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Bicultural Context and Metabolic Health
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Author
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Rodriguez Diaz, Michelle
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Clinical psychology
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Description
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Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are among the leading causes of death in the United States (NCHS, 2016), making the metabolic syndrome (MetS) an important target for research and intervention. In addition, there seems to be a disproportionate ...
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Editing Identity Online: Film Reviews as Religious Narratives on Patheos
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Author
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Twist, Haley
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Religion
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Description
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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...
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FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
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Author
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McGee, Marquis
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and un...
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Four Women: Saudi Scholarship, Intensive English Programs and Self-Authoring
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Author
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Malcolm, Jeanne
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
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Description
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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...
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HOLDING OUT FOR A HÉROE: A BOOK CLUB STUDY OF RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL LATINAS
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Author
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Dymes, Laurie
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Middle school education, Reading, Instructional systems--Design
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Description
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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...
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HOW PERCEPTIONS OF INCLUSION RELATE TO WORK GROUP ATTRACTION
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Author
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Scheaf, David
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Psychology
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Description
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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...
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Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
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Author
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Lovato, Laura
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Government policy, Psychology
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Description
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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...
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Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
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Author
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Blattenberger, Philip
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Social sciences--Research, Museums--Study and teaching, History
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Description
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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...
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The Balancing of the Artist-Teacher Dual Identity in K-12 Public School Visual Art Educators
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Author
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Wall, Deborah
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Educational leadership, Art--Study and teaching
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Description
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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 ...
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The Bloody Ground: The Chickamauga Wars and Trans-Appalachian Expansion, 1776-1794.
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Author
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Kane, Sean
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Indigenous peoples, North America, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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The City of KIngs Mountain: The Historical City with a Misplaced Identity
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Author
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Barnett, Melissa
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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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...