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Title: Aquatic phobias permeated through African American culture, economics, and politics.
Creator: Groover, Jon Eric., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This Project involves looking at African American culture as it relates to swimming, water safety awareness, and water skills. The paper explores the myths and cultural norms associated with drowning phobias in African Americans to discover the root causes. Through historic accounts of African American culture one begins to uncover reasons why this culture became, in a sense aqua phobic. The paper will show what water sport professionals are up against, when working with a culture that is...
Show moreThis Project involves looking at African American culture as it relates to swimming, water safety awareness, and water skills. The paper explores the myths and cultural norms associated with drowning phobias in African Americans to discover the root causes. Through historic accounts of African American culture one begins to uncover reasons why this culture became, in a sense aqua phobic. The paper will show what water sport professionals are up against, when working with a culture that is several generations removed from the water and their water skills. The ultimate goal is to draw attention to the importance of water safety and the ability to swim as a life skill.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3170955
Subject Headings: Swimming pools, Social conditions, Minorities, Social conditions, Racism, African Americans, Economic conditions, African Americans in popular culture
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Marketing the television apparatus for American consumption: Producing meaning in contemporary magazine advertisements.
Creator: Maskevich, Kimberly J., Florida Atlantic University, Freedman, Eric M.
Abstract/Description: Contemporary magazine ads for television sets have much in common with their post WWII counterparts, the latter being produced during an era when the new technology was first getting installed in homes across the United States. Much has changed in the TV landscape since the postwar years. In particular, digital technology has altered the general terrain and set choices themselves are more diverse. Digital television began penetrating the marketplace in the 1990s and is predicted to become...
Show moreContemporary magazine ads for television sets have much in common with their post WWII counterparts, the latter being produced during an era when the new technology was first getting installed in homes across the United States. Much has changed in the TV landscape since the postwar years. In particular, digital technology has altered the general terrain and set choices themselves are more diverse. Digital television began penetrating the marketplace in the 1990s and is predicted to become mainstream by 2010. Even though the cultural climate has shifted since the postwar era, along with the concept of the familial and traditional notions of gender, the rhetorical strategies in advertising are strikingly similar. This essay examines 11 national ads by Sharp, Philips, Panasonic and Pioneer taken from contemporary popular women's magazines between the years 1998 and 2005. This essay considers the discourses attached to the evolved television apparatus as its digital incarnation is introduced into the private sphere of American homes. Each of the ads is placed within the framework of political economy, reading changes in the ad industry and the broadcast industry in such a context.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13331
Subject Headings: Consumption (Economics)--United States, Advertising--Social aspects--United States, Television advertising--Social aspects, Communication and culture--United States
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Title: The Roma uncovered: deconstructing the (mis)representation of a culture.
Creator: Velez, Alexi M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: The Roma people, often referred to by the derogatory misnomer of "gypsy," are an ethnic group plagued by (mis)representation in popular culture. Roma representations in cinema, literature, journalism, and other forms of popular culture have perpetuated a long history of Roma exclusion. This thesis aims to identify not only the many manifestations of Roma (mis)representation, but also apply anthropological theory as a means of analyzing the ramifications of such (mis)representations on the...
Show moreThe Roma people, often referred to by the derogatory misnomer of "gypsy," are an ethnic group plagued by (mis)representation in popular culture. Roma representations in cinema, literature, journalism, and other forms of popular culture have perpetuated a long history of Roma exclusion. This thesis aims to identify not only the many manifestations of Roma (mis)representation, but also apply anthropological theory as a means of analyzing the ramifications of such (mis)representations on the Roma people. This paper concludes with suggestions for an anthropologically informed methodology of representation, and hopes to challenge long standing stereotypes and misinformation about the Romani culture.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3352886
Subject Headings: Romanies, Social life and customs, Romanies, Social life and customs, Romanies, Public opinion, Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Eminent domain as enclosure movement: the privatization of law under neoliberalism.
