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The Spirit Of Hidalgo: The Mexican Revolution In Coahuila, 1910-1915, Suzanne B. Pasztor
The Spirit Of Hidalgo: The Mexican Revolution In Coahuila, 1910-1915, Suzanne B. Pasztor
History ETDs
This dissertation fills a gap in the scholarship of the Mexican Revolution by providing a detailed history of the northeastern state of Coahuila from the late Porfirian era to approximately 1915. It evaluates the general social, political, and economic developments that contributed to revolutionary activity within the state and that helped to shape the movements led by Francisco I. Madero and Venustiano Carranza. The social bases and characteristics of support for Madero, Carranza, and other revolutionary factions are also examined. Another major theme is the crucial role played by the extensive Coahuila-Texas border in the financing of the Mexican Revolution. …
Effective Leadership In Small Group Ministry Through The Application Of Family Systems, James Knill
Effective Leadership In Small Group Ministry Through The Application Of Family Systems, James Knill
Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project
The premise of this project is that small group leaders can become more effective and caring through the application of family systems theory, specifically Bowenian theory, to the leadership process. The author developed a four-part training manual that provides a general orientation to family systems thinking for group leaders, with a specific focus on self-differentiation, homeostasis or balance, and emotional triangles. All leaders indicated improved ability to work with groups and in other settings as self-differentiated persons, though some wanted to understand the concepts more completely. All felt they were more effective leaders following the training process.
Insanity As Escape: A Kristevan Reading Of Shirley Jackson’S Novels, Bess L. Fox
Insanity As Escape: A Kristevan Reading Of Shirley Jackson’S Novels, Bess L. Fox
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Anabaptist Contributions To The Idea Of Religious Liberty, Barbara Monette
The Anabaptist Contributions To The Idea Of Religious Liberty, Barbara Monette
Dissertations and Theses
The relationship between ideas and history is important in order to understand the past and the present. The idea of religious liberty and the realization of that ideal in sixteenth-century Europe by the Anabaptists in Switzerland and South Germany in the 1520s was considered to be revolutionary in a society characterized by the union of church and state. The main impetus of the idea of religious liberty for the Anabaptists was the application of the New Testament standard of the Christian church, which was an independent congregation of believers marked only by adult baptism.
The purpose of the present study …
Social Commentary In Three Novels By Edith Wharton, Michael A. Gillespie
Social Commentary In Three Novels By Edith Wharton, Michael A. Gillespie
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Michael A. Gillespie on December 8, 1994.
Internal And External Factors That Hinder Or Help Effective Ministry To Divorced Lutherans: Why They Stay Away/What We Can Do To Bring Them In", Paul Peckman
Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the factors that hinder or help ministry to divorced people.
Questionnaires to divorced members and pastors, addressing attitudes and perceptions, were the chief tools. Suggestions were solicited to ascertain what promotes meaningful ministry.
Perceptions of pastors and divorced members are often different. The divorced have more intense feelings about the issues and are more lenient in their understanding of grounds for divorce than pastors. Pastors are more inclined to credit internal factors, the divorced external, for what hinders effective ministry.
Pastors need to be more understanding of the dynamics of the divorce …
Consanguinitas Et Ius Sanguinis: Kinship Calculation And Medieval Marriage, Sandra Masters
Consanguinitas Et Ius Sanguinis: Kinship Calculation And Medieval Marriage, Sandra Masters
Masters Theses
Consanguinity, or blood-relatedness, was one of the most important criteria which determined the formation of marriage in the medieval era. Unfortunately, there is no comprehensive study in English which describes the development of consanguinity prohibitions and which explains fully the types of kinship calculation used as a part of the restrictions which developed. In order to fill this void, my goal in this thesis has been to offer a well-researched, comprehensive study of this topic.
I have examined the studies completed by other researchers and combined any pertinent information from those sources with my own research on medieval attitudes and …
Critical Study Of John Rawls’ Theory Of Justice, Jae-Wan Chung
Critical Study Of John Rawls’ Theory Of Justice, Jae-Wan Chung
Masters Theses
In discussing John Rawls' theory of justice , my main concern is to examine his theory, especially in difference principle, and to criticize the principle. The difference principle is that without improving the conditions of those who are worst off, the advantages of all those better off should not be permitted. The principle has some problems.
