This thesis is the first section of a three part novel. In this section Kevin, an undergraduate student whose past parodies the film Home Alone, is introduced. The text follows Kevin throughout a day in his life as he deals ...
This thesis examines how first-generation Salvadoran immigrants transfer their
home culture to their children, born in the U.S. It examines the complex dynamics of this
transfer, focusing on four different aspects that ...
Dominant medical discourse of fatness primarily focuses on weight and weight
loss as a means to achieve health, rather than focusing on overall wellbeing and
implementing healthy behaviors without weight loss as a central ...
Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are enrolling in higher education at a
rapidly increasing pace. Though there is a growing body of research about this newest
generation of student-veterans, what is lacking ...
Neoliberalization in Argentina has been characterized by a spatial strategy of interior exclusion from the
Federal District of the capital, Buenos Aires. The eradication of slums and polarization of class and space
beginning ...
This research investigates parental promotion of mental health in African American communities. This study uses Communication Privacy Management theory (CPM) (Petronio, 1991) and Systems theory (Von Bertalanffy, 1972), in ...
This study focused on the obstacles that Black women and gender non-binary racial justice activists (ages 18-32) face to their full participation in Black Lives Matter activism and the ways that they sustain themselves. ...
Non-native (L2) speakers of English often speak English with a certain degree of foreign ac- cent. While much research has investigated the accentedness of L2 English speech, very few studies have attempted to rank phonetic ...
We used a strengths-based, dynamic person-environment fit approach to study adolescent well-being by considering the contribution of both environmental (life events) and person-level (grit) factors to predict changes in ...
African American women experience Gender-based violence (GBV) at disproportionate rates compared to women of other racial and ethnic backgrounds, yet they access formal health care settings less. Culturally adapted ...
When communities enact bans or tighten restrictions, and increase the level of
enforcement against their local immigrant population, it becomes increasingly risky for
immigrant day laborers to make themselves visible in ...
The civil rights movements of the 60s and 70s succeeded in shifting the politics of race in the United States, making it easier to publicly challenge white hegemony than ever before in America’s history. However, public ...
The current study explores what young tennis players actually say to themselves and what they report they say, the associations between observed and reported speech, and the relation of self-talk to tennis performance, ...
Traditional syntactic accounts of English auxiliary verb DO have tended to regard it as a semantically empty space-filler (e.g., Chomsky, 1957), but its ubiquity in a wide range of English sentence types calls for a more ...
This dissertation is composed of three essays analyzing the beliefs of the American public on tax policy. The first essay discusses the American public's beliefs on tax policies as they relate to the issue of vertical ...
This thesis is a collection of personal narrative essays about journeys. Specifically, this work includes stories of journeys from my life and those close to me, each focusing on or seen through the lens of a specific issue ...
Allison Rhodes, an author in the downhill side of her publishing career, summons her ex-husband Lindley, a skilled but unsuccessful writer, to help her excavate and write her
family history as a biographical work. The ...
Mindfulness is a meditation technique that involves attending to the present moment, without reference to past or future, and without judgment. In the “radical acceptance” of the present it prescribes, mindfulness is a ...
The aim of this thesis is to explain the nature and ideological structure of the religious
sub-culture of new age in America. Ethnographic data was gathered from conducting
interviews and through participant observation ...
This thesis is a memoir about family, marriage, and divorce. It chronicles a journey that began just after my twenty-first birthday, when I married a woman I had only known for a few months. Over the following years I ...