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Volume 45, Number 33: April 09, 2008, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Volume 45, Number 32: April 02, 2008, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Volume 45, Number 22: January 23, 2008, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Communicating Quality Assurance: A Case Study Of Mediator Profiles On A Court Roster, Dorothy J. Della Noce J.D., Ph.D.

North Dakota Law Review

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Student Health Services, John A. Swenson, Pat Campbell

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

Greed, Guns And Grist: U.S. Military Assistance And Arms Transfers To Developing Countries, Elizabeth Powers

North Dakota Law Review

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Grapholects As A Justification For Grammar Instruction, Loren Nieuwsma

Theses and Dissertations

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Clothes Encounters : The Transgression And Transformation Of Gender In Male-To-Female Film Representations, Christopher M. Stoner

Theses and Dissertations

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In Pursuit Of A Publishable Edition : Theories Of Authorship Applied To Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Aeschylus' Soliloquy", Laura E. Hinschberger

Theses and Dissertations

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Understanding Empowerment : Father's Child Care Involvement In Two-Parent Households, Gabe Kilzer

Theses and Dissertations

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Efficacy Of Integral Stimulation Therapy In A Case With Childhood Apraxia Of Speech, Allison Jill Moore

Theses and Dissertations

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The Design Process And Technical Direction For Swimming In The Shallows, Sara Schaal

Theses and Dissertations

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The Promise Of Mediation For North Dakota, James R. Antes, Ph.D., Kristine Paranica J.D.

North Dakota Law Review

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Potatoes Again : The Travel Diary Of A World War Ii Prisoner Of War, Jon Lucht

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Winter Commencement: December 14, 2007, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Winter Commencement program from December 14, 2007.

The Noun Class System Of U̱T-Ma'in, A West Kainji Language Of Nigeria, Rebecca Dow Smith

Theses and Dissertations

This present work provides a comprehensive overview of the noun class system of u̱t-Ma'in, a Benue-Congo (West Kainji) language of Northwestern Nigeria. The u̱t-Ma'in language is characterized by a complex noun classification system and a robust agreement system that permeates the language. While an understanding of the noun classes is essential to an understanding of the language as a whole, discussion includes the division of nouns into thirteen distinct classes, marked by prefixes on the nouns themselves and by agreement elements on other clause constituents. The relationship of the noun classes of u̱t-Ma'in to historical reconstruction work available for the …

The -Ing Suffix In French, Joëlle C. Lewis

Theses and Dissertations

One striking characteristic of modern French is the increasingly large number of words that contain the English -ing suffix. This phenomenon stands in contrast to the stereotype of the French being purists with regards to language choice and use. Indeed, there is a variety of evidence that this suffix has been integrated into French as a productive derivational suffix, and does not simply occur as an accident resulting from the borrowing of English words that happen to include it. Though many studies have been carried out on loanwords in French, and certain ones have brought specific attention to the importation …

November 1, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the November 1, 2007, meeting of the University Senate. 13 pages

Greening American History: Incorporating An Environmental Perspective Into United States Survey Courses, Nelson Paul Rosit

Theses and Dissertations

To paraphrase a well-known historian, there is too little nature in the study of history. Although environmental history is a well established field, nature and the physical environment are still often excluded agents in history pedagogy. The following essay is an effort to remedy this problem. This dissertation has two main objectives. The first is to define and describe environmental history and present a rationale for its inclusion as a major component of survey history courses. The second is to outline ways college teachers can include an environmental perspective in their instructional strategies. It includes three sample lesson plans that …

Summer Commencement: August 3, 2007, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Summer Commencement program from August 3, 2007.

