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The Visible And Invisible Aspects Of Miscarriage: A Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, Imaginal Study, Denise M. Mahone
The Visible And Invisible Aspects Of Miscarriage: A Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, Imaginal Study, Denise M. Mahone
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This is a qualitative study that used an innovative, phenomenological, hermeneutic, imaginal method to explore the implicit, embodied, and imaginal dimensions of three women's lived experiences of perinatal loss and its aftermath. The study has a dual, but overlapping, focus on a holistic elaboration of women's lived experience of perinatal loss that includes these less articulated dimensions of experience, as well as a focus on the process and implications of the innovative method itself as a research approach. Findings are presented accordingly, addressing both new understandings about the lived phenomenon of miscarriage, and foregrounding the working method through which those …
Just World, Kayleigh Csaszar
Just World, Kayleigh Csaszar
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Just World is an anti-police procedural examining the complexities that minorities encounter within the police precinct. The nonlinear plot follows Abel Palmer's rape by a fellow officer. The psychological aftermath and impact of the rape is narrated through multiple and alternating first-person perspectives. Violence acts as a theme connecting the rape to the aggression enacted against officers of racial minority.
The Development Of An International Sport Federation: An Examination Of The International Golf Federations' Association With The Modern Olympic Movement, Michael A. Ayotte
The Development Of An International Sport Federation: An Examination Of The International Golf Federations' Association With The Modern Olympic Movement, Michael A. Ayotte
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In 2003, the World Amateur Golf Council (WAGC) changed its name to the International Golf Federation (IGF), thereby taking the first step in allowing golf to return to the Olympic Programme in 2009. The purpose of this study was to analyze what, if any, were the influences on the IGF as it went from creation, to development, to subsequent re-instatement on the Olympic Programme in the span of six years. Through interviews and document analysis, the primary source of influence came from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during this process. In addition, the IGF was influenced by the International Tennis …
Shaping And Being Shaped: Examining Women's Tackle Football In Canada, Katrina Krawec
Shaping And Being Shaped: Examining Women's Tackle Football In Canada, Katrina Krawec
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I explored how Canadian female football players were shaping football and being shaped by their participation in the sport using a duality of structure framework. Through ten semi-structured interviews with two administrators and four players in the Western Women's Canadian Football League (WWCFL) and four players in the Legends Football League (LFL) Canada, I examined the leagues' structures and participants' experiences in their leagues. I also analyzed media representations in 230 newspaper articles. Results indicated that the leagues' divergent purposes as well as hegemonic understandings of football differently shaped their structures and consequently players' experiences and media representations. The WWCFL's …
Environmental Sustainability Of Sporting Events In Local Communities: Assessing The Ecological Footprint Of The 2013 International Children's Games, Andrew Bakos
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Sport management literature regarding the environmental sustainability (ES) of sport events has been predominately focused on the environmental consequences of staging major events. As a result, there is little research concerned with the environmental impacts of small-scale events on host communities. The primary objective of this study was to calculate the Ecological Footprint (EF) of the 2013 International Children's Games (ICG). Developed in the early 1990s by Wackernagel and Rees, the EF is an analysis tool that measures the resource consumption of a human population within a geographical boundary. The EF of the 2013 ICG was estimated through the creation …
Political Advocacy: Beliefs And Practices Of Registered Nurses, Crystal D. Avolio
Political Advocacy: Beliefs And Practices Of Registered Nurses, Crystal D. Avolio
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Professional governing bodies of nursing have claimed that registered nurses have a responsibility to fulfill social mandate of political advocacy. Little is known about how nurses can accomplish this task. An exploratory, descriptive study (N=201) was undertaken to examine registered nurse's beliefs and practices regarding the concepts of politics and advocacy and secondly, to explore if nurses believe political activism to be a function of their advocacy role. Results suggest that nurses believe it is important to be politically active and report an interest in learning more about politics. The majority of nurses agreed that politics is the concern of …
The Metaphor Interpretation Test: Cognitive Processes Involved And Age Group Differences In Performance, Sam Iskandar
