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Effective Lobbying Strategies For Higher Education In State Legislatures As Perceived By Government Relations Officers., Ellen Prothro Murphy
Effective Lobbying Strategies For Higher Education In State Legislatures As Perceived By Government Relations Officers., Ellen Prothro Murphy
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of various lobbying strategies for higher education in state legislatures as perceived by state government relations officers. The target population for the study was defined as individuals currently employed as state government relations officers for public institutions of higher education. Data were collected for this study by surveying government relations officers contacted through the 7th Annual State Relations Conference. The total number of usable responses was 109 (74%) of 147 surveyed from 36 states. The instrument utilized in this study was a researcher designed questionnaire that included a demographic …
A Comparative Study Of Communication Intervention For Nonverbal Children With Autism., Kelly C. Higgins
A Comparative Study Of Communication Intervention For Nonverbal Children With Autism., Kelly C. Higgins
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Communication intervention for 3 nonverbal children with autism was compared in an alternating treatment design. Subjects were three males, ages 4--7, 3--6, and 3--5 who met diagnostic criteria for Autism and who were considered to be nonverbal according to developmental history, parent/teacher report and behavioral observation. Alternating treatment conditions included the established treatment format that each subject was receiving in his school setting (Treatment A) and a developmentally-integrated format of intervention structured to facilitate integrated cognitive, social and communicative development (Treatment B). Each intervention was characterized according to profiles of Traditional-Behavioral or Semantic Pragmatic-Developmental intervention formats. Characteristics of adult interaction …
Rhetoric And Social Struggle: In Search Of The Topoi Of Violence., Edward Christopher Reilly
Rhetoric And Social Struggle: In Search Of The Topoi Of Violence., Edward Christopher Reilly
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The rhetorical study of violence tends to examine violence within larger generic boundaries such as social movements studies or war rhetoric. In order to work toward a generalizable rhetorical theory of violence and discourse, this study examines texts which justify violence across generic boundaries. Accordingly, four case studies individually examine texts which justify political violence. This study compares and contrasts the rhetorical strategies of George Bush, the Unabomber, Earth First! and Abbie Hoffman. This study concludes that there are no universal strategies among the four case studies in the justification of violence. However, there appears to be a continuum of …
Moved By The Spirit: Protestant Diffusion And Church Location In Central America, With A Case Study From Southwestern Honduras., Terri Shawn Mitchell
Moved By The Spirit: Protestant Diffusion And Church Location In Central America, With A Case Study From Southwestern Honduras., Terri Shawn Mitchell
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation traces the evolution of Protestant missions in Central America from the colonial period to the present, focusing on the agents, direction, and methods of Protestant diffusion as well as the changing criteria for site selection. Chapters are arranged chronologically and progress from the macro-scale, Central America, to the micro-scale, six towns in southwestern Honduras (La Esperanza, Intibuca, Yamaranguila, San Juan, Erandique and Gracias). The chapters dealing with Central America outline when and where different mission boards have worked, as well as the geographical, economic, political and theological considerations driving site selection. The focus then narrows to patterns of …
Wordsworth's Mother Tongue: Identification, Separation, And Recognition., Robert C. Hale
Wordsworth's Mother Tongue: Identification, Separation, And Recognition., Robert C. Hale
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This psychoanalytic study complicates prevailing notions about William Wordsworth's representations of mothers. Wordsworth does not invariably conflate mothers with Nature or consistently construct women as silent objects of male quest. Rather, he explores a variety of mothers' voices, often associating them with language acquisition and poetic composition. In early work he acknowledges mothers' significance directly and creates more vocal mothers, while in later work and revisions he often conceals mothers' significance and depicts more object-like mothers. In the 1805 version of book two of The Prelude, Wordsworth recalls himself as a "blessed babe" who recognizes his mother as a separate …
The Politics Of Decolonization: Race, Power, And Ideology In Contemporary American Drama., Byung-Eon Jung
The Politics Of Decolonization: Race, Power, And Ideology In Contemporary American Drama., Byung-Eon Jung
