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Does Participating In A Music Program In High School Lead To Academic Achievement In College?, Vanessa Lynn Almaraz May 2014

Does Participating In A Music Program In High School Lead To Academic Achievement In College?, Vanessa Lynn Almaraz

Theses and Dissertations

Music education has and continues to become a constant issue in the cultural aspect and views of the educational system. How does music play a factor in our educational system? This thesis investigates the influence of how music plays in an individual’s educational development. Research has shown that while students in high school who participated in a music program, had significant increases in how they achieved academically in school, with this, students may also have the chance of excelling in their academics while attending a college or university. In this study, I measured the academic excellence amongst several social demographic …

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Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, May 4, 2014, University Of South Florida May 2014

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, May 4, 2014, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Christine Bruzek and Katherine Audrey van Dommelen; Outstanding Graduate - Erik Richardson

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Commencement 2014 (Program And Video), Illinois Wesleyan University May 2014

Commencement 2014 (Program And Video), Illinois Wesleyan University

Commencement Ceremonies

No abstract provided.

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Parallel Sessions (Consumer Behavior): A Structural Approach On Compulsive Buying Behaviour, Tariq Jalees, Ume Amen, Qurat -Ul-Ain Kazmi May 2014

Parallel Sessions (Consumer Behavior): A Structural Approach On Compulsive Buying Behaviour, Tariq Jalees, Ume Amen, Qurat -Ul-Ain Kazmi

International Conference on Marketing

he aim of this paper is to measure the effect of materialism, interpersonal influence and compulsive buying behavior through a conceptual framework based on the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). The questionnaire was administrated by the appointed enumerators in the selected malls of Karachi. The enumerators visited these malls during different hours and days of the week. The valid sample size for this study is 300 comprising of all age groups. Mall intercept method which is a kind of convenience sampling was used for collecting data. The instrument used for collecting data for this study comprised of four constructs which …

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Wilderness, Kathryn E. Bucolo May 2014

Wilderness, Kathryn E. Bucolo

Celebration

The collection of short stories I have written focuses on how people process (or do not process) tragedy, especially as related to themes of grief, memory, and faith. Most of the stories I have written are dysfunctional narratives in that they do not necessarily provide solid conclusions or solutions for the characters or readers, reflecting current trends in literature to move away from the didactic and moralistic in favor of the ambiguous and unstable, the hopeless and sorrowful. In "Wilderness", one of the pieces I wrote for my collection, Robert struggles with the death of his wife when he realizes …

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Celebration Schedule 2014 (Saturday), Provost's Office May 2014

Celebration Schedule 2014 (Saturday), Provost's Office

Celebration

Full presentation schedule for Celebration, Saturday, May 3, 2014

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Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 3, 2014, University Of South Florida May 2014

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 3, 2014, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Presidential Management Fellowship - Terrill Curtis; Fulbright U.S. Student Program - Trina Halfhide and Lauren Shumate

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Human Utility Business Model: Maximizing Human Energy, Robin A. Roberts May 2014

Human Utility Business Model: Maximizing Human Energy, Robin A. Roberts

Office of Diversity & Inclusion

“The NCAA Inclusion Forum brings together intercollegiate athletics leaders passionate about improving the educational and professional environment for student-athletes, coaches and staff. Sessions engage on a broad range of topics related to policy, research and best practices for racial and ethnic minorities, women, international student-athletes, LGBTQ and disability-access to sport.”—National Collegiate Athletic Association website.

