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The 'Evils' of Emma: Resistance to Conformity in Jane Austen's Emma
(1999-05)This thesis identifies and analyzes the ways in which Jane Austen's character of Emma resists social conformity throughout the novel Emma. Her resistance results in her ability to maintain control of her life and destiny ... -
Implementation of a Cultural Competency Learning Module WIthin an Interprofessional Clinical Experience
(2024-07)The integration of interprofessional collaborative practice with culturally competent practice has the potential to enhance positive outcomes, expand service delivery options, and address systematic racism in applied ... -
Perceived Parental Pressure and Internalizing Symptoms in Young Adults From High-Achieving Schools
(2024-05)Adolescent depression and anxiety rates have been rising over the last decade. One suspected factor underlying these increasing rates is achievement pressure, including the pressures stemming from parental academic ... -
Off the Tracks! : Deadly Railway Accidents, Markets, and Morality, 1850-1893
(2013-12)This thesis explores railway accidents and safety from the 1850s through the Railway Safety Appliance Act of 1893. Historians have shown, through political, economic, and to some extent, legal examination, throughout much ... -
Unfaltering Flame : A Linked Essay Collection
(2021-11)Unfaltering Flame represents Stephanie Nesja's exploration of faith from childhood into adulthood. Along the way, she encounters various forms of grief, including losing a close friend after high school and an aunt in her ... -
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Advanced Placement Participation and Performance
(2023-11)The Advanced Placement program is a popular option for students seeking college credit and academic rigor in high school; however, it is an educational program with a history of racial and ethnic inequity. The present study ... -
The Effect of Race Representation on Reading Comprehension
(2023-05)The achievement gap is still prevalent in that racial minority students, particularly Black students, tend to have lower grade point averages and test scores than their White peers. The current study examined the impact ... -
Changing Places
(2023-05-08)This project is an examination, recognition, and celebration of the hard work it is to grow up in today’s world and become one’s own person. This is the first three chapters of a novel consisting of a series of young ... -
Speech-Language Pathology Perspectives Comparing Hippotherapy and Standard Practice Treatment Delivery
(2023-04)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine differences among speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs) perspectives who utilize hippotherapy as a tool compared to standard practice treatment therapy. Demographics of ... -
Acceptable Activists, Absence, and Antifeminists : A Feminist Historical Critique of National Statuary Hall
(2023-05)In recent years, debates surrounding monuments and the messages they transmit through public space have exploded. A public, cultural conversation has emerged about monuments, collective memory, systemic racism, and societal ... -
Frances E.W. Harper’s Iola Leroy as a Black Nationalist Text
(2021-05)This work examines the historical context in the later nineteenth century during which Frances E.W. Harper is writing her novel, Iola Leroy. This work argues that Harper is underscoring the ways in which Black men can ... -
The Fledgling Führers : A Comparative Study of Interwar Fascist Movements in Britain and the U.S.
(2023-05)During the interwar period (1918-1939), Italy and Germany were not alone in their experimentation with fascism. In Britain and the United States, two lesser-known groups, the British Union of Fascists and the German American ... -
A Contested Past, a Therapeutic Present : The Italian Hall Memorial and Keweenaw National Historical Park, Calumet, Michigan
(2022-12)This thesis examines the Italian Hall Memorial and Keweenaw National Historical Park as a local commemorative space in Calumet, Michigan, and as a national component to memory studies and twentieth-century labor within the ... -
White Maternity and a Culture of Consumption in Little Fires Everywhere
(2020-05)This article seeks to illuminate the role white suburban mothers play in upholding homeland maternity and neoliberal multiculturalism in the United States. The maintenance of these two organizing power structures hinge on ... -
Examining the Diagnostic Accuracy and Predictive Validity for FastBridge aReading and CBM-R on High Stakes State Tests
(2022-06)The current study examined the diagnostic accuracy of two common screening assessments in reading, FastBridge Adaptive Reading (aReading) and Curriculum Based Measurement of Oral Reading (CBM-R) when used to predict future ... -
Through Fire
(2022-05)Let this serve as a content warning for this project: I discuss in detail the emotional and sexual abuse I experienced in previous intimate relationships. I am not the first person to write about intimate partner violence ... -
A Comparison of Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of Elementary Students as Measured by the b.e.s.t. Screener: The Effects of the Addition of Restorative Practices to Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
(2022-05)The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the addition of restorative practices to positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) on the social, emotional, and behavioral health of elementary students ... -
School Psychologists' Roles Related to Response to Intervention in Wisconsin
(2022-01)The purpose of this study was to determine whether the frequency with which school psychologists engaged in different job duties was associated with the stage of Response to Intervention (RtI) implementation their school ... -
Toxic Masculinity in Anne Brontё's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
(2022-04)Victorian Britain had a strict structural patriarchy which complicated the lives of men and women. The institution of marriage particularly created an environment of toxic masculinity. Anne Brontё used her novel The Tenant ... -
Associations Among Helicopter Parenting, Motivation, and Mindset
(University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire, 2021-11)Helicopter parenting, a type of overparenting, is a unique pattern of behaviors that typically includes excessive and developmentally inappropriate parental involvement. Rather than allow their child to embrace developmentally ...
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