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When Being Black Isn’t Enough: Experiences and Persistence Strategies of Six African American Administrators at a PWI

Wolfe, Brandon (2010-10-27)

This phenomenological study explored the experiences and persistence strategies of African American administrators at Broussard University, a pseudonym given to a predominantly White university located in the southeastern ...

When Hiding isn't Enuf: How the Expression of Queerness within Black Feminism Change Over Time?

McThomas, Zion (2023-04-28)

The relationship of queerness and Black feminism works as an unbalanced scale. Within the transformative era of the 20th century, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone, and Audre Lorde both created and expressed radical Black ...

When Incivility Becomes Bullying: Assessing Cyberbullying in a Virtual Work Environment

Johnson, Brandon (2015-12-08)

Myriad constructs (e.g., harassment, incivility, bullying, abusive supervision, deviance) are subsumed under the larger phenomenon that is workplace mistreatment. To date, no researchers have empirically investigated the ...

When Physical Appearance (Dis)connects to Moral Character: Examining the Potential Fusion of Christian and Secular Beliefs about the Ideal Body

Hughes, Kelly (2020-07-22) ETD File Embargoed

Although religion, specifically Christianity, plays an important role in life for many women and impacts their views of the self and the world, little quantitative research has explored how Christian doctrine—particularly ...

When Power Becomes a Turn-Off: Interactions Between Relational Power and Ineffective Arguing on Sexual Satisfaction in Heterosexual Couples Seeking Therapy

Ellis, Faith (2022-07-25)

The purpose of the current study was to explore associations between low relational power, ineffective arguing, and sexual satisfaction among heterosexual couples seeking couples’ therapy (N = 175). Analyses utilized the ...

When the Wandering Traveler Speaks: The Narrative Poetics of Early Anglo-Indian Women's Travel Writing

Marschalk, Lacy (2014-12-17)

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women who traveled to and wrote about India have been examined and analyzed as many things—imperial colluders, pseudo-feminists, ethnographers, missionaries, and sexual objects—but ...

“When you’re 18, you got to vote”: How memorable messages influence first-time voters’ political attitudes and voting behaviors

Raitz, Hannah Katharina (2024-04-25) ETD File Embargoed

Experiences and messages individuals receive growing up influence their way of thinking and socialization (Handel, 2011; Knapp et al., 1981). Messages that have a long-lasting impact on and significance for the individual ...

Where No One Stands Alone: Harvey Gantt and the Civil Rights Movement in the Carolinas, 1943-1987

Ritchie, Samuel T. (2017-11-30)

As the first African American student to enroll at Clemson University and the first African American mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, Harvey Gantt served as a trailblazer. Born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, ...

Who Gives a Whoop? An Analysis of Conservation Messages on Twitter

Franklin, Taylor (2020-11-16)

Whooping Cranes’ (Grus americana) historic range ran from the Arctic Coast to Central Mexico and throughout much of the mid-west to the eastern shores of the United States. By the winter of 1941, approximately 16 Whooping ...

“Who Said What?”: Effects of Message Framing and Source Type Toward COVID-19 Vaccinations Intentions Among College Students

Hines, Kacie (2022-04-27)

Since 2020 the world has experienced a change in our everyday lives due to the COVID-19 disease. As the world tries to return to a place of normalcy, the COVID-19 vaccine aims to do that. Considerable research has examined ...

A “Whole New World”: Race and Representation in Disney’s Live-Action Remakes of Aladdin, The Lion King, and Mulan

Elmogahzy, Amany (2018-11-15)

When Disney began adapting their animated classics into live-action remakes, the studio assumed that this representational shift would be a perfect fit for their audiences. However, these films, specifically quickly became ...

Whole Tree Transportation Method for Timber Processing Depots

Lancaster, John (2017-04-20)

The growing demand for alternative energy has led those interested in producing sustainable energy from renewable biomass such as timber to devise new concepts to satisfy those demands. The concept of timber processing ...

Why a Diamond Means Forever: The Creation of the Diamond Engagement Ring Tradition in the United States, 1939-1996

Pequignot, Jennifer (2019-04-23)

In 1947 “a diamond is forever” became the official slogan of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited and is to date one of the most recognizable slogans in the history of American advertising. This dissertation utilizes ...

Why do Growing Cracks Branch? An Optical Investigation of Brittle Monolithic and Bilayer Transparencies Under Stress Wave Loading

Meenakshi Sundaram, Balamurugan (2017-02-28)

Understanding the fracture mechanics of materials due to stress wave (or impact) loading under combined tensile and shear (mixed-mode) conditions is important for two opposing reasons: (a) for creating impact resistant ...

Why Do Some Local Governments Offer Job Training or Other Services to Immigrants While Others Do Not?

Crayton, Mac-Jane (2023-01-10) ETD File Embargoed

Immigrants benefit the U.S. economy both at the state and local levels. Recognizing immigrants’ critical importance to the American economy, this research study investigates the relationship between local policy adoption ...

"Why Don't You Act Like This at Home?!" Parent and Child Reactivity During In-Home Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS) Coded Observations

Thornberry, Timothy, Jr. (2013-05-10)

The field of clinical child psychology has campaigned for evidence-based practice, with specific initiatives including the dissemination of evidence-based treatments and the development of evidence-based assessment guidelines. ...