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Girls Shouldn’t Behave Like That: Exploitation of Women’s Emotion in Professional Wrestling
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
WWE has always been known to have problematic representation for women. Recently, they have attempted to make a change. In 2016, WWE finally retired the outdated “Diva’s Division” and made strides toward a more woman-inclusive ...
Blessed Is She: Gender Critique Through Performativity and Portrayals of the Divine in Naomi Alderman’s The Power
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Naomi Alderman’s 2016 novel The Power details the events that occur after women develop the ability to produce an electrical current throughout their bodies. This new physical power allows a matriarchal power structure to ...
Which Witch is Witch: The Appropriation of Women’s Pain in the Use of the Witch Hunt Metaphor in Modern Political Rhetoric
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
The evolution of the term “witch hunt” from a physical act to a political metaphor is largely overlooked by modern audiences. As the hysteria of the witch trials fades into popular memory, certain associations live on. In ...
Nongrievable Bodies: Sex Trafficking Subjects Embodied in Social Media Rhetoric
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Every year thousands of women, men, and children are trafficked for sexual exploitation (sex trafficking) around the world. Legal, social, scholarly, and theoretical discourses all discuss sex trafficking, yet often times ...
Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality in Certified Athletic Trainers
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Certified athletic trainers (ATCs) are often the first to respond to an athletic sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and are expected to administer the highest quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) possible. The goal of ...
Does Relative Energy in Sport Undermine Bone Health?
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) is a term expanded from the female athlete triad the is inclusive to males and females and the negative physiological symptoms impacting athlete health and performance from low ...
A Comparison of Kinesio® Taping Methods for Subjects with Patellar Tendonitis
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
This project investigated the effects of Kinesio® Tape on pain, kinesiophobia, and proprioception in participants with patellar tendonitis. Thirty participants with patellar tendonitis were divided into three groups, the ...
The Rate of Intramuscular Tissue Temperature Reduction Between Wetted Ice with Elastic Wrap and Game Ready®
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
In recent years, the Game Ready® unit has become a popular cryotherapy modality to treat musculoskeletal injuries. The purpose of this study was to determine which cryotherapy method, wetted ice bag with elastic wrap or ...
'They Ain't Afraid of no Ghosts': Dark Tourism at Historic Sites
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Dark tourism, a subsection of heritage tourism, is growing in popularity and center around historic sites and museums. Those sites are put in the position to take advantage of the surging popularity of dark tourism by ...
Generation and Analysis of Streamwise Vortices from Vortex Tube Apparatus
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
A pressurized vortex tube is used to generate streamwise vortices in a wind tunnel and the resulting flow behavior is analyzed. The apparatus is intended to verify computational data from the AFRL by offering a method of ...