Creator: Kleeger, Jeffery, Araghi, Farshad A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
Abstract/Description: Law is a means to an end. The state has always claimed it uses law as a tool to promote social order and progress (the Brazilian National Flag is an example). The use of law to force social change to facilitate capital accumulation for elites in society flies in the face of what the takings clause is supposed to stand for. This research examines the connection between economic development and public good. It focuses on takings because takings lie at the intersection between economics,...
Show moreLaw is a means to an end. The state has always claimed it uses law as a tool to promote social order and progress (the Brazilian National Flag is an example). The use of law to force social change to facilitate capital accumulation for elites in society flies in the face of what the takings clause is supposed to stand for. This research examines the connection between economic development and public good. It focuses on takings because takings lie at the intersection between economics, politics, and social relations. Takings are justified by necessity and public good, but the claim isn’t genuine. Takings condone displacement and cause harm. State-authorized condemnation juxtaposes civic duty with social obligation, ownership with license and privilege. The thesis developed here is the state is pushing the law of takings toward the satisfaction of private interests. To that end the public use concept was expanded. Kelo v. City of New London (2005) holds economic development is a public use and in making that fallacious claim the case has ruptured takings law. Public use shouldn’t be about private gain. Property should be creative and is when it facilitates productivity, but it’s destructive if it erodes personal autonomy. The state claims it promotes social good when it reorders uses, but the claim is false. Instead the state achieves an air of legitimacy, offering a sound rationale for acts of displacement and uses law to support the claim it promotes public good. If an individual doesn’t want to part with her property she shouldn’t be forced to do so. Taking is use of state power to accomplish ends that can’t otherwise be achieved. Taking is a lawful means to displace to benefit private interests. The proof of this is in the pudding of the transformation of law between Berman v. Parker (1954) and Kelo v. City of New London (2005). Berman (1954) required blight. Kelo v. City of New London (2005) eliminated that requirement. This thesis explains how law and state are captured by private interests.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004386, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004386
Subject Headings: Common good, Eminent domain -- Law and legislation -- United States, Land use -- Economic aspects -- United States, Neoliberalism, Privatization -- United States, Property -- Social aspects, Right of property -- United States
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Quality children's literature that supports fifth-grade state standards in United States history: A content analysis of historical fiction, biography, and informational tradebooks.
Creator: Baxley, Traci P., Florida Atlantic University, Matanzo, Jane Brady
Abstract/Description: This study sought to investigate the benefits of using children's literature in fifth grade classrooms in order to promote greater student interest, engagement, and understanding of key grade level history standards. Instruments were created by the researcher to examine the criteria expected for both standards and literary quality in history-related historical fiction, biography, and informational tradebooks. Children's literature was selected based on expert's recommendations and award...
Show moreThis study sought to investigate the benefits of using children's literature in fifth grade classrooms in order to promote greater student interest, engagement, and understanding of key grade level history standards. Instruments were created by the researcher to examine the criteria expected for both standards and literary quality in history-related historical fiction, biography, and informational tradebooks. Children's literature was selected based on expert's recommendations and award winning and honor books from 1970 to present. Four sets of content-analyzed Historical Literary Triads, one historical fiction, one biography, and one informational tradebook, for three United States Historical Eras most frequently addressed by 48 states and the District of Columbia's fifth grade standards were analyzed. Using a content analysis approach, data concerning the representation of fifth grade United States history state standards in select children's books were compiled. The literature was analyzed for the frequency with which the United States history standards were met and for its ability to support and/or reinforce the standards. Data concerning the presence of criteria designated for quality in children's literature were compiled. The degree of the presence of both quality and standards criteria was calculated both within an Era and among the three Historical Eras. The researcher then compared the comments and examples of individual genres with degrees of standards presented in the completed Historical Literary Triads used within a Historical Era. A discussion of content comparisons, reinforcements, and extensions presented or not presented by the Historical Literary Triads was discussed. These analyses assisted the researcher in determining the degree of quality and supportive content that was contained in the recommended and/or award winning books and the degree to which the Historical Literacy Triads created complemented United States history state standards. The content analysis concluded that while each children's literature book had some merit in terms of literary quality and/or addressing United States history standards, the Historical Literary Triads was overwhelmingly more inclusive, assuring breadth and depth of the materials needed for fostering historical learning and historical inquiry.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12140
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Women's feminist collective identity: A liberal feminist analysis of feminist identification and feminist consciousness.
