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Negotiating Acceptance: A Sociocultural Analysis of Second Language Users’ Constructions of Speakerhood in Cherokee Nation Language Revitalization
(2014-05-09)
Language revitalization has the major goal of creating new speakers, and the approaches and ideologies employed in the journey toward this goal are multiple and diverse. This research project presents the experiences and ...
Measuring the Effects of Poverty: Property Value as a Proxy of Socioeconomic Status
(2014-08)
This study explored property value as a proxy of socioeconomic status. The effects of poverty on general health, academic achievement, and child development are devastating. The endurance and growth of poverty can be ...
CHARTER SCHOOLS AND INCLUSIVE SCIENCE EDUCATION: THE CONCEPTUAL CHANGE AND ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS WITHOUT DISABILITIES
(2014-03-06)
As a philosophy and educational approach, inclusive education provides opportunities for all students to have effective conceptual understanding and positive social attitudes (Idol, 2006). With inclusion, educators incorporate ...
A Three Essay Dissertation on Social Movements and Social Media
(2014-05)
Users of social media are now empowered to self-organize in new ways. In particular, participants of social movements have used social media to spread their message, organize their activities, and recruit others. For ...
ATTACHMENT AND SELF-ESTEEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROSOCIALITY AND THE SELF
(2014-12)
Two experimental studies test a model of prosociality (including prosocial actions and emotions) that integrates research from the areas of attachment theory and self-esteem. The model suggests that primed relationship ...
Censorship Citadels: Geography and the Social Control of Girls
(2014-05)
This qualitative study examines the way in which local attempts to censor certain books reflect a greater community agenda of controlling young female behavior, specifically sexual and violent behavior. To abet my argument, ...
Community Engagement in an Urban Elementary School: A Critical Ethnographic Inquiry
(2014-05-09)
The challenges of engaging families in poverty have been documented and strategies for addressing the unique needs of communities of poverty have been put forward (Hands & Hubbard, 2011; Hiatt-Michael & Hands, 2010; Raffo ...
Sex Ex Libris: Abstinence Messages in High School Health Textbooks Cultivate Sex Negativity Among Teens
(2014-12)
The vast majority of high schools require some form of sex education. Despite numerous concerns about the efficacy of abstinence-only education programs and their failure to demonstrate a reduction in the onset of teenage ...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SLEEP AND WORK: A META-ANALYSIS
(2014-05-09)
Sleep has tremendous importance to organizations as a predictor of employee performance, safety, health, and attitudes. Moreover, sleep is a malleable behavior that may be improved by individual and organizational changes. ...
Enzymes involved in energy conservation via substrate-level phosphorylation in the syntrophic benzoate degrader, Syntrophus aciditrophicus
(2014-05)
Syntrophus aciditrophicus (SB) degrades benzoate, cyclohexane-1-carboxylate and certain fatty acids in syntrophic association with hydrogen/formate-using microorganisms and ferments crotonate in pure culture. ATP formation ...