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Resource extraction, resistance, and religion in Nicaragua
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
My dissertation examines the causes of protest over resource extraction in Nicaragua, and underlines the role of religion as a catalyst for sustained and successful challenges against resource extraction. With few exceptions, ...
Middle school communication arts teachers' perceptions of administrative support necessary for implementation of response to intervention
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-08-21)
The purpose of this qualitative multi-case study was to determine teachers' perceptions of administrative support needed for implementation of the Response to Intervention process to increase reading skills for middle ...
Examining social class privilege and perceived career options in adolescent white women : a qualitative study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Social Class Worldview on adolescent women's perceived career options. This qualitative investigation resulted in 10 interviews focused on the lived experience of ...
The eight leaves
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The creative dissertation The Eight Leaves is a deconstructed memoir, composed in a series of inter-connected lyric essays structured in a ring composition. The manuscript...
A qualitative study of relationship building between alternative high school students and their teachers
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-14)
The purpose of this phenomenological, narratological, heuristic study is to understand the phenomenon of relationship building between teachers and students at an alternative high school. For this study, the phenomenon of ...
A balancing act : negotiating the teacher roles of instructor and participant during a high school literature discussion unit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The purpose of this naturalistic, qualitative inquiry is to provide more information about how literature discussion as a reading instructional strategy can work in the secondary classroom. Elementary teachers have known ...
Al-Tahtawi's translations of French works : a precursor to Nahda's and literary modernity in the Arab world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "This thesis showed that the Nahda project, despite its partial failure because it did end with the end of the century due to the new circumstances and new intellectual movements...
Persistent homology : categorical structural theorem and stability through representations of quivers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The purpose of this thesis is to advance the study and application of the field of persistent homology through both categorical and quiver theoretic viewpoints. While persistent homology has its roots in these topics, there ...
Burning Houses: A Novel
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
When Cat Byers’ mother dies and leaves her and her sister a surprise inheritance of
10 million dollars and 500 acres of oil land, a woman adrift must overcome her unresolved
past and a mysterious stalker to discover ...
The development and implementation of a heuristic for teaching reflective scientific skepticism within a socio-scientific issue instructional framework
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Science ideas are frequently miscommunicated or distorted. In our digital age, a social media post may provoke an emotional response triggering a cascade of replies that spread...
Pertinacious image : investigating a dimension of image management in sports public relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Seeking to explore new areas of image management, this dissertation applied the constant comparative method to in-depth interviews of sports public relations practitioners. The result is the discovery of a new concept not ...
Pre-service science teachers' beliefs related to teaching and learning with socioscientific issues
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Socioscientific issues (SSI) are the hallmark of a reform-oriented approach to science teaching and learning (Sadler, Foulk, and Friedrichsen, 2017) that foregrounds controversial and unstructured societal challenges with ...
Scaffolding the continua of biliterate development in the Spanish language immersion classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The purpose of this qualitative research project is to describe the scaffolding strategies used by a teacher to engage and support students as they work within the continua of biliterate development in the fifth-grade ...
Creep City and Five Short Stories
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
This collection includes one novella and five short stories, focused on young women
and their formative experiences. These stories explore themes of sexuality, latent violence,
changing technology and weird feelings. ...
Webs of intimacy and influence : unraveling writing culture at Harper's magazine during the Willie Morris years (1967-1971)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Through an exploration of what a collective of writers have written and said about the experience of working together at Harper's Magazine from 1967-1971, this research aims to give shape to the concept of writing culture. ...
Transnationalism from below : an exploration of transnational engagement behavior of Nicaraguan immigrant entrepreneurs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study explores the concept of transnationalism through individual experiences of migrants from the community of Villa Sandino, Nicaragua that have become entrepreneurs as immigrants in the United States. Through ...
One last good time
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation consists of a book-length work of short fiction preceded by an essay called "In Defense of Starting Early." The ten stories that make up this collection...
Developing an understanding of cultural aspects and beliefs of Latino/a families experiencing the American educational system
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-24)
The purpose of this qualitative study was three fold: (a) to understand the cultural
context from where our Latino/a learners come from, (b) to explore how Latino/a families'
perspectives of the American educational ...
Subsidizing the press : understanding journalists' attitudes about corporate and government influence and the public interest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
U.S. newspaper companies have been slashing resources, resulting in less original reporting and raising questions about whether private-sector newspapers can adequately serve the public interest. According to social ...
Islam and the West : how do background and experience influence how photojournalists cover Muslims? Professional project in three parts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This project seeks to answer the question of whether background and experience influence the ways that photojournalists cover Muslims and whether September 11, 2001, had any influence on their perceptions or approach. ...