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Alive & Free: A Public Health Approach to Urban Youth Violence Prevention
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2011-04)My project explored the subject of urban youth violence prevention using a public health approach. I examined the Alive & Free program as a model example of this approach in practice. Understanding root causes is fundamental ... -
American Brownfields: Program Failure and the Call for Environmental Justice
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)The policy goals of brownfields include open space preservation, public health improvement, reuse of blighted urban land, job creation, tax revenue enhancement, promotion of environmental justice, and maintenance of ... -
The American Muslim Experience: A Qualitative Study of Muslim Perspectives in the United States
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2002)How do American Muslims accomplish this balancing act between various communities of identity? Is there anything about being a Muslim that precludes being American and what are the conflicting viewpoints on this debate ... -
American Social Class Mobility through Formal Education as a Diasporic Experience
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009-04-27)Dislocation and hybrid identities, two characteristics of diaspora, are also experienced by individuals who have achieved class mobility in the United States of America. -
The American Waldorf School: The Influence of a German Pedagogy on American Living and Learning
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)The effective curriculum of the Waldorf Schools in America are based off of the German pedagogy developed by philosopher Rudolf Steiner. The work of Steiner can be seen through the unconventional life and learning styles ... -
Analysis of Business Taxes in Michigan
(2009)This paper is an evaluation of the Michigan Business Tax, which was implemented in 2008. This tax has been viewed as controversial and is considered to be a failure by many economists, politicians, and business owners. ... -
An Analysis of Integrative Management Strategies used by Clients at ACT of Kalamazoo, Inc.
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2001)In the United States, an astonishing one in four people has some form of mental illness (Sue, Sue, & Sue, 2000). Considering how rapidly the population is growing, the demands upon mental health services are expected to ... -
An Analysis of Occupational Mobility and Prejudice in Hawaii
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1965)The study was instituted to discover the relationship between occupational mobility and prejudice in Hawaii. There is also an attempt to discover the relationship between prejudice and voting habits, education, political ... -
An Analysis of Posse as a Method to Close the Achievement Gap : A Study of the Kalamazoo Posse Community
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2016)An analysis of the Posse program demonstrates how Posse becomes a catalyst for change by acting as a tool to lessen the achievement gap, providing capital: economic, social, and cultural, and emphasizing leadership as the ... -
An Analysis of Sexual Assault Education and Anti-Sexual Assault Policies : A study of Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)This study analyzes the systems of power that construct and normalize sexual violence. Furthermore, The author assesses the ways that systems of power like patriarchy and racism systematically perpetuate sexual violence ... -
An Analysis of Temper in Glazeware from the Northern Rio Grande Region, N.M.: Implications for Trade during the Protohistoric Period (1450-1680 A.D.)
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1994)During the 1988 field season, the NRGRP excavated sample test pits at thirteen sites in the subject area, providing a substantial collection of artifacts for analysis. Figure 1 shows these sites by their Laboratory of ... -
Analysis of the Community Treatment Team Program: Implications for Managed Mental Health Care
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2001)Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) programs have been credited with providing mental healthcare consumers with increased stability within the community and their care providers with a successful, cost-effective alternative ... -
An Analysis of the Elements of Recovery used by Clients in the Substance Abuse Management Module (SAMM) at InterAct of Michigan
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2005)The goal of this project was to conduct a client evaluation ofthe Substance Abuse Management Module. SAMM is a program for dual diagnosis clients, suffering from a mental illness and a substance abuse addiction. This ... -
An Analysis of the Evolution of Sexual Discourse and Sex Education in the United States from the Mid-twentieth Century Until the Present
(2002)This analysis discusses the changes that have occurred in regard to sexual discourse and sex education in the United States over the past fifty years. This evolution can be attributed primanly to an ever changin~social ... -
The Analysis of the Relative Effectiveness and Efficiency of Vocational Training Programs for the Black People
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1968)It is my hypothesis formulated after carefully researching this area, that while the Federal government is able to spend millions of dollars in tax money and to initiated large scale training programs, their programs ... -
An Analysis of the Work Force of Lee Paper Company
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1964)The purpose of this paper is to analyze the labor force of Simpson-Lee Paper Company in Vicksburg, Michigan, from its beginning in 1905 to 1947. Emphasis will be placed on the time periods of World War I, the ... -
Analyzing Interaction on Development in an Early Intervention Program
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1993)The purpose of this Senior Individualized Project is to show that development is a product of the interactions between the child's own characteristics and the environmental influences. Programs such as the Child Guidance ... -
"And Life Continues": The Dual Nature of Survival among Street Children in Nairobi, Kenya
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1995)The title of this paper, "And Life Continues", is a reference to a common saying used among people in Nairobi to express the almost-fatalistic feeling that perseverance through difficult times is the only way to survive. ... -
“And What of the Brown Skins?” An Analysis of Race, Gender and Sexuality in “Love and Rockets”
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)Comic books and graphic novels have been an increasingly visible part of the landscape of popular culture in the last few decades. Now with movies and television shows, the idea of the comic book and the archetype of the ... -
"Anyone can do that!" Increasing Attendance at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art Using Falk's Interactive Experience Model
(2002)The primary focus of this study was to determine why people do not attend the Museum of Contemporary Art and how the lack of attendance reflects on their liking of contemporary art. Research was conducted in Chicago at ...