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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"traditional expectations"”.
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In the Hearts of Palms
… developing roles as man and woman in the face of traditional expectations. The interpretations of such roles, combined with divergent interpretations of an ambiguous act, culminate in a dramatic scene that forces the reader to ask questions about the culpability of certain characters, and …
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Good for Her: Catharsis and Empowerment in Contemporary Literature
… which contains themes of transgression beyond traditional expectations of socially acceptable feminine behavior by situating revenge arcs to celebrate actions that otherwise would have been perceived as reprehensible. The emergence and popularity of the genre in the post-2016 sociopolitical …
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Formulating Fantasies: Marriage in Victorian England and George Eliot's Middlemarch
… of existence known to humanity, marriage is a traditional state of being, uniting one man and one woman to love, honor, cherish, and protect each other for the rest of their lives. In Victorian England, however, many men and women questioned traditional expectations concerning marriage. …
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A multiple case study exploring suburban Chicago middle school social studies teachers overcoming modern constraints to enact dialogic pedagogy
… time pressures, rigid curricular standards, and traditional expectations of teaching—participants demonstrated the capacity to creatively reimagine instructional practices. They did so by building trust-based relationships, establishing classroom structures that support student-led discourse, and …
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Demystifying the leaking workforce pipeline : barriers facing female professionals in the Middle East and East Asia
… women into the workforce due to cultural and traditional expectations. In this thesis, we present a survey-based approach to understanding three barriers that could hinder women's entry to and development in the workforce. The barriers discussed are barriers to initial entry, barriers to …
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EMPOWERING NARRATIVES OR MARKETING STRATEGY? NIGERIAN AUDIENCE REACTIONS TO FEMVERTISING IN THE “JOY SOAP ‘MY LIFE, MY SCRIPT’ CAMPAIGN”
… of femvertising, the campaign aims to challenge traditional expectations placed on women and promote narratives of empowerment. However, audience reactions reveal a complex negotiation of cultural values, personal experiences, and shifting gender ideologies.</p> <p>This study uses Critical …
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Happiness Is a By-Product of Function: William Burroughs and the American Pragmatist Tradition
… Burroughs is a writer who upsets many of the traditional expectations of the literary writing community, just as Rorty challenges the conventions of the philosophical discourse community. Chapter Three places Burroughs within a liberal democratic tradition with respect to Rorty and John Stuart …
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Acceptance of anthropomorphic technology.
… the human distinctiveness, or the undermining of traditional expectations from machines. Integration on the topic is sparse, and with advancements in natural face technology and artificial intelligence, the extent of "human-likeness" continues to change and evolve. Moreover, with anthropomorphic …
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The Utility of Total Lightning in Diagnosing Single-cell Thunderstorm Severity in the Central Appalachian Mountains Region
… days (26.5 knots) consistent with traditional expectations of single-cell and multicell/supercell environments respectively. The popular 2σ total lightning jump algorithm was applied to all flashes associated with 470 individual LD thunderstorms. The frequencies of the storms’ total …
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Perceptions of Selected Stakeholders Regarding Enrollment in Career and Technical Education Courses and Programs that are Non-traditional by Gender
… education (CTE) courses and programs that are traditional by gender. That history has changed very little over the years, and students, both male and female, continue to enroll in CTE courses at the career center that are traditional for their gender. This trend persists despite Virginia …
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Artistry in Social Science Research
… and trajectories of practitioners in relation to expectations, traditions, and conventions of visual research communities. I explore through my conversations with five visual researchers from diverse social science disciplines the relevancy of aesthetics in evolving photographic research practices …
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You Take the Good and Leave the Rest Behind: Northern Thai Adolescent Girls and Their Narratives of Future Possibilities
… are still constrained to a certain extent by traditional expectations of their geographic, social, and sexual limits, the girls are changing these limits to include their own desires for freedom."
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Membrane-cytoskeleton associations during myogenesis
… membrane domains. Several inconsistencies with traditional expectations of membrane-cytoskeleton associations were found in these experiments, and the results further demonstrate that: (iii) neither Triton-insolubility nor co-localization alone predict all membrane-cytoskeleton associations: …
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The Tacit Dimension of Organizational Learning
… organizational learning; (2) indicated that the expectations generated by their "quality" program were incongruent with more traditional expectations that pre-dated their "quality" program; and (3) suggested the existence of a body of largely tacit and experiential organizational perspectives …
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Women in African Drama: Representation and role
… of African women's experiences in the traditional African setting as a major foundation of the present and future socio-political situation of the continent; this chapter is the springboard of the study. From the traditional milieu the study then moves on to the relatively new urban …
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A comparative study of economic power between Zambian women of Asian origin and indigenous Zambian women of Lusaka
… As women are still bound to their cultural/traditional expectations, it becomes difficult for women to demand credit without their husbands consent. Hence, even culturally women are not socialised to make independent decisions. It was hypothesised that "Access to credit or being a wage …
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Changing aspects of economic and family structures in Kalārdasht, a district in Northern Iran, up to 1978
… to their relative isolation, have retained their traditional way of life to a greater extent. A comparative dimension is inherent in the research sample: while analysis of the isolated villages provides some insight into the traditional economic structure and domestic organization, analysis of the …
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Critical exploration of the role of the nurse lecturer in practice situated within an existing Higher Education Institution and NHS partnership
… on: clarity, compelling reasons and defining roleexpectations; right people and role conformity; communication; and leadership, review androle development.The thesis concludes with the firm understanding that exposure to clinical practice is afundamental requirement to the overall existence of the …