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Have Teacher Scholarship Programs Impacted The Critical Teacher Shortage In Mississippi?, Jensen Bosarge Jacquet
Have Teacher Scholarship Programs Impacted The Critical Teacher Shortage In Mississippi?, Jensen Bosarge Jacquet
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This research focused specifically on the impact and effectiveness of the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program (METP), the only teacher scholarship program currently offered in the state of Mississippi. The first research question asked to what extent METP has impacted the critical teacher shortage in Mississippi, focusing specifically on the impact of the program in attracting students to enter teacher education programs and learning opportunities that have been made available post-college. The second research question asked if METP is likely to continue impacting the critical teacher shortage in Mississippi. As the population size was limited, as well as the sample …
Seduction Is In The Eye Of The Beholder: The Influences Of Learner Characteristics On Learning From Multiple Texts With Seductive Details, Alex August Johnson
Seduction Is In The Eye Of The Beholder: The Influences Of Learner Characteristics On Learning From Multiple Texts With Seductive Details, Alex August Johnson
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Evaluation Of The Nutrition Status Of Children Living In Social Welfare Institutions Located In China, Lisa Nichole Xingyi Evanoff
Evaluation Of The Nutrition Status Of Children Living In Social Welfare Institutions Located In China, Lisa Nichole Xingyi Evanoff
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Background: The nutrition status of children living in social welfare institutions has not been well defined, yet it is estimated that there are at least two million children residing in these organizations. Previous research suggests that incidence of malnutrition is more frequent within this population. Without intervention, side effects of malnutrition can result in permanent impairments such as mental impairment, developmental delay, and low quality of life. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the nutrition status of children residing in social welfare organizations over the course of three months. Participants/Setting: 108 children residing in social welfare institutions …
The Association Between Ptsd And Delay Discounting, Future Orientation, And Reward Availability: A Behavioral Economic Model Of Ptsd, Cecilia Claire Olin
The Association Between Ptsd And Delay Discounting, Future Orientation, And Reward Availability: A Behavioral Economic Model Of Ptsd, Cecilia Claire Olin
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be characterized in terms of respondent and operant conditioning, resulting in avoidance that is ultimately detrimental. Avoidance as negative reinforcement becomes paramount to all other reinforcement, precluding engagement with positive reinforcers. This overvaluation of avoidance may be conceptualized as a reinforcer pathology (i.e., excessive preference for and valuation of an immediate reinforcer). The current study offers an initial evaluation of this theoretical framework. The relationships between PTSD severity and select behavioral economic variables (i.e. future orientation, reward availability, and delay discounting) were evaluated. Total PTSD severity was inversely related to reward availability and future orientation, …
Transmission And Reflection Imaging Of Stratigraphy From Passive Array Data, Chloe Olivia Glover
Transmission And Reflection Imaging Of Stratigraphy From Passive Array Data, Chloe Olivia Glover
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The IRIS Consortium conducted an experiment in Oklahoma in the summer of 2016 using a 3-line array originally intended for a reflection survey. We identified phase conversions in the crust with passive seismic sources. A major Sp phase conversion was identified at 0.5 km with several other large conversions evident between ~1.5 and 2.5 km depth across all profiles and events. The 0.5 km depth conversion correlates to the base of the Permian red-bed sandstones and shales, and the top of the Pennsylvanian limestones/shales/sandstones. The conversions between 1.5 and 2.5 kilometers depth correspond to the top of the Cambrian granites …
A Smart Forwarding In Ndn Vanet, Muktadir Rahman Chowdhury
A Smart Forwarding In Ndn Vanet, Muktadir Rahman Chowdhury
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Intelligent Transport System (ITS) applications rely on efficient forwarding or routing ofthe packet. However, routing or forwarding packet in Connected Vehicles is a challenging task and data retrieval rate can be very low due to highly dynamic topology andintermittent connectivity. Most of the routing solutions in the literature are location-based accompanied with limited flooding when location information is not available. For efficient communication and data retrieval in the vehicular network, we propose a hybrid forwarding solution, called CCLF. CCLF takes into account content-based connectivity information, i.e., Interest satisfaction ratio for each name prefix, in its forwarding decisions. To overcome the …
Improvements To Psync: Distributed Full Dataset Synchronization In Named-Data Networking, Ashlesh Gawande
Improvements To Psync: Distributed Full Dataset Synchronization In Named-Data Networking, Ashlesh Gawande
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TCP/IP is ill-suited for modern many-to-many and distributed applications such as content distribution and IoT. Named-Data Networking (NDN) is a future Internet architecture design based on the primitive of publishing and fetching authenticated named data objects/chunks. NDN’s name-based retrieval, stateful forwarding, data-centric security, and in-network caching overcome many shortcomings of today's TCP/IP networks due to their host-centric data delivery and channel-based security models. Applications in NDN, such as chat, require distributed synchronization of all published data. This thesis evaluates PSync, a distributed dataset synchronization protocol for NDN, and proposes a set of improvements to PSync. ChronoSync is an existing synchronization …
Purely Scientific Terms, Breanne Nicole Hager
Purely Scientific Terms, Breanne Nicole Hager
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Purely Scientific Terms is a collection of personal and memoir essays that explore themes of identity, place, and important relationships.
