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Selected Interest Factors Related To Academic Achievement At The University Of North Dakota., David Lawrence Lee

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Implications For A High School Education Industry Correlated Model Astronautics Program With Exploratory Concepts, Richard A. Nygard

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The Cultural Mentality Types And Their Role In Sorokin's Sociology Of Knowledge, Masahiko Urayama

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The Dream Mine: A Study In Mormon Folklore, Joe Stanley Graham

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In September of 1894, John Hyrum Koyle, Jr., said that he was shown in a dream or vision a large, rich deposit of gold and an underground storehouse of artifacts hidden by people of Ancient America. This dream was the beginning of a mining venture which has never produced anything of value, has been opposed vigorously by both officials of the LDS Church and the State, yet has claimed supporters numbered in the thousands.

The mine has profoundly affected (and continues to affect) the lives of many families who have come into the sphere of its influence. The lore of …

The School Of The Prophets: Its Development And Influence In Utah Territory, John R. Patrick

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Four separate and distinct Schools of the Prophets were organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Joseph Smith Jr. organized the first school in the spring of 1833, and it functioned periodically until 1837. Brigham Young organized the second school in December 1867, as a part of the University of the State of Deseret. It functioned until August of 1872 when Brigham Young disbanded it because members failed to adhere to its rules. Three months later he reorganized on a limited basis a third school in Salt Lake City. This school existed until the summer of 1874 …

An Analysis Of Byu 1963 Women Graduates' Present Status As Mothers In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Phyllis Ann Roundy

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This study was conducted to survey the practices and feelings of a selected group of young mothers concerning: (1) their family life and (2) their activity in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A Comparison Of Methods In Teaching Beginning Design Techniques As A Function Of Industrial Arts Education, Mathias A. Burgad

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Business Teacher Education, With Special Implications For Basic Business Offerings, In Institutions Attended Primarily By Black Students., James Lafayette Toles Jr.

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Transparency As A Prognostic Variable In Psychotherapy., Gary Gran Forrest

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Personal And Occupational Characteristics Among Selected Clerical Employees With Improved Employability., Florentine Viola Goodlett Sowell

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A Comparative Study Of The Transition To Parenthood In Formosan And American Married College Students, Dolores Sheng-Mei Huang Hsu

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A Study Of The Status Of Physical Education For The Educable Mentally Retarded In North Dakota Schools, Richard G. Studsrud

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This study was conducted during 1969 to determine current practices in the physical education programs for the educable mentally retarded in North Dakota schools. The purpose of the study was to obtain and analyze data concerning the following aspects of physical education: teacher qualification, scheduled class periods, type of instruction provided, activities, facilities, equipment and supplies used, tests or evaluation procedures used, and attitudes toward physical education.

Ninety-eight questionnaires were sent to physical education teachers of educable mentally handicapped students. Eighty-two questionnaires were returned and analyzed.

Findings of the study warranted a number of conclusions. A high percentage of teachers …

A Comparison Of Physical Fitness Development Of Physical Education Students And Athletes Compared To Normal Physical Maturation Of Junior High Boys In Havre, Montana, Neil C. Boyd

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The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in fitness levels shown among a Control Group and two Experimental Groups over a two year period. The Control Group consisted of seventy-two boys not taking instructional physical education or participating in any athletics. Experimental Group I consisted of one hundred subjects taking the regular physical education classes; Experimental Group II, of forty-eight subjects involved in a year round athletic program in addition to the regular physical education classes.

Pre and post test comparisons were made on the seven items of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation …

Religious And Secular Correlates Of The Lds Family Home Evening Program, Gordon E. Mauss

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The purpose of this study was to describe and explore three phenomenon of the L.D.S. Family Home Evening Program: (1) the nature of religious commitment in an L.D.S. sample, (2) the degree of participation, (3) the relation of certain religious and secular variables.
The data for the study were made available to the researcher by A. L. Mauss, as part of a larger study designed to measure the impact of Urbanism upon Mormonism. The instrument, modeled after the Glock and Stark studies, was adapted to a random sample of 958 members of the L.D.S. Church in Utah.
The nature of …

A Study Of Differences Between A Group Of Community College Students In An Adjustment Skills Course And A Control Group On Selected Personality And Non-Academic Characteristics, Eugene L. Curtis

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Problem: The purpose of this study was to ascertain the differences between a group of community college students in an Adjustment Skills course and a control group on selected personality and non-academic characteristics.

