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Gloria Naylor's Double Voiced Discourse : An Examination Of The Women Of Brewster Place And The Men Of Brewster Place, Victoria L. Johnson Jan 2000

Gloria Naylor's Double Voiced Discourse : An Examination Of The Women Of Brewster Place And The Men Of Brewster Place, Victoria L. Johnson

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Shoot For The Moon, Katharine Dillard Mitchell Jan 2000

Shoot For The Moon, Katharine Dillard Mitchell

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A Costume Design For Wild Honey, Laura Jane Belew Jan 2000

A Costume Design For Wild Honey, Laura Jane Belew

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Folk, Susan Sudduth Mitchell Jan 2000

Folk, Susan Sudduth Mitchell

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Milktooth & Other Stories, James Tolliver Higgins Jan 2000

Milktooth & Other Stories, James Tolliver Higgins

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From State Architecture To Symbol Of Suspicion : Creole Design In Colonial And Antebellum Natchez / By Jon Lamar Wilsonx, Jon Lamar Wilson Jan 2000

From State Architecture To Symbol Of Suspicion : Creole Design In Colonial And Antebellum Natchez / By Jon Lamar Wilsonx, Jon Lamar Wilson

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Humor In The Detective Fiction Of Edgar Allan Poe, Gregory P. Jetton Jan 2000

Humor In The Detective Fiction Of Edgar Allan Poe, Gregory P. Jetton

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An Actor Examines Three Performances / By Michelle Stephanie Stone, Michelle Stephanie Stone Jan 2000

An Actor Examines Three Performances / By Michelle Stephanie Stone, Michelle Stephanie Stone

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Milk Enough For All : Food And Identity In Toni Morrison's 'Beloved', Julie Marie Mcgoldrick Jan 2000

Milk Enough For All : Food And Identity In Toni Morrison's 'Beloved', Julie Marie Mcgoldrick

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Beneath The Sheets : An Intellectual History Of The Women Of The Ku Klux Klan, 1923-31, Margaret Thomas Mcgehee Jan 2000

Beneath The Sheets : An Intellectual History Of The Women Of The Ku Klux Klan, 1923-31, Margaret Thomas Mcgehee

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A Nonlinear Stochastic Model Of Carbon Oxidation, Leili Gordji Jan 2000

A Nonlinear Stochastic Model Of Carbon Oxidation, Leili Gordji

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Changing Female Faces : The Image Of Women In Reader's Digest, 1935 To 1974 In Relation To The Feminine Mystique, Laura Blakely Harrison Jan 2000

Changing Female Faces : The Image Of Women In Reader's Digest, 1935 To 1974 In Relation To The Feminine Mystique, Laura Blakely Harrison

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Rediscovering The Balcony : A Director's Analysis Of The Processes Of Translating, Adapting And Staging Jean Genet's The Balcony, Alana Jean Ghent Jan 2000

Rediscovering The Balcony : A Director's Analysis Of The Processes Of Translating, Adapting And Staging Jean Genet's The Balcony, Alana Jean Ghent

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Scale Model Experiment For Acoustic Parameter Estimation Of Rooms, Donghua Li Jan 2000

Scale Model Experiment For Acoustic Parameter Estimation Of Rooms, Donghua Li

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An Examination Of Single-Copy Magazine Distribution In The United States And England, Jennifer Donnell Belue Janus Jan 2000

An Examination Of Single-Copy Magazine Distribution In The United States And England, Jennifer Donnell Belue Janus

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Works Of Men, Paul N. Akin Jr Jan 2000

Works Of Men, Paul N. Akin Jr

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Herbal Medicine : Consumers, Knowledge, And Self-Disclosure In The Rural Elderly, Dawn R. Bucher Jan 2000

Herbal Medicine : Consumers, Knowledge, And Self-Disclosure In The Rural Elderly, Dawn R. Bucher

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The purpose of this study was fourfold: (1) to identify the knowledge level of elderly rural residents concerning the safety, efficacy, and quality of herbal medicine; (2) to determine how many elderly rural residents are using herbs; (3) to identify if herbal medicine users disclose their use to their healthcare provider; and ( 4) to determine if a relationship exists among elderly rural residents, demographic characteristics, knowledge level, likelihood of self-disclosure, and use of herbal medicine. This study was a descriptive correlational design. The sample was elderly males and females residing in southwestern Minnesota who were members of their local …


The Use Of Alternative School Placements For Disciplinary Interventions With At-Risk Students, Tammie N. Feathers Dec 1999

The Use Of Alternative School Placements For Disciplinary Interventions With At-Risk Students, Tammie N. Feathers

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The purpose of this study was to investigate effective ways of providing educational services for at-risk students who are repeatedly placed out of the regular classroom into an alternative school. Characteristics of both settings were investigated in terms of meeting student needs to determine what ingredients might be missing from either or both settings that should be implemented to help these students succeed. The research was qualitative and used a case study design. Primary data were gathered from interviews with five students placed in an alternative school setting and interviews with teachers and administrators in both the regular school and …


