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If Even A Few Are Reclaimed, The Labor Is Not Lost: William Hamilton's Life Among The Iowa And Omaha Indians, 1837-1891, Michelle Cauleen Gullett

Student Work

This is a biography of Reverend William Hamilton, Presbyterian missionary to the American Indians for over fifty years. Bom in Clinton, Pennsylvania, son of a farmer, Hamilton developed an interest in the ministry at an early age. Following graduation from Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania, and his ordination by the Presbytery of Northumberland, he offered his services to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. As a result, the Board sent Hamilton and his new wife to live and work among the Ioway Indians in the trans-Missouri West. Hamilton labored among the Ioway, Sac and Fox Indians with fellow missionary Samuel …

Novel, Karin A. Beuerlain

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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Group Therapy: A Play, Eleanor L. Earl

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Group Therapy is a modem drama set in Portsmouth, Virginia, a small Naval town which is part of a larger area called Hampton Roads. Hampton Roads is best known for its Naval shipyards, Naval bases, and historic landmarks. The year is 1994.

The play focuses on interpersonal communication in a setting that serves as a surrogate family. In the play, seven men and women from varied walks of life come together and share their most intimate joys and sorrows in group therapy. Together, with the assistance of a dedicated psychologist, they struggle to confront and overcome depression and anxiety.

Urban Gangs: The Dynamics Of Poverty, The Media And Gang Membership, Chalmers Lee Davis

Theses and Graduate Projects

Street gangs are a fact of life in every major city in the United States. Street gangs have also been recognized as a problem in American cities since the early 1920s. Is there a connection between poverty and gang membership? The inner-cities of America have lost manufacturing and non-service jobs to the suburbs. During the same time period adolescent gang activities have increased. What causes kids to join gangs and who are the kids that join gangs? The media in the United States paints a portrait of gang members as predominantly youth of color, is this accurate? The author, through …

Female-Made Order In The Works Of Kaye Gibbons, Lee Ann Dugan

Honors Theses

Kaye Gibbons, a contemporary Southern writer, attracted almost immediate attention with the publication of her first novel Ellen Foster in 1987. Awarded the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, Ellen Foster was warmly received by both the critics and the public. According to Alice Hoffman, readers trust Ellen Foster even though her misfortunes border on the Gothic, and they anxiously follow her adventures because Gibbons "focuses on Ellen's strengths rather than her victimization, presenting a heroine who rescues herself" (13). Telling her story as if she were "her own maker and redeemer," …

Waters Of Capri" And Other Stories ", Brett Thomas Mcquade

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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An Annotated Bibliography For Middle School Students In A Literature-Base Program And A Determination Of Its Usefulness For These Students, Joanne Louise Coyle

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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A Handbook To Integrate United States History And Literature Based Reading In The Intermediate Grades, Todd Raymond Brisco

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Messages Of Childhood : Transmission Of Cultural Values In Selected Primary Reading Textbooks Of The Chicago Public Schools, From 1900-1950, Millicent Drower

Dissertations

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Thomas J. Farrell, Administrator: His Views On The Schools Of His Time, Joan C. Boscia

Dissertations

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The Muffler Mailbox Man, J. Amari Roland

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Upon my arrival on earth. Mother forbad me from doing two things: going to K-Mart and talking to my Uncle Ike.

Ironically, the first word I learned to read was "K-Mart.” Mother pointed out the store every time we drove past. She told me many times of the evil that could befall a person if he entered its doors. I reckoned she knew all about K-Mart because she claimed to have gone there twice before I was born. Based on the two visits, Mother decided that the voice of the blue-light special masked some sinister, subliminal message. While everyone else …

Palmerston, Parliament And Peking: The Melbourne Ministry And The Opium Crisis, 1835-1840., Glenn Paul Melancon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