The Metaphor Interpretation Test: Cognitive Processes Involved And Age Group Differences In Performance, Sam Iskandar
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It is well known that aging affects fluid cognitive processes while leaving crystallized processes largely intact. When it comes to language abilities, figurative language tends to be more associated with fluid abilities and literal language with more crystallized abilities. Fluid abilities involve short-term storage of information and mental manipulation, which are associated with metaphor interpretation. Eighty participants (40 adults over fifty years old, and 40 young adults) completed the Metaphor Interpretation Test (Iskandar & Baird, 2013). The test includes 17 items chosen from a list of metaphors by Katz et al. (1988). Answers were coded as abstract complete (AC), abstract …
Hiv Discourse And Prevention Practices: A Case Study Of Professional And Entrepreneurial Women In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Neema William Jangu
Hiv Discourse And Prevention Practices: A Case Study Of Professional And Entrepreneurial Women In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Neema William Jangu
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The dominant HIV discourse has identified poverty, lack of education and lack of gender power as primary sites for women's vulnerability. This presents women as a homogenous population. This study focuses on Professional and Entrepreneurial Women (PEW) who have at least a post-secondary education and are professionally employed and/or engaged in medium skilled entrepreneurial activities. The study suggests that PEW are women who have an education, well-paying jobs by local standards, and power. Yet their rates of HIV infection are higher than women who are uneducated and poor. An intersectional postcolonial feminist approach is employed to examine: (a) the dominant …
The Identity Of American Catholic Women Religious: A Qualitative Study Of Identity Narratives In An American Apostolic Religious Community, Annunziata Marcoccia
The Identity Of American Catholic Women Religious: A Qualitative Study Of Identity Narratives In An American Apostolic Religious Community, Annunziata Marcoccia
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The Catholic Church has a rich history of women choosing to devote their lives to God and the Church through religious vocations. The theological shifts at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) affected the spirituality and lifestyle for many women religious. These changes renewed the identity of women religious and their role within the modern world. Over the past few years in the United States of America, the Vatican has conducted two assessments involving American women religious. The purpose of this study was to explore the identity of American women religious and to explore the impact of the current events within …
Sexual Citizenship On The Autism Spectrum, Jessica Penwell Barnett
Sexual Citizenship On The Autism Spectrum, Jessica Penwell Barnett
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Work on sexual citizenship, or the imbrication of citizenship and sexuality, has traditionally focused on the role of heteronormativity in social organization and the impacts of that organization on the lives of LGBTQ persons. Little work has examined the utility of this framework for understanding the experiences and positioning of persons with cognitive (dis)abilities, though they too have a long history of sexual oppression and civic disenfranchisement. In addition, few studies have empirically investigated the sexual and gender identities or intimate lives of this population. This study sought to fill these gaps in basic and theoretical understanding through in-depth, Internet …
Platform Determination Modeling For Existing And New Product Family, Kalid Ramadan
Platform Determination Modeling For Existing And New Product Family, Kalid Ramadan
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Today's automotive market is a highly competitive industry as many global manufacturing enterprises are competing to increase and dominate market shares. Automotive and other major manufacturers must focus on product differentiation to fulfill customer demands and expectations, increase market share globally and domestically, and reduce design and manufacturing cost. To meet market demand, enterprises must understand current and future customer expectations as perceptions evolve overtime. Product platform and products family strategies have been implemented widely to offer variations. Assessing and benchmarking platforms and families differentiations - within an enterpriser -are tools used to support and create the most effective balance …
War In The Countryside: Re-Examining Life In The Netherlands During World War Ii Through The Memories Of Dutch Immigrants To Ontario, Adam Roffel
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The History of the Netherlands during World War Two paints a one sided view of what war was like. While urban life receives lots of attention in English literature, rural life is often neglected. Through the stories of six individuals who immigrated to Canada in the decade following World War Two, a separate wartime experience will be examined and discussed.
