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Daily Eastern News: February 11, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

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February 11, 2010, Council On Academic Affairs

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February 11, 2010, Council On Academic Affairs

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Daily Eastern News: February 05, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: February 02, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: February 01, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: January 28, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: January 26, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: January 22, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

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January 21, 2010, Council On Academic Affairs

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January 21, 2010, Council On Academic Affairs

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Daily Eastern News: January 19, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

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January 12, 2010, Council On Teacher Education

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Promoting Empowerment: Social Change In Disasters, William Lovekamp

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Corn Design Brief, Historical Administration

2009-2010 Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Corn

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From Viruses To Russian Roulette To Dance: A Rhetorical Critique And Creation Of Genetic Metaphors, Marita Gronnvoll

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

This essay critiques and creates metaphoric genetic rhetoric by examining metaphors for genes used by representatives of the lay American public. We assess these metaphors with a new rhetorical orientation that we developed by building onto work by Robert Ivie and social scientific qualitative studies of audiences. Specifically, our analysis reveals three themes of genetic metaphors, with the first two appearing most frequently: 1) genes as a disease or problem 2) genes as fire or bomb, and 3) genes as gambling. We not only discuss the problems and untapped potential of these metaphors, but also we suggest metaphorically understanding genes …

Eastern Illinois University Undergraduate Catalog 2010 - 2011, Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Illinois Catalog Bulletins

This Catalog lists available courses for the 2010 term.

Eiu Honors Nchc External Review Report, Samuel Schuman

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Ecofeminism And Experiential Learning: Taking The Risks Of Activism Seriously, Jeannie Ludlow

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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The Best Predictors Of Self-Reported Depressed Mood In Adolescents, Melissa H. Wineberg

Masters Theses

The present study examined multiple predictors of depression simultaneously in order to determine which variables best predict self-reported depressed mood in adolescents. Although the current literature has identified several individual variables and their relationship to depression in adolescents, few studies have investigated multiple variables at the same time in relation to depression. Participants included 4,693 high school students from a Midwestern state. Of these students, 4 7% were girls, 4 7% were boys, and 6% did not indicate their gender. These students attended various high schools across seven counties and were recruited for a health prevention program called I Sing …

Geg 3640 : Geography Of Sports, Geology/Geography

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Ele 5250 : Introduction To Research In Education, Ec/Ele/Mle

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Lst 1780 : Introduction To Leisure Service Agencies, Recreation Studies

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Cos 4830 : Organizational Perspectives: Past, Present, Future, Technology

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Ele 5250 : Introduction To Research In Education, Ec/Ele/Mle

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You're Not Really Black Unless You've Been Shot-- Or So Says Black Urban Fiction, Erin A. Talley

Masters Theses

This essay seeks to identify the injurious and hedonistic patterns that emerge from contemporary black urban fiction, reinforcing negative stereotypes. This essay comments on codes that establish a sense of authenticity as well as trends of isolationism and essentialist narratives published as the unsuccessful progeny of didactic novels written to highlight conditions in underrepresented minority communities. Through a critical examination of earlier literary movements, this essay proposes that contemporary black urban literature grows less culturally conscious and less aesthetically aware in its pursuit of commercial success than the African American canonical texts that grounded cultural realism and literary experimentation.

Beautiful Torment: Interpreting Dissonance And Text-Painting In Selected Sacred Choral Works Of William Byrd And Carlo Gesualdo, Janet M. Mccumber

Masters Theses

The end of the sixteenth century was filled with social, religious, and political turmoil; and yet, the musical atmosphere in England and Italy was conducive to new ideas in text-setting and chromatic inflection that had not been seen in previous eras. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach in looking at two late sixteenth-century composers, William Byrd and Carlo Gesualdo, and describes their personal and political sufferings and how these torments may have affected their compositional styles.

Brief explorations of England and Catholicism in the time of the Protestant Reformation, the Mannerist movement in the arts, the movement toward chromaticism in …

Political Perspectives And Freedom Of Speech In The College Classroom, Robin Zazove

Masters Theses

The concept for this study came about after a book read by the researcher claimed college faculty across the United States were "closed minded professors who tum their students into socialists, atheists, race-baiters, and sex-crazed narcissists" (Shapiro, 2004, p.1 ). Statistics and experiences in the book appeared extreme, leading the researcher to gain interest in further understanding the political nature of Eastern Illinois University faculty members.

The purpose of the present study was to examine differences between professors who identified politically as conservative and those who identified as liberal or progressive, andthose who identified as middle of the road, and …

An Exploration Of Factors Related To Alcohol Consumption Among Female Student-Athletes In Higher Education, Holly Ruth Hooe

Masters Theses

This study examined the perceptions of female student-athletes at a mid-sized Midwest university. The current study aims to better understand the reasons for alcohol consumption by female student-athletes. This study will examine these reasons and help put in place predictors of extreme alcohol consumption by female student-athletes.

Results of this study were limited based on outside roles of the primary investigator. Five female student-athletes were interviewed about their experiences. The findings of this study will guide future research in the area. Future research for this topic should be done in greater numbers and use mixed methods.

Does Familiarity With A Rape Victim Influence Rape Myth Acceptance?, Christopher Bottger

Masters Theses

The topic of rape myth acceptance has been extensively studied; however, research investigating how rape myth acceptance may be related to a person's familiarity with a rape victim is minimal. To assess this relationship, 160 male and female undergraduate students indicated their degree of acceptance of rape myths on one of two versions of the Illinois Rape ~yth Acceptance Scale (IRMAS). One version presented the traditional IRMAS' items that referred to a hypothetical woman. The other version developed for the present study included personalized items that referred to a friend of the participant. The present study was the first to …