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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"peace corps"”.
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Ecocultural Adjustment: A Peace Corps Sojourn
… to explore a 26-month sojourn with the US Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, as well as the departure, travel, and return to the United States. Over the course of this reflective study, I explore and problematize the human-nature divide currently dominating the anthropocentric understandings of …
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Peace Corps culture and the language of violence: A Feminist discursive analysis
<p>Peace Corps is an international volunteer service organization and an agency of the United States Federal Government. Like all American governmental institutions, Peace Corps has an institutional culture with a heteropatriarchal, settler colonial legacy. In recent years, this has manifested in …
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Putting It Gently: The Other Side of a Peace Corps Volunteer Experience
<p>The Peace Corps is a transformative experience for many young Americans. The majority of volunteers have worthwhile services they remember fondly; however, these experiences are not always positive. The Peace Corps is a Cold War initiative that uses soft power techniques to further American …
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An examination of the influences of cultural differences on peace corps projects in Guatemala
<p>During the span of 27 months, Peace Corps volunteers live and work in different countries and cultures all over the globe. The various projects that Peace Corps volunteers work on together with their host country nationals can prove extremely challenging due to many cultural differences. This …
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Confronting the "Ugly American" Stereotype: A Study of the Acculturation of Peace Corps Volunteers
… processes of assimilation and acculturation of Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) abroad and their potential confrontations with the "Ugly American" stereotype. PCVs consciously and unconsciously decide how to fit in overseas based on their identity and personal methods self presentation. If met with …
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Peace Corps Service to Develop Community Capacity for Sustainability Planning: The Experience of Areguá, Paraguay
… engage in sustainability planning as part of a Peace Corps Municipal Services Development project in Areguá, Paraguay. It sketches the context in which the initiative occurred, outlines relevant academic research on community sustainability planning, and describes the strategies adopted to …
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Intercultural factors in the Peace Corps' role as a change agent in the empowerment of rural Guatemalan women
… research study was to analyze the success of the Peace Corps' Municipal Development Program in its role as a change agent in the empowerment of rural Guatemalan women, and includes an exploration into the intercultural factors that may have affected the outcomes. I used my Peace Corps site of …
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A Spectre in Polished Obsidian
<p>The author joins the Peace Corps in the hopes that he will discover who he really is yet he only finds frustration. Upon returning to the States he has a daughter and finds peace. Within this peace, as he types up the life history of a friend, he finally makes a breakthrough, yet the answer he …
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Decentralization and Hospital Governance in Rural Paraguay
… through participant-observation during my Peace Corps service in one of the communities examined here. This study finds that local health councils face numerous challenges to governance, including member role confusion, few implemented planning and oversight processes, weak systems of …
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Development and Validation of a Battery of Remote Memory Tests
… sample of 177 university students and 27 former Peace Corps volunteers, the latter group was recruited to obtain a sample who had resided outside the U.S. Reliability coefficients ranged from .73 to .91. Participants performed well, indicating adequate memory for most of the events and …
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The Power of Municipal Development Plans: An Examination of Their Relevance and Impact in Guatemala
… Guatemala. Over the course of my service in the Peace Corps I witnessed and participated in the formulation of various MDPs. This experience provided the foundation for this research. I interviewed representatives of the three organizations most actively involved in the formulation of MDPs and a …
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Diversification and Differentiation: The Livelihood Experience of Men and Women in Samene
… Samene, Mali from 2006-2008 where I served as a Peace Corps volunteer. In Samene I became interested in understanding the livelihood experience of men and women and the critical factors that led to positive livelihood outcomes for individuals. The formal research question addressed in this thesis …
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Minnesota boy, journeys of mind and place: A memoir; and, International development in the era of mass travel : an essay
This thesis, in two parts, comprises a memoir and a supporting essay. The memoir, ‘Minnesota Boy, Journeys of Mind and Place,’ covers a lifetime, but focuses primarily on the author’s experience of working in international development programs in various countries of Asia and the Pacific Islands; …
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Alcohol Self-Help Groups in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: A Cultural Approach
… leaders such as nurses or community-known peace corps members rather than necessarily an alcoholic as the AA would advocate. Cultural competency must be taken into consideration when implementing programs to address alcohol use disorders, as alcoholism is an overlooked global issue.