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Understanding Infantile Colic: An Integration of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2000)Ameliorating the experience of colic for both infants and parents is of great priority to pediatricians and parents. To search for a single condition to explain the development of colic is futile in its simplicity. Factors ... -
Understanding Stereotypes and Discrimination in the United States: The Latino Middle Class Experience
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2010)In the United States, the Latino middle class is growing. Now, more than ever, one can see Latino men and women in all lines of work and careers in American society. This study is an examination of the ways in which ... -
Understanding the Complexities of the Dropout Narrative: Refusal to be Labeled a Dropout Student
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)A dangerously high percentage of economically disadvantaged minority students do not choose to dropout of high school but instead are being pushed out or pulled out of the education system by multiple factors that are out ... -
Understanding Trepidation : An Analysis of Creating a Feminist Identity in the Third-Wave Feminist Movement
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2013)Over the last few decades the United States has witnessed a slow, yet steady decline in young women identifying as feminists. In light of the broadened understanding of feminism and its history, this project will explore ... -
Understanding Trepidation: An Analysis of Creating a Feminist Identity in the Third-Wave Feminist Movement
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)Over the last few decades the U.S. has witnessed a slow and steady decline in not only the participation of young women within the women’s movement, but the additional decline of young women identifying as feminist. In ... -
Understanding U.S. Asylum Law After the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1997)In the U.S., anti-immigrant feelings reached levels not seen since the l920's. Furthermore, as in Europe, strong associations between illegal migrants and asylum seekers exist in the mind of the U.S. public. As 1 will ... -
Unearthing the Grass Roots: Organic Community Gardening in a Detroit, Michigan, Low-lncome Neighborhood
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1997)The situation of low-income people in urban areas of the U.S. has been a preoccupying interest of mine as an activist for the last two and a half years. During the winter of 1997, I discovered that in Detroit community ... -
Unequal Opportunities: A Study of Achievement Among Emotionally and Behaviorally Disturbed Adolescents in the Chicago Area
(2002)This study explores achievement among adolescents diagnosed with emotional and/or behavioral disorders. It examines factors outside of the school environment-poverty, family, and neighborhood and their effects on achievement ... -
Unity Amid Plurality: Towards Inclusive Theories of Sexual Violence
(1998)For most Kalamazoo College students, their study abroad experience is not one they will soon forget, and I am no exception to this rule. My time in Ecuador was incredible and tumultuous, spanning spectrums of mood, ... -
Unpacking the Crisis : the Mass Epidemic of Criminalization and Imprisonment on Racial Disproportionality in the United States
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-11-01)On any given day, tens of thousands of people of color who have been viewed as public menaces, threats to national security, or accused of violating U.S. laws – the criminal justice system are incarcerated in a system that ... -
Urban Growth and the Environment
(2008)Cities are rapidly becoming the most common place of human habitation, and are growing particularly fast in the developing world. They create massive environmental problems for human health, the climate, global ecology ... -
The Use of Chimes and Keyboard Classes in Teaching and Reinforcing Socially Appropriate Behavior
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)The ability of music to enrich lives stretches around the world. Picture for a moment a rural village in Kenya. In this village a special school lies in the beautiful green hills of tea. The children in this school work ... -
The Use of Normative Control in Voluntary Organizations: An analysis of the USTA 18's & 16's Junior National Championships
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1993)Alvin Zander, author of The Purposes of Groups and Organizations, defines a group as a "collection of individuals who interact with and depend upon one another". 1 In order for a group to be successful it must consist ... -
Utilizing Opinion Surveys as a Tool for Measuring Employee Satisfaction: A Case Study - Ameritech Advertising Services and SBC Directory Operations
(2000)Employee opinion surveys have been used as a tool to measure employee satisfaction in many organizations. The merging of two large telecommunications companies, Ameritech advertising services and SBC Directory Operations, ... -
'The Vertigo of Eros': Examining the Aesthetic-Ecstatic Space of Electronic Music for the Postmodern Subject
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2011)This study applies modem and postmodern theoretical concepts toward the analysis of interviews and observations collected at two American music festivals, as well as in examining the subcultural productions of the ... -
Veterans Under Stress: The Unique Factors that Contributed to the Development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among Vietnam Veterans
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1994)I had the opportunity over the past ten weeks to meet and interact with some of the soldiers who served in Vietnam. Originally, I had intended to focus my senior thesis on the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that frequently ... -
Virgins, Wives, and Witches: Images of Andean Wiomen in Colonial Peru
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Visions of Another World: Senegal, Sorcery, and the Unconscious
(1994)The original intention of this paper was to present my findings in regards to the present day status of sorcery in Senegal. When I came across J. Finley Hurley's book, Sorcery, while doing background research, however, I ... -
Voices of the Poor: An analysis of the views and experiences regarding poverty of low-income residents in Kalamazoo County
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2002)While much research has been done regarding the structural causes of poverty, one voice that is often missing is the voice of the poor. The purpose of this study was to further investigate the causes and effects of poverty ...
