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Recent Submissions
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Jenkins, Andrea N; 0009-0008-1694-2584 (2023-08-10)
This study examines the effects of early socialization about the body within mother/daughter relationships and its impact on the practice of Intuitive Eating (a practice of listening to one’s own body regarding food, rather ...
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Sanders, Meagan Louise
This study is an exploratory semi-structured intensive interview project in which eight self-defining crunchy mothers in North Texas were asked about their mothering and lifestyle practices, motivations for those practices, ...
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Mariscal, Ana G; 0000-0001-6823-5584 (2022-05-23)
This paper analyzes data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series to examine trends in educational attainment from 2000 to 2018 in six Texas gateway cities: El Paso, San Antonio, McAllen, Dallas Fort Worth, Houston, ...
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Rivera, Tatiana Marie; 0000-0002-8900-1522 (2022-05-06)
This study addresses the identity reconstruction process and ethnic marker development of 2nd generation Latina undergraduates attending a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). A qualitative study consisting of 12 individual ...
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Alvarez, Desiree; 0000-0002-0136-1890 (2022-05-05)
Studies of social movements have yet to examine the modern women’s political representation movement, a social movement industry made up of nonprofit organizations, foundations, activist groups, and political action ...
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Favor, Erica Joy; 0000-0002-2525-5953 (2022-05-06)
This study investigates high school students’ understanding of sexual consent and healthy relationships. While many studies have investigated practices, concepts, and definitions of consent among college-aged students, ...
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Wellman, Jennifer Ann; 0000-0003-4352-7278 (2021-12-17)
A qualitative study of the differences in how we gender our cats and our dogs. Fifty women between the ages of 18 and 50 were interviewed, who kept cats, dogs, or both cats and dogs. Differences were found in how naming ...
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Beck, LaDarius; 0000-0002-3127-7331 (2021-08-06)
This study examines differences in the likelihood of gun ownership among Blacks and Whites across various religious affiliations. It focuses on historically Black Christian traditions that often go unaccounted for in the ...
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Fitzsimmons, Gary J; 0000-0003-3008-7314 (2019-12-02)
This study investigates the effect that Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical Laudato Si had on Catholic beliefs about climate change using a Houston area case study, and presents a model for how religious affiliation and religious ...
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Routh, Megan Lyn; 0000-0001-5683-1872 (2019-08-02)
This paper discusses the role and use of humor in the lives of nuns and consecrated women. A qualitative study consisting of interviews with nuns and consecrated women was conducted to produce data about the way in which ...
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Clemens, Howard Scott; 0000-0003-4000-5589 (2017-05-16)
A mixed methods case study, which investigated whether community gardens can foster a sense of community within its members and whether that engenders a deeper sense of community about the neighborhood. Using SEM-based ...
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Baggett, Nathan Cole; 0000-0002-6886-904X (2019-05-17)
Stratification researchers of the last four decades have contributed a multitude of information on how class-origins, culture, and social psychological factors affect class reproduction. However, scholarship has spent ...
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Barajas, Angela N; 0000-0002-0461-9754 (2018-12-20)
Among the brightly-hued convention (con) halls, people dressed in feathers, foam armor, and spandex pose for pictures with one another as cosplayers. Cosplay is a way for fans to present themselves and their group to the ...
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Carney, Christina Laura; 0000-0002-2074-4619 (2018-11-15)
The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning handcrafting has for stay-at-home mothers, the reasons some mothers engage in handcrafting, and how the practice of handcrafting influences motherhood. Qualitative data ...
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Robertson, Christopher Everett; 0000-0001-6870-0642 (2018-05-01)
Another unarmed victim of police violence. Another acquitted officer. In recent years, this tragic course of events has repeated itself on multiple occasions in courtrooms, living rooms and social media spaces throughout ...
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Kennedy, Jamaica; 0000-0003-3592-7722 (2015-12-07)
Presidential narratives are influential components of the national conversation about social issues. In order to gain a better understanding of how the Presidents framed and discussed poverty and the poor State of the Union ...
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Shelton, Christopher M.
The focus of this study is to test our ability to glean ancient human behavioral ecology data through a specific form of raw material mechanical properties testing. Through the quantitative analysis of raw material in ...
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Micklin, Destiny
Strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotope ratios for seven individuals buried at the eastern shrine of Group 1 at Actuncan were analyzed in an attempt to elucidate the relationship between natal origin, burial location, and ...
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Yowell, John M.
Marx's eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach, which stands immortalized as his epitaph, draws a clear line in the sand between the descriptive philosophy of antiquity and the necessarily prescriptive character which he hoped would ...
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Thompson, Sharnese
This study examines the impact of food insecurity in three neighborhoods in Fort Worth, Texas. The neighborhoods in this study include, Southside, Stop Six, and Como. Food Deserts can be defined as poor urban areas that ...
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