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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"story line"”.
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A survey of nightmare frequency and intensity in an Australian University sample and treatment with a story-line alteration technique (SLAT)
… a large community based sample and trial a brief story line alteration technique. More specifically, the current research was designed to conduct two related studies in order to elucidate nightmare frequency and intensity in an Australian sample and examine the efficacy of self-help nightmare …
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Adolescents' Idea of Fiction in Their Own Writing
… media had influenced the writer to follow a story line. For some of the authors, this was a form of therapy, and for others, it was just a forum for interests, feelings and emotions.</p>
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Rhetoric as Praxis in Leading and Organizing A Public Administration: A Journey in Democratic Governance
… term serving simultaneously as both the central story line and storyteller. Rhetoric is both the object of study and the lens through which to study. A field study was conducted with the Roanoke County administration. The rhetorical patterns of administrative leaders were observed and documented …
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Utilizing the History of Science to Enhance Student Understanding and Engagement: A Compilation of Earth Science Lesson Plans
Classroom research has shown that the history of science can be used to enhance student understanding of scientific concepts and processes, as well as the context in which science is explored. Successful methods for incorporating the history of science in to the classroom can also improve student …
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Study Guides: Their Effect on Reading Comprehension in Content Areas in the Third Grade
… this study. Also, the text being utilized has a story line which aided in making a more cohesive framework for the study guides. This study attempted to answer the question: What is the effect of using a series of study guides based on a third grad Social Studies text on the general level of …
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Understanding the current diagnosis and management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Qualitative Approach
… of grounded theory was implemented, as outlined by Charmaz (2006) and a social constructionist epistemology was adopted. Analysis: A central story line of ‘investing in ADHD’ emerged. This involved the investment of resources in the ‘simple truth’ of ADHD as existing within the child’s …
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Canadian urban ministry : the nature and challenges of success
… assists, narratively, to discern a central story-line of the case studies, supplement the above
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Mentoring in an independent secondary school : teacher professionalism explored
… of analysis is then integrated through writing a story line that interprets and refines the theory, illustrated by a Conditional Matrix. The emerging conclusions have implications for how qualified and unqualified teachers should be supported within their first years of teaching, as well as the …
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Digital Storytelling: The Application of Vichian Theory
Storytelling is often looked at as something archaic or something that simpler cultures engage in. However, in our sophisticated and highly technological world storytelling swirls about us though we may not always recognize it. This thesis looks at the phenomenon of digital storytelling that …
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The Social Construction of Sexuality: Personal Meanings, Perceptions of Sexual Experience, and Females' Sexuality in Puerto Rico
… follow a common thread that weaves a common story line: the life-long struggle with the incongruencies between the social constructions of female sexuality and the realities of these women's sexual experiences. Sexuality is defined as being challenged and modified through the participants' …
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Risk, Language, and Power: The Nanotechnology Environmental Policy Case
In this dissertation I explore discourse around the environmental risks of nanotechnology, and through this study of nanotechnology make the case that the dominance in risk discourse of regulatory science is limiting policy debate on environmental risks, and that specific initiatives should be …
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The maternal experience of having a child with night-time sleep difficulties
… version of grounded theory was utilised as outlined by Charmaz (2006). Analysis: A central story line of ‘no choice but to function’ emerged. This refers to the place where these mothers found themselves after attempts to solve their child’s sleep problem had proved ineffective, and describes a …
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Hidden Doublings: A Context for Understanding Jean d'Arras's Mélusine ou la Noble Histoire de Lusignan
… establishes a context and a doubling for the story-line which he so repetitiously tells. Through his allusion to David we see a doubling for Raymondin, who in fact bears the name of earthly king, a position which David held in archetype. Through his allusion to Paul we see a doubling for …
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Tensions in the field of health care : knowledge networks dand evidence based practice : an action research approach
… a way of answering and explaining the empirical story line. Data was collected by use of a multi-method approach consisting of 39 interviews, observations, document review and reflexive notes. The intention was to elicit data that supported both network development and the theoretical explanation …
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Big City
… pieces entitled “A man in the city is writing a story on a bus” and “There are horses and lights in the city.” These segments are intended to capture the movement that is possible in a big city, that is possible in language, as well as become those singular structures, or monuments, that set a …
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Mapping the learning trajectories of physical sciences teachers' topic specific knowledge for teaching chemical bonding
… to the instrument and a grounded analysis of story-line interview data from ten purposively selected teachers were used to identify the factors that played a role in the development of the teachers' knowledge. A further qualitative analysis of PCK episodes from the interview data revealed how …
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Analisis konstruk berpikir seksual pada pembaca perempuan Online Yaoi Fanfiction
INDONESIA: Online Yaoi Fanfiction merupakan suatu cerita online yang berisi kisah percintaan para lelaki yang memiliki hubungan homoseksual “gay” dengan situasi romantis dan materi dewasa yang dibuat oleh sekelompok penggemar dengan memasukkan dan memasangkan idola-idola mereka baik yang nyata …
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The slaying of the innocents : a relational treatise on composition and conducting
… analysis of the insights each of the two disciplines provides the other, and the influences each may have on the other. Although the dissertation represents the basic and larger concepts of each composer-conductor, it is not intended to represent all thoughts of all composer-conductors, for …
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Unwrapping the wings of the television show The West Wing
… narrative patterns related to the characters and storylines presented in the show. My study will involve looking at how Kellner’s multiperspectival categories of representation are presented in the series and examining the implications of the interface between larger issues of cultural politics …
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Dominion Shifts in Biblical Apocalyptic Literature: a Narrative Reading of Daniel 7 and Revelation 12-14 Vis-À-Vis Genesis 1-3
… to the development of the biblical plotline. The biblical apocalyptic passages—Daniel 7 and Revelation 12–14—were chosen because they articulate dominion shifts reusing words, concepts, imagery, characters, and plot much similar to those found in Genesis 1–3. Thus, I pursue the …