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Evaluation Of The Effectiveneess Of Social Work Intervention In The "Making Attendance A Priority Program", Justine Beatriz Rangel Jan 2011

Evaluation Of The Effectiveneess Of Social Work Intervention In The "Making Attendance A Priority Program", Justine Beatriz Rangel

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to address the problem of truancy by looking at what types of effective interventions helped to decrease truancy within the preadolescent population. This study looks at the correlation between a social work intervention and attendence with 27 fifth grade students who were in the MAPP program (Making Attendance a Priority Program). An evaluation of the effectiveness of a social work intervention on truancy rates for students in the MAPP program.

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Former Foster Youths' Perceptions Of Their Life Experiences, Yodit Tesfia Zerai Jan 2011

Former Foster Youths' Perceptions Of Their Life Experiences, Yodit Tesfia Zerai

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to examine the perceptions of former foster youths' life experience while in foster care and after leaving the foster care system. It was also recommended for child welfare social workers to have contact with former foster youth on a regular basis and to provide services as needed even after they exited the system.

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What Children Should Know About Cancer: Parent's Perception, Kristyn Gina Sutton Jan 2011

What Children Should Know About Cancer: Parent's Perception, Kristyn Gina Sutton

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project will focus on how and for what reasons parents inform their children of their cancer. Through the use of focus groups and the participation of parents, sick and healthy, this study will bring to light the truth of what parents feel their children should know about their cancer and why they may feel it necessary to tell them about their cancer.

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Immigrant Hispanic Women And The Victimization They Encounter In The United States, Alejandra Aranda Redondo Jan 2011

Immigrant Hispanic Women And The Victimization They Encounter In The United States, Alejandra Aranda Redondo

Theses Digitization Project

This study explored some of the primary reasons why immigrant Hispanic women are victims of abuse, along with various barriers they faced, and the ways in which they coped. The influence of the Hispanic culture is a driving force in the women's inability to move away from their abusers, to seek help, and to obtain the necessary help. Hispanic cultural attitudes and the perceptions of these victimized immigrant women affected their help-seeking behaviors.

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Choosing The Gift Of Down Syndrome: Families' Experiences Internationally Adopting A Child With Down Syndrome, Erika Susan Lazo Jan 2011

Choosing The Gift Of Down Syndrome: Families' Experiences Internationally Adopting A Child With Down Syndrome, Erika Susan Lazo

Theses Digitization Project

This qualitative study explores the experiences of families who choose to internationally adopt a child with Down syndrome. This study was conducted in order to address the current scarcity of research on this population and their specific needs and strengths in order to equip social work practitioners to more effectively work with these families. Mothers were interviewed about their family's adoption process, the service they utilized, and the process of integrating the newly adopted child into the existing family unit. A sample of nine families who had completed an international adoption of a child with Down syndrome were gathered. These …

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The Cultural Self: The Novel As Griot In African American Fiction, Eric Christian Atkinson Jan 2011

The Cultural Self: The Novel As Griot In African American Fiction, Eric Christian Atkinson

Theses Digitization Project

This paper addresses the Western African oral concept of griot, as it utilizes nommo, the Bantu term which denotes the magical power of words to cause change, as a critical African American lexical lens. It will foreground the fiction of Octavia E. Butler and John Edgar Wideman through the critical lens of griot as a means to construct African American community and culture through narrative by utilizing nommo. Nommo is an "African concept in which the word is a life force; the word is creator rather than created" even after it has been spoken or written. Traditionally the griot is …

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Hegemonic Masculinity: Identity Construction And Consequences For Men, Bill Joseph Clemon Jan 2011

Hegemonic Masculinity: Identity Construction And Consequences For Men, Bill Joseph Clemon

Theses Digitization Project

This is an examination of the actual development and role of hegemonic masculinity as it relates to the conditioning of males and the effects on themselves and those with who they are in contact. The historical evolution of hegemonic masculinity is examined as well as its aftermath.

