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Developing And Testing A Model Of Discrimination, Internalized Oppression, Mental Health, And Suicidality In Disabled Transgender And Gender Non-Binary (Tgnb) Individuals, Stephanie L. Cull Jan 2024

Developing And Testing A Model Of Discrimination, Internalized Oppression, Mental Health, And Suicidality In Disabled Transgender And Gender Non-Binary (Tgnb) Individuals, Stephanie L. Cull

Theses and Dissertations

Transgender and gender nonbinary (TGNB) individuals experience high rates of discrimination and microaggressions that can lead to internalized cisgenderism and adverse mental health outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and suicidality. Individuals with disabilities similarly experience high rates of discrimination and microaggressions that can lead to internalized ableism and increased adverse mental health outcomes. Although both of these populations have been researched separately, very little extant research has explored the intersections of disabled and TGNB identities. The purpose of this study was to explore a hypothesized pathway leading from microaggressions through internalized oppression and mental health to suicidal ideation within a …


Connected: Exploring Automation To Activate Aging In Place Success, Hallie W. Gillespie Jan 2022

Connected: Exploring Automation To Activate Aging In Place Success, Hallie W. Gillespie

Theses and Dissertations

MOTIVATION: There’s no place like home. Technological advances are now allowing us to live and work from anywhere. Spatial divides are disappearing through remote connections, creating a dispersion of the nuclear family, traditionally the prevailing caregivers for seniors. Older adults are projected to outnumber children under eighteen by 2034, a first in U.S. history (Census Bureau, 2019). This is not specific to America; “globally the population is aging. Since 1980, the number of people aged over 60 has more than doubled in size and is projected to do so again by 2050 to 2.1 billion” (United Nations, 2017).

ISSUE: There …


Usefulness Of The Captia Syphilis Igg Eia Test Method And Reverse Algorithm For Detection Of Syphilis Infection In A Public Health Setting, Patricia Armour Jan 2018

Usefulness Of The Captia Syphilis Igg Eia Test Method And Reverse Algorithm For Detection Of Syphilis Infection In A Public Health Setting, Patricia Armour

Theses and Dissertations

Syphilis, a systemic sexually transmitted disease, is on the rise in the US, with infection rates the highest recorded since 1994 according to the CDC. Useful laboratory testing is an important diagnostic tool for determining individual syphilis infection and preventing community-wide disease spread.

The purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness of a specific automated treponemal test method, the CaptiaTM Syphilis IgG EIA, and the syphilis reverse algorithm interpretation for detecting syphilis infection among patients seeking care in a public health clinic. The study employed a retrospective, nonexperimental descriptive correlational design with data collected between 2012-2013 from …


Commonwealth Times 2017-09-18 Sep 2017

Commonwealth Times 2017-09-18

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.


Unitarian Universalist Church Of Richmond, Lauren Chambers Jan 2015

Unitarian Universalist Church Of Richmond, Lauren Chambers

RELS 108 Human Spirituality: Student Perspectives

Student perspectives on worship services from Instructor Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez's Religious Studies 108 Human Spirituality course at Virginia Commonwealth University.


Unitarian Universalist Congregation Of Fairfax, Alexander M. Dutchak Jan 2015

Unitarian Universalist Congregation Of Fairfax, Alexander M. Dutchak

RELS 108 Human Spirituality: Student Perspectives

Student perspectives on worship services from Instructor Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez's Religious Studies 108 Human Spirituality course at Virginia Commonwealth University.


"'The Lifecycle Of A Neighborhood': Developing A Self-Guided Tour Of The Built Environment In Judiciary Square For The National Building Museum, Washington, Dc", Amy H. Griffin Apr 2014

"'The Lifecycle Of A Neighborhood': Developing A Self-Guided Tour Of The Built Environment In Judiciary Square For The National Building Museum, Washington, Dc", Amy H. Griffin

Theses and Dissertations

Self-guided tours for museums require authors to define a learning objective, research content, design graphics, and implement inclusive interpretive methods. However, museum education literature does not provide clear, comprehensive direction for these complex projects. By recounting the development of a self-guided tour of Judiciary Square for the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, this thesis assesses the value and limitations of theoretical literature in practice. It introduces additional research methods and approaches to address project components that museum education literature overlooks.


Commonwealth Times 2012-12-03 Dec 2012

Commonwealth Times 2012-12-03

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.


Dirty Jew-Dirty Mexican: Denver's 1949 Lake Junior High School Gang Battle And Jewish Racial Identity In Colorado, Michael Lee Jan 2012

Dirty Jew-Dirty Mexican: Denver's 1949 Lake Junior High School Gang Battle And Jewish Racial Identity In Colorado, Michael Lee

Ethnic Studies Review

This article details how Jews and Mexicans in Denver, Colorado came together in 1949 in the wake of a widely publicized interracial gang battle at one of the city's local middle schools. It documents the response of the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League and its involvement in a interracial neighborhood council and how Jewish racial identity in Denver was informed by the broader racial geography of the West-a racial geography that was too often shaped by contrast with Mexicans. The article also challenges the notion that Denver was relatively free of anti-Semitism. Indeed, the 1905 lynching of Jacob Wesskind …


Annual Higher Ground Women's Leadership Conference 2012, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute At Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2012

Annual Higher Ground Women's Leadership Conference 2012, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute At Virginia Commonwealth University

The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute Publications

No abstract provided.


