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A Statistical Analysis Of Pastoral Recognition And Use Of Transference In Counseling, Leland Forrest Asa

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According to the psychoanalvtically oriented therapist the transference phenomenon is a necessary step in any productive treatment in mental hygiene. The original use of the transierence phenomenon has been modified since its introduction by Freud and the descriptions of It likewise have become quite diverse. Little evidence of the value of transference has been presented in pastoral counseling literature and there has been limited study of its current use by pastors.

An Executive Decision-Making Game Designed To Observe Executive Decision-Making Behavior, Richard Wayne Nicholson

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Decision-making is not something that has been discovered within the last decade, yet there has been a vast amount of concern and interest in decision-making in the last ten years. Industrialists, economists, psychologists, military leaders, businessmen— all are concerned with the question, "How can we improve executive decisions, and train and select better decision-makers?" This question may be better answered if we understand the decision-making processes of the executive.

An Analysis Of The Differential Test Of Spelling Ability, Jon Daniel Hannum

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The following pages contain a statistical evaluation of The Differential Test of Spelling Ability constructed by the staff of The Reading Laboratory, University of Omaha. The major hypothesis of this instrument is that a person's spelling disability may be in say one or all four areas of spelling dynamics. This test was constructed under the supposition that it is possible to discriminate between the four types of spelling ability in which the student may be deficient. The data obtained from the test results as to the student's disability, if any, may be used to tutor him in his deficient areas. …

Pacific Oaks Friends School, 1945-1961, Margaret Abbott Witt

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The medical case history of an individual has long been an accepted instrument for promoting the health of an individual; and the empirical evidence presented by many such cases histories has been one avenue through which medical research into the cause and cure of disease has been advanced.

A Study Of The Relationship Between Clerical Productivity And Certain Items Of Personnel Information, Dale E. Garden

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Organisations of today that have large office staffs are properly concerned with the productivity of their clerical workers. One method of obtaining high level productivity is through the selection process. The purpose of this study is to determine if one or more of the following factors of personnel information will predict individual clerical productivity:

A . Age.
B. Number of years employed.
C. Marital status.
D. Existence of dependents.
E. Educational level attained.
F. Employment test scores.

An Analysis Of Existential Psychology, Arthur Erwin Wolfgarth

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The purpose of this thesis is to trace the thread of existential psychological thought from its first systematic statements in Denmark through its expansion in Europe to its influence in contemporary thought in the United States. This study begins with Søren Kierkegaard who cast existential expression into molds that have not broken to the present day. The study then primarily concerns Jean-Paul Sartre who expanded Kierkegaard’s germinal concepts into a theoretical psychology. From Sartre the thread is followed to the United States in the writings of Erich Fromm, Rollo May, and Carl Rogers. Existential theoretical psychology develops a psychoanalytical approach, …

Thomas Barnes Cuming, Jr. And The Location Of Nebraska's Territorial Capitol, Nan Viergutz Carson

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On May 30, 1854, Franklin Pierce, President of the United States, signed into law the Kansas-Negraska Act. This act, long famous in American history, had as its purpose the territorial organization of the continental heart of the United States. Pioneering settlement had populated both coastal regions as well as the east central area lying along the great Mississippi River. Between these separated portions of the United States of America stretched the high plains, an area which had been considered unfit for white civilization for over twenty years, and which, as a result, had been given by the federal government to …

A Study Of Labor's Right To Organize As Affected By New Deal Legislation, Paul Frederick Motzkus

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The purpose of this thesis is to show how labors right to organize was affected by the legislation passed during the New Deal period...The history of the labor movement is long and complex. To trace briefly the history of the movement with all its problems and intricacies would reveal nothing new or significant. Consequently the historical background recorded in this chapter will be confined to only the most significant problems which have faced the American workingman in his attempts at unionization. These problems were, to be more precise, the overcoming of legal and economic obstacles which prevented the laboring man …

From Individualized Instruction To Individualized Instruction: An Historical Study Of The Path Followed By Reading Instruction In The United States From Colonial Times To The Present, Barbara Jean Hunt

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A Roman named Tacitus once said: "In all things there is a kind of law of cycles." This statement has meaning for the field of reading instruction; for there is, at the present time, evidence to indicate that reading instruction may complete a cycle in the future. In the colonial times reading instruction was individualized. Today the most widely discussed trend in the teaching of reading is individualized reading. The individualized instruction of today, however, is qualitatively different from that of colonial times.

