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AuthorChernesky, Jason M.
Date Created2013
Degree Date2013-01
DescriptionAs AIDS proliferated in Newark, New Jersey through the 1980s, local AIDS-care advocates conceptualized AIDS in ways that reflected the disease’s impact on Newarkers. In reframing a problem that was...
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AuthorKhalil, Deena
Date Created2012
Degree Date2012-05
DescriptionResearchers have demonstrated that schools with low-income and predominantly minority students, especially those in urban districts, have the most difficulty recruiting and retaining teachers. In...
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AuthorHill, Diane
Date Created2012
Degree Date2012-05
DescriptionDuring the past decade, urban colleges and universities have been undergoing changes attributable to the reemergence of outreach initiatives. More recently, these outreach efforts have been...
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AuthorDurst, Lawrence Bruce
Date Created2024
Degree Date2024-05
DescriptionThis dissertation reassesses a novel style of American sitcom that emerged in the mid-1960s in which serene depictions of suburbia that had dominated the genre in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
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AuthorXu, Jie
Date Created2011
Degree Date2011-05
DescriptionThis dissertation presents a systematic approach to identify the determinants of gun shooting and forecast the distribution of gun shooting. Using frameworks of opportunities theories and social...
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AuthorGrosso, Ashley
Date Created2011
Degree Date2011-05
DescriptionThis dissertation evaluates the effects and implementation of an education program aimed at increasing knowledge and changing attitudes about HIV and AIDS among high school students. Using a...
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AuthorDalina, Stephen
Date Created2021
Degree Date2021-10
DescriptionThe Syrian Refugee crisis, which began in 2010, has brought Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the forefront of global political news. It has revealed Hungarian political discourse is...
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AuthorMahmassani, Addie
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionThis dissertation approaches the American folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s from a feminist perspective, offering the concept of folk feminism as an analytical framework for...
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AuthorCiccolo, Drew J.
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionThis dissertation is a study of “the American fantastic,” i.e. the literary fantastic in an American context. I suggest that conceiving of the fantastic in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and...
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AuthorNeeley, Alexander J.
Date Created2018
Degree Date2018-05
DescriptionAmerican foreign policy has drastically changed since September 11, 2001. In the decade before that date America was engaged in a series of smaller conflicts, but nothing sustained over a long period...