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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"savior"”.
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Understanding the Position of the Savior Sibling: How Can We Save Lives and Protect Savior Siblings?
… the ethics of the process for creating and using savior siblings as genetic material donors. In the past twenty years, use of savior siblings has increased when living donors cannot be located. Traditionally, a savior sibling is a child conceived to provide transplantable genetic material needed …
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Our Savior and King: Theology proper in 1 Timothy
… the letter's doxologies (King) and divine title, Savior. Chapter 1 identifies the problem, includes a history of research, and describes the method and procedure of the dissertation. The method of inquiry consists of determining the meaning and function of the letter's theology. Thus, the author …
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Critical reflection and the savior role in service learning
… is learners' development of a perceived "savior role," where students perceive themselves as fulfilling a missionary-like savior role as the privileged members of society. This detrimental side effect of service learning has the potential to reify pre-existing social structures and have …
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Caught in the Crosswinds: Rural America could be renewable energy’s nemesis—or its savior
Fighting climate change will require a fundamental shift away from the fossil fuels that still provide most of America’s electricity. In most states, county and local boards have to approve renewable energy projects. But despite the local economic benefits that renewable energy projects can bring, …
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Savior of the family farm? : the role of community supported agriculture for farm sustainability in California
This report analyzes the success factors of small farms, as defined by the amount of acreage in farming, the market value of agricultural products sold, and the number of small farms, in rural California Counties. These data are then compared with the location of Community Supported Agriculture …
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Evangelical Dictatorship Driving the Guatemalan Civil War: Reconsidering Ríos Montt, the “Savior of La Nueva Guatemala”
<p>The devastating earthquake that hit Guatemala in 1976 was used as a pretext for American born Protestant evangelicalism—mainly Pentecostalism—to gain entry in the Guatemalan society. A major consequence of the earthquake relief efforts by American evangelicals, is that their meddling also …
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I felt like the enemy and the savior all at once': English teacher identity in a methods course wiki
This study explores the identity constructions of two cohorts of preservice teachers enrolled in English methods courses during a semester of field experience. This research employs a qualitative methodology and documents the nature of participants responses posted to online wiki forum. Data …
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Decolonizing Benevolence: Can Faith Leaders Move the Mark Toward Equity to Create an Alternative to the White Savior Complex?
… and explores the limiting ideology of the White Savior Complex to open pathways to develop and promote improved practices at individual, relational, and organizational levels. This qualitative research advances the narratives on how organizational leaders can identify, recognize, and dismantle …
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Bombs, Bikinis, and Godzilla: America's Fear and Fascination of the Atomic Bomb as Evidenced Through Popular Media, 1946-1962.
… bomb as being an object of beauty, a powerful savior, an object of prosperity, and a weapon of fear. Each of these depictions are examined in their own separate chapter with various popular culture items examined as evidence. A wide range of popular media were inspected for this study, …
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The Birth of Sacrifice: Iconographic Metaphors for Spiritual Rebirth in Master Matthias' Isenheim Altarpiece
… Christian theology as birth mother of the Savior and as an especial example of bringing forth good fruit by virtue of obedience and humility is crucial to understanding the Marian iconography of the panels. In the center of the triptych, immediately following the Annunciation panel in the …
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Judgment
… want to help his students; he wants to be their savior. Jim thrives when he is the center of attention. He is the handsome, energetic teacher principals put on display as an example of dedication and commitment. Loved by his students, honored by his school, he was named teacher of the year for …
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Race, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power for White Women Sexual Violence Victim Advocates
… benevolence or threads of the White hero or savior.</p> <p>The advocacy relationship is inherently communicative, engaging narratives of both power and marginalization. It is a practice and location of empowerment yet as the results identify, it has the capacity to reify dominant notions of …
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Critical Pedagogy and Peace Education in International Service-Learning: A Curriculum Exploring Race, Positionality, Power, and Privilege
… unpacks whiteness, privilege, the white savior complex, and American immigration history. Using race, power, and privilege, I explore how these themes relate to acquiring awareness and understanding of participants' societal positioning. Through this lens, my aim is that students can …
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“Grinding the walls to dust”: feminist media praxis
… narratives of the "white teacher" as inner-city savior. This project interweaves feminism, film theory, prison studies, pedagogy, and video-making practices, to produce knowledge that prioritizes both critical inquiry and creative media making. Through praxis, knowledge is produced using art …
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Analýza mediálního rámcování války na Ukrajině v českých dezinformačních médiích v prvních měsících (únor-duben 2022)
… focuses on whether Russia is presented as a savior and whether Ukrainian armed forces or international institutions such as NATO and the U.S. are portrayed as aggressors or culprits of the tensions. The analysis further examines arguments legitimizing the invasion through narratives of …
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The white saviour complex in three contemporary American novels
The term ‘White Savior Industrial Complex’ became popular when Nigerian-American Teju Cole criticised a polarising documentary, Kony 2012, in a series of social media posts. Cole argues that the complex allows white saviours to be lauded for showing support to poor Africans while ignoring the …
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Decolonizing the Body of the Chosen One: The Bodily Performance of Anakin Skywalker, Buffy Summers, and T'Challa
… understandings of the Hero's Journey and savior narratives theorized by Joseph Campbell. It is a site of colonial triumph and violence and heteronormative white masculinity. Embedded into reiterations of Chosen Ones in American fantasy films and television, this body is being destabilized …
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Last night a DJ queered my life : disrupting the mythologies of a popular media practice
… are many: beat conductor, god, mastermind, and savior, to name a few. The popular perception of what a DJ does is exaggerated by overrepresented elements of a DJ performance, most notably scratching the sound source and utilizing studio production technique. I ask, if these standard conceptions …
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The idolization of Kim Il-Sung and its missiological implications
… images of Kim Il-Sung--Kim as state-father and savior. The two images stand upon many of his attributes, such as the omni-attributes and eternity. The fourth chapter compares the images and attributes of Kim Il-Sung from the literary review with the concept of him that North Koreans actually …
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