiction work. Part autobiography, part history, part social comment and part war story, it covers a 15 year period, from the early 1980’s to the mid 1990’s when I was making documentaries about the wars taking place in the Southern African region. The films were not about …
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Resurrecting Stones Transforming Lives
My Polish background and upbringing have had a profound influence on the way I look at architecture. Growing up I was always fascinated by the interplay of new things that were around me, dancing with the old objects and way of life that were still present. How can these two worlds co-exist? Does …
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The Machine that Lives Forever
Design an intelligent micromachine that can self-power and sustain from environmental energy scavenging to achieve an autonomous device that can communicate at will with peers indefinitely. Explore sleep/wake hibernation strategies coupled with food scavenging off-grid traits to identify the …
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Telling Utterances: Education, Creativity & Everyday Lives
… of the impact of policy on the everyday lives and creative development of individual art and design students. Readers are politely invited to read all of Volume One before reading Volume Two. The temporal separation of text from source provides a space for those who are willing to reflect …
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Mitigating floods : reconstructing Lives : rehabilitating Thatta
Pakistan was struck by floods in July 2010, the effects of which left 20.36 million people affected and 1.9 million homes damaged or destroyed'. In the province of Sindh in Pakistan, most of the affected population of the historic city of Thatta took refuge by fleeing to Makli Hill, a necropolis …
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Changing lives : designs for interdependent communities
Household patterns have changed dramatically in recent years ...
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Moving design for lives sans terre
How may design address the contemporary conditions of movement, relocation, and change? Today, 25 million Americans currently consider themselves to be free agents. That is, one out of six Americans have abandoned traditional jobs and are moving from company to company, unattached to any particular …
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Heart failure: Its impact on women's lives
… impact of HF on women's conception of their own lives; This phenomenological study examined the changes in the lives since diagnosis of five women with Stage II HF. Four one-hour, semi-structured interviews were held with each. Colaizzi's steps were used to assess the verbatim transcripts of the …
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Violence within the lives of homeless people
… violence is prevalent within homeless people’s lives, and frequently begins in childhood through the experience of childhood abuse and trauma. The impact of childhood abuse and trauma has been associated directly and indirectly as a pathway into homelessness. Furthermore the psychological impact …
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Care in the Lives of Women Teachers
ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: CARE IN THE LIVES OF WOMEN TEACHERS Jennifer Lynn Hauver James, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jeremy Price Department of Curriculum and Instruction This is a study of care in the lives of six women elementary school teachers. It …
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Mapping Critical Connections: Tracing Undergraduates' Literate Lives
Although a growing body of research has focused on the writing students do in their homes, communities, unofficial spaces of school, and the workplace (see Finders, Camitta, Mahiri, Moje), studies have largely neglected the complex synergistic and conflicting relationships between students' …
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Working lives in Howick : a case study
… Transformation should positively impact the lives of the oppressed, reversing most of the negative impacts of the Apartheid regime in a way that reshapes the identities both of the previously oppressed and marginalized in South Africa, as well as those privileged by the system of Apartheid …
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Apartheid now : the private lives of others
My primary concern in this paper is to develop an account of freedom which incorporates within its very definition a moral responsibility to others, and which is therefore automatically limited by the conditions of its own exercise. It is my view that freedom, conceived in this way, leads …
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Poetic lives: Verse biography in Aotearoa New Zealand
… What key settings shape and are shaped by the lives of those who live here? What can we learn by exploring the relationship between the individual life story and the cultural stories which take shape in what Philip Fisher has called the ‘privileged settings’ of any national literature? I focus …
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