Essays about: "woman and commitment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words woman and commitment.

  1. 1. Accepting or avoiding fear : A study of how elite freestyle snowboarders experience and cope with snowboard-related fear from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy perspective

    University essay from Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH/Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap

    Author : Alette Vestly; [2014]
    Keywords : ACT; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Elite athletes; Fear; High-risk; Snowboarding; Sport;

    Abstract : Elite freestyle snowboarders often expose themselves to large risks while performing their sport. A natural response to risk is fear, and it is the aim of this study to explore how elite freestyle snowboarders experience and cope with emotions of fear in conjunction with performing their sport. READ MORE

  3. 2. Overcoming inequalities without challenging women’s loyalty to the indigenous community : case study in the Indigenous Community Nasa Kiwe, Colombia

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Blanca Iris Sandoval Ferro; [2013]
    Keywords : Cauca; Colombia; agency; discursive colonization; gender; indigenous woman; power relations; public sphere; social and political participation;

    Abstract : A large amount of resources are devoted by indigenous populations in Colombia to reestablish their political, cultural and territorial autonomy. There is no doubt about the commitment of indigenous men and women with such communal aims. READ MORE

  4. 3. "All Mankind is of One Author, and is One Volume" : An examination of commitment and abandonment in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls

    University essay from Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Jacob Lööf Larsson; [2013]
    Keywords : Ernest; Hemingway; For; Whom; Bell; Tolls; commitment; abandonment; epigraph; John; Donne; binary; opposition;

    Abstract : This essay examines commitment and abandonment structured as two binary opposites informing For Whom the Bell Tolls. The intention behind this structuring is to highlight Hemingway’s message of the novel, set forth by the epigraph by Donne; everyone is part of mankind and every death diminishes everyone equally. READ MORE

  5. 4. Women of Thailand : A minor field study about how nine women in urban and rural areas of Thailand look at their lives in the area of education, gender equality and influence in society, from a democratic perspective.

    University essay from Avdelningen för Socialantropologi

    Author : Malin Westman; [2010]
    Keywords : Social Anthropology; women; democracy; gender equality; education; influence; political commitment; Thailand; Socialantropologi; kvinnor; demokrati; jämställdhet; utbildning; inflytande; politiskt deltagande; Thailand;

    Abstract : This study is based on a field study carried out in Thailand during November and December 2009. The material is based on in-depth interviews with nine women that live in the northern parts of Thailand. Seven of them belong to the Karen minority group. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Struggle for Independence: A Young Woman’s Coming of Age as National Allegory in Laṭīfa al-Zayyāt’s al-Bāb al-maftūḥ

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arabiska

    Author : Sandra Buijsse; [2010]
    Keywords : national allegory; modern Arabic literature; Egypt; feminism; Laṭīfah; Zayyat; The Open Door; arabisk litteratur; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Without question, Laṭīfa al-Zayyāt (1923-96), ranks among the most important Egyptian and Arab writers, critics, and activists of the 20th century. Published in 1960, her breakthrough novel al-Bāb al-maftūḥ [The Open Door] chronicles the emotional, psychological, and political growth of Layla, daughter of a conservative, Egyptian middle-class family. READ MORE