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Fevered Desires And Interracial Intimacies In Jungle Fever, Ronald Sundstrom Jan 2011

Fevered Desires And Interracial Intimacies In Jungle Fever, Ronald Sundstrom

Philosophy

Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever centers on a sexual affair between a black man, Flipper, and a white, Italian American woman, Angela. This pairing centers on the type of interracial relationship and pairing (black man plus white woman) typically obsessed about in discussions of interracial romances. It is also the pairing offered by Left radicals, such as Frantz Fanon in Black Skins, White Masks (1952), as the prototype of racial revolution. The title of Julius Lester’s black nationalist classic Look Out, Whitey! Black Power’s Gonna Get Your Mama! (1969), dramatically illustrates this view. Lee’s Jungle Fever upsets this radical stance by …

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The Economics Of Parenting, Self-Esteem, And Academic Performance: Theory And A Test, Rajeev Darolia, Bruce Wydick Jan 2011

The Economics Of Parenting, Self-Esteem, And Academic Performance: Theory And A Test, Rajeev Darolia, Bruce Wydick

Economics Faculty Publications

This paper develops a theory about how signals sent to a child by an altruistic parent affect a child's self-esteem, effort and long-term performance when a parent has better information about child ability than children do themselves. We carry out OLS, 2SLS, and 3SLS estimations of our model on a sample of 651 college students. Our results show some complementary actions before college, such as parental praise, foster academic achievement above what natural ability would predict. Conversely, we find some substitutionary actions before college, such as providing them cars as gifts, are associated with lower effort in college and underachievement. …

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Beyond The Paradoxical Shadow Of A Doubt: A Powerful Bond That Sustains Servant-Leaders In Their Struggle For Truth And Justice, Dung Q. Tran Jan 2011

Beyond The Paradoxical Shadow Of A Doubt: A Powerful Bond That Sustains Servant-Leaders In Their Struggle For Truth And Justice, Dung Q. Tran

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The comprehensive study of leadership phenomena matters. Reasons abound for the need of both formal and informal leadership research in various contexts. Spears (1998) recognized the emergence of a significant "leadership and management paradigm for the 21st century" (p. xix). Jackson and Parry (2008) claimed that "leadership is widely seen as both the problem and solution to all manner of contemporary issues" (p. 9). A key buzzword in our modern times, leadership has "become a major issue in all forms of organizations" (Doohan, 2007, p. I). In the world of higher education, Greenleaf (1998) identified a "serious crisis of leadership …

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Redemption Of The Dead: Continuing Revelation After Joseph Smith, David L. Paulsen, Kendel J. Christensen, Martin Pulido, Judson Burton Jan 2011

Redemption Of The Dead: Continuing Revelation After Joseph Smith, David L. Paulsen, Kendel J. Christensen, Martin Pulido, Judson Burton

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

After Joseph Smith’s death, the Saints still had many questions regarding the soteriological problem of evil and the doctrines about redeeming the dead. This paper details what leaders of the church after Joseph Smith have said in response to these previously unanswered questions. They focus on the nature of Christ’s visit to the spirit world, those who were commissioned to preach the gospel to the departed spirits, the consequences of neglecting the gospel in mortality, and the extent and role of temple ordinances for those not eligible for celestial glory. This paper focuses on both the early and the late …

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Class Notes, Linfield Magazine Staff Jan 2011

Class Notes, Linfield Magazine Staff

Linfield Magazine

News about Linfield alumni

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2011 Complete Digest, Department Of English Jan 2011

2011 Complete Digest, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

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Corned Beef: An Enigmatic Irish Dish, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, Padraig Og Gallagher Jan 2011

Corned Beef: An Enigmatic Irish Dish, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, Padraig Og Gallagher

Conference papers

No abstract provided.

