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One Artist’S Experimental Approach To Sculpture, John J. Smith Iv

Masters Theses

This paper is intended to reflect the creative sensibilities of one artist-scientist as he experiments with media and his perceptions of nature as an approach to growth. His philosophy revolves around the relationship of his experience, his natural instinctive sensibilities, their affection upon his intuition, and the resulting creative process. The stimuli for the process are found in the natural realm around him whether perceived scientifically or artistically. Due to the intrinsic nature of the creative phenomenon, it is very difficult for the artist to separate the scientific and artistic modes from the naturalistic or experiential stimuli. So he goes …

Three Essays On The Reality Of Art, Brent A. Sparlin

Masters Theses

Three essays make up the main body of the thesis. The essays, “Can Art Really Be Real?,” “The Artist's Role” and “The Artist's Role in Society, Part II; Silence,” each deal with specific subjects which when combined, explain the thesis' title, The Reality of Art.

The first essay, “Can Art Really Be Real?” is an attempt to clarify what is real from what is unreal in art. The essay deals first with representational realism (such as is found in the work of Thomas Eakins), and defines artists who strive for exact renderings of objects as being illusionistic and not …

The Development Of A Parent Volunteer Program At Beckemeyer School, Earl Meier

Masters Theses

This field study provides an experience log with a summary of all activities. In addition, various documents and communications to parents are included. Four handbooks are presented that were developed through this year long study. Additional suggestions are presented that are helpful in developing a parent volunteer program.

The experience and knowledge gained through this study was immeasurable. The handbooks created will serve: (1) as a guide to the classroom teacher and the volunteer; (2) to establish procedures in establishing a volunteer program; (3) to provide information about the overall score of a volunteer program; (4) and finally, to provide …

A Phonological And Morphological Analysis Of Two-Year Old Children's Utterances Of Final /S/ And /Z/ In Nouns, Janice Brewer

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine, from a phonological and morphological point of view, two-year old children's utterances of final /s/ and final /z/ in singular (CVC) and plural (CVCC) forms.

The subjects were 32 two-year old children who attended day-care centers. There were 13 males and 19 females, ranging in age from 26 months to 36 months, with an average age of 29 months.

In a 16 item test, each of the 32 children named eight singular nouns (/bʌs/, /haus/, /fers/, /maus/, /nouz/, /tʃiz/, /rouz/, /hous/) and eight plural nouns (/kʌps/, /hæts/, /keɪks/, /sɑks/, /bɔlz/, /gʌnz/, /bɛdz/, …

A Survey Of Sex Typing On Prime Time Television, Patricia Sue Henry

Masters Theses

According to former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, the average child will spend nearly 25,000 hours in front of a television before he or she is eighteen years old. With this fact in mind, I wondered what America's children learn from watching prime time television regarding sex-typing, or the characteristics which are considered appropriately masculine or feminine.

A review of related literature showed that critics in the early 70s pointed out that women portrayed on television were less numerous than men, less intelligent, brave, and adventuresome. In short, women were stereotyped as supportive underlings.

To find out if women fared any …

A Comprehensive Career Guidance System For Southeastern Illinois, Richard Dale Murbarger

Masters Theses

The Illinois Office of Education, Department of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education, made available on a competitive basis in November of 1977, grant funds for the establishment of nineteen Career Guidance Centers. The twofold mission determined for the centers was to assist public and private educational agencies in the improvement of vocational guidance services for students and to provide specialized guidance services for out-of-school individuals.

The impetus for improving vocational guidance and counseling services, including the "Center" approach and the funds available for grants, emanated from Section 134 of the Amendments to the Vocational Education Act of 1963, Public Law …

Programs Benefitting Gifted Students In Charleston, Illinois, Dorothy L. Swartzbaugh

Masters Theses

This field work experience for the Specialist degree in Educational Administration at Eastern Illinois University involved a study of the gifted program in Charleston, Illinois, seen from two aspects: the state reimbursed gifted program as well as the local school's independent effort for its top students. The writer's method of inquiry combined library research and 40 interviews with teachers, administrators, and authorities on gifted students.

At first the term "giftedness" had to be defined. The word has grown from the original meaning of "intellectual or academic aptitude," based on intelligence tests, to a meaning so broad as to be scarcely …

A Building Program Study, Joseph D. Stokes

Masters Theses

The purpose of this field study is to explore the need for a building program, to give recommendations for the best building site and why, and to check the feelings of the community on the passing of a referendum in Community Unit #3, Palestine, Illinois.

This study included an evaluation of both the elementary and the high school buildings. This included the condition and availability of classroom space and special education space.

The best possible site for a building program and reasons for the choice site were considered.

