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The Relationship Of Frequency And Social Desirability Of First Names With Academic And Sex Role Variables., Debra Ruth Crisp

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Much research has been done to support the notion that name stereotypes exist. These stereotypes appear to be related to the popularity of names. The present study was conducted in an effort to discover whether certain types of names were actually associated with different behavioral or attitudinal factors in the people who possessed those names.For a sample of 1094 University of North Dakota students who were first-time entering freshmen in the fall of 1977, the following data was collected, as much as possible, for every subject: first name; the number of times the name occurred in the population; a social …

Mary And Simon: A Novel., Harry Edwin Eiss

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Mary and Simon: A Novel chronicles a period in the lives of three generations of two families in the Mid-western United States during a period of roughly thirty years, 1880-1910. In an early scene Simon fishes, apparently unconcerned that some twenty yards away Mary hangs from a tree, dead. The novel then moves back and forth through their lives, enriching the meaning and significance of this initial scene.Both the structure and the poetic truth of the novel are based on the principle of Theme-and-Variation, an important principle of art, particularly in music, the principle by which the main idea or …

6 Cubicles (Original Drama)., Daniel Warren Landes

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6 Cubicles is a three act drama that is best labeled a "tragicomedy." The plot revolves around the life of Hilda Stag, an elderly English professor whose obsessive behavior is best typified by her kleptomania and her mania for watching soap operas. Eventually Hilda's bad habits are chosen by her colleagues as the "sins" of the faculty office for which "atonement" must be made. Hilda thus becomes a scapegoat who is "sacrificed" by her officemates by means of a seemingly harmless prank. Suffering a mental breakdown, Hilda fantasizes herself in a religious soap opera but is victimized here as well, …

A Study Of Aristotle's "De Anima": Perception As An Epistemological Concept., Muhamad Ndaula Lubambula Sansa

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The research problem is to investigate and analyze perception as an epistemological concept in the writings of Aristotle, using De Anima as the focus for the study.The purpose is to identify and analyze the epistemological premises in Aristotle's theory of perception with particular reference to the intellective process. The Aristotelian concepts utilized as the framework are perception, empiricism, imagination, memory, Aristotle's doctrine of potentiality and actuality and his theory of nous.Aristotle held that perception implies both conception and sense perception. He says that in sense perception the sense organ receives the form without its matter and the object actualizes the …

Perceived Inservice Needs Of Secondary School Business And Office Educators For Educating Disadvantaged/Handicapped Students., James Hugh Nelson Jr.

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The purpose of this study was to identify inservice needs as perceived by secondary business and office educators for effectively educating disadvantaged and/or handicapped students.A total of 500 participants were contacted by mail and asked to respond to a questionnaire survey. The response was 57.2 percent, or 286, of the 500 business and office educators.Nationally, business and office educators perceived all twenty inservice need items as being immediate in the mentally handicapped section. Nationally, the three most important items for educating mentally handicapped students were: (1) Determining mentally handicapped students' capabilities. (2) Identifying mentally handicapped students. (3) Developing positive attitudes …

Articulation Practices In Nabte Member Institutions Regarding Shorthand And Typewriting Courses Completed In High Schools And Noncollegiate Post-Secondary Schools., Mary Hill Turner

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The problem of this study was to identify the articulation practices in effect in NABTE (National Association of Business Teacher Education) member colleges and universities regarding students who had completed shorthand and/or typewriting courses in high schools and noncollegiate post-secondary schools before entering the teacher education program.A total of 296 questionnaires were mailed and a total of 224 usable returns were included in this study.Significant differences were found in articulation practices based on financial support, regional accreditation and AACSB/NCATE membership.While there was little evidence of the existence of statewide articulation programs, public institutions were less likely to be involved. Public …

The Process Of Selecting Appropriate Small Computer System Under $10,000 For Business Organizations Today, Henry Wendell Jordan Jr

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Hemispheric Specialization And The Processing Of Stroop Color-Word Stimuli, Joel Patrick Newman

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The present investigation examined neuropsychological hypothesis of Stroop color-word interference. It was hypothesized that the combination of verbal and color content in one stimulus provided an opportunity to examine relative left- and right-hemisphere contributions to cognition in neurologically-intact subjects. Several individual difference variables of lateral brain function, including characteriological or trait anxiety and situation-specific arousal, were chosen as independent variables. Additionally, visual field of presentation and hand of response were systematically varied.Subjects consisted of neurologically intact psychiatric inpatients, professional hospital staff, undergraduate students, and members of the community as a whole. They received discretely projected Stroop color-word stimuli in the …

