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Intersection and inflection points: Exploring the lived experience of advanced placement calculus students using narrative inquiry
(2024-11-13)This dissertation uses narrative inquiry, a qualitative methodology, to explore the lived experience of two Advanced Placement Calculus BC students. The research questions are as follows: What are the lived experiences of ... -
Andean cosmology and charging the universe: Colonial concepts of power, healing, and transformation in the Andes
(2023-08-03)This dissertation focuses on Andean cosmology and colonial concepts of healing in the Andes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This dissertation provides evidence that redefines aspects and understandings of ... -
Smoke and fire showing: Fire, fraternity, and social order in post frontier Fort Worth 1873-1919
(2021-03-03)This thesis paper explores the development of a post frontier area township along the original 1849 military outpost line and the co-evolution of integral social groups of firemen within an established Fort Worth, Texas, ... -
Sugar, slaves, and revolutionary waves: The origins and legacy of the 1811 German Coast uprising
(2023-05-23)This paper highlights an incredibly understudied yet vitally important event in Louisiana’s history—the 1811 German Coast Uprising. Before January 1811, slave rebellion weighed heavily on the minds of Louisiana citizens. ... -
"A pioneer editress": Frieda Cassin's complex contributions to the 19th century Caribbean Creole literary world
(2023-04-28)This project is a large-scale recovery of Frieda Cassin’s (1870-1915) life and work. Cassin is the earliest Antiguan novelist, founder of the first Antiguan literary periodical, and one of the earliest female literary ... -
Cognition and composition: Deliberate practice in a first-year composition course
(2022-04-28)Drain from the invisible demands writing makes on writers’ brains may be lowering students’ self-efficacy. Deliberate practice, as developed by the psychologist Anders Ericsson, is a way to make those demands visible and ... -
The Coin Collector - Short Film
(2024-05-19)The Coin Collector is a short film that follows the story of a handful of people discussing the mystery behind a strange man who wanders around town carrying a giant canister of coins on his back. Everyone has a unique ... -
The Consequences of Trump's Refugee Narratives on the Social and Political World
(2024-05-19)In recent years, the United States has undergone a shift in both societal cohesion, and political normalcy, at large an effect by a previously unprecedented style of political cohesion. Beginning with Donald Trump?s ... -
INVESTIGATING AND CONCEPTUALIZING LARCENY THEFT IN SAN FRANCISCO
(2024-05-19)Larceny theft is the ?unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another? (FBI, 2018). Crime in San Francisco, specifically larceny theft, has made ... -
Breaking the Silence: Unveiling the World of Sex Trafficking in the Lone Star State
(2024-05-19)In this project, I delve into the complex and often misunderstood world of sex trafficking within the Texas Triangle. Through meticulous research and firsthand accounts from law enforcement, this story challenges prevalent ... -
AI Induced Anxiety: Analyzing the Effects of Prompt Engineering on Anxiety Levels
(2024-05-19)This study focused on AI induced anxiety, specifically how anxiety levels are affected when interacting with AI that employs prompt engineering techniques. Most of the research being done with AI is conducted to determine ... -
Does Pre-Testing Enhance Learning When it is Done Covertly?
(2024-05-19)Students wonder how to prepare for an upcoming exam, while instructors wonder how to best introduce materials to students. Research has found that practice testing after material is studied leads to better memory compared ... -
THE PREDICTIVE UTILITY OF SOCIAL SUPPORT IN ALCOHOL USE PATTERNS AMONG THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY
(2024-05-19)During the fourth quarter of 2023, Tarrant County reported 2,658 individuals experiencing homelessness, contributing to Fort Worth's 24th rank among American cities with a 22% increase in homelessness rates over the past ... -
DISRESPECTABILITY AND DEVIANCE: CONVERSATIONS ON BLACK QUEER GENDER AND BLACK COMMUNAL FUTURES
(2024-05-19)My work seeks to uplift Black Queer deviance and disrespectability, a disruption of social standards of respectability to unearth new possibilities of existing and being, casting these concepts as abolitionist praxis. I ... -
Black Instinct: The Survival Kit for the Black and Marginalized at a Predominantly White Institution
(2024-05-19)This autoethnographic archive encapsulates my intersectional experiences navigating predominantly white institutions (PWI), including Texas Christian University and studying abroad. Through the theoretical frameworks of ... -
CHARACTERIZATION OF IRON RPy2N2 AZAMACROCYCLIC COMPLEXES AS CARBON-CARBON COUPLING CATALYSTS
(2024-05-19)The goal of this project is to offer a more economic and environmentally friendly, alternative carbon-carbon coupling catalyst complex to what is used industrially today. Carbon-carbon coupling is a common reaction performed ... -
The Effects of AI Generated Marketing Content on Consumer Sentiments and Purchase Decisions
(2024-05-19)Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) has garnered significant attention across academic, business, and mainstream spheres due to its ability to simulate human intelligence and perform intellectual activities often ... -
Millie's Market
(2024-05-19)Growing up in a very small town in the south, going to the grocery store was always a journey for me and my family. Since I was ten years old, we have lived in a quaint rural town called Whitesboro, Texas, where the most ... -
Shoreline Essentials: A Beach Gear Rental Company Business Model
(2024-05-19)This thesis outlines the development of a comprehensive business model for launching a successful beach gear rental company, Shoreline Essentials, in Orange Beach, Alabama. The study employs a mixed methods approach, ... -
Stem Of A Kind: A Sociological Creative Writing Story On Marxist Alienation, Artificial Intelligence Technology, Neo-Feudalism, And The Future Of Humanity From An Afrofuturist, Solarpunk Lens
(2024-05-19)In modern American society, issues of poverty, mental illness, isolation, and environmental degradation stain the lived experiences of the masses. Rather than potentially solving the widening wealth gap in the nation, many ...