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Erturk, Ali Cem | The lead up to restriction and contemporary immigration | In the 1840s and 1850s, a nativist viewpoint was applied to all foreigners, particularly Catholics and the Irish. From 1850-1882, it was applied to Asians who were presumed to be of a lower racial and economic order. In the 1920s, the poverty of Eastern European Jews, Italians, Hungarians, and Poles... | | 2023 |
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Pistorius, Jordan | The operational code of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton | Operational code analysis provides key insight into the fundamental views that influence the decision making process. In this paper, I explain the importance of operational code in regard to understanding how important leaders think and in forecasting their behavior in future decision making roles... | Clinton, Hillary Rodham; Presidential candidates - United States; Women presidential | 2016-05 |
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Burns, Henrik | The political economy of international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability: The case of Cuba | For this thesis project I investigated the relationship between international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability for the case of Cuba. To understand the effect of trade relations on agricultural policy I explored Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union, its largest trading partner betw... | Trade regulation - Cuba; Agriculture and state - Cuba; Cuba - Commerce | 2014-05 |
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Mendenhall, Morgan | The preparedness of college and university counseling centers in meeting the needs of student veterans | The current study assesses counseling centers on college and university campuses in their dealings with student veteran clients in a national sample (N=33) of college center directors. The National Center for Veterans Studies sponsored the study, and a total of 200 counseling center directors were a... | Counseling in higher education - United States; Veterans - Counseling - United States | 2013-04 |
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Posselli, Darcy | The presence of environmental advocacy through the foundational theology of love, contemplation, and prayer in midcentury Christianity | In the 1968 essay "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis," Lynn White Jr. makes an argument for what he evaluates as the influence of Christianity on Western culture, which has led to the environmental degradation that marks the 20th century. By looking at a few prominent theologians who wer... | Poetry - 20th century; Christianity and nature; Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965; Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968; Cardenal, Ernesto; Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 | 2012-05 |
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Posselli, Darcy | The presence of environmental advocacy through the foundational theology of love, contemplation, and prayer in midcentury christiantiy | In the 1968 essay "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis," Lynn White Jr. makes an argument for what he evaluates as the influence of Christianity on Western culture, which has led to the environmental degradation that marks the 20th century. By looking at a few prominent theologians who wer... | Environmental Studies, Honors | 2012-05 |
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Bryan, Candace | The relationship between Native Americans and Museums: a case study of the natural history museum of Utah | Taking a class about Native American studies opened my eyes to the many problems the Native American community has had to face for decades. One of those problems was with something I've enjoyed my entire life: museums. Museums have always been a place of wonder and learning for me. I never was taugh... | | 2020 |
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Guerrero, Jimena Murillo | The relationship between common factors and specific interventions in psychotherapy | The effectiveness of psychotherapy depends on a combination of specific interventions and nonspecific interventions, or common factors (CFs), that are widely used across different approaches in therapy. CFs are generic characteristics and behaviors across different approaches of therapy such as the ... | | 2020 |
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Fink, Susan | The role of emotion regulation in understanding the link between benefit finding and adherence in adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes | Adolescents with type 1 diabetes find managing their disease difficult and they often experience problems in adhering to their diabetes regimen. Adolescents who are able to find benefits from their diabetes may be able to maintain better diabetes management, in part as they are able to process and r... | | |
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Forrest, Lauren N. | The role of perception in eating disorders | Individuals with eating disorders often suffer from severe body dissatisfaction and distorted perceptions of the body (Bruch, 1969; Cash & Deagle, 1997; Farrell, Lee, & Shafran, 2005). Though populations with eating disorders may perceive their body sizes differently, most previous work has investig... | Eating disorders - Psychological aspects | 2012-05 |
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Andruski, Jordan Joseph | The social contract of international politics | The purpose of this research paper is to examine the extent to which states engage in the proposed idea of a currently forming international social contract and what effect have institutions had on this development. More specifically, the paper will examine the extent to which the development of int... | Social contract; International relations | 2013-05 |
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Hawkins, Lisa | The social market: Commitment to responsibility in a changing generation | As the partisan divide in U.S. politics grows wider, actionable and proactive policy making becomes more difficult to achieve. To address growing social issues, then, a more flexible and evidence-based approach must be realized. In the last 40 years, the United States has employed varying levels of ... | Public opinion; Social responsibility of business | 2016-05 |