Creator: Hiller, Tiffany Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Appleton, Lynn M.
Abstract/Description: Data from the 1992 American National Election Study are used to examine three issues: first, who is most likely to identify as a feminist; second, who is likely to show a feminist consciousness; and finally who possesses both the feminist identification and feminist consciousness that demonstrate a feminist collective identity. The results indicate that feminist identification and feminist consciousness are separate but related constructs and that overall feminist collective identity among...
Show moreData from the 1992 American National Election Study are used to examine three issues: first, who is most likely to identify as a feminist; second, who is likely to show a feminist consciousness; and finally who possesses both the feminist identification and feminist consciousness that demonstrate a feminist collective identity. The results indicate that feminist identification and feminist consciousness are separate but related constructs and that overall feminist collective identity among women is weak. The findings indicate a need to make clear which dimension--feminist identification or feminist consciousness--is being used in efforts to understand women's feminist collective identity and how these three concepts interact with cohort, employment status, income, education, race, and marital status.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15500
Subject Headings: Feminist theory--United States, Women--United States--Social conditions, Women--United States--Identity, Feminism--United States, Consciousness
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Racial Inequalities in America: Examining Socieoeconomic Statistics Using the Semantic Web.
Creator: Terrell, David J, Shankar, Ravi, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description: The visualization of recent episodes regarding apparently unjustifiable deaths of minorities, caused by police and federal law enforcement agencies, has been amplified through today's social media and television networks. Such events may seem to imply that issues concerning racial inequalities in America are getting worse. However, we do not know whether such indications are factual; whether this is a recent phenomenon, whether racial inequality is escalating relative to earlier decades, or...
Show moreThe visualization of recent episodes regarding apparently unjustifiable deaths of minorities, caused by police and federal law enforcement agencies, has been amplified through today's social media and television networks. Such events may seem to imply that issues concerning racial inequalities in America are getting worse. However, we do not know whether such indications are factual; whether this is a recent phenomenon, whether racial inequality is escalating relative to earlier decades, or whether it is better in certain regions of the nation compared to others. We have built a semantic engine for the purpose of querying statistics on various metropolitan areas, based on a database of individual deaths. Separately, we have built a database of demographic data on poverty, income, education attainment, and crime statistics for the top 25 most populous metropolitan areas. These data will ultimately be combined with government data to evaluate this hyp othesis, and provide a tool for predictive analytics. In this thesis, we will provide preliminary results in that direction. The methodology in our research consisted of multiple steps. We initially described our requirements and drew data from numerous datasets, which contained information on the 23 highest populated Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States. After all of the required data was obtained we decomposed the Metropolitan Statistical Area records into domain components and created an Ontology/Taxonomy via Protege to determine an hierarchy level of nouns towards identifying significant keywords throughout the datasets to use as search queries. Next, we used a Semantic Web implementation accompanied with Python programming language, and FuXi to build and instantiate a vocabulary. The Ontology was then parsed for the entered search query and returned corresponding results providing a semantically organized a nd relevant output in RDF/XML format.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004550, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004550
Subject Headings: Data mining, Education -- Demographic aspects -- United States -- Statistics, Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions, Minorities -- United States -- Statistics, Race -- United States -- Statistics, Semantic Web, United States -- Ethnic relations -- Statistics, United States -- Race relations -- Statistics
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The impact of racial diversity on state welfare policies.
Creator: Walker, Lindsay Ona., Florida Atlantic University, Stetson, Dorothy M.