First, the principle is against our common judgment. There is no reason that we choose the principle under "original position," and the principle brings about a result to disregard others' important advantages for the least favored's profits. Secondly, according to Robert Nozick's entitlement theory, …
A Summary Of The Contributions Of Four Key African American Female Figures Of The Civil Rights Movement, Michelle Margaret Viera
A Summary Of The Contributions Of Four Key African American Female Figures Of The Civil Rights Movement, Michelle Margaret Viera
Masters Theses
This thesis will present historical data to summarize the contributions of four key African-American female figures of the civil rights era. The theme is devoted to the historical contributions of these women. Their achievements will be shown to have answered to human needs during the struggle for African American civil and human rights. These achievements were preceded by their personal perceptions as to what constituted tenable rights and needs, introspection, and their willingness to assume a leadership stance and leadership roles.
This written historical assessment will illustrate the chain of events, social and geographical particulars which triggered participation in the …
The Encirclement At Cherkassy-Korsun: An Assessment Of The Winners And Losers, Joseph Kent Lutes
The Encirclement At Cherkassy-Korsun: An Assessment Of The Winners And Losers, Joseph Kent Lutes
Masters Theses
During the winter of 1944, two Russian armies encircled two German corps on the Dnieper River. The Germans managed to break out of the encirclement after an attempt to relieve them failed. The battle lasted only three weeks, but cost both sides greatly. Both sides carried out a successful airlift to keep their troops in action. The Germans carried out a brilliant campaign, while the Russians demonstrated that they still needed to perfect their encirclement doctrine and their propaganda.
Each side was hindered by its leaders. Hitler forced the Germans to hold ground, while Stalin forced his generals to fight …
Computer Networks And The Teaching Of English As A Second Language: How Networks Affect Second Language Acquisition, Kirstin J. Reed-Perez
Computer Networks And The Teaching Of English As A Second Language: How Networks Affect Second Language Acquisition, Kirstin J. Reed-Perez
English Theses & Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Intertextualidad En La Novela Tinisima De Poniatowska, Maria Elena Jimenez
Intertextualidad En La Novela Tinisima De Poniatowska, Maria Elena Jimenez
Dissertations and Theses
El proposito de esta tesis es de examinar la intertextualidad que aparece en la novela Tunisima, de Elena Poniatowska y analizar hasta que punto ella ha usado diferentes voces. Elena Poniatowska durante diez anos recopilo material para su obra. En ella relata la vida de la fotografa y revolucionaria, Tina Modotti, durante los anos 1929 a 1942. La novela Tinisima tiene treinta y siete secciones a lo que la he divido en tres partes. Cada una de esas partes tiene que ver con la vida de los companeros de Modotti que toman mas importancia en el desarrollo de la obra. …
The Origins And Development Of The Defense Forces Of Northern And Southern Rhodesia From 1890 To 1945, Eugene Peter Jarrett Pomeroy
The Origins And Development Of The Defense Forces Of Northern And Southern Rhodesia From 1890 To 1945, Eugene Peter Jarrett Pomeroy
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis examines Northern and Southern Rhodesia's history through the formation and development of their police and military units from the time Rhodesia was created in 1890 until the end of the Second World War. Southern Rhodesia, founded after a series of short and bloody frontier wars, was a self-governing British colony under a white minority and centered its peace-time security efforts around keeping an eye on potential uprisings from the African majority. White Northern Rhodesians viewed the African majority with similar suspicion although they were never able to exclude Africans from territorial defense. Northern Rhodesia was governed from London …
Strategies In Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy Of Desire To Resolve The Division Between The Material And The Spiritual, Claas Riese
Strategies In Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy Of Desire To Resolve The Division Between The Material And The Spiritual, Claas Riese
Dissertations and Theses
A study of strategies and attempts in Theodore Dreiser's novels The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic to resolve the conflict between the material and the spiritual. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that conflicts in Dreiser criticism reflect unresolved conflicts between these issues in his "Trilogy". Having outlined and shown the division in the literary criticism of the "Trilogy", in the first chapter of this thesis, I will discuss the three main themes, finance, art and women, which can be seen as strategies to bridge the division between the material and the spiritual. I will attempt to …
Establishing Us Military Government: Law And Order In Southern Bavaria 1945, Stephen Frederick Anderson
Establishing Us Military Government: Law And Order In Southern Bavaria 1945, Stephen Frederick Anderson
Dissertations and Theses
