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Completions 2014-2015, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Completions

IPEDS Completions annual report contains the following information:

• Number of awards conferred by program, by level, and by race/ethnicity and gender of recipient
• Number of completers, separately by race/ethnicity, gender, age and level of award

Images Of Power And A Kingdom Of Priests, Jean Sheldon

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Timeless Growth Principles From The Movement Of Hans Nielsen Hauge: A Case Study In Pietism, David Stein, Frederick Thoni

Great Commission Research Journal

As existing churches continually face the challenge of staying relevant, and new churches face the challenge of establishing traction in the first place, a fresh look at the dynamics of movements will help both. While large, existing churches can often operate from an institutional focus, new and growing churches have to operate from a movement focus. Declining churches need to recapture the dynamism that helped them come into being in the first place. In order to break free from the status quo a new catalyst must be inserted into the equation in order to move forward to the next level. …

Dr Alman Chan Siu-Cheuk 陳兆焯博士

Honorary Fellowship 榮譽院士

No abstract provided.

Is The College-Ready Teaching Framework Related To Student Achievement?, Narciso Aguda

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examined the College-Ready Teaching Framework (CRTF), a multiple measure teacher effectiveness rubric created by Green Dot Public Schools. The purpose of the dissertation was to determine whether or not the CRTF as a whole or in part could account for differences in student outcomes (California Standards Test [CST] scores, student growth percentile [SGP], and grade point average [GPA]). The study included teachers and students at Green Dot during the 2012-2013 school year. Correlational analyses were used to determine if there was a relationship between student achievement outcomes and the CRTF. Factor analysis was used to discover other Factors …

"What Is Peoria For?": Reading As Spiritual Practice In David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, Jeremy Reed

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Since its publication in 2011, critics have written about David Foster Wallace’s final, unfinished novel, The Pale King, by looking for resonances with his career-long interests of irony, alienation, and the text’s relation to the reader, but few have written of his final fiction as exhibiting a new approach to these topics. To further such criticism, I argue that in The Pale King Wallace uses new means – religious, and specifically mystic, vocabularies of experience – to seek ethical practices for living in a period heavily influenced by Postmodern irony. In the process, Wallace’s characters end up advocating a mystical …

The Trees, My Lungs: Self Psychology And The Natural World At An American Buddhist Center, Daniel S. Capper

Faculty Publications

This study employs ethnographic field data to trace a dialogue between the self psychological concept of the selfobject and experiences regarding the concept of “interbeing” at a Vietnamese Buddhist monastery in the United States. The dialogue develops an understanding of human experiences with the nonhuman natural world which are tensive, liminal, and nondual. From the dialogue I find that the selfobject concept, when applied to this form of Buddhism, must be inclusive enough to embrace relationships with animals, stones, and other natural forms. The dialogue further delineates a self psychological methodology for examining religions in their interactions with natural forms.

The New Orleans Murder Epidemic: Emmanuel Levinas And Jacques Derrida On The Irresponsibility Of Violence, Jacqueline Nicole Zimmer

LSU Master's Theses

Corruption, unfettered violence, and racist enforcement tactics have historically defined the operations of the New Orleans Police Department, and consequently, many New Orleanians do not expect to be helped or protected by law enforcement or the justice system. The breakdown of society’s civil code explains why many New Orleans citizens have normalized the use of coercive violence to solve interpersonal disputes instead of relying on legitimate policing methods to maintain social order. In the past year, the city of New Orleans has implemented criminologist David Kennedy’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy (GVRS), which aims to decrease the city’s historically high murder …

Advent Devotional Guide 2014, Belmont University

Advent Devotional Guides

No abstract provided.

Gale Indigenous Peoples: North America, Ucf Libraries

Technology Fee Funded Projects

The Department of History is requesting $12,085 ($14,085 less a $2,000 cost share from the UCF Libraries) to purchase Gale Indigenous Peoples: North America from Readex, Gale, part of Cengage Learning.