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Choi, Andrew Young | The transnational marriage migration subjectivities of Filipina wives in Gwangju, South Korea | "Marriage migration" of "foreign brides" Into South Korea (henceforth Korea) has recently gained scholarly attention (e.g., Belanger et al., 2010). For blue-collar men, the changing status of women has lessened the availability of marriageable Korean women. This social decoupling has various labels,... | Intermarriage - Philippines; Intermarriage - Korea (South) - Kwangju-si; Filipinos - Korea (South) - Kwangu-si; Kwangju-si (Chŏlla-namdo, Korea) - Social conditions | 2012-05 |
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Powell, Cheyenne | The unforgiven: Pathways to homelessness | Homelessness is a socially constructed problem. We as a society do not take the time to truly listen to the concerns of those who are still impact us in our day to day lives. In this current study, the use of qualitative data was analyzed to determine and understand pathways to homelessness. The pur... | Homelessness - United States | 2016-04 |
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Bitter, Anne Marie | The use of "Women's Safety" in Criminalization VS. Decriminalization Arguments about Prostitution in the U.S. | This thesis analyzes academic discourse arguing for and against the criminalization of prostitution within the U.S. It specifically investigates how claims about women's safety are used by both sides in this debate, examining four common frameworks that shape appeals to women's safety: physical harm... | | 2019 |
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Woolf, Katie | There's Something About Syria: Using Foreign Military Intervention in the Syrian Civil War to Assess Predictabilityin International Relations | This paper utilizes three strands of International Relations (IR) theory: realism, constructivism, and leadership theory to inform the actions of the United States and Russia in their intervention in the Syrian Civil War. First, a brief overview of the case is presented along with a review of the th... | | 2020 |
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Kirkegaard, Matthew | Transboundary water conflict, cooperation, and regional integration: Mercosur and the La Plata Basin | Water politics become diplomatic concerns when watersheds cross international borders. But how do these relationships between states change when the nature of these international borders themselves change through economic and political integration? The purpose of this study is to consider the relati... | MERCOSUR (Organization); Water-supply - South America; Water-supply - Political aspects | 2016-05 |
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Crapo, Micah L. | Transitioning Control: Examining the Individual Differences Between Automatic and Controlled Processes | Transitioning control is the process of switching attentional behaviors between voluntary (controlled attention) and involuntary (automaticity) cognition. The objective of this study was to examine individual differences in the ability to transition between automatic and controlled processes. In a r... | | 2016 |
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Li, Danika | Understanding State-Sponsored Violence: Tiananmen Square | The Tiananmen Square Massacre presents an interesting puzzle to political scientists, as it contradicts traditional strategic theory that attacking one's own civilians erodes a government's base of power. The massacre defies these expectations through the ensuing decades of iron control the Communis... | | 2018 |
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Bunker, Kerrigan | Understanding the current State of food-based mutual aid in Salt Lake City for community resilience | Salt Lake City experienced a growth in food-related mutual aid networks throughout the pandemic that sought to provide food to those without. But now we are approaching the end of the third year of a world with COVID-19, the current state of mutual aid initiatives varies. The current study seeks to ... | | 2023 |
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Robinson, Rayne | Understanding unmet social need in Utah's pediatric population: how can social needs by addressed in patient populations? | Background: Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the environmental conditions, material attributes, and patterns of social engagement that shape an individual's health exposures and health behaviors, contribute to an individual's health outcomes, and can place individuals at risk for poor health... | | 2022 |
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Valle, Ciriac I. Alvarez | Undocumented Undergraduates in the Utah System of Higher Education | This thesis focuses on how undocumented students navigate institutions of higher education in the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE), and considers the specific culture, legislation, and demographics of the state of Utah. Following my personal experience as an undocumented student, I interviewed... | | 2017 |
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Keyser, Madison | Utah's Nonprofits: Effects on the Economy and Ties to Gender Employment Inequality | | | 2018 |
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Butler, Alexandra D. | Utah's sex education controversy: Is it relevant today? | Utah's policy of abstinence only sex education is a contentious issue. Some worry that, if not taught in school, young people will not obtain accurate information on sex, contraceptives, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Others fear that teaching safe sex will encourage adolescent sexual a... | Sex instruction -- Utah | 2015-05 |
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Christian, Lauren Piper | Utilizing feedback from Utah families with asthmatic children to mitigate air pollution health consequences | Air pollution is an ongoing public health threat in the US and in Utah. While air pollution triggers asthma, we know little about what parents of asthmatic children think about what schools, health care providers and policymakers should do to improve air quality and their children's health. Data to ... | | 2022 |