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Title: A STUDY OF MATERIALIZATION, IDENTITY, AND AGENCY USING PXRF ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM INCA PERIOD ECUADOR
Author: Sweitzer, Mackenzie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Social structure, Archaeology, Area studies
Description: When the Inca Empire expanded across large portions of South America, they implemented various strategies to subdue and control their massively ethnically diverse subjects. One way that the Inca ideology and social order was imposed on the masses ...

Title: Did They Belong: A Preliminary Study on Strontium Isotopic Analysis of the Guangala Culture Located at Salango, Ecuador
Author: Cruz, Zindy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology, Geochemistry
Description: Due to advancements in technology, questions once thought of as unanswerable concerning migration and mobility have become possible to address. Strontium isotopic analysis has begun to bring about a change in how bioarchaeologists apply migration ...

Title: Editing Identity Online: Film Reviews as Religious Narratives on Patheos
Author: Twist, Haley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Religion
Description: How do we construct narratives about ourselves, how are these narratives influenced by our religious lives, and how do these narratives look when they appear on the Internet? Exploring the construction of autobiographical narratives and how they a...

Title: FROM COTTON FIELDS TO COBWEBS: A CASE STUDY OF COMMUNITY AND PRESERVATION IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF BELMONT, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Miller, Allyson
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The oldest mill in Belmont, North Carolina still stands today. Almost one hundred and fifteen years old, the Chronicle Mill has made a legacy for the small town of Belmont, establishing a sense of community and identity for its people. At one time...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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 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: 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, ...