Designing And Implementing A Hospital Environmental Management Framework, Taylor Purdy
Designing And Implementing A Hospital Environmental Management Framework, Taylor Purdy
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Modern Canadian hospitals are large generators of landfilled waste. However, much of the waste disposed of by hospitals is divertible. A Hospital Environmental Management Framework (HEMF) was designed and implemented in a local hospital in an effort to control the organization's landfilled waste and improve environmental performance. Environmental issues are gaining awareness among businesses in other sectors, but are not commonly addressed in hospitals, where patient care takes priority over the environment. While specific, recommended waste reduction initiatives tailored to hospital operations have been widely published, information on how to implement these initiatives is lacking. The results from this research …
How Do We Know What Emotion To Show: The Influence Of Culture And Relational Context On Display Rules In The Workplace, Joanna M. Kraft
How Do We Know What Emotion To Show: The Influence Of Culture And Relational Context On Display Rules In The Workplace, Joanna M. Kraft
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Display rules are an important and often overlooked aspect of emotional labour, a process which occurs when how we regulate and display our emotion is based on rules created by the organization. Only a limited number of studies have examined display rules within this context (Diefendorff & Greguras, 2009; Grosserand & Diefendorff, 2005; Gullekson & Vancouver, 2010; Mann, 2007). The current study examined display rules on both a part-time and full-time sample to examine how these rules may change across discrete emotions, work specific targets (e.g., internal customers such as supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates; and external customers or clients), and …
Cultural Experience, Possible Selves And Subjective Well-Being Among Anishnaabe Youth, Graham G. Trull
Cultural Experience, Possible Selves And Subjective Well-Being Among Anishnaabe Youth, Graham G. Trull
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Aboriginal youth in Canada face a number of economic, health and social challenges, while being one of the fastest-growing segments of the country's population. Researchers have suggested that involvement in positive cultural experiences can be beneficial to the well-being of these youth. However, past research has not defined the types of cultural experience that are most impactful, or the areas of well-being that are affected. As well, no research has investigated the role that cultural experience may have on the views of the future among Aboriginal youth, or how these views may impact well-being. Working together with Walpole Island First …
Automobility And The Social Construction Of Longboarding In The District Of North Vancouver, Douglas Doey
Automobility And The Social Construction Of Longboarding In The District Of North Vancouver, Douglas Doey
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Longboarding has become increasingly popular in recent years in Canada and its practice on public streets has lead to serious injuries, including fatalities and a highly contested debate about its legitimacy on public roads. Using a case study within a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework, this paper analyzes a series of debates about longboarding that took place during city council meetings in a community in British Columbia, Canada. The critical study of automobility - our social and cultural predisposition to the car as mobility - is adopted to consider how it constructs longboarding within these public policy debates. The results …
Voices From Liminal Spaces: Narratives Of Unacknowledged Rape, Dusty Jane Johnstone
Voices From Liminal Spaces: Narratives Of Unacknowledged Rape, Dusty Jane Johnstone
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The phenomena of unacknowledged rape has been well documented in the empirical literature on sexual assault, and it has been found that a substantial number of women who have experiences that would legally constitute rape or sexual assault choose not to name it as such. The purpose of this investigation was to determine how women who have not acknowledged discuss their experiences in the absence of the labels of rape and sexual assault, and also to examine what influences how they do conceptualize their coercive experiences. Interviews were conducted with ten women from the University of Windsor who reported experiences …
The Relationship Between Self-Rated Athlete Leadership Characteristics, Self-Construal, And Team Cohesion, Michelle M. Peters
The Relationship Between Self-Rated Athlete Leadership Characteristics, Self-Construal, And Team Cohesion, Michelle M. Peters
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The importance of cohesion in the study of sport teams has long been recognized by group dynamics researchers (e.g., Brawley, Carron, & Widmeyer, 1987). However, drawing on the Conceptual Framework of Cohesion in Sport (Carron, 1982), many antecedents of cohesion have yet to be explored in detail. Therefore, the current study focused on two of the antecedent factors from Carron's framework. Specifically, this study examined the relationship concerning athlete leadership and self-construal in relation to team cohesion. Athletes ( N = 278) from a variety of varsity level sport teams competing within the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Association participated in …
