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The Future of Democracy: Perception of Corruption and Youth Participation
(2019-11-01)
The majority of scholars are pointing out the alienation of young people from the political arena. Are young people really politically apathetic, disengaged and cynical? Do young people practice their given democratic ...
Digital Archiving of Reconstructed Performance
(2014-06-12)
The project is research behind the sections of 19thcenturyacts.com database that cover the actor Ira Aldridge and his performances. The full functionality of the database can be found by going to that url, sources and ...
The Rise of Osteopathic Medicine in the United States: A Foucauldian Perspective
(2013-06-24)
Those who wish to obtain the title of “physician” in the United States have only two
options before them: the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree or the Doctor of Osteopathic
Medicine (DO) degree. These two degrees correspond ...
Examining Sexual Assault Victimization and Loneliness as Risk Factors Associated with Non- Lethal Self-Harm Behaviors in Female College Students: Is It Important to Control for Concomitant Suicidal Behaviors?
(2016-08-26)
The present study examined sexual assault victimization and loneliness as predictors of self-harm behaviors in a sample of 224 female college students. Results from conducting regression analysis indicated that both sexual ...
Divestment for Humanity: The Anti-Apartheid Movement at the University of Michigan
(2015-06-22)
In the late 1970s, students and faculty at the University of Michigan began to speak up in protest against the University’s investments in corporations with ties to apartheid South Africa. Divestment for Humanity details ...
History of African-American Celebrity: The Fisk Jubilee Singers
(2012-06-04)
Little research has been done on the making of African-American celebrity over
the course of the nineteenth century. This research is part of a larger project to understand
the business patterns and representational ...
The Home Economics Movement: Discrepancies between founding intentions and contemporary internalizations
(2018-06-21)
Since its inception in 1909, The American Home Economics Association (AHEA) founded by Ellen Swallow Richards strived to actualize its purpose of “the improvement of living conditions in the home, the institutional household ...
Rebellions, Punishment, and Justice in the Elizabethan Era
(2014-06-12)
In 1569, eleven years after Queen Elizabeth I’s accession to the throne, two major rebellions occurred under her reign: the Northern Rebellion in Northumberland, England, and the first Desmond Rebellion in Ireland. These ...
Optimism/Pessimism and Future Orientation in Predicting Depressive Symptoms and Suicide Behavior in Primary Care Adults
(2013-06-24)
In the present study, we examine the role of optimism-pessimism as a unique predictor of suicide risk, measured by depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior. To gain a better contextual understanding of the relationship ...