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  • Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

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    Williams, MaryJean Harris
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    Background: The United States has been under-producing college graduates since at least 1980, with many challenges suppressing students’ self-efficacy. One approach to improving student outcomes is through mentorship. This dissertation applied Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Kram’s Mentor Relationship Development Theory (MRD) to discover whether students’ campus mentorship experiences...
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    the loving support of my husband Rick, and the inspiration of my astonishing sons, Taylor and

  • The accessible Chaucer

    Creator:
    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    William Shakespeare. I seek to avoid that rhetoric in my own work, in that I view reading of any kind

  • Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

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    Damschen, Kalli M.
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    This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or endings that offer alternatives to the heteronormative fairy-tale tradition that idealizes heterosexual marriage and the biological family. In both George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman (1875) and E. Nesbit’s “The Island of the Nine Whirlpools” (1901), I argue that...
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    a helpful starting point, Ruth B. Bottigheimer emphasizes the distinction between folk tales and

  • Experiences of Students who Identify with Underrepresented Religions

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    Prisbrey, Weston B.
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    This qualitative study explores and examines the experiences of students at a large, public university in the Pacific Northwest who identify with underrepresented religions. Eight participants were asked to share their experiences individually using semi-structured interview questions and their responses were analyzed utilizing a narrative inquiry approach. Six themes emerged...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Weston B. Prisbrey

  • Factors impacting intimate partner violence and access to services among women in the occupied Palestinian territories

    Creator:
    Fitzgerald, Meghan R.
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    A study which analyzes the impact of husband's exposure to political violence on intimate partner violence perpetration and identifies factors associated with help-seeking among women in Gaza and the West Bank. Further, a qualitative component examines Gazan women's narratives regarding IPV and help-seeking and barriers faced.
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    (oPt) reported having experienced some form of violence by their husband in the previous year. The

  • A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels

    Creator:
    Davenport, Mattie R.
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    In this thesis, I discuss the uses of two different forms of young adult novels for relaying messages about adolescence and femininity to adolescents from adult authors. I explore the traditional and organized quest narrative as written by Anne McCaffrey in her Harper Hall Trilogy with a young female hero....
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  • Factors that affect a school district's ability to successfully implement the use of data warehouse applications in the data driven decision making process

    Creator:
    DeLoach, Robin
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    The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that influence the ability of teachers and administrators to use data obtained from a data warehouse to inform instruction. The mixed methods study was guided by the following questions: 1) What data warehouse application features affect the ability of an...
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    , Drs. Michael Dalton, Greg Gruener, Karen Higgins, William Rhoades, and Susan Shaw, for taking time

  • Mothers and Work: Women's Perceptions in Contemporary Japanese Society

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    Yoshizaki, Kimiyo
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    This paper investigates certain women's problems in contemporary Japan. Historically, Japanese believed ideal women fit in the stereotype of "Good wife, Wise mother." Japanese women's main roles were regarded as wife and mother. Especially, motherhood was the main responsibility of women. However, the advance of industry, technology, and methods of...
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    STUDIES 119 CASE STUDY 1: AKIKO-SAN 119 Work 120 Husband 121 Life with Four Children 123 Hoikueri 125

  • To Express the Inexpressible: Poetry as Philosophy within Mystical Discourse

    Creator:
    Hyam, Jarrod
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    Within this thesis, I posit that poetry, rather than philosophical argument, is a more effective means of expressing and understanding the nature of mystical experiences. William James’ analysis of mysticism inspires the theoretical approach utilized in this thesis. An analysis of the unique qualities of poetic language within mystical discourse...
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    the nature of mystical experiences. William James‘ analysis of mysticism inspires the theoretical

  • Contemporary student veterans : transitional experiences from military life to college life

    Creator:
    Normandin, Kathleen
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    The contemporary student veteran population is growing rapidly as service members who served in the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts take advantage of the Post 9/11 Veteran Educational Assistance Act of 2008 to receive educational benefits to attend college (Cook & Kim, 2009). However, student veterans entering college today have a...
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    contemporary student veteran transition process, and (b) the factors that posed challenges to the