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- Title
- FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
- Author
- McGee, Marquis
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- 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...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
- Author
- Basalik, Debra
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Psychology
- Description
- The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is increasing (CDC, 2016). Research studies have focused on either medical treatments and therapeutic interventions for this disorder, or the trauma of the diagnostic process. Scholarship, however,...
- 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
- 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...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Building a Computing Identity: The Role of Middle School Computer Science Courses in Igniting Student Interest to Consider a Career in Software Development
- Author
- Gann-Carroll, Susan
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Computer science
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to understand whether students who took computer science courses in a prescribed sequence during middle school developed a strong enough computing identity to show an interest in continuing to take computing courses i...