This dissertation examines cultural process: the nature of regional interaction in the ancient world. Although ceramics as chronological markers have been emphasized in studies of early complex societies, they also help define cultural and interaction spheres. Traditionally, dec…
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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between Turkish female science teachers' gender-related beliefs and those teachers' corresponding interaction with their male and female students. The data was collected from five different sources: Surveys, interviews, ob…
Christianity in Egypt is an interactive kiosk application focusing on Christian Holy Places since the Journey of the Holy Family into Egypt to the Present Day. It covers four main topics: Places visited by the Holy Family; Places of famous Saints; Churches; Monasteries. In my de…
The purpose of this dissertation was to argue that the crisis of Jewish Christians in Rome has correlation with the Christology which is developed in Hebrews. Through a critical reading, three observations were made about the community of Hebrews. Despite an alternate view regar…
Some states are unable to meet the requirements of court-mandated education of law enforcement staffs to facilitate a rehabilitative environment for inmates. This comparative case study used equivalency theory to compare and contrast the instructor's perspective of student learn…
In this qualitative research study, the author investigated the pragmatic experiences of five Saudi graduate students as they were pursuing their Master's degrees in English in one American university. The author used narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) to co-construc…
This dissertation argues that the discourse of epistemic injustice and Julia Kristeva’s oeuvre offer important insights into disability oppression, and that interaction is a promising form of resistance. “Interaction” as used here, is a term adopted from both Kristeva and José M…
This dissertation examines three contemporaneous religious philosophers active in early modern South Asia: Muhibb Allah Ilahabadi (d. 1648), Madhusudana Sarasvati (d. 1620-1647), and the Safavid philosopher, Mir Findiriski (d. 1640/1). These figures, two Muslim and one Hindu, we…
Following the development of technology, the video game industry keeps rising rapidly year by year. This growth reflects the increasing market and popularity of playing video games, and attracts more players to boost the population of gamers. Also, playing video games has been p…
Though the United States has a storied history of protest since its founding, critics of protests often ask if they inspire meaningful, empirical change. Protests and the desire to create for social good inspire many artists and designers. Energized by the Black Lives Matter mov…
Depression increases the risk of suicide death and non-fatal suicide attempt. Between 2 - 6% of persons with depression will die by suicide and 25 - 31% of persons with depression will make a non-fatal suicide attempt during their lifetime. Despite the strong association between…
The information era in which we live in has altered our relationship with technology, and it also inevitably has led to the overlook of our own bodies. Information is not just verbal. It is also transmitted to us through non-linguistic forms. Nonverbal communication helps us est…
Evangelical Christianity occupies a dominant position in American culture and politics. This thesis extends previous research on evangelicalism in America by identifying how evangelicals collectively construct their distinction and uniqueness in small group settings. By conducti…
With the increasingly widespread adoption of online learning, education is at an important crossroads. Spirituality and character building were once an important part of formal education. In the more secular modern era, many institutions of higher learning have neglected the spi…
Human beings are fundamentally social animals – our daily interactions with others profoundly shape our experience, and in the best of circumstances, are among the most rewarding aspects of life. By the same token, negative social experience and prolonged social isolation can br…
Die 'Aktivierung' von Arbeitslosen ist das vorrangige Ziel des deutschen Jobcenter-Systems. In einer ethnographischen Studie geht Bettina Grimmer dem Prozess der Arbeitsvermittlung auf den Grund und zeigt, dass die Gespräche zwischen den Vermittlern und ihren Klienten eine ersta…
This sociolinguistic ethnography examines how speakers in an urban Bangladeshi market use participant-indexical pronouns, kinterms, and metapragmatic discourse to locate one another in variously defined sectors of social space, including micro-interactional stances, local stereo…
