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Screaming Xicago: How Identity Built the Lower West Side
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This report utilizes the majority Mexican Chicago Neighborhoods of Pilsen and Little Village alongside the majority suburb of Cicero to examine the relationship between space and power. Specifically, the communities within ... -
The Search for Shelter: Homelessness in the United States
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1998)The structure of this Senior Individualized Project reflects my goals in writing it after having answered many of my personal questions. First, it is an opportunity to consolidate, for myself, what I have learned so that ... -
The Secret Ingredient: Sexuality in Kitchen Culture and Traditional Gender Roles
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)Recipes can be reproduced, altered, modified, and perfected. Some even have secret ingredients that make them particularly special and unique. Those secret ingredients are at times not shared, nor passed on, or not even ... -
The Secret Ingredient: Homosexuality in traditional kitchen culture
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)The way we learn the recipe to gender roles is embedded in the labor that we see being performed in the kitchen. Over time, gender roles in the kitchen have transformed into recipes found in cookbooks on how to be a domestic ... -
The Seeds of Change: How the 9 to 5 Women's Labor Movement Rooted a Labor Revolution
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2010)The progression of women's rights in the workplace are inextricably linked to the formation of the first women's labor union and the growth of unions in the United States. While research in the labor studies and women's ... -
Self- and Other- Agreement of Personality in Recently Married Couples: A Longitudinal Examination of Intimate Relationships
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2001)In this proposed longitudinal study, self-other personality and satisfaction ratings are used to measure distortion in personality judgment in intimate relationships. Higher ratings on positive attributes by the spouse ... -
A Series of Unfortunate Essays : A Critique of Women and Gender Studies and Its Effects on the Transgender Narrative
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2016)In the following collection of essays, the author uses the transgender and non conforming narrative in order to critique the mainstream concepts and ideas found within the Women and Gender Studies discipline. The author ... -
Sexual Assault Prevention and Detection Trainings In United States’ Summer Camps
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-01-01)One of my main methods of research was interviewing counselors and directors from summer camps throughout the United States. I was able to interview four camp directors and five camp counselors. The main focus of the ... -
Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault within the Kalamazoo College Community
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1998)The purpose of this study has remained unchanged since I began to work on it. My primary goal is to document that sexual harassment and sexual assault do occur on this campus. In the course of such verifications, the ... -
The Shelter Care Unit : A Selective Study of Delinquency
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1989)The author describes Kalamazoo County's Shelter Care Unit for juveniles unable to find foster home placements. -
The Sibling Impacts on Gang Membership among the Samoan Communities of Carson and Long Beach, CA
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2015)This study examines the relationship between siblings as well as the impact of siblings on the choice to join or avoid gang membership within the Samoan communities of Carson and Long Beach, California. There exists an ... -
The Sibling Influence on Gang Membership among the Samoan Communities of Carson and Long Beach, CA
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)This project involves direct and indirect social influences that gang members in Carson and Long Beach, CA have on their siblings’ decision to join or avoid gangs. It draws upon confidential interviews with individuals ... -
A Silhouette of Vietnamese Shadow Education : Credential Culture, Historical Legacies, and National Examinations
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2015)This paper aims to analyze the extent to which socio-historical processes of Vietnamese education have influenced contemporary structures of education. Such contemporary structures of education include the development ... -
A Sillouette of Vietnamese Shadow Education: Credential Culture,Historical Legacies, and National Examinations
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2016)This paper analyzes the extent to which socio-historical processes of Vietnamese education have influenced contemporary structures of education in Vietnam. Such as the development of private supplementary tutoring, also ... -
Sinclair Lewis vs. Society: Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1969)I have attempted to deal with Sinclair Lewis' singular achievement, leaving the reader to make his own judgment on the relationship between present-day society and Mr. Lewis' picture of the 1920's. -
The Situation of Christianity in Japan ~ Why has Christianity failed to catch on in Japan?
(2002)As one of the developed countries in the world, Japan shares similar cultural aspects with the U.S. For instance, the contemporary Japanese cities are filled with fast food restaurants, and it is very common to see ... -
The Situation of Christianity in Japan: Why Christianity has failed to catch on in Japan
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2001)As one of the developed countries in the world, Japan shares similar cultural aspects with the United Sates of America (U.S.A) and even with some civilized European countries. For instance, almost all of the contemporary ... -
Slavery, Race Ideologies and the Black Movement: Discovering the Power Behind Brazil's Black Consciousness Movement
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1999)Over the past four years, I have developed an intense interest in the African Diaspora in Latin America. It started during my high school Spanish class and continued throughout my college years. As the only African-American ... -
Small Business Marketing in the Face of Limited Resources
(2002)The Michigan Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Kalamazoo College is part of a nationwide network of centers that provides business consulting, training, research and advocacy to entrepreneurs either in the ... -
The Small Group in Theory and in Social Work Practice
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1966)In the study of small groups it has seemed to me we have found an important potential for helping people adjust to changing environments and social situations. My interest in social work and public welfare has led me ...