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The Report Of The Department's Visitation Team From Site Visits To Schools In Manchester During April 2012, Edward R. Murdough, Administrator, Bureau Of School Approval And Facility Management

Manchester Research Group

This report discusses data, findings, and recommendations for the Manchester School District based on the New Hampshire Dept. of Education team visits to various schools.

As-751-12 Resolution On Proposed New Degree Program: Bachelor Of Arts In Liberal Arts And Engineering Studies, Curriculum Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

Approves the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies.

A Content Analysis Of The Media Agenda Setting In The Saudi National Newscasts, Faisal Adnan Sabir

Student Theses and Dissertations

Employing the agenda setting perspective, this study examined the values in two Saudi national channels' newscasts. These government owned channels have been content analyzed. They are: KSA 1 which is targeting Arabic viewers, and KSA 2 which broadcasts in English. The results support and reinforce the understanding of the various postulates of the agenda setting theory, such as influencing the dynamics of opinion expression and formation on the viewers, as well as, applying the agenda setting theory on the Saudi national TV to understand the relationship between public, media and policy agenda setting. The media agenda setting is strongly correlated …

Academic Senate - Agenda, 5/29/2012, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Small Anatomical Variant Has Profound Implications For Evolution Of Human Birth And Brain Development, Robert G. Tague

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of College-Family Conflict On Academic Variables For College Student-Parents., Michael Leonard Green

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A large body of research exists concerning working parents' dual-role conflict, known as Work-Family Conflict (WFC; Greenhaus & Beutell, 1985) and its adverse effect on work and non-work variables. Given the similarity to the salient life roles of academic work and parenting, this study applied the model of WFC to a college student-parent population to test a model of the harmful effects of College-Family Conflict (CFC) on academic variables. This sample included 345 graduate and undergraduate student-parents. This study used Structural Equation Modeling to provide a model of dual-role conflict that demonstrates how the roles of parent and college student …

A Study Of Effective Teachers' Knowledge And Use Of Intersectional Data To Improve Student Academic Performance, Raychellet Williamson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The discussion on how to improve students’ academic performance has a long and rich history in the U.S.Although it has been a national priority, the debate has centered on the best method to accomplish this goal. Bernhardt (2003) and Shenand Cooley (2008) recognized the importance of teachers, principals, and data, deployed together, as critical tools to improving academic performance.More specifically, putting the right cross-section of data about the student, school, staff, and community together can inform teachers of the best practices to improve students’ academic performance. The researcher’s goal was to develop a consensus on teachers’ knowledge and use of …

There’S No Place Like Home: From Oz To Antichrist, J. Sage Elwell

Journal of Religion & Film

This article explores the dialectic of the uncanny in The Wizard of Oz (Victor Flemming, 1939) and Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009), treating the latter as a sequel to the former such that we encounter Dorothy first as a young girl and then as a grown woman. I observe that the uncanny entails a repressive and expressive moment that is cinematically rendered in these two films, and drawing on Freud and Žižek, I argue that in Dorothy’s evolution from Oz to Antichrist we see that the witches and wizards and gods and devils of our own minds are known to …

Scapegoats And Redemption On Shutter Island, Cari Myers

Journal of Religion & Film

The themes of redemptive violence, scapegoating, and ritual in the films of Martin Scorsese have provided much grist for critical scholarship. While it is going too far to claim that Scorsese is intentionally interpreting Girardian themes (which are themselves borrowed from a rich mythological tradition), the comparisons between the theorist and the director are compelling. My goal here is to establish the primary themes of scapegoating, mimesis, the cycle of violence, and feuding identities that occur in both Girard’s works and Scorsese’s films and pull them forward into a more recent work of Scorsese, Shutter Island.

Good Girls: A Pilot, Kathleen Leonard

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Creation Of A Spatial Decision Support System As A Risk Assessment Tool Based On Kentucky Tornado Climatology, Christopher Michael Blinn

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Tornadoes are one of Mother Nature’s deadliest phenomena. They affect a large region of the United States. The risk of tornadoes is contingent on dynamic atmospheric conditions that are most likely during spring but which can occur anytime of the year, making the storms challenging to forecast. Using geographical information systems (GIS), a web-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) was created to help understand the spatial dimension of tornado risk assessment. The risk values are calculated using Tornado Days rather than taking a crude density measurement. The SDSS hosts GIS web services that are displayed on an Adobe Flex application. …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (Christina Britzolakis) (Reviewed by Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside)

Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi) (Reviewed by Yael Halevi-Wise, Brandeis University)

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (Laura Hinton) (Reviewed by Andrea Henderson, University of Michigan)

The Life of Henry Fielding (Ronald Paulson) (Reviewed by John Stevenson, University of Colorado, Bolder)

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for May 24-30, 2012. Vol. 91, No. 8

Macalester Receives $1.3m Grant From The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Macalester College

College Press Releases

No abstract provided.

