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Anxiety And Body Image In Tattooed And Nontattooed Military Prisoners, Terry L. Habeger

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Tattooing has evolved into something less than an art, particularity in western cultures, and has lost its original dignity and original significance as well (Abramson,1931). As a result, there has been a great deal of conjecture concerning the psychodynaraics of tattooing (Edgerton & Dingman,1963; Hamburger,1966; Hamburger & Lacovara,1963). The present study was an attempt to investigate the psychodynamics of tattooing through the use of one measure of anxiety and two measures of body image with tattooed and nontattooed individuals. The techniques employed were the Secord (1953) Homonym Word Association Test, the Secord-Jourard (1953) Body Cathexis Scale, and the Taylor (1953) …

A Study Of Relationships Between Machiavellianism, Dogmatism And Perceived Persuasiveness Of Messages, Marilyn Henderson Ihle

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Psychologists and researchers in communication have shown much interest in personality variables such as Machiavellianism and dogmatism. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between these two traits and perceived persuasiveness of different message types. Four hundred and twenty-six students enrolled in Speech 101, Fundamentals of Speech Communication, at the University of Nebraska at Omaha were administered the Mach V scale and the Dogmatism Scale-Foxm E. They were also presented two hypothetical, news releases to read and to rate on persuasibility. One release was based cm authority and the other on reason.

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Sir Bartle Frere: Colonial Administrator Of The Victorian Period, Anthony C. Brewer

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The following thesis aims at discerning the attitudes of Sir Bartle Frere as a guide to British colonial and administrative though during the Victorian Period. By doing this, it becomes possible to ascertain the impact of the administrator on British colonial and foreign policy.

The Civil Rights Act Of 1875: A Failure Reconsidered, Barbara N. Luckett

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The years since the Civil War have witnessed vigorous efforts, not always successful, on the part of black and white Americans to elevate substantially the position of the black American in sociey. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most dramatic and significant legislation, on a national level, which attacked segregation and discrimination, but it was not the first of its kind. The Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 contained many of the same provisions that had been enacted, or proposed but deleted, in a similar Civil Rights Act in 1875. On the whole, in its impact and enforcement, …

Changes In Peer Conformity Across Age On Normative And Informational Tasks, Susan C. Wright

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The influence of adult and peer models on Ss from grades 2, 5, 8, and 11 was measured on informational and normative tasks. Social influence was produced by presenting televised adult and peer model answers after each informational (dot discrepancy) and normative (art pictures) problem. The predictions that peer conformity would be positively related to age, and that peers would be more influential on normative tasks were not supported (p ˂ .05). While similar levels of peer conformity occurred for males and females on informational tasks, males conformed significantly more to peers on normative tasks than females. In addition, conformity …

An Inventory Of Land Use, Northwest, Omaha, Keith A. Nollen

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Spatial growth has been a significant factor contributing to and resulting from the changing structure of American cities. This research project attempts to identify the spatial growth and the resulting land use patterns and areal associations of a portion of the dynamic growth area of Omaha, Nebraska.

A Comparison Of The Concept Of The Female Role As Held By Women In New York City With That Of A Woman In The Midwest, Sylvia Decker

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Throughout history there has been a universal tradition that the differences between the sexes are reflected in the character of male and female as well as in their physical structure. The attributes have been seen as complementary, not only in men and women but in all things. Events in nature and history have been explained by this universal principle. In Taoism, for example, the two principles, the Yin and the Yang, the feminine and the masculine, are parts of a unity. The feminine principle embodies all that is calm, dark, cool, passive, and receptive. The masculine principle embodies everything active, …

Creating An Environmental Center For Instructional Learning: A Case Study And Evaluation, Betty J. Gray

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This is a case study and evaluation of one elementary school in Bellevue, Nebraska, and the interaction of the school and staff with parent involvement in the area of curriculum.

Milton's Paradise Lost: From The Paradise Without To The Paradise Within, Brian John Wagner

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In the eighteenth century, Miltonic criticism centered around Paradise Lost as an orthodox creed: “the heterodox elements were not noticed, and the poem appealed equally to Anglicans, Dissenters, Roman Catholics, and Deists.”

