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Harding University Graduate Catalog 2003-2004, Harding University

Harding Academic Catalogs

Academic catalog for the graduate programs at Harding University.

Continuing Development: A Snapshot Of Legal Research And Writing Programs Through The Lens Of The 2002 Lwi And Alwd Survey, Kristin B. Gerdy

Faculty Scholarship

This article summarizes the findings of the 2002 survey and highlights significant changes and trends in the operation of legal research and writing programs across the country.

Presentation At The American Library Association Annual Conference, Jackie Shane

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Majority Report “Responsible Parenthood” And Its Recommendations On Abortion, Sterilization And Contraception, Richard J. Fehring

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

This paper will focus on the majority report (titled “Responsible Parenthood”) of the 1966 Papal Birth Control Commission and its recommendations on abortion, sterilization, and contraception.(1) The analysis is made with the hindsight and perspective of thirty-seven years of scientific data on fertility, family planning, and family life. The analysis presented here does not concern the whole document but rather focuses on what are called the “objective criteria” that were provided in the document to help married couples make decisions on the use of contraception. While acknowledging the intellectual abilities and expertise of those who wrote the majority report, the …

Announcement, Spring 2003 Meeting, Florida Ornithological Society

Florida Ornithological Society - Records - Full Collection

Announcement for the Spring 2003 Florida Ornithological Society meeting, including information on location, reservation information, field trips, and events.

Because We Said So: The Sec's Overreaching Attempts To Regulate Mini-Tender Offers, Miriam R. Albert

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This Article examines the legalities of mini-tender offers and the regulatory responses thereto. Part II traces the legislative history and operation of the Williams Act and its application to mini-tender offers. This Part concludes that mini-tender offers likely do not constitute tender offers under the Williams Act as currently constituted.

Common Data Set, 2002-2003, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Common Data Set (2001-present)

Common Data Set 2002-2003 for Illinois State University

Rites Of Passage In Emerging Adulthood: Perspectives Of Young Mormoons, Larry J. Nelson

Faculty Publications

This study explores the role that culture, particularly religious rites of passage, may play in emerging adulthood by examining the demographics, criteria for adulthood, identity development, and risk behavior of Mormon emerging adults.

On Statutory Rape, Strict Liability, And The Public Welfare Offense Model, Catherine L. Carpenter

American University Law Review

Statutory Rape. At the center of a long-standing debate on whether its commission should require proof of a criminal mens rea, the prosecution of statutory rape offers a revealing look at the struggle to demarcate the parameters of the public welfare offense doctrine. Specifically, with respect to statutory rape, disagreement is deep and entrenched on whether statutory rape should be categorized as a public welfare offense, which would render irrelevant defendant's lack of knowledge of the victim's age. And despite wholesale revamping of state statutory rape laws on issues of age, gender, and potential grading and punishment, the debate on …

Dorothy Shaver: Promoter Of "The American Look", Tiffany Webber-Hanchett

Open Access Master's Theses

In the Depression year of 1932, Dorothy Shaver, the newly appointed vice president of Lord & Taylor, featured three young American designers in the department store's advertisements, window and store displays. Until this point, most American designers worked anonymously for manufacturers and retailers, many copying and interpreting Parisian fashions for the American market. Shaver's promotion of Elizabeth Hawes, Annette Simpson, and Edith Reuss in April 1932 was a successful effort to recognize American designers by name as the French couturiers were known. Shaver saw the need to pay tribute to domestic talent and in doing so, she became a trailblazer …

The South Providence Kosher Meat Boycott Of 1910: A Study Of Jewish Women’S Consumer Activism, Kimberly Susan Nusco

Open Access Master's Theses

This thesis examines a kosher meat boycott in South Providence in 1910, placing this event in the broader context of Jewish immigrant women's activism around food issues and the popular strategy of consumer protest during the Progressive Era. Through an analysis of press accounts, census data, and community statistics, this study presents an analysis of the possible causes and impacts of this example of immigrant Jewish women's activism in early twentieth-century Providence.

As women serve as both preservers of culture and mediators of the outside world (as expressed through domestic consumption), such incidents as kosher meat boycotts provide an opportune …

Miranda Field's Swallow, Michael Theune

Scholarship

No abstract provided.

