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An Experimental Study Of The Effects Of Personal Proximity Upon Selected Aspects Of Conversational Content, Ronna S. Loewen

Dissertations and Theses

Proxemics is an area of study devoted to the interrelated theories of man's use of space as a special elaboration of culture. Edward T. Hall, an anthropologist, has begun to draw these theories together in his work dealing with proxemics.

It is the purpose of this study to determine whether certain dimensions of interpersonal conversations vary with the distance between the conversants. Three distances were used as experimental variables. Intimate distance was set at nine inches, personal distance at three feet, nine inches, and social distance at eight feet. A total of fifty-four subjects was used with nine pairs situated …

A Quantification And Analysis Of Verbal Interaction Between Clinician And Client In A Public School Setting, Norma C. Mcaleer

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to assess the amount of time spent by the clinician and client in verbalization and to make an analysis of the kind of verbalizations employed by the clinician in speech therapy sessions. Experience was given consideration as a possible variable in the study. Nine clinicians in a public school setting were used as subjects. They were divided equally into the three following categories : (a) clinicians having less than one year’s experience. (b) clinicians having 1-3 years experience. (c) clinicians having more than 3 years experience. Six therapy sessions of each clinician were tape-recorded …

Report On Property Tax Exemptions (Of Property Owned By Literary, Benevolent , Charitable, Fraternal And Religious Organizations), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 50, No. 10 (1969-8-8), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

"The United States Grants Economy", Kenneth Ewart Boulding

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

A General Study Of Tests And Testing With Special Emphasis On Concepts, Controversy, And Teaching Ideas Applicable At The First Grade Level, Jean I. Dimick

Dissertations and Theses

A general study of testing with special focus on, and analysis of, tests being used in the primary grades by selected cities; the controversy concerning aptitude and intelligence testing as it applies particularly to genetic factors and race; and the identification and selection of ideas which would be of value to a first grade teacher seeking diverse and unusual ways to discover abilities and aptitudes in first grade children. Study covers in detail some of the controversy about racial intelligence as it concerns black and white Americans starting with interpretations and controversies that occurred after World War I, and also …

An Exploration Into Aspects Of Broken Color As Exemplified In The Works Of The Impressionists And Neo-Impressionists And The Application Of These Theories Within Painting Experiences Of The Adolescent Student, Frank Edwin Handy

Dissertations and Theses

I. Statement of Research Problem.

The research was an exploration into the broken color technique within the paintings of the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists and the application of their techniques within the painting experiences of the adolescent student.

II. Resume of the Data.

The application of pure pigment directly, without blending, constitutes one of the major aims of the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists. The breaking of color was done in many methods by juxtaposition of hues and values in various combinations to give the desired effect; it was applied through a wide range of brush techniques such as comma-shaped, spots, hatchings, and …

"Suicide As A Way Of Life", John Kerr, Hugo Maynard, Ronald Snodgrass

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

A panel discussion with Hugo Maynard (PSU Institute for Psychological Study), Ronald Snodgrass (Willamette Learning Center), and John Kerr (Director of Schoolhouse), participants.

Report Of Sales Tax Package (June 3, 1969 Election), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Role Of Neighborhood Health Coordinators In A Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Services Project, Sharron Faye Easley

Dissertations and Theses

This study evaluates the role of the Neighborhood Health Coordinators (NHC's) within Kaiser Foundation's Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Services (CNHS) Project. This project was established in September 1967, under the provisions of the 1966 amendments to the Economic Opportunity Act, to provide and make readily available comprehensive medical care to low-income persons. In compliance with the stipulations of this Act, persons who reside in target areas, designated as depressed neighborhoods, were hired to serve as NHC's. These indigenous non-professionals serve as links or "gatekeepers" between the low-income persons enrolled in this program, and the Kaiser medical care facilities which include the …

An Examination Of Disengagement Among Elderly People In A Low Income Public Housing Facility, Linda Bennion, Marion Paradis, Sheila Petrie

Dissertations and Theses

This project studied the consequences of disengagement among elderly people and examined the respondent's opinions about society's responsibility to the aged.

The study population was limited to 48 elderly people, equally divided between men and women, married and unmarried; residing in Northwest Tower, a high-rise public housing facility.

The possible consequences of disengagement which were studied included isolation, depression, frustration, despair, factors preventing satisfaction with present circumstances, desired activities in relation to available activities, and energy and desire relative to activity and responsibility. Finally, opinions were sought about society's responsibility to the elderly.

Six general hypotheses guided the development of …

"The Harmonious Discord Of Words", Frank Livingstone Huntley

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Fifth annual Nina Mae Kellogg awards lecture on language, May 6, 1969, 3:00 p.m.

Interim Report On Portland Mass Transit And The 1969 Oregon Legislative Assembly, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

The Maroons And Freedom In Jamaica, Lennon Claude Henry

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this essay is to present a history of the Maroons from their earliest rebellions to their present role in contemporary Jamaican society. Also of importance will be the conditions under which the Maroons received freedom the British and to what extent these conditions continue to persist in an independent Jamaica. A secondary purpose is to provide material and information which may contribute significantly to the dearth of printed expertise in this area. When the British captured Jamaica from the Spaniards in 1655, they failed to subdue numerous Negro slaves who were no longer content to be slaves. …