Abstract/Description: The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act devolved much of the authority for welfare policymaking to the state governments. The goal was to promote variation in welfare policies in order to find the most effective way to keep low-income families in the work force and deter teenage pregnancy and family breakup. Without federal entitlement and federal oversight, black populations may be subject to more restrictive policies and may become the victims of welfare...
Show moreThe 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act devolved much of the authority for welfare policymaking to the state governments. The goal was to promote variation in welfare policies in order to find the most effective way to keep low-income families in the work force and deter teenage pregnancy and family breakup. Without federal entitlement and federal oversight, black populations may be subject to more restrictive policies and may become the victims of welfare racism. This study examines variation in the generosity of state welfare policies and assesses the role of racism in welfare policy outcomes. This is done using a regression analysis that tests the relationship between the generosity of state welfare policies and state social, political and cultural characteristics. The analysis shows that one area of policy---personal requirements---subjects blacks to more restrictive rules but the overall generosity of welfare programs is most significantly affected by the professionalism of state bureaucrats.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12934
Subject Headings: Racism, Public welfare--United States--States, Social service and race relations
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Title: Trilling R's: meditations on immigration, assimilation, and language.
Creator: O'Brien, Shannon., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: Immigration has become a hot button issue across the United States. Television newsmen dedicate hours of time to excoriate the "illegal invasion." I viewed the immigration debate as something not directly concerning me. I am a legal citizen of Hispanic descent. My mother is a naturalized citizen from Mexico. However, as the government conducted raids looking for illegal immigrants, my mother became more aware of her place as a Mexican woman living in the Midwest. She wondered whether people...
Show moreImmigration has become a hot button issue across the United States. Television newsmen dedicate hours of time to excoriate the "illegal invasion." I viewed the immigration debate as something not directly concerning me. I am a legal citizen of Hispanic descent. My mother is a naturalized citizen from Mexico. However, as the government conducted raids looking for illegal immigrants, my mother became more aware of her place as a Mexican woman living in the Midwest. She wondered whether people would assume she was illegal because of her accent and appearance. Our discussions prompted me to think about of my place in the story, and about my lack of connection with the Hispanic culture. I set out to interview migrants living in South Florida, and to document my and my mother's experience with immigration and assimilation.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186683
Subject Headings: Emigration and immigration, Assimilation (Sociology), Pluralism (Social sciences), Social adjustment, Hispanic Americans, Cultural assimilation, Emigration and immigration, Government policy
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Roosevelt's new deal: what it means to the workers: how it is being applied in every mine, mill, factory and city: why every worker should participate in the local elections.
Creator: Communist Party of the United States of America. District No. 5.
Date Issued: 1933
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3358347
Subject Headings: New Deal, 1933-1939., Working class -- United States -- Economic conditions., Working class -- United States -- Social conditions.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Creating the ideal citizen: rhetorical education and the public sphere.
Creator: Lunceford, Brett, Jack Miller Forum, Department of Political Science, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2009-01-30
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT186480p
Subject Headings: Rhetoric -- Political aspects, Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States, Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- United States
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Dinner conversation: eating sustainably without dietary elitism.
Creator: Wood, Alyssa A., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This study explores the perceived elitism within both the environmentalist community and general public in regards to "environmental diets" such as : vegetarianism, veganism, locavore-ism, and ethical omnivory. I explore these diets and potential expressions of elitism within the framework developed by Morrison and Dunlap in their discussion of environmental elitism. Examples come from published sources as well as personal anecdotes. Through this study, I suggest that this perceived elitism...
