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Social Stereotyping and Self-Esteem of Miss America Pageant ContestantsBowers, Ebony 01 January 2016 (has links)
Miss America Pageant contestants (MAPCs) have been negatively stereotyped socially for their perceived lack of intelligence and nonconformance to feminist gender stereotypes of women. Stereotypes could affect an individual's social psyche and establish stigma, which could prevent a group from achieving their full potential. Stereotypes could also result in women having mental health disorders, low self-esteem, a decrease in self-efficacy, body image dissatisfaction, and eating disorders. The problem this study addressed was that women who participate in the Miss America Organization (MAO) preliminary pageants risk social stigma for taking part in a seemingly nonfeminist activity. Intercultural communication research (ICR) was the theoretical framework utilized to understand the role of cultural stereotypes, prejudice in communication, and self-perception among MAPCs. The main research question examined how local preliminary MAPC's decide to participate in pageantry in relation to their beliefs about stereotypes of MAPCs. For this multiple case study, a sample of MAPCs (n =5) from a Southeastern state was recruited to participate in interviews and provided narrative data that was coded and analyzed for themes of stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. The key findings from this study revealed that the participants believed that societal stereotypes of MAPCs still exist, but the stereotypes did not influence participants' self-esteem, self-efficacy, and their decisions to compete and represent their social platform. The results also revealed a need for societal education about MAO pageant system's mission. Positive social change can come from understanding the MAPC subculture to dispel societal stereotypes and through presenting MAPCs' goals as social change agents.
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A hard kick between his blue blue eyes the decolonizing potential of indigenous rage in Sherman Alexie's "The business of fancydancing" and "Indian killer" /Weatherford, Jessica A. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, August, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. Release of full electronic text on OhioLINK has been delayed until September 1, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-99)
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Colville tribal members' views of mental health and wellness a qualitative investigation /Palmer, Marcella Rayann, January 2004 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, 2004. / Title from PDF title page (viewed May 23, 2005). Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130).
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Relationship of acculturation and age to Native American people's attitudes about mental health service /Mills, Nathaniel Prentice. Caskie, Grace I. L., Ladany, Nicholas Barber, Margaret Hamilton, Gloria January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lehigh University, 2008. / Adviser: Grace I. L. Caskie.
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Essays on exchange rate regimes and international financial crisesHernandez-Verme, Paula Lourdes 28 August 2008 (has links)
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A case of global love : telenovelas in transnational timesHernández, Omar Danilo 15 March 2011 (has links)
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The external variable: informal penetration and Latin AmericaWard, Susan Anne, 1943- January 1972 (has links)
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The smoking complex in the prehistoric SouthwestSimmons, Ellin A. January 1968 (has links)
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Teaching civilization : gender, sexuality, race and class in two late nineteenth-century British Columbia missionsGreenwell, Kim 05 1900 (has links)
Despite the recent proliferation of work around the subject of residential schools, few
analyses have deconstructed the concept of "civilizing the Indian" which animated the
schools' agendas. This thesis examines the discourse of "civilization" as it was expressed
and enacted in two missions in late nineteenth-century British Columbia. Archival primary
sources and published secondary sources are drawn on to provide an understanding of what
"civilization" meant to Euro-Canadians, specifically missionaries, and how it was to be
"taught" to the indigenous peoples they encountered. Colonial images and photographs, in
particular, reveal how missionaries constructed a vivid and compelling contrast between
"civilization" and "savagery." An intersectional framework is employed to highlight the
ways in which ideas about "race," class, gender and sexuality were essential elements of the
"civilizing" project. The goal of the thesis is to show how "civilizing the Indian" was
premised not only on a specifically hierarchical construction of Whites versus Natives, but
also intersecting binaries of men versus women, normal productive heterosexuality versus
deviant degenerate sexuality, bourgeois domesticity versus lower class depravity, and others.
Ultimately, it is argued, the discourse of "civilization" regulated both the "colonized" and the
"colonizers" as it secured the hierarchical foundations of empire and nation.
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Graphical decision analysis of exploited fisheriesHatton, Ian January 2003 (has links)
The depletion of a great many conventional fish stocks is urgent testimony for fisheries management to evaluate risk and uncertainty in an interpretable manner. We propose a novel decision based approach to time-series analysis that explores the spectrum of alternative population trajectories, each of which can be formulated as hypotheses about the state of the fishery. In the first chapter, we evaluate the ability of different regions of the surplus production state space to describe the true state of three North American fisheries: Pacific cod, porbeagle shark and yellowtail flounder. We consider how environmental variability and life history traits may alter our assumptions about population productivity, and we lay the foundation for a decision based age-structured analysis. In the second chapter, the approach is extended further into the ecological realm by considering how community interactions between Atlantic cod and harp seals can be represented in state space. Our results indicate that since the fishing moratorium in 1992, harp seals have potentially lowered cod productivity, preventing their recovery.
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