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Sexual Scripts in Female's Sexual Narrative Memoirs
(2017)Sexual norms are changing with the times. In particular, sexual scripts are growing and changing. In this current and ongoing study, interviews were conducted with young women aged 21-30. These interviews spanned five to ... -
Intersectionality : Holocaust Inversion, Omar Barghouti, and Campus Antisemitism
(2017)After reading the primary texts of prominent Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) advocate and co founder, Omar Barghouti, I quickly noted additional ways in which he references the Holocaust. Barghouti, alongside many ... -
Identitarian Contention Within the MST : An investigation of the tension over issues of identity and the transitioning membership in the Brazilian Landless Movement
(2016)One can easily forget about modem day peasants, if one is aware of their existence at all. Their livelihood is often misunderstood as a relic of the past, while the peasants are often perceived as subjugated individuals ... -
The Chilean Paradox : Decline of the Youth Vote and the Rise of the Student Movement in the Presence of Neoliberal Democracy
(2016)Since the end of the military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet in 1989, Chile has transitioned back to a democratic system. However, this process of redemocratization and reinstitution of political rights has not resulted ... -
The Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act in a Broader Context
(2015)Democrats frequently reference the Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act as the latest attack in the "War on Women" that Republicans are waging. It encompasses the wage gap, unfair hiring practices, and restrictive abortion ... -
101 : A Tale of Brilliant Machines, Inequality, and the Role of the Government
(2016)The monogram you are reading is an effort to make sense of what 21st century America will look like by analyzing the intersections between technology, the economy, society and politics. I hope the reader finds this extended ... -
A Case Study on the Effectiveness of Discrete Trial Training Through a Web-Based Program for a 4-Year Old Autistic Child
(2014)Autism Spectrum Disorder is an ever growing neurobiological disorder. In fact, a recent report by Jon Baio (2014) shows that autism among children is growing at a rate of 30% percent each year. With this ever increasing ... -
The Paradox of Globalization: How Liberal Policies Have Fostered Regression through the Rise of Populism in the 21st Century
(2017)This monograph will explore the relationship between globalization and populism. Specifically, what variables in relation to globalization induce populism in highly industrialized countries? I hypothesize that factors such ... -
Comparison of Three Public Speaking Anxiety Treatment Methods in Traditional and Virtual Reality Settings
(2017)Three public speaking treatment method commonly used in traditional and virtual reality (VR) to treat public speaking anxiety (PSA). However, these three methods, exposure therapy (ET), cognitive modification (CM), and ... -
Opiod/Opiate Addiction : Analyzing the Significance of Racial Disparities Present Within Rural and Inner Cities
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)This project focuses on analyzing the existing literature around the opioid crisis taking place in rural cities across the United States. It will be juxtaposed using existing literature on the war on drugs, the 1993 crime ... -
Expressive Arts Therapy Improves Quality of Life in Older Adulthood with Alzheimer’s Dementia Disease
(2019)With the expansion of the population of older adulthood, increasing from 55 million Americans age 65 and older to 88 million by 2015 (Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures, 2019). Research of preventative strategies and ... -
Analysis of How Mental Illness Co-Occurring Disorders Intersect with Substance Abuse in Effective Outcomes in Drug Courts
(2019)In recent years, there have been attempts to improve the quality of drug court systems, but this treatment program has yet to treat co-occurring mental health issues in order to prevent future relapses. There are many ... -
Understanding the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Growth and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Through Social Acknowledgement as a Survivor
(2019)Posttraumatic growth (PTG) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are individual responses to a traumatic event that result in vastly different outcomes. Successful PTG results in growth past the pretrauma state, and ... -
The Psychological Effects of Sexual Abuse on Regional Brain Development in Children
(2019)For children who witness or experience neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse, or sexual abuse in the years of early childhood, the chances of developing mental ailments such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), ... -
The Effect of Perceived Motivation of Teachers on the Motivation of Students
(2019)This research addresses the topic of effective teaching, more specifically, it analyzes the role the attitudes of teachers play in the motivation of their students. Studies have found that when certain factors of attitude ... -
The Influence of Veteran Identity on Progress in the Veteran Treatment Court of Kalamazoo, Michigan : A Proposed Evaluation
(2019)Veteran Treatment Courts (VTCs) are special court programs that divert veteran offenders and provide resources to aid their recovery. These programs are relatively new, and are based on the success of drug courts and Mental ... -
How Unschooling Summer Learning improves reading comprehension at a greater rate than Traditional Summer School
(2019)Students over summer vacation lose on average 3 months of information from the previous school year. To combat this “summer slide”, intervention programs such as summer school were implemented. However, summer school’s ... -
Tracking Transitional Probabilities in Infancy : Word Segmentation from Dual Language Input
(2019)During language acquisition, infants use cognitive tools to dissect language: a heightened sensitivity to phonetic and prosodic cues and statistical learning. Research has shown that statistical learning paired with the ... -
Survived but Changed: Investigating the Effects of Pediatric Cancer and Cancer-Related Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms on Hippocampal Volumes
(2019)Survival rates among children diagnosed with pediatric cancer have tremendously increased over the past few decades due, in part, to advances in cancer treatments. As a result, survivors, their families, and clinicians are ... -
Anxiety in Children and corresponding Error-Related Negativity
(2019)The following experimental study explored the relationship between anxiety and ERN. This review of literature will also explore the predictive validity of ERN on anxiety symptoms. One-hundred and eighty-eight participants ...