Show moreThis study explores the perceived elitism within both the environmentalist community and general public in regards to "environmental diets" such as : vegetarianism, veganism, locavore-ism, and ethical omnivory. I explore these diets and potential expressions of elitism within the framework developed by Morrison and Dunlap in their discussion of environmental elitism. Examples come from published sources as well as personal anecdotes. Through this study, I suggest that this perceived elitism is actually not elitism per se, but a very thin line of tension between describing the ideal food systems aside the current state of food inequity and industrial agriculture. Simply, I am trying to grapple with how to be educated in the fields of Food Studies and systems of oppression without perpetuating elitism alongside the system which desperately needs reform.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359330
Subject Headings: Food industry and trade, Food habits, Nutrition policy, Food, Marketing, Eating (Philosophy), Food, Social aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Filipina-South Florida international Internet marriage practice: agency, culture, and paradox.
Creator: Haley, Pamela Sullivan., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation concerns the structures and individual agency of Filipina brides who met their American husbands through Internet or pen pal advertisements. Popular media, legal scholars, and some feminists have largely described the phenomenon in terms of its oppressiveness toward the women involved, thus dismissing any agency on the part of the women. Similarly, much of the scholarship has located the American Internet grooms as ogres who are out to exploit these women for domestic and...
Show moreThis dissertation concerns the structures and individual agency of Filipina brides who met their American husbands through Internet or pen pal advertisements. Popular media, legal scholars, and some feminists have largely described the phenomenon in terms of its oppressiveness toward the women involved, thus dismissing any agency on the part of the women. Similarly, much of the scholarship has located the American Internet grooms as ogres who are out to exploit these women for domestic and sexual services. If prominent researchers of this phenomenon are correct in their assessments that Filipina Internet brides operate as effective agents, then one also assumes these women continue that agency when they settle into their new lives as Filipina wives married to American men. Therefore, my central research question is: How has this agency manifested itself, and has this manifestation been problematic for the American groom, who, from the typical Internet ad's text and images and couple d with prevailing American cultural assumptions, assumed he was getting a submissive wife? To explore possible answers to these questions I performed a rhetorical analysis of two typical Internet advertisements. The focus on the ads is important to my study because the Internet advertisements both shape and reflect the popular view of the so-called Filipina "mail-order bride." Next, in order to gain the Internet brides' and grooms' perspectives of the phenomenon, I interviewed three Filipina-Americano couples currently living in South Florida between November, 2005, and October, 2007. My findings support the scholars who forefront the brides' agency and, therefore, reject the stereotypes projected on the Internet advertisements. My findings also reject the stereotype of the exploitative husband. From my interview data, the women appeared agentive and the men encouraged their wives' agency., An unanticipated and paradoxical outcropping of the interview descriptions of their courtshand subsequent marriages. In this one area both the brides and grooms unanimously deemphasized their own agency, and instead highlighted romantic narratives with each insisting that they had "fallen in love."
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186295
Subject Headings: Arranged marriage, Social aspects, Marriage brokerage, Intercountry marriage, Mail order brides
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The call of public service: motivation and professional commitment in education.
Creator: Ackerina, Jacqueline., College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to determine if individuals who are professionally committed to careers in public education possess public service motivation. The participants in this study were a sample of convenience selected through their enrollment in graduate education programs within three East Coast universities. The sample was stratified into three groups based on their education roles as teachers, aspiring leaders, and school district administrators. Based on the 258 education sector...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to determine if individuals who are professionally committed to careers in public education possess public service motivation. The participants in this study were a sample of convenience selected through their enrollment in graduate education programs within three East Coast universities. The sample was stratified into three groups based on their education roles as teachers, aspiring leaders, and school district administrators. Based on the 258 education sector participants, the majority were Caucasian, female, and under the age of 30. All respondents held at least a bachelor's degree and the majority held up to ten years tenure in education. Utilizing an abridged version of Perry's (1996) multi-dimensional scale that was modified for the education sector, the public service motivation (PSM) construct was measured using an Internet survey approach. Three of the public service motivation dimensions and two commitment items were used to operationalize the PSM and professional commitment of education professionals within their current roles. Correlation, regression, ANOVA, and t-test analyses were conducted to examine the data collected. Study findings concluded that education professionals possess public service motivation and are professionally committed to their careers. In addition, results indicated that school district administrators possessed higher levels of public service motivation than teachers. Furthermore, demographic characteristics indicated that educators who are older, more experienced, and highly educated possess higher levels of PSM. Perhaps the most critical discovery was that when comparing education professionals to their public administration counterparts, educators possessed higher levels of public service motivation. These findings have several important implications for education institutions, academic scholars, human resource managers, and leadership preparation programs that would all benefit from all
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342031
Subject Headings: Motivation (Psychology), Educational leadership, Public administration, Education, Aims and objectives, Education, Social aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Social Constructions and Narratives: An Analysis of the US Refugee Policy From 1980-2018.
