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- Title
- A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
- Author
- Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...
- Title
- ARMY MANAGEMENT STYLES AND THE SIMILARITIES WITHIN ATHLETICS
- Author
- Simmons, Jackson
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Military art and science
- Description
- When comparing athletes to soldiers in the military you discover that there is an abundance of similarities that link the two in how they prepare themselves both mentally and physically to accomplish the task at hand. There are different programs ...
- Title
- AT THE INTERSECTION OF RELATIVE RISK AVERSION AND EFFECTIVELY MAINTAINED INEQUALITY IN STEM MAJORS: A MULTILEVEL APPROACH
- Author
- Jamil, Cayce
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- The underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minorities and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds in college majors that promote social mobility is problematic. Relative risk aversion theory predicts that disadvantaged students will choose colle...
- Title
- Ambient Discrimination and Observer Task Performance
- Author
- Harrington, Nicole
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Social psychology, Organizational sociology
- Description
- Research shows that being a target of workplace incivility is related to negative outcomes for both the individual and the organization. According to the theory of selective incivility, stigmatized groups such as women or people of color experienc...
- Title
- Amelia's Blog
- Author
- Santiago, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Creative writing
- Description
- Amelia once deeply appreciated the online community that had formed around the blog of the charismatic writer called Rei Locke. When Amelia learned that Rei Locke had been lying about her life and inventing her accomplishments all along, she felt ...
- Title
- American Atheism: An Analysis of Eighteenth-Century Stigma Borne by Twenty-First Century Citizens
- Author
- Lee, Robert
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- History--Religious aspects, Religion
- Description
- This paper analyzes the stigma that surrounds atheists in twenty-first century America, and shows that assumed moral shortcomings of atheists have remained mostly unchanged over the course of America’s history. By outlining the development of a Ch...
- Title
- American Daydreams: A Collection
- Author
- Winfrey, Russell
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, English literature
- Description
- These four stories are very much a reaction to our current political moment, where mounting complexities in the world are met with untenable simplicity and hostile tribalism. The protagonists in "Miss Future Expat" and "Beans in Peru" are able to ...
- Title
- An examination of the moderating role of gendered racial identity centrality in the relationship between gendered racism and depression
- Author
- Behrendt-Mihalski, Jaime
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Black women experience both racism and sexism, and these experiences have been found to be related to psychological distress and impairment. While research has pointed to the independent negative effects of racism and sexism on mental health, ther...
- Title
- Change-oriented safety behavior in high reliability organizations: Meta-analyzing the social context
- Author
- Engemann, Krista
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
- Description
- Workplace safety is a concern for both scholars and practitioners because of the potential for substantial loss of organizational resources. The high reliability organization, and the theory that guides our understanding of this unique organizatio...
- Title
- EBONY IN EXILE: AN EXAMINATION OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK AMERICA AND THE CUBAN INFLUENCE 1960s-1980s
- Author
- Willard, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- ABSTRACTJOSEPH WILLARD. Ebony in Exile: An Examination of RevolutionaryBlack America and the Cuban Influence 1960s-1980s.(Under the Direction of DR. JURGEN BUCHENAU)In the 1960s Black America began to embrace an ideology of revolution shifting the...
- Title
- Examining interactions of perfectionism and dispositional mindfulness on perceived stress
- Author
- Papay, Kimberly
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Personality
- Description
- The main purpose of the study was to examine if perfectionism (both evaluative concerns perfectionism (ECP) and personal strivings perfectionism (PSP)) and dispositional mindfulness interact to predict perceived stress. Regression analyses indicat...
- Title
- Explaining Fertility Intentions Among Non-Assimilated Hispanic Immigrant Women Living in the U.S.: A Rational Choice Reinforced by Social Identity?
- Author
- Barros de Redard, Maria
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Social sciences, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- Research on the assimilation of Hispanic immigrants in the United States isabundant; however, fewer studies have examined the effect of assimilation on Hispanicimmigrant women and childbirth. Prior research has documented that the fertility rateam...
- Title
- Full metal jacket: The effect of combat exposure on emotion processing within working memory.
- Author
- Alverio, Tabitha
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is experienced by approximately 10 to 20% of service members and veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. To mitigate the effects of trauma experience on service members and their families, it is impor...
- Title
- IDENTITY FORMATION IN SHERMAN ALEXIE’S THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN, FLIGHT AND THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN
- Author
- Palmer, Joye
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature
- Description
- AbstractJOYE PALMERIdentity Formation in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Flight and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (under the direction of DR. MARK WEST) Poet, author, and filmmaker Sherman Alexie c...
- Title
- INTERNAL ACTIVISM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY: A CASE STUDY OF THE NBA’S REACTION TO THE NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTESTS IN SPORTS
- Author
- Kelly, Corey
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication
- Description
- Public relations scholarship, especially in recent years, has witnessed a growing call for studies that investigate how activists engage in public relations. There are still few studies on internal activism, despite its promise for new insights an...
- Title
- Immigrant Educational Achievement: The Roles of Bilingualism Expectations and Generation
- Author
- Al-Taher, Eman
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- In this study, I focus on three varying perspectives to understand the assimilation process of immigrants and how it affects their academic achievement. I draw from Classical Assimilation Theory, Segmented Assimilation Theory and the Immigrant Par...
- Title
- Intergenerational Programming on a Multi-Generational Play Park and its Impact on Older Adults
- Author
- Dawson, Amanda
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Gerontology, Aging
- Description
- Intergenerational programming between children and older adults have been shown to make significant contributions to older adults’ overall wellbeing. However, it is uncommon to find in research the combination of active aging and intergenerational...
- Title
- James no. 764
- Author
- Quitadamo, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- English literature, Creative writing
- Description
- Container No. 764 has malfunctioned and its occupant is awake. This was never supposed to happen. It’s to be expected such things would happen under a human’s supervision, but what excuse do the humanoids have? What of the Master Computer who was ...
- Title
- MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
- Author
- Caro, Lennin
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Economics
- Description
- Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...
- Title
- MOVEMENT AS A COPING STRATEGY FOR STRESS
- Author
- Ridenhour, Morgan
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology
- Description
- This study explores the use of non-strenuous movement, such as stretching and fidgeting, as a coping mechanism for stress. Prominent sources such as American Psychological Association (APA) recommend the use of movement to manage stress (APA, 2017...