Mormon Contributions To Young Adult Literature,
2011
Brigham Young University
Mormon Contributions To Young Adult Literature, Toni Pilcher
Student Works
Mormon authors are making big splashes in the world of young adult (YA) literature, a relatively young genre that is targeted at readers from age 12 to age 18. Since 1967, when the American Library Association officially recognized YA literature as separate from children's books, writers and publishers have been trying to define the genre. It is, in a sense, coming of age. Generally, to be considered YA, a book has to have a teenage protagonist in situations with which a teenage reader can identify. Like literature for adults, there are a few limitations to subject and theme, but unlike …
Assessment And Impact Of Gentrified Public Housing Neighborhoods In The United States: A Case Study Of Chicago,
2011
Indiana State University
Assessment And Impact Of Gentrified Public Housing Neighborhoods In The United States: A Case Study Of Chicago, Todd W. Sink
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Social-mix housing policies play a unique role in shaping the geography of gentrification in cities throughout the U.S. and Europe. The HOPE VI program in the U.S. is one popular example. Since its inception in 1992, HOPE VI has simultaneously displaced thousands of urban poor from their homes and neighborhoods, reduced their housing opportunities, and created and encouraged housing development for a more affluent population. Yet over the years, very few empirical studies have emerged that examine the place-based outcomes of HOPE VI within the context of gentrification. As such, important empirical questions remain unanswered. This study focuses on the …
Burmese Muslim Refugee Women: Stories Of Civil War, Refugee Camps And New Americans,
2011
Utah State University
Burmese Muslim Refugee Women: Stories Of Civil War, Refugee Camps And New Americans, Karen Hunt Lambert
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis includes the narratives of three Burmese Muslim refugee mothers who made their homes in Logan, Utah, within three years of locating in the United States. Each woman’s life is written about in a different style of writing – journalism, ethnography and creative nonfiction –and is then followed by analysis looking at each piece in terms of representation
Going Solo With Roald Dahl: Life Rewritten Through Memory,
2011
Utah State University
Going Solo With Roald Dahl: Life Rewritten Through Memory, Jeannine Huenemann
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Roald Dahl does not easily fit into a category as a writer, contributing fiction and nonfiction to both children and adult audiences. Faced with this ambiguity, the literary community has mostly ignored his contributions since he is mainly viewed as a children‘s author. Late in life, Dahl created two autobiographies, Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984), and Going Solo (1986), as venues for sharing his many embellished, personal stories. This thesis focuses on Going Solo, the second of these two books which explores Dahl‘s three-year departure from England, including his enlistment in the Royal Air Force during World War II. …
A Critical Study Of The Literature About Deforestation In The Brazilian Amazon,
2011
University of South Florida
A Critical Study Of The Literature About Deforestation In The Brazilian Amazon, Samuel Morrill
Honors Thesis and Capstone Projects
The purpose of this honors thesis was to summarize and analyze the competing positions about the causes and consequences of the continuing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon based on the positions recently presented ( i.e, from 2000 to 2010) in published sources on the subject. This analysis of the competing positions on the causes and consequences of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has focused on and has been guided by a search for answers to two critical questions:
Which groups of people in the world benefit from the way in which the causes and consequences of deforestation in …
Mollison, Elsie Holmes (August 7, 1921 - September 2, 2014),
2011
Kenyon College
Mollison, Elsie Holmes (August 7, 1921 - September 2, 2014), David Slutzky, Hope Harrod, Damien Johnson, Elsie Holmes Mollison
Video Collection
Elsie was a member of the Molly Hill community of St. Helena Island. She was the wife of Curtis Wesley "Keith" Mollison and mother of Theresa Holmes Hicks. She is buried in Coffin Point Cemetery on St. Helena Island.
Legree, Mary Rivers,
2011
Kenyon College
Legree, Mary Rivers, Ishmael Lewis, Deborah Oden, Mary Rivers Legree
Video Collection
No abstract provided.
