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Showing 1 to 20 of 721 for “"young adult"”.
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A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media
This doctoral thesis, entitled A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media, is an anticolonial and decolonial analysis of childhoods and youth under colonial occupation in Puerto Rico at the turn of the twenty-first century. As a mixed genre …
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“Young Adult Books Don’t Realize They Have that Power”: Reader Response to Ideology in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… find out how readers interact with novels in the Young Adult dystopian genre. I will examine the ways in which readers resist the dominant patriarchal ideological discourses in the YA dystopian novel and how readers submit to this ideology. Through an interaction with the text, the reader produces …
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Skating the Edge : A Young Adult Novel
Skating the Edge is a contemporary Young Adult novel, set partly in an adolescent psychiatric hospital in the narrated present time, and partly in the school and home of the protagonist Caitlin Michaels, in the narrated past. The novel deals with Caitlin's attempts to understand the suicide of one …
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Young Adult Perception and Acceptance of Biometrics
… or hassle. One would also assume that the younger generations would be much more accepting of these technologies as they show a much higher comfort level and dependency on the internet and technology in general. This may or may not be the case. Therefore, a survey study is conducted to …
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Correlates of Depression in Young Adult Caregivers
<p>This research examined depression in young adult caregivers. It was hypothesized that levels of depression in 18 to 40 year olds who provided care to older adult family members would be similar to depression levels of middle age adult caregivers. This study also examined the relationship between …
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Emotions surrounding restrained eating in young adult students
… focusing on experiences of restrained eating in young adult students, to develop our understanding of emotions surrounding dieting, diet violation and diet abandonment, thought to precede issues with weight management and disordered eating behaviours. Method: Using the participant selection model …
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Writing the Young Adult Novel: Analysis and Process
… research section includes brief analyses of five young adult novels that received the Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to children's literature. The creative section is an original young adult novel that …
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Health promotion in the young adult: Instrument development
… valid instrument to measure health promotion in young adults. Data were collected through a 44 statement questionnaire and six demographic data items. Data were analyzed through four series of reliability and validity an3lyses, including internal consistency measures, item analysis, and factor …
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GLBTQ characterization in young adult novels, 1998-2004
<p>Since the first young adult (YA) novel with gay content appeared in 1969, the number of gay-themed novels available for teens has increased significantly. However, research has shown that the long-awaited movement away from stereotyped characters and conservative storylines and into more …
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Intonation Perception In Elderly And Young Adult Subjects
… sought to compare the performance of elderly adults on perception of intonation in stimuli presented with and without contextual information. Participants were 20 elderly and 26 young adults. They were presented two categories of sentences that conveyed emotional (happy vs. sad) and …
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A Dyadic Perspective on Young Adult Dating Aggression
… risk factors and dating aggression within 137 young adult couples. Findings indicated that both partners' reports of a number of relationship characteristics were associated with aggression, including negative interactions, satisfaction, jealousy, and anxious and avoidant relational styles. …
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Ecoconscious: Skilful Sensing in Young Adult Fantasy Literature
As human-caused environmental crises worsen, many young people are anxious but alienated from nature, hardly perceiving the ecosystems in which they participate. This thesis reveals that, vitally, contemporary YA fantasy novels tend to represent the senses as skills and thereby convey human …
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Perceived Submaximal Leg Extension Forces of Young Adult Males
The purpose was to examine actual force (AF) productions of males for accuracy during leg extensions when given a random desired force (DF) ranging from 10-90% of maximal force (MF). Thirty males ranging from 18 to 30 years of age (M = 21.99 + 3.04), who had no previous experience with the test …
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Young adult public library services in southern New Jersey
… Statistics</em>, conducted a survey on young adult librarianship entitled, <em>Services and Resources for Children and Young Adults in Public Libraries</em>. The survey showed that while 23% of the patrons that used public libraries were YAs, ages 12-17, they lacked librarians, services, …
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Neighborhood Effects as Predictors of Hispanic Young Adult Outcomes
… relationship, and school attachment upon young adulthood attainment among Hispanic adolescents. By 2060, the U.S. population will consist of nearly 12.8 million Hispanic persons and will constitute nearly a third of the U.S population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). Examining the Social …
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Female heroism and self-fashioning in young adult adaptations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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