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The Rhetoric Of Realism: American Psychology And American Literature, 1860-1910, Sandra Webster

Doctoral Dissertations

The period following the end of the Civil War in America and extending to just after the turn of the century witnessed the emergence of an independent discipline of psychology as well as the emergence of a uniquely American literary tradition. Though these developments occurred independently and operated out of different traditions, they shared a common interest in the concept of "consciousness." The present study is a comparison of models of consciousness expressed in psychological and literary texts of two periods: The first period covers the emergence of literary realism and American philosophical psychology (1865-1885); the second period covers literary …

Children Experiencing Unemployment Stress: A Comparison Of Families With Stable And Unstable Employment Histories, Barbara Alice Wauchope

Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigates children's experiences of changes that occur in families when fathers lose their jobs, the children's interpretations and responses to those changes, and their resulting symptoms of stress. In the first part, school-aged children and their parents in fourteen two-parent families in northern New England were interviewed and completed instruments measuring the children's behavior and symptoms of stress. In the second part, adults from seventy-six additional families completed a self-administered questionnaire. In both parts, children in families were divided into two groups and compared: middle-class with older parents in which fathers had little or no history of losing …

Revisionist Zionism In America: The Campaign To Win American Public Support, 1939-1948, Joanna Maura Saidel

Doctoral Dissertations

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, followers of the Zionist Revisionists went to the United States at the urging of their leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky. They established two groups which initially attempted to gain public support for the creation of a Jewish Army.

The New Zionist Organization of America, headed by Ben Zion Netanyahu, followed the Revisionist political party. Its campaign exposed the anti-Jewish position of the British in Palestine. It was effective in placing the Palestine problem on the world (rather than regional) agenda of the State Department.

The Irgun Delegation to the United States, headed by Hillel …

Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of The Town Of Clarksville, New Hampshire, For The Year Ending December 31, 1993, Including Report Of The School Directors., Clarksville Town Representatives

Clarksville, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Students: A Qualitative Study Of High School Students With Learning Disabilities, Judith Elizabeth Day

Doctoral Dissertations

This study used qualitative methodology in order to gain understanding of the school lives of high school students with learning disabilities in the areas of reading and writing. Two resource room sections of students were observed, using methods of participant observation over a year long period and four case studies of students from these sections were conducted. Classroom work of all students was studied and special education files of those chosen as case studies were reviewed. Students and school personnel involved in the education of the students were interviewed.

Research findings suggested that, despite years of intervention, high school students …

Dancing On Razor Wire: Caring To Write And Writing To Care In A Women's Prison, Kathe Penfield Simons

Doctoral Dissertations

This qualitative study investigates the writing of women in prison as a tool to care for themselves and others. The inmates participated in a student-centered, socially contextualized, process writing class whereby they could write for their own purposes, and share and publish their writing. The study presents case studies of two women who were also involved in a peer-tutoring program (one serving as the tutor for the other) and who used their literacies extensively on their own time outside of the classroom.

Many of our nation's inmates are considered illiterate by standardized, school-based measures. Some participate in correctional education programs …

Becoming Visionary: Reading And Living In The Existential Mode, Michael Anthony Reardon

Doctoral Dissertations

This study identifies, defines and analyzes a sub-genre of modern Anglo-American fiction distinguished by the presence of "visionary" characters, who possess the ability to see acutely into the contingency and anguish of the human condition in this world rather than--as with the popular conception of "visionary"--our potentialities in another. Their experience of vision flows from an "existential moment," a type of epiphany which discloses the essential Nothingness that exists beneath the systems, structures, attitudes and assumptions through which we attempt to order our daily lives. Most importantly, the visionary's heightened consciousness leads to an existence defined by individual choice, responsibility …

The Granite, 1994, University Of New Hampshire

The Granite – Yearbook

The yearbook of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1909-1922, the University of New Hampshire, 1923-

