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In this qualitative study, the researcher explored the nature of Arabic mothers', who live in the United States involvement in their children's mathematics education. There is no data about this minority population as related to mathematics educational involvement since Arabic a…

Infant mortality remains high in Bangladesh despite the remarkable success in the reduction of fertility in the past decade. Using Mosley and Chen's framework that illustrates various levels of determinants, this study examines how different levels of predictors interactively af…

This dissertation compares the stories of mothers of martyrs from many different religious traditions with those of Canadian mothers who were willing to send their sons to war during World War One. Over the years in the Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Sikh traditions stories have…

Among Deutero-Isaiah's many metaphors for God are “father” and “mother.” Five pericopes clearly use one or both of these images. The parent imagery appears alongside, and interacts with, other metaphors for God. Thus, the implications of the images of father and mother vary grea…

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a parent-training model which focuses on hearing impaired toddlers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in a setting that encourages play and language development. The present investigation analyzes mother or care providers/child in…

This thesis examines aspects of adolescent family mealtimes and psychopathology among both non-clinical (adolescents and mothers of adolescents) and clinical (adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN)) samples. It contains seven studies employing quantitative methodology, which add…

This dissertation examines the representation of complex mother figures presented in Francophone literature. I focus my analysis on literature from three distinct Francophone regions: the French Caribbean, North Africa, and Quebec. Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (1972) by Sim…

It starts with my mother. Her stories. A single seed. A seed I sucked in my mouth in order to remember the flavor of an orange. As a child, I listened to my mother's stories and later, as an adult, I began writing these stories down. Big Road is a memoir blending family history …

Composer Maurice Ravel was deeply affected by his experience as a truck-driving soldier in World War I (WWI). For the rest of his life, he never fully came out of the shadow of losing his friends in combat and his beloved mother during the same years. This study examines the imp…

April 1935 marked the year that the “Dust Bowl” was termed. It was a catastrophic national event that primarily impacted the American Great Plains—specifically the Panhandle of the central United States. Stories of the Dust Bowl situate themselves within the narratives of the Gr…

When my father died two years ago, the way in which I looked at the world changed. Try as I might to touch that loss, it turned away from me and showed me that sorrow sometimes needs distance. When I finally began to write about my family’s loss in earnest, I found myself not on…