Hippotherapy is a novel and promising therapeutic method. The prevailing rationale for hippotherapy is that the motion of a horse can provide movement patterns that mimic those of walking. The purpose of this study is to ...

The current study evaluated the narratives that affect faculty and university administrator perceptions of each other and how this understanding influenced opportunities for collaboration. This qualitative study examined ...

This thesis uses differences-in-differences causal inference method to study the impact of the UPP policy in the surrounding neighborhoods of the city of Rio and also the spillover effects potentially caused by it. Five ...

This dissertation shows how three seventeenth-century biblical epics— Abraham Cowley’s Davideis, John Milton’s Paradise Regained, and Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder—use rhetorical praise and blame for the moral and ...

Public school shootings in the United States have reached levels of epidemic concern. Current research related to U.S. school shootings addresses a variety of issues including historical analysis, political influences ...

My dissertation argues that Aristotle intends his account of unnatural economic arts in Book I of the Politics to emphasize the moral danger posed by the pursuit of wealth and reveal the importance of the household—and the ...

This ethnographic study investigates the religiously-motivated rhetorical action of the central office staff of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP), a research-based nonprofit project of Baylor University. ...

The death of a parent is generally considered to be among the most devastating kinds of losses that children can experience. While research has examined the associations between childhood parental death and health and ...

Teacher turnover is high in many school systems throughout the world. However, school systems in a small number of countries consistently present low annual teacher turnover rates. A growing body of research shows that ...

In this dissertation I am using a conceptual framework known as Folk Theory of Mind to shed new insights on Thomas Hardy’s five most well‐known novels: Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of ...