Creator: Balilaj, Arjola, Sapat, Alka, Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The Refugee Act of 1980 established the first comprehensive U.S. refugee policy. It codified a refugee definition and created the annual consultation process, which requires the president to consult with Congress before determining annual refugee ceilings and resettlement plans. While the Refugee Act of 1980 remains intact, the annual refugee admissions and resettlement plans have changed considerably. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze this policy to explore its changes from 1980...
Show moreThe Refugee Act of 1980 established the first comprehensive U.S. refugee policy. It codified a refugee definition and created the annual consultation process, which requires the president to consult with Congress before determining annual refugee ceilings and resettlement plans. While the Refugee Act of 1980 remains intact, the annual refugee admissions and resettlement plans have changed considerably. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze this policy to explore its changes from 1980-2018 through the lens of social construction theory. According to this theory, the social constructions of target populations affect policy designs that are adopted with respect to these populations. Policy designs can create and legitimize divisions among different target populations causing some to be perceived and treated as more deserving than others. This dissertation uses a qualitative research design to analyze narratives within presidential proposal documents and congressional hearings that are held as part of the annual consultation process. These documents serve as the data for this dissertation. I undertake a detailed analysis of the documents of one annual consultation process and related congressional hearings for each president in the period between 1980-2018. In these documents and hearings, different policy actors (congressional members, representatives of the executive branch and state and local governments, and other experts) provide testimony and expert opinions on refugee admissions and resettlement. It is in this context that refugees as a target population are constructed and policies to deal with refugees are debated and discussed by various policy actors. To understand these constructions and the context in which they are created, the narrative analysis elements offered by the narrative policy framework are used as a method.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013530
Subject Headings: Refugees--United States, Refugees--Government policy--United States, Social constructionism, Narrative research (Research method)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE GERMANS IN GUATEMALA DURING WORLD WAR II.
Creator: CLIFFORD, SHARON YVONNE., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A.
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the history of the influential Ge rman colony in Guatemala and the deportation of the Germans to United States detention camps and nationalization of their properties during World War II. Material is included on the historical, economic, and political factors which made the presence of a powerful German colony in Guatemala intolerable to the United States and which led to the strong measures taken against the colony during the war.
Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13680
Subject Headings: Germans--Guatemala, National socialism, United States--Foreign relations--Guatemala, Guatemala--Foreign relations--United States
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The propaganda of socialism. Report to the National Congress of the Socialist Party, held May 15, 1910. Submitted by M. Hillquit.
Creator: Hillquit, Morris
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3336812
Subject Headings: United States of America; political and social history; after 1865; social ideas and movements; personalities; Hillquit, Morris.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Cultural perspectives among children of Guatemalan Maya immigrants in Lake Worth, Florida.
Creator: Sprague, Tara., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: Every day children of Guatemalan Maya immigrants balance two cultures. They reside in The United States and attend American schools but are being raised by their Guatemalan Maya parents. They continually navigate between the two and are faced with challenges daily. Since these children are influenced by two cultures, my interest was primarily on the cultural perspectives of these children, more specifically: what effects does the new culture have on the old? Through volunteering at a...
