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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"selflessness"”.
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Marital Selflessness Scale (MSS): An Exploratory Factor Analysis
… assessment of spirituality/religion. The Marital Selflessness Scale (MSS) is a dyadic measure that was validated through an exploratory factor analysis revealing three latent factors: Relational Expectations; Relational Empowerment; Relational Selflessness. A therapist can utilize the MSS with …
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Reinterpreting The Moral Economy – Building on the Economic Possibilities of Selflessness
… system realising the economic potential of selflessness, which economies above subsistence levels, and at any scale, have the capacity to evolve into. Here, the moral economy becomes intertwined with moral economics, cultivation of economic science that involves the incorporation of ethical …
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The Modern Vampire as Romantic Hero: Acceptance, Love and Self-Control
… champion of Christian virtue, embodying complete selflessness and self-control in their relationships. The modern vampire is an evolved form of the aristocratic vampire who is at once superhero, ideal lover and Christ-like, rather than monster.
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Spirituality in the African National Congress struggle for liberation in South Africa : 1912-1996
… in order to identify Christian traits such as selflessness, brotherly love, mercy, ability to forgive, gratuity and compassion as signs of the presence and influence of spirituality in the behaviour of the leadership of the ANC in this struggle for South Africa. Another preoccupation of this …
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Rethinking Tennessee Williams' "Desperate" Women
… connotations of Southern femininity--frailty, selflessness, and domesticity—and leaning into the more disagreeable facets of Lost Cause nostalgia reveals the classist and racist ideologies that motivate their quests for upstanding Southern aristocratic lives. Critics have been slow to read …
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Student expectations of future life roles
… eight dyadic themes emerged: self-interest- selflessness, demanding- relaxing, collaborationindependence, freedom-restriction, affective- unaffective, boring- enjoyment, structuredflexible, and personal satisfaction- obligation. These themes revealed values and attributes students perceive as …
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Lessons from the Kremlin : folklore and children's literature in the socialization of Soviet children, 1932-1945
… demonstrated to youth the communist qualities of selflessness and devotion to the collective, and about the dangers of idleness. Children learned that the Soviet Union was to be the new Soviet family, replacing the bond of blood kinship. The leader cult filtered down to children’s books and Stalin …
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Volunteer Tutor Perceptions of Leadership Values and Servant Leadership at a Faith-Based University: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study
… leadership and promote the idea of student selflessness for the greater good within the school’s volunteer tutoring program, as well as in future societal roles after graduation (“About Volunteer Connection,” n.d.). The main data collection tool was a semi-structured interview protocol …
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"Celtic Pride": White Nostalgia and Working-Class Masculinity in 1970s Professional Basketball
… intelligence, efficiency, hard work, grit, and selflessness. They were upheld as a bulwark against the invasion and takeover of the NBA by "black" basketball. If the Celtics and "white" basketball represented everything good and honorable about the league, "black" basketball - and the players …
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A selfless response to an illusory world : a comparative study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara
… of a non-giver, i.e. a person who has realised selflessness and has seen through the “illusion” of individuation. This person then takes it upon himself to construct the other so as to gain a focus for the compassionate activity of teaching. The aim of such teaching is the liberation (mokṣa) of …
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Affectionate expression in marriage: An ethnocultural and socioeconomic comparison
… the importance of verbal assurances and of selflessness, sacrifice and sincerity, as behaviors thus perceived most engendered spousal satisfaction.
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Lady Macbeth and Gertrude: A Study in Gender
… those of the men around them. Their blinded selflessness and misplaced devotion result in their ultimate undoing. Though the typical reader of Macbeth and Hamlet sometimes considers these particular female characters to be strong, bold, and selfish, the values of Shakespeare's era and his …
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Animating Gender: Conflicting Narrative and Character Design in <em>Gravity Falls</em>
… when comparing the narrative themes of selflessness and strength in the series to the character designs of female unruliness and male selfishness, this analysis highlights a disconnect between these two elements. This possibility for a disconnect encourages further discussion in the …
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Spiritual Experiences of Young People with Cognitive Impairments within Christian Communities of Faith
… These individuals demonstrated an innate selflessness, readily extending support and assistance to others while acknowledging their own imperfections. Their yearning for a reality beyond the confines of the present world coexisted with a keen awareness of their own limitations. The central …
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The attributes of long-serving counselling volunteers in the Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong
… region, including Buddhism and the concept of ‘selflessness’, as a step towards wisdom.
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AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND BECOMING GOOD: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND ETHICS IN PLATO, KANT, AND IRIS MURDOCH
ABSTRACT In my dissertation, I examine the connection between aesthetic experience and morality. I specifically focus on the work of Plato, Kant, and Iris Murdoch, who all share the thesis that aesthetic experience has an ineluctable moral component, which enables it to play various roles in moral …
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Thinking Outside Pandora's Box: Now That the Idea of God Has Been Declared Dead, Has All Hope Been Lost for Philosophy and Humankind?
I. Introduction</p><p> The time has come.</p><p> Now that the Idea of God has been declared dead, an egocentric action that opened Pandora's box, many evils plague humankind. Thus, human life has no meaning. Humanism has been devalued. Philosophy gets no respect. All Hope has been lost.</p><p> II. …
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John Bruce, Jr. : a Sixty-Nine Year Leadership Journey Throughout Change in the United States Army
… family, country, and duty, while promoting selflessness. This needs to be promoted throughout the United States. We should permit leaders to gain the training and experience they need to discover for themselves that great leaders will need to respond to change many times along the path of …
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The Beauty of Rapport: Reading Three Odes by John Keats
This study argues that John Keats is a poet whose key consideration is empathy and who possesses the ability to establish profound rapport with the readers of his poems. In order to explore this ability, the paper focuses on Keats's definition of the "poetical character”: Keats writes that the poet …