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Community Perspectives In Higher Education Service Leaming And Volunteerism, Andrea Vernon Dec 2001

Community Perspectives In Higher Education Service Leaming And Volunteerism, Andrea Vernon

Thesis, Dissertations, Student Creative Activity, and Scholarship

This study is a qualitative analysis measuring community perceptions of college student volunteers and service learners. The purpose of the study was to examine college student service learning and volunteer activities from the community perspective through data gathered from community agency personnel who work directly with college student volunteers who are serving to meet the needs of youth.

Personnel from 15 community youth service agencies in seven Montana communities were interviewed to determine (a) how agencies ensure and measure the quality and effectiveness of college student volunteer service, (b) the impacts that college student volunteers have at the youth service …

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A Meta-Analysis Of Service Learning Research In Middle And High Schools, Amy E. White Dec 2001

A Meta-Analysis Of Service Learning Research In Middle And High Schools, Amy E. White

Thesis, Dissertations, Student Creative Activity, and Scholarship

This study examines the relationship between service learning innovations and improved academics, self-concept, and social or personal growth in middle and high school students. Meta-Analysis is employed to arrive at effect-size estimates for each construct. A historical overview of service learning is presented and a detailed description of the study selection process is provided. The data revealed a moderate relationship between service learning participation and academics, self-concept and social or personal growth in middle and high school students. The findings are presented, and some appropriate conclusions are drawn. A discussion of the implications of these findings and recommendations for future …

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Inside Front & Back Covers: Sumi Ink Paintings, Mary Dondero Dec 2001

Inside Front & Back Covers: Sumi Ink Paintings, Mary Dondero

Bridgewater Review

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One Woman's Saga: 50 Years Of Civil Rights And Racial Prejudice, Lynne S. Elliott Dec 2001

One Woman's Saga: 50 Years Of Civil Rights And Racial Prejudice, Lynne S. Elliott

Honors Theses

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Report On The Anglo-American Project In Pompeii 2001 Field School, Guy Knight Dec 2001

Report On The Anglo-American Project In Pompeii 2001 Field School, Guy Knight

Honors Theses

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Applications Of Sequential Analysis In Pragmatic Human Communication: A Discussion Of The Challenges Of Data Collection, Marian Appiah-Kubi Dec 2001

Applications Of Sequential Analysis In Pragmatic Human Communication: A Discussion Of The Challenges Of Data Collection, Marian Appiah-Kubi

Honors Theses

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A Meditation On American Politics': Can Lincoln's Political Ideals Provide Continuity With Our Past?, James D. Hardy Dec 2001

A Meditation On American Politics': Can Lincoln's Political Ideals Provide Continuity With Our Past?, James D. Hardy

Civil War Book Review

George Anastaplo began his career in an unusual fashion. He was a victim of the Illinois Bar Association's aversion to free expression in a First Amendment case, In re Anastaplo (366 U.S. 82 [1961]). He went on to an exceptionally distinguished academic career of sustained publication in law ....

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Between The York And The James: Nine Essays Put Peninsula And Seven Days Battles In Context, Kevin Levin Dec 2001

Between The York And The James: Nine Essays Put Peninsula And Seven Days Battles In Context, Kevin Levin

Civil War Book Review

This is the seventh installment in the University of North Carolina Press's Military Campaigns of the Civil War series. Though each volume is intended as a supplement to more traditional narratives, the series has been influential in providing new interpretations by challenging tired assumptions and....

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Command Performance: Actress Turned Plantation Mistress Decried Horrors Of Slavery, John Anthony Scott Dec 2001

Command Performance: Actress Turned Plantation Mistress Decried Horrors Of Slavery, John Anthony Scott

Civil War Book Review

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Burnside's Gamble: Fredericksburg Account 'Summarizes A Familiar Story', Robert K. Krick Dec 2001

Burnside's Gamble: Fredericksburg Account 'Summarizes A Familiar Story', Robert K. Krick

Civil War Book Review

Through most of the Civil War's campaigns in the Virginia Theater, Fredericksburg held a position near center stage. The opposing capital cities of Washington and Richmond lay equidistant on either side; wagon roads converged in town; a major river flowed past; and a railroad crossed the river in do....

