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Wilderness Experience and Identity
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2013)This paper examines the predominant anthropological and sociological theories on behavior and identity and their connections with wilderness experiences. It attempts to define the concept of a wilderness experience in the ... -
Wilderness Experience and Identity
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)Throughout my childhood, I participated in numerous wilderness experiences. Over the summer of 2013, I worked for the first time as a trail guide at YMCA Camp Menogyn, a Wilderness Adventure camp in northern Minnesota. ... -
A Woman's Place: Women in International Development and The United Nations Development Fund for Women
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Women and Religion: The Influence of the Catholic Religion on the Role of the Mexican Woman
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2000)The role of the woman in Mexican society and culture is a topic that has recently come to light and is being studied in greater depth by anthropologist, sociologists, and feminist scholars alike. Because the submissive ... -
Women, Hair and Identity: The social Processes of Alopecia
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)Hair plays an important role for women as a marker of their gender. How does society's emphasis on hair affect those who have lost it due to an auto-immune disease called alopecia areata? The historical and societal ... -
Working for a Mouse
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1994)At Disney, a quality experience for the consumer is not necessarily mutual for the employee. Disney employees are struggling to find their identities in a company that discourages individualism. This is because Disney ... -
A World of Church: A Study of Traditional Catholicism in Beverly and Evergreen Park, Illinois
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2001)Built on the concepts of individuality, hard work, and personal motivation, American society has blossomed and evolved from a vast-open landscape waiting to be developed to a mechanic, industrialized culture centered ... -
The World of the Four Year Old: Observations at a Nursery School
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1966-09)I have no profound hypothesis for this paper. I am simply trying to describe things as I saw them, to report happenings and the people who caused them. I do not want to analyze or interpret for I don't have enough ... -
You and Me against the World: Black and White Young Single Mothers in London
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1988)Much of what I learned through my research cannot be expressed in this paper. The experiences that I had with the women I interviewed were invaluable, as I was exposed to the likes of people who seldom are given much ... -
Youth Intimate Partner Violence : Elements of Successful Prevention Programs
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2013)The status of violence in contemporary United States has been called an epidemic by experts in the field in recent decades. In response to this, there has been the development of a new field of research in the area of ... -
Youth Intimate Partner Violence: Elements of Successful Prevention Problems
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)Through discussion of literature and reflection on my internship at the Boys and Girls Club, this paper looks at youth intimate partner violence (YIPV) and assesses at the impacts of dating abuse on adolescents. It also ...