Browsing by Author "McIntosh, William A"
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Griffith, Athena Renee' (2014-09-03)This dissertation examined the impact capital punishment has on the prison employees who worked with executions in the State of Texas. Qualitative methodology with an emphasis on critical ethnography was used to collect ...
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Obregon, Misael (2015-08-31)This dissertation compares health outcomes in prevalence and likelihood of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) present or treated during pregnancy among Mexican-origin, Non-Hispanic White and Black birth-giving populations. ...
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He, Lei 1984- (2012-11-20)According to Chinese traditions, patrilocal residence is believed to be linked with early and high marital fertility. However, despite the rapid fertility decline and the enormous social and economic changes that have ...
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Broadstone, Sasha B. (2014-05-05)Increasing interest and awareness of urban agriculture’s contribution to food access, healthy eating, and community interaction have influenced activists and city officials to re-evaluate this activity’s role in sustainable ...
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Dathis Dorancy, Rolande (2015-05-07)Immigration has played a significant role in the structure of American society. Different immigrant groups have different trajectories in the United States: some groups have assimilated quickly into the existing structure ...
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Keeping Rural Tradition Alive: The Race, Class, and Gender Dynamics of the Modern Charro Community Aldana Marquez, Beatriz (2017-06-13)The Charro tradition is the national sport of Mexico. Yet, its national recognition is limited even though the Charro tradition has influenced other important Mexican and American cultural symbols such as the mariachis and ...
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Kainer, John Michael (2017-05-23)This dissertation might best be described as a discussion and analysis of the tendency towards excess at the heart of modern American culture. In studying excess, the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer—whose writings on the ...
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Rico, Brittany (2015-04-30)The foreign-born Taiwanese population in the United States come from a politically divided homeland where Chinese national identity has been declining and Taiwanese national identity has been on the rise since the 1990s. ...
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Curry, Gwenetta Denise (2016-05-26)Although the obesity epidemic in America has begun to level off in recent years, Black women’s rates have continued to increase. The latest Center for Diseases Prevention and Control (CDC) numbers show that 56.6% of Black ...
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Chouinard, James Babson (2013-04-26)An overarching goal of my dissertation is to delineate social systemic processes as first and foremost embodied, experiential processes. I argue that such processes manifest through and depend upon the organism’s affective ...
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Lee, Se Eun (2016-12-14)This cross-disciplinary study examines fan loyalty, motivation, and relationships with university athletic teams via a literature review and three separate SEM-based hypothesis-testing models, each of which includes ...
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Sisk, Cheree; Sharkey, Joseph R; McIntosh, William A; Anding, Jenna (Nutrition Journal, 2010)
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Bracey II, Glenn Edward (2016-07-26)White evangelical Christianity is widely recognized as a powerful force in US culture and politics. Most observers consider white evangelicalism to be a religious phenomenon that successfully mobilized to dominate Republican ...
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Brocato, Billy Ray (2017-08-23)By surveying students and veterinarians at three selected colleges of veterinary medicine (CVM) in the United States, this project investigated the sociocultural conditions that affect the persistent underrepresentation ...
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Murry, Crystal (2019-07-23)Punishment in its varying forms and application is an integral part of American culture. As such, school punishment has received considerable attention from social scientists and legal scholars because classroom misbehavior ...