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- Creator:
- Onofre Vásquez, Berenice R.
- Description:
- This qualitative study was undertaken to critically explore and explain the parent engagement of a group of immigrant Latina mothers at an elementary school located in a primarily White and relatively affluent school district in California, United States. The study examined the barriers that the group of Latina mothers encountered, along with the enabling factors available to them. Three research question guided the study: 1) How did one group of Latina immigrant mothers engage in a majority White and relatively affluent public school district, and how did they advocate for maintenance of a cultural event? 2) What barriers might inhibit Latino parent engagement in their children’s school? 3) What enabling factors might enhance Latino parent engagement in their children’s school? The study used Critical Race Theory as the theoretical framework. Data was collected through participant observation, interviews, document review, and field notes. A narrative inquiry method was used to chronologically narrate, as a series of events, the lived experiences of the group of immigrant Latina mothers. The study discovered a different situation than the deficit concept that Latino parents are not involved in their children’s school. The findings narrate a counterstory in that a group of Latina immigrant mothers, with the assistance of community advocates, was able to infiltrate the elementary school’s space of power and influence and effect change for the betterment of Latino parents, students, and the school in general. The group of Latina mothers was confronted with many barriers. Some of the specific obstacles that inhibited their engagement at their children’s school were: 1) systemic White privilege; 2) race, racism, and a lack of Latino power and influence in school decisions; 3) administrative disregard for the importance of culture, 4) a Latino parent engagement equity gap, 5) parent low socioeconomic status, 6) parent language barriers, and 7) low parental educational attainment. On the other hand, there were enabling factors that supported the Latina mothers’ engagement at their children’s school, including: 1) resilience and resistance to being silenced, 2) in-group and community support, and 3) the parent educational programs in the community and at school. These factors supported their arduous trajectory to resolve their concerns, with one of their main concerns being the re-instatement of a 42-year-old Cinco de Mayo event at an elementary school. The results of this study are significant because, as the Latino community continues to expand into new reaches of the United States, Latino parents could likely encounter similar situations in their new communities.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Creator:
- Cardenas Fragoso, Diana
- Description:
- Research has found that the amount of years a household owns their home is the most significant driver of the widening wealth gap amongst White and Black families in the United States (Shapiro, Meshede, & Osoro, 2013). The pronounced gap in homeownership rates between immigrant and native-born populations guides the interest of this project. This project adds to the existing body of literature regarding asset-building in immigrant, low-to-moderate income households. The specific question that this project seeks to answer is, what are some determinants that influence homeownership in the immigrant population? East Los Angeles was purposefully chosen as the study site based on the demographic characteristics of the community. The interviews held with the participants over the course of several months allowed for the exploration of details that may hinder or facilitate the home buying process. The themes of life-course transitions as motivators, immigration status, financial security, as well as neighborhood factors were formulated from the narratives.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Creator:
- Villalobos, Darleen Marie
- Description:
- Continuation high schools, and especially the teachers of continuation high schools, are vastly understudied. This narrative study examined the reasons why long-term continuation high school teachers choose to remain in a school that has a great number of stereotypes surrounding them and their students. Six continuation high school teachers took part in the study. Based on the teachers' stories, long-term continuation high school teachers remain because they enjoy the community-like setting, they have the autonomy to make professional teaching decisions, and they truly enjoying building strong relationships with students who have suffered academic failure.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Creator:
- Blum, Emily Alice Horn
- Description:
- The objective of my internship with The Bay Foundation was two-fold: I gained familiarity with assorted ecological monitoring and restoration techniques while also understanding general project implementation and management processes. The Bay Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the Santa Monica Bay through planning, education, research, cleanup efforts, and other restoration projects. I worked with the organization to continue the implementation and management of restoration plans for the LAX dunes, Santa Monica Beach, and the Malibu Lagoon. I learned various monitoring procedures to be utilized when creating future environmental projects. Hoping to move into the sustainability field, it is critical to have a comprehensive catalog of different methods and markers to assess long-term program success. The other objective of the experience was to acquire a stronger proficiency in large-scale project implementation, which includes designing master plans, permitting, building partnerships, physical implementation, and continued monitoring and maintenance strategies. Lastly, I gained numerous relevant contacts and partnerships to help advise me in the future.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Creator:
- Enciso, James
- Description:
- This thesis project encompasses the design, development, and implementation of an electromyography-driven exergaming fitness monitoring system for the facilitation of in-home exercise for wheelchair users. This proof of concept design explores the concept of incorporating commercially available wireless EMG sensors into a mobile exercise-based gaming environment as a means of motivating wheelchair users to exercise in the convenience of their own home as a cost-effective alternative to traditional workout facilities. A mobile app consisting of three EMG-driven exergames was developed to support one of three exercise modes - cardio, aerobic, and resistance - pertaining to an SCI-specific workout protocol. The scoring system utilizes a dual-threshold based algorithm to reliably detect individual muscle contractions and assign virtual progress based on physical effort, derived from maximum voluntary contraction, age, height, mass, and maximum heart rate. Real-time physiological monitoring encourages users to maintain their pace and issues alerts to rest when overexertion is detected to ensure user activity remains within safe conditions. Other forms of feedback include Calories burned and historical trend summaries. Multiplayer features allow users to either replay the progress from previously recorded sessions as a virtual opponent or compete against another live player. The mobile app prototype was benchmarked for acquisition accuracy, transmission reliability, and power consumption. Such tests revealed that the sensors can transmit with zero packet loss within 18m under unobstructed line of sight conditions and can support up to 3.19 hours of continuous use with a single battery. An 8-week in-home feasibility pilot study on four traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) subjects revealed increases in weekly playtime and integrated EMG among participants. Qualitative feedback also asserted improvements in motivation and ease of use as a practical workout facilitation device.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Creator:
- Blancher, Mark William
- Description:
- Child and intimate partner emotional abuse exists around the world. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of ethnicity on childhood and intimate partner emotional abuse. The independent variable for this study was ethnicity/race. This study examines which ethnicity out of the three examined (Asians, Latinos, Whites) had the highest rates of childhood and intimate partner emotional abuse. Primary data in the form of survey questionnaires were collected from 231 students, ages 18 and over from California State University, Los Angeles and California State University, Dominguez Hills. One-way ANOVAs and Tukey post-hoc tests showed no significant differences between ethnicities for childhood emotional abuse. However, there was a significant effect of ethnicity on intimate partner emotional abuse. Findings showed that Whites had a significantly higher rate of adult intimate partner emotional abuse than Asians and Latinos. This study also provides implications for social work practice and future research.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Creator:
- Romero, Miguel A.
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to examine the long-term effects of child maltreatment, specifically child sexual abuse (CSA) on alcohol use. The dataset used was a quantitative design from public secondary data set Wave IV from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth), which included a nationally representative sample of adolescents (N=5,114). A substantial 94.9% of participants did not experience sexual touch but the majority (80.3%) of individuals had consumed alcohol. These results indicate that individuals who experienced CSA did not correlate to or were at a high risk of alcohol use. The study results point the need to recognize the clustering effects of multiple types of abuse on alcohol use. Utilizing this research can assist youth with the effects of abuse, how to identify and differentiate the abuse experienced to help raise awareness and implement additional programs in this major public health issue.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Creator:
- Salas, Mercedes
- Description:
- My project report is the analysis of the dramaturgical work for a fictitious adaptation of Richard III that I proposed to the New York City based LAByrinth Theatre Company. As the dramaturg for this fictitious production, I created a study guide which became an important objective in the completion of my graduate studies. The Richard III adaptation is set in the 1950s in the Dominican Republic and uses the former Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo as the inspiration for Richard. A section of the study guide includes research on the social and political life of the Dominican Republic, with extensive information about Trujillo. Another section mentions Shakespeare, his sources, and his use of language. Another section describes how the fictitious production uses LAByrinth's unique theatrical style and also describes LAByrinth's audience, which has been cultivated for twenty years. The study guide concludes with an exploration of stage villainy that includes descriptions of two previous political adaptations of Richard III, one mounted in 2009 by Teatro Atalaya in Spain, and the other by Teatro Occidente's 2008 in Columbia.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Creator:
- James, Jocelyn Erica
- Description:
- This multi-modal qualitative study explores the use of dance processes to promote intrapersonal dialogue about the problem of oppression/domination, and engages this dialogue as a central ingredient in opposing oppression/domination within the self. Self-reflexive choreography, a process which draws from the phenomenological concept of the lived body as well as the dance therapy discipline of Authentic Movement, is described as an anti-oppression educational model that may be used in higher education dance classrooms as a kinesthetic process of unlearning oppression. This thesis interweaves phenomenological and autoethnographic methods while expanding research in the interconnected fields of dance studies, women’s studies and anti-oppression education.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles
- Creator:
- Tang, Xiao
- Description:
- With the continuous innovation of technology, human beings are paying more and more attention to the protection of the future earth's ecological environment. The development and use of new energy in various industries have gradually become a new competitive indicator. For the automotive industry, the gradual lack of petroleum resources and the harm of exhaust emissions to air pollution have made the development and utilization of new energy sources extremely urgent. Tesla Motors was founded in 2003. It is a company dedicated to reducing the world's dependence on fossil fuel-powered vehicles by developing electric vehicles. For a long time, Tesla's future development is a topic that investors are keen on. As the first mover in the electric vehicle industry, Tesla has a lot to learn, and at the same time, there are many crises that need to be avoided. This research will analyze the financial situation of Tesla from the perspective of an investor to find out the factors of success and provide some suggestions for more investors.
- Campus Tesim:
- Los Angeles