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Toward A More Inclusive Structure Of Sport: Is Participation In Coeducational Physical Activities Related To Perceptions Of Gender And Athletic Ability?, Rachel M. La Croix Jan 1996

Toward A More Inclusive Structure Of Sport: Is Participation In Coeducational Physical Activities Related To Perceptions Of Gender And Athletic Ability?, Rachel M. La Croix

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Regional Variations In Third World Development, Robert Dempsey Wynn Jan 1996

Regional Variations In Third World Development, Robert Dempsey Wynn

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Radical Environmentalism And Religion, Evelyn Louise Bush Jan 1996

Radical Environmentalism And Religion, Evelyn Louise Bush

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


New Kent County, Virginia Bets On Gambling: Government Program Or Business Strategy?, Alexandra Elaine Sasser Hall Jan 1996

New Kent County, Virginia Bets On Gambling: Government Program Or Business Strategy?, Alexandra Elaine Sasser Hall

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Perot Activism In 1992: Implications For The Republican Party, Jonathan Gabriel Kajeckas Jan 1996

Perot Activism In 1992: Implications For The Republican Party, Jonathan Gabriel Kajeckas

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Spirit Of The Times: Church, State And Revolution In Virginia, Kenneth William Rosenfeld Jan 1996

The Spirit Of The Times: Church, State And Revolution In Virginia, Kenneth William Rosenfeld

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Liberalism And Toleration: Competing Concepts Of Toleration In Liberal Thought, Jonathan Parks Pierpan Jan 1996

Liberalism And Toleration: Competing Concepts Of Toleration In Liberal Thought, Jonathan Parks Pierpan

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Seventeen" Magazine As A Manual For "Doing Gender", Amy N. Vreeland Jan 1996

"Seventeen" Magazine As A Manual For "Doing Gender", Amy N. Vreeland

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Knowable World: America, The City, And The Thematics Of Book Five Of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn Jan 1996

A Knowable World: America, The City, And The Thematics Of Book Five Of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


John Donne's Thwarted Redemption Of Poetry In "A Valediction: Of The Booke", Patrick Lee Plaisance Jan 1996

John Donne's Thwarted Redemption Of Poetry In "A Valediction: Of The Booke", Patrick Lee Plaisance

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Labor At Home: The Domestic World Of Workers At The Du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902, Margaret M. Mulrooney Jan 1996

Labor At Home: The Domestic World Of Workers At The Du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902, Margaret M. Mulrooney

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

While the history of the du Pont family and Du Pont Company have been well-documented, little is known about the everyday lives of the Irish Catholic immigrants who lived and worked at the home plant near Wilmington, Delaware. to correct this oversight, "Labor at Home" explores every aspect of the powder workers' domestic world--from religious beliefs, family structure, gender relations, and ethnic ties, to houses, furnishings, and yards--and uses this data to support new conclusions about cultural identity and class affiliation. as early as the 1820s, for example, powder mill families began to convey their increasing affiliation with bourgeois American …


Censorship, Cyberspace, And Community Standards: American Responses To On-Line Obscenity, Laura Mame Spear Jan 1996

Censorship, Cyberspace, And Community Standards: American Responses To On-Line Obscenity, Laura Mame Spear

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Once And Future Friend: Tennyson's Exploration Of Human Immortality, Melinda Simons Jan 1996

The Once And Future Friend: Tennyson's Exploration Of Human Immortality, Melinda Simons

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Breeding Ecology, Success, And Population Management Of The Piping Plover (Charadrius Melodus) At Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia, Robert Richard Cross Jan 1996

Breeding Ecology, Success, And Population Management Of The Piping Plover (Charadrius Melodus) At Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia, Robert Richard Cross

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Edna Pontellier's Impossible Dream: Fantasy And Reality In "The Awakening", Ronda Marie Holm Jan 1996

Edna Pontellier's Impossible Dream: Fantasy And Reality In "The Awakening", Ronda Marie Holm

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


On The Path To Paterson: Prose And The Search For The American Language, Mary Carolyn Click Jan 1996

On The Path To Paterson: Prose And The Search For The American Language, Mary Carolyn Click

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"As If I Were A Confederate Soldier": Mary Greenhow Lee And The Civil War She Waged In Winchester, Virginia, Sheila R. Phipps Jan 1996

"As If I Were A Confederate Soldier": Mary Greenhow Lee And The Civil War She Waged In Winchester, Virginia, Sheila R. Phipps

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Trains, Trucks, And Traffic Jams: The Rise Of Automotive Transportation, 1880-1956, Anthony Roland Destefanis Jan 1996

Trains, Trucks, And Traffic Jams: The Rise Of Automotive Transportation, 1880-1956, Anthony Roland Destefanis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Issues Of Power And Centrality In United Methodist Ministers' Occupational Activities: Implications For Professional Education, Richard Bruce Osmann Jan 1996

Issues Of Power And Centrality In United Methodist Ministers' Occupational Activities: Implications For Professional Education, Richard Bruce Osmann