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164th Commencement, Spring May 2014

164th Commencement, Spring

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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The Relationship Between Self-Described Spirituality And An External Or Internal Locus Of Control, Elizabeth Dibley May 2014

The Relationship Between Self-Described Spirituality And An External Or Internal Locus Of Control, Elizabeth Dibley

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

This study investigates the relationship between spirituality and locus of control using similar definitions and processes of previous research on the topic. This cross comparison of participants who categorize themselves into different groups of spirituality allows for the examination of how people of various spiritual groups can be described as having an internal or external locus of control. Items from questionnaires completed by an undergraduate population were analyzed using a one-way ANOVA to examine the direct relationship between the variables. A significant difference between the groups of participants of differing spiritualities and their locus of control was found. Participants who …

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Male Hypergamy And Social Status, Cedric N. Floyd May 2014

Male Hypergamy And Social Status, Cedric N. Floyd

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

Male hypergamy, a social pattern rarely observed, has been prevalent throughout history as a symbol of social status for men. Hypergamy is the act of marrying into a higher social class or caste. This paper analyzes a few exemplary men ranging from the Italian Renaissance to Twenty-First Century America to make note of this pattern and attempts to understand how it affects the social order in middle-to-upper class society. The research, gathered from various books on class and society, presents an idea of various men who have, in some way or another, used their marriages as a social asset and …

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Celebration Schedule 2014 (Friday), Provost's Office May 2014

Celebration Schedule 2014 (Friday), Provost's Office

Celebration

Full presentation schedule for Celebration, Friday, May 2, 2014

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Fearless Friday: Annamarie Houlis, Annamarie Houlis May 2014

Fearless Friday: Annamarie Houlis, Annamarie Houlis

SURGE

Constantly working to make open and safe spaces on campus for women to speak up and receive support, using her writing and journalism skills to find and spread the word about social injustices affecting women, and taking the initiative to start her own women’s justice blog, AnnaMarie Houlis ’14 uses her creativity and passion to help those not just on campus, but globally.

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Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 2, 2014, University Of South Florida May 2014

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 2, 2014, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

President's Fellow Medallion - Stuart Silverman; Outstanding Graduate - Dazaun Soleyn; King O'Neal Scholars - Katherine Allen, Nicholas Arnal, Adrienne Barrett, Donna Barth, Lisa Bejos, William Bentley, Anesta Boice, Charles Bonfield, Nicholas Gunther, Kristen Hanenian, Avery Johnson, Andrew Krajewski, Stefanie Kwit, Shaina Maldonado, Jolene Neuman, Theresa Novak, Colleen Pascalli, Madison Wahler, and Stephanie Wilson

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Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, May 2, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee May 2014

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, May 2, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda and minutes from the May 2, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

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Casualty, Causality And Chivalry: The Myth Of Chivalry And Racial Violence In Southern Literature, Nicholas Alexander Salvo May 2014

Casualty, Causality And Chivalry: The Myth Of Chivalry And Racial Violence In Southern Literature, Nicholas Alexander Salvo

Honors Theses

This honors thesis project uses history and literature to analyze the role of the myth of chivalry in mystifying racial violence and oppression in the American South. The central claim is that the myth of chivalry¿ and particularly the exaltation of the white woman¿ is a myth system used to justify racial violence, oppress white womanhood, and allow white patriarchy to maintain political, social and economic dominance. This project traces the role of literature, especially Sir Walter Scott¿s historical romance, in developing the foundational myths of a southern society based in violence, racial hierarchy and gender inequality. It then follows …

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Diversity In Times Of Austerity: Documenting Resistance In The Academy, Tamara Leech, David Moscowitz, Terri Jett, Terri Carney, Ann Savage May 2014

Diversity In Times Of Austerity: Documenting Resistance In The Academy, Tamara Leech, David Moscowitz, Terri Jett, Terri Carney, Ann Savage

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

What happens to feminism in the university is parallel to what happens to feminism in other venues under economic restructuring: while the impoverished nation is forced to cut social services and thereby send women back to the hierarchy of the family, the academy likewise reduces its footprint in interdisciplinary structures and contains academic feminists back to the hierarchy of departments and disciplines. When the family and the department become powerful arbiters of cultural values, women and feminist academics by and large suffer: they either accept a diminished role or are pushed to compete in a system they recognize as antithetical …

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Daily Eastern News: May 02, 2014, Eastern Illinois University May 2014

Daily Eastern News: May 02, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

May

No abstract provided.

