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Title: FACULTY PERCEPTIONS OF, AND EXPERIENCES WITH, AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE STUDENTS AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Author: Jenkins, Shantelle
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges--Study and teaching, Education, Higher, Adult education
Description: Many studies involving African American male students have focused on achievement gaps and student retention models of those attending four-year institutions. However, there are limited investigations of African American male students at the commu...

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: Playing Ponies: A Critical Evaluation of Religious Elements and Gender Politics at Work in "Brony" Fandom
Author: Mullis, Justin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sex role, Religion, Religions
Description: This work aims to illuminate the cultural institution of the fandom by approaching it from the vantage point of Religious Studies while seeking to avoid the obvious similarities of devotion and social organization so often brought to the table wit...

Title: Utopic Pessimism: The Messianic Underpinnings of the Antinatalist Polemic
Author: Miller, Joshua
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy and religion
Description: Pessimism in the west was made into a system by Arthur Schopenhauer. It has never been a popular philosophy but provides rich insights into the nature of human desire and the possibility of happiness in a materialistic cosmos. Antinatalism, the id...