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Commencement Program 2012, Whitworth University

Commencement Programs

Undergraduate Commencement exercises of Whitworth University in May 2012.

Stakeholder Theory And Marketing: Moving From A Firm-Centric To A Societal Perspective, Gene R. Laczniak, Patrick E. Murphy

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

This essay is inspired by the ideas and research examined in the special section on “Stakeholder Marketing” of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing in 2010. The authors argue that stakeholder marketing is slowly coalescing with the broader thinking that has occurred in the stakeholder management and ethics literature streams during the past quarter century. However, the predominant view of stakeholders that many marketers advocate is still primarily pragmatic and company centric. The position advanced herein is that stronger forms of stakeholder marketing that reflect more normative, macro/societal, and network-focused orientations are necessary. The authors briefly explain and justify …

Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism, And Clinical Legal Education, Katherine R. Kruse

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

From The African American Oral Tradition To Slam Poetry: Rhetoric And Stylistics, Shawnkeisha Stoudamire

McNair Scholars Journal

Slam poetry is one of the most recent cultural innovations of African Americans. As with many cultural innovations, the artistry of slam poetry is undervalued while its entertainment appeal is overvalued. Although slam poetry’s artistry lies in both verbal and non-verbal aspects of performance, this research project focuses mainly on selected verbal features of slam poetry. This research seeks to balance the artistic and entertainment appeal of contemporary slam poetry by demonstrating that its verbal features derive from a linguistic heritage in early forms of Black English vernacular oral storytelling and from new styles of performance poetry produced by African …

From The Enlightenment To Genocide: The Evolution And Devolution Of Romanian Nationalism, Shawn Wooster

McNair Scholars Journal

In the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries attempts at gaining national and political recognition through the work of Uniate priests in Transylvania and secular intellectuals in the Regat eventually culminated in the 1848 revolution, leading to the recognition of an autonomous Romanian state in 1878. Romania was further enlarged at the end of World War I with the Treaty of Trianon. Along the path to nationhood nationalism took on an ever-increasing exclusivity. Using Romania as a case study, this article addresses how nationalism occasionally becomes murderous. More specifically it addresses the origins of Romanian nationalism and how it influenced Romania’s support of …

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McNair Scholars Journal

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Modeling Micro-Economic Resilience And Restoration After A Large-Scale Catastrophe: An Analysis Of The Gulf Coast After Katrina, David L. Butler, Edward Sayre

Faculty Publications

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Willingness To Use Adhd Treatments: A Mixed Methods Study Of Perceptions By Adolescents, Parents, Health Professionals And Teachers, Regina Bussing, Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, Kenji Noguchi, Dana Mason, Gillian Mayerson, Cynthia W. Garvan

Faculty Publications

Little is known about factors that influence willingness to engage in treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). From 2007 to 2008, in the context of a longitudinal study assessing ADHD detection and service use in the United States, we simultaneously elicited ADHD treatment perceptions from four stakeholder groups: adolescents, parents, health care professionals and teachers. We assessed their willingness to use ADHD interventions and views of potential undesirable effects of two pharmacological (short- and long-acting ADHD medications) and three psychosocial (ADHD education, behavior therapy, and counseling) treatments. In multiple regression analysis, willingness was found to be significantly related to respondent …

The Friendly Yeti, Daniel S. Capper

Faculty Publications

Most images of yetis in Western popular culture and scholarly literature portray them as secular, predatory monsters. These representations overlook important religious dimensions of yetis that are hidden in the current literature, so I take a new look at yetis in Tibetan religions in order to clarify our understanding of these legendary creatures. Following a phenomenological approach that sets aside the issue of the ontological existence of yetis, I examine texts, art, ritual, and folklore in order to propose four yeti personal ideal types: the Buddhist practitioner, the human religious ally, the friendly yeti, and the mountain deity yeti. These …

2012-2013 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Course Catalogs, 1895-2024

An annual catalog of courses and course descriptions offered at the University of Montana.

