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Expressions Of Identity: Analysis Of A Funerary Mask From Roman Egypt (Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Ny, Inv. 19.2.6), Rachel Madison Wilson
Expressions Of Identity: Analysis Of A Funerary Mask From Roman Egypt (Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Ny, Inv. 19.2.6), Rachel Madison Wilson
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The object of this study is a painted plaster mask of an adult woman from Roman Egypt currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Inv. 19.2.6. The mask has been stylistically attributed to Meir, the primary necropolis for Cusae. This mask represents the social identity of the deceased woman, while also embodying how she was transformed into a divine being through mummification. Through an analysis of the iconography of this funerary mask, as her chosen form of self-representation, I will place the multiple aspects of the life of the deceased into social, historical, and religious context. This thesis …
Exitosos, A Pesar De Todo: What Is The Nature Of Ethnic And Scholar Identity For High-Achieving High School Latinx Students Who Identify As A Boy In A Southern Context?, Alyssa Jasina Villarreal
Exitosos, A Pesar De Todo: What Is The Nature Of Ethnic And Scholar Identity For High-Achieving High School Latinx Students Who Identify As A Boy In A Southern Context?, Alyssa Jasina Villarreal
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The present study investigated the nature of the ethnic and scholarly identity development in high-achieving, high school students who identify as both Latinx and as a boy. Further the study explored any interactions between the ethnic and scholarly identities of participants. By conducting this study, it is the researchers hope that documented the student testimonios contributed to the preparation of teachers, school administrators, and families understandings on what leads to success. Furthermore, the study will contribute to the validity of the importance of identifying and acknowledging the individuality each student brings to the classroom and unique experiences that have contributed …
Game Changing Leadership: Developing A Student Athlete Leadership Identity Development Model, Sally Gates Parish
Game Changing Leadership: Developing A Student Athlete Leadership Identity Development Model, Sally Gates Parish
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There are several theoretical models and approaches to define the leadership identity development of college students, however, none of these models adequately frame the specific leadership identity development of collegiate student athletes. The purpose of this grounded theory study is to develop a leadership model to address this gap by explaining the leadership values and behaviors unique to student athletes and to understand if their leadership experiences occur in a staged, scaffolded way. The research questions guiding this study are: What are the staged, scaffolded leadership identity development experiences of collegiate student athletes? What are the common leadership values and …
The Construction Of Value And Identity In Mobile Games, Michelle Carr
The Construction Of Value And Identity In Mobile Games, Michelle Carr
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Previous research in game studies has indicated a strong link between identity and video games, with the gamer identity serving as an especially contentious and hotly debated example. This identity has been rejected by avid players and questioned in terms of its gendered and racialized associations. Mobile games open up video games to new articulations of the player identity by diversifying the kinds of audiences that have access to their modes of play. However, mobile games are often dismissed by players and academics alike as frivolous and unimportant, despite mobile gaming comprising a significant portion of the video game industry. …
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.
