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Rationalism And The Professional Development Of Graduate Teaching Associates, Diana C. Woodhouse

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of U.S. And Taiwanese Print Advertising Strategy, Chun-Lin Wu

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Revealing The Textual Mask, John Jason Buckley

Master's Theses

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Testing Two Models Of Acculturation And Well-Being Of Asian College Students, Teresa Jamie Soriano

Master's Theses

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Left-Isolation From A Construction Grammar Viewpoint, Shelley Crocker

Master's Theses

The Left-Isolation (LI) construction is a clausal construction that licenses long-distance dependencies and is responsible for a noun phrase object, indirect object or object of a preposition appearing before the subject of a sentence instead of in its canonical position after the verb. It is used in many different types of sentences, all of which have the pragmatics of drawing attention to the left-isolated element. This thesis examines the argument structure, valence, and information structure of the construction as well as some of the different types of sentences that inherit this construction. The types of participant roles as well as …

Depression: The Role Of Cultural Factors And Perception Of Treatment., Cynthia Chacon

Master's Theses

Depression is a prevalent mental disorder. Various factors influence people's attitudes toward help seeking, perceptions, and beliefs about psychotherapy, including ethnicity (language), distress level, social support, treatment modality, and subpopulation. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy (PT) have been used to treat depression. This study explored the relationship between the aforementioned variables. Participants (N = 264) were White and Mexican-American from a college and the community. Results indicated that ethnicity and subpopulation were not significantly related to seeking help; people who reported higher distress levels and higher social support expressed greater likelihood to seek help. All groups rated CBT …

A Risk Management Tool For The Reverse Supply Chain Network, Sheeva Banisalam

Master's Theses

The forward and reverse supply chains have unique characteristics that vary among different organizations. Most organizations manage and quantify risks in the forward supply chain by utilizing various available risk management tools. These risk management tools have been developed solely for the forward supply chain. This research presents the development and implementation of a risk management tool to be used to manage and quantify risks specifically in the reverse supply chain. Implementation of this tool at Company ABC demonstrates how the risk management tool is used in order to be beneficial to the organization. The tool is designed to be …

The Impact Of Being Born With Cleft And Cleft Reparative Surgery On Overall Health And Speech Outcomes, Khatansuudal Evsanaa

Master's Theses

Orofacial cleft is one of the most common and treatable birth defects in the world. If left untreated, orofacial cleft can impair normal speech development, growth, and could lead to a number of health consequences later in life. The main motivation of the study is to measure the impact of being born with cleft and the cleft reparative surgery on overall speech and health cleft for teenagers in India using difference-in-differences approach along with household fixed effects method. An overall health outcome was measured using height, weight, grip strength and BMI, and the speech acceptability was measured using a “Universal …

The Reconsideration Of Jean-Michel Basquiat's Work From The Hybrid Cultural Perspective, Alaina Young Mosny

Master's Theses

In his short 27years, iconic artist Jean-Michel Basquiat produced thousands of works of art that were quickly sold and bought on the New York art market of the 1980s. During the height of the demand for his work, Basquiat was generally appreciated as a young street artist who broke his way into the main stream art world. Much of his success was due to critics/ dealers capitalizing upon his identity, rather than considering the complex cultural influences in his life and art. His primary achievement seems to be that he was a black artist, representing black themes, and successfully selling …

Knowledge As Conversation: Richard Rorty And The Legacy Of American Pragmatism, Patrick Brendan Smith

Master's Theses

This thesis examines the place of philosopher Richard Rorty in the American pragmatist tradition. To locate him within this rich tradition, I outline the major tenets of classical pragmatism that constitute the core aims of the early pragmatists-Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. These three figures are examined thoroughly to identify the consistencies and inconsistencies in their individual pragmatist doctrines and to define the context in which pragmatism was born. This examination serves as the jumping off point for the central portion of the thesis: Richard Rorty and the revival of American pragmatism during the 1980s.

Rorty's place …

Intelligent Query For Real Estate Search, Mandeep Jandir

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Expanding Javascript's Metaobject Protocol, Tom Austin

Master's Theses

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An Automata Based Authorship Identification System, Shangxuan Zhang

Master's Theses

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Women Disunited : Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale As A Critique Of Feminism, Alanna A. Callaway

Master's Theses

While there is plenty of traditional feminist critique of male power structures in Atwood's works, and particularly in The Handmaid's Tale, this thesis argues that the power structure of Gilead (the biblically-inflected nation Atwood imagines) also critiques the feminine roles that support and enable the repression of other women. Placing the novel in the contexts of Atwood's career, feminism, and dystopian literature, provides a fuller understanding of how the novel functions as an expression of the disunity of women.