Journey Within The Uroboros: A Study Of The Psychological Development Of Edward Albee's Male Characters In Connection With The Mother Archtype, Barbara Schmitz

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In “Archetype and Signature” Leslie Fiedler discusses the concepts created by I. A. Richards of “staying inside the poem,” and regarding the poem as an “essential experience.” He further defines Richards “new criticism” by giving it slogan—“a poem should not mean but be.” Ultimately, Fiedler finds both this approach of the work of art and Eliot’s “objective correlative” (a poem succeeds only insofar as it is detached from the subjectivity of its maker) wanting. He sees the poet's life as a “focusing glass” through which all aspects of his work must pass and feels that a sense of the life …

A Topology On The Fundamental Group., Daniel William Atkinson

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For an arbitrary topological space algebraic topology prescribes a construction for a fundamental group. There is a natural way of imposing a topology on this set. We will examine this construction and the topological space which results. We use the following notation and definitions: 1. I f X and Y are topological spaces and ACX, BCY and if f:X+Y is a map, we write f: (X,A)➔(Y,B) if f(A)cB. 2. (Y,B)CX,A)={f: (X,A)+(Y,B)I f is continuous}. 3. 1=[0,1], the closed unit interval; i={O,l}, the points O and 1. 4. If X is a topological space and a£X, then R is an equivalence …

Imitation In Adult-Sibling Dyads, Albert F. Hodapp

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Imitative behavior of a parent-surrogate and a sibling model by second-born children from M1-M2, M1-F2, F1-M2, and F1-F2 dyads was assessed in an observational learning paradigm. Children, five- to seven-years of age from two-child families, observed an adult male or female parent-surrogate model, and an older brother or sister play three games – dart through, gold putt, and ring toss. After observing an assigned adult model and a sibling model, the children played each of the three games and his reproduction of verbal, postural, and motor responses of the models was scored. In general, second-born children imitated the sibling models …

Developmental Changes In Level Of Achievement As A Function Of Magnitude And Direction Of Cue Validity, James M. Spencer

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Twelve groups of Ss participated in a probability learning task which was derived from Brunswik’s Lens Model. The groups varied according to age (7-8, 13-14, and 19-20 year olds), magnitude (.40 and .80), and the direction (positive and negative) of the ecological validity coefficient (cue-criterion correlation). The Ss were required to predict a two-digit criterion number after viewing a two-digit cue value. An analysis of cue utilization (S's response-cue correlation) and achievement (S’s responsecriterion correlation) revealed that Ss had much more difficulty dealing with cues which have a negative, rather than a positive, relationship with the criterion. Some evidence also …

The Role Of Anxiety In The Stimulus Preference And Play Patterns, Betty R. Rutherford

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The play patterns and stimulus preference of 20 preschool children were observed during low and high s tress conditions. The stress manipulation was contingent upon the child's preparation for a medical appointment. Heart rate recordings and a questionnaire were used as Indices of stress. Children manifested a preference toward creative-constructive play under conditions of increased stress , with a resultant decrease in manipulative and imaginative play. Play with relevant or irrelevant toys did not change significantly during the increased stress condition. Pencil—paper measures of stress used in previous studies were significantly related to the physiological measure of stress . No …

Some Aspects Of The Bread Baking Industry In Omaha, Shirley A. Jahnke

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Since the beginnings of civilization, bread has been a staff of life. The unleavened flat breads of ancient times, gr&ndmother0s old-fashioned home-made loaf, and today’s precision-controlled product have all vitally contributed to the world's food supplies and have made baking a basic economic activity in most societies. Despite the increased variety of foods now available, bread is still a staple in many diets. Although bread baking was one of the last types of manufacturing to advance to the commercial stage, the development of the industry has progressed rapidly so that today commercial bakers account for approximately 90 per cent of …

Analysis Of Self-Esteem In A Multigrade Classroom Using A Different Style Of Learning Compared With Conventional Classrooms At Belvedere School: An Experimental Case Study, Ruth L. Randall

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Providing a quality education for each child in the United States is a goal of every parent and educator. Concern about the adequacy of education of children in the schools of the inner city and schools near the inner city has been voiced in many metropolitan areas including Omaha, Nebraska. Many reasons for inadequate performance by the pupils have been given. Among these reasons have been the students' lack of self-esteem and school staffs' lack of understanding of the children and how they learn.