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Supreme Court Of New York Appellate Division, First Department - Street Vendor Project V. City Of New York, Sarah Marx May 2014

Supreme Court Of New York Appellate Division, First Department - Street Vendor Project V. City Of New York, Sarah Marx

Touro Law Review

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Learning By Giving: The Youth Homelessness Initiative, Camille Gross, Christina Mccourt, Molly Nash, Eleanor Powell May 2014

Learning By Giving: The Youth Homelessness Initiative, Camille Gross, Christina Mccourt, Molly Nash, Eleanor Powell

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

As part of the Colby Undergraduate Student Philanthropist (CUSP) foundation, funded by the Learning by Giving Foundation, we are collaborating with United Way of Mid-Maine to write a 10,000 grant allocated over a three-year period in support of United Way of Mid-Maines Youth Homelessness Initiative. This program would provide homeless or at-risk for homelessness youth ages in junior and high school (grades 5 through 12) in northern Kennebec, Somerset, and western Waldo counties with the basic needs they require in order to stay in school and ultimately earn a high school diploma.During the 2011-12 pilot project of the Youth Homelessness …

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A Learning By Giving Student Grant--Alfond Youth Center Rebound To Success Program: Opportunity, Prevention, Focus, Kayla Turner, Rebecca Forgrave, Thalia Giraldo, Amber Ramirez May 2014

A Learning By Giving Student Grant--Alfond Youth Center Rebound To Success Program: Opportunity, Prevention, Focus, Kayla Turner, Rebecca Forgrave, Thalia Giraldo, Amber Ramirez

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

The Alfond Youth Center in Waterville, Maine is the only combined Boys and Girls Club and YMCA in the country. This organization meets the needs of the central Maine community by providing an after school program on a sliding scale based of family income, pay-for-play recreational opportunities, and other services such as dental care and counseling when needed. Rebound to Success, another Alfond Youth Center-sponsored program, is a juvenile diversion program for first time offenders aged 11-18 in Kennebec and Somerset Counties. Most of the crimes the participants have committed are drug defined or related offenses (ie. possession or use, …

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Colby Undergraduate Student Philanthropists- Center For Crisis And Counseling, James O'Leary, Jasmine Phillips, Maria Zeta Valladolid, Amanda Carbonneau May 2014

Colby Undergraduate Student Philanthropists- Center For Crisis And Counseling, James O'Leary, Jasmine Phillips, Maria Zeta Valladolid, Amanda Carbonneau

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

Students will present the Centers for Crisis and Counseling ,000 grant application. The students will demonstrate the necessity of funding the Center for Crisis and Counseling compared to other nonprofits and how this grant will improve the community. Moreover, the students will highlight the ways this organization and program will prevent the manifestation of mental illnesses for children in their adult life.

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Community Dental Center, Randall Person, Sarah Mann, Susan Fleurant, Lily Cabour May 2014

Community Dental Center, Randall Person, Sarah Mann, Susan Fleurant, Lily Cabour

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

We are writing a grant in partnership with a local nonprofit, the Community Dental Center in Waterville. The Community Dental Center provides comprehensive dental care for low-income patients in Kennebec and Somerset counties. The grant money would fund two programs targeting specific, at-risk populations of women in Central Maine. One program focuses on dental health education for teenage mothers at the Maine Childrens Home. The second program is the provision of dental services for victims of domestic violence. Dental health has been shown to directly influence school and work attendance, overall health, and self-esteem. With proper care and education, dental …

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Passing And Transcendence In Political Identities And Socioeconomic Status, Sophie Hamblett, Ginger Brooker, Samuel Poulin, Megan Mackenzie May 2014

Passing And Transcendence In Political Identities And Socioeconomic Status, Sophie Hamblett, Ginger Brooker, Samuel Poulin, Megan Mackenzie

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

This study will examine passing, a phenomenon that occurs when an individual tries to hide a part of their identity, or takes on a new false identity in order to fit in with a certain social context. Passing might be especially important in a college setting, where students are in a stage of emerging adulthood and exploring new identities. This process can occur with all sorts of identity, commonly one that makes the individual a minority.In our study, we will focus specifically on passing in the areas of race and socioeconomic status, which has, thus far, not been addressed by …

