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Preaching And Teaching: An Integrative Evaluative Approach To Christian Practices At Fil-Am Sda Church, Ernst Jacques

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

In this thesis, biblical expository preaching is defined as the exegetical method that brings out the theological nuances of a narrative biblical passage in relation to content and context. Biblical expository preaching in the USA is facing a significant theological challenge as churches are becoming culturally diverse. Research has shown that theological understanding plays a great role in Christian spiritual formation; it has also shown that believers are generally more receptive to sermons that are contextualized. This thesis project aims to determine how biblical expository preaching can make sense to believers and spur them on to spiritual maturity in a …

Archaeology And Biblical Inspiration, Garry Leo Hill

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The thesis project topic is on Inspiration and Bible Archaeology. The project's main reason is a perceived lack of confidence in the Bible’s stories being real. The project addresses this worldview, which causes this belief to influence our church members. The study includes an explanation of the post-modern world view concerning the certainty of historical events. A Biblical viewpoint is addressed, and the relationship with this to Bible inspiration is explored. A survey is given to individual members of the congregation, which gives questions concerning these issues. Two interventions are then presented, one in which the debates concerning the United …

A Terror To The People: The Evolution Of An Outlaw Gang In The Lower Midwest, Randy Mills

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

The details of the heretofore unexamined Reeves Gang may serve as an important case study of violence and lawlessness in the Lower Midwest in the decades following the Civil War. Unlike the “social bandits” such as the Jesse James and Dalton Gangs of the Middle Border region, most outlaw gangs made little attempt to get along with locals. These groups ruled by fear and typically fell afoul of vigilante hangings and shootings— a one-act play, if you will. The Reeves Gang, the focus of this study, would come to be atypical, their tale turning into a three-act play, moving from …

Engaging Students In The Virtual Classroom: A Mixed-Methods Study Of Teacher Leaders Creating Connections Through Virtual Learning Communities, Michaine Suzanne Ashley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The core problem that drove this study was high attrition rates and low student academic growth in virtual students when compared to their brick and mortar peers. To investigate this issue, the study focused on one issue related to the core problem: student engagement. The purpose of the study was to determine what pedagogical practices and instructional strategies were utilized by teachers in their virtual learning communities (VCLs) in order to engage students in the virtual classroom. This explanatory-sequential, mixed methods, single case study was conducted through the collection of archival data and through a teacher questionnaire and follow up …

How Was The Customary Rights Was Treated To Written Media, Nexhat Cocaj

UBT International Conference

Since their appearance in Albanian society, the print media have played an important role in the representation of Albanian CUSTOMARY Law. In the first newspapers and magazines in the 1920s, customary law was treated as an attempt to raise public awareness by making the Kanun the norm of the rules of Albanian society that regulated social life better than the laws of state mostly discriminatory occupiers on the one hand and on the other hand generally gave priority to the alienation of the Albanians. In this regard, customary law has long been the subject of treatment in the print media …

Minutes, October 2020, University Of Dayton. College Of Arts And Sciences

Documents of the College of Arts and Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Minutes from College of Arts and Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

EDITOR'S FOREWORD SAMUEL PROCTOR, EDITOR, FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, 1963-1993: A TRIBUTE Michael Gannon
CARPETBAGGER INTRIGUES, BLACK LEADERSHIP , AND A SOUTHERN LOYALIST TRIUMPH: FLORIDA'S GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION OF 1872 Canter Brown, Jr.
THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM IN FLORIDA, 1911-1912 Stephen Kerber
AGAINST CORRUPTION: FRED KARL AND THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SUSPENSIONS AND REMOVALS, 1968-1974 Peter D. Klingman
REVIEW ESSAY REEXAMINING THE EARLY CAREER AND THOUGHT OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: VOLUME I OF THE KING PAPERS David R. Colburn
FLORIDA HISTORY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
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Takamichi Serizawa’S Writing History In America’S Shadow: Japan, The Philippines, And The Question Of Pan-Asianism, Review Author: Redison

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

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La Malinche According To The Indians, Camilla A. Townsend

Rondel V. Davidson Endowed Lecture Series

La Malinche has long been cast as a traitor to her people in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. More recently we have been reminded that her life was hard and her choices few, and that she owed no loyalty to the Aztecs, who were her people’s enemy. It is more than time that we translate and analyze the Nahuatl-language comments made by Indians and for Indians in the 1500s. What did they think of la Malinche?

Rondel Davidson Endowed Lecture given by Dr. Camilla D. Townsend, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers.

