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Jews In Space: On An American Road To Know Where, Craig Ira Kleinman

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Our Beloved Lizzie; Constructing An American Legend, Gabriela Schalow Adler

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Lizzie Borden is a legendary figure in American culture who, unlike some others, has not received much scholarly attention. Yet her story has generated a great number and variety of texts, and several performance pieces as well. New texts continue to be published. This body of work begs to be examined, so that insights may be gained into the interactions of popular literacies and narrative forms. The study of different textual treatments of the same subject allows us to trace issues of gender, class, family, the construction of subjectivity and the intersections of genre, narrative and history.

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The Renewed Recognition Of Dissociation In Clinical Assessment, Marylynn Augustoni

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The Important Of Cognitive Adaptability For Communicative Performance Across Cooperative Interactions, Matthew H. Roy

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Quantitative Eeg Effects Due To Task Related Processing Of Lateralized Auditory Continuous Performance Tests, Separate From Attentional And Motor Components Of The Tasks, Sherri M. Gold

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Quantitative EEG data were obtained for 22 male college students during a Resting condition and during performance of three continuous performance tests (CPT) that differed in the demands on linguistic processing. Previous EEG studies from our laboratory have indicated a relationship between left hemisphere beta power and performance of an auditory CPT that requires processing of phonetic stimuli. The participant listens to a series of letters and responds by pressing a button whenever the same letter is repeated twice in a row. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that left hemisphere EEG beta may reflect processing of language …

Sexual Assertiveness Training For College Women: An Intervention Study, Pamela Deiter

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Thirty participants in a four-week Sexual Assertiveness training workshop series were compared to 30 participants in a placebo control condition for general assertiveness, and to 30 participants in a no-intervention control condition. All 90 participants were undergraduate women from a northeastern university. Dependent measures included three subscales of the Sexual Assertiveness Scale, an AIDS Prevention Self Efficacy measure, the Rathus Assertiveness Inventory, and three measures of self-reported recent sexual behavior. Two new communication-related subscales to the Sexual Assertiveness Scale were piloted. Additional measures of anticipated partner response to sexual assertiveness, and history of victimization were included to learn about their …

The Power Of A Whisper: Subversive Words In A Dominant Text, Joyce Carol Cote

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Thomas De Quincey: Subjective Unification And The Representation Of Gender, Donald Joseph Currivan

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American Masculinity And The Gridiron: The Development Of The Football Narrative, Donald Lee Deardorff Ii

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Reading Ability, Vocabulary Acquisition, And Phonological Processes: An Investigation Of Vocabulary Acquisition By Skilled And Less-Skilled Readers, Linda Aguiar

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Previous research has found that skilled and less-skilled readers differ in their ability to incorporate aurally encountered words into their personal lexicons. The primary purpose of this study was to corroborate and expand these results. In addition, the present project investigated the associations among reading skill, vocabulary knowledge, and two phonological processes: verbal working memory and lexical access.

Data from 105 fourth-grade students were analyzed for this study. Each student took part in an experimental word learning procedure and completed three memory measures, two lexical access measures, and a test of basic reading skills. Data from subsets of 28 skilled …

Marriage And Money In Charles Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend", Deborah Hughes Burns

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The Politics Of Representation/Reading: A Feminist Critique Of Virginia Woolf, Jin Sook Oh

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Critical Action Research And The Changing Role Of Nurse Executives: A Case Study, Inger Margrethe Holter

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Would It Matter If Her Hair Were Brown? The Ethical Contract Between The Writer And The Reader Of Historical Fiction, Barbara Warren Harris

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Marie De France And Layamon: Cultural Subversives, Barbara Gall Von Mettenheim

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Movements And Moments: Violence As Rhetoric And Transgression In American Popular Culture, 1962-1992, Pauline Uchmanowicz

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Optical Allusions: Technologies Of The Body Visible, Karen Lee Potter

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Relations Among Verbal Working Memory, Listening Comprehension, And Reading Skills, Joanna S. Futransky

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Previous research suggests that verbal working memory deficits contribute to problems experienced in reading and in listening comprehension. The primary purpose of the present study was to explore the role of verbal working memory in listening comprehension for fifth-grade students. Additionally, the present research investigated the association between working memory and the two components of reading: decoding and comprehension. A third goal of the study was to investigate the power of listening comprehension, decoding ability-memory skills, and IQ to predict reading comprehension.

Data from 136 fifth-grade students with average to above average cognitive ability was analyzed for the study. Each …

Phonological Awareness In Four-And Five-Year-Old Children, Myra Green Gipstein

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Woman Across Time: A Literary History, Deborah Ann Brown Robinson

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The Memo As Genre: A Paradigm Of Context And Community, Frances Marie Harrington

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Seafood Consumption Patterns And Attitudes Towards Squid And Mackerel By Chinese And Koreans, Christine Duerr Tarasevich

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Verbal Working Memory And Speech Production Abilities In Children With Differential Reading Skill: A Chronological- And Reading-Age Comparison, Brenda H. Stone

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The primary goal of this study was to investigate the association between verbal working memory and speech production and to address a number of ongoing questions about the nature of the relationship between these two phonological processes and reading ability. In an effort to clarify these relationships, the following areas were explored. First, previous research has suggested that poor readers generally do not perform as well as their normal-reading peers on phonological processing tasks, but their performance is not consistently worse than younger children reading at the same level. In order to examine this issue, this study compared the performance …

This Is My Body Which Will Not Be Given Up For You: The Postmodern Feminist Avant-Garde And The Female Body, Carla Marie Oleska

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Dunbar And Skelton: A Comparative Analysis Of The Satiric Court Poetry, James A. Mcgoldrick

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In The Belly Of This Story: The Role Of Fantasy In Four American Women's Novels Of The 1980s, Bettina Havens Letcher

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Joy In A Minor Key: The Mystery Of Gender And Sex In The Thought Of C. S. Lewis, James Michael Deschene

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The Transtheoretical Model Of Change: Self-Change In Adolescent Delinquent Behaviors, Christine Fiore Lerner

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The Development Of Hope And Hopelessness: Structural And Functional Aspects, Anthony Scioli

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Hopelessness was explored from a developmental perspective. The investigation focused primarily on the relative importance of structural vs. functional variables in determining levels of hopelessness in children and adolescents. The two secondary aims of this study were to further clarify the concept of hopelessness, and to assess the construct validity of the Hopelessness Scale for Children (HSC: Kazdin et al., 1983).

Sixty-four children and adolescents scoring either "high" or "low" on the HSC were interviewed. Thirty-two of the subjects were children, 6-10 years of age. One half of these subjects were clinically involved. The adolescent sample also consisted of thirty-two …

Tailoring Nursing Care To The Individual Client: An Analysis Of Client-Nurse Discourse, Sarah Jo Brown

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