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Showing 1 to 20 of 513 for “"passion"”.
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The Voices of Passion: An Exploratory Phenomenological Analysis of Passion in Undergraduate Teaching
… university in the southwest demonstrated passion through their teaching as experienced and identified by students. The research comprised of interviewing and observing 6 undergraduate identified passionate professors on passion in teaching. Data was collected from a student survey which …
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California Bookstores: Passion and Profit
… booksellers’ current relationship between passion and profit in the context of challenges faced by the modern bookstore. Based on interviews from nine booksellers in California, the findings demonstrate strong ties between passion and profit. Independent booksellers dedicate capacity for …
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The strategic use of passion in rhetoric.
… the problematic relationship between the use of passion or the appeal to logic in rhetoric. This thesis explores how selected theorists including Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Frances Bacon, George Campbell, I.A. Richards, Kenneth Burke, and Richard Weaver, have treated the controversy …
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Subjectivity, Passion, and Mystical Intuition: Nietzsche's Early Writing
… to argue that Nietzsche sees creativity as a passionate, sublime overflow, a rupture with the present that artistically reconfigures meaning. In my last chapter, I turn to Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, comparing key passages to Nietzsche’s analysis of Greek tragic drama in The …
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Treason, passion and power in England, 1660 – 1685.
… division and dissent. This thesis analyses the passions of the period, which, although hitherto underexplored by historians, played a key role in Restoration politics. Emotions not only defined individual and national identity, but also framed the bond between subject and sovereign. This study …
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The Eighth Deadly Sin: Dejection as Passion in The Wanderer
… version of the seven deadly sins--the deadly passions--as a new interpretive framework.
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Praying the Passion: Laypeople's Participation in Medieval Liturgy and Devotion
… Sometimes these devotions take the form of Passion prayers adapted from the liturgy, such as the understudied vernacular translations of the early fourteenth-century hymn to the cross, Patris Sapiencia, and Anglo-Norman and English Mass Prayers. This thesis demonstrates that the placement of …
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Millennials' Orientations Towards Passion For Work In Knowledge-Based Organisations
… thesis examines Millennials orientations towards passion for work, when engaging in knowledge-based work in Finnish organisations. To understand the experiences of the participants’ passion for work, this thesis adopted a qualitative and inductive research approach with the aim of hearing the own …
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Entrepreneur-Venture Fit and Burnout: Moderating Effects of Entrepreneurial Passion
… and their ventures that determine fit, and passion is proposed to moderate fit effects.</p> <p>The model was tested using a survey-based field study to collect data from a broad range of entrepreneurs across the United States (n=308). Hierarchical linear regression testing found that most of …
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A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study: Does Passion Ensure Nonprofit Leadership Excellence?
… efforts. The research investigated the passion expressed by members to further the mission's accomplishments and whether this sentimentalist gesture is sufficient to provide nonprofit leadership excellence. Vital was gaining their opinions and reactions to their real-life leadership …
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The Ends of a Line and the Passion of History
… to history. I begin by tracing Wordsworth’s term passion through his prose writings. A concept he saw as intimate with the line-ending’s especial potential, I show that Wordsworthian passion connects poetry’s ‘physical’ presence to the histories of feeling that poetry labours to access. In this …
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Revolt, Passion, Freedom: A Collection of Short Stories Exploring Absurdism
… that each focus on a facet of absurdism (revolt, passion, and freedom), and explores the ubiquity of its themes through different settings and times. The format of short stories was chosen due to its ability to connect readers with the characters and ideas presented within, making it a powerful …
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Cultivating Passion in Teaching English Language Learners: A Critical Analytical Inquiry
In this theoretical dissertation my aim is to research the academic literature in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), compare it to the life experiences of past and/or present students, colleagues, children and myself to reflect and summarize my learning in the form of a conceptual …
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Pathways for Integration and Growth: Exploring Love, Passion, and Peak Experience
<p>Love, passion and peak experiences are connected to flourishing as generally positive, energizing and intense experiences that make life worth living. Although they share theoretical overlaps as potent sources of integration and growth (Mouton & Montijo, 2017), love, passion, and peak experience …
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'Half fashion and half passion': the life of publisher Henry Colburn
This thesis focuses on some of the most significant and least understood aspects of the life of London publisher Henry Colburn (c.1784-1855). Its purposes are to correct the misinformation currently in circulation, to introduce new information, and to reassess Colburn‘s reputation and …
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