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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"self-sacrifice"”.
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Good Deeds Gone Wrong: How Leader Self-Sacrifice Morally Licenses Followers Counterproductive Work Behaviors
<p>Leader self-sacrifice (LSS) plays a key role for many companies today. It involves the leader temporarily forgoing their own interests and privileges for the sake of the collective. By modeling self-sacrificial behavior, leaders hope to create a trickle-down effect, encouraging similar behavior …
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Negotiating non-violent subjectivity in a desocialised world: narrative explorations of women's struggles against self-sacrifice.
… Explorations of Women’s Struggles against Self-Sacrifice”, I trace the ways in which the major themes of my novel emerged during the writing process, focusing on women’s struggles against self-condemnation and various forms of self-sacrifice. The essay explores critical theory relating to …
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If We Could Learn to Learn from Pain: A Contemporary Literary Ethics of Women's Suffering and Self-Sacrifice
<p>This dissertation explores suffering and self-sacrifice in literature and theory from 1950 to the present, highlighting the concern with suffering in numerous women writers' texts as well as the way several contemporary discussions of ethics--including feminisms, theologies, and …
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Poetics Of The Sacred: Divinations Of Identity In The French Avant-Garde
… to this endeavor was their conception of self-sacrifice, which they sought both to represent and practice in literary form. As I demonstrate, their vision of self-sacrifice describes a paradox whereby the expropriation of personal identity is reappropriated in the form of a negative …
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CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ASSAULT, SCHEMAS, AND REVICTIMIZATION: THE ROLE OF EARLY MALADAPTIVE SCHEMAS ON REVICTIMIZATION
… Stress Disorder Checklist 5, a brief self-report instrument consisting of 20 items that reflect the symptoms of PTSD outlined in DSM-5, and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-R; Radloff, 1977) is a brief self-report instrument used to measure symptoms of …
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THE UNRAVELING OF A WORLD: DEGENERATION IN URSULA K. LE GUIN’S EARTHSEA CYCLE
… collective degeneration and how through acts of self-sacrifice the protagonists are able to restore themselves and their world to its original state. Unlike a series that promotes reformation, like The Hunger Games, where degeneration is combatted with rebellion and revolution, the Earthsea Cycle …
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'Lucky Poet' and the bounds of possibility: autobiography and referentiality in Hugh MacDiarmid's 'Poetic World'
… of Kierkegaard, a concept of the suffering and self-sacrifice of the artist, and a related belief in the need to embrace – as an artist – both the danger and the freedom of Shestov’s abyss. It demonstrates how this freedom is realized in the rejection of social conventions and in the publication …
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Salt in the wound : a visual exploration of societal and experiental aspects of female reproduction and abortion
… defiance against a societal norm of maternal self-sacrifice.
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Toward A Greater Understanding of Fathering: Five African American Fathers' Experiences Parenting Their Children With Chronic Illnesses
… to navigate health care structure; attitude of self-sacrifice and flexibility; strategies for managing perceived disparities; and maintenance of future focus. In addition, fathers defined coping and advised professionals involved with families who have children diagnosed with chronic illness. In …
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An Appalachian Architecture, an Appalachian Architect
… alone. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice a continual extinction of personality. We shall often find that not only the best. But the most individual part of an artist's work may be those in which his ancestors assert their immortality most vigorously. Tradition is a matter of …
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“‘Is this what motherhood is?’: Ambivalent Representations of Motherhood in Black Women’s Novels, 1953-2011”
… they find the expectations of domesticity or self-sacrifice placed on them to be burdensome and confining. Rather than pathologizing black mothers, these texts’ ambivalent representations of motherhood expose societal limitations placed on black mothers, both in terms of the sexist narratives …
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TRUE NORTH STRONG Canada 150: Canadian Identity and its Contribution to Doping Free Sport
… Canada C3 expedition, many of whom demonstrated self-sacrifice in their commitment to cultural and moral progress, lead me to believe that fair-play culture in Canada has grown only stronger with time. Combined with my literature reviews, my research exposed the overlooked vulnerability of …
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The Lived Experiences Of Single Black Mothers In Higher Education Leadership
… strength, assumption of multiple roles, and self-sacrifice and five additional sub-themes emerged flexibility, mentorship, support systems, emotional stability, and barriers. This study provides insight into the lived experiences of single Black mothers in higher educational leadership. …
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Dark-Light Imagery in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
… world and to criticize the Christian ideal of self sacrifice. McDowell gives his discussion a less allegorical focus and endeavors to relate various images to the actual lives of Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead in society. Alastair Smart, on the other hand, explores the influence that art and …
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Caring for a family member with Alzheimer's disease: the lived experiences of African American caregivers
… from the data: (a) Parenting All Over Again, (b) Self-Sacrifice, (c) Caring for the Caregiver, (d) Connecting to God, (e) Responsibility to Care, (f) Trapped, (g) Beyond Exhaustion, and (h) Loss of Self. Based on these findings, there is a considerable need for greater support, health promotion, …
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Suffering and the Search for Wholeness: Beauty and the Cross in Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Contemporary Feminist Theologies
… divine beauty culminates in Christ's kenotic self-surrender at the cross. In a feminist hermeneutic, the identification of divine beauty with crucified love is dangerous, as it runs the risk of glorifying suffering and self-sacrifice.</p><p>This dissertation brings a feminist hermeneutic to …
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The Wit and Wisdom in the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones
… and recognize the empowerment that comes from self-sacrifice.</p>
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Psychosocial Factors, Maladaptive Cognitive Schemas, and Depression in Young Adults: An Integration
… for the moderator effect of the EMSs of self sacrifice, functional dependency/incompetence and abandonment. The prediction equation to the criterion of depression indicated independent contributions of stressful life events, and the EMSs of abandonment, functional dependency/incompetence, …
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From Lost Cause to Female Empowerment: The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1966
… characteristic of the antebellum South, such as self-sacrifice and obedience. Over time, the organization also came to function as a transition vehicle in enlarging and empowering white Texas women's lives. As time passed and more veterans died, the organization turned to constructing monuments …
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