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The Role Of Compulsory Heterosexuality In The Abdication And Queen Christina, Becky Beth Benedict

Theses and Dissertations

Contemporary playwrights, Ruth Wolff and Pam Gems, create portrayals of Queen Christina of Sweden in Wolff’s The Abdication and Gem’s Queen Christina, both of which can be perceived to contain the issues of culturally- encoded gender and sexual roles.

To compare and contrast the influence of these culturally-encoded gender and sexual roles within these plays, I have applied Adrienne Rich’s theory of “compulsory heterosexuality," which serves as a critical tool to clarify the similarities and differences of these issues within the selected dramatic texts. According to Rich, “compulsory heterosexuality” refers to the ideas that male-female coupling is the preferred choice …

The Effects Of Time And Misinformation On Memory For Complete Events, Mary K. Devitt

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the effects of time and misinformation on memory for fictitious events in SO students who were given course credit in return for their participation. During an initial meeting, subjects were provided with descriptions of four events. Every subject received fictitious information about spending the night in the hospital for an ear infection. One group of subjects was led to believe they had been lost in a shopping mail when in fact that had never occurred (The Suggested Lost group). A second group of subjects were told to develop a convincing story about being lost in a shopping …

The Relationship Among Educational Philosophy And Discipline Policies, Procedures, And Practices, Alan G. Ekblad

Theses and Dissertations

One enduring mission of the educational system has been to promote classroom environments where children learn about responsible citizenship, disruption is minimized, and learning is maximized. This mission has supported the development of discipline policy, procedures, and practices as one component of an overall educational philosophy for school districts.

This study compared written educational philosophies, discipline policies, and procedures with actual practices reported by school personnel. The intent was to determine whether the statements corresponded with one another to promote practices for discipline that reflected a sound educational philosophy. It was questioned whether evidence of discrepancies between the statements correlated …

The Educational Systems Of Sparta And Athens, Robin N. Phillips

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Nikolai Spafarii Calamity : The Dismal Failure Of Russia's First Ambassadorial Mission To China (1675), Heidi M. Stark

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

April 6, 1995, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the April 6, 1995, meeting of the University Senate. 20 pages

In This Issue, Mary Laycock

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

Matters Of Consequence, Mary Laycock

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

Acquired Ignorance: An Education Virtue Revisited, Shari Tishman

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

What I Tell My Students About Reading, Marilyn Garber

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

Connections, Pat Mower

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

Two Heads Are Better Than One? Students' Evaluation Of Team Teaching In A Teacher Education Classroom, Xu Di, Margaret Zidon

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

I'Ll Never Observe Alone: A Rule For University Supervisors, Ellen Corcoran

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

You Can't Say You Can't Play, Dirck Roosevelt

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

Lux Et Lex: Volume 3, Number 1, Sandy Slater

Lux et Lex

This issue of Lux et Lex, a publication of the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota, was published in April 1995.

Public Relations In The Bureaucracy, Kristen Freeman-Larson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

March 2, 1995, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the March 2, 1995, meeting of the University Senate. 19 pages

February 2, 1995, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

The University Senate did not meet on February 2, 1995, due to lack of a quorum.

Characterization Of Sentinel Butte Petrified Wood And Host Lithology Associations, Todd Lawrence Holweger

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

Large quantities of petrified wood occur in the Paleocene Sentinel Butte Formation in western North Dakota. An examination of this petrified wood has provided information about modes and degrees of fossilization, silica phases present, organic structure preservation, and parent tree type. In the study site, fossilized tree stumps were concentrated along one continuous clay horizon. Twenty petrified wood samples were obtained. Five representative samples were chosen for thin section characterization. Microscopic analyses revealed well preserved plant structures including rays, tracheids, and growth rings. These structures were suitable for identifying parent tree type, which was determined to be a gymnosperm. Silica …

Physical Description And Significance Of The Tills At The Dobmeier Pit Near Park River, North Dakota, Robert A. Burrows

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

This study was conducted to describe an exposure of tills and correlate them with the known sequence of tills elsewhere. The Dobmeier pit is a large spring discharge site approximately 3 miles west of Park River, North Dakota (Edinburg Quadrangle, T157N, R56W, Sec. 23, 1/4SE, 1/4NW, 1/4SE). It is between 50 and 75 meters across and 15 to 20 meters deep. It is located on the east edge of the Edinburg Moraine and the south side of the Park River valley. Exposed at the base is a cross-bedded sand and gravel unit. Above is a compact gray till, which is …