An Exploratory Study To Determine If Marching Band Rehearsal Activities Could Satisfy National Physical Education Standard Three As Measured By The Heart Rates Of Collegiate Marching Band Members, Serena Weren

Student Theses and Dissertations

An increasing number of states allow high school curricular credits earned in marching band to substitute for required physical education credits. Legitimizing this substitution would required that marching band meet contemporary recommendations for frequency, duration, and intensity of physical activity as stated in the Third National Standard for Physical Education. The purpose of this exploratory descriptive study was to determine the intensity of physical activity occurring in a marching band rehearsal by measuring the heart rates of collegiate marching band members using pulse counts and heart rate monitors. Some marching band activities were found to raise the average heart rate …

Citizen Action, Power Relations And Wetland Management In The Tampa Bay Urban Socio-Ecosystem, Cornelius Owusu Adjei

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Wetlands are vital ecosystems that provide ecological, economic and social benefits to societies. In the Tampa Bay region in West Central Florida, a growing population has put immense pressure on wetlands. The situation has not gone unnoticed in the public domain with concerns raised about the need to formulate policies that would protect them. However, it has been difficult to ascertain the level of citizen involvement in the decision making process.

This study aimed at investigating whether the perceptions and concerns of citizens drove them to influence local water policy. Questionnaires were used to collect data from residents living in …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Global Poverty - Local Problem: Institutional Determinants Of Poverty Among Indigenous Peoples Of Nepal, Gyanesh Lama

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This dissertation investigated why some groups or communities become poor while others become rich. Using institutional design as a theoretical guidance, the study conducted an in-depth analysis of the socioeconomic disparities between indigenous peoples and caste people in Nepal. The study used multilevel modeling, Geographic Information System: GIS), and ethnography research methods. Indigenous peoples in Nepal were found to be significantly at higher risk of poverty than caste people. Discrimination against indigenous peoples appears to be the key determinant of indigenous poverty. Geographic isolation and proximity to caste people were also significant predictors of indigenous poverty. The study has implication …

From Myth To Meth: Viewing The American Small Town Through The Lens Of Psychoanalytica Fantasy, Christopher Boehm

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Simultaneously a symbol for benevolent hospitality and hostile insularity, the American small town and its surrounding rural areas have assumed many faces and forms in both filmic and literary representations over the last hundred years. Whereas the metropolis carries with it a specific history and culture that is known, at least in part, by an audience, the small-town, with all its stereotypical associations, lacks an analogous geographical and historical specificity. As a result of this relative anonymity, the small town often becomes a blank canvas onto which a number of conflicting representations can be painted. Despite significant differences in historical, …

Fashioning Women Under Totalitarian Regimes: "New Women" Of Nazi Germany And Soviet Russia, Victoria Vygodskaia Rust

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

My dissertation seeks to expand our knowledge of Russian and German women's history under totalitarian systems by comparing women's fashioning by the state and their self-fashioning in Germany and Russia during the Third Reich and Bolshevik and Stalinist rule respectively. I argue that processes of women's fashioning and self-fashioning were largely influenced by the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates on the so-called Woman Question and the New Woman and were culturally specific. I map the evolution of the Woman Question and the New Woman in the decades directly preceding and following the Nazi and Bolshevik seizure of power, defining changing …

Finding National Security, John Greenman

American University National Security Law Brief

No abstract provided.

When Syracuse University Established A Presence Abroad (1950-1980): The Evolution And Application Of Policies And Procedures That Provided An Institutional Framework For Syracuse University Programs Designed For Undergraduate, Graduate, And Adult Students To Study Abroad [Aiea#11], Harold Vaughn

Images and other materials from University Archives

No abstract provided.

Lifetime Recollections [Aiea#18], Alexander N. Charters

Images and other materials from University Archives

No abstract provided.

Being Critical In Marketing Studies: The Imperative Of Macro Perspectives, Nikhilesh Dholakia

College of Business Faculty Publications

In this article, I argue that an elevated macro-level perspective is imperative for conducting critical studies in the fields of marketing and consumer research. There are epistemic barriers to operating in this manner, and I offer several suggestions for overcoming these barriers. Finally, I review the research spaces for critical studies of marketing in various global settings and conclude that United Kingdom and Nordic Europe have the best epistemic climate, and this region needs to take leadership in promoting greater range of macro and critical studies of marketing in the rest of the world.

The Image Of Philippines History And Society, Niels Mulder

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Northern Lights: Fourth World Nations And The Geopolitical Dance In The Arctic, Heidi G. Bruce

Capstone Collection

Over the past decade, the Arctic region has received increased attention from climate scientists, politicians, and transnational corporations. Human-induced climate change is causing glaciers to recede, resulting in new northern sea passages that are highly sought after by businesses and governments alike. Deeply affected by this increased northern exposure are Arctic Fourth World nations – politically and culturally distinct nations encapsulated by states – that have lived in the Arctic for millennia. This paper examines the impacts that expanded northern sea routes are having on Arctic Fourth World nations and the conflict mitigation approaches being used in the region. Research …

La Escuela Normal De Maestros De Instrucción Primaria, S.J. Arcilla

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

The Indigenization Of The Rama Story In The Philippines, Juan R. Francisco

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

The Yellow Revolution: Its Mixed Historical Legacy, Theodore Friend

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Rosa Sevilla De Alvero And The Instituto De Mujeres Of Manila, David E. Gardinier, Josefina Z. Sevilla-Gardinier

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.