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Title: A STUDY OF MATERIALIZATION, IDENTITY, AND AGENCY USING PXRF ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM INCA PERIOD ECUADOR
Author: Sweitzer, Mackenzie
Date Created: 2020
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: ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
Author: Basalik, Debra
Date Created: 2017
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: Bicultural Context and Metabolic Health
Author: Rodriguez Diaz, Michelle
Date Created: 2017
Description: 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 ...

Title: Bicultural Context and Metabolic Health
Author: Rodriguez Diaz, Michelle
Date Created: 2017
Description: 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 ...

Title: Editing Identity Online: Film Reviews as Religious Narratives on Patheos
Author: Twist, Haley
Date Created: 2016
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: 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
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: FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
Author: McGee, Marquis
Date Created: 2018
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 ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
Author: McGee, Marquis
Date Created: 2018
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: Family Matters: Familial Support and Science Identity Formation for African American Female STEM Majors
Author: Parker, Ashley
Date Created: 2013
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: Four Women: Saudi Scholarship, Intensive English Programs and Self-Authoring
Author: Malcolm, Jeanne
Date Created: 2017
Description: 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...

Title: Four Women: Saudi Scholarship, Intensive English Programs and Self-Authoring
Author: Malcolm, Jeanne
Date Created: 2017
Description: 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...

Title: HOLDING OUT FOR A HÉROE: A BOOK CLUB STUDY OF RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL LATINAS
Author: Dymes, Laurie
Date Created: 2020
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
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: Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
Author: Lovato, Laura
Date Created: 2016
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: Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
Author: Lovato, Laura
Date Created: 2016
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: Macklemore, Iggy Azalea, and Contested Authenticity within the Hip-Hop Discourse Community
Author: Rines, Olivia
Date Created: 2015
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: Messages from the Heart: Agent Orange and Narrative Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
Author: Blattenberger, Philip
Date Created: 2016
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: 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
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: 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
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: Redefining Belonging: The Boundaries of Religious Identity in Institutions and Everyday Life
Author: Walker, Jonathan
Date Created: 2017
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...