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Tapping into Mental Health: Exploring Indigenous Water and Mental Health Issues through Canadian Media
(2017-04)It seems both unjust and ironic that the first peoples on the land now known as Canada are some of the last to obtain access to their fundamental human rights. This research explores the occurrence of relationship, region, ... -
TELENOVELAS AND NARCONOVELAS: LOVE AND INTIMACY IN CALI, COLOMBIA
(2018-04-27)This thesis explores the importance of Latin American soap operas – henceforth telenovelas – and narconovelas – contemporary audiovisual productions inspired in the phenomenon of drug trafficking in Colombia – in the ... -
Testing the Principles of Transformational Development: A Case Study of Christian Education in Nicaragua
(2014-08-25)Nicaraguan history is fraught with conflict, disasters and economic hardships. Among these challenges the religious nature of the population has remained. But, these faith perspectives have shifted and often have become ... -
“They Want Me to Play F*cking Bingo!”: The Social Lives of Young at Heart Seniors
(2022-04)There are many sociological studies concerned with the social lives of senior citizens who fit the traditional aging norms of society. In comparison, the social experiences of “young at heart” seniors are relatively absent ... -
Thrillers
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"To Overcome" Contexts of Violence: Popular Education and Historical Memory in a Maya Achi Community
(2012-12-12)Postwar Guatemala continues to contend with ongoing criminal and state violence, insecurity, racial exclusion and disparity, exacerbated by neoliberal and neocolonial economic policies. These patterns are rooted in centuries ... -
Trend or Treatment? Stigma, Social Challenges, and the Burdens of Managing Celiac Disease
(2024-05)Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease estimated to affect about 1% of the global population (Biesiekierski et al., 2014). It is managed only through strict lifelong adherence to a gluten free diet. However, this diet ... -
De Turris, Gianfranco, ed. (with the help of Claudio Gallo) Le aeronavi dei Savoia. Protofantascienza italiana 1891-1952 Editrice Nord. Milano, 2001. p. 434
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An Uncertain Glory of Bangladesh: Development as Freedom and Bangladesh under the Awami Regime (2009-2020)
(2021-08-17)This study explores whether Bangladesh has been able to translate its achievements in the economic and social aspects of development to the political aspects of development under the Awami League (2009-2020). Contemporary ... -
Underlying Deception in Parent-Child Relationships
(2015-04)My research takes the relational role of lying as understood by sociologist Georg Simmel (1950) as the starting point for my qualitative study on lying in parent-child/child-parent relationships. Simmel (1950) argues that ... -
Understanding Ecologies: Post-Conflict Service Provision and the Resilience of Children Born in Captivity
(2018-04-27)The conflict in northern Uganda often provokes images similar to those in the 2012 viral video of a warlord abducting young children and forcibly recruiting them to battle in a civil war. While these images helped to garner ... -
THE UNHEARD VOICES OF SEX WORKERS IN INDIA: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE REHABILITATION AND REINTEGRATION BACK INTO SOCIETY
(2021-04-29)The sex industry in India is full of tragedy, victimization and struggle, and embedded within in it all are the suppressed voices of women. The purpose of this research is to understand the experience, structures, process ... -
The Unrepresented Defendant and the Unbundling of Legal Services
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2004-11)This project has been focused on contributing to an appreciation of the unrepresented defendant phenomenon in Halifax provincial criminal court and to the examination of possible solutions, including the strategy of a more ... -
USER PERSPECTIVES ON A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF EMPOWER PLAYGROUND’S PLAY SYSTEMS ON THE PEDIATORKOPE ISLAND IN GHANA
(2016-09-01)Ghana has challenges with providing reliable access to electricity for its citizens. Sporadic power outages mean that for many hours during the day, households, businesses and industries have limited or no access to ... -
VALUING EVIDENCE: bias and the evidence hierarchy of evidence-based medicine
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Váchal, Josef – Review of: Graveur sur bois. Roman sanglant. Etude culturelle et historicolittéraire. Woippy : L'Engouletemps, 2007. ISNB : 978-2-9700444-7-5
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre., 2008-11)