Show moreEvery day children of Guatemalan Maya immigrants balance two cultures. They reside in The United States and attend American schools but are being raised by their Guatemalan Maya parents. They continually navigate between the two and are faced with challenges daily. Since these children are influenced by two cultures, my interest was primarily on the cultural perspectives of these children, more specifically: what effects does the new culture have on the old? Through volunteering at a Guatemalan Maya after-school program, interviewing and administering the Children's Apperception Test, results showed these children to be influenced by American culture. The biggest indicator, play, was reported to be an important aspect in their lives, which is not considered essential in Maya culture. At the same time, these children keep close ties to their cultural heritage through their strong family ties. Overall, these children are influenced by American culture, but at the same time, keep their heritage.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3352884
Subject Headings: Children of immigrants, Social aspects, Guatemalans, Social conditions, Immigrants, Cultural assimilation, Guatemalan Americans, Ethnic identity
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Educating our students to educate other students about ‘other’ students: teaching activities.
Creator: Brod, Harry, Mitchell, Karen, Jack Miller Forum, Department of Political Science, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2009-01-30
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/FADT186474p
Subject Headings: Civics -- Study and teaching -- United States, Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Study and teaching -- United States, United States -- Ethnic relations -- Study and teaching
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Influence of a professional development module focused on the research-based evidence of the culture and gender bias found in Disney animated fairy tales on preprimary early childhood teachers.
Creator: Doran, Ruth A., College of Education, Department of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry
Abstract/Description: Disney commands a strong market presence worldwide in print and multimedia products used for early childhood entertainment. Yet, the gender and cultural bias found in Disney animated fairy tale media has been well documented. Although preprimary early childhood teachers are urged to maintain a multicultural environment that is free of bias and stereotypes, very little training or support is presented to guide preprimary early childhood teachers in the selection of materials for use in their...
Show moreDisney commands a strong market presence worldwide in print and multimedia products used for early childhood entertainment. Yet, the gender and cultural bias found in Disney animated fairy tale media has been well documented. Although preprimary early childhood teachers are urged to maintain a multicultural environment that is free of bias and stereotypes, very little training or support is presented to guide preprimary early childhood teachers in the selection of materials for use in their preprimary early childhood classrooms. The study sought to investigate the influence of a professional development module focused on the gender and cultural bias found in Disney animated fairy tale media on preprimary early childhood teachers. How would they respond to this professional development module? Would it change their intentions to use Disney animated fairy tale media with preprimary early childhood children? Would the participation in this preprimary early childhood professional development module actually change their practice? Using both quantitative and qualitative inquiries, participating preprimary early education teachers reported mixed findings. While some preprimary early childhood teachers were clearly influenced by their discovery of the existence of bias in this media, others revealed a cognitive dissonance from a strong personal and emotional attachment to Disney animated fairy tale media products juxtaposed against the evidence of cultural and gender bias found in the media. Implications and suggestions for future research included the expansion of professional development modules and higher education/teacher education to include the study and consideration of the content of children's media., Policymakers and advocates need to address concerns of bias found in children's media with respect to gender and cultural bias development during the preoperative developmental stage of preprimary children. Further, interdisciplinary discussion needs to the concern of the influence of media on the holistic development of young children.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186328
Subject Headings: Teachers, In-service training, Social aspects, Education, Preschool, School improvement programs, Curriculum planning, Multicultural education
Format: Document (PDF)

FAU Theses and Dissertations (83)	+ -
Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements Collection (27)	+ -
Speeches (24)	+ -
Honors Student Theses (8)	+ -
FAU College Collections (3)	+ -

Social aspects (16)	+ -
Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century (10)	+ -
Social conditions (8)	+ -
History (6)	+ -
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) (6)	+ -

Psychological aspects (5)	+ -
Socialism --United States. (5)	+ -
Cultural assimilation (4)	+ -
Emigration and immigration (4)	+ -
Eulogies (4)	+ -
Law and legislation (4)	+ -
Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Political and social views (4)	+ -
Presidents -- United States -- Death (4)	+ -
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865 -- Sermons (4)	+ -
Economic aspects (3)	+ -
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