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Title
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The Community College: Access to Opportunity or Barrier to Success
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Author
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Grubbs, Samuel
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Social structure, Government policy, Education, Higher
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Description
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The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of the contradictory outcomes for community college students. I investigated whether community colleges lower their students’ aspirations and make students less likely to be socially involve...
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The determinants of household violence
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Author
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Wienke, Jennifer
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Government policy, Economics
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Description
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Family violence is a pervasive social issue, which warrants attention from policy makers. Theories such as nested ecological theory and general strain theory suggest that family violence increases during times of economic hardship. Even so, histor...
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Three essays on economic growth and environmental quality in China
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Author
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Yang, Hualiu
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Government policy, Public administration
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Description
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This dissertation employs an interdisciplinary perspective to examine the relationship between economic development and environmental quality in China. The first essay investigates how the distribution of gross domestic product (GDP) between the g...