Re-Gendering Midwifery In Eighteenth-Century London, Amanda Catriona Castellano-Clark
Re-Gendering Midwifery In Eighteenth-Century London, Amanda Catriona Castellano-Clark
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This thesis intends to show how the field of British midwifery changed through the rise of male-midwives during the eighteenth-century in London. Midwifery, which had previously been a women-only profession in that era, came to be dominated by male-midwives who argued that men should be in charge of this field due to the inherent "weakness" of women and therefore the supposed inadequate training of midwives. In this thesis, I will argue that male-midwives succeeding in asserting their dominance through the development of tools such as the forceps, through the establishment of courses about midwifery, and through the publication of treatises …
Phase Field Crystal Modeling Of Materials Evolution In The Presence Of Nanoscale Pores, Abash Sharma
Phase Field Crystal Modeling Of Materials Evolution In The Presence Of Nanoscale Pores, Abash Sharma
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Porosity causes cracks and many other defects in materials. The understanding of how pores affect the kinetics and material solidification remains largely lacking. Phase field crystal (PFC) modeling is a continuum approach that has been used to study phase behaviors and kinetics of many processes over wide ranges of length scales and over diffusive timescales. This thesis focuses on the development of a PFC model for materials with circular pores. From the model’s free energy functional, a Langevin equation for the density field is derived and integrated numerically over a wide range of system parameters. We found that the pore's …
Investigation And Characterization Of Pc12 Cells Adhesion, Proliferation, And Regeneration On Aerogels As A Function Of Topography And Stiffness., Martina Rodriguez Sala
Investigation And Characterization Of Pc12 Cells Adhesion, Proliferation, And Regeneration On Aerogels As A Function Of Topography And Stiffness., Martina Rodriguez Sala
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Limitations with existing methods and materials used for nerve repair shows the significant interest to keep researching new materials for nerve implants. Recent studies show the importance of material properties to cell behavior. This body of work focuses on understanding the effect of material properties on the behavior of PC12 neurons. The first part of the work attemepts to quantify the relationships between cell parameters and substrate properties. Based on this study, random topographies with surface roughness of 0.5 µm and Young’s modulus of 2MPa are the optimum substrates for neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells. The second part investigates the …
Between Earth And Sky: Crafting An Architecture Of Presence, Holly-Lynn Tedder
Between Earth And Sky: Crafting An Architecture Of Presence, Holly-Lynn Tedder
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A duality exists within the experience of architecture. For many years, architects have privileged the intellectual or conceptual dimensions of design over the haptic experience of architecture, compounding a split between mind and body within our highly technologized society. We need an architecture that brings us back to the present moment. By uniting haptic experience with intellectual understanding of place, an Architecture of Presence can create a complete human experience. Explored through the design of an ecological research field laboratory in Shelby Forest, thoughtful crafting of spatial experience using material and light, modulated by contrast, leads to increased awareness and …
Sublimation Rate Of Paradichlorobenzene Spheres In A Natural Convection Environment, Christopher Bryan Anderson
Sublimation Rate Of Paradichlorobenzene Spheres In A Natural Convection Environment, Christopher Bryan Anderson
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Spherical paradichlorobenzene specimens were cast, then allowed to sublimate in a natural convection environment. The mass loss over time was recorded, suspending the specimens by a weigh bellow hook attached to a balance, which was required to obtain the sublimation rate. The diameters tested in this study were 3 cm, 4 cm, 5 cm, and 5.8 cm. A total of three data sets for each sized sphere were recorded to ensure accuracy. The results were used to determine the Schmidt, Grashoff, Sherwood, and Rayleigh numbers. After finding these values, an emperical equation was found relating the Sherwood number as a …
So Close And Yet So Far: A Novella In Two Parts, Adela Maria Brito
So Close And Yet So Far: A Novella In Two Parts, Adela Maria Brito
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So Close and Yet So Far is a novella in two parts, which takes place during two distinct time periods in Cuban history. The first part involves a female protagonist, Gloria Menocal Quintana, who begins her journey toward a singing career during the late 1940s, a time of great excess when the American and Italian Mafias held control of the nightclubs and casinos in Havana. Themes of sexual exploitation of women in entertainment, machismo, political upheaval, and infertility are explored in this section. The second part follows Gloria’s second cousin, Pedro Olivares, a young man who escapes Cuba on a …
