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Feminist Theory and the Dynamic of an All Female Staff at a Domestic Violence Shelter

Averbuch, Gili (2007)

Every eight seconds a woman is being battered in the United Sates; nearly four million women a year are injured as a result of domestic violence. (WINGS 2006). Domestic violence has become a way of life for many women, ...

The Fetishism of Soap and Hygiene and Its Implications for Racist Ideologies

Kedroske, Julie (2010)

Our modern world is over stimulated by a torrent of commodity promotion and consumption. Most people continue to consume products at a remarkable rate without ever stopping to think about what it is they are actually ...

Fetishism of Soap and Hygiene and Its Implications for Racist Ideologies

Kedroske, Julie (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2011-04)

Our modern world is over stimulated by commodity promotion and consumption. Most people continue to consume products at a remarkable rate without stopping to think about what it is they are buying into and how their purchases ...

Fighting Fragmentation: The Role of Community-Based Nonprofits in Promoting Group Membership

Graboski, Richard (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2012)

In their respective theories on human nature, Karl Marx and Ferdinand Tonnies both postulate that community is an intrinsic human need that is not being satisfied in capitalist societies. Fragmentation and alienation are ...

Fighting Fragmentation: The Role of Community-Based Nonprofits in Promoting Group Membership

Graboski, Richard (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)

In their respective theories on human nature, Karl Marx and Ferdinand Tonnies both postulate that community is an intrinsic human need that is not being satisfied in capitalist societies. Fragmentation and alienation ...

"Filling the Gaps": The Role of the Fountain House Model Clubhouse in the Lives of People with Mental Illness

Gormly, Katharine S. (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)

Fitting into American Culture: The Stories of Twelve japanese Women

Beard, Carrie C. (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1994)

Due to the increased Japanese investment into the United States, the population of Japanese nationals living in this country has been growing. One would imagine that the transition into another culture would be similar ...

Flamenco: A Stage Upon Which Spain is Performed

Allman, Nicole (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)

Flamenco, a form of song and dance, has often been understood and promoted as a symbol for the nation of Spain. Common representations of flamenco are largely uniform, suggesting flamenco participants and experience are ...

Food Security in the U.S.: Is Food a Basic Human Right?

Conner, Ellen (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)

The U.S. has a long history of food assistance; from the breadlines of the Great Depression to the creation of ‘Food Stamps;’ church basement soup kitchens to institutionalized non-profits, the approach to hunger has ...

For the Children's Sake: My Internship at the Perinatal Program of Cook County Hospital

Cuasay, Rosalyn L. (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1991)

I think that one issue that had a definite impact on me during my internship at Cook County Hospital was the strength of women, the influence of women, the power of women, the powerlessness of women, and the love of ...

Forest Service and Tribal Government Relations at the Cleveland National Forest

Howard, Cynthia Denise (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1994)

Upon an examination of the structure of relations between the Cleveland National Forest and the Tribal Governments in the area, it becomes evident that the relations are either non-existent or lacking shared concerns. ...

The Formation of Personal Identity: Environmental Influences and Opportunities that Affect Self-Definition throughout Adolescence

Mequio, Sarah (2008)

Human beings appear to be the only species that anguish over the question, 'Who am I' In order to make sense of personality characteristics and behaviors and find some kind of fundamental sense of our being, one uses ...

The Formation of Personal Identity: Environmental Influences and Opportunities that Affect Self-Definition throughout Adolescence

Mequio, Sarah (2009-04-27)

Human beings appear to be the only species that anguish over the question, ‘Who am I.’ In order to make sense of personality characteristics and behaviors and find some kind of fundamental sense of our being, one uses ...

Fractal Impacts: How Gender Shapes Immigration in the Context of Globalization

Oldershaw, Catherine A. (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2011)

Discourses of globalization in the United States suggest that the world's problems could be solved by either imitating the United States, or by simply coming into contact with the United States. Even scholars interpret ...

Freedom and Persecution: The Experience of the Street Child

Wirpsa, M. Jeanne (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1980)

This study is an attempt to see the "lives of the street children of Bogota through their own eyes. Consequently, the major source of the information for this paper was the street children themselves. When I first ...

Freshwater : An Essential Human Right - How Nestle’s Freshwater Withdrawals from the Great Lakes Region Set a Dangerous Global Precedent

Czajkowski, Peter (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019-09-01)

This paper focuses on how Nestle's freshwater withdrawal operations in the Great Lakes Region are setting a dangerous global precedent by allowing corporate control of water - a survival resource that is deemed a human ...