Matching Items (114)
ContributorsImmonen, Alyssea (Author) / Murphy, Karla (Thesis director) / Sellner, Erin (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Division of Teacher Preparation (Contributor) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsImmonen, Alyssea (Author) / Murphy, Karla (Thesis director) / Sellner, Erin (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Division of Teacher Preparation (Contributor) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsImmonen, Alyssea (Author) / Murphy, Karla (Thesis director) / Sellner, Erin (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Division of Teacher Preparation (Contributor) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor)
Created2024-05
ContributorsImmonen, Alyssea (Author) / Murphy, Karla (Thesis director) / Sellner, Erin (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Division of Teacher Preparation (Contributor) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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After analyzing and identifying gaps in the existing research related to asexuality, media representations, and relationship health education, this Facilitation Guide utilizes the One Love Foundation’s relationship health framework to dissect "The Hunger Games" through an asexual relationship health lens, proving that asexuality is everywhere and all relationships can benefit from an asexual lens. In conjunction with the Guide, three short videos help summarize and preview various aspects of this work.
ContributorsImmonen, Alyssea (Author) / Murphy, Karla (Thesis director) / Sellner, Erin (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Division of Teacher Preparation (Contributor) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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Throughout every liberation movement in America’s history, poetry has been an undeniably powerful act of resistance. Even today, protest poetry is instrumental to countless resistance movements because it captures attention, evokes emotion, and demands social progress. My project is divided into two parts. The first part is made up of five journals. These journals are informal written responses that conversate with different texts and analyze specific images within specific passages. My exploration of protest poetry focuses on five prominent poets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Gloria Anzaldúa, Camille T. Dungy, and Claudia Rankine. The second part of this project is my contribution to protest poetry. For my collection, I crafted ten poems in which I resist a range of issues that have to do with class, gender, and ethnicity. My protest poetry is also an examination of what it means to be human, particularly in modern day America.
ContributorsGomez, Nikole (Author) / Kirsch, Sharon (Thesis director) / Amparano Garcia, Julie (Committee member) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2021-05
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South Sudan is the world’s newest nation, having gained its independence in 2011. Despite significant promise, South Sudan faces many serious internal issues. Among the most pressing is the treatment and status of women and, in particular, their lack of involvement in the economy and in academia.
Women’s Education (WE) is our proposed nonprofit designed to address these problems by providing business education, financial assistance, and academic services to women business owners operating in South Sudan. We believe our targeted intervention in these areas will result in improved social and economic standing for women, the natural byproduct of which is an improved country with increased stability.
In the first half of this paper, we explore the social and historical context of South Sudan to illustrate both the need for (and viability of) of our organization. We outline what we will do to achieve our goal of equality within the business and academic sectors for women, and the effects such equality will have upon society.
In the second half of the paper, we address the logistics behind our operations, including our mission and vision, client needs, budget, management strategies, and other internal and external factors that need to be considered.
KEY WORDS: South Sudan, Gender, Business Education, Academic Intervention, Economy, Societal Infrastructure
Women’s Education (WE) is our proposed nonprofit designed to address these problems by providing business education, financial assistance, and academic services to women business owners operating in South Sudan. We believe our targeted intervention in these areas will result in improved social and economic standing for women, the natural byproduct of which is an improved country with increased stability.
In the first half of this paper, we explore the social and historical context of South Sudan to illustrate both the need for (and viability of) of our organization. We outline what we will do to achieve our goal of equality within the business and academic sectors for women, and the effects such equality will have upon society.
In the second half of the paper, we address the logistics behind our operations, including our mission and vision, client needs, budget, management strategies, and other internal and external factors that need to be considered.
KEY WORDS: South Sudan, Gender, Business Education, Academic Intervention, Economy, Societal Infrastructure
ContributorsPeter, Achirin (Co-author) / Castillo, Gemma (Co-author) / Goldman, Alan (Thesis director) / Samuelson, Melissa (Committee member) / Dean, W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor) / Thunderbird School of Global Management (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-05
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The topic of video games and their potential benefits had been researched and catalogued by a number of experts in the past when it came to aspects such as improving cognitive function and increasing learning capabilities. However, there was little research on how video games provide benefits to players in terms of mental and emotional growth and development. Yet, a game by the name of Octopath Traveler had been given little to no academic attention despite its interesting premise of eight separate characters following their own narratives and improving themselves over their journeys. This essay examined how Octopath Traveler provided deep messages and lessons on faith, perseverance, communication, and independence onto its player, ultimately assisting in their mental and emotional development and maturity. Each of the four messages is supported by two of the eight characters, and each character presented a differing perspective on the theme discussed; the characters Therion and Ophilia examined faith in both the self and others, the characters Alfyn and Primrose dissected perseverance regarding beliefs and goals, the characters Cyrus and Tressa discussed communication as a means of learning and as a means of interaction, and the characters Olberic and H’aanit examined independence regarding seeking a purpose and assisting the community as a whole. Octopath Traveler shows that video games can impart strong moral values onto individuals and help them develop both mentally and emotionally.
ContributorsSveinsson, Jordan Daniel (Co-author) / Sveinsson, Jordan (Co-author) / Garcia, Julie Amparano (Thesis director) / Devine, Theresa (Committee member) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05
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Although Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood” was written three centuries after Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Friar’s Tale,” the stories share both similar villains and explicit morals that condemn the tales’ victims rather than the antagonists. In an essay analyzing these works, I find that Chaucer and Perrault moralize their villains' predation as retribution for the protagonist’s supposed wrongdoings. In order to challenge and expand on these themes, I wrote a novella about Noelle Wei, a thirteen-year-old girl, who is attacked but left alive by a beast known for killing only dangerous criminals. After the beast promises to return, Noelle and her community must reckon with his unspoken accusation.
ContributorsSteuber, Sophia Marie (Author) / McGregor, Francine (Thesis director) / Kirsch, Sharon (Committee member) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05
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Building on past research, this study addresses ways in which gay, Filipino men negotiate their dual minority identities and consider potential conflicts and/or methods in which being a sexual and ethnic minority work together in the development of one’s identity. Through qualitative interviews, this research examines the experience of eleven gay, Filipino men in the Phoenix, AZ and Los Angeles, CA metropolitan areas and explores way in which their identities create stress and conflict, but always ways in which these identities create positivity in relation to their dual minority status.
ContributorsPayton, John Sterling (Author) / Swank, Eric (Thesis director) / Fahs, Breanne (Committee member) / School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05