Essays about: "politics a career"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words politics a career.
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1. From Professional Engineers to University Lecturers : A Qualitative Inquiry about Motivations, Experiences, and Decision-Making Processes of Second Career-Changing Lecturers
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)Abstract : Background and Research Questions: The purpose of this study is to investigate and understand the motivations, experiences, and decision-making processes of a group of professional engineers who decided to switch their career pathway from the engineering industry to education and teaching during their mid-age. Based on the Social Cognitive Career and Motivation Theory and Self-Efficacy Theory, the study was guided by a research question, why would professional engineers decide to switch their career pathway from the engineering industry to education and teaching during their mid-age, particularly in Australia? What are their motivations? Methodology: In line with the general inductive approach, focus group activity, remarkable item sharing, and member-checking interviews were used to collect in-depth sharing and stories from six participants via the online platform during the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE
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2. Stigmatization and Discrimination: A Qualitative Case Study of the Transgender Community in Brazil.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis is a qualitative case study of discrimination based on stigmatization towards transgender individuals in Brazil. The current President, Jair Bolsonaro has made some extreme statements about the LGBTQ+ community throughout his career in politics, starting when he was a congressman in Rio de Janeiro and keeps doing so today, normalizing stigma and discrimination towards the LGBTQ+ community. READ MORE
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3. Staying Relevant in the Roman Republic Old Age, Retirement and Magistrates in the Early to Middle Republic
University essay from Lunds universitet/HistoriaAbstract : This essay explores the magistratal lists (fasti etcetera) covering the period of 509 to 219 BC by looking at an accumulation of political capital and the length of magistratal careers. This essay attempts to give evidence to several theories for the early and middle Republic, primarily the fact that retirement of consulars occurs around the age of 60-65 and that one started one's consular career around the age of 40-45. READ MORE
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4. Transexotic : worse than dengue, better than LDS
University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)Abstract : Transexotic. "Come as you are as you were as I want you to be" Menu Starter: Nachos with Mexican sauce. Main course: Chilli con carne in Santa María taco shells, Fish in pasilla chilli and Rajas con crema y queso. Dessert: seasonal delicacies. READ MORE
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5. Documentary Photography as a Tool of Social Change: reading a shifting paradigm in the representation of HIV/AIDS in Gideon Mendel's photography
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Gideon Mendel’s ongoing photographic work documenting HIV/ AIDS, first started in 1993, has seen shifts not only in production but also in the author’s representation of his subjects. This paper looks at three texts of Mendel’s work, taken from three different stages of Mendel’s career and reads the shifting paradigm taking Mendel from photojournalist to activist armed with documentary photography as a tool of social change. READ MORE