Reproductive Ecology And Phenology Of Thalassia Testudinum (Hydrocharitaceae) In Tampa Bay, Florida, Sheila Scolaro

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Successful sexual reproduction and recolonization are critical in maintaining genetic diversity within seagrass meadows. Thalassia testudinum flower, fruit and seedling production were assessed visually at 10 sites within Tampa Bay, Florida approximately every 4 weeks from May to July 2017 to determine if there is spatial and temporal variation in sexual reproductive effort and if location within a meadow effects sexual reproductive effort. Results from this study reveal strong temporal variability throughout the reproductive season. The month of May was observed as peak Thalassia testudinum anthesis and June was peak fruiting in Tampa Bay during 2017. Flower and fruit density …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

ST. AUGUSTINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1883-1983 Thomas Graham
“IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST?” ED BALL AND THE FEC RAILWAY WAR Burton Altman
FLORIDA'S CATTLE-RANCHING FRONTIER: MANATEE AND BREVARD COUNTIES ( 1860) John Solomon Otto
FORMATION OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA INDIAN RESERVATION James M. Covington
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: FLORIDA HISTORY IN PERIODICALS, 1984
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 56, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE TAMPA FLOGGING CASE, URBAN VIGILIANTISM Robert P. Ingalls
TURMOIL AT BIG CYPRESS: SEMINOLE DEER AND THE FLORIDA CATTLE TICK CONTROVERSY Kenneth R. Philp
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: CHILDREN OF HONOR: LETTERS OF WINSTON AND OCTAVIA STEPHENS, 1861-1862 Ellen E. Hodges and Stephen Kerber
FLORIDA HISTORY IN PERIODICALS, 1976
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Cost Estimating Using A New Learning Curve Theory For Non-Constant Production Rates, Dakotah Hogan, John J. Elshaw, Clay M. Koschnick, Jonathan D. Ritschel, Adedeji B. Badiru, Shawn M. Valentine

Faculty Publications

Traditional learning curve theory assumes a constant learning rate regardless of the number of units produced. However, a collection of theoretical and empirical evidence indicates that learning rates decrease as more units are produced in some cases. These diminishing learning rates cause traditional learning curves to underestimate required resources, potentially resulting in cost overruns. A diminishing learning rate model, namely Boone’s learning curve, was recently developed to model this phenomenon. This research confirms that Boone’s learning curve systematically reduced error in modeling observed learning curves using production data from 169 Department of Defense end-items. However, high amounts of variability in …

The Nature Of Primary Source Instruction In Social Science Methods Courses, Judith Loraine Bee

Theses and Dissertations

137 Pages

Teachers are the key to shifting the way learning happens in the classroom. However, teachers are not always skilled in inquiry, critical thinking, and historical impact. Teaching with primary sources provides a context from which to educate preservice teachers in these essential skills. This dissertation focuses on the nature of primary source instruction in preparing preservice teachers to teach social sciences at the K-8 level. This qualitative study explores education methods professors’ practices for educating preservice teachers to use primary sources in their classroom instruction. Social Science methods professors in Illinois were observed, interviewed and an analysis of …

Prerogative And Legislator Vetoes, Elliot Louthen

Northwestern University Law Review

Prerogative is the devolution of power to a single legislator over decisions in her district. In cities with a prerogative regime, when the city council votes on an issue or an administrative agency makes a decision concerning a specific district, decision-makers defer to that district’s legislator. This deference gives the legislator exclusive executive authority over her district. In Chicago and Philadelphia, legislators have infamously wielded prerogative and tied the practice to corruption. But in addition to corruption, prerogative gives rise to another, more pernicious issue. When applied to decisions related to affordable housing, prerogative perpetuates racial segregation through legislator vetoes. …

The Life History And Population Dynamics Of Southern Flounder, Kenneth A. Erickson

LSU Master's Theses

Southern Flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma, are a coastal, estuarine-dependent flatfish species that inhabits the Southeastern US Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Throughout their range, Southern Flounder are exploited by both commercial and recreational fisheries. Recently, numerous sources have expressed concerns about Southern Flounder populations, with stock assessments indicating declines in spawning stock biomass and recruitment. To estimate life history traits needed for informed management, such as age, growth, and maturity, I collected 327 Southern Flounder from Louisiana and obtained 14,184 historical records from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Using a von Bertalanffy growth equation in a Bayesian …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 49, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

MAKING OF MODERN TAMPA: A CITY OF THE NEW SOUTH, 1885-1911 Durward Long
THE CASE AGAINST A NINETEENTH-CENTURY CUBA - FLORIDA SLAVE TRADE Kenneth F. Kiple
HAMILTON DISSTON’S ST. CLOUD SUGAR PLANTATION, 1887-1901 Pat Dodson
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS:

• LOW DUNMORE’s LOYALIST ASYLUM IN THE FLORIDAS J. Leitch Wright, Jr.
• SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS William S. Coker and Jack D. L. Holmes
• FLORIDA MANUSCRIPT ACQUISITIONS AND ACCESSIONS

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A Study Of West African Slave Resistance From The Seventeenth To Nineteenth Centuries, Adam D. Wilsey

History in the Making

Accompanying the dawn of the twenty-first century, there has emerged a new era of historical thinking that has created the need to reexamine the history of slavery and slave resistance. Slavery has become a controversial topic that historians and scholars throughout the world are reevaluating. In this modern period, which is finally beginning to honor the ideas and ideals of equality, slavery is the black mark of our past; and the task now lies before the world to derive a better understanding of slavery. In order to better understand slavery, it is crucial to have a more acute awareness of …