A Comparison Of Full-Day And Half-Day Kindergarten In Selected Inner City Schools In Omaha To Determine The Growth In Skills Necessary For Success In First Grade, Josie Reed

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Many people are urging schools to extend kindergarten from a half to a full day. The typical rationale is that the American middle-class five-year old is wasting his time by attending school only three hours instead of six. Many children living in adversity need a full day of school because the school is presently the most appropriate place for providing these children a safe environment and a well-balanced day that includes rest and wholesome food, education through informal work-play experiences, and opportunities for natural social-emotional development.

A Study Of The Role Of The Superintendent Of Schools In Teacher Negotiations In Class "C" And "D" School Districts In Nebraska, Samuel Morley Townsend

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Collective bargaining by governmental employees and their employers is a reality in many divisions of state government. As of 1972, twenty-eight of the fifty states had enacted laws governing the process of collective bargaining between the state and its public employees. Seventeen of these twenty-eight states had separate and specific provisions in their laws for the process of collective bargaining between public school teachers and their boards of education.

The Effects Of A Newscaster's Nonverbal Cues On The Persuasiveness Of Televised Editorials., Louis Timmerman Bowring

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The production of news and editorial comment is considered by many to be American television's finest contribution to the viewing public. This seems to be corroborated by the steady increase of viewer reliance on television as a major source of news and comment since 1959.1 In more recent polls (Broadcasting, 1971, p. 24), the people naming television as their primary source of information rose to 60 percent, while those naming newspapers dropped to 48 percent.

Isolation And Integration: Thematic Elements In The Fiction Of Dh Lawrence, Merrilee. Moshier

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D. H. Lawrence asserts in his essay “The Spirit of Place” that the state of mind of an individual determines whether he can discover his personal freedom. This freedom is not a political, but a personal, mental one in which the individuals being grows towards wholeness and integration. Certain aspects of one's environment may facilitate this development, says Lawrence: Men are free when they are in a living Homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when active and …

Patterns In The Poetry Of Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, And Howard Nemerov, Cameron G. Northouse

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Nearly all would agree that the first purpose of literary criticism is to determine the artistic merit of a written work. Of course, this general agreement founders when it is carried to its logical step: deciding on the criteria for this aesthetic evaluation. The multiplicity of critical approaches currently appreciated create a morass of aesthetic criteria that largely leaves the initial purpose of literary criticism without any definitive statement. We all know the purpose of criticism is to discern art from non-art, but the subjectivity of this intended purpose, coupled with its sheer simplicity of expression, leaves the critic with …

The Axiom Of Choice For Countable Sets., Roger L. Mansfield

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In this thesis axioms for set theory will be presented which include the well-known axiom of choice. These axioms, together with their associated primitives, defined terms, and theorems will be referred to as the BGN (for Bernays, Godel, and von Neumann) theory or sets, or just BGN. BGN, without the axiom of' choice and theorems requiring it, will be denoted by BGN 1. It will be shown that if a proposition attributing a property to countable sets can be proved in BGN, then it can be proved in BGN, by showing that the axiom of choice (Zermelo’s form) when stated …

The Racial Attitudes Of Black Children As A Function Of Skin Color Of Teacher, Anna Marie D'Aguillo

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The racial preferences of black third grade children as a function of the race of present and previous teachers were investigated. It was hypothesized that those Ss exposed to black teachers would be more favorable toward black skin than those not exposed. A variation of the Clark and Clark doll test (1947), involving both positive and negative questions was used, along with a two-minute Doll Play situation. The results showed no systematic variation in color preference according to the race of teacher. Both male and female Ss chose like-self dolls, however, and manifested a general favorability toward black skin. The …

