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- Title
- “To Push or Not to Push?”; Exploring Lived Experiences of Former Women Track and Field Student-athletes Who Trained and Competed Through Pain and Injury.
- Author
- Erega, Arna
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health
- Description
- Athletes are aware that with involvement in the sport they are exposed to the risk of getting injured. Suffering an injury can be one of the most stressful experiences in a student-athlete’s athletic career and can cause a series of psychological,...
- Title
- WAR AND REMEMBRANCE: AL-NAKBA AS A STRUCTURE IN THE PRESERVATION OF IDENTITY AND PALESTINIAN CONCIOUSNESS
- Author
- Hasian, Adam
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The Israelis recognize the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a war of independence. For the Palestinians, it is known as al-Nakba—the "Catastrophe". The war helped create the state of Israel while displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. However, ...
- Title
- The Multidimensional Self at Work: An Intersectional Examination of Identity Conflict and Authenticity Among Black and White Men and Women
- Author
- Summerville, Karoline
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Organizational behavior, Psychology
- Description
- Diversity initiatives are often ineffective because they characterize differences at the group-level, and therefore, do not adequately address individuals’ specific identity-related challenges. I apply intersectionality theory to understand how mu...
- Title
- The Embattled Lens: Looking for Perspective in Evangelical Subcultural Identity Narratives
- Author
- Boaz, Stephen
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Area studies, Folklore
- Description
- This paper primarily examines how white conservative Evangelicals engage narrative constructions of identity through the use an embattled lens. The paper does also consider two other Evangelical groups (black Evangelicals—largely civil rights lead...
- Title
- The Effects of Stereotype Threat on Mixed-Gender Conversation
- Author
- Chauncey, Kevin
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Social psychology, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
- Description
- The present study examined some effects of Stereotype Threat priming on participants in a two-person prompted discussion. Four pairs of participants (one man, one woman) each discussed three workplace scenarios and were prompted to give suggestion...
- Title
- The Development and Validation of a Measure of the Experience of Dirty Work
- Author
- Bickmeier, Robert
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Industrial
- Description
- Dirty work is socially constructed as tainted on one or more domains (physical: dangerous, dirty, or associated with death; moral: underhanded or in contradiction to prevailing norms; social: in association with stigmatized others or done in subse...
- Title
- The City of KIngs Mountain: The Historical City with a Misplaced Identity
- Author
- Barnett, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- Fought on October 7th, 1780, on a ridgetop in the backcountry of South Carolina, the battle of Kings Mountain turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. A century later, the City of Kings Mountain was founded along the Charlotte-Atlanta Railroad, n...
- Title
- The Bloody Ground: The Chickamauga Wars and Trans-Appalachian Expansion, 1776-1794.
- Author
- Kane, Sean
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Indigenous peoples, North America, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Despite the plethora of works on the American Revolution and the Cherokee, few scholars have placed the Cherokee within the context of the Revolution. This thesis explores the often overlooked history of the Cherokee during last quarter of the eig...
- Title
- The Balancing of the Artist-Teacher Dual Identity in K-12 Public School Visual Art Educators
- Author
- Wall, Deborah
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational leadership, Art--Study and teaching
- Description
- DEBORAH MILLS WALL. THE BALANCING OF THE ARTIST-TEACHER DUAL IDENTITY IN K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL VISUAL ART EDUCATORS(Under the direction of Dr. Rebecca Shore) The purpose of this narrative qualitative study was to explore how artist-teachers perceive ...
- Title
- Redefining Belonging: The Boundaries of Religious Identity in Institutions and Everyday Life
- Author
- Walker, Jonathan
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- ABSTRACTThis study examines how religious identity and boundaries are constructed at three separate levels: the institutional, the local, and the individual. Using the case of Forest Hill Apostolic Church, I analyze the relationships between these...
- Title
- Place-based education, student writing, and cultural contexts: A case study of building community consciousness in a rural middle school classroom
- Author
- Donovan, Erin
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- The idea of place extends beyond just the location where people live. Place is a narrative, a story that involves interactions, characters, conflicts, and the rise and flow of humanity. By understanding the importance of place and the connection t...
- Title
- PUNK ROCK AS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF MEMBERSHIP IN A MUSIC-BASED SUBCULTURE
- Author
- Palamaro Munsell, Eylin
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Psychology, Area studies
- Description
- Adolescence is often viewed as a tumultuous time. As teens grow more independent, social interaction with peers becomes increasingly important, and friendships with peers are associated with numerous positive outcomes. However, along with teens' e...
- Title
- Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
- Author
- Blattenberger, Philip
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
- Description
- For six months in 2014 the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam hosted a temporary exhibition on Agent Orange. Entitled "Agent Orange: A Message from the Heart," the exhibit’s politically benign narrative tone featured reconciliatory r...
- Title
- Macklemore, Iggy Azalea, and Contested Authenticity within the Hip-Hop Discourse Community
- Author
- Rines, Olivia
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Linguistics
- Description
- Authenticity within the hip-hop community has been a topic of conversation amongst researchers for a number of years. The hip-hop movement started in the 1970’s and has steadily grown over the years into a worldwide phenomenon. Although the succes...
- Title
- Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
- Author
- Lovato, Laura
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Government policy, Psychology
- Description
- The impact of HIV-related stigma on HIV prevention, treatment, and the well-being of people living with HIV (PLWH) is well established within the existing literature. HIV-related stigma experiences are compounded by intersections of identity, in t...
- Title
- Influencers, Identity, and the Internet: How Young Girls Create Their Identity Through Instagram
- Author
- Matranga, Aleksandra
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology
- Description
- As technology continues to develop and social media platforms become more commonly used for various reasons, it is important to understand the overarching impact this has on our younger generations. This study looked at influencers, identity, and ...
- Title
- HOW PERCEPTIONS OF INCLUSION RELATE TO WORK GROUP ATTRACTION
- Author
- Scheaf, David
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology
- Description
- Identification—the perceived oneness and/or belongingness—with a group has been found to be related to a host of individual and group outcomes. However, it remains unclear how group perceptions and outcomes are affected when an individual perceive...
- Title
- HOLDING OUT FOR A HÉROE: A BOOK CLUB STUDY OF RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL LATINAS
- Author
- Dymes, Laurie
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Middle school education, Reading, Instructional systems--Design
- Description
- Literacy provides people with intellectual tools to question, challenge, understand, disagree, and arrive at informed perspectives and is a reflection of cultural values and meaning-making for adolescents within their community. By understanding t...
- Title
- Four Women: Saudi Scholarship, Intensive English Programs and Self-Authoring
- Author
- Malcolm, Jeanne
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Description
- This participatory qualitative inquiry explored the shifting subjectivities of three women from Saudi Arabia, as they pursued tertiary education in the United States through benefit of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program. Informed by a Vygotskia...
- Title
- Family Matters: Familial Support and Science Identity Formation for African American Female STEM Majors
- Author
- Parker, Ashley
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- ABSTRACT This research seeks to understand the experiences of African American female undergraduates in STEM. It investigates how familial factors and science identity formation characteristics influence persistence in STEM while considering the d...