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An Examination Of The K-12 Black-White Achievement Gap In Mississippi, Timothy O. Abram Ii Jan 2014

An Examination Of The K-12 Black-White Achievement Gap In Mississippi, Timothy O. Abram Ii

Honors Theses

This thesis examines the disparities in educational outcomes of black and white students throughout the state of Mississippi and investigates the steps that other states have taken to close the black-white achievement gap. White students outperform black students in every single measure of academic output, specifically the proficiency and passing rate on the state standardized test, the Mississippi Curriculum Test, the four subject area test (Algebra I, US History, Biology I, and English II), graduation and dropout rates, and the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) examinations. This research focuses on the historical environment which produced the current educational inequities …


Side A, Side B, Hong Zhang Jan 2014

Side A, Side B, Hong Zhang

Theses and Dissertations

I believe that aural and visual language can contribute and inspire one another. Sound evokes the emotions and the senses. It is a catalyst for our imagination. It can be combined with imagery for the purpose of communication, harmoniously or contrastively. Both have corresponding characteristics—color/timbre, brightness/pitch, length/duration, scale/volume, composition/rhythm—and thus provide ways of transforming each other back and forth as input and output. Computer technology has increased the ease of transforming and manipulating the two. In my thesis project, I explore sound visualization, sound/image transformation and combination.


Untitled, Berenice Calvario Jan 2014

Untitled, Berenice Calvario

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Hagar, Jodi Tai Jan 2014

Hagar, Jodi Tai

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Fuzzy Californian Rhapsody, Simon Harris Jan 2014

Fuzzy Californian Rhapsody, Simon Harris

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Pervasive Darkness, Kelsey Plageman Jan 2014

Pervasive Darkness, Kelsey Plageman

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Down By The Beck, Kelsey Belomy Jan 2014

Down By The Beck, Kelsey Belomy

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Living Has Become A Matter Of Survival, Adnan Hashtam Jan 2014

Living Has Become A Matter Of Survival, Adnan Hashtam

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Lotus Blossom's Exotic Fortune Cookie Factory, Anonymous Jan 2014

Lotus Blossom's Exotic Fortune Cookie Factory, Anonymous

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Diablo Spring, Mary Jo O'Connor Jan 2014

Diablo Spring, Mary Jo O'Connor

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Letter From The Past Visual Editors, Dana Shiroma Jan 2014

Letter From The Past Visual Editors, Dana Shiroma

Calliope

No abstract provided.


We All Live In A Shalott, Jennifer Truong Jan 2014

We All Live In A Shalott, Jennifer Truong

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Red Stamp Fractal, Alex Shigata Jan 2014

Red Stamp Fractal, Alex Shigata

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, Binaypreet Singh Jan 2014

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, Binaypreet Singh

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Opia: Revealing The I, Calliope Jan 2014

Opia: Revealing The I, Calliope

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Rare, Emilia Perez Jan 2014

Rare, Emilia Perez

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Letter From The Visual Editors, Andrew Bishofberger Jan 2014

Letter From The Visual Editors, Andrew Bishofberger

Calliope

No abstract provided.


If My Mother Were A Poem, Christine Viney Jan 2014

If My Mother Were A Poem, Christine Viney

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Oil Drip Danger, Liliana Nunez Jan 2014

Oil Drip Danger, Liliana Nunez

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Training Speech Center Consultants: Moving Forward With A Backward Glance, Linda B. Hobgood Jan 2014

Training Speech Center Consultants: Moving Forward With A Backward Glance, Linda B. Hobgood

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The commitment to a student-staffed speech center is at least twofold: though critical space allocation decisions as well as equipment purchase and placement required for successful operation are necessary and necessarily draw attention, the same kind of concentrated and thorough reflection is needed in considerations of staff training. Peer consulting, to be effective, calls for training that is intensive and extensive, theoretical and applied, but it should also prepare student consultants to faithfully reflect the nature, scope and state of the rhetorical art. Speech center consultants are better prepared to meet a greater variety of requests for assistance if they …


Nostalgia And The Myth Of Old Russia: Russian Emigres In Interwar Paris And Their Legacy In Contemporary Russia, Brad Gordon Jan 2014

Nostalgia And The Myth Of Old Russia: Russian Emigres In Interwar Paris And Their Legacy In Contemporary Russia, Brad Gordon

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.


