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Creator:: Marie, Michelle
Abstract:: While a great deal is known about the benefits of being culturally identified as attractive, very little is known about the lived experiences of beautiful women. In this study, 21 adult women who are currently employed as models or represented by modeling agencies participated in open-ended interviews, and their responses...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: throughout my life that my body and appearance is essentially acceptable by social standards. I think of

Creator:: Knight, Megan Michele
Abstract:: Students are now required to live a minimum of their freshman year in the residence halls. This time spent in the residence halls is a time of transition; living on their own, for what may be the first time for many, can be a struggle. Students are adjusting to a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: expectations from faculty, and balance a life on campus (1987). Understanding how to help students

Creator:: Maqsood, Elham Nour Ahmad
Abstract:: The primary purpose of the present study is to explore the effect of wearing the hijab in a Western society on Muslim women’s well-being, their motivation to wear it, and the different modifications that they have made on their hijabs. To investigate the relationship between the hijab and Muslim women’s...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: lighten my life: my wonderful children who have been extremely supportive and helpful: Omar, Eithaar

Creator:: Bryant, Kathleen J.
Abstract:: The 158-year-old Commanding Officer's House at Fort Hoskins is one of only two such structures in Oregon representing the pre-Civil War era on the Western Frontier. From 1856-1861, it embodies a link in history between the prevailing ideology of western expansion and replication of Eastern cultural values into the frontier...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: restoration, and nineteenth century domestic space, are given. Dimensions of American social history in the

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