Browsing UWEC Master’s Theses by Title
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"Let Them Eat Their Gold": Olin and Emma Swenson and the National Farmers Holiday Association, 1931-1934
(2014-05-01)The contributions of Olin and Emma Swenson to the National Farmers' Holiday Association (NFHA), through the incorporation into the movement of the farmers of the state of Wisconsin, were significant. The National Farmers' ... -
Living Memorial: A Case Study on the Creation of Memorial Stadiums at the University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, and Indiana University during the 1920s
(2017-10-19)This thesis presents three case studies of the "Memorial Stadiums" and other campus buildings created at the University of Illinois -Urbana-Champaign, the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, and Indiana University - ... -
Making Bread Abroad: A Prosopographical Survey of American Jazz Musicians in Europe, 1945-1990
(2017-09-28)Shortly after the end of the Second World War, American jazz musicians started to tour Western Europe again. Enticed by the offer of more work, dozens of these individuals would become expatriates residing in Europe, living ... -
Many Cultures One Family: Celebrating Cultural Diversity Across Tribal Lines at the Santa Fe Indian School
(2016-06-22)"The Santa Fe Indian School is best known for the art that its students and faculty produced. Two aspects of the school that have not been researched very closely are 1) the interactions between the students that attended ... -
Maxine Hong Kingston's Evolution From Autobiographical Prose to Poetry
(2015-05-11)My first chapter is an overview of Transactional Reader Response theory. Critics of Transactional Reader Response theory claim that there is a relationship between text and the reader. I discuss how Transactional Reader ... -
Menomonie Builds a Diversified Economy, 1890-1930
(2014-05-21)This thesis examines the economic growth and diversification of the city of Menomonie during and after the decline of the lumber industry. Beginning in the 1830s with the origins of the lumber industry, the city of Menomonie ... -
A Meta-Analysis of Aggressive Behavior Intervention Research
(2016-08-04)Physical aggression is a serious issue in public schools. Meta-analyses have suggested that school-based interventions are generally effective in reducing direct, physically aggressive behavior, but it has been several ... -
Middle and High School Staff and Students' Perceptions of QPR Training
(2020-12)Suicide in youth continues to be on the rise, becoming the second leading cause of death for children and young adults (“Vital Signs,” 2018; Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). In order to best address this ... -
Needs Assessment of Teacher Beliefs and PBIS Practices in Early Childhood
(2018-05-10)A review of the still-emerging literature surrounding early childhood Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) suggests that certain contextual factors, including teacher demographics and beliefs, can impact the ... -
"A New Species": Neighborhood and Community Shopping Centers in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, 1941-1956
(2017-05)This thesis examines a topic often overlooked by historians of suburbanization and consumption: the influence of neighborhood and community shopping centers in postwar suburban communities. Conceived during the 1920s and ... -
Off the Tracks! : Deadly Railway Accidents, Markets, and Morality, 1850-1893
(2013-12)This thesis explores railway accidents and safety from the 1850s through the Railway Safety Appliance Act of 1893. Historians have shown, through political, economic, and to some extent, legal examination, throughout much ... -
"One Set of Lines to See, Another Set of Lines to Be": Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck as a Case Study on Author & Audience Authority in Participatory Hypertext
(2021-05)Homestuck, a multimodal webcomic created by author and artist Andrew Hussie has been long cited as an excellent example of modern hypertextual, participatory literature. Despite its ostensible audience participation and ... -
Parent Perspectives on Disability and Home-School Communication
(2021-05)The purpose of this study was to examine home-school communication. Specifically, this study examined parents of students with disabilities perceptions of the communication method, frequency of the communication, content ... -
Parent Perspectives on Family-Centered Care in Speech and Language Therapy Across Different Settings
(2018-01-18)The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in family-centered care (FCC) among speech and language pediatric therapy settings, including a university clinic setting. The logistics of speech and language therapy ... -
The People's Writing, the People's Culture: Meridel Le Seuer's Praxis of Writing for the Working Class
(2016-06-23)"Writer and teacher Meridel Le Sueur's philosophy of writing, articulated through her textbook Worker Writers and other essays from the 1930s, offers a praxis of writing for the working class, which we need again today. ... -
Perceived Parental Pressure and Internalizing Symptoms in Young Adults From High-Achieving Schools
(2024-05)Adolescent depression and anxiety rates have been rising over the last decade. One suspected factor underlying these increasing rates is achievement pressure, including the pressures stemming from parental academic ... -
Perceptions of post-TBI healthcare experiences by individuals with traumatic brain injury
(2020-05)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the healthcare perceptions for individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) across the continuum of care, including during the acute, transitional, and chronic phases ... -
PersonalQueerAcademic: Constructing a Queer Self across a Graduate Career through Reflective Narrative and Literary Criticism
(2013-06-24)What follows is a queer project, and there are many reasons for labeling it as such: 1) this project consists of a mixture of genres examining a variety of literary texts from various eras covering queer issues, 2) the ... -
Perspectives of School Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and Principals on the Role of SLPs in Spelling Acquisition
(2015-05)For several decades, SLPs have engaged discussions regarding whether or not their scope of practice included the acquisition of spelling skills. Based on the connection between language and spelling, SLPs should have a ... -
Poor Jurgis Rudkus: A Multi-theoretical Analysis of Socio-political Development in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
(2015-05-11)I argue that the legacy of Upton Sinclair's most famous novel, The Jungle, has wrongfully been obscured over time to resemble a literary canon version of Super Size Me and that there is contemporary significance to be ...