This dissertation explores the ways in which early American women in Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston exploited their legal, social, and economic positions of dependence and turned these constraints into vehicles of ...
Solitary confinement (i.e., Restricted Housing Unit/RHU) is traditionally defined as a “prison within a prison” (Brown, Cambier, & Agha, 2011). Individuals residing in RHUs experience heightened rules including restricted ...
This thesis explored what goals and motivations propelled students to pursue a college education. The data was collected using semi-structured one-on-one interviews along with focus groups. The finding was then compared ...
Contemporary studies of queer tourism overwhelmingly focus on white upper middle-class gay and lesbian travel experiences (Puar, 2002) and rarely discuss queer tourism emerging from the Global South, and more specifically ...
This thesis describes a gendered conflict between missionaries at the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) station in Chuuk, Micronesia from 1884
to 1899. A thorough investigation of the missionaries’ ...
This thesis argues that a positive reading of mysticism in the writings of Søren
Kierkegaard is possible. I argue that mysticism is capable of the same transfiguration as
the aesthetic within Kierkegaard’s thought. Since ...
This study considers how English educators can catalyze learning within secondary English education programs to help preservice teachers define and re-examine what counts as writing in the 21st century, and to apply this ...
The focus of this research was on the effects of both autoclaving lab feed and soy content in lab feed. Autoclaving sterilizes and cleans equipment through heat and steam. However, autoclaving animal feed can not only ...
This thesis chronicles the shifting dynamics of family relationships that arise, the gains and losses we sustain, when we choose to leave home and make our own lives. These are personal narrative essays, and while the ...
This thesis is a comparative historical analysis of the appointed and elected District of Columbia Public School Board of Education. Using the Boards’ meeting minutes, the study illuminates how the selection method of the ...
This thesis is ultimately about my sister, Sarah. She passed away from a heroin overdose on July 2, 2011. Her death left a void in me that I have been trying to cope with ever since. I got the call from my mother that Sarah ...
This thesis describes the Russian Chechenization Policies successfully implemented in Chechnya since 2000. Chechenization is responsible for bringing stability to Chechnya following two devastating wars. The key to ...
Language-like abilities are present across many classes of animals. Various non-human primates, the gray parrot, and dolphins have all demonstrated the ability to comprehend, and in some cases produce, spoken words, symbols ...
Symmetry inferences in the physical sciences have material warrants; these
warrants can be accounted for in terms of scientific practice and conceptual adaptation.
This study is a historical epistemology that provides ...
This thesis examines the tragedy of Tibetan self-immolation through the perspective of
Tantric Buddhism’s understanding of human potential. Such a perspective includes three
topics that formulate the individual chapters ...
This thesis describes the philosophy, recruitment methods, and intellectual activities of the alt right, a predominantly online culture based on notions of white supremacy and patriarchy. Cyberculture, cyber harassment, ...
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Mild TBIs are the most common and often occur during adolescence there is an increased risk of sustaining an additional TBI following the ...
Public diplomacy (PD) has been a crucial tool in United States’ international relations, especially since the Cold War era. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, the word PD was synonymously used with coercive terms such as ...
Everything I Tell Myself is a collection of a stories made in an attempt to explore the truth, and how it exists in the lives of everyday people. It aims to search for the ways in which people come to decide their own ...
Allison Rhodes, an author in the downhill side of her publishing career, summons her ex-husband Lindley, a skilled but unsuccessful writer, to help her excavate and write her
family history as a biographical work. The ...