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Cultural Aggression: Did Antebellum Northern Elites Dehumanize Southerners?, Ian Crowe Dec 2001

Cultural Aggression: Did Antebellum Northern Elites Dehumanize Southerners?, Ian Crowe

Civil War Book Review

North Over South is a study of the development of nationalist thought in the northern United States in the three decades preceding the Civil War's outbreak. Central to this study is Susan-Mary Grant's argument that "northern nationalism" increasingly monopolized the "search for an American na....

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End Of The Road: Sherman Was Tenacious, But Johnston Was The Better Negotiator, Peter S. Carmichael Dec 2001

End Of The Road: Sherman Was Tenacious, But Johnston Was The Better Negotiator, Peter S. Carmichael

Civil War Book Review

In the popular imagination, the image of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant amicably discussing surrender terms in William McLean's parlor on April 9, 1865, symbolizes the end of the Civil War. The subsequent proceedings at Bennett Place, North Carolina, have often been an obscure footnote to the st....

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Contested Meanings: Gadfly' Historian Separates Civil War Fact From Myth, Lesley J. Gordon Dec 2001

Contested Meanings: Gadfly' Historian Separates Civil War Fact From Myth, Lesley J. Gordon

Civil War Book Review

Alan T. Nolan is probably best known for two books, written 30 years apart. The first, The Iron Brigade, was published in 1961 and hailed as a model unit history. Three decades later, Nolan wrote Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History, a much more controversial bo....

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Desperate Courage': Griswoldville's Lopsided Outcome Signaled The Confederacy's End, Albert Castel Dec 2001

Desperate Courage': Griswoldville's Lopsided Outcome Signaled The Confederacy's End, Albert Castel

Civil War Book Review

Judging by the total number of troops involved (no more than 4,000), the casualties for both sides (fewer than 700), and its strategic significance (none at all), the clash that took place near Griswoldville, Georgia, in November 1864 was not a battle, but merely a minor engagement. Yet Griswoldv....

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Freedom Riders: Complex Characters Present Black Cavalry Regiment's Plight, James G. Hollandsworth Jr. Dec 2001

Freedom Riders: Complex Characters Present Black Cavalry Regiment's Plight, James G. Hollandsworth Jr.

Civil War Book Review

It was not until 1943, when Bell Irving Wiley published The Life of Johnny Reb, that the common soldier in the Civil War gained his voice. Although veterans on both sides of the conflict published reminiscences after the War, their memoirs lacked the perspective that only a scholar such as Wi....

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From Sherman's Army, With Love: Illinois Soldier's Field Letters Address Things Back Home, Larry G. Ligget Dec 2001

From Sherman's Army, With Love: Illinois Soldier's Field Letters Address Things Back Home, Larry G. Ligget

Civil War Book Review

Colonel Smith D. Atkins loathed General Gordon Granger and sought to persuade William Rosecrans to attach Atkins's 92nd Illinois Infantry to active duty at the front. Relief came after Colonel John Wilder observed the regiment building a bridge across the Duck River, liked what he saw, and had it as....

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Into The Midst Of Chaos': Young Adult Title Recounts The Demise Of Fort Sumter, Mary Bahr Fritts Dec 2001

Into The Midst Of Chaos': Young Adult Title Recounts The Demise Of Fort Sumter, Mary Bahr Fritts

Civil War Book Review

Major Robert Anderson, USA, has achieved the unenviable position of opening civil war," shouted the headlines. The Charleston Courier interpreted Anderson's removal of federal troops in December 1860 from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter as hostile. His move, even though "under cloak of night," w....

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Scrapbook Spies: In Richmond, Two Women Choose Conscience Over Country, Meg Chorlian Dec 2001

Scrapbook Spies: In Richmond, Two Women Choose Conscience Over Country, Meg Chorlian

Civil War Book Review

In the fictional Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies, friendship, intrigue, danger, and courage are woven together to flesh out a little-known story in history. The result is remarkable, and leaves the reader wishing more was known about the real lives of these two fascin....

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Tactical Errors: Union And Confederate Armies Were Hampered By Atlanta's Landscape, Philip L. Secrist Dec 2001

Tactical Errors: Union And Confederate Armies Were Hampered By Atlanta's Landscape, Philip L. Secrist

Civil War Book Review

In Atlanta 1864, Richard McMurry ably retraces the familiar scholarly analysis of Confederate command interplay during the Atlanta campaign, in which wartime field tent strategies collided with the long distance meddling of Richmond. Disappointingly, nothing fresh and new rises from McMurry's....