Introducation And Acknowledgements, Editors Of History In The Making

History in the Making

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Slavery And The Search For Belonging In Modern Sudan, William Fant

History in the Making

For many Sudanese, the migration of Islamic society into Sudan has produced difficulties in identifying belonging. Centuries in the making, Sudan has become a split nation in which the south has retained much of its African identity, while the north has become increasingly Islamized. While no discernable traits separate the divided portions of Sudan, the division has allowed the dominant north to forcibly gain control of the entire nation. This phenomenon has led to increased discontent among the regions, resulting in civil war and the reintroduction of slavery. Although the physical division in Sudan is as blurred as the ethnic …

The Invisible Web At Work: Artificial Intelligence And Electronic Surveillance In The Workplace, Richard A. Bales, Katherine Vw Stone

AI-DR Collection

Employers and others who hire or engage workers to perform services use a dizzying array of electronic mechanisms to make personnel decisions about hiring, worker evaluation, compensation, discipline, and retention. These electronic mechanisms include electronic trackers, surveillance cameras, metabolism monitors, wearable biological measuring devices, and implantable technology. These tools enable employers to record their workers’ every movement, listen in on their conversations, measure minute aspects of performance, and detect oppositional organizing activities. The data collected is transformed by means of artificial intelligence (A-I) algorithms into a permanent electronic resume that can identify and predict an individual’s performance as well as …

University Of Dayton Launches New Award For Undergraduate Student Research In Catholic Intellectual Traditions, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A new award honoring the memory of a University of Dayton alumnus and Marianist leader recognizes outstanding undergraduate student research related to Catholic intellectual traditions.

Dipl 3120 Aa/Ab Nuclear Weapons & International Security, Sara Bjerg Moller Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

This course serves as an introduction to the study of nuclear security. Students are provided with the necessary background and knowledge base needed for understanding contemporary nuclear strategy and policy issues. How do nuclear weapons shape international politics? Why do some states build the bomb and not others? Is a world free of nuclear weapons really possible? What is the future of America’s nuclear alliances? Are the superpowers headed for another nuclear arms race? These are just some of the important questions covered in this course.

Democracy And The Fourth Seat: Kagan’S Jurisprudence,Stevens’S Legacy, Lauren Dimartino

University of Colorado Law Review Forum

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Frankfurter, Abstention Doctrine, And The Development Of Modern Federalism: A History And Three Futures, Lael Weinberger

University of Chicago Law Review

In its first century and a half, the Supreme Court never used the term “federalism” in its opinions. The Court had talked about federal-state relations before, but the concept had gone unlabeled. That changed in 1939. Something new was hap-pening, thanks in large part to Justice Felix Frankfurter. Just a month after joining the Court, Frankfurter authored the Court’s first opinion using the term “federalism.” Frankfurter introduced federalism as a key concept for analyzing the relationship between state courts and federal courts. Before long, Frankfurter would rely on federalism to fashion an original and enduring doctrine of judicial federalism: abstention, …

Csbs Kudos, Fall 2020, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Kudos

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--Faculty Accolades
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--Student Spotlight
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Réforme, Religion, Et Républicanism? The “Three Rs” Of Education In Nineteenth-Century France, Emma Novak , '22

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

The French Third Republic under Minister of Education Jules Ferry used public education to breach the sociopolitical divide between urban and rural France at the tail end of the nineteenth century. Ferry’s calls for secularization, centralization, and “republicanization” were countered by the Catholic Church, local governments, and rural families.

City Of Long Beach Coyote Management Project, Eric G. Strauss, Michele Romolini, Melinda Weaver

Center for Urban Resilience Reports

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Staff from the Loyola Marymount University Center for Resilience, in collaboration with officials from the City of Long Beach conducted a multiyear analysis of coyote ecology, risk, and management options to be implemented. The project was designed to incorporate local data, regional information and national examples to be applied to the challenges of coyote management in Long Beach. The project was initiated in response to increase concern about the safety of coyotes living within the city and their impact on domestic animals, especially cats. The project occurred at a prescient period in urban coyote research as many parallel …

The Intergenerational Worship Model: Youth-Specific Benefits, James Alan Lott

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

King David declared that one generation should proclaim the goodness of the Lord to another, yet what David writes of cannot take place in an age-segregated setting. Multiple generations must be present. Much progress has been made regarding the church’s acknowledgment of the significance of an intergenerational worship (IGW) model. Though each generation is precious to God and created in His image, IGW holds considerable benefits for churched youth, as it is one of the few places in society where youth can intentionally connect with older generations. Despite the importance of youth engagement in IGW, there is a limited amount …

Putting The Constitution In Its Place, Edward L. Rubin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The fact that Donald Trump became President in 2016, despite losing the popular vote by a substantial margin, has brought renewed attention to the Electoral College system. In "Forging the American Nation," Shlomo Slonim provides an illuminating account of the process that led to this bizarre method of determining the outcome of presidential elections. But Professor Slonim's book also provides insights into the origins of many other structural features of our constitutional system that are of questionable value in a modern democracy, such as elections by state for the Senate, the Senate's exclusive exercise of legislative authority for treaties and …