My Re-Americanization, Willard R. Garred

The Bridge

They met in Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark. Ray Garred was a United States Navy sailor with a squadron of battleships sent by President William Howard Taft on a goodwill tour of England, the Scandinavian capitals, and Kronstadt, St. Petersburg's port city and Russian naval base. She was a Danish girl, Olavia Frederiksen, who had spent four years in the United States as a domestic servant and had learned English in an evening school for immigrants. The year was 1911, summer time. Tivoli, as many tourists know, is a natural place for visitors to Copenhagen to congregate, and it was where a …

Teenage Immigrant, Anne Ipsen

The Bridge

The poem by Emma Lazarus on the Statue of Liberty defines the classical model of immigrants fleeing from poverty, oppression, or persecution. They are refugees, forced by intolerable circumstances to move from their homeland. Less stereotypic is the highly skilled or educated individual who makes a positive choice towards better opportunity. These immigrants tend to come as individuals or as a nuclear family and are less likely to live in or identify with an ethnic group. They assimilate more readily, especially if they have some English before arrival, while keeping closer ties with relatives and making more frequent trips to …

Stjernen--A Danish Or An American Paper?, Karsten Kjer Christensen

The Bridge

On October 8, 1936, The Dannebrog News printed a special issue celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Dannebrog's incorporation as a town. The first Danish immigrants arrived in Howard County in 1871 and founded the settlement of Dannebrog the following year. But it would be another fourteen years before Dannebrog received official status and could establish its first town council. First appearing in 1898, the English-language The Dannebrog News became the longest persevering publication in the Dannebrog area. It was not the town's first, however, as two other newspapers preceded it. In the spring of 1874, an attorney by the name …

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

Instructional Technology, Motivation, Attitudes And Behaviors: An Investigation Of At-Risk Learners In The Middle School General Music Classroom, Sharon A. Clark

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

In middle schools today, teachers meet many challenges. Students come to school with a wide variety of experiences and economic backgrounds. They come with varying needs and abilities. Middle school is a time of many changes for students. One of the many goals of middle school is to meet the needs of the students in academics as well as the social, physical and emotional needs.

The research question addressed in this dissertation was: What are the effects of instructional technology on motivation, attitudes and behavior of at-risk learners in the middle school general music classroom? The purpose of this study …

Collaboration Between Student Affairs And Academic Affairs At Liberal Arts Institutions, Jessica Lynn Moon

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study examined the perceptions, attitudes, and practices of senior student affairs administrators and academic affairs administrators regarding collaborative work between their respective divisions. Through a survey adapted for this study, senior administrators at liberal arts institutions were asked to report their perceptions and opinions on the relationship between student affairs and academic affairs at their institution. They were also asked their perceptions of the need for collaborative relationships, the benefits of partnerships, occurrences of collaboration, and the perceived barriers to collaboration at their institutions. Seven scale composites were created to allow for a clear comparison of administrative responses on …

Evaluation Of The Averett University Leadership Minor Program, Paul A. Bryant

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The purpose of this applied dissertation was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Averett University Leadership Minor Program. There were four research questions for this project. First, “What are the criteria to be used to evaluate the Averett University Leadership Minor Program?” Second, “What are the criteria for effectiveness and the assessment design for the leadership minor program?” Third, “Do the benefits of the program outweigh the direct cost associated with maintaining the program?” Fourth, “What are the findings and recommendations based on the assessment information?”

Development and evaluation methodologies were used to address the problem and research questions. The …

A Brand New Middle School: Conception To Inception, Charles W. King Ii Ii

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This applied dissertation was designed to provide a practical model for building a new school. The basis for this model was the author’s experience as a public school principal with the responsibility of opening a new school. The context of this paper involved the initiation of organizational and operational processes for systems and structures associated with a new school. This model utilized recollections and recommendations of an experienced practitioner and might be considered a combination of a diagnostic aide and operational guide. This work may provide a practical model for the development, design, construction, and initial operation of a new …

Preparing Third Grade Students Who Are Adequately Decoding To Comprehend Reading Passages, Marva S. Jeremiah

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This applied dissertation focused on improving the reading comprehension of third grade students in an elementary school. The instructional model of the school was based on providing skills instruction. Further, students were not given opportunities to read independently for an extended time. The third grade students of this elementary school concentrated on decoding and neglected comprehension when they read.

