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  • Resisting Society’s Influence: Selling Sex in Women’s Professional Sports

    Creator:
    Perry, Rodney C.
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    Title IX's passage into law in 1972 set women’s sports on a course toward gender equity with men's sports at the scholastic and collegiate levels, leading to a definitive growth in women’s professional leagues, corresponding athlete salaries, and athletic marketing and promotional prospects. However, disparities currently exist in the availability...
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    stars, Anna Kournikova and Venus Williams, on Sports Illustrated magazine covers and in print

  • Women combatants in the United States Navy : a victory for equal opportunity

    Creator:
    Rosenberg, Holly A.
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    The issue of Navy women in combat has been widely discussed since women first served during World War I. In this paper I intend to present the political, philosophical, and historical reasoning behind the changing of the regulations to allow women in combat. History shows that the Navy has faced...
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    Opportunity Abstract approved : William Lunch ifford Trow Courtney Campbell The issue of Navy women

  • Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

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    Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
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    Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
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    Sprague, Pricilla Weguns, Dan Sullivan, and Ned Williams and Mildretta Adams of Silver City, Idaho. I

  • Words of Well-Being : The Relation of an Individual's Word Choice to their Social Well-Being

    Creator:
    Krieger, Katy
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    The present research sought to investigate the relationship between an individual's word choice and their social well-being. In the present investigation, social well-being is a person's social health in relation to their social environment, social network, and ability to interact with others in a social context. This thesis was based...
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    outgoing in social situations (Neff, 2011). William James, in 1890, purported on the idea that self

  • Exploring the Dramatization in Dabiq: A Fantasy Theme Analysis

    Creator:
    Drischell, John
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    The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a formidable international force operating and perpetuating religious, military, and violent agendas. In 2014, ISIS established a worldwide Caliphate governing religious authority across Middle Eastern territories. ISIS operations are grandiose and large scale, longevity and survival are predicated on recruitment. One...
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    plan was for ​the British to control what is now considered Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait. The French

  • The identification and division of Steve Jobs

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    Anderson, Scott M. (Scott Matthew)
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    On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak entered into a partnership agreement to found Apple Computer. In the decade that followed, Apple experienced remarkable growth and success, as Jobs catapulted Apple to the Fortune 500 list of top‐flight companies faster than any other company in history. Under direction...
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  • Torn : A Cluster Analysis

    Creator:
    Mulatero Ferrando, Oriana
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    Pornography remains one of the most controversial topics in our culture. Politicians, religious groups, and special interest organizations tend to focus on the ‘effects’ pornography has on those who consume it, and fear that pornography is a threat to public health. The general discourse surrounding pornography is that men produce...
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    creation and development (Williams, 1999). Now, anyone with a camera phone and a computer can create and

  • Some aspects of Western religious thought and man's use of land

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    Bryant, Robert Edman
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    This study examines a limited number of selected themes in Judeo-Christian, or Western, religious thought and their implications for man's use of land, with the objective of discovering the influence of Western religion on attitudes toward nature and land. Five themes are examined: dominion of man; stewardship; contempt for, and...
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    , George H. Williams of the Harvard. Divinity School, identifies certain positive and negative

  • Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

    Creator:
    Read, Richard Thomas
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    In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
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    -1903), Henry Failing (1834-1898), Jacob Kamm (1823-1912), William S. Ladd (1826-1893), Cicero H. Lewis

  • Physicians' attitudes toward hearing aids

    Creator:
    Van Kessel, Jeanette M.
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    The central purpose of this study was to examine physicians' knowledge of and attitudes toward hearing aids. This study was conducted with 71 general practitioners affiliated with Scarborough General Hospital in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. Attitude was measured by a 5-point Likert-type scale developed for the study. Knowledge was measured through...
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