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AMBER Alerts and their effectiveness.
(2015)
Do AMBER Alert messages encourage people to become more face-vigilant? Face-vigilance was measured through a recognition task that instructed participants to search for discrepant faces in friendly, threatening, and neutral ...
Hyphenated citizen : a biography of Clemente Idar, the American Federation of Labor's first Mexican-American organizer, 1918-1934..
(2013)
Based on extensive primary research conducted at the University of Texas, as well as a plethora of secondary source material, this thesis explores Clemente Idar's career with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and his ...
Summer of excess.
(2013)
On graduation day in May 2013, Olivia "Liv" Grigsby and her three friends have a rowdy night that endangers Liv's pot operation. The friends help to keep one another in good spirits as they encounter unexpected opportunities ...
The effects of resistance training on resting metabolic rates in overweight adults.
(2010)
The purpose of this study was to determine if resistance training (RT) aids in weight loss over time by increasing the fat free mass (FFM) and resting metabolic rate (RMR) in overweight subjects. This study included 6 ...
The battle of Belleau Wood : America's indoctrination into 20th century warfare.
(2010)
The battle of Belleau Wood serves as a microcosm of the American experience in the Great War. Several misconceptions surrounding the battle, born largely out of its propaganda value, created a legacy that overshadows the ...
Post-UNDRIP makes a difference : UNDRIP promotes indigenous rights in liberal democracies.
(2013)
This comparative case study examines the use of Constructivist International Relations theory on indigenous issues in liberal democracies. The thesis focuses on the impact of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights ...
“The Thought of Being a Part of What You Could Not Become”: Colonial Education and the Resistance of Young Minds
(2021)
This project engages with the colonizer’s use of the colonial education system to penetrate the colonized people’s pre-colonial cultural systems and the way it leads to the destruction of any already-formed understandings ...
The role of composition and literature in the secondary education classroom : revisiting the pedagogy
(2021)
Currently, high school ELA teachers are expected to use literature and composition
together during instruction and planning. This expectation is completely different from
first-year college English courses, as literature ...
Behavioral Characteristics of Stalkers Who Kill
(2021)
The purpose of this study is to identify behavioral characteristics of stalkers who
ultimately kill their targets, with the goal of creating a risk factor checklist to help identify
current offenders most at risk for ...
Blink modulation during positive and negative picture stimuli.
(2017)
In this study, emotional response to negative and positive visual stimuli is examined using blink modulation as a behaviorally based dependent variable. The researcher exposed 58 participants to an array of predetermined ...