A program was developed by this writer to help the participating students use strategies while reading. This program included teachers reading aloud to students to model strategies, the writer’s explicit instructions and guided practice of these strategies, and the students independent …

Coping With Human Immunodeficiency Disease As Predictor Of Adherence With Antiretroviral Medication, Saurabh Mistry

Open Access Master's Theses

Infection by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a multifactor disease process in which the patient must confront an array of physiological, sociocultural, economic, and psychological stressors that have the collective potential for triggering major stress responses and psychological dysfunction. People's reactions to and the outcomes of traumatic events are mediated by their subjective style of coping. Coping is defined as a person's "constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and internal demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the resources of a person". Coping, an important psychological construct has been shown to affect outcomes such as …

Clients' Views On Privacy And Security After September 11: Have They Changed? Should They? An Information Technology Lawyer's Perspective, Richard G. Lyon

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal

No abstract provided.

Looking For A Crack To Break The Internet's Back: The Listen4ever Case And Backbone Provider Liability Under The Copyright Act And The Dmca, Daniel W. Kopko

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal

In August 2002, a group of 13 record labels brought a lawsuit against the four major companies that provide the "backbone" infrastructure of the Internet. The record labels sought an injunction under section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1982 ("DMCA") to compel the defendants to block access to a China-based website, Listen4Ever.com ("Listen4ever"), that offered free downloads of entire albums of copyrighted music from its central server. The labels alleged that Listen4ever located its operations in China specifically to evade U.S. copyright laws. They noted that the site was in English and offered almost exclusively music by …

A Saturday School Program For At-Risk Students, Melvin Hitchens

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The problem under investigation is the frequency and severity of behavior related infractions. Township administrators are concerned because growing populations of students were violating the district’s policy on character education. Administrators were also concerned because a majority of these students academically lagged behind their peers.

The Saturday School Program was established for students who demonstrated a lack of respect for others. Students have threatened administrators with physical violence. Such behavior was a violation of the school policy on character development, which states that students should exhibit an attitude of caring, courage, honesty, responsibility and self-discipline. Although the lack of character …

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Standard Operating Procedures, Donald H. Stedman, Gary A. Bishop

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Publications

No abstract provided.

Differences In Friendship Qualities Of Korean And American College Students, Yun-Sun Alexis Bae '03

Honors Projects

The present study explored the friendship characteristics of Korean and American college students. Participants (41 Koreans and 87 Americans) described their friends using a questionnaire (Friendship Quality Questionnaire) and an interview. Because of the inadequacy of the interview coding system, the interview data were not analyzed. Analysis of the FQQ supported the hypothesis that Koreans exhibit higher exclusivity than Americans, but no other country effects emerged. Both U.S. and Korean women reported more intimate disclosure than men. Friendship characteristics of Korea and U.S. students were conceptualized using concepts such as Individualism and Collectivism, Confucianism, and the Korean term "cheong" (affection). …

Parenting And Adult Development: Contexts, Processes, And Products Of Intergenerational Relationships, Rob Palkovitz, Loren D. Marks, David W. Appleby, Erin K. Holmes

Faculty Publications

For the past 50 years, parenthood has been discussed in social science literature as a context of adult development. Theories, anecdotes, and the opinions of laypersons are nearly unanimous: People who become parents and are involved in the raising of children are transformed and follow a different developmental trajectory from people who do not engage in parenting roles. Erickson (1950) suggested that positive adult development reflects care for the next generation, or "generativity," and that parenthood is "the first, and for many, the prime generative encounter" (Erickson, 1964, p. 130). More recently, parenthood has been described as a necessary but …

The Relations Between Knowledge, Search Strategy, And Performance In Unaided And Aided Information Search, John A. Barrick, Brian C. Spilker

Faculty Publications

Information search is a critical step in resolving complex issues in many different decisionmaking domains. This study examines the relations between knowledge, search strategy, and performance in both unaided and aided information search. The results of an experiment indicates that (a) task-relevant knowledge is directly related to performance in aided but not in unaided information search; (b) in unaided information search, search strategy mediates the relation between knowledge and performance; that is, knowledge indirectly affects performance through its effect on search strategy; and (c) an information search aid moderates both the relation between knowledge and search strategy and the relation …

Automated Rating Of Esl Essays, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Diane Strong-Krause

Faculty Publications

To date, traditional NLP parsers have not been widely successful in TESOLoriented applications, particularly in scoring written compositions. Re-engineering such applications to provide the necessary robustness for handling ungrammatical English has proven a formidable obstacle. We discuss the use of a nontraditional parser for rating compositions that attenuates some of these difficulties. Its dependency-based shallow parsing approach provides significant robustness in the face of language learners’ ungrammatical compositions. This paper discusses how a corpus of L2 essays for English was rated using the parser, and how the automatic evaulations compared to those obtained by manual methods. The types of modifications …