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Gilded Age Spaces, Actual And Imagined: Edith Wharton As A Spatial Activist And Analyst, Renee Dara Somers

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation seeks to alter the reductive classification of Edith Wharton as "the upper class, Old New York, author of fiction" by re-imagining her place in American literature and culture. Viewing Wharton as a spatial activist accomplishes this task; she devoted much of her life to exploring the relationships that exist between people and their built environments. Wharton's spatial activism can be found in her interior design, her architecture, her landscape artistry and her life in general as much as they can be located in her literary texts. Her theories of space are practiced and materially executed, in addition to …

Computerized Behavioral Observation: Implications For Improving Accuracy And Reducing Bias, Charles Sicotte

Open Access Dissertations

Direct observation of behavior is a form of behavioral assessment that maintains a low level of inference when applied to psychoeducational decision-making. The recent proliferation of computer behavior-observation systems has provided observers with an efficient means for collecting direct behavior observational data (Kahng & Iwata, 2000; Shapiro & Kratochwill, 2000a, 2000b). Although computerized methods are less cumbersome than other recording methods (e.g., partial-interval form, narrative recording), it is not clear if computerized methods offer improvement by enhancing observational accuracy or reducing judgment bias that is generally initiated in applied settings (e.g. referral information; Arkes & Harkness, 1980; O'Reilly, Northcraft, & …

Manifestoes: A Study In Genre, Stevens Russell Amidon

Open Access Dissertations

This project is a book-length study of the manifesto, which attempts to trace adaptations writers have made to the genre, beginning with the Luther's "95 Theses." From there I move to political manifestoes, including the "Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants and Marx and Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist Party," and then to the aesthetic manifestoes of modernism. Later I treat manifestoes of critique, examining texts by Virginia Woolf, Frank O'Hara, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Donna Haraway, the Students for a Democratic Society and the Lesbian Avengers.

While this project is a study of genre and influence, it is grounded …

Mystical Discourse As Ideological Resistance In Wordsworth And Whitman: A Transatlantic Bridge, Donald J. Moores

Open Access Dissertations

Despite both the recent trend in transatlantic scholarship and the central position Wordsworth and Whitman occupy in the Romantic tradition, there have been relatively few comparative discussions of the two poets. Although some critics have discerned solid connections between them, there is essentially a scholarly void in the critical record, and my dissertation fills this gap. A bridge between Wordsworth and Whitman is found in their privileging of a marginalized epistemology, which they expressed through a type of mystical rhetoric I call the "cosmic" mode. This epistemology entails the merging of self and other, a living cosmos endowed with consciousness, …

The Four Hundred Eighth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #408, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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University College And General Education Committee Report #2002-03-1, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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University College And General Education Committee Report #2002-03-1, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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The Four Hundred Sixth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #406, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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The Four Hundred Fifth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #405, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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The Four Hundred Fourth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #404, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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New Student Record : The University Of Rhode Island, The Interfraternity/Panhellenic Councils

Freshman Record

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Collaboration Over Avoidance: Conflict Management Strategies In State-Owned Enterprises In China, Shuang Liu, Guo-Ming Chen

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This study reports the application of Organizational Communication Conflict Instrument in Chinese state-owned enterprise. Principal component analysis has revealed a 5-factor structure, which conceptually corresponds to the five conflict strategies proposed by Blake and Mouton. Results also indicate that the frequency of employing the five strategies is in the rank order of collaboration, competition, compromise and accommodation, and avoidance. The impact of demographic data on conflict strategies as well was explored. Findings reinforce the argument that the study of conflict strategies should take cultural context into consideration and that the models developed in the West may not work successfully in …

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2002-2003, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island course catalog.

Peer Group Instructional Conversation: Collaboration In Context, Linda Greene Capalbo

Open Access Dissertations

American schools traditionally have reflected and promoted societal values of autonomy and independence in the development of the individual child. This limited perspective on how humans come to know focuses on the accrued cultural capital of each learner and neglects the role of 'the other' in the construction of meaning. Such a view can be especially debilitating for students who have been identified as marginal learners. This study examines how social interaction organizes participation opportunities and strategies for members of a peer learning group, including a student designated language learning disabled. The study documents the development and negotiation of individual …

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (12/07/2001), University Of Rhode Island

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (Student Newspaper Archives)

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The Good 5 Cent Cigar (12/06/2001), University Of Rhode Island

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (Student Newspaper Archives)

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The Good 5 Cent Cigar (11/20/2001), University Of Rhode Island

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (Student Newspaper Archives)

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The Good 5 Cent Cigar (11/15/2001), University Of Rhode Island

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (Student Newspaper Archives)

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The Good 5 Cent Cigar (09/25/2001), University Of Rhode Island

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (Student Newspaper Archives)

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island school newspaper.

The Three Hundred And Ninety-Second Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #392, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

No abstract provided.

New Student Record : The University Of Rhode Island, The Interfraternity/Panhellenic Councils

Freshman Record

No abstract provided.

Renaissance 2001, University Of Rhode Island

URI Yearbooks

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Towards Transcultural Understanding: A Harmony Theory Of Chinese Communication, Guo-Ming Chen

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This chapter developed a general theory of Chinese communication from the perspective of harmony. Based on the nine concepts, including jen (humanity), yi (appropriateness), li (rites), shi (temporal contingencies), wei (spatial contingencies), ji (the first imperceptible beginning of movement), guanxi (inter-relation), mientz (face), and power, a total of four propositions, 23 axioms and 23 theorems were generated. The functions and interrelationships of these concepts form a holistic system that brings continuity into the endless transforming process of Chinese communication. It is hoped that the theory will serve as a mirror reflecting potential problems occurring in the intercultural communication and provide …

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2001-2002, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island course catalog.

The Electronic Fishbowl As A Community Of Inquiry: Management Passion In The Xxist Century, Matthew Eriksen

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation presents a new pedagogy called the Fishbowl that employs experiential learning based on reflection (Dewey, 1928, Rodgers, 1969, Schön, 1983, Torbert, 1973, 1976, 1991, Siebert & Daudelin, 1999), learning cells (Goldschmid, 1970 & 1971), and the fishbowl technique (Villalba, Lemmond, & Baymiller, 1998). It is an attempt to create a community of inquiry. The question addressed is what cognitive characteristics, communication skills, and affective characteristics of learners are related to learner satisfaction with the Fishbowl pedagogy. Communication factors are taken into consideration because the Fishbowl is a cooperative form of learning and it represents a novel communication episode. …