"Palmerston, Parliament and Peking" is a revisionist work designed to challenge the prevailing economic interpretations of the first Opium War, 1839-1842. Orthodox historiography considers early nineteenth-century Britain as a modern, industrial society and argues that its Government needed to respond violently to the Chinese authorities' suppression of the opium trade in order to protect and expand a lucrative endeavor. Indian opium sales generated revenue for the British-run government in Bengal and paid for Chinese tea, a highly prized commodity in Great Britain. British industrialists demanded war to end the Chinese Government's restrictions on trade, known as the Canton system, thus …

The Rise Of Benjamin Waller: 1716-1786, John Starr Greenman

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Daughter Seeks Reprieve: Charlotte Charke And Female Re/Presentation, Nolan Sinclair Marchand

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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"A Handsomely Improved Place" : Economic, Social, And Gender-Role Development In A Backcountry Town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810, Judith A. Ridner

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

As a social history of the town and people of Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1750 to 1810, this dissertation traces the evolution of communal identity in the early American backcountry. By focusing on the growth and development of one urban community, this work details not only how and why one group of backcountry inhabitants took pride in their town's outward accomplishments and material prosperity, but also explains how Carlisle's evolutionary growth prompted the town's people to see themselves as key players in an economic and social universe that stretched far beyond the geographic boundaries of their localized realm.;Using state and county …

Justification: How The Elizabethans Explained Their Invasions Of Ireland And Virginia, Christopher Ludden Mcdaid

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Territorial Madness: Spain, Geopolitics, And The American Revolution, Michael J. Devine

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Curriculum On Cape Verde., Amelia Ambrose Rebeiro

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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English Language Development Of Haitian Immigrant Students : Determining The Status Of Selected Ninth Graders Participating In Transitional Bilingual Education., Marc E. Prou

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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On Being One Of The Have-Nots: An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Emotional Disturbance And Reading Disability In One Hundred Adolescents With Case Studies Of The Impact Of A Set Of Curricular Strategies On Ten Of The Teenagers, Joseph A. Murik

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This research is an examination of a possible link between emotional disturbance and reading disability in a group of one hundred teenagers enrolled in a special education Agency. A s part of the research, a set of curricular strategies aimed at reducing the emotional disturbance and remedying the reading disability were examined in terms of their effect on the lives of ten of the teenagers from the sample.

This research was based in the naturalistic paradigm, taking care to respect the multiple realities and values which exerted their influence in shaping the policies, interactions and outcomes at the site.

An …

The Alien World Within: The Political, Cultural And Geographical Marginalisation Of Northern England In Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy, Graham Cattle

Theses : Honours

This paper considers Shakespeare's representation of the north of England in his second tetralogy of history plays. In this study, I argue that the plays are not only a representation of the past, but an expression of the political, cultural and geographical divisions within England in the era of their production. Drawing on contemporary reports from the region, official papers, ballads and various modern histories of the age, I will suggest that there exists a direct correlation between Shakespeare's representation of the region and the concept of the north as the alien element within Elizabethan England. Reading the plays as …

Myron Brinig's Butte| Jews In The Wide Open Town, Pamela Wilson Tollefson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Culture And Ethnic Identity In The Curriculum, Enrique Fernández Nárez

Theses Digitization Project

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Tobacco And Cloth: A Century Of Virginia Clothing Acquisition 1607-1707, Barbara Anne Curran

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Iowa's Wolf In Populist Clothing: Norman Baker, 1925-1936, Eric Scott Juhnke

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

During the depression years of the late 1920s and 1930s, Muscatine, Iowa's Norman Baker stood as both a powerful and controversial figure in rural eastern Iowa. Baker's successful business empire, which at its height included a radio station, mail order enterprise, newspaper, magazine, and a cancer quackery hospital, earned the Muscatine tycoon millions of dollars in revenue over the course of a decade. Despite this business success, Baker's brash personality, vituperative broadcasting style, and fraudulent medical claims were subjects of constant controversy.

Considering both Baker's suspect reputation and the poor agricultural conditions of the day, the question remains: How did …