"Show Me The Face You Had Before Your Parents Were Born" : African-American New Thought Ministers And 'The Black Interior', Kaitlin N. Smith

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This theoretical research critically explores the phenomenon of contemporary African Americans seeking to cultivate individual identities that are not bound by the external demands inherent in a black racial identity. It examines the work and ideas of three African-American New thought ministers who articulate a vision of liberation that is predicated on the cultivation of an interior spiritual identity beyond the social world. This research employs two theoretical frameworks that may help to shed light on the reasons for and implications of contemporary African Americans constructing their identities in this manner. The first of these theoretical frameworks is sociologist Eduardo …

Heidegger And Ethics: From Dasein As Being-In-The-World To Dasein As Ethical, Eric Robert Panicco

LSU Master's Theses

The thought of Martin Heidegger is considered to make a drastic change from modern philosophical thought which begins with Descartes. The reason for the strong distinction that Heidegger makes between those philosophers and his own thought is a result of the way in which his understanding of the kind of being we have (Dasein) is different from conceptions of the human subject. Because traditional approaches to ethics incorporate this understanding of the human subject, an investigation of ethics from Heidegger’s presentation of Dasein is poised to lend new insights into what it means to be ethical. The point of this …

Heidegger, Metaphor, And The Essence Of Language, Joel Meservy

LSU Master's Theses

In this thesis, I address the question of Heidegger’s rejection of metaphor, alleging most of the commentary on this rejection has failed to confront its substance. In particular, I focus on two different interpretations, one given by Paul Ricoeur and the other by Jacques Derrida. Both of these accounts place Heidegger’s rejection in a model of language structured by the sign relation; however, I contend Heidegger rejects metaphor precisely in order to overcome this model of language. Heidegger's few references to metaphor occur within attempts to rethink the very nature of our being-in-the-world and our relationship to language; that is, …

Gateways To The Goddess: Devotion To Kali In Cross-Cultural Perspective, Nicole C. Petersen

Departmental Honors Projects

Kali, the dark Hindu goddess of time and fierce Mother of the universe, has a pervasive global presence. This project traces Her from historical roots in India across borders to temples in California. A theoretical synthesis of the experiential approaches of sensory anthropology and Victor Turner's three-part model of ritual processes, the project presents an innovative approach through which to study and articulate devotion to Kali in diverse cultural contexts. Through textual research, interviews and observant participation, I analyze the process whereby devotees separate themselves from the mundane and enter liminal spaces of worship, understood both spatially and temporally. I …

Freikirchen Und Juden Im "Dritten Reich": Instrumentalisierte Heilsgeschichte, Antisemitische Vorurteile Und Verdrängte Schuld [Free Churches And Jews In The “Third Reich”: Instrumentalized Salvation History, Antisemitic Prejudices, And Repressed Guilt] [Reivew] / Heinz, Daniel, Ed., Denis Kaiser

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Interchurch And Interfaith Relations: Seventh-Day Adventist Statements And Documents [Review] / Höschele, Stefan, Kevin M. Burton

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Does Personality Play A Role In Computer Information Systems Performance?, S.E. Kruck, Patricia Sendall, Wendy Ceccucci, Alan Peslak, Scott Hunsinger

Management Faculty Publications

This study represents an analysis of student performance in computer information systems (CIS) courses and the potential influence of Jungian personality traits on academic success in CIS courses. For this study, academic success is measured by grades achieved. The MBTI measurement scale was self-analyzed by students in CIS courses from fall 2008 through spring 2013. The data showed a statistically significant correlation between various personality dichotomies of the type (Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and JudgingPerceiving) and higher grades scores. The results of this study indicate that course performance of groups of students are different relative to their personality type. In this …

The Song Of The Thrush: Christian Animism And The Global Crisis Today, Mark I. Wallace

Religion Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Mapping Africana Religions: Transnationalism, Globalization, And Diaspora, S. A. Khabeer, Yvonne Patricia Chireau, P. C. Johnson

Religion Faculty Works

This work is from the edited proceedings of a 2013 symposium at Northwestern University, organized around the question of how to theorize the study of Africana religions across wide expanses of time and space. An international body of scholars representing the fields of history, religious studies, anthropology, American studies, sociology, African studies, classics, and African American studies gathered in a two-day event to consider the past, present, and future of their shared commitment to understanding the religions of African and african-descended people. Scholars discuss the challenges of and opportunities for the study of Africana religions from ancient to modern times, …