Does Crowding Obscure The Presence Of Attentional Guidance In Contextual Cueing?,
2011
University of South Florida
Does Crowding Obscure The Presence Of Attentional Guidance In Contextual Cueing?, Steven William Fiske
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The contextual cueing effect was initially thought to be the product of memory guiding attention to the target location. However, the steep search slopes obtained in contextual cueing indicate an absence of attentional guidance. We hypothesized that crowding could be obscuring the presence of attentional guidance and investigated this possibility in 2 experiments. Crowding was manipulated by varying the density of items in the local target region in a contextual cueing task. We observed a significant reduction in search slopes between the novel and repeated conditions when crowding was reduced. Enhancing crowding eliminated the contextual cueing effect. These findings suggest …
Middleton, Robert (B. John Robert Ford),
2011
Roxboro Middle School
Middleton, Robert (B. John Robert Ford), Robert Middleton, Zakiyyah Bergen, Portia Morgan, David Slutzky
Video Collection
No abstract provided.
Emotional Reactivity And Regulation In Current And Remitted Depression: An Event Related Potential Study,
2011
University of South Florida
Emotional Reactivity And Regulation In Current And Remitted Depression: An Event Related Potential Study, Lauren M. Bylsma
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is thought to be characterized by emotion regulation deficits, including decreased use of adaptive strategies such as reappraisal, but little is known about the exact nature of these deficits and whether or not they are specific to the depressed mood state. The late positive potential (LPP) is a sustained positive deflection of the event-related potential (ERP) associated with responding to emotionally-valenced stimuli, and reappraisal strategies have been found to reduce LPP magnitude in response to emotional stimuli in healthy individuals, but this effect has not been examined in MDD. This study utilized ERPs to examine emotional …
Jefferson, Ramsay,
2011
Kenyon College
Jefferson, Ramsay, Ramsay Jefferson, Debbie Frost
Video Collection
No abstract provided.
Characterization Of The Serologic Responses To Plasmodium Vivax Dbpii Variants Among Inhabitants Of Pursat Province, Cambodia,
2011
University of South Florida
Characterization Of The Serologic Responses To Plasmodium Vivax Dbpii Variants Among Inhabitants Of Pursat Province, Cambodia, Samantha Jones Barnes
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein (DBP) is the ligand in the major pathway for P. vivax invasion of human reticulocytes, making it an appealing vaccine candidate. Region II of DBP (DBP-RII) is the minimal portion of the ligand that mediates recognition of the Duffy Antigen Receptor for Chemokines (DARC receptor) on the reticulocyte surface and constitutes the primary vaccine target. Analysis of natural variation in the coding sequences of DBP-RII revealed signature evidence for selective pressure driving variation in the residues of the putative receptor-binding site. We hypothesize that anti-DBP immunity in P. vivax infections is strain-specific and hindered …
Walking Box Ranch Custodianship Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending July 10, 2011,
2011
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Walking Box Ranch Custodianship Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending July 10, 2011, Margaret N. Rees
Walking Box Ranch
- UNLV provides stewardship of Walking Box Ranch (WBR) by providing a caretaker who oversees the property, facilitating use of the property by researchers and educators, developing a use and research policy for the property, and coordinating these activities with BLM and in accordance with TNC restrictions.
- UNLV currently addresses security issues for the property through the presence of the caretaker and two Metro Officers who reside on the property in two recreational vehicles.
- UNLV met with Senator Reid representative on June 20 to provide information about project progress and to request the Senator’s support in obtaining further funding for the …
Solid-State Synthesis Of Imide Ligands For The Self-Assembly Of Metal-Organic Materials,
2011
University of South Florida
Solid-State Synthesis Of Imide Ligands For The Self-Assembly Of Metal-Organic Materials, Jason Alexander Perman
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this research project, reduction or complete elimination of organic solvents is explored in the synthesis of cyclic imides using a technique that brings reagents into favorable position to react. Cocrystal Controlled Solid-State Synthesis (C3Sy3), takes advantage of supramolecular interactions such as hydrogen bonding and π-π stacking to form a cocrystal which can sequential be heated to complete the condensation reaction and produce a desirable product. Twenty-five successful condensation reactions result in high and clean yield.
