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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"pity"”.
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Three Essays on Behavioral Economics : Bribery Solicitation, Pity System and Information Avoidance
… effect of bribery solicitation, the effect of pity System and the effect of meat consumption on information avoidance. The first chapter is the analysis of the effect of bribery solicitation on behavior change. Bribe solicitation is a critical but overlooked part of corruption. This paper uses …
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Pity Those Who Live Without Love: The Function of Love in Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels are extraordinarily popular; readers zealously respond to these texts with unprecedented adoration and dedication. Generally, critics attempt to explicate the popularity of Harry Potter in one of two ways: through an examination of either Rowling’s literary …
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Pity and anger in the poetry of William Blake from 'Poetical sketches' to 'Milton'
This thesis gives an account of the ideas about pity and anger in Blake's poetry from Poetical Sketches to Milton, placing them in their historical and intellectual contexts. Chapter 1 introduces the main themes, arguing that Blake saw himself as a counter-ideologist, working to change social and …
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Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
… reference to Othello) with regard to "the pity of it".
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Paradoxical power: Victim claims as a rhetorical genre
… the genre comes from Aristotle’s definition of pity which names five separate conditions which must be met for pity to be elicited persuasively. Discussion moves to the rhetor as the next point of the rhetorical triangle differentiating between the qualities necessary in the ideal orator from …
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Applying the SCM and BIAS Map Models to Theories of Sexual Harassment
… (i.e., how observers feel about the target - pity, admiration, envy, contempt) and behavioral reactions (how observers act toward the target - active facilitation, passive facilitation, active harm, passive harm). Higher status targets were perceived as more competent than lower status …
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“A Wretched Idealist”: Tragedy in “Love Must Not Be Forgotten”
… thus far remained marginal. “Love” engendered pity and fear in readers, particularly during the time following the Cultural Revolution when the lives of Chinese people were firmly constrained by both established conventions and Communist ideology. It especially resonated with people who were …
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Labelling people as having personality disorder: Effects upon the attributions and intended behaviours of student mental health nurses.
… or dangerousness, the emotional reactions of pity, anger or fear, or the intended behaviours of help and coercion. A significant difference was found between the groups on the social distancing measure, with participants in the schizophrenia group desiring greater social distance. This is …
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UNTRANSLATABLE WORDS IN CLASSICAL LATIN: THE PROBLEM WITH PIUS
… Perhaps due to the fact that words like pity,' 'pious,' and 'piety' all derive from pius, the way it is translated into English often reflects less an understanding of how the Romans used it and more and understanding of the way in which Christians used it. The poets Catullus and Vergil …
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Investigating Religious Orientation and the Attribution Model of Mental Illness Stigma
… Questionnare-27 subscales (i.e., blame, anger, pity, danger/fear, avoidance, segregation, and coercion). Results: Assessment of the Attribution Model indicated moderate overall model fit after respecification. Path coefficients indicated strong relationships between variables that were generally …
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El Niño
… a psychodrama of projected hostility, envy and pity. The question that El Nino grapples with is "how is it that the love between men and women can seem like an increasingly scarce resource that needs to be fought over like land or language or money?" And is it?
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Caring Without Sharing: Philanthropy's Creation and Destruction of the Common World
… or reduce beneficiaries to objects of pity, surveillance and domination. I trace philanthropy's evolution from ancient to contemporary contexts and propose a framework for philanthropy to, under certain conditions, build and care for the common world, where philanthropic gifts create …
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A survey of a cappella sacred music for mixed choir of Josef Rheinberger
… music idiom with Classical elements. It is a pity that the a cappella sacred music that Rheinberger composed for mixed choir did not gain much attention--most of his works did not fit the liturgical requirement of the Roman Catholic Church and were heavily criticized by the Cecilians. The …
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Three deaths
… falsely accused. The third movement expresses pity for the death of Zhu Ling, the victim of the unsolved 1995 thallium poisoning case, whose final performance of Guangling San onstage marked her courageous act amidst severe illness induced by the poison. In this composition, I integrated both …
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Models of Reception in the Divine Audience of the Iliad
… in audience sympathy from pro-Achaean bias to pity for the Trojans.
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The lived experience of Lebanese oncology patients receiving palliative care
… distress from being dependent; their dislike for pity; their worry for the family and the worry about the family's worry; their reliance on God and divinity; their dislike of the hospital stay; their need to be productive; their fear of pain; and the impact of communication on them. Specific …
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Wayward Women, Virtuous Violence: Feminine Violence in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Women
… is condemned to death "notwithstanding the Pity of the People" and "the Intercession of the Ladies," who believe that although the "unexampled Cruelty [Violenta] committed afterwards on the dead Body" was excessive, the murder itself is not inexcusable given her husband's bigamy. My research …
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Affective Reactions, Social Support and Willingness to Self-Disclose to HIV Seropositive Individuals: Impact of Sexual Orientation and Responsibility for the Infection
… whereas perceptions of uncontrollability lead to pity and helping. This study examined the impact of an HIV victim's sexual orientation and "responsibility" for infection on subjects' affective responses, self-disclosure to the person, social support, and liking and trust for the person. Subjects …
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THEATER AS A MEDIUM OF HEALING: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF COPPER THUNDERBIRD BY MARIE CLEMENTS
… states that tragedy “with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its katharsis of such emotions.” The process of catharsis is interpreted as purification or purging of the audience members’ strong emotions as a response to the dramatic action taking place on stage. Today …
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