Shake Table Experiments On Multi-Story Aluminum Structures Using Scaled Ground Motions., Biraj Joshi
Shake Table Experiments On Multi-Story Aluminum Structures Using Scaled Ground Motions., Biraj Joshi
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A shake table is a device used to simulate the seismic waves during an earthquake event and test the stability of the structure after an event. This table can be helpful in testing structural components or models. The primary objective of this study is to operate and verify the functionality of the shake table present at the Department of Civil Engineering’s structure research lab. The System Communication Software (SCSW), present at the University of Memphis’s Department of Civil Engineering lab, operates the shake table unidirectionally and requires ground motions to be uploaded to the software. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) …
The Role Of Nipsnap1 In Oxidative Stress, Maha Attar
The Role Of Nipsnap1 In Oxidative Stress, Maha Attar
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NIPSNAP1 (4-nitrophenyl phosphatase domain and non-neuronal SNAP25-like protein homolog1) is an evolutionarily conserved mitochondrial protein that interacts with the cytoplasmic domain of the Alzheimer's Disease (AD) amyloid precursor protein (APP). NIPSNAP1 interaction with APP may contribute to mitochondrial dysfunction and possibly to neurodegeneration associated with AD. To investigate the molecular and cellular role of NIPSNAP1, we created a NIPSNAP1 knockdown cell line using shRNA lentiviral strategy. Immunoblot analysis showed that one shRNA construct reduced NIPSNAP1 protein levels by approximately 85%. Reduction of NIPSNAP1 protein required at least 10 days after shRNA lentiviral transduction, suggesting that NIPSNAP1 protein is highly stable …
Contingent Negative Variation: Sensitivity To Directed Attention, Lauren Ashley-Marie Dahlke Schenck
Contingent Negative Variation: Sensitivity To Directed Attention, Lauren Ashley-Marie Dahlke Schenck
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The exact nature of the contingent negative variation (CNV) event-related potential (ERP) remains unclear after decades of research. Although this ERP has long been associated with anticipation of motor responses, it remains present in the absence of physical action. Attention and arousal may better account for production of this ERP. In the current study, we examined the role directed attention may play in CNV production, while controlling for the expectancy of stimulus presentation based on the mean probability of stimulus duration. We hypothesized that if direction of attention, rather than probability of stimulus presentation, had the most pronounced effect, differences …
Activity Patterns Of The Eastern Woodrat (Neotoma Floridana Illinoensis) In Western Tennessee, Jessica Davin
Activity Patterns Of The Eastern Woodrat (Neotoma Floridana Illinoensis) In Western Tennessee, Jessica Davin
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Activity patterns of the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana illinoensis) in southwestern Tennessee (Shelby Co.) were investigated at the Edward J. Meeman Biological Station. Patterns were captured using inrared, motion-triggered cameras at bait stations at 3 sites over seasons during 2013-2016. Photographs were examined to determine periods of activity and to observe different feeding strategies (solitary, aggressive, and non-aggressive). Analyses of data indicated that eastern woodrats were primarily nocturnal. The eastern woodrats showed greatest seasonal activity during the fall and approximately equal activity during summer, spring, and winter months. Analyses of data indicated they were solitary and agonistic towards conspecifics and …
Delayed Punishment Discounting: Evaluation Of Sex Differences And Contribution Of Orbitofrontal Cortex, Anna Liley Vongphrachanh
Delayed Punishment Discounting: Evaluation Of Sex Differences And Contribution Of Orbitofrontal Cortex, Anna Liley Vongphrachanh
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The majority of the research studying punishment has focused on an aversive stimulus delivered immediately after an action. However, negative consequences often occur long after a decision has been made. The delayed punishment decision-making task was developed to address this gap in literature. Rats chose between a small reinforcer and a large reinforcer accompanied by a mild foot shock. The shock was preceded by a delay, which increased throughout the session. Rats discounted the negative value of delayed punishment, as indicated by increased choice of the punished reward as the delay preceding the shock lengthened. Female rats discounted delayed punishment …
Electrospun Chitosan Membranes Loaded With Raspberry Ketone To Induce Differentiation In Preosteoblasts, Paul Kenneth Cameron
Electrospun Chitosan Membranes Loaded With Raspberry Ketone To Induce Differentiation In Preosteoblasts, Paul Kenneth Cameron
