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Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

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Barbour, Nancy Staton

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This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...

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Masters Thesis

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education; Kathy Poole and many others at AHA International, an organization that has facilitated my
Whose community is it anyway? : the CDA and cultural conflicts over speech and pornography

Creator:

Christian, Mary Ann

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The Communication Decency Act became law in 1996 and was immediately challenged on Constitutional grounds. It was subsequently declared unconstitutional based on the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Using Fantasy Theme Analysis, an analysis of the dramatic elements of the key players was accomplished. The dramatic elements of Overall...

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Masters Thesis
Women and Workplace Competition : A Study of Horizontal Hostility

Creator:

Stone, Erin A.

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Throughout society, many believe women are not succeeding professionally because of the institutional barriers created by men in the American workforce. However, women may be more competitive with other women than with men, especially when limited job positions are the goal. Competitiveness among women can be explained by a phenomenon...

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Masters Thesis

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, 2003; McCall, 1996; McKenna, Smith, Poole & Coverdale, 2003; Mougey, 2004; Wilson, 2000). Thus, they