The Global Citizen, Global Trust, And National Privilege: A Study Of Individualized Identity In A Globalized World, Hannah Lauren Pallotta
The Global Citizen, Global Trust, And National Privilege: A Study Of Individualized Identity In A Globalized World, Hannah Lauren Pallotta
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This study examines how the ongoing globalization process has shaped people's citizenship idenitities and values toward the distribution of political and economic benefits at the national level. These research questions are asked: Are people actually becoming more globalized? Are they developing a sense of global trust toward one another? Moreover, how do these global outlooks vary across different groups of individuals based on some key demographic identifiers such as age, education level, and social class? Using wave 5 and wave 6 from the World Values Survey dataset, this study examines these research questions in the context of nine high-income countries. …
What Do Esl Students Expect: New Perspectives Into L2 Academic Socialization, Muna Alosaimi
What Do Esl Students Expect: New Perspectives Into L2 Academic Socialization, Muna Alosaimi
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This ethnographic study examined the role of ESL students expectations on their academic and social trajectories by focusing on how students expectations about the teaching of and learning English in the U.S. intersected with their L2 academic socialization experiences. The participants were five ESL students who were enrolled in an intensive English program in the U.S. Four ESL teachers who taught the focal participants had also participated in the study. This study was conducted as a multiple case study in which data collected over the course of one academic semester and triangulated from multiple sources (i.e., participants interviews, weekly observations …
"Can You Hear Me Now?": The Role Of Hip-Hop In The Identity And Personal Epistemology Of Black Girls, Ashley Nicole Payne
"Can You Hear Me Now?": The Role Of Hip-Hop In The Identity And Personal Epistemology Of Black Girls, Ashley Nicole Payne
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Hip-hop has been shown to be a significant force of identity, knowledge, and cultural development, particularly for Black youth (Brown, 2009; Emdin, 2010; Hill, 2009; Love, 2012). Building on research surrounding identity and knowledge development within hip-hop, this Black/hip-hop feminist research study seeks to understand the role that hip-hop plays in the lives, identity and personal epistemology of Black adolescent girls. The following research questions guided this study: (1) What role does hip-hop (i.e., rap, dance, and graffiti) play in the lives of Black girls? (2) How does hip-hop inform racial and gendered identity for Black girls? (3) How do …
Female Saudi Dependent Students And Language Learning Investment And Resistance: A Case Study Of Four Female Muslim Saudi Students In The Us, Nada Abdulaziz Alshabibi
Female Saudi Dependent Students And Language Learning Investment And Resistance: A Case Study Of Four Female Muslim Saudi Students In The Us, Nada Abdulaziz Alshabibi
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Driven by Nortons (2012) concept of investment and the role of agency and identity in second language acquisition, this study investigated the relationship between religion, cultural identity, and language learning investment among four female Saudi dependent students in an intensive English institute (IEI) in the US. The study examined how students invested their agency as mothers and wives to learn English and how such factors as their Islamic garb, co-educational classes, family, friends, teachers, and class activities increased or decreased their learning opportunities.Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with each participant. Two had dropped out of the IEI, and two …
Place, Identity, And Language Learning: The Transformative Role Of Place-Based English Language Instruction, Daniel Scott Harper
Place, Identity, And Language Learning: The Transformative Role Of Place-Based English Language Instruction, Daniel Scott Harper
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This study examines the intersections of place and second language learning. Learner identity has been found to be an important construct in second language learning. In recent years, place and space have become central topics in the study of sociolinguistics and identity. One area of place and language that has not been studied in depth, however, is whether place plays a role in second language learning. This study begins to fill this gap by examining the second language learning experiences of thirteen Japanese study abroad students who were enrolled in an eight-week, content-based language course. The content of the course …
Professional Identity, Commitment, And Intent To Persist: The Facilitative Role Of Mindfulness For Pre-Service Teachers, Sean Holden
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Researchers have long observed issues with teacher retention, particularly early in ones career (Ingersoll, 2003; Gray & Taie, 2015). In order to address this issue, many researchers have investigated retention by exploring the development of ones perceptions and beliefs about the profession. Encompassing this trend, interest has been placed on teachers professional identity, a comprehensive construct acknowledging the influence of personal factors and internalized external experience (Schaefer et al., 2014). Based in this perspective, Hong (2010) proposed that ones beliefs about teaching and perceptions of self-efficacy, value, empowerment, burnout, and commitment are particularly salient in the decision to remain in …
"I Am A Cartoon? Not Me!": Racial Identity Work And Resistance To Native American Caricature Iconography Erasure, Anthony Jerome Stone Jr.
"I Am A Cartoon? Not Me!": Racial Identity Work And Resistance To Native American Caricature Iconography Erasure, Anthony Jerome Stone Jr.
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The Indigenous population of the United States remains a neglected demographic in sociological research. Scholars in other disciplines, and few in sociology, have studied a wide range of issues within the Native Americans populations, including health, socioeconomics, political representation, and law. However, few have researched the emergent controversy over media representations and identity. Although academics from several disciplines have examined Native American Mascots and other such images, few have noted the ways in which those who identify as Native (American) talk about such representations in regard to their identity. For this study, research was conducted to examine the ways Native …
Vocal Architecture: Restoring Voice To A Silenced Community, Ashley Dalila Espinoza
Vocal Architecture: Restoring Voice To A Silenced Community, Ashley Dalila Espinoza
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Oppression persists in the silencing of communities and individuals. Architecture can be complicit in, or combative towards, these oppressive forces. As a resistance to oppression, Vocal Architecture seeks to facilitate a shared understanding of individual and collective experiences. Through the exploration of identity in relationship to architecture, the need for Vocal Architecture is realized. Furthermore, the discovery of the psychological and physiological effects a space has towards a dehumanized individual can clarify the liberating components of Vocal Architecture. In designing The Eclosure, this thesis attempts to highlight the liberating aspects of Vocal Architecture as it relates to domestic violence survivors.
