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A Rhetorical Criticism Of The Campaign Speeches Of Adlai E. Stevenson, Max C. Norton

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The 1952 Presidential campaign ushered into national prominence the Democratic nominee, Adlai Ewing Stevenson.

His sudden and dramatic emergence as an important factor in world politics was due in part to his unique oratory. Dynamic in style and content, his speeches commanded the rapt attention of the American people for three intense months during which he delivered over two hundred and fifty. Of interest and importance is the new insight into national problems that he gave to the American voter as a result of these orations.

The problem is to analyze, through his public addresses before and during the 1952 …

Informal Dramatization In The Religious Education Of Children In Stockton, Louise Marie Murray

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problems concerned with this essay were: (1) To what extent is the method of informal dramatization being used in the religious education of children of various churches of Stockton?; (2) What are the values that seem to be in the use of it?; (3) How can a program of training be projected for increasing the extent and quality of the use of this method in the churches?

The ultimate objectives that evolve in this investigation are: (1) To encourage the use of the method of informal dramatization in the religious education of children in Stockton and elsewhere.; (2) To …

Rural Delinquency ; An Empirical Investigation Of Delinquency In A Rural County, With An Attempt At A Typology Of Delinquency, William Bates

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Almost from the inception of American sociology, there has been serious work done in the investigation of juvenile delinquency, This can be seen, perhaps, most clearly in the work of the men of the Chicago school, such as W.I. Thomas, Clifford Shaw, Frederick Thrasher, and so on. From the work of Shaw, there arose a serious emphasis upon the interrelationship of the physical environment and delinquency. He tried to show that delinquency was a function of the urban environment. But he, and most of the other workers in the field, was working in an almost completely urban research field. There …

An Evaluation Technique In Appraising Certain Community Resources For Conservation Education In Stanislaus County, Harold Clarence Francis

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study is concerned with how the school is to proceed in a program of conservation education to bring about these desired changes. It is concerned, however, with only one link in the long chain of activities composing the total conservation education program--the development of a cooperative evaluation technique in appraising certain community agencies that can be used by the schools of Stanislaus county in teaching conservation of the resources most vital to the county; namely, soil and water. The study attempted to evaluate the agencies in terms of the accessibility and adaptability of their use to the school program.

Historical Analysis Of The German American Singing Societies In California, With An Evaluation, Anton Hubert Dorndorf

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Throughout Germany the singing society (usually a Maennerchor), is an important institution in the cultural life of every, hamlet, town, and city. During the middle of the nineteenth century, many such societies sprang up throughout America. California had a liberal share of these during the pioneer days. Some of these organizations have persisted until the present day. The function which they performed in enriching the lives of their members, and the contribution which they made to the life of the community seems to the investigator a valid reason for investigation into their background and history.

As far as the investigator …

A Study On Indecisiveness As A Proposed Criterion For Measuring Adjustment In Children, Charles George Lenderman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study to test a possible method of assessing adjustment that could be used quickly and easily by teachers. The tool, to be effective, would (1) have to be administered to groups of children; (2) have clear and concise directions understandable to children in lower grades; (3) be easily scorable; and (4) have a definitive scale of scoring.

An Exploratory Study Of Causes Of Juvenile Delinquency In The Tulare Union High School District, Paul Samuel Longenecker

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Young people, who attend high school. Face many problems these days. Some youth seem able to marshal all the resources necessary to solve and overcome their problems; others seem barely able to hold the line, while a few, who are much publicized, are overcome by their problems. Those who are overcome by their problems, when their behavior takes on anti-social characteristics, are called juvenile delinquents. It may be juvenile delinquency or parental failure. By whatever name it is called, shortcomings are in evidence.

Whenever juvenile delinquency is mentioned in a community, the signal seems to be given to variou groups …

An Investigation Of The Mitchell-Brantley Choice Of Pictures Personality Inventory Items, John James Filipelli

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this investigation is (1) to determine whether o:r not the child's percept of the physical structure of each "COPPI" picture is congruent with that intended by the authors, and (2) to determine whether the degree of "meaning" the child finds in the pictures significantly corresponds to the categorization specified by the authors.