Chemical And Physical Characteristics Of Saline Soils In Grand Forks County North Dakota, Sherry D. Samson

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

Saline soils reduce the productivity of over 80,000 hectares, or 23% of the land area, in Grand Forks County, an agricultural county in eastern North Dakota. A geochemical analysis was completed on soils from two salt-affected areas to determine if the salinity is depression-focused in saline spring areas and dominated by ground-water discharge, or landscape-wide and controlled by saline flushing and evapotranspiration. The areas chosen for study were an ephemerally wet, cultivated farm field and Kellys Slough, a perennial wetland. Two soil borings were completed at each site with samples taken in 15-cm increments to a depth of approximately 1 …

Characterization Of A Riparian Wetland Renwick Reservoir, Pembina County, Nd, Jo Ann Harrer, Constance Holth

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

Renwick Reservoir, on the Tongue River near Cavalier, North Dakota, was constructed in 1962 as part of a flood control project. The cost at completion was about $350,000. The reservoir was built assuming a 50-year life expectancy. North Dakota's W ater Quality Assessment Plan concludes that sediment accumulation has already diminished storage capacity and negatively affected recreational uses. Primary problems include pollutants consisting of nutrients, sediment accumulation, turbid water and organic enrichment. Forty-one percent of the sediments deposited are in the newly-formed riparian wetland at the headwaters of the reservoir. This problem illustrates a need to characterize wetlands in reservoirs. …

Breakfast With Justice Blackmun, Sherry F. Colb

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Exhaustion Of Tribal Court Remedies: Rejecting Bright-Line Rules And Affirmative Action, Phillip Wm. Lear, Blake D. Miller

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Treating Tribes As States Under The Clean Water Act: The Good And The Bad, Richard Monette, James M. Grijalva, Rebecca Tsosie, Judith V. Royster, John S. Harbison, Philip S. Deloria, N. Bruce Duthu

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Fibromyalgia, Bruce T. Amundson

Physical Therapy Scholarly Projects

One of the more common diagnosis that a physical therapist treats in the clinic is fibromyalgia (FM). Fibromyalgia is the latest name given to a condition that, for the most part, has received mixed acceptance at the clinical level. Part of the reason that FM has been poorly accepted is due to the lack of a clearly defined set of signs and symptoms. In the last few years, new research has delineated the signs and symptoms in a manner that makes FM a more understandable condition.

The Merck Manual defines FM as a group of non-articular rheumatic disorders characterized by …

Index To Volumes 18-38 (1974-1994), Stephen A. Marlett, J. Albert Bickford

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

A Grammar Sketch Of The Kaki Ae Language, John M. Clifton

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

Kaki Ae is a non-Austronesian language spoken by approximately 300 people on the south coast of Papua New Guinea. It is at best distantly related to any other language in Papua New Guinea. This paper presents a brief grammar sketch of the language, including discussion of the phonology, sentences, phrases, words, and morpheme categories. Three appendices include a Kaki Ae to English Lexicon, an English to Kaki Ae word finder list, and seven short texts.

Madija Predicates, Pamela S. Wright

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

This article examines several previously-unexplained aspects of verbal morphology and syntax in Madija, an Arauan language spoken in Peru and Brazil. These include the distribution of an auxiliary verb which occurs with some predicates but not with others, the factors determining the choice among three different affixes marking third person agreement, and three different affixes indicating a plural subject.

Using the framework of Relational Grammar, a unified analysis of Madija predicate classes and verbal morphology can be given. This provides further evidence for such proposals as the Unaccusative Hypothesis, Postal's proposed analysis for antipassive, the analysis of impersonal constructions as …

Pronouns In Mexican Sign Language, Marilyn Plumlee

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

Pronouns in Mexican Sign Language (MSL) can be divided into two distinct classes: the manual pronouns, formed by configurations and movements of the hand, and the non-manual pronouns, formed by means of eye movements and body shifts which carry linguistic content. Within each class, several types of pronouns are found. This paper discusses the morphology of various types within each class and provides examples which illustrate their use in MSL discourse.

MSL speakers constitute a linguistic minority who are in frequent contact with a majority group using Spanish, the language of higher prestige in the society at large. An additional …