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Alchemizing Capitalism: Occupational Tribalism and the Pursuit of the Authentic Self (thesis)
(2019)Alchemist Movement -- a spiritual group in Reno, Nevada -- formed around the idea of combining church and theater. While the Alchemists explicitly focus on helping people on their spiritual paths, they also maintain a ... -
Periodicals as Handbooks for Doing Gender and Doing Difference: Racialized Womanhood in Cosmopolitan and Essence Magazines from 1978-2000 (thesis)
(2018). . . This means that, simultaneously, black women in America and white women in America were receiving very different messages from popular and political culture, as both the (black) welfare queen and the (white) feminist ... -
Outside the Law: Obstacles to Respecting Roma Housing Rights at a Toxic Landfill (thesis)
(2018)Nearly 2,000 people live at the site of a toxic landfill known as Pata-Rât in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Around 42 percent of the people who live at Pata-Rât were evicted to the site by local authorities. Additionally, approximately ... -
The Making of a Modern Saint: An Analysis of Grief, Charisma, and Community Identity in Transition (thesis)
(2016)In concluding this research, I will briefly recount the analytical progress that has been made. Such concluding remarks reaffirm the theoretical model. Primarily, however, my conclusion will engage with this very idea of ... -
Student Perceptions of Mental Illness and Help Seeking Behaviors (thesis)
(2016)This study intends to provide a better understanding of help seeking behaviors amongst college students. It focuses on answering the question of what could be possible predictors of help seeking, and what could be driving ... -
The Efficacy of Peer-led Sexual Assault Preventative Education at Washington and Lee University: Variation in Explicit and Implicit Attitudes (thesis)
(2012)This research examines the relative efficacy of peer-led sexual assault awareness training. Efficacy in this case is established by the measurement of a change in attitudes among the first-year students who attended the ... -
A sociolinguistic analysis of 'Immunity' : lessons from reality television (thesis)
(2012)Through sociolinguistics, the paper explored how immunity changes throughout the course of a Survivor season. It surveyed the way that contestants treat public forms of immunity -- tribal immunity idol and the individual ... -
Life and the ruins : exploring new archeological interpretations of megalithic monuments as places of life and death in the British and Irish Neolithic Age (thesis)
(2011)In this paper, I examine four stone monuments in Britain and Ireland: Stonehenge in Wessex, England, Avebury in Wessex, England, Maes Howe in Orkney, Scotland, and Newgrange, in County Meath, Ireland. Stonehenge and Avebury ... -
Muslim assimilation in the United States : a study of religion and immigration (thesis)
(2011)This project set out to better understand the extent to which Muslim assimilation, at the individual and organization levels, is occurring in the United States. The paper began with a theoretical discussion of types of ... -
Detecting the past : conducting effective archaeological surveys (thesis)
(2011)How do archaeologists know where to dig? Archaeologists cannot simply label a tract of land an archaeological site and begin excavation. They must follow a long, complicated, and sometimes dull survey process targeted at ...
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