Characteristics Of Viable And Sustainable Workers For The Year 2015, Brenda P. Dean Dec 1999

Characteristics Of Viable And Sustainable Workers For The Year 2015, Brenda P. Dean

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The purpose of the study was to forecast characteristics of valuable workers within Middle Eastern Tennessee for the year 2015. The following areas were studied as they related to the forecast: (1) the projected employment skill demands of business and industry; (2) the initiatives required and proposed by business and industry to meet their respective employment demands; and (3) the external support by education required for industry and business to meet their employment needs. The Delphi panel was composed of 22 business and industry leaders who were nominated by the county executive of the ten counties of the study, officials …


A Cohort Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Student Support Services Program At Southwest Virginia Community College, Michael J. Henry Dec 1999

A Cohort Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Student Support Services Program At Southwest Virginia Community College, Michael J. Henry

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The Student Support Services Program is one of five federally funded “TRIO” programs provided for by Congress and administered by the Department of Education that are designed to improve grade-point averages and the retention and graduation rates of low-income individuals, firs t-generation college students, and students with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to determine if the students who participated in the Student Support Services Program at SVCC achieved higher grade-point averages, retention rates, and graduation rates than did non-participants. There were no significant differences in grade-point averages between Student Support Services (SSS) Program participants and non-participants, The Student …


Elderly Respondents' Perceptions Of Patronizing Speech By Service Providers Toward Elderly Adults., Tammi Rae La Tourette Dec 1999

Elderly Respondents' Perceptions Of Patronizing Speech By Service Providers Toward Elderly Adults., Tammi Rae La Tourette

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This study examined the effects of several factors in elderly respondents' evaluations of neutral and patronizing speech by nurses toward elderly targets. Thirty-eight nursing home and 62 community Caucasian elderly women viewed two videotaped vignettes, one in which a nurse spoke to an elder target in a patronizing tone, and one with a neutral tone. Both samples rated the nurse more favorably, rated the elder target more satisfied with the conversation, and assumed that the nurse-elder dyad knew each other better when the nurse's speech was neutral as opposed to patronizing. Contrary to what was predicted, community elders did not …


Perceptions Of African-American Seniors Regarding Factors Of Institutional Support At Three Predominantly White Tennessee State-Supported Institutions Of Higher Education, Delmar L. Mack May 1999

Perceptions Of African-American Seniors Regarding Factors Of Institutional Support At Three Predominantly White Tennessee State-Supported Institutions Of Higher Education, Delmar L. Mack

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This study of African-American seniors at East Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee State University, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville was conducted to solicit student responses about the perceptions of their schools, university services, and experiences at those institutions. The study employed quantitative data and descriptive analysis was performed. Data collected in this study described the demographic characteristics of the students and their perceptions, attitudes, experiences and level of involvement in the campus environment for African-American seniors. Data in this study indicated perceptions that Tennessee must be committed to increasing financial support to the universities. Universities must be committed …


New Deal Murals In Kentucky Post Offices., Eileen Toutant May 1999

New Deal Murals In Kentucky Post Offices., Eileen Toutant

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This dissertation takes a primarily art historical approach to the murals commissioned from 1934 to 1943 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. This study is confined to the post office murals created for the Commonwealth of Kentucky under the United states Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts. Many of these paintings were lost or deliberately destroyed when the program was dismantled. Today most of the remaining murals are dirty and· faded and little noticed. Many of the artists have been forgotten. During the Depression years, however, these paintings contributed to local pride, optimism for the future, stronger patriotism, and a …


Costuming The Trojan Women, William Alan Williams Apr 1999

Costuming The Trojan Women, William Alan Williams

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On The Verge: A Production Study / By Mia Louise Self, Mia Louise Self Jan 1999

On The Verge: A Production Study / By Mia Louise Self, Mia Louise Self

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Evolution Of A Process : An Analysis Of Three Roles, Krista M. Pelham Jan 1999

Evolution Of A Process : An Analysis Of Three Roles, Krista M. Pelham

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Honey Hole / By Lee Calvin Sheppard, Iii, Lee Calvin Sheppard Jan 1999

Honey Hole / By Lee Calvin Sheppard, Iii, Lee Calvin Sheppard

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Chickasaw Ethnohistory, 1721-1740 : The Journal Of The Council And Council In Assembly South Carolina Sessional Papers, Troy Stephen Maxcy Jan 1999

Chickasaw Ethnohistory, 1721-1740 : The Journal Of The Council And Council In Assembly South Carolina Sessional Papers, Troy Stephen Maxcy

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Max Frisch's The Firebugs : A Morality Play Without A Moral., Suzanne Konicek Jan 1999

Max Frisch's The Firebugs : A Morality Play Without A Moral., Suzanne Konicek

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Effects Of Endurance Training On Swimming Performance And Hematological Characteristics Of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella Valenciennes), Dalma Martinovic' Jan 1999

Effects Of Endurance Training On Swimming Performance And Hematological Characteristics Of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella Valenciennes), Dalma Martinovic'

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