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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 ... -
The Works of Will James: His Contribution to the Mythologizing of the American Cowboy
(2016-12)The life of Will James is one of mystery. His works, however, tell the story of a life he was meant to live. Born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in 1892 in Saint-Nazaire-d’Acton, the boy grew up yearning to be a cowboy. ... -
“THE WORLD AT OUR DOOR” SCOTTISH AND IRISH SETTLERS AMONG MUSCOGEE (CREEKS) AND OTHER SOUTHEAST TRIBES, 1700 - 1830
(2019-05)By the time of the American Revolution, the colonial shores of the Atlantic had welcomed more than 250,000 Scottish and Irish immigrants to its harbors. With centuries of both war and subjugation in their blood, these ... -
"You don't have to be a white male who was learning how to program since he was five:" Computer Use and Interest from Childhood to a Computing Degree
(2018-12-14)For over three decades, researchers have been trying to understand why so few women enter STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields, and in particular the field of computing. Some answers to this ... -
Zoomorphic Representations in Early Cycladic Art: A Catalogue Reference List
(2017)The focus of my thesis is to examine the noteworthy role that three-dimensional zoomorphic figures played in Cycladic Art during the Early Bronze Age Aegean period. The importance of animals for this period, clearly ...