Jack Heggie's 2011 song cycle Pieces of 9/11: Memories from Houston is a collection of six songs with texts by Gene Scheer. Commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera, it was premiered on September 11, 2011 at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, TX. Based on interviews with people from H…
The nature of the military-media relationship in the United States has evolved through the nature of the wars the United States has fought and the media portrayal of these conflicts. The outcome that the media coverage of American foreign military involvement is evidenced in the…
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore if September 11 had an influence on the relations between non-Arab and Arab Americans in Detroit. The data of the study were collected from 10 participants, five non-Arab and five Arab Americans. Through the i…
This study examined how mainstream and black press newspapers framed the phenomena of "racial profiling" three years before and three years after the September 11 terrorist attacks. It looked particularly at frames, ethnic groups, source selection and article emphasis. Results i…
This master's project addressed the void in multicultural counseling literature regarding culturally competent counseling with Muslims in the United States, particularly in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Drawing upon the ACA's multicultural counseling model, this project p…
With the deployment of more than 1.3 million service men and women from all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces to Iraq and Afghanistan, millions of family members, to include military wives and their children, have had the difficult task of awaiting the return of these service me…
This study was designed to determine whether or not undergraduate Saudi Arabian students currently studying in the United States still expect and experience negativity more than a decade after the events related to September 11, 2001. The study target population is all undergrad…
The current study aims to investigate the reception of Arabic language works translated into English and published in The U.S. before and after September 11 as reflected in paratexts. This study seeks to explicitly answer these questions: 1) What are the socio-cultural factors t…
This work illuminates our understanding of State-Building efforts in Afghanistan since 2001 by analyzing its causes and challenges. The institution's failure and the continued lack of stability have cast doubt on the international community's ability to build a significant state…