C3Sy3 of cyclic imides with auxiliary hydrogen bonding moieties like carboxylic acid, carboxylate or pyridyl groups are …
Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Mss 373),
2011
Western Kentucky University
Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (Mss 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 373. Correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, publications and associated material relating to the literary career of Anne Pence Davis, a poet, reviewer, novelist, and author of juvenile fiction who grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky and lived in Wichita Falls, Texas after her marriage.
Review Of Prairie Republic: The Political Culture Of Dakota
Territory, 1879-1889 By Jon K. Lauck,
2011
Jamestown College
Review Of Prairie Republic: The Political Culture Of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889 By Jon K. Lauck, Mark S. Joy
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Dakotas are often an overlooked and underexamined part of the United States. No one seems to know whether the region is part of the Midwest or the "Real West," and so it often falls between the historiographical cracks. In this excellent study, Jon Lauck examines the political culture of the eastern region of South Dakota in the last decade before statehood. This period has been neglected by recent scholars, in part because it was often assumed that the standard work, Howard Lamar's Dakota Territory, 1861-1889: A Study of Frontier Politics, published in 1956, had said the last word …
Review Of The Nebraska Dispatches By Christopher Cartmill,
2011
University of Toronto
Review Of The Nebraska Dispatches By Christopher Cartmill, Kyle Carsten Wyatt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The quest for home is an admirable one with seemingly universal appeal. That a New York City playwright would chronicle his experiences reconnecting with his Nebraska roots is something that, normally, we might applaud. Before buying this book, however, ask yourself if you care to read a comparatively privileged writer wax poetic as he parallels what amounts to be a modern existential crisis with the forced removal, military arrest, and government exploitation of a nineteenth-century Ponca father.
Review Of Proving Up: Domesticating Land In Us. History By Lisi Krall,
2011
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Review Of Proving Up: Domesticating Land In Us. History By Lisi Krall, Richard Edwards
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Lisi Krall seeks to place homesteading and later public-land policies in the larger context of American efforts to digest the huge western land mass that the United States came to control through purchase and conquest. She employs an evolutionary economics framework to explain why things turned out the way they did.
Krall begins her book with a startling personal anecdote: in 1920 her grandfather, a young Wyoming homesteader, was shot and killed by a neighbor in a dispute over water rights. The dire consequences of his murder for the family's subsequent generations connect Krall intimately to the struggles of homesteaders.
Review Of Art Of West Texas Women: A Celebration By Kippra D. Hopper And Laurie J. Churchill,
2011
West Texas A&M University
Review Of Art Of West Texas Women: A Celebration By Kippra D. Hopper And Laurie J. Churchill, Michael R. Grauer
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Texas historians, acknowledging women as art pioneers in Texas, rely on the old saw that while men were settling the state, women led the charge for cultural pursuits. Groups of women-trained artists among them-began organizing art activities in all parts of the state in the early 1880s on the heels of settlement, recognizing the importance of an appreciation of aesthetics and beauty to the development of a significant culture. Since most public school teachers in Texas were female, teaching art and bringing art to students were natural developments; women also founded Texas's first public art museums.
While scholars have acknowledged …
Review Of Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History Of The Pick-Sloan Plan And The Missouri River Sioux By Michael L. Lawson,
2011
Miami University
Review Of Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History Of The Pick-Sloan Plan And The Missouri River Sioux By Michael L. Lawson, Roxanne T. Ornelas
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
George Santayana cautioned that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." In Michael L. Lawson's Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, we are given a telling of one of our nation's greatest engineering blunders. Lawson enlightens us with a historical account of governmental mismanagement of almost unbelievable proportion. This revised volume is based on Lawson's 1982 book Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944- 1980; Dammed Indians Revisited picks up where he left off.
