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This dissertation examines quantitative data compiled from a web-based survey that examined the views and perspectives held by Saudi Arabian nationals enrolled in institutions of higher education across the United States. The project utilized data collected from nearly 300 respo…

This study used narrative inquiry to investigate the construction of self-identity by fifteen incarcerated female adolescents involved in a story-telling program in a Midwestern state juvenile detention facility. A combination of critical theory, feminism, and the Islamic religi…

This purpose of this mixed methodology study was to identify and examine the motivational factors that positively and negatively influence civilian U.S. government employees to deploy to high-risk environments. U.S. government leaders continue to increase government civilian par…

In this dissertation I examine the relationship between Biblical Israel and Moab in order to determine if this relationship is different in any way from the relationship between Israel and its other Transjordanian neighbors. I will also explore how the relationship between Israe…

College Algebra students walk into the classroom with prior mathematical histories and self-identities. This study sought to better understand these psychological factors and their relationship among each other. Specifically, I considered how College Algebra students’ previous m…

This present study examined the influences of family dynamics, family belief systems, and parental education pertaining to their effect on African American children and families under the confines of indigence and frequent exposure to stress.

This thesis explores smell as a cultural signifier in Perfume’s multimedia storytelling. By establishing the theoretical ground upon the historical importance of scent, the thesis focuses particularly on its close interrelationships with the politics of identity, an issue elabor…

This Dissertation offers significant insights in understanding a peasant church in Madiri Puram village (pseudonym), South India. Researches from ecclesial perspectives are very rare. When the gospel entered the village it brought remarkable changes in faith, community life, hea…

This project aims at demonstrating the importance of Charles Taylor's conceptual language, particularly his reflections concerning human self-identity, to the comparative theological work of Francis X. Clooney and James Fredericks. I argue that Taylor is important to these compa…