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This study evaluated the potential of adding raspberry ketone (RK) to electrospun chitosan membranes (ESCMs) to create a bioactive guided bone regeneration GBR) membrane capable of stimulating bone cell differentiation. In this study, W-20-17 cells exposed to 50-200μg/ml RK showed an increased expression of alkaline phosphatase (ALP). RK was loaded onto ESCM discs modified by one of three different fatty acid anhydrides and release profiles were examined. It was found that the RK release profile was dependent on the type of fatty acid treatment used. RK loaded membranes were then evaluated for cytocompatibility and osteodiferentiation potential. While the RK released …
Tectonic Geomorphic Analysis Of The Eastern Lowlands, Mississippi River Valley Using Lidar, Samia Noor
Tectonic Geomorphic Analysis Of The Eastern Lowlands, Mississippi River Valley Using Lidar, Samia Noor
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To identify neotectonism in and adjacent to the New Madrid seismic zones, I used Mississippi River Valley Pleistocene terraces of the Eastern Lowlands as a geomorphic marker for the evaluation of Pleistocene and Holocene deformation. The Quaternary glacial and interglacial cycles controlled drainage system in the northern Mississippi Embayment by cyclically draining meltwater from the retreating Laurentide ice sheet. The advance and retreat of the ice sheet caused avulsion of the Mississippi River several times and created the Pleistocene river terraces in both the Western and Eastern Lowlands. High-resolution Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) images of the terraces were used …
Assessment Of The Seismic Vulnerability Of West Tennessee School Buildings, Christine Maurice Moore
Assessment Of The Seismic Vulnerability Of West Tennessee School Buildings, Christine Maurice Moore
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West Tennessee is a seismically active area. However, West Tennessee has been building structures long before strides in earthquake engineering. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) developed a procedure, Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) Method, to quickly determine if a structure is likely to suffer major damage from earthquake or not by documenting aspects of the structure and its site and then calculating a score for the building that indicates the seismic vulnerability of the structure. A more sophisticated government software called Hazus-MH was developed to produce results with five damage categories: None, Slight, Moderate, Extensive, and Complete. It costs more …
Gothic Revival Comes To Memphis: Saint Peter Catholic Church And Patrick Keely, Brooke Suzanne Wagster
Gothic Revival Comes To Memphis: Saint Peter Catholic Church And Patrick Keely, Brooke Suzanne Wagster
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St. Peter Catholic Church, built between 1852 and 1858, marks the introduction of the Gothic Revival style to Memphis, Tennessee. This thesis examines this church in relation to the larger body of work attributed to the architect, Patrick Charles Keely. It is clear that St. Peter Catholic Church, with its crenellated octagonal towers joined by a parapet, is an anomaly among Keely-designed churches and has its closest affinities with the Old Louisiana State Capitol Building, completed in 1852. It is suggested that St. Peter may reflect a rare attempt by Keely to create a regionally oriented Gothic Revival style. The …
Examining The Chronic Effects Of Indirect And Direct Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists On Dopamine Transmission In The Nucleus Accumbens Of Mice, Kevin Michael Honeywell
Examining The Chronic Effects Of Indirect And Direct Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists On Dopamine Transmission In The Nucleus Accumbens Of Mice, Kevin Michael Honeywell
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A major problem with current anxiolytic medications is abuse liability; thus, new pharmaceutical targets are being explored. Cannabinergic and vanilloidergic signaling is of interest in the modulation of anxiety through cannabinoid type 1 receptor (CB1R) activation and transient vanilloid type 1 channel (TRPV1) inhibition. Arachidonoyl serotonin (AA-5-HT), a dual fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) and TRPV1 inhibitor, and arachidonyl-2-chloro-ethylamide (ACEA), a direct CB1R agonist, are drugs of interest in modulating these two systems. The current study explored the addictive potential of chronic AA-5-HT or ACEA administration in the open field (OF), during in vivo fixed potential amperometry (FPA), during conditioned …
Impulsivity In The Lphn3 (Adgrl3) Knockout Rodent: Relevance To Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Hunter Glen Nolen
Impulsivity In The Lphn3 (Adgrl3) Knockout Rodent: Relevance To Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Hunter Glen Nolen
