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The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Apr 2017

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

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The Relationship Between Parenting Styles And Self-Esteem For Successive Generations, Molly A. Bee Apr 2017

The Relationship Between Parenting Styles And Self-Esteem For Successive Generations, Molly A. Bee

Undergraduate Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parenting styles and self-esteem across three generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. The researchers hypothesized that parenting styles from Baby Boomers to Generations X and Y have shifted from authoritarian to permissive, so a decrease in authoritarian parenting behaviors and an increase in permissive parenting styles were expected across the three generations. Further, we expected a decrease in self-esteem across the three generations, and speculate that this hypothesized change in parenting styles might relate to the decreases in the self-esteem of each generation. A total of 111 …

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Evaluating Tagteach As A Training Procedure For Novice-To-Advanced Fastpitch Softball Pitchers, Breanna Sniffen Apr 2017

Evaluating Tagteach As A Training Procedure For Novice-To-Advanced Fastpitch Softball Pitchers, Breanna Sniffen

Thesis Projects

Among the many behavioral coaching techniques available, acoustical guidance has been found to be highly effective in enhancing the athletic skills involved in a variety of sports (e.g. football, golf, dance, yoga, judo). TAGteach is a procedure in which a clicker is used to deliver immediate acoustical guidance to train a new skill or enhance a skill already in the subject’s repertoire (TAGteach International, 2012). The current study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of TAGteach in developing and/or enhancing the pitching skills of novice-to-advanced fastpitch softball pitchers. Results demonstrated an improvement in accuracy across skill sets for each subject’s …

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Faith, Reason, And Earth History, Andrews University Apr 2017

Faith, Reason, And Earth History, Andrews University

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

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Cement Of Our Union: Hamilton, The Treasury, And The Federalist Party, Andrea Jones Apr 2017

Cement Of Our Union: Hamilton, The Treasury, And The Federalist Party, Andrea Jones

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis examines the impact of Alexander Hamilton and the policies he proposed and implemented as Secretary of the Treasury on the emergence and rise of the Federalist Party. This was achieved both by examination of the content of Hamilton’s financial plans as well as the responses they provoked. Both the support of fellow Federalists and the opposition of those who eventually became the Democratic-Republicans provide insight into the forces driving the partisan split. Information was drawn from both primary and secondary sources, including the writings of Hamilton and his contemporaries as well as subsequent studies of his life and …

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Internal And External Factors Influencing Enrollment Into An Undergraduate Arabic Language Program In Indiana: A Survey Of University Freshmen And Sophomores, Tyler J. Mallari Apr 2017

Internal And External Factors Influencing Enrollment Into An Undergraduate Arabic Language Program In Indiana: A Survey Of University Freshmen And Sophomores, Tyler J. Mallari

Purdue Polytechnic Masters Theses

Within the rankings of world languages, Arabic takes a prominent place, being the fifth most-spoken language in the world (Lane, 2016). Despite the surge of concern in modern media with relations in the Middle East, particularly in Arab-populated countries, very little focus has been put on improving enrollment in Arabic programs in the United States, and in particular in the Midwest. At Purdue University, enrollment in Arabic language courses have only been low and no effort has been made on the part of the university or the department to understand this trend from more than a purely statistical analysis of …

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The Anchor, Volume 130.24: April 26, 2017, Hope College Apr 2017

The Anchor, Volume 130.24: April 26, 2017, Hope College

The Anchor: 2017

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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Can Global Health Governance Contend With Transnational Corporate Activities? A Case Study On The Chinese Tobacco Industry, Xing Gao Apr 2017

Can Global Health Governance Contend With Transnational Corporate Activities? A Case Study On The Chinese Tobacco Industry, Xing Gao

Geography Honors Projects

In the past two decades, China’s state-owned tobacco enterprise (CNTC) has expanded its operation and influence abroad under the “going global” strategy. These globalization activities directly and indirectly impact the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first international treaty signed under the WHO auspices. In this project, I explore how certain CNTC expansionary strategies undermine FCTC articles, as well as the ways in which FCTC articles have failed to curb the tobacco industry’s transnational growth. Using international political economy as an overarching framework for the analysis of global health governance, I argue that the FCTC fails to halt the …

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Conference Of The Birds: Iranian-Americans, Ethnic Business, And Identity, Delia Walker-Jones Apr 2017

Conference Of The Birds: Iranian-Americans, Ethnic Business, And Identity, Delia Walker-Jones

Geography Honors Projects

The United States is home to the largest population of Iranians outside of Iran, an immigrant group that slowly emerged over the latter half of the 20th century, spurred by the 1979 Iranian Revolution and subsequent unrest in the mid-2000s. This case study explores the Iranian and Iranian-American-identifying population of the United States, with a geographic focus on the Twin Cities metro area in Minnesota. It delves into several key questions: are Iranian ethnic businesses distinct from those previously suggested in ethnic entrepreneurship case studies? And how do perceptions of Iranian-American identity play a role in the development of these …

