The purpose of this study was to discover if self-efficacy and motivation affects fluid intelligence tasks on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- fourth edition (WAIS IV), and the possible influences of those effects ...

Athletes spend their whole lives training to make it to the college level. However, many end up quitting before their senior year. This paper aims to understand motivational factors in college athletics to help curb ...

This thesis consists of a manuscript of original Creative Nonfiction essays and a critical forward that makes a case for the use of Zines in secondary language arts pedagogy. The foreword situates Zines as self-published, ...

This creative thesis explores the definition and features of the New Fabulist genre and contains a manuscript of three stories that fit within the parameters of this genre. The critical foreword analyzes the emergence of ...

Turtles are unique organisms within the animal kingdom. Unlike any other living reptile, their skulls have neither an upper nor lower opening in the temporal region. All other living reptiles and birds are diapsid, ...

This paper examines the impact of marital status on the likelihood of committing suicide in the 21st Century. This study utilizes the 2017 Multiple Cause of Death mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System ...

This thesis consists of an original creative manuscript of poetry and a critical analysis that examines the use of fragmentation and metapoetry in contemporary post-confessional poetry written or published in Kansas. ...