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Showing 1 to 20 of 1591 for “"struggles"”.
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Transition to Manhood Thwarted: Struggles Portrayed Through Images
<p>This study explores the correspondence of the marked similarity in the imagery expressed in art and behavior patterns of paranoid schizophrenic men attending a psychiatric day treatment program. Ranging in age from 21 to 43 years, these men produced art works in art therapy groups and …
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Small Town: Urban Struggles in a Rural Community
Based upon the premise that individuals make sense of the world according to the stories they have for representing it, this research is presented in narrative form. Stories inscribe historical moments, providing opportunities for readers to reflect upon their own race, class, and gender …
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Crises of Expectations: Workers Struggles In Zambia, 1964-2011
… from 1964 to 2011 by looking at some of the struggles the workers engaged in to obtain what they thought was due to them. The term ‘Crises of Expectations’ is used because what was expected and what was obtained did not always match. Workers, therefore, engaged in strikes to obtain benefits …
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Crises of Expectations: Workers Struggles In Zambia, 1964-2011
… from 1964 to 2011 by looking at some of the struggles the workers engaged in to obtain what they thought was due to them. The term ‘Crises of Expectations’ is used because what was expected and what was obtained did not always match. Workers, therefore, engaged in strikes to obtain benefits …
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Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia, 2000-2005
This dissertation provides an analytical framework for understanding the left-indigenous cycle of extra-parliamentary insurrection in Bolivia between 2000 and 2005. It draws from Marxist and indigenous-liberationist theory to challenge the central presuppositions of liberal-institutionalist …
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Struggles for Recognition: Analyzing Democratization Effects of Social Movements
… Movements having such a broad impact are termed struggles for recognition and culminate from the combined impact of interactions and discourses in the form of mechanisms. Each process---regime policy changes, reformulations of objectives and identities, and scale and scope shifts---has a set of …
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Struggles with empathy and optimal responsiveness : an intersubjective view
This dissertation reviews the psychotherapeutic techniques of empathy and optimal responsiveness from within a Self Psychology framework. Self Psychologists view these techniques as essential for the activation of the selfobject experience, the core requirement for the restoration of a cohesive …
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Parental Struggles with Obtaining Services for Children with Special Needs
… review of the literature addressing parental struggles, attitudes, and perceptions of barriers in obtaining services for young children with special needs. Researchers, policy makers, and educators need to be aware of how families identify and report their experiences with obtaining services …
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Rethinking misrecognition and struggles for recognition: critical theory beyond Honneth
… Axel Honneth’s theories of misrecognition and struggles for recognition and argues for two main conceptualizations to address shortcomings in his theories. The first conceptualization is that recognition and misrecognition behaviors are better understood along three dimensions of …
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Washington Square Park: Struggles and Debates over Urban Public Space
<p>Public space is often perceived as a space that is open to everyone and is meant for gatherings and interaction; however, there is often a great competition over the use and control of public places in contemporary cities. This master’s thesis uses as an example Washington Square Park, which has …
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Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks
… M.S, Spring 2008 Environmental Studies Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks Dr. Daniel T. Spencer, Chair Singing Struggles and Dreams is a compilation of narratives by young Maya women, accompanied by my own contextual commentary. This work will be published …
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Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks
… M.S, Spring 2008 Environmental Studies Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks Dr. Daniel T. Spencer, Chair Singing Struggles and Dreams is a compilation of narratives by young Maya women, accompanied by my own contextual commentary. This work will be published …
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The struggles of mentoring : just where do you think you're going?
This thesis is a reflective inquiry into my practice as a mentor working with a population of young adults enrolled in a full-time academic program of studies in an adult education center. Although there has been research on mentoring adults who return to school in a university or college setting, …
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Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe
This dissertation explored how villagers in a district of Manicaland province of Zimbabwe deeply affected by violence and want survived the violence that has characterised Zimbabwe’s most recent politics (from the year 2000). Marked by invasions of white owned farms, by interparty violence, …
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Creativity Despite Duress: Shostakovich and Prokofiev’s Musical Struggles under Soviet Government Restrictions
This dissertation investigates how Soviet composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev navigated state-imposed artistic constraints under strict government control. During periods of heightened nationalism and international conflict, especially World War II, the Soviet regime intensified its …
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STRUGGLES OF KOREAN AMERICANS LABELED WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO CLAIM ADULT STATUS
<p>The transition to adulthood is complicated for youth with intellectual disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) Families. This ethnographic research explores the daily lives of six adults with intellectual disabilities who live in one urban Korean American community. In …
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