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Life In Mossville, Louisiana: Policy Implications Of Toxic Waste Exposure And Environmental Racism, Clare Kelsey Jan 2022

Life In Mossville, Louisiana: Policy Implications Of Toxic Waste Exposure And Environmental Racism, Clare Kelsey

Theses

Environmental damage disproportionately affects communities of color. Understanding how environmental racism uniquely affects marginalized communities is crucial to effectively develop public policies that will address the systematic racism that is rooted in many existing policies and practices. The town of Mossville, Louisiana provides a case study of a Black town that experienced devastating environmental pollution as well as displacement from the oil and petrochemical industries in the region (Rogers, 2015), with few residents still in the area. This thesis presents a qualitative study utilizing peer-reviewed literature, secondary sources, and life narratives of Mossville residents. These oral histories serve to amplify …

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Analysis Of Cranial Modification In Coastal Ecuador, Alexis Marie Henderson Jan 2022

Analysis Of Cranial Modification In Coastal Ecuador, Alexis Marie Henderson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

This thesis analyzes cranial modification from various sites and locations within coastal Ecuador. This research aims to identify the various types of tabular cranial modification and understand the methods used to classify each subtype of tabular modification. From this, I discussed the different types of modification and then used that information to contrast between North American and South American bioarchaeological methods of classifying cranial modification. Additionally, I reconstructed the biological profiles of some of the crania. The importance of this research is to introduce a method of identifying cranial modification that has been previously used in South American bioarchaeology to …

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Analyzing Bipoc Representation In Young Adult Fiction, Bianca Carbone Jan 2022

Analyzing Bipoc Representation In Young Adult Fiction, Bianca Carbone

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

This thesis uses an identity studies approach to look at the representation of BIPOC characters within three young adult speculative fiction: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Black Witch by Laurie Forest, and Cinder by Marissa Meyer. By incorporating identity studies to explore and analyze examples of misrepresentation and unconscious bias throughout stories centered on oppressive world building, racial hierarchies, this thesis draws upon the works of various scholars including: Stuart Hall, Michel Foucault, Orlando Patterson, Toni Morrison, and Edward Said. A lack of diverse authors and Eurocentrically-framed ideologies cemented into the publishing industry has led to instances of …

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Making Wonderwomen: Recursive Tendencies In Feminist Utopias, William Norris Jan 2022

Making Wonderwomen: Recursive Tendencies In Feminist Utopias, William Norris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Making Wonder Women: Recursive Tendencies in Feminist Utopias argues that reduplications of patriarchal hegemonies exist in William Marston’s Wonder Women. Using several close readings of Marston’s original comics as well as three modern (2011, 2017, 2020) reimaginings by Greg Rucka, Grant Morrison, and Daniel Warren Johnson, this thesis highlights how the design of Paradise Island, the Amazons, and Wonder Woman serve to reproduce Rockwellian demands of femininity through the guise of sexual radicalism and the religious rhetoric of liberation through servitude. This culminates in the position that Marston’s feminist ideals calcified into pop-culture a confusing and muddled icon of white …

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The Reintegration Of Women And Class Conflict Into Epic/Grimdark Fantasy, Jacob Domosh Jan 2022

The Reintegration Of Women And Class Conflict Into Epic/Grimdark Fantasy, Jacob Domosh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Steven Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon (1999) is a well-received novel grounded in the Secondary World traditions of both epic and grimdark fantasy, that may – upon a first read – appear like any other fantasy novel set in its own world – featuring humans and nonhuman characters, giants and dragons, swords and sorcery, floating castles and continent-spanning empires. The use of these fantasy elements creates a wonderfully immersive first novel for the wonderfully evocative Malazan Book of the Fallen series, but the series accomplishes more than that; Erikson’s novel is set in a Secondary World that is distinct from …

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The Rhetorical Rise Of The “Mito” And “Tropical Trump”: How Bolsonaro Used A Trump Persona And Us Imagery In His Rhetorical Appeals, Greice Figueiredo Markwith Jan 2022

The Rhetorical Rise Of The “Mito” And “Tropical Trump”: How Bolsonaro Used A Trump Persona And Us Imagery In His Rhetorical Appeals, Greice Figueiredo Markwith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

In the elections of 2018, Brazilians chose Jair Messias Bolsonaro, the first Far-Right candidate, to be the future President of Brazil. In a 28-year political trajectory, he changed political parties eight times. The constant change demonstrates his ability to use rhetorical devices and adapt to new appeals. The researcher of this work outlined Bolsonaro’s rhetorical rise, tested his rhetorical personae, “mito” and “Tropical Trump” based on the work of Ware in Linkugel (1982). No other foreign candidate mirrored Trump as much as he did. Bolsonaro also used US imagery in videos, borrowing images and terminologies found in the US culture. …

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Whole Mitochondrial Genomes Of Wild Cercopithecus Monkeys From The Congo Basin, Stacy-Anne Parke Jan 2022

Whole Mitochondrial Genomes Of Wild Cercopithecus Monkeys From The Congo Basin, Stacy-Anne Parke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Bioinformatics tools applied to large-scale genomic datasets have helped develop our understanding of primate phylogenetics. However, it is becoming increasingly evident that biological data are accumulating faster than the current capacity of the bioanthropological community to analyze, integrate, and mine the data. Subsequently, this affects how anthropologists create and distribute knowledge. There is a growing need for more training in bioinformatics within anthropological spaces and the development of user-friendly bioinformatic tools for analysis, mining, and modeling of both local and global datasets. This thesis showcases the use of (applied) bioinformatics tools to construct seven new whole mitochondrial genomes to study …

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Finding A Voice: Overcoming Shame Through A Classroom Collective Exploration Of Vulnerability, Mary Catherine Lockmiller, Amy Armstrong-Heimsoth Jan 2022

Finding A Voice: Overcoming Shame Through A Classroom Collective Exploration Of Vulnerability, Mary Catherine Lockmiller, Amy Armstrong-Heimsoth

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

In keeping with the call for greater justice and diversity within the occupational therapy profession, many educational programs are taking steps to infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across their curriculum. In this paper, we will introduce the theoretical concepts underpinning the first assignment in a DEI curriculum thread in one entry-level occupational therapy doctoral (OTD) program, grounding it in critical pedagogy and exploring how it provides a first step to critical aptitude by providing space for an open-ended, reflexive dialogue about subjective experiences of internalized shame and marginalization. Students learn how to practice self awareness, understand shame culture, and …

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