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lucadonnoh/optimism: Bedrock

, 2022
The Optimism ...
Ben Wilson, White Hatter, Matt Masurka, Diederik Loerakker, alina, Annie Ke, Joshua Gutow, ben-chain, Indeavr, Antonios Kogias, Adrian Gąsior, Kevin Ho, Conner Fromknecht, Karl Floersch, Matthew Slipper, Rajiv Patel-O'Connor, t11s, platocrat, Will Cory, Mark Tyneway, Georgios Konstantopoulos, Maurelian, Liam Horne, Elena Gesheva, Murphy Law, Javed Khan, smartcontracts   +26 more
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To glow with bright colours : Jimmy Gatz's trip to Oz

Journal of English Studies, 2002
L. Frank Baum's The wonderful wizard of Oz (1900) could have furnished F. Scott Fitzgerald with a matrix of imagery and thematic for his The Great Gatsby (1925).
Dennis Duffy
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Architecture between heteronomy and self-generation

Techne, 2021
Introduction «I have never worked in the technocratic exaltation, solving a constructive problem and that’s it. I’ve always tried to interpret the space of human life» (Vittorio Garatti).
Luigi Alini
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Optimism and self-esteem are related to sleep. Results from a large community-based sample [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: There is evidence that positive personality characteristics, such as optimism and self-esteem, are important for health. Less is known about possible determinants of positive personality characteristics.
Gomez, Veronica, Räikkönen, Katri, Lemola, Sakari, Allemand, Mathias   +3 more
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The Double Death of Humanity in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

Transatlantica, 2017
This article situates Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) within the tragic frame of post-apocalyptic narratives as they began to develop in the USA in response to the Bush administration’s messianic belief in 9/11 as a form of apocalyptic moment.
Stephen Joyce
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C-reactive protein haplotypes and dispositional optimism in obese and nonobese elderly subjects [PDF]

, 2011
Background Chronic low-grade inflammation, characterized by elevated plasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), has been inversely associated with dispositional optimism.
Craen, A.J.M., Westendorp, R.G., P. Eline Slagboom, Anton J. M. de Craen, Kromhout, D., Johanna M. Geleijnse, Craen, A.J.M. de, Erik J. Giltay, Rius-Ottenheim, N., Rudi G. Westendorp, Geleijnse, J.M., Giltay, E.J., Slagboom, P.E., Mast, R.C. van der, Nathaly Rius-Ottenheim, Daan Kromhout, Frans G. Zitman, Roos C. van der Mast, Zitman, F.G., Rius Ottenheim, N.   +19 more
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Understanding optimism [PDF]

, 2016
I present seven empirical studies that investigate two main themes regarding two main approaches of optimism: explanatory style and dispositional optimism. The first theme incorporates measurement issues and conceptual ideas of optimism and the second
Liu, Caimei
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O sentido de vida do familiar do paciente crítico El sentido de la vida familiar del paciente grave The life meaning of the parents of the critical patient

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2008
Este estudo emergiu da reflexão acerca de vivências, como profissional de enfermagem. Teve como objetivos compreender o sentido de vida do familiar do paciente crítico, diante da Tríade Trágica: culpa, sofrimento e morte; e identificar os conteúdos de ...
Adriana Braitt Lima, Darci de Oliveira Santa Rosa   +1 more
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Cultures of optimism [PDF]

, 2011
Drawing on material from a broad range of fields, this article identifies an ‘optimism of everyday life’ and proposes that it performs significant psychological, social and cultural functions.
Oliver Bennett, Bennett, Oliver
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La “speranza senza ottimismo” di Guido Ceronetti: alcune riflessioni su Tragico tascabile

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
This article examines Guido Ceronetti’s Tragico tascabile (2015), exploring his paradoxical fusion of hope and the tragic, informed by Terry Eagleton’s Hope without optimism.
Cristiano Bedin
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