Remembering The Rhetorical Complexities Of Apology, James Richard Briscoe
Remembering The Rhetorical Complexities Of Apology, James Richard Briscoe
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One of the most common frameworks used within the genre of apologia is Benoit's Theory of Image Repair. Using its associated typology, the framework enables scholars to examine apologetic texts and extrapolate potential rhetorical strategies in an effort to evaluate the success or failure of the apology. While the theory has expanded our knowledge on the rhetoric of apology, its use over time has become formulaic, and its findings do not seek to enhance our understanding of this rhetorical device. With this understanding, this dissertation attempts to provide a new approach to the genre of apologia that enhances and expands …
Bright Along The Body, Ashley Michelle Roach
Bright Along The Body, Ashley Michelle Roach
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Bright Along the Body is a collection of poetry that explores the nature of desire within the liminal space of marriage. The poems fuse domestic, garden, and urban wildlife imagery to explore the speaker's conflicting physical, spiritual, and emotional desires. The speaker subverts her own longings by cultivating a psychological space that is beautiful and lonely, representing transcendence that may be read as dissociation. Feminist themes of safety and independence inform the collection, which is sectioned in three parts to represent conflict, interiority, and resolution. The poems are stylistically diverse and music-rich, showing affinity for both contemporary poetry and tradition.
Wildness In The Twilight: Contemporary Black Women's Literature And The Politics Of Resistance, Jennifer Grace Brooks
Wildness In The Twilight: Contemporary Black Women's Literature And The Politics Of Resistance, Jennifer Grace Brooks
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"Wildness in the Twilight: Contemporary Black Women's Literature and the Politics of Resistance" examine the work of four contemporary, black female authors--Alice Walker, Michelle Cliff, Nalo Hopkinson and Octavia Butler. The study identifies a quality in these women's writings called wildness. Wildness is a system of negotiations in which the women of these novels choose essentialized roles for themselves in order to gain some power and agency in worlds where they have been marginalized. These essentialized roles are numerous and the women move among them in the space of the novel. The women of these novels inhabit many role including …
Peculiar Primates: An Analysis Of Old Kingdom Tomb Decoration Using Unusual Scenes With Primates, Remi Feliza Chan
Peculiar Primates: An Analysis Of Old Kingdom Tomb Decoration Using Unusual Scenes With Primates, Remi Feliza Chan
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An Old Kingdom elite tomb is more than just a location for the interment of an ancient individual; in fact, it is a complex, integrated unit composed of various elemets that work together to fulfill the function and purpose of the tomb. One of these elements is the tomb's decoration, which includes a variety of scenes. Just eight scenes from the Fourth to Sixth Dynasties represent primates in a manner that is not common for the Old Kingdom and therefore considered "peculiar." In order to comprehend the purpose of these "peculiar" scenes, one must contextualize the scenes by examining Old …
Ceramics As An Ethnic Identifier: Libyans In The Nile Delta During The Third Intermediate Period, Rachel Jana Mittelman
Ceramics As An Ethnic Identifier: Libyans In The Nile Delta During The Third Intermediate Period, Rachel Jana Mittelman
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This dissertation investigates whether or not ceramics can be used to determine ethnicity, demographics, and settlement patterns of Libyans living in Lower Egypt during the Third Intermediate Period (Dynasties 21-24, ca. 1100-713 BCE). As few Libyan ceramics have been found and collated, the ceramic corpora from Mendes, Tanis, and Sais - attested Egyptian centers of Libyan habitation - were compared to the assemblages from Memphis, a city which housed both Libyans and Egyptians, and Tell El-Retaba, a city with no known Libyan settlement. This study first aimed to define a distinct Libyan identity based on textual evidence from Egyptian and …
Beyond Cutting: Restorying Self-Injury, Brittany E. Presson
Beyond Cutting: Restorying Self-Injury, Brittany E. Presson
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Using autoethnographic accounts from the author and the literature as a starting point, this researcher conducted in-depth life history interviews with former self-injurers. This research problematizes current perceptions of self-injury by looking beyond the typical pro/con debates and pathologizing discourses used to define and interpret self-injury. My specific research question is, "In what ways, if any, does self-injury serve as a narrative resource when self-injurers tell the story of their life?" Study participants engaged in biographical work that both affirmed and resisted the pathologizing discourses used by both researchers and mainstream society regarding their identity.