The Influence Of Loving-Kindness Meditation On Everyday Experiences Of Being Angry: An Empirical Phenomenological Study, Ibrahim I. Kurdieh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Loving-Kindness meditation is a Buddhist practice than involves sending and receiving mental wishes of well-being and happiness in order to cultivate positive feeling states and relieve suffering. This qualitative study examines the effects of Loving-Kindness meditation on everyday experiences of being angry. It uses participants' accounts to create a systematic structural description of how Loving-Kindness meditation affects anger. Participants in this study were asked to provide written narratives of an incident when practicing Loving-Kindness meditation helped them cope with feelings of anger. Each of the five participants was interviewed in order to further elaborate their written narratives. These accounts were …

Where Is Abel Thy Brother? Reframing The Theological Horizons For Catholic Theories Of Just War, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This essay starts from a presupposition that there is need for rethinking the theological framework within which the Catholic Church has articulated its understanding of the principles and the application of the theory of "just war" in the social teaching it has proposed since the conclusion of World War II. While it may also be the case that the articulation of just war principles within other Christian theological traditions needs a similar re-framing, my primary concern is with the place it has occupied within Catholic moral and social teaching for the last sixty years. I will first provide a brief …

The Theological Virtues And Participation In Active And Passive Spiration, Robert M. Doran

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

A Discourse Analysis Of The 2009 Bangladesh Education Policy In The Local Media / Mohsina Akter, Mohsina Akter

Student Works (2010-2019)

The National Education Policy 2009 is one of the most important issues in the advancement of the education system in Bangladesh. This policy is also the latest in a series of education policies since the independence in 1971. The policy was initiated in April 9, 2009 and work on this education policy was completed on September 2, 2009. During finalizing the policy a lot of opinions were published in the newspapers in the form of editorials. The editors turned to the newspapers to give their opinions about the policy. The study analyses the editorial discourses on the Bangladesh education policy …

Pandangan R.O. Winstedt Terhadap Undang-Undang Islam Di Tanah Melayu / Mohd Farhan Abd Rahman, Abd Rahman Mohd Farhan

Student Works (2010-2019)

Kemunculan kuasa penjajah telah meninggalkan impak yang besar kepada Alam Melayu. Golongan ini bukan sahaja datang membawa agenda politik dan ekonomi melalui kegiatan penjajahan, tetapi juga untuk mengubah cara hidup masyarakat, corak pemikiran dan kepercayaan beragama. Bagi mengkaji sudut pandangan sarjana pentadbiran British mengenai undang-undang Islam di Tanah Melayu, pengkaji telah memilih R.O. Winstedt sebagai rujukan khusus dalam menyempurnakan kajian ini. Kajian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode dokumentasi dan temubual, seterusnya dianalisis dengan menggunakan metode pensejarahan, metode perbandingan dan metode analisis kandungan. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan pemikiran Winstedt dengan sarjana orientalis terdahulu serta mengenal pasti pendekatan yang digunakan oleh …

Linguistic Behavior And Religious Activity, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, David Bowie

Faculty Publications

Studies have found that Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah exhibit significant linguistic differences. We break this down further by investigating whether there are also differences between Mormons who actively participate in the religion and those who do not, and find significant differences with a medium or larger effect size between the groups for multiple variables. We conclude that when investigating the linguistic correlates of religious affiliation in a community, it is vital to elicit not just respondents’ religious affiliations, but also their level of participation within that religion.

Ltc Newsletter, University Of Dayton. Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center

LTC Newsletter

Spring 2014

Book Reviews, John C. Bates

Gathered Fragments

No abstract provided.

Vulcan Historical Review 18 (End Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Creation And Theodicy: Protological Presuppositions In Evolutionary Theodicy, Adriani Milli Rodrigues

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

Judgment Motifs In The Messages To The Seven Churches, Kim Papaioannou, Edward Moyo

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.