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation traces the politics of decolonization dramatized in selected plays from the contemporary American playwrights: African Americans (Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Kennedy, and August Wilson), white Americans (Arthur Kopit and David Rabe), and a Chinese American (David Hwang). Through the application of cultural theory to an analysis of dramatic texts, I demonstrate how the plays enact the struggle for decolonization on social, political, and cultural levels. In keeping with the interactions of race, power, and ideology, the plays deconstruct the white cultural formulations of racial minorities. I explore the ways in which the playwrights reclaim the authority of …
Making The Secular Sacred: An Analysis Of Linguistic Devices Used To Give Religious Perspective To Ordinary Events., Wayne Porter Gregory
Making The Secular Sacred: An Analysis Of Linguistic Devices Used To Give Religious Perspective To Ordinary Events., Wayne Porter Gregory
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
It has been suggested that human beings do not possess social reality so much as they actively and cooperatively construct it by means of language in interaction with others. The manipulation of symbols, the creation of inferences, the posturing of one's personal identity all work together to enable participants (both speakers and hearers) in a given speech event to create social reality and reaffirm and maintain their social relationships. In religious speech communities, like the one investigated in this study, participants seek to create a different kind of social reality--one that encompasses all of the individual and corporate experiences of …
Theatrical Intervention In The Aids Crisis: Performance, Politics, And Social Change., Cindy J. Kistenberg
Theatrical Intervention In The Aids Crisis: Performance, Politics, And Social Change., Cindy J. Kistenberg
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of performance as a means of social change by focusing on performances that have arisen out of the AIDS crisis. Working from a cultural studies perspective, I attempt to delineate both the possibilities and limitations for this perspective on social change. By comparing the various forms these performances have taken, I offer an explanation as to how these forms inhibit or enhance the ability of a performance to challenge the dominant discourse on AIDS, and create and mobilize communities that can act in the fight against AIDS. I begin by …
Autobiographical Amnesia: Memory, Myth, Curriculum., Gregory Michael Nixon
Autobiographical Amnesia: Memory, Myth, Curriculum., Gregory Michael Nixon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Autobiography in curriculum theory and practice is being more and more acknowledged as a major force leading toward the development of reflectively analytical teachers, reflexive practitioners, and discursively self-aware individuals. I look to two vital aspects of self-narration to explore. I speak firstly of memory, without which narrative continuity would be impossible. Memory is as involved with learning as it is with storytelling, and I would agree with Krell (1978) that "inquiry into memory and the theory of pedagogy go hand in hand" (p. 131). I eschew the models of memory provided by the behavioral sciences, empirical psychology, cognitive psychology, …
Effects Of A Whole Language Approach Using Authentic French Texts On Student Comprehension And Attitude., Colette Hood Stelly
Effects Of A Whole Language Approach Using Authentic French Texts On Student Comprehension And Attitude., Colette Hood Stelly
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a Whole Language Approach (WLA), using authentic French stories, on measures of listening and reading comprehension of fourth-year high school students of French, and on their attitudes to learning French, as opposed to students using customary textbook materials in a conventional teacher-centered classroom setting. This investigation comprised two components: (a) a quantitative component which statistically determined results on measures of listening, reading and attitude, and, (b) a qualitative component which reviewed classroom procedures through observation and interview. Analysis of variance on four separate posttests showed statistically significant differences in …
Reality And Knowledge In Voegelin's Political Philosophy. (Volumes I & Ii)., Seung-Hyun Baek
Reality And Knowledge In Voegelin's Political Philosophy. (Volumes I & Ii)., Seung-Hyun Baek
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
It is the primary aim of this dissertation to draw attention to Voegelin's political philosophy and to place it at the center of the conduct of political inquiry, by criticizing positivistic political epistemology. Though scientism had become a dominant commitment, it does not provide an appropriate approach to political knowledge. Making reality dependent on methodology, it neglects important political existence, and fails to ask deeper questions about the truth-content political reality. However, there is an extra-spatio-temporal reality, that we can know, albeit imperfectly, and not discovered by the modern scientific methods. By means of the restoration and "retheoretization" of the …
Testing Standard Modern Paragraph Theories (Becker, Christensen, Rodgers)., Thomas Haskell Utley
