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Overweight and Obesity: An Investigation of Contributing Variables in a Specific "At-Risk" Pediatric Population
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1999)Imagine stepping back in time 83 years; it is now 1916 and the youth of Kalamazoo County are wandering around in a world completely foreign to them. To clarify, these youth we are imagining are the underprivileged youth ... -
Paddling in the Public Schools : How Do Parents Decide?
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2016)Corporal punishment is still used as a disciplinary method within 19 States’ Public School systems. At Valley View High School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the administration gives the disciplinary decision to the parents in ... -
The Paradox of Blackness : Everything and Nothing All at Once
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2022-11-01)The Global capitalization of slavery was a strategically complex system to develop the world economically, politically, and socially for the domination of whiteness. Through the erasure of historical narratives, whiteness ... -
Parallel Lives: A Study of Farmworkers and Day Laborers
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2010)This is a paper that seeks to look at the lives of Mexican immigrant farm worker and day laborers. Farmworkers are those people who pick fresh fruits and vegetables for consumption. Day laborers are people who stand on ... -
Parallel Lives: A Study of Mexican Migrant Farmworkers and Day Laborers
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2011-04)With the rural location of farms enforcement is very rare and many times farmers will risk breaking the law because they know there will be little to no repercussion for their actions. Day laborers are systemically given ... -
Partner Dynamics and Fertility: Analysis of unintended pregnancy in adult women.
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2001)The purpose of this paper is to analyze partner dynamics leading to birth. There are several decision-making points in this process. Initiation of sex has many factors; however, partner influences and beliefs may play ... -
Peace Corps Returns
(2004)The Peace Corps brings to mind many different impressions and ideas. I chose to examine specifically how the Peace Corps affects social capital in the United States. Social capital is a term that is defined by Robert ... -
"Peace Corps Returns": How the Peace Corps Increases Social Capital in the United States Through Returned Volunteers
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2003)The primary focus of this study was to demonstrate that the Peace Corps improves social capital in the United States. The research was conducted in Michigan through interviews with various returned Peace Corps Volunteers. ... -
Pennies Per Pound: How the Agricultural Sector Keeps Food Cheap and Farmworkers Exploited
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2012)This paper applies Johan Galtung's concept of structural violence to the exploitative system, largely consisting of governmental programs and agribusiness corporations, that abuses migrant farmworkers in the United States. ... -
Pennies Per Pound: How the Agricultural Sector Keeps Food Cheap and Farmworkers Exploited
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Agribusiness implements this strategy of myth disguised as Enlightenment in order to keep migrant farmworkers marginalized and exploited. Agribusiness plays a central role in spreading myths about the agricultural system ... -
The Perception of the Public : White Versus Black Police Officers
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)The author writes, “A lot of people say that white cops are racist and this is why their children are being killed by people that are supposed to protect them. I hear this a lot in Chicago, the city that I come from. By ... -
The Perception of the Public: White Versus Black Police Officers
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)How do people perceive black versus white cops in and around Chicago? I surveyed 85 people from different racial groups, categorized as black, white, and ‘other.’ Respondents answered 34 questions. The questions were ... -
Persisting Inequalities and Mitigating Forces: An Exploration of Japanese Women and the Women's Movement in Japan
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1998)On study abroad in Nagoya, Japan, I was repeatedly bewildered by the circumstance of Japanese women. In many instances, the Japanese women that I encountered appeared stiflingly oppressed. Yet, just as often, these same ... -
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996: Implications for Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers’ Access to Federal and State Benefits
(1997)My interest in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) grew out of my summer volunteer work with Kip Adrian for the Bangor Intercare clinic. In line with my Health Science major ... -
Peter L. Berger: A Study of His Contributions to Sociological Theory
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1968)Berger interested me primarily because of the emphasis he places on a broadening of the sociological scope in terms of a philosophic orientation. The "humanistic approach" taken in Invitation to Sociology appeared to ... -
Pimps, Whores and Missionaries : The Charity Industrial Complex in Haiti and Beyond
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2014)Through the study of the role of history, culture, and religion, the author attempted to find out about the relationship that exists between United States missionaries and Haitians. Her study focused on how forms of knowledge ... -
Pimps, Whores and Missionaries: The Charity Industrial Complex in Haiti and Beyond
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)This research explores the role culture, religion and history play in the relationship between United States missionaries and Haitians in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. I examine the relationship that exists between ... -
Place, Power, and Critical Cartography: A Spatial Analysis of Community Vitality in Kalamazoo,
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2012)The author’s research critically situates the social processes which produce space and its representation through maps within fields of power. She uses Henri Lefebvre's (1991) idea that urban spaces are socially constructed, ... -
Play's Role in Childhood Development: An Analysis of the Psychological and Sociological Research
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2005)The following research looks at the different types of play and how they foster development in children from birth to grade school age. This research focuses on how the different types of play allow children to learn ... -
A Plea for "Eu Thanatos"
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1990)The author interned in social work at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI where she learned first hand how one hospital handles Do Not Resuscitate orders and other ethical issues. The author discusses the issue of ...
