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Liquid Border, Yingfan Jia Jun 2023

Liquid Border, Yingfan Jia

Masters Theses

A River is a mighty and constantly-evolving force, leaving behind an intricately designed and constantly changing system. Not just a river, the Rio Grande stretches all the way from Colorado before intersecting with the US-Mexico Border in southern Texas - a point where the powerful forces of nature now merge with a clearly-defined political boundary. The outcome of this is a unique ecological niche, which may often go unnoticed despite its distinctiveness.

Texas is famous for its farms and ranches, and the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas was once an agricultural hub. However, urbanization and the depletion of water …


Moving At The Speed Of Trust, Sun Ho Lee Jun 2023

Moving At The Speed Of Trust, Sun Ho Lee

Masters Theses

Moving at the Speed of Trust is a workbook of strategies — practices, definitions, and techniques — to nurture community-building in support of inbetweeners who live between power structures and cultures and are often left out. Inbetweeners are those individuals whose lives are in transition through recent immigration or forced translocation from Asia to America.

These strategies revolve around threads of trust: kin, giggles, vulnerability, and shared experience. With these threads, we can question power. We can preserve stories, expand the ways we connect, shift perspectives on what is “standard,” and cultivate a community rooted in understanding. To understand each …


Korean War Coverage In High School History Textbooks, Zarek Nolen Jan 2021

Korean War Coverage In High School History Textbooks, Zarek Nolen

Masters Theses

This content analysis investigated coverage of the Korean War in recent high school U.S. history textbooks. Open coding techniques applied to six textbooks yielded data for the following categories: background of the war, the outbreak of the war, the sequence of the war, the conclusion of the war, the devastation of war, the effects of the war, U.N. and U.S. politics, the Chinese intervention, General Douglas MacArthur, and African Americans in the military. Data from these categories were compared and scrutinized against historians’ knowledge using axial coding techniques. This study's findings support past research on Korean War coverage in high …


The Second Morrill Act, John D. King Jan 1973

The Second Morrill Act, John D. King

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of Newton Bateman On The Illinois School System, Virginia H. Atkins Jan 1968

The Influence Of Newton Bateman On The Illinois School System, Virginia H. Atkins

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of John Ellis On Education In Illinois, Shirley Nelson Rawls Jan 1963

The Influence Of John Ellis On Education In Illinois, Shirley Nelson Rawls

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.


Some Source Materials For Use In Teaching American History To An Accelerated Group In The Junior High School, June B. Bouknight Jan 1962

Some Source Materials For Use In Teaching American History To An Accelerated Group In The Junior High School, June B. Bouknight

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.