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This thesis has two main goals. First, it aims to resolve once and for all whether or not there was ever a history of African Americans in Napa County. It seems like a relatively simple question with an obvious answer, yet the population has always been so small that even Black Napans often joke with each other, "What Black people?" When white people are asked to discuss local African Americans, they usually either recite an urban legend about the...
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A Generation Projected is a site-specific installation. This thesis paper analyzes cultural disconnect, nostalgia, and the influence of global media as a cultural phenomenon, as seen in the installation. The title of the show represents the fact that the artist's generation is one that has grown in a media-dominated world. Because of the globalization of mass media such as television and film, both projected media, this generation has shared many...
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In this paper I discuss the lesbian label and its role in collegiate women's basketball. I focus on the perspective of female student athletes in southern California, their experiences and understandings of how they were treated and their feelings that resulted from that. These recollections include perceptions of the coaches, universities, teammates, family and other lesbian players. I have compared studies previously done on this topic and examine...
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While there are many methods used by athletes to decrease muscle tightness and thus increase range of motion (heating, stretching, joint mobilizations), one of the newest and least studied methods is foam rolling. While purported to increase range of motion, decrease delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), and increase athletic performance, there is very little scientific research to date on the validity of these claims, particularly increasing range...
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The Rights of Conscience Committee played an integral role in carrying out the mission of the American Friends Service Committee, as well as Quaker testimonies, for the duration of its existence, 1955-1973. Recognizing that the Constitution has no impact unless the people demand that its words are upheld, the Rights of Conscience Committee sought to support individuals and groups who, as a matter of conscience, took action to protest injustice and...
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This study investigated the sportsmanship attitudes of coaches across the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC). Data analysis looked for significant differences between the mean scores of various demographics including gender, age, experience, title or position, gender of the team being coached and type of sport (contact or non-contact) coached. Subjects of the research (N=97) were RMAC coaches with various backgrounds, representing different...
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This was a two-phase mixed methods research project that analyzed the level of burnout among 108 athletes at a small NCAA Division II university, as well as the causes that led an athlete to feeling burned out from his or her sport. The first phase of this study examined the extent to which NCAA Division II collegiate softball, baseball, and soccer athletes reported burnout using the Raedeke and Smith (2001) Athlete Burnout Questionnaire. This questionnaire...
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The search for mineral wealth in Colorado led to the exploration of isolated areas like Silver Lake Basin in the San Juan Mountains. As surface ores were exhausted, miners were forced to increase the depth of vertical shafts where they confronted increasingly complex ores that required sophisticated equipment and engineering expertise to extract. Remote communities like Silverton sought Eastern investment to provide the capital necessary for development,...
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The guiding questions of this case study are an ambitious attempt to interpret the experience of ordinary people in Morgan County, especially in its major hub, the city of Fort Morgan, from the 1860s to the present; to chronicle the rise of a community found in the relative isolation of northeast Colorado from a military installation to a municipality, and create an understanding of the socio cultural phenomena that exists today. The central questions...
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For over four hundred years, colonial governments in the Northern Mariana Islands controlled resource development through the enforcement of land policy. While largely economic in nature, these land policies resulted in dramatic cultural changes for the native Chamorro people. However, as a self-determined United States territory, the indigenous government of the Northern Marianas has expropriated this framework of colonial land policy and transformed...
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Olympic style weightlifting derivatives, such as the power clean and hang high-pull (HHP), are effective for improving a variety of explosive athletic performance measures. However, Olympic weightlifting movements have high skill demands and require expert coaching. Weighted jumps, such as the trap-bar jump squat (TBJS), have a comparably lower skill demand and may be equally effective for improving explosive performance. Yet, to date there is limited...
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First ladies are an important element in presidential administrations and have parallel structures, as they are in a position to be leaders, have important roles, supported various causes and have tremendous influence over presidents. First ladies have developed this role from scratch, entirely since Martha Washington who built a powerful institution in the federal government. Many first ladies have sponsored programs and causes, and have been role...
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The Advanced BioStructural Correction (ABC) chiropractic technique has been shown in practice and case studies to bring an individual back into their normal posture and open up their respiratory system enabling them to breathe more efficiently. There have been no other studies to date on the ABC technique on any type of athlete, specifically endurance trained cyclists. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine whether a series of releases...
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The purpose of the study was to determine whether an 8-week strength and power resistance training program would elicit an increase in club head speed (CHS). In addition to measuring CHS, this study aimed to determine if there were increases in muscular strength and power as a result of the 8-week program. Procedures: The participants for this study consisted of 6 male and 6 female NCAA division II collegiate golfers, age ranging from 18-23 years....
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of six weeks of trunk-specific medicine ball training on instantaneous bat velocity in high school baseball players. This study served to establish whether or not medicine ball training has a value as a sport-specific training technique, as well as to add to the limited body of research examining the best way to prepare athletes for the highly sport-specific demands of baseball. The results...
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The purpose of this study was to determine if forward lateral retro lateral incline (FLRL) exercises on an inclined treadmill are more effective at activating and fatiguing the rectus femoris (RF), rectus abdominis (ABS), gluteus maximus (GMA), gluteus medius (GME), hamstrings (HAM), and gastrocnemius (GA) than current standard rehab exercises used for strengthening the core, hip complex and calf muscles, therefore having the potential to better strengthen...
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An athlete will one day experience retirement from their respective sport. Athletic identity can play a role in how the athlete may cope with this transition to life without athletics. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the underlying factors of athletic identity development in a team of Division II Women's Basketball players, and to understand their experiences of a positive psychology intervention focused on developing positive self-identity....
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Athletic injuries can be devastating occurrences in an athlete's career. The reactions and responses that occur due to the injury can impact the athlete in his/her recovery and return to sport. Therefore. the purpose of the study was to explore the psycho-emotional response to athletic injury, rehabilitation. and readiness to return in NCAA Division II collegiate athletes by exploring their experiences in real time: at the time of injury through rehabilitation...
