RUNNING HEAD: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CRTIQUE Qualitative Research Article Critique November 16‚ 2011 Overall critique: This paper is an article critique written by Alexander & Clare (2004) titled: You still feel different: The experience and meaning of women’s self-injury in the context of a lesbian or bisexual identity. This study’s purpose was to explore the meaning behind females’ self-injurious behavior within the context of being a lesbian or bisexual. It aimed to better understand this
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It is fascinating how a writer ’s personal beliefs‚ upbringing‚ and era can dramatically change a characters persona. One such character is Nora Helmer from a play called "A Doll ’s House". "A Doll ’s house" was originally written in 1879 by Henrik Ibsen. Henrik Ibsen was born in 1828 in Skien‚ Norway. Ibsen portrays Nora as a person with very low self esteem‚ untrustworthy‚ and self absorbed. During Ibsen ’s era women where subservient and listen to what they are told by the dominant man in their
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basingstoke‚ leaving at the age of 14 to work as a waitress. Shortly afterwards‚ in 1941 at the height of the blitz‚ the Nielsons moved to london. In 1944‚ 17 year old Ruth became pregnant by a married canadian soldier named clare and gave birth to a son‚ who she named clare andrea neilson known as andy. The father sent money for about a year‚ then stopped. The child eventually went to live with Ruths mother. Ruth became a nightclub hostess through nude modelling work‚ which paid signifficantly
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“Beyond Myth and Legends: A Narrative History of Texas” is written by five university professors. There are twenty essays found within this book. These essays entitled “Myth & Legend’ are located at the end of each chapter. Storytelling is common to every culture. What are the myths and legends? Myths and legends are stories that have been told in the previous hundreds of years‚ and have been exceptionally popular on the planet for quite a while. There are debates of the stories that are told myths
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Retail merchandising is the process used in order to conduct retail sales. As part of the process‚ the merchandiser pays close attention to the types of products offered for sale‚ how to best present those products to consumers‚ and determining what is a reasonable retail price for each unit sold. While retailers have traditionally engaged in the task of retail merchandising in a physical location‚ the Internet has now made it possible to apply these same basic principles in a virtual setting. The
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Identification and evaluation of sources Question: What was the role of ballet in political relations between the United States and the Soviet Union? Source 1: Croft‚ Clare. "Ballet Nations: The New York City Ballet’s 1962 US State Department-Sponsored Tour of the Soviet Union." Theatre Journal 61‚ no. 3 (2009): 421-42. In this study by Clare Croft‚ the political and social factors behind the New York City Ballet’s tour of the Soviet Union is explained in depth and includes multiple different points of
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Review a range of assessments methods by Clare Arnold Without some kind of assessment then you will find it difficult to measure whether learning has taken place or not. The reasons for assessing is to find out if someone is capable of doing a course at a particular level or to see if they are ready to go on to the next level due to the higher level of work required. “Assessment is the process of obtaining information about how much the student knows and evaluation involves using that information
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illnesses grow quickly in numbers-- nearly appearing as a norm in today’s society. These issues and true obstacles are pertinent in two works of literature such as: William Shakespeare’s’ playwright‚ “Hamlet” and “Elena Vanishing: a memoir” by Elena and Clare B. Dunkle. Hamlet’s behavior and thoughts exemplified several symptoms of depression; similarly‚ Elena made a futile attempt to uphold her unrelenting façade while battling for dominion over her own body. A seventeen-year-old girl named Elena is introduced
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Dear Saint John’s College High School community‚ Growing up in the nation’s capital has given me many opportunities to grow as a person that many people do not get. In my opinion‚ three things that have shaped me as a person are being an only child‚ given the chance to travel many places independently‚ and having a wide variety of hobbies. First‚ I believe being an only child has made me a stronger person because of the responsibilities I have and confidence within myself. As
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Serial Killers – Are They Born Bad? Throughout history and in the modern world serial killers have been committing murders and creating a sense of fear and horror. In order to answer the question‚ whether serial killers are born bad or become one because of external environment‚ it is necessary that one defines what a serial killer is. A serial killer is a person who unlawfully murders two or more persons in separate events (Giannangelo‚ pg. 5). What distinguishes a serial killer from a murderer
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