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Children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder often suffer from impulsivity. The attenuated expression of latrophilin 3 (Lphn3) gene is linked to a dampening of extracellular dopamine (DA) levels that is consistent with the ADHD pathology expressed in humans, while this depletion of DA levels occurring as a result of Lphn3 variation also leads to impulsivity deficits that mirror those that are observed in humans sufferring from ADHD. The present study aimed to assess two different facets of impulsivity to offer a more complete assessment of the influence of Lphn3 variation on impulsive behavior. Compared to controls, Lphn3 knockout (KO) rats exhibited …
Shame And Guilt Mediate The Relationship Between Adult Attachment Style And Ptsd Severity Among Combat Veterans, Sam John Leonard
Shame And Guilt Mediate The Relationship Between Adult Attachment Style And Ptsd Severity Among Combat Veterans, Sam John Leonard
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is associated with the expression of various social emotions, including shame and guilt. Although relations between shame, guilt, and PTSD have been researched extensively in terms of clinical relevance, the mechanisms underlying the relationships are still generally unknown. Adult attachment style is a social bonding mechanism that is related to both social emotions and PTSD severity. The present study investigates relations among adult attachment style, PTSD severity, shame, and guilt in a sample of 208 US military veterans and active duty personnel who served in combat zones. The study tested a mediational model, such that shame …
New Numerical Mid-Ocean Ridge Models For Interactions Between Plate-Driving And Resistant Force, Hee Choi
New Numerical Mid-Ocean Ridge Models For Interactions Between Plate-Driving And Resistant Force, Hee Choi
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Evidence for asymmetric plate growth, variable crustal thickness, and non-uniform spreading rates is ubiquitous on the seafloor. However, conventional numerical modeling approaches are often incapable of explaining the non-uniform growth of oceanic lithosphere. Noting that plate-boundary forces can dynamically determine plate speed by finding a balance against the resistance to extension at ridge axes and at lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, I introduce plate-boundary forces instead of kinematics to drive plate motions in numerical models for mid-ocean ridges. I construct such models using FLAC, an open-source finite element code for geodynamic simulations. My mid-ocean ridge models tested three different boundary conditions: Prescribed velocities, …
Contextual Risk And Protective Factors Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Following Exposure To Trauma, Hannah Louise Shoemaker
Contextual Risk And Protective Factors Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Following Exposure To Trauma, Hannah Louise Shoemaker
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Ample evidence supports the relationship between trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), with less research on factors that may influence the expression of PTSS following adversity and even fewer studies focused on racial minority samples. Utilizing the Person-Environment Interaction Model (Slaug, Iwarsson, & Björk, 2018), the current study examined the role of individual (e.g., ethnic identity), relational (e.g., social support), and environmental (e.g., community cohesion and community disorder) factors potentially associated with PTSS following lifetime trauma exposure among emerging adults of racial minority status (N = 203). Participants were 18 to 25 (Mage = 20.27, SD = 1.95), were …
Common Beasts: A Collection & Other Poems, Sarah Lucille Cozort
Common Beasts: A Collection & Other Poems, Sarah Lucille Cozort
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Common Beasts: A Collection & Other Poems consists of a three part diachronic sequence of poems, tracing the history of a small stone. The stone is first discovered by a teenage girl in the aftermath of her mother's burning at the stake for witchcraft; she believes it to be her dead mother's eye, which carries protective power. In the second section of the collection, the stone has been procured by a white male poetry professor who uses the stone as a crutch to support his fragile sense of self; a young female student of his comes to live with him, …
"My Job Is To Live My Life, Not Save Yours": The Ordinariness And Emotional Labor Of Queer Masculinity In Netflix's Queer Eye, Cameron Lynn Brown
"My Job Is To Live My Life, Not Save Yours": The Ordinariness And Emotional Labor Of Queer Masculinity In Netflix's Queer Eye, Cameron Lynn Brown
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The current study examines contemporary understandings of Queer masculinity through a textual and audience analysis of Netflix's Queer Eye: More then a Makeover. I begin by situating this project within the context of media studeis. From there, I engage with literature surrounding the representaitons of differing genders and sexualities in reality television shows. Using the theory of ordinariness (Cavalcante, 2018) and the theory of reflexivity (Sender, 2012), I argue that Netflix's Queer Eye represents a subtle shift in the representaiton of Queer men in television as ordinary and "everyday." Audiences understood this presentaiton as Netflix's Fav Five's ordinariness as confidence …