Browsing UWEC Master’s Theses by Title
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Unfaltering Flame : A Linked Essay Collection
(2021-11)Unfaltering Flame represents Stephanie Nesja's exploration of faith from childhood into adulthood. Along the way, she encounters various forms of grief, including losing a close friend after high school and an aunt in her ... -
The Unworkable Program: Urban Renewal in Kilbourntown-3 and Midtown, Milwaukee
(2015-05-21)The 1954 revisions to the Federal Housing Act intended to address the shortcomings apparent in earlier urban renewal attempts. Under the "Workable Program," a series of provisions included in the revision, cities were ... -
Use of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills in Predicting Future Reading Achievement for English-Learner and non-English Learner Students
(2016-06)The current study examined predictive validity of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) for future performance on the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination (WKCE). The intent of the study ... -
Using Brief Experimental Analysis to Identify Effective Early Reading Interventions
(2018-01-19)The National Center for Educational Statistics in 2015 found that only thirty-six percent of fourth-grade and thirty-four percent of eighth-grade students performed at or above the proficient level in reading. These students ... -
Using Satire as a Mode of Understanding the Grotesqueries of Racial Capitalism in George Schuyler’s Black No More
(2020-05)This thesis examines the intersection of racial capitalism and Saidiya Hartman’s recent, racialized theorization of the grotesque in George Schuyler’s Black No More as a mode to understand Schuyler’s satire of the racialized ... -
Utilization of on-campus speech and language services by student veterans
(2015-05-11)The purpose of this study was to examine factors that contribute to utilization of on-campus speech and language services by student veterans with brain injury. Data was obtained from three sources: a 60-minute focus group ... -
Visual-Performance Feedback on Acknowledgement Within a Positive Behavior Intervention and Support System
(2020-12)The study examined whether providing teachers with visual-performance feedback (VPF) on their frequency of acknowledgement to students for desired school behavior within a Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) ... -
“We’re Black, We’re Proud, We’re Commandos”: Respectability Politics, Armed Self-defense, and Gender Dynamics in the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council, 1958-1968
(2020-05)By the 1940s, Milwaukee was one of the most segregated cities in the country. Most black Milwaukeeans were forced to live in a ghetto known as the Inner Core. Black Milwaukeeans faced racial discrimination and segregation ... -
"What You Need Not What You Want": Public Assistance Programs in Chippewa County during the New Deal Era
(2013-07-01)This thesis examines the impact of public assistance programs in Chippewa County. It examines the role the Social Security Act played in reshaping how public assistance programs were run in Chippewa County. Also it examines ... -
White Maternity and a Culture of Consumption in Little Fires Everywhere
(2020-05)This article seeks to illuminate the role white suburban mothers play in upholding homeland maternity and neoliberal multiculturalism in the United States. The maintenance of these two organizing power structures hinge on ... -
Wisconsin Indian Head Country-A Guide to the Past: Real and Mythical
(2013-05-10)In the 1930s, businessmen in the Eau Claire area and resort owners in Northwestern Wisconsin, an area decimated by logging, collaborated as a group with the hope of promoting tourism to the area and boost the local economy. ... -
Wisconsin's Lynching History: 1861-1875
(2018)In the span of fourteen years, between 1861 and 1875, a total of eight lynchings took place in Wisconsin. Of the eight individuals who were lynched, all were men; one African American, one Native American and the remaining ... -
Witnessing Peace: The Milwaukee Fourteen, 1968-1971
(2020-05)Much has been written and researched about the antiwar movement during the Vietnam Era. The relatively small segment of Catholic antiwar radicals of this time period have been less examined. This thesis focuses upon the ... -
Wolf Who Ate Her Heart: The Canine-Woman Alliance in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich
(2017-10-24)The fiction of Louise Erdrich contains a notable alliance between canines and female characters. It is an alliance that helps the women maintain a sense of matrilineal power as they resist colonial patriarchy. The canine ... -
The Yinyang Academies in Yuan China (1260-1368): Formation and Development
(2017-05)This thesis studies a broad historical context of the yinyang academy system established during the Yuan dynasty (1260-1368). The Mongol rulers created the system in order to regulate and educate yinyang practitioners, a ... -
" You have to invest ": Speech-language pathologists' perspectives on teaching literacy skills to students who use AAC
(2017-05)Literacy as it relates to students who use augmentative and alternative communication (SWUAAC) currently has limited research in the field of speech language pathology. Research regarding this population states SWUAAC ...