Thus, this thesis turns the focus of The Handmaid's Tale from the consequences of patriarchal control and "traditional" misogyny, to the …

Englishisms In Post-Soviet Russian : Linguistic Markers Of Historical Change, Yuliya Thompson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Anonymity And Self-Disclosure On Myspace, George Retelas

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Management Of Children Who Stutter : A Survey Of School-Based Clinicians, Megan Zaninovich Murphy

Master's Theses

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Early Vocabulary Development In English, Mandarin, And Cantonese : A Cross-Linguistic Study Based On Childes, Shuxia Liu

Master's Theses

Early language development is an exciting topic in the field of child language acquisition. Only a limited amount of cross-linguistic studies has attempted to investigate the similarities and differences in child language development across different languages. In this thesis, I present a study based on English, Mandarin and Cantonese corpora extracted from the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES, MacWhinney, 2000). I investigated the lexical compositions of certain lexical categories (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) in children and their caregivers’ vocabularies across eight different children age groups ranging from 13 to 60 months. ANOVA, frequency analysis, and cluster analysis were used …

Dynamic Qualities Of Motion Crosslinguistic Semantics Through Laban Analysis, Jimmyle Listenbee

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Leave-Taking Among Russian Jewish Immigrants In California, Katherine Zinger

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Sentence Recognition In Native And Foreign Languages : Comprehension Of Form And Meaning, Sara Elizabeth Sepanski

Master's Theses

The goal of language comprehension is to retrieve and retain the meaning of speech or text. Research with monolinguals has shown that participants' ability to detect structural changes in sentences decreases with time, while their ability to detect meaning changes remains accurate (Sachs, I967). In this study I examined whether this monolingual pattern holds for bilingual speakers in a second language. English-Spanish bilinguals at three different proficiency levels participated in a reading task in which native (LI) and non-native (L2) language sentences were presented. Participants read both LI and L2 sentences and were then tested for their recognition of the …

Richmond, Virginia's Every Monday Club, 1889-1919, Maureen Elizabeth Salmon

Master's Theses

This thesis examines the formation and growth of the Every Monday Club, a woman's literary club in Richmond, Virginia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Since the group has never been researched before, most of the study concentrates on untouched archives. The study uses the extensive Every Monday Club papers which include club meeting minutes, letters, papers, pictures, yearbooks, and newspaper clippings. This information is also supplemented with obituaries, census, and other primary data. The records disclose issues of class, race and education.

Experiences Of Ethnic Acceptance And Prejudice In English Language Learning: Immigrants' Critical Reflections, Jeffrey T. Labelle

Master's Theses

Digitized thesis

Transactional Literature Circles And The Reading Comprehension Of At-Risk English Learners In The Mainstream Classroom, Cheryl Mcelvain

Master's Theses

Digitized thesis

Buddhas & Bratwurst: Ethical Identity In Global Contexts, Patrick Mcdonnell

Master's Theses

Digitized thesis

Japanese Accent Placement On Four-Mora Loanwords, Atsuko Yamura

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Politics Of Theater And The Theater Of Law: The Legal And Cultural Implications In Langston Hughes And John Wexley's Dramatizations Of The Scottsboro Trials, Mosby Garland Perrow Iv

Master's Theses

Collectively, the charges and convictions of nine black youths in Scottsboro in 1931 became a symbol of corruption and oppression for those interested in reshaping America's political and legal landscapes. Scottsboro instigated a decade of trials and retrials, two landmark United States Supreme Court opinions, countless dramatic interpretations, and various artistic responses. In particular, Scottsboro, Limited by Langston Hughes and They Shall Not Die by John Wexley were cultural revisions of the trials in 1931 and 1933, respectively. While both works supported the defendants, they were distinguished by their form, production and ultimate statement about the meaning of Scottsboro. These …

Text And Transformation: Refiguring Identity In Postcolonial Phillipines, R Edmund Lacson

Master's Theses

Digitized thesis

A Semantic Sketch Of Spatial Grams In Garifuna, Elaine Drom

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

How Mediation Is Used By Alternative Dispute Resolution Organizations To Resolve Racial Conflict, Pam Hogan

Master's Theses

This study reports findings of interviews with volunteer mediators for Community Boards, a dispute resolution organization in the city of San Francisco, California, describing their approach to participating as panel members in multiethnic mediations.

The study demonstrates a notable difference in the approaches taken by mediators when race is identified as a point of contention in a mediation. The data show experience and ethnicity as variables in these responses. The findings further suggest that most mediators believe they require further training to feel equipped and comfortable in their handling of such mediations.