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(2018-07-24)Department: SociologyMuch has been made in the public discourse of the media’s involvement in the polarization of politics in the United States. This study analyzes variations in coverage of activists, law enforcement, and corporations involved ...
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(2020-06-14)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesA substantive body of literature has documented how students from historically marginalized populations often have less access to human, financial, cultural, and social capital, which leads students to have fewer educational ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation examines the ways in which six second grade African American males engaged in critical conversations. This qualitative study addresses three primary research questions: 1) What is the nature of small group ...
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(2021-06-02)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation, I explore a question in liberal political philosophy about what it takes to treat citizens with equal regard in health care using insights from public health practices and bioethical theory. Two views ...
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(2015-11-20)Department: EnglishThis thesis explores contemporary debates regarding the artistic and philosophical responses to global climate change through a close reading of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 science fiction epic Stalker. I read Tarkovsky’s film, ...
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(2016-04-11)Department: Latin American StudiesIn recent decades, the United States government enacted immigration policies that transformed migrant workers into undocumented immigrants. Illegality is a highly racialized status, as more than half of Mexican and Central ...
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(2016-04-09)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesDespite criticisms on foreign aid, empirical studies show mixed results on aid effectiveness. Since past studies have limitations, as they used an aggregate country-level approach, recent studies began to focus on aid ...
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(2017-07-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThe in-migration of relatively affluent households into disinvested central city neighborhoods—commonly referred to as gentrification—is increasingly common across the United States. There is limited quantitative evidence, ...
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(2013-03-11)Department: ReligionIn this project, I use extended case studies of two Protestant churches to explore the sources and dynamics of congregational conflict around theological issues. My thesis is that at the heart of congregational conflict ...
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(2010-04-12)Department: PsychologyThe information we seek to communicate to learners is often conveyed by symbols, and the symbols we choose may directly affect cognition independently of the instructional strategies that we apply. The current series of ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: SociologyFounded in 2006 by Brandon Wade, CEO, SeekingArrangement.com currently claims over five million active members. The website criticizes traditional relationships for being too one-sided, and it claims that arrangements offer ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: Political ScienceIn the most recent wave of democratization, local reformers have drawn upon participatory democracy to inspire solutions to persistent issues of inequality and social justice. One of the better-known examples of this trend, ...
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(2011-06-24)Department: PsychologyUsing data from a 40-year longitudinal study, the authors examined three related hypotheses about the effects of grade skipping on future educational and occupational outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Political ScienceSexual violence against women occurs among all social cleavages in American society, affecting women of every race, socioeconomic status, sexuality, and age group. While we know that surviving sexual violence affects the ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Political ScienceSexual violence against women occurs among all social cleavages in American society, affecting women of every race, socioeconomic status, sexuality, and age group. While we know that surviving sexual violence affects the ...
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(2024-03-12)Department: Biological SciencesThe ends of most linear chromosomes are protected by protein-bound repetitive sequences termed telomeres. Telomerase is the reverse transcriptase that extends the TG-rich 3’ overhang of telomeres. Rarely, telomerase acts ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: PsychologyMost theories of emotion distinguish negative emotions and generalize positive emotions. However, appraisal theory differentiates among emotions by describing the distinctive feelings, goals, thoughts, and action tendencies ...
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(2022-07-11)Department: EnglishBlack Tomboys intervenes in scholarship that prioritizes a general (white) reading of the cultural significance of tomboyism in constructions of womanhood. In this project, I historically trace and place the Black tomboy ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: AnthropologyMy research, centered at the Early Classic (350-450 AD) site of La Sufricaya, located in the Holmul region of Peten, Guatemala, examines a contested topic in Ancient Maya history –the nature of cross-cultural interaction ...
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(2017-04-05)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySince the attacks on September 11, 2001, Muslims in the United States and United Kingdom have been the targets of Islamophobia: unwavering scrutiny, discrimination, and being made to feel like “others.” I use mixed methods ...