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Re-Defining Mental Illness, Anna Krauss May 2014

Re-Defining Mental Illness, Anna Krauss

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

As an often ostracized group from society, the mentally ills path to social acceptance is not easy. To fully understand our current health care system in regards to mental illness, the steps one takes when diagnosed as mentally ill as well, as the hardships one will face, this paper will address the question: to what extent is the effectiveness of modern diagnosis and treatments on mental illnesses? From sociological theory to the biological sciences, this topic has been closely scrutinized and identified as a prevalent issue in our society. Due to the complexity of this topic, however, no one definite …

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It's Just A Number: Influences Of Body Image Pressures On Diii Female Athletes, Christina Mccourt May 2014

It's Just A Number: Influences Of Body Image Pressures On Diii Female Athletes, Christina Mccourt

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

There are strong societal norms around what it means to be a woman and be an athlete. These norms get reinforced so much that female athletes internalize these ideas to the point that they begin to change their habits to better fit the demands of society. Being an athlete at a high level creates physical pressures for young women, but the extra mental pressures forced upon them can be detrimental both mentally and physically. The months I spent researching female athletes at Colby were intended to help answer several questions. The first was what pressures female athletes felt that they …

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Anthropogenic Effects On The Arctic, Sara Miller, Sarah Large May 2014

Anthropogenic Effects On The Arctic, Sara Miller, Sarah Large

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

The Arctic is a sensitive location that has been affected greatly by climate change and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to global warming. It is critical to research the Arctic because the effects are significant and can be seen globally. The average temperature in the Arctic is increasing twice as fast as the rest of the world, which is causing the ice caps and permafrost to melt. Permafrost traps carbon and methane, and as permafrost melts these elements are released into the atmosphere. Since the conditions of the Arctic are changing local species are affected due to their altered habit. …

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Career Trajectories In Finance: Individual Motivations And Navigating External Influences, Kathryn Griffin May 2014

Career Trajectories In Finance: Individual Motivations And Navigating External Influences, Kathryn Griffin

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

The purpose of this qualitative sociological research study is to look at the career trajectories of Colby alumni currently working in finance in addition to seeing if variables such as gender and the cohort they graduated in may have played a role in their career development. I am interested in how institutional practices within American society in general, and the financial sector specifically, may perpetuate gender inequality or gendered patterns of labor market participation. With these findings, I hope to paint a picture as to what Colby graduates may face if they are interested in pursuing the field of finance …

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Peer Acceptance And The Emotional Well-Being Of Disabled Individuals, Abigail Burmeister May 2014

Peer Acceptance And The Emotional Well-Being Of Disabled Individuals, Abigail Burmeister

Perspectives

This study is about how knowing someone with a disability affects an individual’s level of acceptance for others who have a disability. In addition, this paper will also look at previous research on how different levels of peer acceptance affect the emotional well-being of those with disabilities. Under the supervision of our professor and the university staff, my classmates from Methods of Sociological Research at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and I compiled a list of research questions pertaining to our individual studies and sent the link to our Qualtrics survey to approximately 300 other UNH students via Facebook …

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Effects Of Maternal Depression On Family Food Insecurity, Kelly Noonan, Hope Corman, Nancy E. Reichman May 2014

Effects Of Maternal Depression On Family Food Insecurity, Kelly Noonan, Hope Corman, Nancy E. Reichman

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

Theory suggests that adverse life events—such as unemployment or health shocks—can result in food insecurity, which has increased substantially in the U.S. over the past decade alongside the obesity epidemic. We test this proposition by estimating the effects of a specific and salient mental health event—maternal depression during the postpartum year—on child and family food insecurity. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort, we estimate the effects of maternal depression on food insecurity using both single- and twostage models, and explore potential buffering effects of relevant public assistance programs and supports. We find that moderate to severe maternal …

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