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  • The Representation of Discrimination in French Society In the Film La Haine

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    Wilson, Tanna J.
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    The purpose of my thesis is to recognize the social injustice that existed in France 20 years ago and continues to result in social dysfunction today. I have used the film La Haine (dir. Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995) to examine past events in France’s history and have compared them to more...
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    Representation of Discrimination in French Society in the Film La Haine Abstract approved

  • The Parochialism of Instrumental Science

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    Southall, Ketchetwahmeegwun Tecumseh
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    With the continual growth of scientific knowledge and ever-increasing arguments for science as the end-all “objective” system of knowledge, a severe criticism and analysis of science and its history is direly needed. Within this paper, I use the work of Max Horkheimer, the Frankfurt School, Martin Buber, and others to...
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    superior society? A brief foray into the immediate history of science reveals that its objective methods

  • Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone: How Television Gives a Window into the Fears of American Society

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    Santisteven, Alyssa
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    Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone have each left their mark on popular culture. Charlie Brooker and Rod Serling created television shows with macabre and imaginative concepts and brought them to the small screen. “This is like something straight out of The Twilight Zone!” has become a common phrase since...
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    Television Gives a Window into the Fears of American Society by Alyssa Santisteven A THESIS submitted to

  • Science performance of United States youth on international exams : A cross-cultural meta-synthesis

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    Huss, Christiana H.
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    The purpose of this meta-synthesis was to investigate why students from the U.S. receive the scores they do on the international TIMSS and PISA science exams. This work sought to shed light on the perceived disparity between science performance of U.S. students and students from other countries. To do so,...
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    Science Performance of United States Youth on

  • The one-child policy and the empowerment of Chinese women

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    Li, Yi
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    When people talk about the one-child policy in China, it always relates to topics like human rights violations or the population control dilemma. The one-child policy was published in the 1980s, around the same time as the Economic Reform, and these twin policies brought Chinese society tremendous changes. This paper...
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    Implications.” ​[J]. Journal of Chongqing University of Technology (Social Science)​, 9, 32 (September 2018

  • Winning through Compromise? An Examination of Bipartisanship and Electability

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    Ellingson-Cosenza, Elena J.
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    In America’s polarized politics, the language that congresspeople use matters. This thesis examines the use of bipartisan communications—in tweets and press releases—of members of the US House of Representatives as an electoral strategy for representatives in districts of varying competitiveness. A linear regression was conducted to analyze the relationship between...
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    Congress. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(8), 1612-1621

  • Histories of Trauma, Futures of Identity, As Told by the Kitchens of the Polish Diaspora

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    Wojtas, Miriam
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    A recipe as a piece of text can tell a variety of stories as well as any other. Using a feminist rhetorical analysis, I read my grandmother’s personal recipe journal to show that her writings contain valuable information about women’s lives in twentieth century Poland. Through the close examination of...
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    the kitchen. It was at this time that I read closely her journal, a worn, stained, fading book of

  • Germans and the Union: Immigrants' Struggle Against Assimilation in the Civil War Era

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    Diebel, Nathan W.
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    The United States of America is founded upon immigration, and Germans are one of the first European ethnic groups to settle en masse in North America. The common narrative of immigration is that of the “melting pot”; characterized by assimilation of cultures into one ‘super’ culture. German immigration has often...
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    : ______________________________________________________________ Stacey Smith The United States of America is founded upon immigration, and Germans are

  • Constructing Citizenship through Creative Mediums : An Exploration of Cuba and Puerto Rico

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    Bennett, Sara
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    This paper critically examines the notion of citizenship and how its construction has evolved over time. As the world becomes increasingly more globalized and connected, it becomes even more important to consider forms of citizenship that are transnational and move beyond the traditional borders of the nation-state. This is especially...
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    the requirements for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts in Political Science

  • A Review of Microfinance: What do we know?

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    Lumianski, Erica
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    Microfinance boomed as a development trend in the early 2000s as it was appealing to varying political perspectives and was also seen as a major innovation in poverty reduction policy. Starting with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1976, microfinance spread to Latin America in the 1980s, and later to...
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    Baccalaureate of Arts in Political Science (Honors Associate) Presented June 14, 2019