Volume 44, Number 84: August 01, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Julius Caesar And The Rhine River: The Evolution Of A Border During The Gallic Wars, Todd Roman

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis descusses the use of the Rhine River by Julius Caesar in his commentaries, De Bello Gallico, covering the Gallic Wars of approximately 58 to 52 B.C., to identify the peoples and territories separated by its current. This thesis addresses the issue of how Caesar understood this division of space, what criteria he employed to support his use of the river, and his protrayal of these matters within his account. It seeks to clarify the foundation of a major national border of western history in the context of its initial involvement in the context of the Roman Late …

Grice's Conversational Implicature Revisited: A Discourse Analysis Of Reproductive Loss In Women's Talk, Barbara Hauser

Theses and Dissertations

In my thesis, Grice's Conversational Implicature Revisited: A Discourse Analysis of Reproductive Loss in Women's Talk, it is my intent to explore the discursive modalities of reproductive loss narrated by women, who, at different stages of gestation, have lost one or more children. Rooted in a theoretical framework in discourse analysis, my thesis seeks to analyze how women, having participated in an interview with a female interlocutor who lost a child herself, narrate their experiences of reproductive loss.

My hypothesis is that the more personal information about the experience of reproductive loss the participant is supposed to share, the …

Ready To Fly: Voices Of International Graduate Students At The University Of North Dakota, Laura Zucca

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate international graduate students' perspectives regarding their experiences at the University of North Dakota. Seven students were selected with a convenience sample. Students' interviews were transcribed and analyzed using a qualitative phenomenological approach. Acculturation served as a conceptual framework to contextualize the study and provide a scholarly foundation. The following five themes emerged from the data analysis: (1) International graduate students have complex professional and personal motivations for moving to the United States. (2) International graduate students encounter several difficulties, which are often related to linguistic, academic, and cultural differences. (3) International graduate …

Volume 44, Number 83: July 25, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Volume 44, Number 79: June 27, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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A Lakota/Nakota/Dakota Model Of Oratory, Cheryl A. Long Feather

Theses and Dissertations

Lakota/Nakota/Dakota people, as well as other Native American tribal groups, did not traditionally use the established, conventional forms of oration to which most in contemporary mainstream society relate. Rather, Native-specific epistemology, ontology and axiology played a central role in forming and supporting the function of communication as well as the speaking conventions that continue to be used today. These culturally-based patterns and structures present both challenges and opportunities that have been only marginally explored in various disciplines such as education, social and behavioral science, and psychology. This body of work exists for the purpose of exploring a traditionally Native understanding …

Language And Literacy Acquisition And Maintenance Of Sudanese Refugee Learners, Laverne Kingsbury

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to more fully understand the language and literacy goals and values of a linguistically diverse Southern Sudanese refugee population residing in the Upper Midwest portion of the United States. The linguistic and cultural demographics of the area's major school district changed consistently and dramatically over a twenty-year time span. Five participants who were parents of young children were interviewed for this study from a metropolitan community with a population of approximately 200,000. Fourteen percent of the English Language Learners (ELL) in the public schools were Sudanese.

Qualitative research methods included an ethnographic approach in …

North Dakota K-12 Principals' Perceptions Of Arts Integration In Schools, Roger Allen Abbe

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to research integration of the arts into other areas of the curriculum as a teaching tool in North Dakota’s K-12 classrooms. Emphasis was placed on the perceptions of North Dakota’s K-12 principals relating to integration of the arts, the current state of arts programs in North Dakota’s K-12 schools, and principals’ perceived barriers to integration of the arts. Attention was also given to the degree to which teachers in North Dakota’s K-12 schools currently integrate the arts into lesson plans as a tool to enhance and reinforce learning in other areas of the curriculum. …

Seismic Waveform Based Criteria For Phase Transition Of Co2 In Sample Rocks, Andi Jakupi

Theses and Dissertations

Storing carbon dioxide (CO2) in depleted oil and gas reservoirs, un-mineable coal beds or deep saline aquifer reservoirs is being considered as the most effective CO2 sequestration option. A crucial element in CO2 storage is a dependable monitoring method and assessment criteria of the mechanical integrity of the C02-rock system. One method to assess this integrity is designing a system to measure elastic properties via nondestructive seismic waves on various sample rocks under numerous conditions. Due to the nature of rock formation, their material content is neither isotropic nor homogeneous. Their elastic properties can be characterized indirectly by measuring the …