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September 2011, Syracuse University Future Professoriate Program, Syracuse University Future Professoriate Program Jan 2011

September 2011, Syracuse University Future Professoriate Program, Syracuse University Future Professoriate Program

Syracuse University Future Professoriate Program

No abstract provided.

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Get Jacked! South Dakota State Jackrabbits Women's Basketball 2010-11 Media Guide, South Dakota State University Jan 2011

Get Jacked! South Dakota State Jackrabbits Women's Basketball 2010-11 Media Guide, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Women's Basketball Media Guides (1998-2014)

General Information
Coaches / Staff
Jackrabbit Players
2010-11 Opponents
2009-10 Season Review
History

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Absorptive Capacity At The Individual Level: Linking Creativity To Innovation In Academia, Ashley R. Davis, N. Da Silva Jan 2011

Absorptive Capacity At The Individual Level: Linking Creativity To Innovation In Academia, Ashley R. Davis, N. Da Silva

Faculty Publications

The absorptive capacity construct has been examined across various country, interorganization, and organizational level phenomena. This paper presents a framework that adopts the absorptive capacity framework to explain the relationship between creative and innovative performance at the individual level. The framework is illustrated by predicting research scholarship among university faculty.

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Little Brother Is Watching And Recording You: Social Control In A Deviant Group, Joshua Wayne Roberts Jan 2011

Little Brother Is Watching And Recording You: Social Control In A Deviant Group, Joshua Wayne Roberts

Online Theses and Dissertations

Since the 1950s social control has mostly been explained from the counteraction of deviance perspective. In this research I examine social control in a broader context, what I call social control as the furtherance of action perspective. In order to accomplish this, I conducted a digital ethnography with a group engaged in deviant behavior. The group has no formal name, but individuals are known by the deviant act they engage in. The act is referred to as "capping", but is best explained as individuals or a group of individuals making screen recordings of live web cam feeds from websites designed …

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South Dakota State Women's Basketball 2011-12 Media Guide, South Dakota State University Jan 2011

South Dakota State Women's Basketball 2011-12 Media Guide, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Women's Basketball Media Guides (1998-2014)

General Information [pages] 2-18
Coaches / Staff [pages] 19-30
Jackrabbit Players [pages] 31-52
2011-12 Opponents [pages] 53-66
2010-11 Season Review [pages] 67-84
History [pages] 85-110

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Involving Men, Population Council Jan 2011

Involving Men, Population Council

Momentum

IN THIS ISSUE: Helping husbands safeguard health in Ethiopia | Calling attention to gender norms and rights | Identifying new male contraceptives | Achieving scale for male circumcision services | Working to ban female genital mutilation/cutting

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Born Criminal: The Criminalization Of African Americans, Debra Carolyn Wasserman Jan 2011

Born Criminal: The Criminalization Of African Americans, Debra Carolyn Wasserman

Theses Digitization Project

This study examined the factors that have contributed to the overrepresentation of Black Americans in the criminal justice system.

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Perceived Effectiveness Of Sports Interventions On Mental Health: Exploring The Perspectives Of Professional Educators, Isais Wellington Smith, Gamaliel Beltran Jan 2011

Perceived Effectiveness Of Sports Interventions On Mental Health: Exploring The Perspectives Of Professional Educators, Isais Wellington Smith, Gamaliel Beltran

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to examine sports interventions among professional educators and how sports as an exercise method can contribute to mental health well being. Sports and exercise in many therapeutic environments may help individuals alleviate symptoms pertaining to depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bi-polar, and many other mental health disorders.

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Early Maladaptive Schemas And Negative Eating Attitudes: The Moderating Role Of Acculturation In Latina College Students, Stacey Cardoz Lopez Jan 2011

Early Maladaptive Schemas And Negative Eating Attitudes: The Moderating Role Of Acculturation In Latina College Students, Stacey Cardoz Lopez

Theses Digitization Project

The current study focused on the prevalence of negative eating attitudes in one hundred and forty-five Latina college students and delineated the cognitive and cultural factors that may be responsible for the increase in negative eating attitudes (NEAT) in Latinas. Questionnaires were distributed to college students enrolled in various social science classes in undergraduate psychology courses at Cal State University, San Bernardino for extra course credit.

