Browsing Interdisciplinary arts and sciences - Tacoma by Title
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Girls, STEM, and Children's Books: A Review of the Literature Concerning Girls' Interest, Motivation and Ability in STEM, Complemented by a Mixed Methods Content Analysis of Award Winning Informational Children's Books
(2013-07-23)This thesis includes an expansive literature review investigating why there is still a lack of women in STEM, concluding that social systems are key factors and also looks at how motivation, interest, and engagement might ... -
Growing a greener Tacoma: The historical roots of Tacoma's urban gardening movement
(2012-09-13)Urban gardens have thrived as part of the social fabric of Tacoma since nearly its founding, and in recent years, have experienced resurgence as committed locals work to improve their neighborhoods.The purpose of this ... -
HIVAIDS Social Stigma and Visual Art
The purpose of this research is to examine the development and progression of HIV/AIDS stigma within a social structure of power and powerlessness from the early 1980s to the 2010s, through a case study of selected visual ... -
Human Rights Enforcement at the International Criminal Court: An Interdisciplinary Proposal for a Multi-level Approach Based on Wendt and Habermas
This paper examines the conditions that must be met in order for the International Criminal Court to develop a more robust structure for human rights enforcement. Drawing upon the proposal of Alexander Wendt and theories ... -
Human Rights Enforcement at the International Criminal Court: An Interdisciplinary Proposal for a Multi-level Approach Based on Wendt and Habermas
This paper examines the conditions that must be met in order for the International Criminal Court to develop a more robust structure for human rights enforcement. Drawing upon the proposal of Alexander Wendt and theories ... -
Immigrant and Refugee Youth Development in Washington’s South Sound: Approaching Local Needs through Holistic Strategies
Positive youth development (PYD) with respect to the immigrant youth population (a rapidly growing segment of the United States population) is paramount to the success of the United States. Unfortunately, the current ... -
Is Cannabis Actually "Legal" In Washington State Following The Passage Of Initiative 502 And, If So, For Whom?
In 2012, Washington state passed Initiative 502 legalizing recreational adult use of cannabis, changing the legal landscape for the citizens of the state that wished to consume cannabis without fear of the legality of ... -
Latinx Barbershop Masculinities: Dominican Men and The Adaptive Macho Tacoma, Washington Transnational, Migration, Caribbean
Men of color are usually stereotyped as inhabiting specific toxic, hypermasculine traits and other harmful characteristics. This is especially the case for Latino men, whose masculine stereotypes are dominated by the concept ... -
Legality, Survival, and Action: Immigrant and Refugee Organizing in the Pacific Northwest
(2012-09-13)Immigrants and refugees must negotiate dignity and human rights, which have been diminished through colonialism, world poverty and exclusion from United States citizenship. By extension, they cannot gain full substantive ... -
Magic Seed: The Case Study of Circle of Friends in Action--A Facilitative Agricultural Cooperative
The “Scramble for Africa” in 1885 had devastating effects in Sub-Saharan Arica (SSA). The near complete colonization of the entire African continent facilitated the suppression of culture, education, and economy and the ... -
Master of Interdisaplinary Studies
(2014-02-24)This thesis explores how the Republican Party (US) and the Labour Party (UK) were successful in becoming the rare examples of third parties that displaced a major party to become one of the major parties in a two-party ... -
Matindi
University of Washington Abstract Matindi Liezel Moraleja Hackett Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Sarah Dowling, Assistant Professor Creative Writing and Poetics, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences How does one adjust ... -
Modernizing the Greek Tragedy: Clint Eastwood's Impact on the Western
(2012-09-13)A thesis on Clint Eastwood's impact on the Western Film Genre. It discusses how Eastwood's acting and directing relate to classical Greek literature. It compares and contrasts Eastwood's Western hero to classical Greek ... -
Navigating the American Healthcare System as an Obese Person: Developing Effective Community-Based Treatment Strategies for Healthcare Providers
Obesity is a public health concern associated with increased medical costs and poorer health outcomes, but it is also associated with minority status and this social context has important healthcare implications. Ten ... -
Paradigms of American Identity: and the Struggle for a More Authentic Self
(2013-02-25)Three paradigms of identity are discussed in an exploration of how national identities as well as individual identities are formed. How important is it to participate in or identify with a "culture of origin" or transcend ... -
A People’s History of the Hilltop Private lives made Public
Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood has a history. A rich and colorful history made significant by the residents who have lived there and made vast contributions to that greater community. Yet of that documented past, the stories ... -
Perpetuating Colonization Through the Gaze of United States Media
Mass media play a significant role in maintaining unequal systems of power and perpetuating inequality and injustice. Using a Media Studies and Indigenous Epistemological framework, this thesis posits that news media deploy ... -
Play and performance: Creating Life Spaces in which Learning and Development Flourish
This thesis challenges dominant descriptions of the neurodiverse community by questioning the assumptions perpetuated by the medical model and other normative theories of human learning/development. Building off the ... -
Position Before Submission: Grappling with Gender and Hypermasculinity in Mixed Martial Arts
The intent of this thesis is to explore existing gender norms in mixed martial arts cultures. Masculinity is particularly valorized in sport, creating tension for female athletes who are forced to balance masculine norms ... -
Quarantine Kitchen: Examining the Role of Food and Food Experiences in Meaning-Making During Covid-19
This research questions how people made meaning of the COVID-19 pandemic through foodways and foodstuffs and explores the ways in which food operates as a symbol in cultural and social practices, fosters identity, and ...