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Showing 1 to 20 of 2126 for “"trying"”.
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When Trying to Reach Zombies and Other Stories
<p><em>When Trying to Reach Zombies and Other Stories</em> is a collection of nine short stories and a novella that focuses on Christian speculative fiction. The collection uses the themes and images from Christianity and the tools of speculative fiction to tell stories. In “When Trying to Reach …
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Trying Times: Disability, Activism, and Education in Samoa, 1970-1980
<p>In the 1970s and 1980s, Samoan women organizers established Aoga Fiamalamalama and Loto Taumafai, which were educational institutions in Samoa, an island in the Pacific. Establishing these schools for students with intellectual and physical disabilities, excluded from attending formal schools …
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Trying to find the balance in research and therapeutic practice
This portfolio presents my qualitative research, which used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore mothers’ experiences of having an adult daughter in personal therapy through nine semi-structured interviews. Mothers were unanimously supportive of their daughter’s therapy and …
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“We’re Trying To Have A Childhood”: Parent Notions Of Kindergarten Readiness
<p>In response to the chronic third-grade achievement-gap, public school kindergartens have abandoned Froëbel’s traditional child-centered pedagogy in favor of an early academic preparation model that promotes the idea of kindergarten readiness. But top-down implementation of readiness curriculum …
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Managing to be intimate: Trying to find the balance in research and therapeutic practice
This portfolio presents my qualitative research, which used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore mothers’ experiences of having an adult daughter in personal therapy through nine semi-structured interviews. Mothers were unanimously supportive of their daughter’s therapy and …
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How have youth experienced trying to get off the street : what has helped and hindered
… research question: “How have youth experienced trying to get off the street: what has helped and hindered?” Twenty youth, aged 19-24 years of age, living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada who have spent time living on the street were interviewed using Flanagan’s (1954) Critical Incident …
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Leveling Up: How Posters on r/StopGame Describe Video Gaming, Its Consequences, and Trying to Stop
Video games are a major source of entertainment in the United States today, but they may also be understood to be addictive when considering the ways addiction involves chemicals that are naturally occurring in the human body. Video game addiction, then, might be a serious life issue. Analyzing …
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„It is like trying to get blood out of a stone.“ Aðstandendur fanga á Íslandi og Englandi
Aðstandendur fanga er falinn hópur í samfélaginu sem hefur fengið litla umfjöllun og athygli frá stjórnvöldum og samfélaginu í heild sinni. Raunveruleikinn er sá að aðstandendur fanga, sérstaklega makar, taka einnig út refsingu fyrir afbrot fangans. Makar fanga eru einstaklingar sem ekki hafa …
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"What's the Use of Trying to Read Shakespeare?": Modes of Memory in Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Essays
<p>This dissertation maps the relationship between Virginia Woolf’s fiction and essays, and William Shakespeare’s person and plays. I argue that Woolf’s writing is intended as an interactive practice of cultural memory, challenging her readers to become responders and to engage critically with the …
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"still Here, Trying To Find My Way": Understanding The Experiences Of Hiv Disruption And Reorganization Among Older African Americans In Detroit
<p>Adults aged fifty and older are the fastest growing age group with HIV/AIDS. Research on older adults with HIV has focused primarily on health status and physiological changes that occur as people age with HIV. However, little is known about the socio-cultural consequences that occur when older …
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Examination of Head Start students' and teachers' attitudes and behaviors toward trying new foods as part of a social marketing campaign
Objective: To determine the impact of preschool teacher food-related attitudes and behaviors on child food behaviors. Design: A twelve-week intervention and observational study with teachers completing questionnaires before and after the intervention. Setting: Head Start classrooms throughout …
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"They're trying to trick us!": Making sense of anti-oppressive children's literature in the elementary school classroom
This study examines how children make sense of “anti-oppressive” children’s literature in the classroom, specifically, books that integrate and promote positive portrayals of gender non-conformity and sexual diversity. Through a feminist poststructural lens, I conducted ethnographic observations …
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Causes of Lunda – Luvale conflict and why the problem still exists despite people trying to resolve it: a case of North-western province of Zambia.
This study investigated the root causes and the continuation of ethnic conflicts between the Lunda and Luvale of North Western province of Zambia. The objectives of the study were to: establish how the Lunda and Luvale ethnic conflict can threaten and impact on Zambia’s internal stability; examine …
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Causes of Lunda – Luvale conflict and why the problem still exists despite people trying to resolve it: a case of North-western province of Zambia.
This study investigated the root causes and the continuation of ethnic conflicts between the Lunda and Luvale of North Western province of Zambia. The objectives of the study were to: establish how the Lunda and Luvale ethnic conflict can threaten and impact on Zambia’s internal stability; examine …
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Trying to make sense of the Trojan Horse incident: using historical documents to prompt discussion of politically sensitive issues in secondary schools in Cape Town
In this qualitative research, I hoped to get some impression of ways teachers and learners in five Cape Town schools deal with the process of making sense of a violent past. I offered five teachers material on the Trojan Horse Incident, partly generated by the TRC, and pondered the questions what …
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"Hey! They're trying to learn for free!": An Analysis of The Simpsons as a Satirical Portrayal of Neoliberal Influence on Public Education
Rooted in the philosophy of Michael W. Apple, this thesis examines how The Simpsons has portrayed neoliberalism’s influence on public education. This thesis begins by reviewing literature related to The Simpsons’ ideological thrust. It considers how The Simpsons is rooted in a left-of-centre …
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“Trying Your Best in That Moment with That Person”: Maintaining Feelings of Efficacy and Relevance in the Therapeutic Relationship with Community Mental Health Clients Experiencing Psychosis
<p>Community mental health clients who experience psychosis, particularly Black and Latinx clients, are subject to numerous barriers to competent clinical care. The fundamental challenges of community mental health settings can be detrimental to clinicians’ belief that they can be effective while …
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