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Paradigm shift : how the evolution of two generations of home consoles, arcades, and computers influenced American culture, 1985-1995.
(2016)
As of 2016, unlike many popular media forms found here in the United States, video games possess a unique influence, one that gained its own a large widespread appeal, but also its own distinct cultural identity created ...
Correlations between anthropometric measurements and sport specific field-based tests in sitting volleyball
(2021)
Introduction: Sitting volleyball is a Paralympic sport widely known for being a game of speed, agility, performance, and endurance. While many fitness tests can be used to assess specificity of sport, the combination of ...
Social-envenomation : a ritual of snake-handling churches.
(2018)
This study focused on the deaths that had taken place within the Pentecostal church sects that handled venomous snakes during their religious services. This was accomplished by gathering statistics of 105 cases that were ...
Memories of a redneck-hillbilly family.
(2018)
Memories of a Redneck-Hillbilly Family' is a memoir, but it functions more like an autoethnography rather than a strict memoir. Jeannette Walls' memoir the Glass Castle reveals a few painful family truths as mine does; ...
Consumers' choices : life history theory and conspicuous consumption.
(2013)
Life history theory is an evolutionary theory that attempts to explain a person's risk-taking behaviors and mating strategies unconsciously (Griskevicius, Tybur, Delton, & Robertson, 2011). There are two different types ...
Impact of instruction on accuracy in exercising rate of perceived exertion (RPE) in older adults.
(2017)
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of instruction types and familiarization on the correlations between physiological measures of intensity (HR and VO2) and RPE. This was done by comparing the Borg (1998) ...
Soul on fire : a musical.
(2010)
Abstract excerpt: This musical follows Kisha, a young girl who was raped by a prominent member of her community, as she tries to prove that her story is true. It explores the aftermath of rape and abuse and its effect on ...
Habub
(2020)
Adult comic-style graphic narrative combining the genres of adventure, historical fiction, science fiction, and mystery to address themes including racial and cultural diversity.
Analyzing the effectiveness of NATO post Cold War
(2020)
This thesis analyzes NATO’s evolution from a neorealist military alliance into a constructivist co-operative security organization and argues that it was this evolution that best explains NATO’s persistence in the post-Cold ...
Political economic racism : California's policy regarding its Asian immigrants.
(2011)
From 1848 - 1943, California enacted a policy known as political economic racism: the act of discriminating against a particular ethnic group economically through the political process. The target of their legislation was ...