This qualitative research study sought to understand how African American and Latinx students overcame academic failure to achieve good standing. In this study, Latinx and African American students’ academic readiness was a marginal factor in academic success. The following rese…
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Background : Research specific to Muslim minority perspectives on social media representations of Islam remains limited and literature pertaining to Pakistani Muslim students' experiences of the phenomenon almost non-existent. This study makes an original contribution by examini…
The twenty-one years of military dictatorship in Brazil were marked by severe repression as government censors controlled every aspect of the media and artistic production. During these tense years from 1964 to 1985, many journalists, academics, writers, and artists struggled to…
This thesis is an investigation into the lives of women living in Iran. I develop a critical framework for understanding it. It is now my understanding that women suffer greatly from the restrictions they are subjected to. I discuss what some of these restrictions are, and how t…
Teacher supervision is closely related to teachers‘ professional development and effective teaching as well as students‘ learning. This study is grounded in critical/feminist theory. It offers a rhetorical analysis of the phenomenon of teacher inspection and the role of liberato…
Ancient Israel and Judah developed from an agrarian culture and were often vassals of an extended agrarian empire. The ethos of the Israelites thus reflected or included the worldview of what has been described as the oppressed classes. This ethos became a formative element in t…
This qualitative study utilized narrative analysis to explore and better understand the counter-learning of an oppressed Kurdish woman, Zelo, from Turkey. The study looked specifically at the process of developing counter-learning under multilayered oppression from her childhood…
The Good Wife and Other Tales of Seduction is a collection of fourteen short stories based on the everyday lives of Bangladeshi characters whose roles are defined by gender, culture, tradition and religion. Though none of the stories are autobiographical, some of them have sprou…
Ben Sira (ca. 245–175 B.C.E.) was a Jerusalem scribe, among whose functions was the instruction of young men. Near the end of his life Ben Sira collected his notes and reflections into a long Hebrew poem, that came to be known as the Wisdom of Ben Sira (the Apocryphal/Deuterocan…
In 1948, the Afrikaner Nationalist Government became the ruling party in South Africa and instituted the brutal system known as apartheid. To maintain their power, Afrikaners drew on Christian scripture and traditions to create self-justifying religious narratives that supported…
This qualitative study is a narrative investigation that analyzes the educational experiences of the segregated Turkish people of Sumter County, South Carolina during the integration movement. Four participants share their stories of how attending an elementary school for Turkis…
The crucial investigation examines the complex dynamics of the Iranian state regime haunting and its systematic oppressive modalities in constructing a shared structure of anxiety within the Iranian cultural ethos. To analyze Iranian state regime haunting and its resonance in a …
This dissertation is a qualitative study of the real life experiences of fifteen young Muslim women ages 14-25 living in a large Southwestern United States city fictitiously called "Al Medina." These young women represent diverse cultures, languages, and educational and career i…
This dissertation examines the justification for using armed force throughout Islam's history. Special emphasis will be made to the following three terms, harb, jihad, and qital. These three words translate into war, struggle, and fight respectively. Not only are these terms the…