Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Approach Motivation Gives Rise to Meaning in Life
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-18)Coherence, purpose, and significance have emerged as the three contributors to meaning in life. Current theories have primarily emphasized coherence as key to meaning, neglecting purpose and significance. A theoretical ... -
Approaches to “interculturality”, “transculturality” and “culture reflexivity” in self-help literature
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Intercultural competence which is to be achieved via intercultural trainings has become in-creasingly relevant during the last decades: globalization is one factor to the reason why the necessity to include intercultural ... -
The appropriateness of using a counter app in experimental studies assessing unwanted intrusive thoughts
(Elsevier, 2020-07)The reliable and valid assessment of unwanted intrusive thoughts (UITs) is crucial. The main aim of the current research was to investigate if individuals who used a counter app (a program on a mobile device that is used ... -
Arab-Jewish Cooperative Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The current conflict between Arabs and Jews in Israel/Palestine has ruptured relations between the two peoples, and essentially divided them along geographic, economic, cultural, political, and sociological lines. Yet up ... -
Arboriculture and the Environment in Manosque, 1341 - 1404
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis uses records of criminal inquisitions from 1341 to 1404 to take up the question of medieval environmental consciousness. These records were created in the Provençal town of Manosque. The town’s region extended ... -
An Archaeobotanical Analysis of the Iler Earthworks Macro Remains
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-23)This thesis examines the archaeobotanical remains from the Iler Earthworks, a Springwells-Wolf phase site within the Western Basin Tradition (WBT) of Southwestern Ontario. Excavations between 2015 and 2018 resulted in soil ... -
Are Drag Queens Sexist? Female Impersonation and the Sociocultural Construction of Normative Femininity
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-07)In a great deal of social scientific literature on gender, female impersonators have been framed as the example par excellence of crossgendering and crossdressing behaviour in the West. Perceived rather dichotomously as ... -
Are Metric Methods Really User-Friendly? A Methodological Study of Sex Estimation Techniques for the Talus and Calcaneus
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-13)Skeletal sex is most commonly estimated using the pelvis and the skull. These elements, however, are not always available in archaeological and forensic situations as they may be missing or damaged as a result of burial ... -
Are screens to blame? Children’s digital media use and emotional problems during the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-03)This study examined the relationship between digital media (“screen use”) and mental health in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. A multinational sample of caregivers (n = 549) provided bi-monthly reports on their ... -
Are you as important as me? Self-other discrimination within trait-adjective processing
(Elsevier, 2020-07-01)Healthy adults typically display enhanced processing for self- (relative to other-) relevant and positive (relative to negative) information. However, it is unclear whether these two biases interact to form a self-positivity ... -
“Are you the real police?” “No. We’re the campus police.” An examination of the way Ontario Special Constables govern risk on post-secondary campuses
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-17)This dissertation examines the role of special constables on Ontario post-secondary campuses and where they are positioned in relation to the broad range of state and non-state law enforcement entities in Canada. Through ... -
Argument and Identity Change in the Atlantic Security Community
(Sage, 2009-02-01)The Atlantic community shares more than just dependable expectations of peaceful change. Its members also share a reflexive political community they sense is worth preserving and a view that their security is intertwined. ... -
“The Art of Getting Drunk:” Martial Masculinity, Alcohol, and the British Army in the Canadas in the War of 1812
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-14)This thesis argues that alcohol consumption, both real and perceived, played a key role in the construction and negotiation of masculine identities within the British army in the Canadas during the early nineteenth century. ... -
Arthur Schnitzlers Traumnovelle - Stanley Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut. Das Geheimnis der Ehe.
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)This Master’s Thesis is a compared analysis of Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle which was published in 1925 and its cinematic adaption by Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut in 1996. The story focuses on a married couple ... -
Artistic and Social Tensions in the Pages of Ver Sacrum
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)Vienna has for a long time fascinated scholars of history, art, politics and culture. A unique cultural hub at the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna was a modern city and home to many well-known artistic masters. In ... -
The Asian-White Leadership Gap: Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Explanations Based on Leader and Follower Stereotypes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)Despite demonstrating high levels of academic and professional competence, Asians are underrepresented in North American organizational leadership roles. The limited research on this issue has found that Asian Americans ... -
Aspects et portée dialogiques de l'écriture romanesque (1994-2010) de Michel Houellebecq
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-30)Ma thèse porte sur l’esthétique et l’idéologie dans l’œuvre romanesque de Michel Houellebecq en me fondant principalement sur la notion barthienne du plaisir et celle du dialogisme bakhtinien pour faire ressortir la ... -
Assessing the association between the error-related ERPs and trait anxiety using mass univariate statistics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-28)Enhanced error monitoring, as reflected in increased amplitude of the error-related negativity (ERN) ERP component, has been suggested to be a vulnerability neuro-marker of anxiety disorders. However, the association between ... -
Assisted Dying in Swiss Literature: Power and Agency in Max Frisch’s Jürg Reinhart and Lukas Bärfuss’ Alices Reise in die Schweiz
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-05)The following thesis deals with the representation of themes of assisted dying in Max Frisch’s 1933/34 novel Jürg Reinhart and Lukas Bärfuss’ 2005 play Alices Reise in die Schweiz (Alice’s Trip to Switzerland), and discusses ... -
Asylum and the Politics of Irregularization: Refugee Claimants and Toronto’s Everyday Places
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-25)While Canada is touted as having a universal healthcare system, not all of its residents have access to it, particularly precarious status noncitizens such as refugee claimants. As a signatory of international refugee ...