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What Is Hidden Within International Anti-Human Trafficking Laws?
(2019)Human trafficking is gaining global attention as an international problem. Despite the rising concern over human trafficking, there is little analysis as to where the term came from and how original human trafficking laws ... -
What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships
(2017-05)Research has shown that exposure to specific fiction genres is associated with theory of mind and attitudes toward gender roles and sexual behavior (e.g. Fong, Mullin, & Mar, 2013, 2015); however, relatively little research ... -
When the Queers Come Sweeping Down the Plain: An English Educators' Guide to Serving as LGBTQ Allies in American Schools
(2016-12)The purpose of this inquiry, located in Oklahoma, is to create a public document that can guide U.S. professional educators as designers and teachers of middle and high school English curricula that welcome queer identities ... -
‘When the wind comes right behind the’ … sales pitch: alternative views to wind energy development in a rural Oklahoma host community
(2020-12)Wind energy development has expanded across the prairie of northwest Oklahoma over the past 17 years. Several factors contributed to the success of wind energy in the state including a volatile economy history spurring a ... -
White Cherokees on Red Earth: Blood and Belonging
(2021-12-17)In this thesis, I address White Cherokee identity, the historical trajectory it emerges from, and some of its political consequences. White Cherokee identity comes from social arrangements, place relationships, and ... -
Who is the culprit? Is it religion or patriarchal traditionalism that justifies physical violence?
(2021-05-14)Around the world, violence is considered a substantial social, political, religious, and health issue. To understand violence in a society, it is essential to consider the processes that validate such behaviors. Validation ... -
Whose Choice? State Legislation and the Incidence of Abortion
(2019-05-10)Although the incidence of abortion in the U.S. has declined, laws restricting abortion access have grown more prevalent. At the same time, laws meant to categorize fetuses in utero as victims of crime have increased and ... -
Why did my coworker treat me this way? Examining the mediating effects of attributions on the relationships between incivility and workplace outcomes
(2017)Workplace incivility has previously been linked to detrimental outcomes, such as decreased job satisfaction and increased burnout and turnover intentions. The purpose of this study is to extend the current research on ... -
“Why Would They Bury Her When She Can Still Walk Around” : Examining an Indigenous Gothic
(2022-05-14)In “Why Would They Bury Her When She Can Still Walk Around” : Examining an Indigenous Gothic, Tatiana Rosillo adapts the genre conventions of the literary Gothic to examine Indigenous genre media and analyze what an ... -
Wildfire risk along the wildland-urban interface in Oklahoma in relation to encroaching eastern redcedar
(2022-12-16)Across the United States, the number of wildfires has been increasing, but this can especially be felt in the Great Plains, where some of the most drastic increases in wildfire frequency and size have occurred. While ... -
Windfall: How Oklahoma's Turbines Affect Rural School Funding
(2021-05)Oklahoma’s rural schools are struggling to effectively educate their students. Because of the sparsity of students and geographic isolation, rural schools have higher transportation costs, have trouble affording capital ... -
WING-WING OR WIN-WIN: A CASE STUDY OF THE INFLUENCES OF CHINESE SOUTHWESTERN DIALECTS IN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
(2019-05-10)This case study investigated the influence of Chinese speakers’ Southwestern dialects, which do not distinguish alveolar nasal sounds /an/, /en/, /in/ and velar nasal /ang/, /eng/, /ing/ sounds in Pinyin, on their English ... -
Wisdom and Leadership: Do wise people perform more efficiently?
(2020)Many scholars have argued that wisdom might be an important skill contributing to leader performance. Although some support is available for this proposition, strong empirical evidence bearing on this proposition is not ... -
THE WOMEN OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND PARTICIPATION
(2019-05-10)This qualitative research project used a content analysis methodology to analyze the Twitter feeds from three women in Classical Studies in order to identify 1) how they are using Twitter to their advantage in a historically ... -
Women of Color in Academic Dance: An Evaluation of How America and Oklahoma’s History of Racial Injustice towards Black and First American People Correlates to the Experiences of Black and First American Female Identifying Students Majoring in Dance at Oklahoma Higher Education Institutions
(2023-05-12)In this paper, I discuss the difficulties faced by female-identifying dance students of color in Oklahoma higher-education. Due to the lack of educational training provided by higher-education dance programs, critical ... -
Word of God or word of honor? Honor, religion, and retaliation
(2017)The psychology of religion has long attempted to clearly identify religion’s effects on individuals’ beliefs and attitudes. Many of these results have been contradictory, with some indicating religion to have prosocial ... -
Work Status and Gender Ideology: A Cross-Sectional and Panel Analysis
(2017-05-12)As economic shifts have occurred in the United States (e.g., the type of work available ) it has become more difficult for men to enact the breadwinner or sole-provider role; men might respond to these changes by either ... -
Work-family-life satisfaction: professional & personal impacts
The purpose of this study was to investigate how professional and personal experiences influence total life satisfaction of 261 university-affiliated people. An online survey was conducted to assess the relationships between ... -
Workers in the Field and Lawyers in the Court: The CRLA, Poverty Law, and Environmental Justice in Modern California
(2020-05-08)As part of the War on Poverty in the mid-1960s, the federal government under President Lyndon Johnson began funding dozens of legal service agencies throughout the nation. The largest of these agencies was the California ... -
Working students and major intention: Considering proximal contextual influences and entrance into STEM fields
(2024-05-10)High demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge and expertise continues in the U.S. workforce, and the shortages of workers in many STEM positions persist. Social Cognitive Career Theory ...