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Drug Addiction And Personal Responsibility, Andrew Shawn Reagan
Drug Addiction And Personal Responsibility, Andrew Shawn Reagan
Philosophy Theses
This project examines drug addiction and personal responsibility from the perspective of three different types of theories of addiction: full responsibility, diminished responsibility, and no responsibility. The rational theory of addiction is the fully responsibility theory. The philosophical insights by R. Jay Wallace and George Graham are the diminished responsibility theories. Berridge and Robinson’s Incentive Salience theory of drug addiction is the no responsibility theory examined. My conclusion is that diminished responsibility frameworks are the most suitable in a therapeutic context because they are most sensitive to relevant normative aspects.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Seeking Natural Kinds In A Controversial Diagnosis, Paul Kenneth Pfeilschiefter
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Seeking Natural Kinds In A Controversial Diagnosis, Paul Kenneth Pfeilschiefter
Philosophy Theses
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition that results from the experience of a traumatic event. Natural kinds are mind-independent entities found in nature and are the objects of scientific inquiry. It is common to deny that PTSD is a natural kind, but extant denials assume a thesis of natural kinds that can be called “essentialism”. According to essentialism, many entities are not natural kinds that one would expect should be natural kinds. The homeostatic cluster view of natural kinds offers an alternative that accommodates these cases, including, superficially, the claim that PTSD is a natural kind. I introduce …
Feminist Online Writing Courses: Collaboration, Community Action, And Student Engagement, Letizia Guglielmo
Feminist Online Writing Courses: Collaboration, Community Action, And Student Engagement, Letizia Guglielmo
English Dissertations
As fully online course offerings continue to grow at colleges and universities around the country, we are faced with the challenge of preserving what we value in first-year writing while making the affordances of online environments work for our students. This dissertation explores how the online writing instructor, guided by feminist pedagogy and civic rhetoric, can begin to shift the center of power within the course, allowing students to become co-teachers and promoting the social construction of knowledge central to first-year writing. Facilitated by computer-mediated communication technologies, this approach relies on online activities that invite ongoing contributions from students, promote …
"Check With Yo' Man First; Check With Yo' Man": Perry Appropriates Drag As A Tool To Recirculate Patriarchal Ideology, Timothy Scott Lyle
"Check With Yo' Man First; Check With Yo' Man": Perry Appropriates Drag As A Tool To Recirculate Patriarchal Ideology, Timothy Scott Lyle
English Theses
In this thesis project, I investigate the drama of Perry and introduce his dramaturgy into the academic landscape. As the critical discourse is shifting towards the realm of popular culture, we must begin to locate several discourses at work in the drama of quite possibly the most popular, visible, and financially successful African American playwright of the twenty-first century, if not of all time. Drawing on gender and queer theory, I offer a theoretical discussion about subversive and non-subversive drag acts, and I question the degree to which Perry appropriates drag in a politically liberating or constraining manner. Moreover, I …
Learning Outcomes In Two Divergent Middle School String Orchestra Classroom Environments: A Comparison Of A Learner-Centered And A Teacher-Centered Approach, Bernadette Butler Scruggs
Learning Outcomes In Two Divergent Middle School String Orchestra Classroom Environments: A Comparison Of A Learner-Centered And A Teacher-Centered Approach, Bernadette Butler Scruggs
Music Dissertations
This study investigated whether and in what ways a learner-centered instrumental music education classroom environment may nurture musical growth and independence. The mixed-methods design incorporated quantitative and qualitative measures to compare performance outcomes, musical growth, and learner and teacher dispositions in learner-centered and teacher-centered middle school orchestra classrooms. Quantitative measures included a Performance Assessment Instrument and a researcher-designed survey of student perceptions and attitudes. Qualitative measures included classroom observation, student and teacher interviews, and teacher journal entries. Research participants were four teachers, two of whom taught using a teacher-centered approach, and two of whom were oriented to learner-centered classroom strategies …
To Cover Our Daughters: A Modern Chastity Ritual In Evangelical America, Holly Adams Phillips
To Cover Our Daughters: A Modern Chastity Ritual In Evangelical America, Holly Adams Phillips
Religious Studies Theses
Over the last ten years, a newly created ritual called a Purity Ball has become increasingly popular in American evangelical communities. In much of the present literature, Purity Balls are assumed solely to address a daughter’s emerging sexuality in a ritual designed to counteract evolving American norms on sexuality; however, the ritual may carry additional latent sociological functions. While experienced explicitly by the individual participants as a celebration of father/daughter relationships and a means to address evolutionary sexual mating strategies, Purity Balls may implicitly regenerate existing social hierarchy. This ritual facilitates a sociological purpose by means of re-establishing the role …