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Incumbency And Turnover In United States House Elections 1934-1974, Vincent A. Borlaug

Theses and Dissertations

This work aims at laying the groundwork for a new approach to Congressional elections: turnover theory. Turnover is simply the change in membership of a Congressional chamber, and occurs in two forms: short-run turnover, in which seats change hand3 over a single election, and long-run turnover, in which incoming classes of Congressmen are decimated over several successive elections. The former is referred to in the body of this work as simply "turnover," the latter as "attrition."

The work is based on original data gathered from the Biographical Directory of the American Congress and other sources. It tests relationships between factors …

Reapportionment : An Oregon History And A Critique Of Baker Vs Carr, Ann Frissell Lackey

Dissertations and Theses

This study explores the ways in which federal and state authorities have sought to deal with a difficult problem of political power in the context of the U.S. Constitution. Oregon reapportionment history offers an appropriate introduction to a critique of the national reapportionment decisions of Baker vs Carr and Reynolds vs Sims. Its Constitution stipulated population and the ratio derived from a population based formula were the means by which apportionment was to be determined and noncompliance had been particularly evident from 1933 to 1952. Also, by the initiative process and a decision by the Oregon Supreme Court, Oregon had …

Self In Whitman's "Song Of Myself" And The Philosophy Of Sri Aurobino, Mary Carvell Bragg

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Mary Carvell Bragg in April of 1976.

Barbadian Cross-Currents: Church-State Confrontation With Quaker And Negro, 1660-1689, Winnifred Winkelman

Dissertations

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A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of The Symptoms Of Maladaptive Functioning And The Attitudes Of Psychiatric Staff Members Toward Mental Illness In Nigeria And America (U.S.), Supo Ayodele Laosebikan

Dissertations

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Rudyard Kipling : A Study In Popular Education During An Imperialist Era, Marilyn Ruth Fiduccia

Dissertations

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The Tristan Legend: A Barometer Of Love And Art In The Victorian Period., James Alton Cowan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

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Criticism Of The Liberal Intellectual In The Political Fiction Of Mary Mccarthy, Terrill Hyde Huntington

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For more than thirty years, Mary McCarthy has served as the conscience of the liberal American intellectual. McCarthy’s method of writing is satire, and she treats both her sympathetic and unsympathetic characters satirically. The characters in her fiction are generally liberal intellectuals who follow one of two patterns. The sympathetic characters are those who, despite their flaws, endeavor to be conscientious, objective and truth seeking. They are plagued by self-doubt and constant awareness o their own limitations. In contrast, her unsympathetic characters are egotistical and self-deluding. Their intellectual capabilities are bent not toward fulfillment of their liberal and humanitarian ideals, …

T. Thomas Fortune: Land, Labor And Politics In The South, 1883-1886, C. Edward Shacklee

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

This paper will deal with Fortune's economic ideology between 1883 and 1886, early years in a career that would span four decades. It is an attempt to show both the reformist and traditional approaches applied to the problems of his race, approaches that foreshadowed much of black though in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A Study To Measure The Level Of Community Participation In The School System Of Paterson, New Jersey., Curtis Bishop Lawson

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Stressful Life Events And Increases In Alcohol Consumption Among Male Problem Drinkers., Richard Lawrence Leavy

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Sectarianism And The Development Of Elementary Education In New South Wales, 1788-1918, Kenneth Davies

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The purpose of this dissertation is to trace the influence of sectarianism upon the development of elementary education in New South Wales between 1788 and 1918. Because to date none of the historians, social scientists, or sociologists studying sectarianism has constructed a precise and universally applicable definition, a pragmatic approach has been adopted to the phenomenon. For the purposes of this study, sectarianism has'been taken,to mean that fanaticism or narrowness of religious belief which', because of real or imagined attacks upon religious conscience, promotes conflict between the sects. Although the various sects of Protestants differed amongst themselves, •in general they …

A New American Development In Music: Some Characteristic Features Extending From The Legacy Of Charles Ives., Joan Kunselman Cordes

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

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The Euro-American Seventh-Day Adventist Church: Its Foundation And Future, With Special Focus On Six Such Congregations In New York City, Ned P. Maletin

Professional Dissertations DMin

Task of the Project

The task of this project was to prepare a report on the present condition of the Euro-American Seventh-day Adventist church focusing on six such congregations in the Greater New York Conference. By studying their historical, cultural, and environmental background, the writer sought to determine whether the existence of such congregations, as separate units within the Seventh-day Adventist organization, was justified. And, on the basis of that investigation, to submit his recommendation in favor of their separate ethnic outreach among the groups they represent, or to recommend that they be incorporated with the English-speaking congregations of the …

A Reading Program In A Sixth Grade Class-Room Based On Modified Self-Selection Of Paperback Books Using Cloze Procedure To Test Comprehension, Martha J. Shaw

Theses Digitization Project

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A Selective Study Of Negro Worksongs In The United States, Margaret E. Hilton

Masters Theses

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The Pioneer Chinese Of Utah, Don C. Conley

Theses and Dissertations

With the single exception of a survey of Chinese history in the Western United States written by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, there exists no other documented history of the Chinese experience in Utah.

This paper offers an overview of Pioneer Chinese life in Utah territory from the Chinese railroad laborers in Box Elder County to the Chinatown settlement in Silver Reef mining camp in Washington County. Old Chinese customs, individual Chinese personalities and communities are rediscovered through the use of census data, newspaper editorials, and oral interviews. Chinese religion is analyzed from available data about pioneer Chinese funeral …