Critical Visual Literacy: Exploring Representations Of Aboriginal Peoples In Children's Literature, Patricia Dunn
Critical Visual Literacy: Exploring Representations Of Aboriginal Peoples In Children's Literature, Patricia Dunn
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The purpose of this study is to explore how Aboriginal peoples and knowledges have been and continue to be portrayed through visual texts in children's picture books. This study examines children's books that were published from 1960 through to 2010. This exploration is important as students and educators interact with these texts in their daily lives both inside and outside of school. Drawing from a critical literacy framework, a critical text analysis is used to gain insight into representations of Aboriginal and First Nations people in children's books. While critical literacy practice is a key component in education today, there …
Immigrant And Non-Immigrant Youth In Canada: Cultural Orientation, Ethnicity Of Friends, And Life Satisfaction Among Four Ethnic Groups, Samantha Daniel
Immigrant And Non-Immigrant Youth In Canada: Cultural Orientation, Ethnicity Of Friends, And Life Satisfaction Among Four Ethnic Groups, Samantha Daniel
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The present study investigated the relation between cultural orientation and life satisfaction, as well as differences in friendship groups, among immigrant and non-immigrant youth from four ethnic groups. Participants (N = 156) included immigrant and non-immigrant youth residing in Canada of Arab (n = 39), East Asian (n = 26), South Asian (n = 27), and European (n = 64) ethnic background. Participants completed an online survey, including self-report measures and qualitative items requiring written responses. Results indicated that greater heritage culture orientation predicted greater private life satisfaction, and number of related friends mediated this relationship. Further, there were differences …
Tense Collaborations And Exchange Interrupted: Gendered Participation In Ecological Agriculture Projects In Post-Neoliberal(?) Bolivia, Jenny J. Cockburn
Tense Collaborations And Exchange Interrupted: Gendered Participation In Ecological Agriculture Projects In Post-Neoliberal(?) Bolivia, Jenny J. Cockburn
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A Bolivian development NGO's effort to increase the scope and value of ecological agriculture, agrobiodiversity and food sovereignty in its work with marginalized farming communities in Norte de Potosí, shares these concerns with the Bolivian State. Yet tensions run high between applying neoliberal frameworks to 'empower' farmers and resisting neoliberal approaches to strengthen Bolivia's sovereignty vis-à-vis the global North. Despite a significant backlash, neoliberalism continues to complicate sustainable development, participatory ideals and local/scientific knowledges, by both facilitating and challenging efforts toward collaboration. This becomes most clear when examined through the lens of gender. To analyze this process, the conceptual framework …
The Role Of Parents In Maintaining Cultural Values In Vietnamese Immigrant Families In Windsor, Xuan Le Nguyen
The Role Of Parents In Maintaining Cultural Values In Vietnamese Immigrant Families In Windsor, Xuan Le Nguyen
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This study, with narrative inquiry approach, has investigated the parents' perception of their roles, their perspectives and experience as well as their strategies in maintaining cultural values in immigrant families in Windsor. Eight parents from four immigrant families from the Vietnamese church community in Windsor participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews. Fieldnotes were also used as a supplementary method for collecting field text. The findings highlight the educational roles of parents in maintaining cultural values as a part of the home education. The parents' narratives has shown the parents' great effort to keep the language, habits and traditions such as "respect …
Transgressive Definitions: Kimberly Nixon And The Sociological Effects Of Language Imprecision, Meaghan Fisher
Transgressive Definitions: Kimberly Nixon And The Sociological Effects Of Language Imprecision, Meaghan Fisher
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In 1995 Kimberly Nixon, a transsexual woman, attempted to become a peer counsellor at Vancouver Rape Relief Society. Based on that organization's restrictive definition of the term `woman,' she was denied this opportunity based on her previous male identity. This thesis looks at the use of language in identity and category construction, using the Nixon case to ground theoretical work. It also uses the concept of vagueness to investigate the nature of categorical boundaries, and queer theory to propose possible solutions to problems of identity labelling.