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Exploring The Effective Components Of The Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy: Violence Intervention And Prevention Program, Maria Catharina Johanna Lurinks Jan 2011

Exploring The Effective Components Of The Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy: Violence Intervention And Prevention Program, Maria Catharina Johanna Lurinks

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effective components of the Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy: Violence Intervention, and Prevention program. It is found that an effective violence intervention program can help reduce the violent crime rates among juveniles in San Bernardino County.

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How Do Heteronormative Perspectives Affect Same-Sex Parents?, Michelle Nicole Mcnevin Jan 2011

How Do Heteronormative Perspectives Affect Same-Sex Parents?, Michelle Nicole Mcnevin

Theses Digitization Project

This study focused on same-sex couples that are co-parenting children in the United States and the differences in parenting that were elicited when faced with heteronormative perspectives in society. Understanding how these families disclose the nature of their same-sex family provides the social worker with insights on how to work more effectively with these families and create more inclusive space for these families throughout the community.

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An Algorithm For Facial Expression Recognition To Assist Handicapped Individuals With Eating Disabilities, Anthony Rudolph De La Loza Jan 2011

An Algorithm For Facial Expression Recognition To Assist Handicapped Individuals With Eating Disabilities, Anthony Rudolph De La Loza

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis is to describe an algorithm and implement a software system based upon facial expression recognition that will accurately determine the specific need of a handicapped individual pertaining to the eating process. Then based upon that need, determine the appropriate action that should be executed. This thesis aims to present a solution to allow a special needs individual to eat more efficienty and foster independence, while providing a platform for further research in the area of feature detection to assist individuals with special needs.

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Academic Self-Efficacy And Persistence In The Context Of High-Stakes Testing, Nori Elena Sogomonian Jan 2011

Academic Self-Efficacy And Persistence In The Context Of High-Stakes Testing, Nori Elena Sogomonian

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent academic self-efficacy and persistence contribute to academic achievement in the context of high-stakes testing. This study focused on participants who had not met their high school graduation requirements because they did not pass the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE).

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African-Americans' Perceptions Of Hospice Care, Gina Elizabeth Wagner Jan 2011

African-Americans' Perceptions Of Hospice Care, Gina Elizabeth Wagner

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to reveal how African Americans view hospice care and how cultural values, economic factors and the amount of knowledge about hospice further impact the experiences African Americans have with hospice.

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Blackness As A Weapon: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The 2009 Henry Louis Gates Arrest In National Mainstream Media, Ashley Ann Jones Jan 2011

Blackness As A Weapon: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The 2009 Henry Louis Gates Arrest In National Mainstream Media, Ashley Ann Jones

Theses Digitization Project

This study analyzed the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and USA Today's contributions to portraying the 2009 Henry L. Gates arrest. This study is interested in finding out how nationally circulated mainstream dailies and weeklies framed the indident and Gates' image within their news coverage. This study also seeks to find out how the media constructed race. Most importantly, this study seeks to uncover racial stereotypes as they relate to race and social status.

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Hate Crimes Based On Gender Identity And Sexual Orientation, Katie Nicole Williams Jan 2011

Hate Crimes Based On Gender Identity And Sexual Orientation, Katie Nicole Williams

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to examine hate crimes based on their gender identity or sexual orientation of the victim through selected variables. The research looked at information collected from a variety of media sources, categorized the information into the existing dataset, and used a chi-square test to prove the significance. The sample analyzed contains 121 cases of individuals that were killed because of their real or perceived gender identity or sexual orientation within a twenty year time frame; Mathew Shepard, a highly publicized hate crime victim, was used as the focal point of this research.

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