Testing Standard Modern Paragraph Theories (Becker, Christensen, Rodgers)., Thomas Haskell Utley
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study tests the relative effectiveness of the standard modern paragraph theories of A. L. Becker, Francis Christensen, and Paul C. Rodgers, Jr., three major theorists contributing more sophisiticated explanations of the form of paragraphs than that of Alexander Bain, whose theory as summarized in the familiar principles of unity, coherence, and emphasis has dominated textbook explanations of paragraphing since the late nineteenth century. In this test the three theories have been applied to fourteen selected professional essays appearing in six of the best-selling composition readers. Of these essays, seven, designated as classical, are written by the most frequently anthologized …
Sex Typed Language., Margaret Estes Johnson
Sex Typed Language., Margaret Estes Johnson
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological sex typing and patterns of language usage. Seventy-nine Louisiana State University undergraduate students were categorized according to the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (Spence, Helmreich and Stapp, 1975). Sex type groups included: psychologically androgynous (High Masculine/High Feminine); masculine (High Masculine/Low Feminine); feminine (Low Masculine/High Feminine); and undifferentiated (Low Masculine/Low Feminine), for both male (n = 40) and female (n = 39). Three written language samples were gathered for each subject. Subjects were asked to spend ten minutes writing in response to each of the three verbal stimuli. Two of the …
The Effect Of Intervention On The Paradigmatic Syntagmatic Language Inventory Of Seventh Grade Children., Peggy Toops Tubb
The Effect Of Intervention On The Paradigmatic Syntagmatic Language Inventory Of Seventh Grade Children., Peggy Toops Tubb
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
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Applicability Of Selected American Written Business Communication Principles Across Cultural Boundaries With Particular Reference To Mexico., Jack Douglas Eure Jr
Applicability Of Selected American Written Business Communication Principles Across Cultural Boundaries With Particular Reference To Mexico., Jack Douglas Eure Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Moliere's Concept Of Language: A Critical Interpretation., Hilliard Ellis Saunders Jr
Moliere's Concept Of Language: A Critical Interpretation., Hilliard Ellis Saunders Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Deviant Syntactical Patterns Observed In The Spontaneous Oral Language Production Of Children At Three Grade Levels In St. Landry Parish., Ruth Avant Beard
Deviant Syntactical Patterns Observed In The Spontaneous Oral Language Production Of Children At Three Grade Levels In St. Landry Parish., Ruth Avant Beard
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
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The Use Of Kinesics In Establishing And Determining Meaning In Superior-Subordinate Communications., Mary Bordelon Blalock
The Use Of Kinesics In Establishing And Determining Meaning In Superior-Subordinate Communications., Mary Bordelon Blalock
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Political Thought Of Jose Ortega Y Gasset., Wilmer Albert Sweetser
The Political Thought Of Jose Ortega Y Gasset., Wilmer Albert Sweetser
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Relation Between Certain High School Course Patterns And Achievement In First Freshman Courses In English, Social Science, Mathematics, And Natural Science At Louisiana State University., Stanley Evan Easton
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Student Achievement In College Calculus, Louisiana State University 1967-1968., Thomas Henry Scannicchio
Student Achievement In College Calculus, Louisiana State University 1967-1968., Thomas Henry Scannicchio
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Effects On Comprehension Of Selected Variations In Organization And Physical Presentation Of Administrative Communications., John Lincoln Devillier
The Effects On Comprehension Of Selected Variations In Organization And Physical Presentation Of Administrative Communications., John Lincoln Devillier
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Evolution Of A Concept: 'Gentilesse' In Chaucer's Poetry., Willene Schaefer
The Evolution Of A Concept: 'Gentilesse' In Chaucer's Poetry., Willene Schaefer
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
A Study Of Modern Foreign Languages In The Curriculums Of Louisiana Colleges And Universities., Hazel Haynes Mitchell
A Study Of Modern Foreign Languages In The Curriculums Of Louisiana Colleges And Universities., Hazel Haynes Mitchell
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
A Study Of Various Factors Related To Success In College General Mathematics., Francis Gary Fournet Jr
A Study Of Various Factors Related To Success In College General Mathematics., Francis Gary Fournet Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Studies In Chaucer's Imagery., William Allen Tornwall
Studies In Chaucer's Imagery., William Allen Tornwall
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.