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Race, Class, and Title I Schools: A Critical Analysis of Undergraduate Discursive Practices
(2017-05-24)Do race and class still matter in American society today? Unfortunately, it is likely that race- and class-based biases continue to permeate contemporary society. Colorblind language disguises biases while coded, politically ... -
Race, faith and fear: general press and black press coverage of Arabs, Muslims and the stigma of terrorism in the United States.
(2006-07-22)The global impact of the events of September 11, 2001, provoked an interest in American media coverage of terrorism. With African-Americans making up more than 12 percent of the country’s population and more than 40 percent ... -
Race, gender, and new technology advertising.
(2014-12-05)This study investigates representations of gender and race in recent advertisements for technology products and services through the lens of semiotics and critical race and gender theories. This thesis comprises a quantitative ... -
Race, religion, and homosexuality: Black Protestants and homosexual acceptance.
(2006-12-05)This paper explores the relationship between race, religion, and acceptance of homosexuality. Many question the disapproval of African Americans in the homosexual fight for gay rights, especially considering their activity ... -
Race, The Role Model Effect, and Bias in the Classroom at a Predominantly White Institution
(2017-05-24)Do black students at a PWI experience college differently than other students? If so, in what ways? How can black students’ experiences be improved? If race creates complexities for Black students at a predominantly White ... -
Race-and-Sex-Specific Modeling of Infant Mortality: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. National Linked Birth/Death Data
The primary objective of the study of fetal growth and development has been to reduce fetal and infant mortality, including the elimination of excess mortality that is observed in certain race/sex groups (i.e. African ... -
Radiation Exposure and Cement Volume During Fluoroscopy-Guided Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
According to new state and federal mandates, radiation exposure and patient safety are being evaluated, tracked, and recorded. Through our Department of State Health Services, Texas has enacted regulations to establish ... -
"Railroad iron is a magician's rod" : preserving and presenting historic railroad maps through the "magic" of digitization.
(2011-01-05)As digitization projects have become increasingly common, museums of all sizes have fallen under the spell of putting their archival materials online. But the process involves a great deal of advanced planning, sifting ... -
Rates and Equilibria of Vial-In-Vial Vapor Diffusion for Common Laboratory Solvents
(2017-05-24)Vapor diffusion crystallization is the chief method of crystallization used throughout the world for preparing X-ray crystals. While the extensively studied hanging drop method remains the most popular, almost no research ... -
Rates of photon induced, metal Ion assisted, unimolecular decomposition of gaseous organometallic complexes using a custom built molecular beam apparatus.
(2010-10-08)This dissertation will focus on the development of a novel technique to study the kinetics and dynamics of transition metal ion assisted σ-bond activation of gaseous organic molecules. The measurements reported represent ... -
Ray-tracing Techniques and The Simulation of Large-Scale In-Flight Wi-Fi Signal Propagation
(2018-05-21)As consumer expectations for data usage continue to rise, the acceptance of poor connectivity on airplanes will become increasingly untenable. Reliable, high speed inflight connectivity is in high demand in the airline ... -
(Re)covering lost lore : folklore adaptations in Zora Neale Hurston and Gloria Naylor.
(, 2012-08-08)Though folklore is a knowledge-sharing, identity-forming practice that is utilized by a number of cultural groups, many scholars deride its emphasis on orality and storytelling. One reason may be that folklore practitioners ... -
Re-defining Rationality: An Analysis of Criminal Behavior
(2016-08-09)At the core of economics is the idea that humans behave rationally and will maximize their own utility in any given situation. Illegal behavior, then, can be hard to explain; a criminal must reason that breaking the law ... -
Re-imaging the warrior : divine warrior imagery in the book of Revelation.
(, 2012-08-08)The focus of this dissertation is to investigate whether the ancient motif of Divine Warrior imagery can aid in understanding the violent imagery in the book of Revelation. The specific strategy is to examine how John’s ... -
Re-Membering Home: Wendell Berry's Response to the Gnostic Abstraction of Place
(2018-05-21)The modern world is by and large in a cultural crisis of displacement. This is allowed for by gnostic tendencies that place the entire vale of home in the abstract qualities of it and disregard the worth of particular ... -
A re-membering sign : the Eucharist and ecclesial unity in Baptist ecclesiologies.
(2010-02-02)This dissertation argues for the Lord’s Supper, or Eucharist, as a vital basis of the church’s unity as the body of Christ. It focuses especially on the theology of James Wm. McClendon, Jr., who, though a member of a ... -
Reading as an Imitatio Christi : Flannery O’Connor and the hermeneutics of cruci-form beauty.
(, 2013-09-16)At its simplest, this dissertation proposes two, possibly counterintuitive but mutually dependent, claims: 1) that O’Connor’s fiction can be, even must be, considered “beautiful,” and 2) that O’Connor writes the way she ... -
Reading disability in the law and in Presidential rhetoric : the cases of Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush.
(2017-07-31)Using the close-text methods of rhetorical criticism, this study examines the history of discursive exclusion of people with disabilities from the polity, as evinced in presidential oratory. Specifically, this project ... -
Reading Dreams: An Audience-Critical Approach to the Dreams in the Gospel of Matthew
(Perspectives in Religious Studies., 2006)This dissertation seeks to read the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew (1:18b-25; 2:12, 13-15, 19-21, 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. This approach requires an understanding of the social and literary character of ... -
Reading the American Bible : its role in liberal morality, criminal justice attitudes, and attitudes about religion and science.
(2011-05-12)The Bible has had a large impact on American culture, but thus far very little research has looked at the impact that reading the Bible may have. Research shows that religion has the tendency to have a conservative influence ...