In May 1945, United States Military Government (MG) detachments arrived in assigned areas of Bavaria to launch the occupation. By the summer of 1945, the US occupiers became the ironical combination of stern victor and watchful master. Absolute control gave way to the "direction" of German authority. For this process to succeed, MG officials had to establish a stable, clearly defined and fundamentally strict environment in which German officials would begin to exercise token control. The early occupation was a highly unstable stage of chaos, fear and confusing objectives. MG detachments and the reconstituted German authorities performed complex tasks with …
Oregon's Marines: A Regional History Of The United States Marine Corps, Michael Coleman Howard
Oregon's Marines: A Regional History Of The United States Marine Corps, Michael Coleman Howard
Dissertations and Theses
The history of the United States Marine Corps in Oregon, and of the many Oregonians who have served as Marines, is a unique story which has never been told. This thesis examines United States Marines from the state of Oregon and activities by Marines in the state. It covers the Oregon Marine experience from its start in 1841 through the Gulf War conflict of 1991 to the present. From 1838 to 1842, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, United States Navy, led a remarkable exploration and scientific expedition around the world. In 1841, Wilkes visited the Pacific Northwest, and accompanying him aboard his …
British Aristocratic Women And Their Role In Politics, 1760-1860, Nancy Ann Henderson
British Aristocratic Women And Their Role In Politics, 1760-1860, Nancy Ann Henderson
Dissertations and Theses
British aristocratic women exerted political influence and power during the century beginning with the accession of George III. They expressed their political power through the four roles of social patron, patronage distributor, political advisor, and political patron/electioneer. British aristocratic women were able, trained, and expected to play these roles. Politics could not have existed without these women. The source of their political influence was the close interconnection of politics and society. In this small, inter-connected society, women could and did influence politics. Political decisions, especially for the Whigs, were not made in the halls of government with which we are …
The Tumult Of Amboise And The Importance Of Historical Memory In Sixteenth-Century France, Trevor Charles Schmitz-Thursam
The Tumult Of Amboise And The Importance Of Historical Memory In Sixteenth-Century France, Trevor Charles Schmitz-Thursam
Dissertations and Theses
Humanist legal scholarship was the catalyst to historical revolution that took place in sixteenth-century France. French philologists succeeded in demonstrating the cultural distinctiveness of France from a heretofore assumed classical heritage shared with ancient Rome. As a result, scholars sought to retrace the historical origins of France in the non-Roman Gauls and Franks. Their intensive study of the laws, customs and institutions that developed in France, as distinct from ancient Rome, transformed the understanding of the national past. Following the introduction of the principles of historical anachronism and cultural relativism, the sixteenth century witnessed a transformation of traditional perceptions of …
Fort Clatsop National Memorial: A Study In Historic Preservation, Kelly June Cannon
Fort Clatsop National Memorial: A Study In Historic Preservation, Kelly June Cannon
Dissertations and Theses
Fort Clatsop National Memorial is a unit of the National Park Service in Clatsop County, Oregon. The memorial was established by an Act of Congress in 1958 to commemorate the culmination and 1805-1806 winter encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The memorial centers around a replicated fort structure. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the process of preserving historic sites under the National Park Service (NPS) by examining the history of Fort Clatsop National Memorial. Through this examination it is possible to understand the realities of the national preservation system and the ideals fostered by those involved …
Group Therapy: A Play, Eleanor L. Earl
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.
The Appropriation Of Nietzschean Thought By Donald Kuspit In The Critic Is Artist: The Intentionality Of Art And The Existential Activist Painter: The Example Of Leon Golub, Frederic S. Bayersdorfer
The Appropriation Of Nietzschean Thought By Donald Kuspit In The Critic Is Artist: The Intentionality Of Art And The Existential Activist Painter: The Example Of Leon Golub, Frederic S. Bayersdorfer
Institute for the Humanities Theses
The prolific scholar and art critic, Donald Kuspit has frequently cited the works of Friedrich Nietzsche as a means to elucidate his art critical theories. This paper is an investigation of these citations in two of his most important works, The Critic is Artist: The Intentionality of Art, published in 1984, and The Existential Activist Painter: The Example of Leon Golub, published in 1986. In each of these two works many citations revolve around two Nietzschean concepts, the will to power and ressentiment. This paper first explores the relevance of using the philosophical work of Nietzsche as a point of …
Mirrors, Pluggers, And Flashlights: The Women Of Lee Smith's Fiction, Elizabeth Guthrie Talley
Mirrors, Pluggers, And Flashlights: The Women Of Lee Smith's Fiction, Elizabeth Guthrie Talley
Theses & Honors Papers
No abstract provided.
