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- Title
- RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ, ROSALINA TUYUC, AND LAURA REYES: CONTEMPORARY MAYA WOMEN IN GUATEMALAN POLITICS
- Author
- Moore, Mary
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies, History
- Description
- This Master’s thesis analyzes the role of notable human rights activists, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, and Laura Reyes Quino, examining their directed efforts toward relieving the plight of the Mayan people in Guatemala facing g...
- Title
- PERCEIVED VERSUS EXPERIENCED: RELIGIOUS OTHERING ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS
- Author
- Carskaddon, Chelsea
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Ethics, Philosophy and religion
- Description
- The question driving this thesis is to what extent religious othering is actually experienced compared to the extent to which religious othering is simply perceived. To seek an answer to this question the author chose to analyze the ways in which ...
- Title
- PENETRATING THE SEVENTH PALACE: READING THE SEXUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HEBREW BOOK OF ENOCH AND THE HEKHALOT GENRE
- Author
- Kimbrel, Suzannah
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies
- Description
- This thesis looks at the Late Antique mystical literary genre of Hekhalot alongside contemporary queer theory and modern psychoanalysis. Part 1 opens with an excerpt from "3 Enoch." The methodology is explained, and the relevant works of Sigmund F...
- Title
- RESURRECTING THE DEPARTED – AN EXPLORATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIALIZATION EXPERIENCES OF REHIRED EMPLOYEES
- Author
- Oleson, Joan
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication
- Description
- This qualitative study conducted within a Fortune 100 corporation examines experiences of employees who leave an organization and then later choose to return for a second round of employment. It examines the communicative processes of employees wh...
- Title
- Piers Plowman, Poverty, and the Medieval Church
- Author
- Doss, Henry
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, Medieval, History--Religious aspects, Middle Ages, History
- Description
- ABSTRACTThis thesis examines the claim that the 14th century experienced a dramatic change in how poverty is understood and addressed in society. This shift can be understood as a long-term social dialectic – one that arcs toward synthesis, but te...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- Title
- Memories of Mont Amoena: "An Island of Culture in Difficult Years," 1859-1927
- Author
- McLain, Denise
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- In 1851, the North Carolina Lutheran Synod (NCLS) selected the small, remote village of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina as its center for secondary education. Mount Pleasant Female Academy’s future was uncertain, at best, when it opened as a finish...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...