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M nite Attitudes to Property
"... The ability of human beings to enjoy life on this earth is threatened at all times, in all places, by a simple fact: each human being must have access to the earth's limited physical resources. For this reason, questions of property- who has aright to own what and under what conditions- are fun ..."
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- the proper division of property rights remains an important problem even for relatively prosperous societies. Despite what would appear to be the uncontestable nature of such an assertion- that property rights are fundamental to the exercise of justice in any community- little attention has been given
HARBER ET AL. DIRECTIVE AND NONDIRECTIVE SOCIAL SUPPORT DIRECTIVE SUPPORT, NONDIRECTIVE SUPPORT, AND MORALE
, 2005
"... The concept of social support as being directive or nondirective may help explain why helping can either boost or impede morale. The Inventory of Nondirective and Directive Instrumental Support (INDIS) was developed to investigate this question. The directive factor concerns others' attempts t ..."
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= extremely accurate. Background Questionnaire. A brief background questionnaire was prepared that sampled participants' age, race, gender, and religion. In addition, it instructed participants to indicate whether or not they had experienced any of nine major kinds of problems including personal health
QOLLTI-F: measuring family carer quality of life
- Palliative Medicine
, 2006
"... Background: The primary goal of palliative care is to optimize the quality of life (QOL) of people living with a life-threatening illness and that of their families. While there have been important advances in measurement of the QOL of palliative care patients, little attention has been paid to the ..."
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presupposed domains, The second study was performed by this investigative group in order to define domains for a new measure of the QOL of carers. Interviews were undertaken with 59 carers of palliative care patients from two large and one small Canadian city, who were caring for loved ones at home
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"... Background and Purpose. This was a preliminary investigation of the effects of a yoga-based exercise program on people with chronic (greater than 9 months) poststroke hemiparesis. Many people who have had a stroke report an impaired health status because of a reduced level of activity. Proponents o ..."
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Background and Purpose. This was a preliminary investigation of the effects of a yoga-based exercise program on people with chronic (greater than 9 months) poststroke hemiparesis. Many people who have had a stroke report an impaired health status because of a reduced level of activity. Proponents
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"... From its beginnings in the 1960s up to the present, the New Age movement has undergone considerable change. Originally, it was a counter-cultural movement, interacting with other counter-cultural movements of that time, such as the ecology, hippie, and commune movements. During the last decades, sp ..."
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of quantitative empirical analyses that in spite of the transformations, the affinity between New Age activism and culture-critical attitudes persists to a certain degree. This is particularly the case for persons aiming at self-perfection by means of spiritual exercises and alternative health methods. Among
The Role of the Teaching Context in Hong Kong English Teachers' Perceptions of L2 Writing Pedagogy
"... This paper examines the ways in which L2 writing is perceived and its pedagogy conceptualised by English language teachers in Hong Kong secondary schools. It then attempts to delineate the factors that shape teacher perceptions. Data for this study were gathered through a questionnaire survey, whic ..."
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in the sample and what social and cognitive implications these justifications have for curriculum development. The paper will begin with a brief review of the field of English as a Second Language (ESL) writing in order to provide a broad context for the reader. 72 is followed by an introduction to research
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"... Ch a p t e r I As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers' clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you. In the streets of London whe ..."
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had done to make her love it, although thirty of her forty years had been spent in a street. She knew how to read the people who were passing her; there were the rich who were running to and from each others' houses at this hour; there were the bigoted workers driving in a straight line
Approached from an interactionist perspective
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more compelling had he engaged in more extended ethnographic inquiry, but Lucian still very much speaks for "the generalized other" Following a brief overview of interactionist notions of beauty, character, and reality, central attention is given to Lucian's considerations of the ways
Die Deutsche Bibliothek- Cataloging in Publication Data
, 1996
"... @ Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI ..."
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@ Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI
Freedom to Be: Friendship and Community at Holiday Parks
"... ABSTRACT Slow tourism is motivated by the desire for personal and communal well-being. It emerged as an antidote to the fast-paced imperatives of global capitalism that urge the entrepreneurial self to speed up and work harder to achieve and demonstrate desired social status. The entrepreneurial se ..."
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. The contrast in the behaviours of the occupants of the laundry underpins the discussion that follows. The self-serving, calculating behaviour of the field note author is, arguably, not an uncommon phenomenon. Indeed, tactical and competitive behaviour of this kind is expected of the "entrepreneurial self
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