Low-Stakes, Reflective Writing: Moving Students Into Their Professional Fields, Joyce Neff, Garrett J. Mcauliffe, Carl Whithaus, Nial P. Quinlan

English Faculty Publications

This study examines low-stakes, written commentaries from a graduate counseling course to better understand the role writing plays in the transition from being a student to becoming a professional practitioner. The cross disciplinary research team used methods from Grounded Theory to analyze 60 commentaries and found that: (1) low-stakes, reflective writing revealed changes in self-awareness from Situational Self-Knowledge to Pattern Self-Knowledge (Weinstein & Alschuler, 1985); (2) low-stakes writing provided evidence of students connecting personally to learning and then connecting learning to professional practice; and (3) low-stakes writing encouraged the instructor to make mid-course adjustments to his teaching methods. This study …

Gender, Justice, And Jim Crow: North Carolina Judge Elreta Alexander And The Long Civil Rights Era, Virginia Lyndsay Summey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Elreta Melton Alexander (1919 – 1998) was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Coming of age during the Jim Crow period of the South, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a teacher and grew up comfortably as a part of the black middle class. The descendant of two white grandparents, her bi-racialism formed her early awareness of colorism within the African-American community. Alexander received her Bachelor of Arts from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University before going on to become the first African-American woman to graduate from Columbia Law School in 1945. In 1947, she …

The Legal Mobilization Dilemma, Douglas Nejaime

Emory Law Journal

Perry v. Brown, the federal lawsuit challenging Proposition 8--the California state constitutional amendment prohibiting marriage for same-sex couples--was filed in 2009. At that time, it presented sweeping federal constitutional claims for marriage equality and sought to ultimately put those claims before the U.S. Supreme Court. The suit defied the strategic vision of lawyers at the leading lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) legal organizations--Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). Those lawyers had attempted to keep the federal courts away from Proposition 8 and …

La Teologia Africana Per Una Chiesa In Crescita Nel Contesto Della Globalizzazione, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Sommario Dopo aver delineato i primissimi passi della teologia africana nel prendere atto e consapevolezza della propria autonomia e del suo specifico contesto religioso, l’autore li collega con la notevole, permanente crescita della sua Chiesa locale. Illustra i tratti e i fattori della sua capacità di sollevarsi da una condizione di dipendenza coloniale e culturale fino all’attuale fiorente sviluppo, che comporta pure sfide e sofferenze.

Summary: African theology for a growing church in the context of globalization After having given an outlook on the very first steps of the African Theology to take account and consciousness of its autonomy and …

Beyond Ecumenical Dialogue, Thomas Hughson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Divinity Of Christ And Social Justice, Thomas Hughson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Id-Communicate : Development And Implementation Of A Communication Model For Health Professionals Working With Adults With Intellectual Disabilities, Marlena Seibert Primeau

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

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Sexual Behaviour Among Male Methamphetamine And Heroin Dependents Attending Drug Rehabilitation Clinic / Mohd Fadzli Mohamad Isa, Mohamad Isa Mohd Fadzli

Student Works (2010-2019)

The debates about associations between drugs use and sex have been going on for decades. Drugs use and sex are mediums of pleasure and bring about sense of euphoria and enjoyment. Illicit drugs use has evolved from natural-based drugs such as opiates and cannabis to synthetic-based substances such as amphetamine and methamphetamine. This evolution even modifies the motives of drug use from just a primary emotion-altering substance that cut the users on the loose into a substance that can increase enthusiasm, motivation and self-esteem. The effect of methamphetamine on sociability and emotional loosening effects of heroin has increased their use …

Islamic Values For Ict Development With Reference To Malaysian Context / Aznan Zuhid Saidin, Aznan Zuhid Saidin