The community of Palestine in the past has passed referendums for building …

A Comparative Study Of Student Personnel Work In Higher Education Between Usa And China (Taiwan), James Ching-Wen Chen

Masters Theses

As a professor of psychology, also as the Dean of Students of Taiwan Provincial Kaohsiung Teachers' College, I ( the writer ) know quite well the student personnel work in Taiwan, Republic of China. Later I have a chance to study at the Eastern Illinois University in the United States, it is suitable for me to make a comparative study of student personnel work between our two countries.

From this study, the writer has found some similarities and some differences in student personnel work between USA and China.

The similarities is that all the student personnel work is a service …

An Exploratory Study Of Black And White College Students On The Hand Test, Marie Clark

Masters Theses

In the past Blacks have not been used in the construction or development of norms for psychological tests, though they are routinely administered to Blacks. Several researchers have made an effort to determine whether tests which have been standardized on White subjects are applicable to Blacks (Megargee, 1966; Johnson & Sikes, 1965; Mussen, 1953). These authors found that differences in personality of Blacks and Whites on personality tests should not be used to make inferences unless the two groups are matched on a number of prominent variables.

In general, the research suggests that there are significant differences between Black and …

Interpersonal Communication As A Function Of Subject Representational Mode, Joseph Adrian Williams

Masters Theses

The study investigated aspects of a communications model of psychotherapy advanced by Grinder and Bandler. Subjects were thirty male and female undergraduate introductory psychology students at Eastern Illinois University during the summer of 1977. The subjects ranked a set of tape recorded statements for "understandability". These statements were presented in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic representational modes. Subject ratings provided a measure of which representational modes communicated most effectively to them. Three independent judges rated transcripts of recorded samples of the subject's actual language usage to determine the representational modes utilized by the subjects. Analysis of the ratings resulted in a …

A Study Of The Relationship Between Locus Of Control And The Use Of "I-Statements", Patricia Taglione

Masters Theses

Gestalt therapy theory considers speech to be a reflection of one's personality, and consequently psychological adjustment or maladjustment is expected to be manifested in one's speech habits (Levitsky & Perls, 1970; Passons, 1975). The use of personal pronouns is an indicator of the psychological distance taken from one's own feelings and actions. Healthy speech, or speech that is integrated with one's feelings and actions, involves the use of the first person singular when referring to self. Working with people to change speech patterns (changing "it-statements" and "you-statements" to "I-statements") may help an individual integrate his speech with his feelings and …

Effect Of Sex, Input-Response Mode, And Mnemonics On Free Recall, John Thorne-Thomsen

Masters Theses

Thirty two males and thirty two females performed at a memorization task in which lists of words were presented either auditorially or visually. In addition to mode of presentation and sex, two other independent variables included mode of response; words being recalled by writing or orally repeating them, and mnemonic device effect; subjects being instructed to use bizarre images aide or repetition memory aide. No significant sex differences were found in this experiment. There was a significant mode of presentation effect in which subjects who heard the words recalled significantly more than subjects who saw the words. There was also …

A Study Of The Gallows Transaction, Sandra S. Maxedon

Masters Theses

The purpose of this paper was to study what effects the gallows transaction has on performance. The gallows laugh or the gallows smile occurs after a special kind of stimulus and response called the gallows transaction, Berne (1972). Gallows transactions include laughs or smiles directly following statements which are actually painful to the individual. The distinguishing mark of humor in the gallows transaction is that it isn't funny. To date, there has been little scientific research on the gallows transaction.

Subjects were 96 psychology undergraduate students. Subjects were divided into four groups, 24 subjects with confronted gallows transactions, 24 subjects …

Desegregation For Orville Spencer School And One Year's Program Toward An Integrated School And Community, Lorraine S. Peterson

Masters Theses

During the school year 1976-77, Decatur School District #61 completed the desegregation of the schools so that they were in compliance with the plans drawn up for the State of Illinois under direction of the State Board of Education and State Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Joseph Cronin. This paper is an account of the programs instigated and carried out during the second year the Decatur plan was in operation in Orville Spencer School, Decatur, Illinois.

Orville Spencer School is situated in the northeast section of the city of Decatur. The population here is mainly blue-collar workers and low income families. …

Daily Eastern News: December 09, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: December 05, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: December 02, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Volume 6, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Darker Side of Nelson's Tax Case, Why I Quit The Pantagraph

Daily Eastern News: December 01, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: November 28, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: November 21, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: November 17, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: November 16, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: November 10, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: November 07, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: November 03, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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Volume 6, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

You Won't Wait for the Bus in Front of My Business!, Battered Women: It Can Happen Here

Daily Eastern News: November 01, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

November

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Daily Eastern News: October 31, 1977, Eastern Illinois University

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