Governing The Drinking Driver: A Genealogical Analysis Of Canadian Impaired-Driving Programmes, Rhys Steckle
Governing The Drinking Driver: A Genealogical Analysis Of Canadian Impaired-Driving Programmes, Rhys Steckle
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Since the 1980's impaired driving behaviour has gained increased attention in the public sphere. Recently, the provincial government of Ontario has passed new measures designed to control this behaviour. By drawing on Ericson's (2007) analytic of uncertainty this thesis focusses on how risk and uncertainty have shaped the Ontario government's efforts to control impaired driving behaviour in manners that undermine the traditional "principles, standards and procedures" (Ericson, 2007: 30) of law. Through a Foucaultian genealogical analysis of both governmental and non-governmental documents pertaining to recent impaired driving control efforts including; the Road Safety Act, sobriety checkpoints, and report impaired driver …
The Migratory Experiences, Access To Health Care And Employment Of Immigrant And Refugee Latinos And Latinas Living With Hiv In Toronto, Angel Serrano Sanchez
The Migratory Experiences, Access To Health Care And Employment Of Immigrant And Refugee Latinos And Latinas Living With Hiv In Toronto, Angel Serrano Sanchez
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The present study documents and analyzes the everyday experiences of immigrant and refugee Latinos and Latinas living with HIV in Canada, particularly in Toronto. The main objective is to understand the issues that the Latino HIV positive community encounters during the migration process, the barriers accessing health care and employment in Canada, and strategies to counterbalance the negative effects of such barriers. Participants' relationships with relatives, friends and partners are also analyzed as a means to understand better processes of discrimination and marginalization in the context of living with HIV. The study is carried out using a qualitative methodology, which …
Spectacle And Sport: Narrative Tenets And The Inclusion Of Music In The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Opening And Closing Ceremonies, Bethany-Marie Tovell
Spectacle And Sport: Narrative Tenets And The Inclusion Of Music In The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Opening And Closing Ceremonies, Bethany-Marie Tovell
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The present study examined the opening and closing ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The purpose was to investigate the narrative by employing Seymour Chatman's theoretical model of narrative structure. The structure of the ceremonies was observed, denoting the events, actions, characters, setting and elements of expression, specifically music. Focusing on an interdisciplinary approach, the study provided a foundation for understanding the ceremonies as a spectacle, which relate to storytelling principles. Through a content analysis, media sources, news articles, musical recordings, an interview with the Music Director, and official documents from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were examined. …
Coming Out In Primary Healthcare: An Empirical Investigation Of A Model Of Predictors And Health Outcomes Of Lesbian Disclosure, Melissa St. Pierre
Coming Out In Primary Healthcare: An Empirical Investigation Of A Model Of Predictors And Health Outcomes Of Lesbian Disclosure, Melissa St. Pierre
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Researchers and health practitioners have emphasized the importance of disclosure of sexual orientation by lesbians to their healthcare providers (HCPs). Commonly known as `coming out', during interactions with HCPs this behaviour has been linked to the receipt of appropriate and tailored care by lesbians, an increase in regular preventative healthcare seeking, and a more authentic relationship between patients and their physicians. The current study employed a mixed-methods design to provide a comprehensive understanding of what facilitates disclosure, and subsequently, what happens once lesbians come out to their HCPs. Of particular interest were patient (e.g., outness and other minority stressors such …
Strengths In Mentoring: Creating A Pilot Mentorship Program For Women In Sport And Recreation, Health And Wellness, And Media Literacy, Meghan Roney
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The Leadership Advancement for Women and Sport (LAWS) pilot mentorship program is intended to increase a sample of undergraduate female Human Kinetics students' exposure to careers or avocations in the fields of sport and recreation, health and wellness, or media literacy. I explored three sub problems: how to effectively create a unique pilot mentorship program to provide occupational exposure and insights for women; what were the mentors' and mentees' perceptions of the pilot mentorship program and what is the recommended design of a mentorship program for LAWS. This study was completed using participant observation, focus groups, and document analysis. Findings …
Understanding The Rhetoric Used In The Discussion Of Gm Seeds And Biotechnology, Meghan Fraser
Understanding The Rhetoric Used In The Discussion Of Gm Seeds And Biotechnology, Meghan Fraser
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Using qualitative methods this research uses Aristotelian theory as a framework to explore the rhetorical strategies used in the discussion and portrayal of biotechnology within Canada's seed industry. Using Aristotle's modes of persuasion (ethos, logos, and pathos) and his three types of rhetoric (deliberative, forensic, and epideictic) this research analyzed an example of each type of rhetoric. As an example of deliberative rhetoric this research analyzed a House of Commons debate on agricultural policy and biotechnology. The lawsuit between Monsanto and Percy Schmeiser was analyzed as an example of forensic rhetoric. Lastly, as an example of epidictic rhetoric, Monsanto's Canadian …
Social Activism Through Social Media: The Case Of Child Soldiering In The Global Context, Mary Girges
Social Activism Through Social Media: The Case Of Child Soldiering In The Global Context, Mary Girges
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The increased popularity of social networking among youth today has given rise to the potential for social activism through social media. Using the Social Constructionist perspective, this thesis examines how three popular Facebook pages construct the `problem' of child soldiering. In particular, these Facebook pages made use of text, images, and links that invited members to cast negative judgment on the issue of child soldiering, which was further enhanced by connecting this problem to other issues plaguing children, such as poverty and lack of education. Moreover, techniques used to raise awareness and promote activism were primarily accomplished by providing images …