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Walk the line: Balancing conflicting goals through tension systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-20)Although our society esteems individuals who achieve it all, the 24-hour day and our limited resources means that attaining multiple goals is a difficult undertaking. This research draws upon Lewin’s theorizing on goal ... -
War, Factionalism, and Civil-Military Tension: The Madras Army and the Company State in the Carnatic, 1767-1777
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-23)This study explores how the Madras Army and its officers helped to shape the East India Company’s developing state in the Carnatic during the late 1760s and 1770s, and in particular it draws attention to their critical ... -
Warriors and Prophets: The Role of Charismatic Authority in the Radicalization Towards Violence and Strategic Operation of Terrorist Groups
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-08)In the past four decades, there has been increased multi-disciplinary scholarly interest in the study of charismatic authority and charismatic leadership. However, there is little systematic theoretical and empirical ... -
Was ist link(s) und recht(s)? Eine Untersuchung der moralischen Gesetzmäßigkeiten in Goethes Die Wahlverwandtschaften
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-24)Abstract This thesis asks the question "Does the use of the words 'left' and 'right' (links / rechts), and their various lexical forms in Goethe‘s Wahlverwandtschaften constitute a systematic pattern which can be applied ... -
We Are Having All Kinds of Fun: Fluidity in Shoebox Project
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-15)Made public on LiveJournal between 2004 and 2008, Shoebox Project (SBP) is a multimedia fanfic written by ladyjaida and dorkorific. The plot takes place before that of the Harry Potter novels, detailing the last two years ... -
“We are wards of the Crown and cannot be regarded as full citizens of Canada”: Native Peoples, the Indian Act and Canada’s War Effort
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)The First World War left few untouched on Canada’s Native reserves: many councils donated money to war funds, thousands of men enlisted and their families sought support from the Military and war-specific charities, and ... -
“We call them Tracht”: Transcultural Positioning through Code-Switching and Repair
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)This thesis examines instances of language alternation and code-switching in the context of recorded face-to-face interviews. The participants in this study include two groups: German speaking immigrants who left Europe ... -
We Have Never Been Secular: The Concept of the Secular and the Dutch Collegiants in the Radical Enlightenment
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-27)The following study examines the history of the seventeenth century Collegiant group in the Dutch Republic, focusing on their blending of Spiritualist and Rationalist influences. By reading Collegiant Rational Religion ... -
"We of the New Left": A Gender History of the Student Union for Peace Action from the Anti-Nuclear Movement to Women's Liberation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-20)The Student Union for Peace Action (SUPA), was a Canadian group of New Leftists that formed a multi-issue movement for radical social change in the 1960s. SUPA emerged out of the Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear ... -
The Weight of Fitting the Description: Using Critical Race Theory to Explore Black and Indigenous Youth Perceptions of the Police
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-26)Effective law enforcement is contingent on public support. A growing volume of research examining public perceptions of the police suggest that trust and confidence in the police is very low among youth and specific ... -
Weird Fiction: An Exhibition of Paintings
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-19)Each painting in this exhibition is a transformed documentation of a specific experience culled from my daily, ordinary life. These encounters are not monumental; however their impact is significant because of their ... -
Welcome to the web: The online community of GeoCities during the early years of the World Wide Web
(UCL Press, 2017-03)As the World Wide Web entered mainstream North American society in the mid-to late 1990s, GeoCities was there to welcome users with open arms. GeoCities helped to facilitate their first steps into publishing, so they could ... -
"Wer nicht handelt, der stirbt”. Sex Work, Migration and Agency in Julya Rabinowich’s "Die Erdfresserin"
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-30)This thesis examines the depiction of migration and sex work through the lens of agency in Julya Rabinowich's Die Erdfresserin (2012). Most research present the novel's character – a Russian sex worker who migrates to ... -
Western European Arms Export and Asylum Immigration: A Connection? On the Determinants of Asylum Immigration to Western Europe
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-25)My contribution is focused to a modest framework creation for asylum-immigration theory. By means of arms-export data from 17 Western European countries, tested against inflow of asylum seekers to these countries, covering ... -
Wetland Reclamation in England: Medieval Risk Culture and the 1396 Commission of Sewers for Pevensey Levels
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)This paper examines wetland reclamation in England between the eighth and sixteenth centuries, with a special focus on the Pevensey Levels during the fourteenth century. Coastal marsh communities had access to significant ... -
What Are You Really Saying? Verbal Irony Understanding in Children with Social Anxiety Symptoms and Shy Negative Affect
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Verbal irony, a form of figurative language, uses the discrepancy between a speaker’s intended meaning and the literal word meanings to achieve social goals. Yet, little research exists on individual differences that may ... -
What Does Your Anxiety Mean About You? Evaluation of Anxious and Confident Partners in Social Anxiety Disorder
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Individuals with social anxiety engage in maladaptive interpersonal transactional cycles. They expect others to respond negatively to them, and engage in socially undesirable behaviours that lead to their predictions being ... -
What is the Function of Post-Event Processing in Social Anxiety Disorder? The Role of Metacognitive Beliefs, Memory Uncertainty and Perception of Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Post-event processing (PEP) can serve to maintain and worsen anxiety symptoms and negative interpretations of social events in Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD; e.g., Cody & Teachman, 2010, 2011). However, little is known about ... -
What is the Nature of Anxiety-Related Attentional Bias to Threat?
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-10)Although attentional biases to threat (ABT) are thought to contribute to the development and persistence of anxiety disorders (e.g., Matthews & Mackintosh, 1998; Mogg & Bradley, 1998), it is not clear whether such biases ... -
What makes a few more than a lot: a study of context-dependent quantifiers
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)“Hey can you help me move? I warn you I have a lot of books, though.” When we interpret such sentences we might assume that our friend is implying that there will be some heavy lifting, because she own “a lot of books”. ...