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Showing 1 to 20 of 42344 for “"them"”.
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Without Them
<p>Without Them is the story of 17-year-old Ella who loses her parents in a car crash. She has her life further upended when she and her young brother, Bennett, have to move to a small lake town in Virginia with their bachelor uncle. It is a story of loss but is also a coming of age story about how …
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How We Know Them
This multi-genre collection—including fiction, flash fiction, and a play—explores the roots of connection implied in familial relationships and structures. These works question—sometimes stepping into the supernatural to do so—how family relationships and structures can thrive despite hardship and …
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Forgive Them, Forgive Them Not: The Role of Remorse and Empathy in Interpersonal Forgiveness
<p>Forgiveness research has suggested that the reduction of negative thoughts and emotions between a victim and perceived transgressor (forgiveness) may be beneficial for close, personal relationships. The current study aimed to examine the influence of perceived remorse and elicited empathy on …
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Urban Legends: Why Do People Believe Them?
… necessarily false, although the majority of them are untrue. The targets of legends are often businesses, particularly market leaders, and politicians or other prominent individuals which makes urban legends particularly attractive to the general public. Urban Legends provide an outlet for …
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Fantastic Birds and Where to Find Them
I investigated avian-habitat relationships in three related study systems. In my first chapter I characterize the nonbreeding habitat of the western subspecies of Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii subspp.), including the federally endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii …
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Minor league basketball organizations: making them work
<p>Minor league basketball organizations have wilted under the competition's spotlight. These leagues tried to present fans with an entertaining alternative to professional sports.</p> <p>Minor league basketball's efforts to entertain fans have been unsuccessful. This study examines why these …
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I was about to be them/there
… graduation thesis exhibition, I Was About to Be Them/There, presented at the Fifth Parallel Gallery from December 13- 21 in 2023. My MFA exhibition consists of videos of performances, an audio/video installation, and a photograph, through which I convey the experience of being subject to external …
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Embedded interrogatives and predicates that embed them
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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An Examination of the Metaphorical Structure of Writing Centers: One Metaphor to Bring Them All to Understanding and Define Them
Looking at the various metaphors that have been used to describe writing centers over the last thirty to fifty years, I classify these metaphors into three distinct categories. Based on the assertion that metaphors can help to create and define perception, many writing center scholars have used …
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Global managers : how to obtain them in organizations
… identify potential candidates, hire, and develop them.
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You Take Them as You Find Them: An Examination of How Negotiations Build Trust With Parties They Never Meet Face-to-Face
Today fewer business relationships involve meaningful face-to-face in teraction. In terms of negotiation between unfamiliar parties, building trust can be a crucial component of achieving satisfactory outcomes. How a negotiator garners trust in faceless negotiation is a major concern, especially …
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In front of them all: a memoir in essays
This Creative Nonfiction MFA Thesis is a book-length work told in three acts. The first three essays explore the narrator's adolescence and young adulthood in Hawaii, South Korea, and online with focus placed upon the body and on terror. The second act, "Movement," details the writer's upbringing …
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Exploring Misinformation Campaigns And How To Defend Against Them
<p>Misinformation campaigns can have very real and lasting effects. Misinformation has been known to impact elections, create vaccine hesitancy, and increase polarization within societies. This paper reviewed existing literature regarding misinformation research, collected information from research …
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Functions of operators and the classes associated with them
The important classes of normally solvable, ϴ₊ (ϴ₋) and strictly singular (strictly cosingular) operators have long been studied in the setting of bounded or closed operators between Banach spaces. Results by Kato, Lacey, et al (see Goldberg [16; III.1.9, III.2.1 and III.2.3] ) led to the …
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Actuarial resources in high demand, what makes them stay?
… creating the conditions that are conducive for them to stay within their respective organisations. Limited research in which the total rewards elements that may contribute most to the retention of actuarial resources, could be found. Greater insight in this area will hopefully enable …
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Worker owned cooperatives and the ecosystems that support them
By emphasizing wealth creation, communities can not only cultivate streams of income, but also build wealth. Through collectively owned and democratically governed assets, communities can build wealth. Economic development policy and practice should emphasize wealth creation. Employee ownership, …
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'We know them, but we don't know them': a grounded theory approach to exploring host students' perspectives on intercultural contact in an Irish university
This study is concerned with intercultural relations among students in an Irish university. Specifically, the study explores host culture students’ perceptions of cultural difference within the student body and their experiences of intercultural contact on campus, including the factors which inform …
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Leaders' contribution to safety culture and empowering them to succeed
… from open-ended questions was analysed using thematic analysis, allowing underlying themes to be uncovered regarding what is working well, as well as opportunities for growth. When developing recommendations, this project considered less traditional methods to support the development of safety …
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