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Browsing Human Development and Social Relations (HDSR) Senior Individualized Projects by Title
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A Case Study of the Characteristics that Shape Learning Disabled Policy in Higher Learning Institutions
(1995)Upon researching the subjects of policy implementation and college policy and the college hierarchy, I began to notice a great lack of information. Almost nowhere was there information readily available on the subject ... -
Children of the Road: A Snapshot of Health
(2012)Migrant farmworkers began to travel to the United States and specifically the cherry orchards of northwestern Michigan began in the first half of the 20th century, when war created labor sho ... -
Communal Threads: Weaving a Smart Growth Coalition in Rural, Resort Town Michigan
(2003)The fieldwork for this thesis was conducted during my three-month internship with the Michigan Land Use Institute (MLUI) at their Traverse City office, where I learned about environmental and land use policy. A strong ... -
Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Case Study in Integration
(2001)I have been aware of allopathic medicine and medical philosophies for as long as I can remember. Part of my familiarity with medicine and hospitals is due to the fact that my father is a medical doctor. An even stronger ... -
The Connection between the Organizational Culture and Treatment Approach of a Therapeutic Community: A Qualitative Study of Spring Lake Ranch
(2007)This paper is a qualitative study of the organizational culture of Spring Lake Ranch, a residential therapeutic community for the treatment of mental illness and substance abuse problems. Schein's model of organizational ... -
Consumer Ethnography: A Case Study Focused on Personal Mobility Technology
(2009)People like to move around and internet economically and socially. Today, more than half of the world's population does this in cities. With growing concerns about traffic congestion, air pollution, energy consumption, ... -
Creation of a Satisfying Workplace Culture: A Qualitative Study on the Hiring Processes of Service-oriented Organizations
(2002)This study attempts to look at the processes by which service-oriented organizations create workplace culture by finding and selecting qualified employees for their workforce. Service-oriented has been defined as ... -
A Critical Analysis of HIV Rates in the Black MSM Community
(2012)Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are considered global pandemics (CDC, 2006). A pandemic is an epidemic of disease or other health condition that occurs over a widespread ... -
A Critique of the Incentive Awards Program in the Veterans Health Administration Central Region Office
(1993)This project will compare the VHA's incentive award program with recent theory. Alfie Kohn asserts in his theory that rewards punish. The manipulation of behavior is not a good thing and more specifically, those based ... -
Cyclical Patters of Influence: Identifying the Relationship Between Community Service and Adolecent Identity Development
(2005)The current study focuses on adolescents' motivations to become involved in community service, the effect of identity on community service participation, and the effect of community service participation on identity ... -
Dealing with Domestic Violence: The Kalamazoo Assault Intervention
(1994)In order to examine the counseling program and in order to better understand the problem of domestic violence and the men that batter, it will be helpful to discuss current literature on these subjects. Exploring the ... -
Developmentally Disabled Children In the Foster Care System
(2001)"Foster care is intended to offer a supportive family environment to children whose natural parents cannot raise them because of the parents' physical or mental illness, the child's behavioral difficulties, or problems ... -
The Edible is Political: Experiential Education as a Means of Engaging Children in Improving Health and Society
(2009)This paper will examine public health, specifically children’s health, farm to cafeteria initiatives, and school garden programs at the national level, in the state of Michigan, and more specifically, the city of Kalamazoo. ... -
Education and Workforce Outcome : A Qualitative Study on Costa Rica
(2013)Education is one of the key driving forces in determining social and economic success in a country. Costa Rica's education system very specifically aims to close the gap between the rich and the poor and improve the overall ... -
Expanding freedoms: Applying Amartya Sen's theory of "Development as Freedom" to poor urban women in Oaxaca, Mexico
(2001)The research presented in this paper illustrates poor, urban women's lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. Women in Oaxaca, the poorest state in Mexico, have a life expectancy rate of 77.1 years, versus men's 71.0 years, but have ... -
Exploring Female Delinquency Through the Voices of KPEP and Juvenile Home Residents
(2003)This study examines the contextual / situational dynamics of the drug use and delinquent behavior of female residents of the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home and the Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program. Theoretical ... -
The Faces of Choice: An Ethnography of the Counseling Department at Planned Parenthood of South Central Michigan
(1994)In this paper I examine the organization of Planned Parenthood through participant observation with the help of the counselors, as I explain in the Methodology. In the Review of Literature, I propose a social evolution of ... -
The Fetishism of Soap and Hygiene and Its Implications for Racist Ideologies
(2010)Our modern world is over stimulated by a torrent of commodity promotion and consumption. Most people continue to consume products at a remarkable rate without ever stopping to think about what it is they are actually ... -
The Formation of Personal Identity: Environmental Influences and Opportunities that Affect Self-Definition throughout Adolescence
(2008)Human beings appear to be the only species that anguish over the question, 'Who am I' In order to make sense of personality characteristics and behaviors and find some kind of fundamental sense of our being, one uses ...