A Test Of The Homogeneous Versus Heterogeneous Categorization Of The Repression-Sensitization Dimension, Howard J. Cohen

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The Byrne (1961) Repression-Sensitization (R-S) scale was designed to measure psychological defenses ranging from anxiety-avoidance behavior at the low scoring pole, to anxietyapproaching behavior at the high scoring pole. Byrne (1964) has cited consistent support for the relationship between the R-S scale and defensive style, with the repressionsensitization categories to be viewed as homogeneous groupings of individuals lying at the extremes of a dimension of psychological defense. However, a number of recent studies by Schill and his associates (Boor & Schill, 1967; Kahn & Schill, 1971; Lefcourt, 1969; Schill & Althoff, 1968; Schill, Emanuel, Pedersen, Schneider, & Wachowiak, 1970) have …

Characteristics Of The Western Margins Of The Corn Belt In Nebraska, John Knickman

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The designation of the most important agricultural crop in this nation would certainly and overwhelmingly find corn as the most vital to our agricultural economy. Corn is the leading crop in American agriculture both in terms of value and of the acreage grown each year. The peak acreage occurred in 1917, when 111 million acres were harvested for all purposes. During the decade of the 1950's the acreage of corn declined to about 80 million acres a year. Corn acreage had continued this slow decline in the 1960's, but a conseqent increasee in pre-acre production has kept total bushels at …

A Study Of Non-Manual Vocational Adjustment Of Twenty-Five 1970-1971 Work Experience Program Graduates, William E. Chaney

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Chapter One presents the background of the study and a general description of the study. Included In this chapter are: (1) an explanation of the Work Experience Program, (2) an introduction to the study, (3) the statementof the problem studied, (4) the hypotheses on which the research were based, (5) an assumption of.the results of the study, (6) the significance of the study, (7) definitions of terms used in the study, (8) delimitations assigned to the study, (9) procedures used in collection of data, and (10) procedures used in the treatment of data. Chapter One concludes with a brief overview …

A Study Of The Sea And The Search For Paradise Regained In "Typee", :Mardi", And "Moby-Dick", Mary Jane Kopperud Ramsey

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In Typee, Mardi, and Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, the sea functions as a symbol which expresses Melville's changing worldview. The most important characteristic of a symbol is that its referent is non-ostensive. That is, the symbol refers not only to an intangible concept but also one that can only be defined completely or comprehended fully. It may be that symbols are derived from man's awareness of the absurdity of his existence. Man is not responsible for his birth, nor can he avoid his death. During his empirical existence he craves some kind of order, unity, reason, and meaning in this …

A Study Of The Dual Vision In The Novels Of Thornton Wilder, Virginia M. Clark

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“The art of literature springs from two curiosities, a curiosity about human beings pushed to such an extreme that it resembles love, and a love of a few masterpieces of literature so absorbing that it has all the richest elements of curiosity… The training for literature must be acquired by the artist alone, through the passionate assimilation of a few masterpieces written from a spirit somewhat like his own, and of a few masterpieces written from a spirit not at all like his own.” Thus, early in his writing career, Pulitzer Prize winner, Thornton Wilder, identified the sources of his …

The Taxonomic Use Of Leaf Characteristics In The Funariaceae., Craig R. Christiansen

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Introduction: The taxonomy of the Funariaceae has been characterized by considerable discussion and revision due to the interpretation of a quantity of genetical and cytological work, and an increased tendency to include gametophyte characters in classification; these factors have effected a gradual change in generic and specific definitions in this family.

Eighty Years Of Service: A History Of The Presbyterian Theological Seminary At Omaha, Nebraska, Mary E. Heck

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The purpose of this study has been to trace the history of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Omaha, The major resources used have been the minutes of organizational bodies related to the school catalogues, and the seminary magazine, The Seminary Record.In depth study of these materials leaves this student with a deep respect and admiration for the men who founded the institution and those who continue to give of their time and talents that Omaha Seminary might serve the Presbyterian Church. The quantity of the records available made it necessary to eliminate many details, which vividly portray the dedication of …