Coherence And Usability Of An Environmental Impact Statement, Jill A. Easterly
Coherence And Usability Of An Environmental Impact Statement, Jill A. Easterly
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this research effort was to investigate the application of certain principles of effective communication to improve the comprehension, and ultimately the usability, of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Principles from cohesion theory (an area of research describing effective design) were used to manipulate the design of select sections of two sample EISs. Each sample EIS was altered to manipulate the presence and/or absence of visual and linguistic cohesion. Subjects were required to read select versions from each section of the two sample EISs and answer four short answer questions. The dependent variables were accuracy in answering the …
A Comparative Study Of Activities Of Daily Living Levels Of Catholic Nuns In A Motherhouse Nursing Home And Mainstream Women In A Community Nursing Home, Betty Ann Ray Duke
A Comparative Study Of Activities Of Daily Living Levels Of Catholic Nuns In A Motherhouse Nursing Home And Mainstream Women In A Community Nursing Home, Betty Ann Ray Duke
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Betty Ann Ray Duke on August 31, 1994
China's Policies Toward The Soviet Union And The United States Before And In The Korean War, Ji Bao Yan
China's Policies Toward The Soviet Union And The United States Before And In The Korean War, Ji Bao Yan
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis deals with China's policy making toward both the Soviet Union and the United States in late 1949 and early 1950 and how they made the decision to enter the conflict, by making use of recently declassified Chinese sources and available American sources.
The Historical Spirit In Isabel Allende's La Casa De Los Espiritus, Kathy Ratzer Evetts
The Historical Spirit In Isabel Allende's La Casa De Los Espiritus, Kathy Ratzer Evetts
Honors Capstone Projects and Theses
No abstract provided.
A Study Group Examines The Doctrine Of Election And Its Relation To The Ministry Of Word And Sacraments, Ralph Rokke
A Study Group Examines The Doctrine Of Election And Its Relation To The Ministry Of Word And Sacraments, Ralph Rokke
Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project
Rokke, Ralph M. A Study Group ermines the Doctrine of Election and Its Relation to the Ministry of Word and Sacraments. Does a pastor’s view of the doctrine of election influence his ministry? Two different forms of the doctrine of election have long been taught among Lutherans. The first form leads pastors to preach the Gospel and to administer the sacraments trusting that God works through them to save sinners. The second form, the intuitu fidei form, encourages pastors to believe that sinners have free wills and that it is a pastor’s job to persuade sinners to become Christians.
Images Of War In The Works Of Poet-Soldiers Of The Thirty Years' And Prusso-Austrian Wars, Jacqueline Fields Ratliff
Images Of War In The Works Of Poet-Soldiers Of The Thirty Years' And Prusso-Austrian Wars, Jacqueline Fields Ratliff
Doctoral Dissertations
This research involves a study of the imagery of war of six poet-soldiers: Diederich von dem Werder, Georg Greflinger, and Christian Brehme, from the time of the Thirty Years' War and Ewald Christian von Kleist, Johann George Scheffner, and Heinrich Wilhelm von Stamford from the time of the Prusso-Austrian Wars. The aims of the study were twofold -- to ascertain how these writers depict war through imagery in their poetic works, and to note changes in such imagery in the intervening century between the two periods of conflict. Attention was focused on certain categories of imagery, including the origins of …
High On A Horse, John Preston
High On A Horse, John Preston
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English by John Preston in August of 1994.
Immigrants In Richmond After The Civil War : 1865-1880, Rudolph H. Bunzl
Immigrants In Richmond After The Civil War : 1865-1880, Rudolph H. Bunzl
Master's Theses
Richmond's foreign-born inhabitants in 1860 represented about twenty percent of the white population. The Irish and German communities were particularly influential. This thesis examines whether immigration resumed after the Civil War, where immigrants came from, and what role they played in the community. Research included examination of naturalization and census records, church records, newspapers of the period, records of German organizations, and the records of the Virginia legislature. The conclusions are: Immigration resumed on a very small scale. Government efforts to attract more immigrants were unsuccessful. The majority of newcomers were Germans; others came from Scotland, Italy, Ireland, England, and …