The New Hampshire, Vol. 84, No. 22 (Nov. 23, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 84, No. 19 (Nov. 9, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 84, No. 18 (Nov. 5, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 84, No. 17 (Nov. 2, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 84, No. 10 (Oct. 8, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Public Administrative Behavior And Complexity: A Preliminary Model With Applications, Barbara Romzek, Melvin J. Dubnick

Faculty Publications

The document discusses the development of a middle-range theory of public administrative behavior centered on adaptation, environment, and complexity.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 84, No. 08 (Oct. 1, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Visualizing Object Oriented Software In Three Dimensions, Colin Ware, David Hui, Glenn Franck

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

There is increasing evidence that it is possible to perceive and understand increasingly comple x information systems if they are displayed a s graphical objects in a three dimensional space . Object-oriented software provides an interestin g test case - there is a natural mapping fro m software objects to visual objects . In this paper we explore two areas. 1) Information perception : we are running controlled experiments to determine empirically if our initial premise is valid; how much more (or less) can be understoo d in 3D than in 2D? 2) Layout: our strategy is to combine partially …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 84, No. 06 (Sep. 24, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 84, No. 05 (Sep. 21, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 84, No. 02 (Sep. 10, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Authorial Voice, Implied Audiences And The Drafting Of The 1988 Aids National Mailing, Mary Harris Veeder

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Veeder analyzes changes throughout many drafts of the 1988 ANM and finds that the process of negotiated drafting contributed to its success. She also concludes that risk communicators should focus attention on audience needs rather than competing truth claims.

Individual Control Of Risk: Seat Belt Use, Subjective Norms And The Theory Of Reasoned Action, Juanita V. Field, Kenneth D. Boehm, Kevin M. Vincent, Jessica L. Sullivan

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

When faced with a risk for which an inexpensive solution is available, individuals often choose the risk rather than the solution. Protection from certain kinds of risks, e.g., using seat belts or condoms or insulating against radon, is largely under personal control, but individuals often choose not to comply with behaviors which would reduce the risk. The Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) has been used to predict when individuals will comply. The authors attempted to validate aspects of the TRA by the use of scenarios. Factor analysis of their data supports the theory that intention is a major determinate of …

Book Review, Lisa M. White

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: STUART M. SPEISER, LAWYERS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. (Evans 1993) [430 pp.] Endnotes with full citations, index, and lexicon (lay definitions of legal terms). LC 93-35272; ISBN 0-87131-724-9. [$16.95 paper. 216 E. 49th Street, New York NY 10017.]

Advancing Understanding Of Knowledge's Role In Lay Risk Perception, Branden B. Johnson

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Emphasizing how knowledge affects lay Risk perception, summarizing studies and suggesting further research, the author differentiates between knowledge production, knowledge dissemination and information processing as affected by, e.g., heuristics and Risk aversion. He also suggests that better understanding of lay knowledge can also illuminate experts' hazard knowledge.

Book Review, Juanita V. Field, Thomas G. Field Jr.

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: WESLEY A. MAGAT & W. KIP VISCUSI, INFORMATIONAL APPROACHES TO REGULATION. (MIT Press 1992) [274 pp.] Appendices, endnotes, illustrations, index, list of titles in the Regulation of Economic Activity series, list of tables and figures, preface, series foreword. LC 91-29483; ISBN 0-262-13277-X. [$32.50 cloth. 55 Hayward Street; Cambridge MA 02142.]

The New Hampshire, Vol. 83, No. 41 (Apr. 6, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Bulletin Of The University Of New Hampshire Undergraduate Catalog, 1993-1994, University Of New Hampshire

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 83, No. 38 (Mar. 26, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 83, No. 36 (Mar. 2, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Science Courts, Evidentiary Procedures And Mixed Science-Policy Decisions, Carl F. Cranor

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

This paper analyzes the potential for science courts to address the social need to regulate human carcinogens and concludes that, on balance, it is not high. From this vantage point, Professor Cranor suggests desiderata for application in other areas where science courts might be used.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 83, No. 33 (Feb. 19, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.