Aspects Of The Åland Islands Question, Elen Christine Sakshaug

Dissertations and Theses

The Åland Islands question in international politics has been intermittently discussed, negotiated, and settled since the eighteenth century. The Islands lie in the Baltic Sea, halfway between Sweden and Finland, at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia. They have been accorded importance by international dispute and finally by international treaty. In the present thesis the position of the Åland Islands in the Scandinavian region, from the time of settlement to the present, is considered. Major events and agreements are included to provide a background for the development of the dispute which arose over the Islands in the early twentieth …

An Analysis Of Children's Drawings Of Policemen, Jess A. Armas, Linda L. Simonitch

Dissertations and Theses

The overall objectives of this study had a dual focus. One was to determine the attitudes of children toward police from projective drawings. The second utilized the experience of performing the first objective to assess the possible adaptation and use of projective techniques in social work. One hundred and twenty-nine children from three different Portland public schools were given the topic “I met a policeman in my neighborhood” and asked to draw a picture. Second graders in an upper white socioeconomic school, a lower white socioeconomic school, and a school in a lower socioeconomic Negro area were compared. It was …

The Complaint Process In Protective Services For Children, William L. Carey

Dissertations and Theses

This is a descriptive study of the community process by which a complaint is made to a protective service agency. It is by this process that deviant child care is first identified and the decision to take action is made. The study develops a typology of the complaint process and identifies seven elements as significant in complaints that reach community agencies. The elements were: the complaint situation, the precipitating events that brought the complaint situation to the attention of someone outside the nuclear family, the relationship between the complainant and family, the complainant's motivation for responding to the complaint situation, …

The View From The Future; The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy As An Element In Historical Causation, William Welker Lenon

Dissertations and Theses

The behavioral sciences in conjunction with history provide a unique opportunity for a more creative, yet precise, approach to the role of man as an historical and social agent. On the one hand history provides an approach to man’s role based on the appeal to both facts and creative interpretation. On the other, the behavioral sciences can provide historians with a more precise concept of the mechanism of social, cultural, and personal role development and action. The creative conjunction of the behavioral sciences and history is called Neo-synthecism in order to more easily identify this approach. There are two purposes …

"Law And Dissent", Barnes H. Ellis, David A. Horowitz

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Discussing Physical Fitness And Exercise Programs For Adults", Kenneth H. Cooper

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Poetry Reading With Allen Ginsberg And Others", Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bly, Robert Sund, Jon Anderson

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society and the New University Conference.

The Far East Agreements Of The Yalta Conference Of February 4-11, 1945, And The Sino-Soviet Agreements Of August, 1945, Robert Harold Davidson Jr.

Dissertations and Theses

This paper will present a study of the Far East Agreements of the Yalta Conference, held from February 4-11, 1945, and will trace them through to their conclusion in the agreements signed by the Soviet Union and Nationalist China in August of the same year. These wartime agreements between the Soviet Union and the United States, subscribed to by Great Britain and later Nationalist China, reflected then existing distributions of power. The Far East Agreements, on the part of the United States, were concluded in the national self-interest of the United States for reasons thought necessary at the time.

The …

Some Interrelationships Between A Community Work And Training Program And Selected Indices Of Family Functioning, Audrey K. Arnst

Dissertations and Theses

This was an exploratory study of some of the relationships between a Community Work and Training Program and the family functioning of certain participants in that program. The CWT projects studied were those operated by the Public Welfare Departments of Clackamas and Marion Counties, Oregon during the three-year span between January 1, 1965 and December 31, 1967.

Participants' names were randomly selected from the records of the two welfare offices and the respondents interviewed during the summer of 1968. A questionnaire was developed which consisted of twenty primarily open-ended questions and this was administered to a total of sixty couples. …

"The French University Crisis", Jacqueline Bernard

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Joint Reed College-Portland State University Presidential Inauguration.

Measuring Trainee Comprehension Of Casework Relationship In A Public Welfare Orientation Program, Margaret Berweger

Dissertations and Theses

This study was undertaken as a first step in measuring effectiveness of the Oregon State Public Welfare Orientation Center program in teaching principles of the casework relationship as conceptualized by Felix P. Biestek. This anticipated the development of a reasonably reliable instrument, improvement and validation of which would be undertaken in a subsequent study.

The population tested was made up of male and female college graduates, newly hired by the State, who were then entering a four week orientation program for caseworkers. Their education and experience varied, but all had passed the State Civil Service examination for this position.

Learning …

"The Role Of Youth In World Affairs Today", Covey T. Oliver

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

An address given at the third general session of the Western Meeting of the National Symposium on the United States Foreign Policy, Portland, Oregon, April 10-13, 1969.

"Trends Of American Foreign Policy", Wayne Lyman Morse

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

An address given at the 2nd general session of the Western Meeting of the National Symposium on the United States Foreign Policy, Portland, Oregon, Apr. 10-13, 1969.

"Asia, 1969", Alexander Campbell

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

One of a series of lectures presented in connection with the Joint Reed College-Portland State University Presidential Inauguration.

"Nation-Building In Kenya" (April Version), Maure Leonard Goldschmidt

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

Selected Experiences Of Boys And Girls Entering The Community Of Ketchikan, Alaska From Correctional Schools, Marian L. Swain

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to explore differences in self-reported experiences of fifteen boys and girls who were released from correctional schools from June 24, 1965, to May 16, 1967, into the community of Ketchikan, Alaska, from a control group of nineteen who had not been in correctional institutions, who were matched by sex, age and race. Between the dates of July 16, 1967, to September 13, 1967, I interviewed and administered a questionnaire to each respondent in both groups. The respondents, ranging in age from 14 years to 20 years, were seen in the welfare office, the person's …