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Showing 1 to 20 of 167 for “"sense of identity"”.
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The Sense of Identity in a Limbu Community of South Wales
… a Sino-Tibetan ethnic group that are components of a federated Nepali community indigenous to the easterly regions of Nepal, and were among one of the favoured groups recruited by the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas. The transnational Nepali community in the focused region of South Wales (based …
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The development of a sense of identity during the adolescent period
… school pupils and not from the academic study of adolescent psychology. In order to find a suitable subject for research I turned to those books which were likely to give a cross-section of the literature in the field, for example, the survey provided by Gottlieb & Reeves (1963) and various …
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The implications of being an international medical graduate (IMG) in Canadian society : a qualitative study of foreign-trained physicians' resettlement, sense of identity and health status
… the settlement experiences and changes in professional identity, self esteem and health status of foreign-trained physicians (FTPs) who resettled in Canada and were not able to practice their profession. Seventeen foreign-trained physicians completed a pre-survey and rated their health …
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Separated from Saints and Sacred Spaces: Religion, Identity and Belonging for Peruvian Andean Migrants in the US
… practices impact how people construct their sense of identity and belonging, and Peruvian Andean religious practices are based in the sacred landscape and local saint fiestas. When Peruvian Andeans migrate away from their communities in the Andes, their religious practices are altered because …
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The religious identity of the Hazaras of Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan
‘The religious identity of the Hazaras of Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan’ investigates how the Afghani Hazara tribe came into existence, adopted a branch of Islam that differed from the majority of Afghanis and the consequences of that religious adherence. Through the discussion of a history …
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Communication and Community at East Wind
<p>The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how members of an intentional community communicatively co-construct their sense of community identity. This study focuses on East Wind intentional community in southern Missouri. Framed by concepts from Social Identity Theory, this study uses …
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Adult learners in teacher education : developing a sense of self as a teacher
The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of how returning adult learners, who were enrolled in a teacher preparation program within a career college, understood and made sense of their experiences in the program. This qualitative study centered on the experiences and stories of six …
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Quebec’s Uninhabitable Community: Identity and Community among Anglo-Quebecer Out-Migrants
… the past 45 years perceive and negotiate their identity in relation to Quebec? Since 1971, 600 000 anglophones have left Quebec for other parts of Canada. This out-migration coincided with political tensions that influenced a complete economic and linguistic shift in power from English to …
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Becoming a pilgrim: the lived experience of men who become therapists following a former career
… be a meaningful experience: it challenges our sense of identity, allows us to discover new skills and presents opportunities for novel experiences, excitement, and growth. It can also be a daunting and costly step into a way of being without the safety net of the familiar to rely on. Less than …
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Finding Home
<p>This collection of short stories is based on the notion that a person´s idea of home gives him or her a sense of identity. Each story presents unique characters, settings and situations; however, all of the protagonists are affected by their perception of "home". Contains the stories "Rewind"; …
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Maintaining familiarity through mobile design
… and comfort in the growing population of itinerant young professionals through generating a deployable device that provides a sense of familiarity and personalization. Prior to activation, the device acts as a secure and protective container for personal belongings. Once activated, it …
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Understanding gay men’s identities through narratives of their erotic and romantic relationships
‘Gay identity’ is an often taken-for-granted concept in research. When researchers refer to gay men’s identities, the term is used in relation to sexuality, as a labelling process, and operationalised through reference to homosexual relationships. But what do those relationships mean to gay men? …
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Full of Hunger
Full of Hunger is a three-part collection of interlinked stories—each part originally anchored by one protagonist, but has evolved, with the help of sub-characters giving glimpses of their own stories while furthering those of others, into a polyphonic telling of multiple relationships and …
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Identity, Ethos, and Community: Rhetorical Dimensions of Secular Mommy Blogs
… study examines secular mommy bloggers, a group of women who blog about the difficulties of being a nonbeliever parent in a predominantly religious society. In this study, I explore the rhetorical dimensions of four separate blogs by investigating how each mother builds identity within her …
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Identity in Elite Youth Professional Football
The concepts of Athletic Identity (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Linder,1993) and identity (Erikson, 1950, 1968) both carry notions of having a clear sense of self definition. Applied practitioners in elite professional football settings (e.g. Holt & Dunn, 2004; Harwood, 2008; Nesti & Littlewood, 2010; …
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"C'est either que tu parles francais, c'est either que tu parles anglais": A cognitive approach to Chiac as a contact language
This thesis concerns Chiac, a dialect of Acadian French (AF) that emerged in a small speech community of AF-English bilingual teenagers in Moncton, Canada. Syntactically and morphologically, Chiac closely resembles AF, but it also makes use of a number of English lexical items and other …
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Acculturation and its influence on the social relationships, identity, and sense of well-being in middle school immigrant adolescents : a descriptive single case study.
… as it influences the social relationships, identity, and sense of well-being of newly arrived immigrant adolescents. Although there is literature that discusses acculturation, few studies explore how it influences Hispanic immigrant adolescents' social relationships with their peers and …
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Monumentality of Serenity and Dynamism
Monumentality derives from the eternal need of people to own symbols to reveal their inner life and social conceptions. I want to design a building to represent Modern Monumentality. This project came from the idea of " Serenity and Dynamism", which came from the famous wood-print " The Great Wave …
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Working class single mothers : performing middle class identity
Much of the literature on single motherhood has been devoted to poor or middle class single mothers. In this study I interviewed working class single mothers. Their unique position between the poor and the middle class leads to interesting observations about how women at the boundaries do and …
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The Great American Road Trip: Exploring Identity in the Open Landscape
My thesis aims to understand how humans create a sense of identity by drawing on their physical surroundings. It looks at the hidden stories I find in various photographers’ work and celebrates the ‘average’—the truck driving families, painters, hotel receptionists, soccer playing twins. . . Those …
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