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Trouble In The Finger Lakes: Lincoln's Colorful Sleuth Abel Jones Investigates Civilian Unrest, Thomas Hill Dec 2001

Trouble In The Finger Lakes: Lincoln's Colorful Sleuth Abel Jones Investigates Civilian Unrest, Thomas Hill

Civil War Book Review

Shadows of Glory is Owen Parry's second Abel Jones historical suspense novel. The first mystery, Faded Coat of Blue, was set in Washington, D.C., at the very beginning of the conflict. It received very favorable reviews. The present installment takes place mostly in the Finger Lakes re....

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Unpopular Beliefs: Unionist Minister's History Of Wartime Arkansas Returns To Print, Lawrence Lee Hewitt Dec 2001

Unpopular Beliefs: Unionist Minister's History Of Wartime Arkansas Returns To Print, Lawrence Lee Hewitt

Civil War Book Review

Originally published in 1864, William Baxter's first-hand observations in and around Fayetteville, Arkansas, between 1860 and 1863 now have received a second reprinting in Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove. Though he meticulously describes the Confederate troops marching to and from the 1862 battle....

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War In Watercolor: Draftsman's Diaries And Drawings Record Battles, Andersonville, Ben L. Bassham Dec 2001

War In Watercolor: Draftsman's Diaries And Drawings Record Battles, Andersonville, Ben L. Bassham

Civil War Book Review

Among the soldier-artists who created a contemporary pictorial account of the Civil War, Robert Knox Sneden was almost certainly unique. With the publication of Eye of the Storm, an edited version of his illustrated wartime diary, Sneden should now be placed in the front ranks of Civil War a....

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War As Remembrance: Novel Reconstructs A Lovestruck Childhood Overwhelmed By Events, Randal W. Allred Dec 2001

War As Remembrance: Novel Reconstructs A Lovestruck Childhood Overwhelmed By Events, Randal W. Allred

Civil War Book Review

John Reed's first novel, A Still Small Voice, is told as a memoir of Alma Flynt, an orphan girl who is taken in by her Aunt Bettina in Kentucky, just prior to the War. Alma learns herb and root healing from her aunt and falls in love with John Warren Cleveland, the younger son of the neighbor....

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Feature Essay, David Madden Dec 2001

Feature Essay, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Have you ever crawled inside a defunct forge and imagined working in that hell-hot, narrow space, glancing up at the sun struggling to penetrate the smoke hole, like the mouth of a cannon? I'll never forget standing briefly inside the Great Western Furnace on the Land Between the Rivers in Tennessee....

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Annual Report On Japan's Economy And Public Finance 2000-2001, Government Of Japan: Cabinet Office Dec 2001

Annual Report On Japan's Economy And Public Finance 2000-2001, Government Of Japan: Cabinet Office

Documents

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Table Of Contents (V. 26, No. 2) Dec 2001

Table Of Contents (V. 26, No. 2)

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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A Critique Of Burrow V. Arce, Charles Silver Dec 2001

A Critique Of Burrow V. Arce, Charles Silver

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Will Big Tobacco Seek Bankruptcy Protection? A $145 Billion Verdict Poses The Question, Mark Gottlieb, Richard A. Daynard Dec 2001

Will Big Tobacco Seek Bankruptcy Protection? A $145 Billion Verdict Poses The Question, Mark Gottlieb, Richard A. Daynard

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Lessons Learned From Flint, Michigan: Managing Multiple Source Pollution In Urban Communities, Emily L. Dawson Dec 2001

Lessons Learned From Flint, Michigan: Managing Multiple Source Pollution In Urban Communities, Emily L. Dawson

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Waiting For The Mountain To Come To Doe: Existing Options For Compromise Between The Department Of Energy And Nuclear Utilities Regarding The Disposal Of Spent Nuclear Fuel, Timothy P. Cairns Dec 2001

Waiting For The Mountain To Come To Doe: Existing Options For Compromise Between The Department Of Energy And Nuclear Utilities Regarding The Disposal Of Spent Nuclear Fuel, Timothy P. Cairns

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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