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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"moral issues"”.
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Profession of Faith: Congressional Websites and Religious Expression in the 112th Congress
… have polarized according to their positions on moral issues, and a religious gap in the electorate also contends that voters are polarized on these issues according to their religious beliefs and practices. Research shows that members of Congress send cues about their faith to their …
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discovered by the Process: A Methodology for Twentieth-Century Moral Fiction
… we as literary critics strive to be ethical or moral, we usually feel embarrassed at actually taking about moral concepts, especially as they are manifested in literary texts. As I am interested in how to discuss moral issues depicted in literary texts without reading them naively and …
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The failure of altruism: Alternatives to improve the donor rate in organ transplantation
Ethical and moral issues facing potential organ donors, their families or agents, and the medical community are created and driven by the rapidly expanding demand for the life-giving resource (ever more successfully utilized)--a factor coupled with the persistently scarce and relatively constant …
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Morality and Emotion in the Dynamics of an Amerindian Society (Warao, Orinoco Delta, Venezuela)
This dissertation is a study of the interplay of moral issues and emotional states in the daily life of the Warao of the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela. Among the Warao, neither moral issues nor emotional processes are the subject of much explicit discursive elaboration. They usually emerge in a …
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Adolescent Perception of Moral Communication Sources
This thesis explores effectiveness of moral communication sources in intergenerational transmission of morality. Survey data from 362 adolescent participants are used to measure adolescent perception in source awareness, source importance and source value in both mediated and non-mediated moral …
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Die seksuele in die Afrikaanse tienerboek : 'n leserkundige ondersoek
… and to develop and accept an individual moral code. The role that fiction can play in fulfilling teenagers' need for sexual information and recreation is established against the background of the reality that the traditional methods of sex education (parents, school, peers, etcetera) have …
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The (in)Complete Warrior: Technology, Limb Loss and the Reformation of Identity
… there are sometimes unforeseen ethical and moral issues that accompany their implementation. Within the medical system of the U.S. military these issues are compounded in unique ways. New surgical methods are allowing soldiers to survive and eventually recover from even the worst injuries, …
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Are There Personality Factors That Can Undermine Moral Judgment Development?
<p>Research in moral psychology has focused on understanding what factors assist in the development of moral action and decision making. Examples of these research factors include educational experiences (Rest et al, 1986), intelligence (Rest, 1979), and social networking (Derryberry & Thoma, …
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Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden
… analysis, cutting deconstructions of pressing moral issues, and confusing vernacular wherein her analytic boundaries, topics, and categories appear obfuscated. Although it has been observed that Arendt’s late-career theory of the political owes a debt to her earlier writings on Jewish history, …
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Adolescents' and young adults' moral thinking in typical everyday-life moral dilemmas
… adolescents' and young adults' practical moral judgments, specifically their unique moral thinking in two interpersonal moral dilemmas. The basic philosophical frameworks (deontological and consequentialist principles) were employed as tools for psychological analysis. In Study 1, 42 …
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Making beats: the art of sample-based hip hop
… I proceed to the social and aesthetic issues that concern hip-hop producers. These issues include why a musician would choose to use digital sampling rather than live instrumentation, the social significance of collecting rare records to sample, and the so-called "producer's ethics" …
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uPeter Tshobisa Mtuze neenoveli zakhe
… Chapter 3 analyses the novels that tackle moral issues (UDingezweni and Umsinga). Chapter 4 explores the social novels (Indlel' ecand' intlango, Alitshoni lingaphumi and Uyese namahlandinyuka obomi) and chapter 5 evaluates his historical novel (Iingada zibuyile endle). Mtuze is influenced …
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Tabous et transgressions sexuels dans l'œuvre de Michel Tremblay. Une étude psycho-sociocritique
… this fact, facing identity, psychological and moral issues, related to their personal, family and private life. One could say that any sexual behavior, which deviates from the norm, becomes a taboo at that time. Yet, Tremblay dreams of a more egalitarian society, based on the feeling of love, …
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Filmi vs the Everyday:Hindi films in the lives of women in an Indian village
… their limited viewership within their homes, and moral issues around women’s film consumption, films fulfil these women’s desires in real and/or imaginative spaces, with the term “filmi” connoting anything that is ‘other’ to village life in these women’s imaginations. The thesis argues that by …
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An issue-based approach to organisational legitimacy: the case of Namdeb
… economic, social, environmental and legislative issues involving mostly external stakeholders. The case study method was used and the issues influencing the legitimacy of Namdeb, a public private joint venture (PPJV) between the Government of Namibia and De Beers, international diamond miner and …
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O pensamento de Ronald Dworkin aplicado à liberdade de expressão artística e uma interface com o caso South Park
… resources, provides a more fitting response to issues involving artistic freedom of expression and hate or prejudiced speech compared to simply imposing censorship as the first and only alternative. A documentary methodology with an analytical perspective was employed. The specific objectives of …
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Moral Identity Work in Senior Business Managers
… analysis research method to explore the moral identity work of senior managers in UK for-profit businesses. Analysis of thirty semi-structured interview transcripts was carried out using the Nvivo data analysis software package, guided by Gioia et al’s (2013) systematic approach to …
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A pragmatic mixed methods analysis of experiences, behaviours and perceptions of gamblers towards the efficacy of responsible gambling in minimising "problem gambling" MINIMISING ‘PROBLEM GAMBLING’ PERCEPTIONS OF GAMBLERS TOWARDS THE EFFICACY OF RESPONSIBLE GAMBLING IN MINIMISING ‘PROBLEM GAMBLING’
… of gamblers. This thesis seeks to address these issues using a pragmatic, mixed methods approach and presents empirical findings drawn from the approaches used. A group interview gathered qualitative data about the behaviour and experiences of ‘problem gamblers’ in the development of their …
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Highway madness! : politics and citizen participation in postwar U.S. traffic safety technology and policy
… enforcement, citizenship, humanitarian, and moral issues. On the other hand, to women's community and activist groups, like MADD, traffic safety's focus was the education of drivers and pedestrians, and the prevention of crashes through educational and public health approaches. However, to …
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