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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"sense of humor"”.
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Sense of Humor, Stress and Coping, and Outcomes in Children's Lives
… To prevent the short and long term effects of stress, children may use coping strategies to manage or alter stressful life events (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). This study explores the relationships between stress and sense of humor among school-age children. A sample of 106 students (and …
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Hubungan sense of humor dengan kepercayaan diri penyiar radio di Kota Malang
INDONESIA: Kepercayaan diri (Self Confidance) dan sense of humor merupakan satu kesatuan yang harus dimiliki seseorang yang berkarir di dunia entertaintment seperti penyiar radio. Karena kepercayaan diri yang dimiliki akan membantu penyiar radio bergaul secara felksibel, bersikap positif, dan mampu …
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Sense of humor and the severity of hassles among elementary school children
… empirical data investigating children’s level of sense of humor with the severity of the hassles reported by the children. The sample included 82 children, 50 boys and 32 girls, ranging in age from 8-11 years, and representing the third, fourth, and fifth grades. Both male and female children …
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A study on the relationship between personality type, sense of humor and creativity
A relationship between sense of humor, personality type and creativity is hypothesized. Surveys were given to engineering design students in a product development course offered at MIT. Linear correlations were found between an intuitive personality subtype and creative achievement, as well as …
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Hubungan sense of humor dengan kreativitas pada siswa kelas XI MA Negeri Tlogo-Blitar
… berbagai faktor, salah satunya adalah humor. Humor mampu mengurangi tekanan dalam diri siswa, sehingga siswa mampu mendorong mereka untuk mengeluarkan ide kreatif. Fenomena yang terjadi pada siswa kelas XI MA Negeri Tlogo-Blitar yaitu antara sense of humor dan kreativitas tidak sejalan. …
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Pedagogy of the Amused: An Exploration of Writing Education for a Critical Sense of Humor
… have been largely optimistic about the role of humor as a critical public pedagogy that generates emancipatory spaces from which students can recognize social injustice and re-envision a more equitable society, I argue that the distance humor generates can be used to emancipate people from …
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The Relationship Among Sense of Humor, Defense Style, Levels of Trait Anxiety, and Locus of Control
The purpose of this study was to explore the possible interrelatedness of sense of humor, defense mechanism style, level of trait-type anxiety, and locus of control; to compare any trait patterns that occur among these constructs; and to generate ideas about the significance of these patterns and …
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The Relationship between nurses’sense of humor and empowerment
… and suggesting effective ways to incorporate humor into nursing organizations by investigating a level of perceived sense of humor and empowerment, and examining the relationship between them. A convenient sample of 119 staff nurses except from head nurses who had over 3 years of experiences …
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Dorothy Scarborough : biography and criticism.
In the classroom of Dr. A. Joseph Armstrong in Pat Neff Hall, Baylor University named for Dorothy Scarborough is her portrait. In her countenance one sees love, sympathy, understanding, and a keen sense of humor. Her countenance is not misleading for she was richly endowed with these qualities, and …
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Between Two Worlds
… words, but what if they were applied to one of the world’s most popular fairy tales? This thesis explores Snow White in the context of the Seven Deadly Sins and the grand fall of Adam and Eve. The forbidden fruit manifests itself in different ways, pulling the prim and proper princess into …
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The Sense In Which All Things Move: Concepts of Meaning and World in Heidegger and Zhuangzi 莊子
… but instead refers to a pre-individuated flow of something like pure experience. By contrast, I take a broadly Heideggerian approach to this notion of “world” (and “nature,” as ziran 自然), suggesting that it refers not to a simple aggregation of all existent things, but instead to the whole of …
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Computing point-of-view : modeling and simulating judgments of taste
People have rich points-of-view that afford them the ability to judge the aesthetics of people, things, and everyday happenstance; yet viewpoint has an ineffable quality that is hard to articulate in words, let alone capture in computer models. Inspired by cultural theories of taste and identity, …
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Who's a Good Teacher?: Third, Fifth, and Seventh Graders Speak out
Included in any discussion of quality education there has usually existed a universal agreement as to the importance of good teaching. It has been impossible to ignore the teacher's powerful ability to create achievers or failures out of his/her students. However, as adults attempted to define the …
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The relationship between playfulness and creativity of Japanese preschool children
A study of the relationship between playfulness and creativity was conducted with a sample of Japanese children who attended a preschool that emphasized whole-group orientation. Playfulness was assessed using The Child Behaviors Inventory, teacher interviews, and observations. Creativity was …
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California Opinion on Lincoln to 1864
<p>In his History of the United States under the Constitution. James Schouler wrote: “The farther we recede from the era of our great civil strife, the more colossal stands out the figure of Abraham Lincoln.” In recent years this recognition in retrospect has been supplemented in periodical …
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The Value of Everything is Nothing
… works had freed up my process. The mediums of photography and collage played harmoniously together as they are both paired in ideas of domesticity, gender roles, ' family dynamics and dominant and submissive figures. The collage work is compressed and stacked in a way that adds weight to the …
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An Exploration of the Benefits of Lifeskills Processing on Third Grade Independent Learning Decisions to Bolster Non-Ability Grouped Mathematics Instruction
… mathematics instruction through integration of language based character education strategies. The researcher was concerned that the current emphasis on achievement could result in increased use of ability grouping. This provided a rationale to develop and present an instructional model that …
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Edens islands rooms : the project of the urban interior
… a private entity, has been a recurrent character of many 20th century liberal cities. It has today found an epitome in the mega-structural urban enclaves of the developing world. The thesis seeks to challenge the idea of future within these forms. Developed as technologically deterministic, …
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Helper Woman: A Biography of Elinor Delight Gregg
The intent of this investigation was to conduct an extensive study of the life and character of Elinor Gregg (1886-1970) in order to identify the contributions she made to professional nursing and to humanity. Nurse, educator, administrator, beloved relative, and friend, Elinor Gregg was an …
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