The Reality Of Utopian And Dystopian Fiction: Thomas More's Utopia And Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Casey Holliday Jan 2014

The Reality Of Utopian And Dystopian Fiction: Thomas More's Utopia And Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Casey Holliday

Honors Theses

The purpose of this research is to explore the different methods that Thomas More's Utopia and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale utilize to create a compliant population, while also situating each in their appropriate historical context to draw on the authorial intentions. Different commonalities of the various definitions of utopia and dystopia are explored to form a framework to work within, and the two works are analyzed in relation to political theories set forth by Michel Foucault: the power over life and death in Utopia and the deployment of sexuality in The Handmaid's Tale. Both are used to enforce subjugation, …


The Triumphs Of Alexander Farnese: A Contextual Analysis Of The Series Of Paintings In Santiago, Chile, Michael J. Panbehchi Jan 2014

The Triumphs Of Alexander Farnese: A Contextual Analysis Of The Series Of Paintings In Santiago, Chile, Michael J. Panbehchi

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines a series of nine paintings depicting the battles of Alexander Farnese in Flanders created by the Cuzco School of Painters in eighteenth-century Peru. This research asks why and how paintings depicting sixteenth-century European battles were meaningful in the eighteenth century. Due to an absence of archival documentation on the authorship, production and patronage of the series, the research method is contextual. Starting with a formal and iconographic analysis of the paintings centered on a comparison between the paintings and the engravings upon which they are based, differences in the use of space and the conspicuousness of individual …


Elementary New Testament Greek, Joseph R. Dongell Jan 2014

Elementary New Testament Greek, Joseph R. Dongell

Academic Books

No abstract provided.


Nature, Infrastructure, And The State: Rethinking Development In Latin America, Kregg Hetherington, Jeremy M. Campbell Jan 2014

Nature, Infrastructure, And The State: Rethinking Development In Latin America, Kregg Hetherington, Jeremy M. Campbell

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Speculative Accumulation: Property-Making In The Brazilian Amazon, Jeremy M. Campbell Jan 2014

Speculative Accumulation: Property-Making In The Brazilian Amazon, Jeremy M. Campbell

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

This article explores how nonindigenous settlers in the Brazilian Amazon pursue vernacular territorial strategies as they attempt to make property legible and legitimate in an emerging order of state-led governance reforms. In Amazonia, official figurations for the development of the region have layered upon one another over the past 50 years, depositing a range of contradictory procedures for claiming, holding, and disposing of property. Ethnography shows how residents draw on the ambiguous history of property-making and their deep familiarity with surrounding landscapes to influence new environmental governance paradigms. With the goal of appearing in line with state-led tenure reform, colonists …


Evaluating Evidence Of Childhood Abuse As A Function Of Expert Testimony, Judge’S Instructions, And Sentence Recommendation, Judith Platania, Fotine Konstantopoulou Jan 2014

Evaluating Evidence Of Childhood Abuse As A Function Of Expert Testimony, Judge’S Instructions, And Sentence Recommendation, Judith Platania, Fotine Konstantopoulou

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

In the current study we examined how jurors utilize evidence of childhood abuse as a function of expert testimony and sentence recommendation. We also varied the specificity of instructional language in the context of mitigating circumstances. We predicted jurors who impose a life sentence would rate evidence of childhood abuse as significantly more important in determining sentence compared to jurors who impose the death penalty. Furthermore, we expected this effect to be moderated by expert testimony. Testimony of childhood abuse increased importance ratings of non-statutory mitigating circumstances. This effect was more evident for jurors who imposed a life sentence compared …


Jamaica: A Famous, Strong But Damaged Brand, Hume N. Johnson Jan 2014

Jamaica: A Famous, Strong But Damaged Brand, Hume N. Johnson

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

Image, brand and reputation are the new capital for nations in the twenty-first century. In this era of the global marketplace, nations, regions and cities are forced to compete with each other for tourists, investment, aid, students, for buyers of their products and services, and for talent. Scholars now agree that nations themselves have become brands, and are now obliged to manage their images in order to influence people’s decision in terms of purchasing, investing and traveling. Nations with unknown or poor reputations, including those enduring prolonged crises are thus likely to suffer marginalization and will not easily witness economic …


A Feminist Oversight: The Reproductive Rights Of Women In Prisons, Rebecca Burgan Jan 2014

A Feminist Oversight: The Reproductive Rights Of Women In Prisons, Rebecca Burgan

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Historically, the value of a woman has been based on her ability to produce healthy and successful (male) children, leaving little room for worth based on intelligence or other achievements. Second wave feminists made significant strides for women's reproductive choices, acknowledging that motherhood is not the only way for a woman to have fulfillment or value. While women throughout the United States have more access, opportunity, and choice, women in United States prisons have not benefited from the same advancements in reproductive freedom. The denial of women's reproductive freedoms in prison can be attributed to the high costs of pregnancy …


Healthcare For Undocumented Workers In France And The United States, Rehab Talat Jan 2014

Healthcare For Undocumented Workers In France And The United States, Rehab Talat

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore healthcare for undocumented immigrants in France and the US in light of immigration policy, labor needs, and social values. While both countries have historically relied and continue to rely on undocumented labor, they treat irregular migrants differently when it comes to healthcare. While many hospitals in the US deport undocumented patients in a practice termed medical repatriation, the French government has legislated an illness clause that gives residency permits to severely sick sans-papiers who need medical care. To explore the reasoning behind these extremely contrasting treatments, the thesis studies the social values …