Mark Twain At Mid-Century, 1950-1961 A Synthesis Of Critical Views Fifty Years After His Death, Margery Blanche Turner

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The central purpose of the study is to investigate some of the recent criticism, both scholarly and popular, of the literary works of Samuel Longhorn Clemens to try to discover how it reflects the general trends in modern literary criticism. The great surge of popular interest in Mark Twain stems from many sources and has varied causes. Particularly at the close of a very successful anniversary year, it is interesting to make a general survey of the literature, both books and periodicals, in an attempt to synthesize the major ideas expressed in them. For the purpose of this investigation the …

William Faulkner: The Sins And The Curse, Lavon Mattes Jobes

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William Faulkner is not only a Southerner by birth , he is a Southerner by choice. He has spent most of his life in the small Southern community of Oxford, Mississippi. He often works with a southern setting, presenting a study of Negro and white relationships.

Christian Education In Protestant Primary Schools In Belgian Congo, Allan Wiebe

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The term "religious education", although traditionally referring to the teaching ministry of the Christian church, has now become so general as to include practically all religions that are propagated through instruction including Jewish, Mohammedan, Hindu and most other non-Christian religions, as well as Christian. Consequently, a trend has recently developed in the direction of the use of the more exclusive term "Christian education" although the two terms are used interchangeably in many Christian circles.

In this study the term "Christian education" is preferred and refers to the process by which individuals are confronted with and controlled by the Christian gospel. …

A Study Of Students Enrolled For College Credit By Television At The University Of Omaha 1956-1960, Paul Daniel Borge

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The last ten years have been a period of rapid and remarkable growth in the field of television broadcasting. At the end of World War II, there were seven television stations in operation. Today there are five hundred fifty-four. Five hundred of these are commercial outlets. Fifty-four are educationally licensed operations. Over four hundred schools, at every level, have closed-circuit teaching and training television units. Twenty-two schools in the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools offer courses for college credit, using regular commercial television outlets in the area. In Omaha, Nebraska, Station KMTV and the University of Omaha …

A Study Of Selected Factors In Predicting Parole Success Or Failure, Walter F. Kleinsasser

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The problem of juvenile delinquency is increasingly demanding more and more attention of the American public. Periodic reports compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, published annually, continue to reveal an increase in the rate of delinquent behavior. In fact, according to the final juvenile court reports for 1952 to the United States Children's Bureau, juvenile-court delinquency cases rose 29 percent between 1948 and 1952. Budgets also are constantly being increased to combat this major problem, yet it is probably true that man is still the least understood of all earthly beings. This study in parole prediction is undertaken with …

William Morris; Victorian Socialist And Medievalist, Eugene F. Truax

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Between the last Chartist conference of 1858 and the foundation of the Democratic Federation in 1881, the embers of socialism burned low and almost flickered out in Great Britain. This is not to say that socialist interests were wholly dormant, for there were many small political clubs in Britain whose members were largely former Chartists , Owenists, and members of the British component of the International Working Men's Association. Because of the low volume of strength of these clubs, no well-defined socialist movement manifested itself during these years.

F Scott Fitzgerald: Wealth And The Woman, Goldie Silverman

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“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” These famous lines by F. Scott Fitzgerald, made more famous by Ernest Hemingway, succinctly compress Fitzgerald's involved feelings about great wealth into one brief statement and served to identify one of Fitzgerald's major themes. For Fitzgerald was fascinated by the wealthy throughout his life; they were the chief subjects of his fiction. He grew up in awe of the man of inherited wealth, and he dissipated his vitality trying to live according to the same pattern. In his early years he was completely dazzled by …