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study seeks to form an understanding for the incorporation of Islamic values in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development. ICT development is defined as the activities related to the creation and application of ICT for the purpose of meeting the needs of individuals, organisations, communities, nations and the society at large. The purpose of this study is set upon the backdrop of the need for Muslims ICT practitioners to offer a kind of ICT development that is not void of God-consciousness and Islam as the way of life. Even though previous works have been done on Islamic values and …

Palestinian Diaspora Entrepreneurship - A Driving Force In The Knowledge Economy / Mervat Hatem N. Shahin, Mervat Hatem N. Shahin

Student Works (2010-2019)

National economies are becoming more knowledge based-economies where productivity and growth have become more dependent on knowledge. In view of this rising globalised knowledge economy, trans-national migrants are playing an increasing role contributing to demographic changes and answering to the competition amongst nations for skilled knowledge nomads. Emigrated intellectual, skilled, and technological people are an invaluable resource for the development of their respective home countries. Their contributions to economic development are substantial through platforms of the knowledge economy, and via knowledge networks. Entrepreneurs, be they local or Diaspora, have become a key element of economic development, success, and sustainability. Entrepreneurship …

Evaluating The Electronic Data Interchange Adoption Decision Among Malaysian Manufacturing Companies / Lee Sai Leong, Sai Leong Lee

Student Works (2010-2019)

Electronic Data Interchange has been in use from the early 1960s and has evolved over the last 50 years to include Internet EDI. Even though EDI has a long history, it is still very much in use today by major US and European automotive industry and the energy, healthcare, retail and manufacturing sectors. This is in spite of competing options from electronic procurement to enterprise resource systems. The main reason for its longevity is because it’s standards-based and its reliability has been proven through many years of commercial use. EDI has many benefits to offer its adopters. Notwithstanding this, businesses …

A Study Of The Thought Of Selected Muslim Intellectuals In Iran On Islam And Modernity, With Special Reference To Science And Politics / Maryam Shamsaei, Maryam Shamsaei

Student Works (2010-2019)

Nothing troubled the people of the Islamic world at the beginning of the twenty-first century as much as the challenge of modernity did. It had occupied a central place in the cultural and sociopolitical agendas of intellectual and social movements, and state actors in the Islamic world and Iran since the 19th century. This study is a theoretical analysis of Iranian Muslim intellectuals’ encounter with Islam and modernity. The two main spheres of modernity which are examined are: i) the political arena and the government structure, and ii) science and technology. The goal of this dissertation is to examine and …

Conversational Topics Of Urban Malaysia Preschoolers / Evelyn Kow Pei Ping, Evelyn Pei Ping Kow

Student Works (2010-2019)

The central aim of this study is to identify the conversational topics of urban Malaysian preschoolers. Using quantitative and qualitative approaches, this descriptive study elicited data from an urban, English medium child care and development centre, which provided two groups that comprised 18 preschoolers of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Punjabi descent. A compact digital camera with video recording function was used to record the preschoolers’ reading time, activity time, drawing time, playtime and mealtime conversations on a first-hand basis for four consecutive days and on two separate occasions – September 2009 and March 2010. These conversations yielded 26 clips totalling …

Linguistic Strategies Of Politeness In Malaysian Chatrooms / Nur Najla Zainal Anuar, Zainal Anuar Nur Najla

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study delves into the issues of language and politeness among chatters who use the chat room to communicate via the internet. The medium of communication used in this study is the Yahoo instant messenger where it is a private web based chat room, created specifically for this purpose. In order to find out if politeness is used by chatters in this „faceless‟ community, it is investigated in terms of language forms and functions through the use of emphatic stress, capitalization and excessive punctuation marks, greetings, leave-taking, profanity language as well as a self censorship. Later on, language use is …

'Interpretive Genres' In Natural History : A Socio-Cognitive Perspective / Yee Chee Leong, Chee Leong Yee