How Black Fraternity Men Understand The Pursuit Of Hegemonic Ideologies, Pepper E. Walker
How Black Fraternity Men Understand The Pursuit Of Hegemonic Ideologies, Pepper E. Walker
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This study explored how Black men makesense of the masculine aspect of their identity andadult development juxtaposed with the ideology of leadership within the realms of a Black, Greek-letterfraternity on a predominantly White college campusin the South. Historically, administrators of colleges and universities have accepted those who participate as active members of Greek-letter organizations, as campus leaders who go on to become leaders in teh community. Participants included 7 members of Chi Omega Sigma, Fraternity, Inc. (pseudonym). Each participant was interviewed and provided life stories following the line of masculinity from birth to present. By examining masculinity throughthe lens of …
Writing To Understand Our Lives And Languages: A Case Study Of An Immigrant Women's Writing Group, Jessica D. Swan
Writing To Understand Our Lives And Languages: A Case Study Of An Immigrant Women's Writing Group, Jessica D. Swan
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Writing groups have empirical support for their ability to give voice to stories, improve language skills, and result in personal and social transformations. However, the research into their effectiveness among English Language Learners (ELLs) is limited. This case study of an immigrant women's writing group in Memphis, Tennessee, examined the effects of participation on the language skills, identities, and communities of the women. Ten (10) women who were all non-native English speakers participated in a writing group held over the course of ten (10) weeks for two (2) hours each week. The structure of the writing group allowed for personal …
Capture And Release, Mary Belle Willis
Capture And Release, Mary Belle Willis
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Capture and Release, a novel in stories, explores the progress of relationships and how individuals confront love, loss, attachment, and separation and employs a metaphorical idea of home as it applies to one's own perception of identity and well-being within, and independent of, relationships with family members, friends, and lovers. These ideas are explored primarily through the main character, William, as he questions his identity and searches for ataraxis and equilibrium outside the reins of his family and relationship with his newly estranged lover after the suicide of his youngest sibling. Sometimes explored through minor characters carrying common burdens, the …
Multiracial Identity And Racial Consciousness: The Problem Of An Unencumbered Self, Gabriella Rose Beckles-Raymond Ms.
Multiracial Identity And Racial Consciousness: The Problem Of An Unencumbered Self, Gabriella Rose Beckles-Raymond Ms.
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Persons with multiracial identity are now the fastest growing minority group in both the United States and Britain. As the push to acknowledge, express and celebrate multiracial identities intensifies, the ontological status, meaning of multiracial identities and their relationship to monoracial identities is of increasing importance to our understanding of race relations in both countries. The dilemma that philosophers of race are confronted with is how to identify those persons impacted by racisms without reifying the concept of race and/or falling foul of presenting essentialized group categories. Models that seek to grapple with these ethical problems are typically, if not …
Empowering Imagined Communities: Social Network Sites In A Chinese English As A Foreign Language Classroom, James Andrew Kelley
Empowering Imagined Communities: Social Network Sites In A Chinese English As A Foreign Language Classroom, James Andrew Kelley
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Little work has yet to explore the potential for the use of social network sites (SNSs) in the English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) classroom, but recent trends in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) research suggest that SNSs may be a powerful context for language learning: offering students access to online communities of practice and /or imagined communities (as interpreted by Norton et al.); increased control of co-constructed/negotiated identities; and opportunities for empowering positions in authentic intercultural exchanges. This dissertation reports on a largely exploratory, empirical study of how the use of an …