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(2012-10-19)The public school superintendent is the least progressive position in education at integrating women and balancing the scales of equitable representation. Statistical data indicates there are far fewer females than males ...
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(2023-08-17)Early childhood educators instruct and care for our youngest and most vulnerable population. Early childhood education (ECE) teachers are positioned and expected to teach young learners, provoke critical thought through ...
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(2014-05-15)My dissertation surveys British, American, Australian, and New Zealand young adult texts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries featuring female protagonists who are fantastic monsters. Addressing such texts ...
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(2018-05-07)This study explored spirituality and its influence on the authenticity and leadership identity of African American collegiate women leaders at a large, public university in the Southwest. While there has been an increase ...
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(2016-05-03)“I Believe That We Will Win” is a transdisciplinary project combining a political and sociological history of race and leisure studies as well as psychological and youth development theories. Utilizing autoethnography, my ...
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(2021-10-18)In recent years Black popular culture in television and film has moved beyond the stereotypical texts by complicating the Black narrative with historical storytelling. Within the last ten years, there has been an increase ...
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(2017-07-09)The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore understandings of multicultural literature, ways in which it is being utilized in classrooms, how it is perceived by pre-service and in-service teachers, and what can ...
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(2021-03-05)Despite exponential growth in education abroad participation, first-generation students continue to be underrepresented in this activity. There is also little known about how first-generation students develop holistically. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1996)I HEARD THE MUSIC is a creative writing thesis in poetry. It consists of an introduction which is followed by a collection of original poems and translations of Tagalog poems into English. The introduction discusses how ...
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(2018-04-26)This dissertation is a historical examination of the development of 1970s Southern lesbian feminism in the United States. It uses archival research, lesbian feminist periodicals and publications, and Southern lesbian ...
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(2019-04-04)In recent years, volunteer tourism has emerged as not only a meaningful way to spend a vacation, but also as an intriguing area of empirical inquiry. This phenomenon, which began as wealthy westerners sought to give a ...
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(2013-01-11)Powerful people perform observable agentic behaviors (e.g., directing tasks), and people expect powerful people to act in these agentic ways. Furthermore, Role Congruity Theory predicts that people are disliked when their ...
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(2014-05-03)Criminology and media scholars over the last two decades convincingly argue that crime is one of the major social problems of this era. Racialized constructions of safety and space, however, continue to be the dominant ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)This case study focuses on the influence of certain sociocultural factors on the ability of adolescent girls to fulfill their potentials. Specifically, the purpose of this research is to advance an alternative perspective ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2002)Previous research has explored the influence of media on the development of feminine body image. Additional research has examined the influence of interpersonal relationships such as family and friends on body image. No ...
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(2010-07-14)Scholars have long been interested in how presidents make decisions in foreign policy. Often, the theories about foreign policy decision making focus on the choice to use or not use one particular foreign policy tool. Many ...
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(2014-07-25)As of January 1, 2012, an estimated 13.7 million cancer survivors were alive in the United States. The number of cancer survivors is expected to reach 18 million by the year 2022. Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1997)Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAS) represent an exciting technology that is changing the way logic circuits are designed. It is not until recently that testing of FPGA chips has received considerable attention. Research ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Based on a proposed input-process-output model of team goal, leader goal orientation, team cohesion, and team effectiveness, this study examined the influences of the leader trait goal orientation on the relationships ...
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(2009-05-15)Marine natural products have continued to be a source of compounds with interesting structures and biological activities. Two such compounds are maculalactone A and haterumalide NA. In the process of exploring a route to ...