Procedure: The subjects in this study consisted of 56 freshmen males and 33 freshmen females enrolled at Wenatchee Valley College during the 1967 Fall Quarter who received a standard score less than 42 on the English Composite sub-test of the Washington Pre-College Test, or achieved a high school grade point average in English of less than 2,5. The experimental group consisted of 22 males and 17 females, …

A Study Of The Impact Of Three Films Upon Lds College Students' Acceptance Of Certain Patterns Of Affection, William R. Cunningham

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The purpose of this investigation was to try to measure the perceived effect of three films upon L. D. S. college student's attitudes toward premarital affection immediately after viewing each film and over a time interval of three to four weeks. The sample consisted of seven health classes (180 males and 195 females in total) in the Department of Health Education at the Brigham Young University. A questionnaire was devised by the investigator and used as the instrument to determine the student's perceived attitudes toward premarital affection.

The students evidenced significance change in the conservative direction only after viewing the …

An Early History Of The Community Of Park City, Utah, Oscar F. Jesperson Jr.

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Park City, Utah, has been one of the most permanent mining camps in Utah. While constituting the industrial and population center of Summit County, it has contributed over one half billions dollars to the economies of Utah and the nation. This thesis deals with the early years of Park City, 1869-1910. This period saw an influx and combination of several ethnic groups which served to enrich the cultural history of Park City. Religion and social organizations were a major part of the life of this community. The political effect of this mining camp on Summit County and the Territory of …

An Analysis Of The Process And Social Significance Of Characterization In Four Plays By N.F. Simpson, Kathryn A. Aparicio

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A Comparison Of The Late Wisconsinan Molluscan Fauna Of The Missouri Coteau District (North Dakota) With A Modern Alaskan Analogue, Samuel J. Tuthill

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Study of forty fossiliferous sites in late Wisconsinan sediments from the Missouri Coteau district in central North Dakota has defined the molluscan fauna of the period of geologic time between 12,000 and 9,000 C14 years before the present. The fauna includes twenty-eight taxa of nonmarine gastropods and bivalves and is dominated by branchiates. The modern molluscan fauna of the Missouri Coteau district in North Dakota lacks four species which were resident in the late Wisconsinan and contains no unionids, one additional aquatic species, and is strongly dominated by pulmonate gastropods.

The geology of the Missouri Coteau has been interpreted as …

Internal-External Locus Of Control In Relation To Information Extraction, Lilly J. Schubert

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A Curriculum Guide In Family Living, Leonard A. Ratzlaff

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Rural Occupational Mobility : A Preliminary Analysis, Ronald A. Stevens

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Working Mothers And Their Substitutes, Richard A. Pederson

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The Effects Of Stimulus Word Connotation, External Control, And Ego-Involvement On Perceptual Recognition Thresholds, Deanna R. Grim

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The Educational Attitudes Of Elementary Teacher-Trainees In Selected Teacher Education Programs., Gale O. Teske

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State Programs For Student-Teaching., Lowell A. Vaughn

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Selected Characteristics Of Senior High School Students Having Differential Counseling Referral Status., Ansel Luverne Woldt

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Biographic, Cognitive, Demographic And Personality Differences Between Adolescents From Families With Identifiable Alcohol Problems And From Families Without Identifiable Alcohol Problems., Mary Leo Kammeier

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Acceptance Of Urban Renewal : A Partial Verification Of Boskoff's Model Of Social Change, Gordon P. Sutherland

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A Study Of Divorce Rates For Temple And Non-Temple Marriages According To Occupational Status And Age At Marriage, Seymour P. Steed

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This study focused upon differences between L.D.S. temple and L.D.S. non-temple marriages (which was used as a measure of religious commitment) with respect to divorce rate, and the relationship of occupational level and bride's age at marriage to divorce rate.

A total of 419 couples were involved in the study. They were all married in 1955, had been born in Utah, and were residing in Utah at the time of marriage. Temple and non-temple marriages were equated for occupational level at the time of marriage. By 1968, the L.D.S. temple married couples tended to be higher in occupational level.

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