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Constructed Borders And Conditional Belonging: Refugee Narratives In Literature And Law, Rachel C. Wilson Apr 2017

Constructed Borders And Conditional Belonging: Refugee Narratives In Literature And Law, Rachel C. Wilson

English Honors Projects

Merging literary criticism and political theory, this project explores the representations of refugees in contemporary fiction and human rights law. Through a close reading of reports and press releases published by human rights organizations, I trace how NGOs’ moral and expert authority creates a narrow emphasis on refugees’ fear and victimhood. As novels by Dave Eggers, Susan Choi, Caryl Phillips, and Chris Cleave show, literature is not bound by the same constraints. These novels reveal the internal borders that continue to compromise refugees’ belonging after resettlement. Employing a metanarrative that considers the uses and limits of its own project, literature …

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Choosing The Best: A Rhetorical Analysis And Discussion Of An Abstinence-Centered Sexuality Education Curriculum, Carolyn Buonomo Apr 2017

Choosing The Best: A Rhetorical Analysis And Discussion Of An Abstinence-Centered Sexuality Education Curriculum, Carolyn Buonomo

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

This rhetorical analysis examines Choosing the Best Journey, a Choosing the Best, LLC student manual targeted at ninth and tenth grade students, and testimonials from the company’s website to provide insight about the ways in which the company’s curricula position women. In what way does this content position women in relation to men? Does the curriculum position women as those who both hold the responsibility for preventing and bearing the burden of premarital sexual activity? In what ways does this content work to reinforce gender stereotypes? By answering these questions, I am able to determine whether the curriculum works …

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Ways To Market Without Social Media: Where Are They When They Aren’T Online?, April Miller Apr 2017

Ways To Market Without Social Media: Where Are They When They Aren’T Online?, April Miller

Faculty Articles & Research

Workshop presentation by SWOSU Librarian April Miller.

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Has Commitment To Public Service Weakened In The Trump Era?, Paul A. Djupe Apr 2017

Has Commitment To Public Service Weakened In The Trump Era?, Paul A. Djupe

Faculty Publications

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Bringing The Library To The Student Using An Online Marketing Tool., Sarah-Anne Kennedy Apr 2017

Bringing The Library To The Student Using An Online Marketing Tool., Sarah-Anne Kennedy

Support services (Former ITT) - Conference Papers

Technological University Dublin Library (DIT), Aungier Street are using the online marketing tool MailChimp to engage first year undergraduates, enhance the first year experience and support their transition into third level education. We have developed a digital library information pack called Library Learning, aimed at first-year undergraduates to lend support as they enter their first year within DIT. The idea of the pack is to lend timely, tailored and subject oriented mailouts to students to assist their successful transition into first year. The pack is also intended as a support to the face-to-face Information and Digital Literacy sessions delivered to …

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Neurodiversity, Annika Lile Apr 2017

Neurodiversity, Annika Lile

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

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The Frozen Cross-Cultural Conflict: Armenians, Azerbaijanis And Nagorno-Karabakh, Nona Mitoyan Apr 2017

The Frozen Cross-Cultural Conflict: Armenians, Azerbaijanis And Nagorno-Karabakh, Nona Mitoyan

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

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The Butterfly Effect: How A Random Act Of Kindness Changed My Life, Mason Folse Apr 2017

The Butterfly Effect: How A Random Act Of Kindness Changed My Life, Mason Folse

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

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Political Posts On Facebook: An Examination Of Voting, Perceived Intelligence, And Motivations, Caroline Laganas, Kendall Mcleod, Elizabeth Lowe Apr 2017

Political Posts On Facebook: An Examination Of Voting, Perceived Intelligence, And Motivations, Caroline Laganas, Kendall Mcleod, Elizabeth Lowe

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

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This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Whitney Young Apr 2017

This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Whitney Young

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

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Perceiving Sex In Text Messages: Pepperdine Students Use Screenshots To Distinguish Individuals' Sexes, Rachel Yoshimura, Edmund Rothfus, Jingy Liu, Baixue Zheng Apr 2017

Perceiving Sex In Text Messages: Pepperdine Students Use Screenshots To Distinguish Individuals' Sexes, Rachel Yoshimura, Edmund Rothfus, Jingy Liu, Baixue Zheng

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

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Crossroads Recognized As Seaver's First Lgbtq Club, Rachel Littauer Apr 2017

Crossroads Recognized As Seaver's First Lgbtq Club, Rachel Littauer

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

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Online Exclusive Introduction, Meghan Doyle Apr 2017

Online Exclusive Introduction, Meghan Doyle

Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research

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The Importance Of Profitability In Determining Volatility Across Industries With Different Debt Levels, Timothy De Silva Apr 2017

The Importance Of Profitability In Determining Volatility Across Industries With Different Debt Levels, Timothy De Silva

Undergraduate Economic Review

This paper seeks to investigate the relationship between debt and volatility. No consensus currently exists on the effects of financial leverage on stock volatility. With the increased use of complex financial derivatives in recent decades, the importance of understanding the factors that influence volatility has become extremely important. By looking at a cross-section of industries, this paper demonstrates how the importance of profitability for explaining volatility changes depending on industry debt levels, which are endogenous and depend on industry characteristics.

