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Mainstreaming: Grand river Elementary Progressing toward an Integrated Future
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1991)This paper is about my learning experience in mainstreaming and much more. I will attempt to describe the program in existence at Grand River Elementary School, along with the program which was suggested to them at the ... -
Maintaining Community and Identity As a Ugandan Asian Post Expulsion
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2022-11-01)On August 4th, 1972, Asians in Uganda woke up to a nightmare: they had 90 days to leave the country, an order put in by Idi Amin, the President of Uganda. The expulsion left a large part of Uganda's population under extreme ... -
Maintaining Community and Identity as a Ugandan Post Expulsion
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2023)On August 4th, 1972, Asians in Uganda woke up to a nightmare: they had 90 days to leave the country, an order put in by Idi Amin, the President of Uganda. The expulsion left a large part of Uganda’s population under extreme ... -
Making Corporate Social Responsibility Fit: From Idea to Implementation
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)Responding to changing social expectations about corporate behavior, mining companies have adopted Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a strategic effort to manage stakeholder impacts, undertaking initiatives ... -
Making Sustainability Meaningful: Using Participatory Indicator Projects To Create a Viable Future
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)Making Sustainability Meaningful: Using Participatory Indicator Projects to Create a Viable Future started as an internship with WARM Training Center in Detroit, MI. The internship started as an effort to create a template ... -
Making Sustainability Meaningful: Using Participatory Indicator Projects to Create a Viable Future
(2009-04-27)In the United Nation’s words, “Humanity stands at a defining moment in history” (United Nations Agenda 21). This is humanity’s opportunity to act, to reverse the destructive trends it started. It is obvious that the world ... -
Malnutrition in Grenada : Contributing Factors and Potential Solutions
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1985)The author discusses the surprising prevalence of malnutrition (26% among young children in 1979) in the Caribbean nation of Grenada and the related issues of obesity, problem pregnancies and health concerns with the diet ... -
Manufacturing Heritage: Place Marketing, Historic Narratives, and the Creative Economy at Lowell National Historical Park
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2014)Lowell, Massachusetts is one of many newly postindustrial cities where economic growth and stability is sought through "the new economy, knowledge economy, competitive economy or the creative economy" according to Pratt. ... -
Mapping as a Tool for Communities
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)This paper aims to analyze mapping as a process and as a tool for communities. In order to understand maps and mapping in the present and in the future, maps and mapping must be contextualized within a powered past and an ... -
Marie Laveau: Transgressing Powerful Gentility and Darkness
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Through this project I sought to learn the ways in which Marie Laveau, the powerful Voodoo Queen of New Orleans helped shape religious practices and experiences for people of color in the south during the nineteenth century. -
A Marxist Analysis of the Evolution of 20th Century American Capitalism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1997)It is clear to me, through my research and experience, that a Marxist insight into the phenomenon of capitalism provides invaluable tools for its analysis. In particular the inherent power structures contained in capitalism ... -
Mass Incarceration & the Media: Origins, Consequences, and Perpetuations
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)The social and economic issues resulting from the mass incarceration phenomenon in the United States have been widely discussed by scholars in recent years. Existing literature points toward the historical factors ... -
Mass Incarceration and the Media : Origins, Consequences, and Perpetuations
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)The social and economic issues resulting from the mass incarceration phenomenon in the United States have been widely discussed by scholars in recent years. Existing literature points toward the historical factors contributing ... -
The Mechanics of Relating Substance and Meaning in Television Programs
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1989)No one is really sure how people become socialized; Claude Levi-Strauss believed that it was through the use of oral traditions in oral societies. He believed that the function of the different parts of the oral traditions ... -
Media Democracy- A New Social Movement: Media Reform, Media Access, and Social Movement Theory
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Michigan Public Act 145 and its Effects on Downtown Development
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1994)The purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamics of the entities and forces surrounding the whirlwind that PA 145 has created, focusing on the problems downtown development public/private partnerships face. Kalamazoo ... -
Michigan's Property Tax: A Narrative Review
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1992)The author presents a review of Michigan's Property Tax law as it existed in 1992 to fund local government and education services. Pages 25 and 39 are missing. -
Micro-Finance: How Economic Empowerment Initiatives Impact Women in Rural Andean Ecuador
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2011)This case study summarizes the experiences of twenty-six women working with and for a non-profit micro-finance organization in Atuntaqui, Ecuador. Recent Studies have highlighted the benefits and barriers of micro-finance ... -
The Midwest Water Division: An Ethnographic Study of Organizational Behavior and Its Effects on Employee Retention
(2002)Businesses that fail to nurture their employees not only as workers, but also as people will lose their employees to organizations who do fulfill their personal and professional needs. The shift in organizational culture ... -
The Midwest Water Division: An Ethnographic Study of Organizational Culture and Its Effects on Employee Retention
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2001)