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This Is My Playground: Gender Socialization and Hegemonic Masculinity at Camp
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)Gender affects all aspects of one’s life. However, it can seem particularly salient at a young age, when one is still developing a sense of identity. This saliency is further compounded at a context like a day camp, where ... -
The Ties that Bind: An Inquiry in the Perseverance of Farming, Fiber Arts and Rural Ways of Life in the Face of Suburbanization
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2001)While rural communities are on the decline, some small farmers are holding tight, and traditional skills are being sought after. How and where do these major trends in American society meet? And most importantly why are ... -
The Ties that Bind: An Inquiry in the Perseverance of Farming, Fiber Arts and Rural Ways of Life in the Face of Suburbanization
(2002)As we progress into the next millennia it is worthwhile to note the direction our society is moving in; looking to trends in the past century can help illuminate the decades to come, but can also influence decisions about ... -
Time Out: an Analysis of Anger, Agression, and Temper Tantrums in Adolescents
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009-04-27)-Anger is defined as “a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism” (Morse, 2008, Definition). It is the most general term compared to its synonyms rage, fury, and wrath. Although the reaction is named, it ... -
A Time To Rest: Respite Care for the Homeless at the Campus for Human Development in Nashville, Tennessee
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1997)The study I completed at the Campus for Human Development dealt with health care, substance abuse, and homelessness. More specifically, I looked at where homeless people go to heal or, respite care. I conducted ... -
To My Family : A Final Request : Death, Transnationalism, and Mourning
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)This research involves conversations revolving around the topics of death and immigration. Most studies on death and immigration are often studies on the alarming (im)migrants who have settled in the US. This project ... -
To What Extent are the Psychological and Sociological Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect Avoidable? A Focus of the Effectiveness of Preventative Strategies and Early Intervention
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"The Token of Their Liberty" : An Analysis of the Function of Drama Therapy Within a Residential Treatment Program
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1990)The author describes her work with kindergartners in a residential treatment facility in the Los Angeles area and their production of Winnie the Pooh. -
Towards a Transformative Service-Learning: A Pedagogical Handbook
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2001)Service-learning ts a learning method that has the potential to address the problems that arise when academia dismisses the learning generated by the community; thus, it is the answer for an increasingly isolated, ... -
Tracing the Changes in Human Rights Discourse from the Creation of the United Declaration of Human Rights to the Present
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)The idea of human rights has been around since long before the United Declaration of Human Rights, with many historians tracing it back to the Hammurabi Code of late-18th Century BCE. Our modern idea of human rights though,- ... -
The Trajectory of Black Male Athletes
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2011)This paper aims to analyze the dynamic between black male revenue sport athletes and their community. That community includes coaches, referees, media members, spectators. The community also includes professors and ... -
TRANScending the Medical Model : A Phenomenological Study ofTrans People, Language, and Suffering
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This study investigates the phenomenon of medicalization of transgender people in the United States, focusing on the intersections of language - especially biomedical language - and experiences of suffering. The purpose ... -
Transracial Adoption : In Depth and Personal
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1995)The author explores transracial adoption of black children by white parents with her own experience as an example. Her purpose is to review the history, research, and issues surrounding the adoptions of black children by ... -
A Treatment Out of Reach : A Look into Rising Multiple Sclerosis Drug Prices
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2016)This paper attempts to uncover the reasoning behind the high prices of Multiple Sclerosis medications, as well as bring to light many of the struggles of those who have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Through ... -
A Treatment out of Reach: A Look into Rising Multiple Sclerosis Medications
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)This paper attempts to uncover the reasoning behind the high prices of Multiple Sclerosis medications, as well as bring to light the struggles of those who have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Through research ... -
The Trouble with Wonderlands: Social constructions of nature and the National Parks Service
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2012)Contemporary public discourse often view nature and wilderness as separate from humans and culture. This dichotomy ignores human relations with natural environment throughout history, and also ignores the recent anthropogenic ... -
The Trouble with Wonderlands: The National Park Service and the Social Construction of Nature
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Nature and wilderness are socially constructed; the strict dualism of nature versus culture that pervades both historical and contemporary public discourse is impossible. Contemporary understandings of nature and ... -
Tulsa, the All-American City: An Examination of Segregation Indices and Their Effects on the Perceptions of the City
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2002)This paper examined several aspects of racial segregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Working from Claude Fischer's (1984) subcultural theory, this paper examined the ways in which Tulsa developed subcultures around distinctive ... -
"Turn Around for Free College" : The Role Real Estate Agents and Agencies Play in the Process Of Gentrification in the Context ofthe Kalamazoo Promise
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)The Kalamazoo Promise is a place-based scholarship program that attempts to shift the economic reality of Kalamazoo, Michigan. This research project analyzes the marketing strategies real estate agents and agencies implement ... -
Two Cultures Collide
(2003)• From 1908 to1924, the first 35,000 Japanese travel to Brazil as temporary short-term migrants coffee plantations in Southern Brazil where they receive low wages and experience cruel working conditions • After World War ...