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Cinderella (as if you didn't already know the story)
In this updated version of the Cinderella story, Cinderella writes letters to her dead mother apologizing for not being more assertive, which she remedies soon after marrying the prince. Follows Cinderella through all the usual happenings, presented in an unusual way--including finally revealing what becomes of her after she marries the prince.
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Interpersonal conflict in women's friendships: Patterns and strategies from women's novels
Novels offer a rich source of relevant situations in which to study conflict behavior among female friends. The value of this study lies in the fact that such conflict is studied within a realistic context which includes the consequences of decisions made during conflict episodes. The Color Purple, Cat's Eye, Housekeeping, and Braided Lives, all novels by women written during the 1980s, were analyzed for conflict scenes among women friends. Analysis was conducted for topic, personality type (independent/traditional), self-monitoring, self-esteem, strategies, and repair attempts. The most frequent topics were men and abandonment. No preference for strategy was found for independent or traditional personality types. Repair attempts were infrequent and appeared only after extreme disagreement.
Dissertation
Community outreach workers and the elderly: Beliefs about alcohol abuse and interventions
Factors associated with the ability and willingness of community outreach workers to identify alcohol abuse in their elderly clients were explored. A 20-item Belief Inventory and 12-item problem list were constructed to assess the beliefs about alcohol abuse in the elderly of 66 volunteers and six staff members at five church related outreach programs for seniors in a test-retest design. Comparison with 66 adults from the community showed the two groups to have similar beliefs, both primarily reflecting misinformation and negative stereotypes. Subsequently, outreach groups were randomly assigned to interventions representing either a medical model, a problem-focused, or a control education condition. Changes in response on the Belief Inventory and problem list, together with the number of appropriate referrals for alcohol abuse treatment following the interventions, were used to compare the effectiveness of the two educational approaches in shaping beliefs about and identification of, alcohol abusing seniors. Contrary to expectations, the medical model education format produced significantly greater positive change in the belief system but no change in identification or referral. The changes in beliefs were maintained three months later. The problem-focused educational approach produced less change in beliefs, a small but statistically insignificant increase in the number of problems identified and one appropriate referral. Examination of the responses to individual items on the Belief Inventory showed that participants did not endorse a moralistic view of the alcohol-abusing person but did prefer to attribute alcohol abuse to external causes, such as inheritance and culture.
Dissertation
AN ARTIST I HAVE KNOWN
[Arthur Shilling] was an Objibwa from the Rama Reserve. Arthur was shy, quiet and very suspicious when in the company of non-natives. He was, however, a very talented artist. Although he had taken about three art lessons, he decided that he wanted to express himself in his own way and so was virtually self-taught. His life was not easy: he had had rheumatic fever when a child, which led to a very damaged heart by the time he was 35. Thanks to open-heart surgery he was able to live a fairly normal life for a few more years. Despite all these disadvantages Arthur went on to have many more sucessful one-man shows, in Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton and Calgary. He is represented in the McMichael collection in Kleinberg, the Museum of Civilization in Hull, P.Q., The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and many other galleries. The National Film Board made a documentary about him, titled The Beauty Of My People -- The Life, Work And Times of Arthur Shilling. His work now sells for very high prices in prestigious galleries across Canada. Arthur's paintings were, in his words, \"spiritual reflections.\" He painted mostly people -- his people and especially native children. These are not only beautiful paintings but they show to the world the inner beauty of the people whom he loved. Arthur is not the only native Canadian to have such great talent. Think of Norval Morrisseau, another Ojibwa, discovered in 1960 by Jack Pollock who at that time ran the Pollock Gallery in Toronto. There were many other artists, such as Leo Yerxa, Roy Thomas, Benjamin Chee Chee, Jackson Beardy and Robert Houle, and many carvers who have done some very good work.
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