Written Communications' Criteria Identified By Accounting Supervisors For Evaluating Accounting Reports In Public Accounting Firms, Gail Bjelverud Brostrom

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The problem of this study was to determine the written communication criteria job-entry level accountants need to enable them to write accounting memorandums and reports that are acceptable to their supervisors and the accounting firm they work for.A list of writing criteria and definitions was developed with the assistance of accounting educators and a jury of accountants. Lists of criteria and definitions were sent to 43 senior accountants employed by the five CPA firms participating in this study. These senior accountants were direct supervisors of job-entry level accountants and critiqued the writing of job-entry level accountants. Of the 43 senior …

A Comparative Study Of Empathic And Comprehensive Listening Skills And Act Assessment Composite Score, Kris M. Neumann Koester

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United States Diplomatic Relations With The Holy See Since 1928, Harry Robert Keller

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A Comparative Study Of The Competitive Levels Of Women At The University Of Minnesota, Crookston, Wayne Arthur Olson

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The Interpretation Of Metaphor In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Joan Livingston-Webber

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A Comparison Of Listening Skills At The Beginning And End Of A College Fundamentals Of Public Speaking Course, Anne M. Gravesen

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An Investigation Of The Type-Token Ratio, Kelley Patricia Ritchie

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Otto Von Essen's GrundzüGe Der Hochdeutschen Satzintonation (Fundamentals Of High German Sentence Intonation) : A Translation, Kathleen E. RüPpel

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The Barriers To Effective Intercultural Communication In A Study Abroad Program, Colette Renee Strehlow

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A Comparison Of Educational Goals Between Parents And Educators At Valley Elementary School, East Grand Forks, Minnesota, Lyle R. Clausen

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A Survey Of North Dakota And Manitoba Speech/Language Clinicians Regarding Their Services To Neurologically-Impaired Adults, Fiona M. Walton

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The C:R:F Procedure For Screening The Language Of Kindergarten And First-Grade Level Children, Nancy Leigh Wright

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Policy Trends For Federally Financed Child Care Over Two Decades (1960-1979), James P. Pedersen

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A Study Of The Nature Of Pension Obligations, Anthony Berdahl

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Theatre Activity In Devils Lake, North Dakota Between 1899 And 1910, Jan M. Huesgen George

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Devils Lake, North Dakota was an active and progressive city between 1899 and 1910* In the search for a more cultured lifestyle, the pioneers took great pains to bring theatrical troupes to their city. Thus, Devils Lake had a substantial amount of theatre activity in those years.

This thesis is a study of the theatre activity in Devils Lake between 1899 and 1910. Included in the study are the names and types of travelling troupes that were engaged in the city during that period, and the types of entertainment the troupes performed* The lake and the railroads were prime factors …

Attitudes Of Clog Dancers Regarding The Formation Of A National Association, Dennis H. Cobia

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Clog Dancers in regards to forming one unified National Clog Dancing Association.

The study found the following results: 1) the majority of clog dancers and leaders want one unified National Association, 2) competition and exhibition festivals should be continued, 3) dance terminology should be standardized, and 4) the more number of years a person is involved in clog dancing the more they want a unified National _Organization.

The French Of The French Cree (Michif) Language, Mary J. Peske

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French Cree is a language with a verb system based primarily on a Plains Cree dialect and with noun phrases stemming almost entirely from a French dialect or dialects. This study focuses on the French portion of the language and its historical origins. To determine these origins, phonological and semantic features that distinguish French Cree French from standard French are presented and compared with modern French of France and of Canada, archaic French dialects of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and a few other North American French dialects. The considerable amount of literature dealing with the historical development of …

Pre-College Characteristics And Early College Experiences As Predictors Of Freshman Year Persistence, Robert B. Nelson

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics which differentiated freshmen who persisted beyond the fail semester of 1980 at the University of North Dakota from those who did not.

The research population consisted of all "undergraduate regular"— "new freshman" enrolled during the fall semesters of 1979 (M » 5560) and 1980 (N » 1551). A random sample of 400 students drawn from \he 1980 research population were sent a mail questionnaire, A total of 336 (84X) usable responses were received.

Variables Included in this study were of two types: (a) pre-college characteristics from students' ACT Assessments and …

Generalized Software Packages And Their Implications For The Auditor, Charles B. Dill

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A Comparison Of Learning And Costs Of Continuing Education Programming Via Traditional Versus Telephone Delivery In The State Of North Dakota, Richard M. Winant

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The United States House Of Representatives: An Organizational Analysis, Edith Lowry

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Auditing In An Electronic Data Processing Environment, Terry L. Moore

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