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Comparison Study of Factors Contributing to Obesity: Mexico and the United States in the Areas of Physical Activity and Diet

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Feminism and Empowerment: Female Protagonists in the Works of John Green

This paper explores the roles that women and girls play in the works of John Green, specifically looking at the novels Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars. The female characters, their decisions, their surroundings and their portrayals by the author are all taken into consideration when determining whether each text could be considered a "feminist text." Various aspects of feminist criticism, including agency, empowerment, stereotypical gender roles and perception by other characters are considered when determining whether or not each novel is a feminist text.

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Contextual Factors and their Impact on Communication in Dementia

The impact of contextual factors on quality of life and communication are often overlooked by those who work with people who have Dementia. Hence, this case study investigates one woman who has Alzheimer's Dementia, and examines her communication in multiple contexts with several communication partners. Transcriptions of these conversations were analyzed from a linguistic perspective and results were consistent with the theory that contextual factors have a significant impact on quality of life and communication.

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Utilizing Dance and Creative Arts to Build and Strengthen Community Bonds

This thesis addresses the potential for dance to be used as a tool to build and strengthen community bonds. Specifically, this thesis addresses the interplay between dance and the formation of interpersonal relationships, during the creative process and participation in dance activity. The numerous benefits of dance, as a physical activity, have been documented; furthermore, dance, as a creative art, has been seen to have emotional, psychological, and pro-social benefits.

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Cultivating Creativity: Orff-Schulwerk in the 21st

The Orff-Schulwerk approach to music education has molded music classrooms across the United States since its inception in Munich, Germany in 1924 (Gray, 2002). The Orff-Schulwerk approach was first implemented in the Gunther School, a small school for women. Contrasting with the typical music education of the age, which was based upon the works of composers Bach and Mozart, Carl Orff believed that students should actively discover music through movement and improvisation (Gray, 2002).

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Puritan Women and Piety: Examining the Lives of Anne Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson

Puritan women in the seventeenth century were expected to lead pious, moral lives in order to guide their families in faith. This piety that was held in such high esteem by the church and pastors of the community often perpetuated specific roles women were expected to fill. Each woman who was instructed to be pious, however, interpreted this piety differently in her day to day life. In the cases of Anne Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson the boundaries of what a woman could achieve in society were stretched in different ways.

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What Drives Uncertainty in Large Point Sources?

Earth's climate is changing because of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. To fully quantify alternatives for adapting to or mitigating these changes we need to carefully characterize emission and uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2). A large percentage of anthropogenic CO2 emissions come from large point sources. In the US over 40% of fossil-fuel derived CO2 emissions are attributable to large point sources. This thesis will show the importance in addressing the spatial uncertainty in large point sources.

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Research in Support of Developing a Safe Home for Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Survivors: Narrating the Process of Developing and Establishing The Tree House Nonprofit Organization

Nearly 300,000 children become victims of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) yearly at the average age of 13-14 years old in the United States (Adams, et al., 2010, p. 1). Survivors caught in the rapidly growing industry of sex trafficking cannot escape their traffickers or abusive situations due to financial dependence and severe psychological and physical sexual abuse and trauma. A long-term residential facility is necessary in order "to increase a survivor's chances of living independently and to minimize the risk of her becoming homeless or revictimized" (Shigekane, 2007, p. 128).

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The Effects of Music on the Test-Taking Abilities of High School Musicians

Purpose: This study attempts to expand upon the work by Frances Rauscher, Gordon Shaw, and Katherine Ky. Their study, published in 1993, determined that college students who had been exposed to Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K.448 demonstrated an increase in test scores when immediately given a spatial-reasoning task. The general public became excited at the idea of music making their children smarter, and the infamous "Mozart Effect" was born. No subsequent research study has been able to prove the same results.

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A Contextual Profile of Tariq Ramadan: Islam and Modernity Revisited

Although Tariq Ramadan, a self-described "radical reformer," has emerged as a powerful voice within the global discourse concerning Islam and modernity, his theories of reform, which at surface level appear as a wholly revolutionary addition, are in truth an amalgamation of the ideas of his predecessors, from the Mu'tazilis to Muhammad 'Abduh and Hasan al-Banna. However, in a slight twist, he presents an Islamic modernity that values critical reasoning, a strong sense of spirituality, and honest interaction and integration with the West.

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