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Bloom - Youth Empowerment And Development Through A Practice Of Emotional Leadership, Andrea Andrade Apr 2017

Bloom - Youth Empowerment And Development Through A Practice Of Emotional Leadership, Andrea Andrade

M.A. in Leadership Studies: Capstone Project Papers

As we continue to develop ourselves in this multifaceted dependency with technology, I believe we shy away from the essence of what makes us human in the first place. As emotional and sentient beings, we tend to take for granted the use of our emotions to empower ourselves and others through real life experiences, and shared-challenges.As adults, educators, mentors, parents, we must recognize the importance of becoming positive and effective role models for younger generations in order for them to become successful in their future lives. Yet somehow we continue to see patterns of disconnection caused by either the demands …

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A Mixed-Methods Study: Self-Efficacy And Barriers To Participation In Workplace Wellness Programs, Massiel Perez-Calhoon Apr 2017

A Mixed-Methods Study: Self-Efficacy And Barriers To Participation In Workplace Wellness Programs, Massiel Perez-Calhoon

Dissertations

America needs a healthy workforce to sustain the country. The scourge of obesity continues to plague Americans despite government initiatives such as the Affordable Care Act and wellness programs in the workplace to combat this epidemic. However, despite initiatives to make America healthy, barriers continued to impede the nation’s health. Lack of awareness and sensitivity to what motivates individual participants versus group participants built formidable barriers to accessing all workplace employees equitably. The purpose of this study was twofold. First, the intent of this study was to explore the relationship between self-efficacy and the impact on participation and engagement when …

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The Legacy, April 25, 2017, Lindenwood University Apr 2017

The Legacy, April 25, 2017, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

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Our Uncommonwealth - Kentucky And Ohio Brawled Over Indian Head Rock; Now It's In A Storage Shed, Cheryl Truman Apr 2017

Our Uncommonwealth - Kentucky And Ohio Brawled Over Indian Head Rock; Now It's In A Storage Shed, Cheryl Truman

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Lexington Herald-Leader on April 25, 2017 describing the location of Indian Head Rock after its return to Kentucky and the release of a documentary on the history of the rock.

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Students’ Attachment Styles To Their Professors: Patterns Of Achievement, Curiosity, Exploration, Self-Criticism, Self-Reassurance, And Autonomy, Lian H. Conrad Apr 2017

Students’ Attachment Styles To Their Professors: Patterns Of Achievement, Curiosity, Exploration, Self-Criticism, Self-Reassurance, And Autonomy, Lian H. Conrad

All College Thesis Program, 2016-2019

This study explored whether professors for young adult college students could serve as caring and trustworthy attachment figures who fostered certain mindsets, perceptions of the self, and academic behaviors. A convenience sample of 89 first-year college students in introductory psychology courses completed an online survey. First, the study sought to replicate the established relationships between students’ achievement goal orientations and curiosity, exploration, self-criticism, and self-reassurance. Then, the study analyzed students’ attachment styles to their First-Year Seminar (FYS) professors in relation to achievement goal orientations to see if attachment style could then predict similar patterns of academic behaviors. Contrary to expectations, …

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The Northern Cities Shift: Minnesota’S Ever-Changing Vowel Space, Kaila Chapman Apr 2017

The Northern Cities Shift: Minnesota’S Ever-Changing Vowel Space, Kaila Chapman

Linguistics Honors Projects

The Northern Cities Shift (NCS) is a vowel chain shift occurring in parts of the North dialect region and only the first changes were reported in Minnesotan English, such as /æ/ raising as in bat (Labov et al. 2006). The NCS has shown resistance to the low-back merger (LBM), which is “in transition” in the Twin Cities (Labov). Speech samples from Twin Cities speakers ages 16-18 and 35-55 were recorded, measured and analyzed. The present study finds the shift continuing to advance in some speakers, sometimes co-occurring with the LBM, but full shifting occurring only apart from the LBM.

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Contextualizing Palestinian Hybridity: How Pragmatic Citizenship Influences Diasporic Identities, Nicholas E. Bascuñan-Wiley Apr 2017

Contextualizing Palestinian Hybridity: How Pragmatic Citizenship Influences Diasporic Identities, Nicholas E. Bascuñan-Wiley

Sociology Honors Projects

Palestinians are one of the largest diaspora populations in the world, with members in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. How are the individual diasporic experiences of nationalism similar and different to one another? This research examines the creation and maintenance of Palestinian identity in diasporic contexts through ethnographic analysis and a series of interviews conducted in Chile, Jordan, and The United States. The results show that despite Palestinians maintaining Palestinianness as a dominant characteristic of identity in all three settings, there are contextual influences on how people integrate that identity into their lives. Within Jordan, Palestinians experience …

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