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BUILDING CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS: WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN IT ALL AND WHY THE BEST TEAM IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RARELY WINS THE WORLD SERIES
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)In sports, it isn’t the best team of the season that gets remembered, it’s the team that wins a championship. More often than not, it seems that the best team should be the one that ends up winning it all. However, in the ... -
The Achievement Gap : A Critical Ethnography of the Factors Which Perpetuate the Gap in Academic Achievement Between Races
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)The gap in academic achievement between minority (African American and Latino) students and non-minority students, also known as the racial Achievement Gap, has been a major issue within schooling in the United States. ... -
Cause, Care, and Prevention of Injuries in Ultimate Frisbee
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)The idea for this project came from my undying love of Ultimate, and my unfortunate relationship with injuries. Over the past few years on the women's Ultimate team at K, I have been known as "Doctor Toohey" because of ... -
TRANScending the Medical Model : A Phenomenological Study ofTrans People, Language, and Suffering
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This study investigates the phenomenon of medicalization of transgender people in the United States, focusing on the intersections of language - especially biomedical language - and experiences of suffering. The purpose ... -
The Impact of Sports Psychology Within the Realm of Golf
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)The interdisciplinary science we call psychology has forever played a role within sports. Golf is very much a proactive game, meaning the golfer is the one initiating the swing compared to other sports in which a player ... -
TWISTED METAL & BROKEN BONES: A STORY OF RECOVERY
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)Car accidents are an unfortunate part of our modern society that can be life altering. In 2015 alone 16,815 people in the United States were killed in car accidents, and 1,068,011 people were injured (Real time traffic, ... -
Been This Way Awhile
(2018)The author introduces a collection of original poetry using the couplet to explore the author's experience. -
The Importance of the USS Oriskany in US Naval History, and in the Future Ecology of the Florida Coastline
(2018)The USS Oriskany CVA-34 has served with distinction through two wars, became the set of movies, and finally has taken a final and honorable rest at the bottom of the ocean. She was the fundamental link between the Propeller ... -
Leftist Groups of the Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War : A War Against Franco and One Another
(2018)On March 28th, 1939 General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist army successfully occupied Madrid, Spain after laying siege to it for almost two years. Just three days later on April 1st, the three year war of attrition ... -
Effects of a Cetylpyridinium Chloride/Tween 80 Nanoemulsion on Dendritic Cell Activation in an in vitro Mucosal Microenvironment
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)The effectiveness of flu vaccines depends on the reliability of vaccine producers to accurately predict circulating strains of influenza virus. This has proven to be a difficult task as current flu vaccines confer specific ...