Joy In Nature, Rebecca Morgan Jul 2011

Joy In Nature, Rebecca Morgan

Theses and Dissertations

Artist Statement I am fascinated with colors in nature and how it affects our moods. The colors of a sunset and moonlit sky; the feeling of a brewing storm; the laziness of a cold, gray day; the roar of an ocean; and the feel of sand on your feet are elements that I want to capture in my drawings and paintings. In addition to the natural environment, animals are an integral part of nature that I incorporate in my work. Pets are the unspoken blessings that bring joy and laughter to my life. Pets, especially dogs, are proven to relieve …


Judging The Rational And The Dead: Ann Radcliffe And Feminist Theology, Garland Beasley Apr 2011

Judging The Rational And The Dead: Ann Radcliffe And Feminist Theology, Garland Beasley

Theses and Dissertations

“Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology” argues Radcliffe’s first three novels, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), A Sicilian Romance (1790), and The Romance of the Forest (1791), show a progression of feminist theology informed by the late eighteenth-century British religious movement of Rational Dissent. The thesis attempts to complicate and extend Radcliffe scholarship by moving away from fractured critical discourses and into more cohesive readings of Radcliffe that include feminist and theological interpretations of her work. Of particular interest to the project are Radcliffe’s views on the circumscribed nature of women’s existence within …


Virginia Dental Journal (Vol. 88, No. 4, 2011) Jan 2011

Virginia Dental Journal (Vol. 88, No. 4, 2011)

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.


Faith Based Environmental Stewardship: Practices And Attitudes Of Christian Churches On Virginia’S Northern Neck And Eastern Shore, Paoula Sehannie Dec 2010

Faith Based Environmental Stewardship: Practices And Attitudes Of Christian Churches On Virginia’S Northern Neck And Eastern Shore, Paoula Sehannie

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the relationship between religion and the environment. The purpose of this project is to explore the environmental practices and attitudes of Christian churches in two Virginia Communities. The two communities; the Northern Neck and Eastern Shore are located on the Chesapeake Bay and have a shared history of dependence on the Bay. The results of the dissertation demonstrate the prevalence of environmental programs in the population, the nature of these programs and the respondents’ attitudes towards a host of environmental issues. These results can be used by environmental professionals and …


Commonwealth Times 2010-04-15 Apr 2010

Commonwealth Times 2010-04-15

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.


Commonwealth Times 2010-02-25 Feb 2010

Commonwealth Times 2010-02-25

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.


Ethnic Studies Review Jan 2009

Ethnic Studies Review

Ethnic Studies Review

No abstract provided.


Trends In Black-White Church Integration, Philip Q. Yang, Starlita Smith Jan 2009

Trends In Black-White Church Integration, Philip Q. Yang, Starlita Smith

Ethnic Studies Review

Historically, the separation of blacks and whites in churches was well known (Gilbreath 1995; Schaefer 2005). Even in 1968, about four years after the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. still said that "eleven o'clock on Sunday is the most segregated hour of the week" (Gilbreath 1995:1). His reference was to the entrenched practice of black and white Americans who worshiped separately in segregated congregations even though as Christians, their faith was supposed to bring them together to love each other as brothers and sisters. King's statement was not just a casual …


Healing, Learning And Play, Kangana Bhatnagar Apr 2008

Healing, Learning And Play, Kangana Bhatnagar

Theses and Dissertations

Research suggests that the first five years of life are critical for building the foundation for children’s success throughout their schooling and life. Throughout these first years of life there are a number of essential windows of opportunity during which certain kinds of stimuli are needed to help the brain develop and maintain critical connections necessary for learning. This project is a unification of a Child Development Center and a therapeutic center. This center includes children who suffer from bereavement; a broken home, death of a parent or child abuse. These children are provided with therapy by a specialist, and …


"Shut It Down, Open It Up": A History Of The New Left At The University Of Virginia, Charlottesville, Thomas M. Hanna Jan 2007

"Shut It Down, Open It Up": A History Of The New Left At The University Of Virginia, Charlottesville, Thomas M. Hanna

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a history of social and political activism in Charlottesville during the 1960s focusing on new left student organizing at the University of Virginia. It is a work of social history that establishes a community that has been generally ignored in traditional histories of the new left as one of the most influential centers of new left activism in the South and asserts that this prominence was due to years of activism by local liberals, civil rights advocates, and students during the city's unique experiences on the front lines of the southern desegregation, civil rights, and anti-war struggles. …


Commonwealth Times 2004-04-29 Apr 2004

Commonwealth Times 2004-04-29

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.


Richmond Music Journal (2004-04) Apr 2004

Richmond Music Journal (2004-04)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.


Richmond Music Journal (2003-11) Nov 2003

Richmond Music Journal (2003-11)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.


Richmond Music Journal (2003-06) Jun 2003

Richmond Music Journal (2003-06)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.


Richmond Music Journal (2003-03) Mar 2003

Richmond Music Journal (2003-03)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.


Richmond Music Journal (2002-03) Mar 2002

Richmond Music Journal (2002-03)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.


Commonwealth Times 2001-03-01 Mar 2001

Commonwealth Times 2001-03-01

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.


In Genuinely Democratic Service, The Servant Is Well Served, Edward H. Peeples Jan 2001

In Genuinely Democratic Service, The Servant Is Well Served, Edward H. Peeples

Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools Documents

In this essay, based on notes written in September 1961 and revised March 2001, Dr. Peeples discusses the Richmond Committee of Volunteers to Prince Edward County, a group of volunteers from central Virginia who helped organize recreational activities for the African American students in Prince Edward County.


Richmond Music Journal (2000-12) Dec 2000

Richmond Music Journal (2000-12)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.


Richmond Music Journal (2000-04) Apr 2000

Richmond Music Journal (2000-04)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.