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- Creator:
- Villanueva, Ismenia
- Description:
- Every year, some students in special education programs at traditional high schools transfer to alternative high schools. It is important for students in special education to receive high quality education, but this is also the law under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Over the years, considerable emphasis in special education has been placed on designing and implementing effective practices such as high quality instruction and smaller class sizes for enhancing outcomes for all learners, including those with disabilities, served in the general education classroom (Vaughn & Swanson, 2015). This research will examine students with Individualized Education Program, who have encountered difficulties at traditional setting high schools and have enrolled in Reliance Educational Academy, an independent study high school in Wilmington, California. The results of this research could be used to improve special education services at Reliance Educational Academy and other independent studies high schools in the future.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Creator:
- Reed, Jacob
- Description:
- Joyce’s writing has largely been associated with narrative irony. However, a romantic
reading is possible aided by the ideas of Joseph Campbell and Sc hopenhauer. A romantic is one that uses the narrative pattern of romance: a questing hero successfully achieves his or her or goals, often with a psychological transformation, and the overall pattern affirms a positive moral order. An argument is made regarding Campbell’s ideas about myths being rewritten in a more
accessible and meaningful way. Aspects from Greek and Gaelic myth can be found in both the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses . The quest of Stephen Dedalus exemplifies Campbell' s ideas, which are strengthened with the ideas from Schopenhauer and Buddhist philosophy.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Flanigan, Kelsey
- Description:
- Students eligible for special education under the criteria of Emotional Disturbance often present disruptive or off-task behaviors in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to determine if the class pass intervention or classroom password or the combination of the two would be a more effective strategy in a high school classroom. The class pass intervention provides the student with a pass from class that they can use to request a break or to keep and use for a preferred activity at a later time. The classroom password is to increase engagement and on-task behavior during academic instruction and reduce disruptive behaviors. The study used a group design with A-B-A-B design to measure the success and effectiveness of the intervention.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Creator:
- Bradshaw, Khaleah
- Description:
- Colorism is rooted in racism. Because the institution of racism stems from the enslavement of Africans in America, colorism has a history in the United States just as long as slavery itself. Using a color system among women sets the standard of beauty against Eurocentricity, the idea that beauty standards based on beauty in the continent of Europe. The idea that white is right creates a barrier that lighter skinned Black women are more attractive than darker skinned Black women. Skin tone discrimination has caused tension within the Black community for years. The purpose of this study is to examine skin tone discrimination using African-American literature as the backdrop.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
- Creator:
- Beggs, Andrew
- Description:
- Albert Camus re-constructs the Greek myths of Sisyphus and Prometheus to symbolize man’s essential condition and the rebellion against that condition. Through the use of symbol and allusion Camus connects The Stranger and The Plague to Greek myth and tragedy. Camus’ tragic heroes are descendants of the tragic heroes of Aeschylus and Sophocles. Meursault, the tragic hero in The Stranger is the absurd man and this connects him to Sisyphus. But his tragic lineage is more comparable to that of Oedipus. They both cross a limit and are fated to a paradoxical existence that is both of their own making and unavoidable. In The Plague the tragic condition of the inhabitants of Oran and their evolution to solidarity mirrors the spirit of Prometheus. In both novels Camus anthropomorphizes the sun and the sea in ways that connect to Greek myth.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Akard, Michael E.
- Description:
- Misconceptions abound regarding the Highland bagpipe. Despite the global presence of this instrument and its popularity for both solo and ensemble work, there is disagreement among scholars and performers regarding piobaireachd and appropriate interpretation of this musical form. To solve that problem, it is necessary to consider the instrument and the music for which it is used in historical context. Understanding how the Highland bagpipe has evolved and the social forces that have influenced both piobaireachd and ceol beag will result in more consistency
among scholars and better informed artistry among performers.
This study uses extensive video, pictorial, and print sources to identify changes in the Highland bagpipe and its music, as well as to reconstruct the social conditions in which they occurred. It also uses case studies to examine the resulting music, particularly piobaireachd, in order to analyze and describe changes in musical form, performance practice, and artistic interpretation.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Quality Assurance Program
- Creator:
- Echols, Angela
- Description:
- Compliance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture wheat flour milling standards and U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations is not enough to prevent a major recall of wheat flour containing peanut residue that has caused adverse reactions in two children. This thesis expands standard organization-wide total quality management (TQM) principles into an industry-wide perspective. It looks at wheat flour supply chain segments as an interconnected system, working towards the shared aim of providing wheat flour products free from cross-contact with peanuts. Wheat and peanut supply chains are reviewed side-by-side, and TQM tools are used to identify risk and assess cross-contact areas. Regulations and industry best practices are examined for current preventive controls for allergen cross-contact. Recommendations are based on expanded TQM ideologies. This expansion of TQM into the wheat supply chain, while not without its limitations and challenges, can help keep consumer products safe from peanut crosscontact.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Quality Assurance Program
- Creator:
- Aloufi, Nasser
- Description:
- This thesis considers the problem of scheduling autonomous vehicles at intersections. A new system is proposed which is more efficient and could replace the recently introduced Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) model. The proposed system is based on the production line technique. The environment of the intersection, vehicles position, speeds, and turning are specified and determined in advance. The goal of the proposed system is to eliminate vehicle’s collision and reduce the waiting time to cross the intersection. Three different patterns of traffic flow towards the intersection have been tested. The system requires less waiting time, compared to the other models, including the random case where the flow is unpredictable. The K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm has been used to predict vehicles making a right turn at the intersection. The experimental results show there is no chance of collision inside the intersection using the proposed model; however, the system might require more space in the traffic lane for some specific traffic patterns.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Department of Computer Science
- Creator:
- Rountree, Ronald M.
- Description:
- This thesis focuses on the original languages and the subsequent modifications of eternal worldview through artistic expression, thus demonstrating the way that the modern problematic concept of Hell adapts the original context of the documents and languages found in ancient religious and secular sources. The modern place of eternal punishment, Hell, is not found in the Christian Scriptures. The concept of a punishing Hell emerged from misinterpretations and theological wish fulfillment changed the original intent and context of ancient terms into a modern place of fire and brimstone. The evolving myth of a literal Hell began as an imaginative and powerful construct in the early fourteenth century. The Protestant Reformation, and the following Great Awakening movement, finished the foundations that eventually became the horrible abode of endless torture, a place to which bad or unfaithful people go when they die, Hell.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- De La Torre, Maricruz Macz
- Description:
- Recent studies have suggested that a close interaction between touch-sensing neurons and skin cells may not only be important for early development, but also for neuronal function and structure. In order to better understand the skin cell-neuron interaction we began to study the molecular basis of early skin development and general skin biology. Using RNA-seq, we generated comprehensive gene expression profiles for the different skin cell layers and non-skin cells at 20-SS, 52 hpf, and 72 hpf. Analyses of the RNA-seq data allowed for the identification of seven skin-enriched genes that have not been previously identified to be enriched in skin. Whole mount in-situ hybridization allowed us to obtain better spatial resolution of the expression of these genes. Functional studies using microinjection of morpholinos to block the expression of znfx1 and vgll1, has provided preliminary data demonstrating the partial knockdown of the znfx1 gene and skin deformity in vgll1 morphants
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Department of Biology