Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Lobbying for the "Public Good": A Case Study of a Nonprofit Sector Lobbying Effort in Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)Political advocacy research has often relied on concepts from social movement literature to explain the success or failure of lobbying efforts. The following study builds on recent efforts to partner social movement concepts ... -
Local Governments and Policy Responses:The Case of Shifang Protest
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Most research on Chinese protests’ outcomes focuses on aspects such as the strength, resources, and strategy choices of these protests. Although studies on Chinese contentious politics have taken great consideration of the ... -
THE LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM IN ONTARIO 1851-1985: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis is a study of the changing model of the local history museum in Ontario, Canada and the consequential changing interpretations of the past in these institutions. <br /><br /> Beginning in 1879, local history ... -
LOCATE/DISLOCATE: An Exhibition of Haiku Videos
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-06)My work is concerned with perception and presentness. Using digital video I am employing a notion of “perceptualism” put forward by artist Jack Chambers. Acknowledging HD television and high speed internet, this work ... -
Logic In Context: An essay on the contextual foundations of logical pluralism
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-02)The core pluralist thesis about logic, broadly construed, is the claim that two or more logics are correct. In this thesis I discuss a uniquely interesting variant of logical pluralism that I call logical contextualism. ... -
Logic in Pictures: An Examination of Diagrammatic Representations, Graph Theory and Logic
(University of Waterloo, 1994)This thesis explores the various forms of reasoning that are associated with diagrams. It does this by a logical analysis of diagrammatic symbols. The thesis is divided into three sections dealing with different aspects ... -
Lone Mothers Exiting Social Assistance: Gender, Social Exclusion and Social Capital
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-14)After the North American wave of “welfare reform” in the 1990s, much research has measured the success of the work-to-welfare model. Lone mothers as a group have proved a particularly intractable challenge to policies aimed ... -
The Long Reach of War: Canadian Records Management and the Public Archives
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)This thesis explores why the Public Archives of Canada, which was established in 1872, did not have the full authority or capability to collect the government records of Canada until 1966. The Archives started as an ... -
Long-Term Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Younger Adults on Cognitive Performance and Emotional Regulation: Comparisons with Older Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), are common and seemingly innocuous. However, even long after individuals experience a mTBI they often report psychological consequences such as fatigue, unstable mood, ... -
The Longitudinal Association of Relationship Satisfaction and Sexual Satisfaction
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-04)Several prominent models of relationship satisfaction and sexual satisfaction imply directional relationships between these constructs (e.g., attachment theory, social exchange models of relationship satisfaction, the ... -
A Longitudinal Investigation of Leader Development and Leadership Emergence
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-21)Although it requires time to develop and emerge as leaders, there is a shortage of longitudinal research on these topics. Across two essays, this dissertation aims to address this gap in the literature. Essay 1 examines ... -
Looking Wide? Imperialism, Internationalism, and the Boy Scout Movement, 1918-1939
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)The Boy Scout Movement is one of the most influential youth movements of the twentieth century. Begun in the context of Edwardian imperialism as a foil to fears of racial decline, the movement’s militarism became a liability ... -
Losing Your Calm or Losing Control: Two Paths to Retaliatory Deviance in Response to Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Retaliation is a well-established response to abusive supervision. Leading edge research explains the occurrence of supervisor-directed retaliation through processes associated with the strength model of self-control ... -
Lost in the Infinite Archive: The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Archives
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-03-14)Contemporary and future historians need to grapple with and confront the challenges posed by web archives. These large collections of material, accessed either through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine or through other ... -
Lost in Translation: How the perception of Characters change in the German Translations of J.R.R. Tolkiens "The Lord of the Rings"
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-20)It is an accepted paradigm that translated texts will never be the perfect equivalent to the original text in a different language. It is a fact that foreign literary works will influence a culture through translations. ... -
Love in the Time of Caller ID: Understanding the Role of Smartphone Technology in Committed Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Smartphones have changed the way our world works, and have had particularly unique impacts on the way human relationships function. Among the most important of those relationships are the ones that people form by choice ... -
“Lucky that East Germany also exists”: Yugoslavia between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (1955-1968)
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-14)This dissertation explores the relations between Yugoslavia and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the period between 1955 and 1968. This is the first analysis using sources ... -
L’affaire Dubuisson : Je vous écris dans le noir et La petite femelle
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-01)Le fait divers est une réalité quotidienne qui fait partie de notre culture et de notre société. Il insiste sur la rareté et l’imprévisibilité d’un incident tout en donnant l’impression, de par sa forte médiatisation, que ... -
L’identification à la langue française chez les apprenants du français langue seconde
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)La présente étude se penche sur l’identification à la langue française chez les apprenants du français langue seconde, qui font leurs études universitaires, et explore leurs expériences positives et négatives pendant leurs ... -
Macabre Collectibles: Collecting Culture and Stephen King
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-09)Objects have a significant place in Stephen King’s horror fiction and the landscape he has created in his numerous novels and short stories. The human-thing relationship in his fiction, however, has been generally reduced ...