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I Am No Man: A Study of Warrior Women in the Archaeological Record
(2020-11-03)The study of gender in archaeology has become a prominent aspect of archaeological theory and the contributions of women in ancient societies are an every growing topic. This paper addresses one such category within this ... -
I Am Not the Same Person, Even Though I Am: Managing Communication and Identity in the Aftermath of Physical Disability
(2011)The following explores changes that occur in communication following the acquisition of a physical disability. Framed by the symbolic interactionism theoretical tradition, I use ethnography and semi-structured interviews ... -
"I Belong in the Band": The Role of the Marching Band in a Small, Rural School and in the Community
(2023-05)This study is about the small-school marching band and seeks to find different ways that a small school marching band can function regardless of its size. It focuses on the importance of friends, school culture, and community ... -
"I can has rules?" A Syntactic Analysis of Lolspeak
(2011-05)The goal of this study was to analyze the sentence structure (syntax)of the language used in the internet meme, "Lolcats," a collection of user-created pictures of captioned cats. -
"I can just be myself and part of that is being a vaper." A Qualitative Analysis of Vaping Identity
(2024-05-01)Introduction: E-cigarette use among young adults (18-24 years-old) is becoming increasingly problematic. Current vaping cessation programs draw from existing tobacco interventions which focus on reducing nicotine consumption. ... -
I Can Reach My Full Potential with a Little Help from My Friends: Understanding Construction Project Team Dynamics and Performance Through Personality Profiling
(2023)Over six trillion dollars were spent in the global construction market in 2020 (Global Construction Market Size 2020-2030 2022). This number is both significantly larger than a decade ago, and yet a fraction of what it is ... -
I Can See Myself There : Sociology UW-System Webpage Diversity and Student of Color Enrollment in College
(2021-04)This project investigates how university retention and recruitment efforts for students of color (SOC) may be affected by university website content. Data was collected from 4-year UW websites with a focus on visible ... -
“I Can't Imagine Being Sexually Healthy in a World Where Abortion Care Didn't Exist”: A Qualitative Study of Experiences of Sexual Wellbeing Following Abortion Care
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2024)This qualitative study will explore the lived experiences of people who have received abortion care in the past five years with particular emphasis on their sexual wellbeing. Despite abortions being an incredibly common ... -
“I don’t want to be here”: Perceptions of persistence among lgbtq+ students of color at predominantly white institutions of higher education
(2020-05)LGBTQ+ college students of color–living at the nexus of race, sexuality, and gender–are at risk of higher rates of attrition, exacerbated by institutions whose student enrollment is predominantly White. This study used ... -
"I Know I Can't Be the Only Lesbian Out There:" an Inductive Thematic Analysis of a Virtual Community of Lesbian Breast Cancer Survivors
(2015-05-01)Sexual minority women are at a significantly greater risk for developing breast cancer (BC) than heterosexual women. Little is known about the unique BC experiences of lesbian women. The present thesis describes the findings ... -
"I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door" : A Comparison Between Scottish and Irish Immigrants in New York During the Nineteenth Century
(2011-05-10)Immigration has been a hot topic in the United States for hundreds of years. Immigrants have had a large part in building the United States into the country it is today and nearly every person has roots outside of America. ... -
I Need Out Because He Wants in the House: the Subject Pronoun in Need and Want Phrasal Constructions.
(2009-04)In this project, which is part of a larger project examining syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors affecting want + prepositional adverb/phrase and need + prepositional adverb/phrase, we explore the role that one ... -
"I Only Wish I Could Draw it as Fine as it was" : the Romanticization of Baby Doe and Violetta Valery
(2013-05)The courtesan has been a subject of fascination for thousands of years. Even today, the courtesan is still portrayed in movies like Pretty Woman and Moulin Rouge. The most famous operatic courtesan is Violetta Valery from ... -
I Played That in College: Using Post-Secondary Band Experiences to Shape Repertoire Decisions for High School Bands
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I Run to Me : Exploring the Religious Oppression of LGBTQ Youth Through Autobiographical Photo Collage
(2024-04)The U.S. recently has seen a wave of anti-LGBTQ laws targeting trans youth. Such laws are supported by far right, white dominated Evangelical Christian organizations seeking to enforce binary gender and (hetero)sexual ... -
I Too Have Something to Say
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"I Was": The Oleg Penkovsky Story and the Important of Human Intelligence in Cold War Crises
(2015-05-18)Looking at the debriefing transcripts from double-agent Col. Oleg Penkovsky reveals a wealth of information. This information proved useful in two Cold War crises: the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... -
“I wasn’t trained for this!”: Exploring the lived experiences of academic advisors and secondary traumatic stress
(2025-05)Academic advisors may serve as first responders when students disclose trauma, yet little is known about how these emotionally intense encounters impact advisors themselves. This qualitative study used hermeneutic ... -
I Woke Up Like This: Portraitures of Black Men Masculinities in Two-Year Educational Systems
(University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2024)There is a lot that can be learned by listening to someone’s lived experiences; individuals’ identities impact how they navigate the world and how the world sees them. This study aimed to understand the multiple realities ...