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Black skin matters : the significance of color in early modern England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This book explores the impact of stereotypical concepts associated with black skin color in representations of black people during the English Renaissance, namely Shakespeare's Othello (Othello), Aaron (Titus Andronicus), ...
Rites of leaving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The school of Stoic philosophy traces its roots back to 300 B.C.E and thrived until the 4th century C.E, when it fell into decline and was ultimately assimilated into other systems of philosophy. It experienced a limited ...
Living buildings as communication tools and informal learning environments for sustainable building education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The idea that sustainable buildings can be used as teaching tools for both formal and informal environmental education and sustainable building education (SBE) has gained attention in both research and practice. Evidence ...
Signals, cues, and information use in foraging decisions of herbivorous insects and a leaf-folding plant
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] Group living organisms rely heavily on cues and signals from other group members to make decisions. I studied how foraging decisions are influenced by communication in two species of plant-feeding ...
The use of Self as a tool for culturally responsive change agency in social work practice: a qualitative phenomenological case study
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
Many social service and healthcare professionals are often challenged in engaging in
culturally appropriate practice, particularly when working with diverse populations that differ
from their own (Rothman, 2008; Sue, ...
Take us with you : disclosing newsgathering in investigative podcasts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The Relationship Between Trauma, Acculturation, and Mental Health Symptoms in a Somali Refugee Community
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The conflict in Somali has resulted in millions of refugees and internally displaced
persons for more than three decades. More than 100,000 Somali refugees have been resettled
in the United States, striking a need for ...
La Generazione dell'Ottanta and the Italian Sound
(2021)
La Generazione dell’Ottanta (The Generation of the Eighties) is a generation of Italian composers born in the 1880s, all of whom reached their artistic maturity between the two World Wars and who made it a point to part ...
The influence of gender on the careers of women theatre faculty in higher education : a qualitative investigation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Researchers have long documented issues with gender equity in higher education, especially in STEM fields, but less attention has been directed to ...
Making the invisible, visible : photojournalism and the documentation of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] It has been argued that published photos by news agencies of COVID-19 were either too nuanced or too graphic. In either scenario, photojournalists were held accountable for what members of the ...
The Radical Frances Wright and Antebellum Evangelical Reviewers: Self-Silencing in the Works of Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Maria Child, and Eliza Cabot Follen
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015)
The early antebellum, a nation-building period of industrial progress, financial crisis, and
social upheaval, associated the values of evangelical Protestantism with American middle-class
respectability. Individuals who ...
Making the Frontier’s Anatomical Engineers: Osteopathy, A. T. Still (1828–1917), his Acolytes and Patients
(2020)
This project seeks to understand osteopathy as patients, students, and doctors did during the late nineteenth century. A. T. Still’s osteopathic medical theories proclaimed manual therapeutics to treat disease. Still’s ...
Confluences
(2022)
This collection of poems, essays, and fictional stories is meant to mirror a confluence of rivers, made navigable by threads—or currents—that weave through and redirect my life.
Some of my life’s water (so far) has been ...
Understanding the impact of Artificial Intelligence on newsroom social culture and journalistic performative roles : a qualitative case study of AI as an emerging digital innovative technology in newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Throughout the evolution of journalism, innovative technology has played a pivotal role in shaping the production and consumption of news. The transformative power of disruptive technology has revolutionized the journalism ...
Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Anglo-American print sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as
“the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier.
This research examines the pivotal role that ...
TRAUMATIC BODIES AND DIASPORIC DISAFFECTION: A STUDY OF IRANIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
(2023)
This study is an effort to name a condition that has been generally overlooked by most scholars in trauma theory. Trauma has been mainly defined as a specific bodily condition resulting from the infliction of intense and ...
Teacher facilitation of critical literature discussions with kindergarten students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
deeply into social justice issues. By keeping the group consistent over a semester, trust was built, and students felt safe to explore together. Most importantly, Rita orchestrated and changed scaffolding techniques, including her talk moves, to support...
Ludwig Senfl's Psalm Motets and Their Influence, Use, and Musical Value in Politics and Religious Reformation
(2023)
Within a culture of rapidly shifting religious ideas, music of the German-speaking lands began to slip into obscurity in the sixteenth century. It took the work of a few key players in an often dangerous climate of reformation ...
Discovery of a Novel PI3K Inhibitor for Advanced Prostrate Cancer Therapy
(2023)
Prostate cancer remains a significant global health burden, especially in its advanced stages where survival rates significantly decrease. This study aimed to discover a novel therapeutic candidate that targets the ...
Some Alternatives to Model Selection and New Approaches to Computing for the Economics. 12/6/2014
(2014)
This interdisciplinary dissertation in statistics, economics, and social science
methodology derives a methodological approach for economics from philosophical
principles, identi es barriers to its adoption, and presents ...