My thesis highlights the fabrication of a Caribbean icon in the sport of baseball. Through the use of various documentaries, films, and literature, my research shows how difficult it is for these players to achieve greatness ...
This thesis examines the evolution of the Chilean arpillera, a colorful form of artistic expression that uses appliqué, embroidery, and patchwork to depict stories of the dictatorship and scenes of everyday life, made by ...
Using a decolonial framework based in ecological and queer values, this thesis analyzes the role of the environment of the pampa intwo contemporary Argentine novels, Distancia de rescate (2014) and Las aventuras de la China ...
In the 1960s, poor women receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) articulated a series of implicit and explicit constraints to their freedom of sexuality caused by program participation. Their complaints ...
Across the social sciences there has been rising concern over the level of polarization among American elites and the harmful implications of this trend. However, most approaches to this issue have been limited by their ...
This paper investigates the pursuit of "flexible citizenship" (FC) through U.S higher education system among young overseas Chinese elites and describes its relationship with Berry's (1997) model of acculturation strategies ...
Some chronic illnesses are routinely screened for, easily recognized by physicians, and have effective treatments or perhaps even acure. Others are less-easily detected. Conditions that have a wide variety of subjective ...
The 21st century has seen a global resurgence of right-wing populist movements that challenge extant democratic institutions, making the search for a systematic approach to these ‘democratic-backsliding' events of ...
Based on the work of Johnson and Fujita (2012) and Stevens et al. (2008), this study investigated a method through which to activate system-change motivation in White American liberals and moderates. Using articles about ...
The present study examined if White Americans could be motivated to decrease their endorsement of meritocracy as a system-legitimizing ideology. Previous research has found that presenting a college orientation program as ...
The American mental health system has always failed to put BIPOC, especially Black Americans, at the forefront of their efforts to better mental health care. Research has shown the BIPOC, including Black individuals, are ...
The present study examines how the experience of marginalized identities informs the narration of college experiences and relates to adjustment and well-being. Students at a highly selective liberal arts college (N = 107) ...
Research has consistently supported the importance of built and socioeconomic environments to individuals' health outcomes. This current study aimed to examine whether these environments have long-term associations with ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably impacted many people's lives, precipitating an emerging psychological crisis. As an era in which many of the world's people had engaged in some degree of self-isolation, this study ...
Walter Benjamin highlights two kinds of violence, mythic and divine, in his Critique of Violence, which sets up a foundation to further explore how linear temporality affects our recognition of violence. Looking at the ...
Orff Schulwerk, the Kodály concept, and El Sistemaare three of the most popular approaches to music education used in Western classrooms today. This thesis argues that the philosophies and practical recommendations of these ...
Starting with the commonly used binomial tree model, we develop an analog to the Hull-White Algorithm with lightened restrictionson the value q, the probability that the price of a stock will rise from the beginning to the ...
This thesis investigates the appearance of linguistic ideologies and stereotypes in four recent Disney films (Frozen 2013, Moana 2016,Coco 2017, and The Lion King 2019) as they compare to those studied in older animated ...
It is well-established that when categorizing lexical associations of words in news corpora, women and minorities tend to be associated with negative terms (Manziniet al. 2019). This harm is also carried through other forms ...