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study is an interdisciplinary research that analyses written discourses in natural history through the genre analysis’ lens. Genres are explored and examined by drawing on insights gathered from different disciplines such as linguistics, communication and environmental humanities. Data collected comprise a corpus of selected natural history texts published by the Malaysian Nature Society, Malaysia’s oldest non-governmental environmental and conservation body. Multiple conceptual and analytical models are combined to examine these resources from a socio-cognitive perspective: Bhatia’s (2004) multidimensional and multi-perspective model for professional discourse analysis and the notion of ‘generic integrity’; Tilden’s (1957) principles of interpretation; and Leftridge’s (2002) …

A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Representation Of Donald Trump In The Guardian / Zainab Hamzah, Hamzah Zainab

Student Works (2010-2019)

Employing Ruth Wodak’s Discourse-Historical Approach (Wodak 2001), this research report analyzes the construction of negative-other representation of Donald Trump and his Golf Complex project in Balmedie, Scotland by The Guardian online. The e-news articles are examined for the strategies that are employed to construct a negativeother representation of Donald Trump, and the ways these strategies are linguistically realized. The ensuing findings reveal that eventhough The Guardian successfully constructs a negative-other representation of Donald Trump, his success in getting the planning permission for his golf project shows this hegemonic influence and power over the people of Scotland.

Language Learning Strategies Used By Undergraduates To Overcome Language And Affective-Related Problems In Speaking English / Hazlia Azila Illias, Illias Hazlia Azila

Student Works (2010-2019)

A study was carried out to examine and to compare between the perceptions of the English-major and non-English-major University of Malaya students towards the problems they faced in speaking English and between the strategies they used to improve their spoken English. Specifically, the objectives of the study were to investigate and to compare between the English-major and non-English-major students‟ perceptions towards their language-related and affective-related problems in speaking English, and to examine and to compare between both groups‟ use of cognitive and functional-use strategies to improve their spoken English. The sample for the English-major population consisted of 30 students majoring …

Retorik Bahasa Tamil Dalam Pengumuman Pemasaran Nilai Sosial Thr Raaga / Kalaiselvi Shanmugam, Kalaiselvi Shanmugam

Student Works (2010-2019)

This research attempts to scrutinize the usage of rhetoric strategies in a program called PNS which is aired by a private radio channel called THR Raaga. This research aims to identify the rhetoric strategies that are aired in PNS as well as describe them systematically in qualitative and quantitative forms. Phrases that contain a certain rhetoric strategy will also be identified and portrayed. Besides this, the effectiveness of the PNS announcements will also be studied from the listeners’ view about this program. Library research was done as a base for this study. A research framework suggested by Cobert & Connors …

Identity Construction And Code Switching In English Newspaper Advertisements / Deborah Ashabai S. Fredericks John, Deborah Ashabai S. Fredericks John

Student Works (2010-2019)

Identity construction and code switching in print advertising has become an area of growing interest. However, studies on this topic in the Malaysian context are limited. Globally there are significantly more studies conducted, but most scholars investigate the occurrence of English lexical items in local language advertising. Thus, an examination of code switching in advertisements in the Malaysian context would be significant. This study aims to examine the construction of identity through the use of code switching in English newspaper advertisements in Malaysia. Specifically, this study examines how code switching is used to construct identity, determine the types of identities …

A Genre Analysis Of Promotional Language In A Brahmin Matrimonial Website / Janet Linda A/P George Martin, Janet Linda George Martin

Student Works (2010-2019)

This paper explores how male and female subscribers in the “Brahmins Matrimony Website” advertise themselves based on Bhatia’s promotional genre analysis moves. Generally, Indians would seek for potential life partners based of the same caste. The Brahmins are the highest caste in the Indian caste system. They are generally known to be very religious with priestly background, allowing marriages only within their own caste in order to maintain their position and also to perserve their cultural background and identity. Therefore, in this study the researcher has chosen the “Brahmins Matrimony Website” (www.brahminsmatrimony.com) as the source of data collection. There are …