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this interview based qualitative study was to explore the influence that a plurality of social contexts, represented through United Methodist congregations in the Virginia Conference, have on the formation of ministers' occupational activities.;The study used a typology developed by Larry Blazer (1987) to identify the occupational activities practiced by parish ministers. The investigation weighted clergy's professional practice using Judith Hackman's (1985) concepts of power and centrality in her study institutions of higher education's budgeting process. Congregational representatives identified occupational activities that were central and peripheral to their congregation's mission. Clergy identified the occupational activities that received more …


Maintaining Diversity In The Shadows Of Conformity: Can A Systematic Attempt To Maintain A University's Distinctive Mission Override Societal Pressures For Conformity?, Delrina Marie Clarin Jan 1996

Maintaining Diversity In The Shadows Of Conformity: Can A Systematic Attempt To Maintain A University's Distinctive Mission Override Societal Pressures For Conformity?, Delrina Marie Clarin

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to analyze the components of the University of Scranton's systematic program to develop and maintain a distinctive mission through Tierney's framework of organizational culture, and to analyze the congruence between the mission of the University of Scranton and the faculty's perception of the mission and their institutional activities.;The University of Scranton was chosen for three reasons: (1) Sporadic efforts to maintain its Catholic/Jesuit mission and identity had already been in place since 1977; (2) With the appointment of a Task Force on Identity and Mission in 1994, the administration is attempting to bring previous …


The Effect Of Chemical Dependency Counselors' Spiritual Well-Being On The Spiritual Well-Being Of Their Clients, Clifford Wilson Brooks Jr. Jan 1996

The Effect Of Chemical Dependency Counselors' Spiritual Well-Being On The Spiritual Well-Being Of Their Clients, Clifford Wilson Brooks Jr.

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact an inpatient substance abuse counselors' spiritual well-being had on chemically dependent patients' spiritual well-being over the course of two weeks in treatment.;Raymond Paloutzian and Craig Ellison developed the Spiritual Well-Being Scale which was utilized in this study along with the Rokeach Value Survey, the Personal Orientation Inventory, and the Profile of Adaptation to Life Scale. Pre and Post test packets containing the Spiritual Well-Being Scale and the Profile of Adaptation to Life Scale were administered to one hundred ten inpatient alcohol and drug patients. A total of forty-five alcohol and …


The Impact Of Sick Building Syndrome On Selected Variables Associated With School Effectiveness, Caryl Shannon Felty Jan 1996

The Impact Of Sick Building Syndrome On Selected Variables Associated With School Effectiveness, Caryl Shannon Felty

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Using matched pairs of schools having a diagnosis of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and those not identified, and not having the potential of being identified as having the diagnosis, this study examined the relationship between factors assumed or determined to have an impact on a school's ability to carry out its mission as they related to the SBS diagnosis. The factors studied were student average daily attendance (ADA); students' mean standardized test scores in math and reading on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency; the need for students to take prophylactic medications; the …


The Development Of Affinity Maturation In Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus Mykiss, Ing Wei Khor Jan 1996

The Development Of Affinity Maturation In Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus Mykiss, Ing Wei Khor

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Adult Attentional Functioning In Families With Children Diagnosed As Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Michael C. Mcdonough Jan 1996

Adult Attentional Functioning In Families With Children Diagnosed As Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Michael C. Mcdonough

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to explore what differences, if any, existed between individuals and families with or without children diagnosed as Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Information was gathered to identify subjects according to such demographic and situational variables as age, race, education, occupation, income, and performance on tasks requiring sustained attention and concentration. to further understand possible etiology each subject completed a neuropsychological battery. Collected data was analyzed to determine if the differences were significant.;The subjects were selected from the author's private practice and the local churches and schools that refer to that practice. Each subject completed a biographical …


The Narrator In The Middle English Bird Debates: A Dynamic Convention, Stephen B. Constantelos Jan 1996

The Narrator In The Middle English Bird Debates: A Dynamic Convention, Stephen B. Constantelos

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The John Page House Site: A N Example Of The Increase In Domestic Brick Architecture In Seventeenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Dwayne Webster Pickett Jan 1996

The John Page House Site: A N Example Of The Increase In Domestic Brick Architecture In Seventeenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Dwayne Webster Pickett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Fort Hill: A Representative Of The Structural And Social Hierarchy And Harmony Of Greek Revival Architecture, Beth Ann Spiryson Mcpherson Jan 1996

Fort Hill: A Representative Of The Structural And Social Hierarchy And Harmony Of Greek Revival Architecture, Beth Ann Spiryson Mcpherson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Guided Imagery As A Psychoneuroimmunological Intervention For Hiv-Positive Individuals, Christopher Dale Keene Jan 1996

Guided Imagery As A Psychoneuroimmunological Intervention For Hiv-Positive Individuals, Christopher Dale Keene

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Growth Dynamics Of A York River Estuary Heterotrophic Dinoflagellate Grazing Katodinium Rotundatum, Angela Denise Smith Jan 1996

Growth Dynamics Of A York River Estuary Heterotrophic Dinoflagellate Grazing Katodinium Rotundatum, Angela Denise Smith

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Quantification Of Tidal Creek Network Patterns Using Fractal Methods, David C. Fugate Jan 1996

Quantification Of Tidal Creek Network Patterns Using Fractal Methods, David C. Fugate

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.