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Northern Nord, Vol.1, No.5 (June 1980), Northern Lambda Nord

Northern Lambda Nord (1980-1981)

No abstract provided.

Northern Nord, Vol.1, No.4 (May 1980), Northern Lambda Nord

Northern Lambda Nord (1980-1981)

No abstract provided.

Holding Out One's Hand In The Dark: The Theme Of Touching In Selected Works Of Ursula K Leguin, Donna Dunbar-Odom

Student Work

Until very recently, speculative fiction, or science fiction, has been virtually ignored by literary scholars. Science fiction was and still is, to some extent, considered popular fiction, and popular fiction has never received much critical attention. Unfortunately, this generalization excludes good works of popular fiction from study and criticism. Authors who have managed to crossover and received critical consideration are rare. One such “crossover” author is Ursula K. LeGuin but even LeGuin’s Work has been neglected outside of specialty journals such as Science Fiction Studies and Extrapolation. Little criticism of her fine novels and short stories appears in the most …

Northern Nord, Vol.1, No.3 (April 1980), Northern Lambda Nord

Northern Lambda Nord (1980-1981)

No abstract provided.

Northern Nord, Vol.1, No.2 (March 1980), Northern Lambda Nord

Northern Lambda Nord (1980-1981)

No abstract provided.

Aroostook Lambda, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1980), Northern Lambda Nord

Aroostook Lambda (1980)

No abstract provided.

Legal Restrictions On Foreign Languages In The Great Plains States, 1917-1923, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

A major effect of World War I on American social history was that it focused attention on the nation's apparent difficulty in assimilating the millions of immigrants and their children who had streamed to the United States during the preceding two decades. The national mood, darkened by fears and resentments of long standing and deepened by systematic wartime propaganda, favored the adoption of stringent laws limiting the use of foreign languages, especially in the schools. During the war itself, restrictions were usually extralegal and often the consequences of intense social pressure recklessly applied. After the war, however, many state legislatures …

Midwest China Oral History Interviews, Donald Macinnis

China Oral Histories

Early Life: family background; education; Wesley Foundation experiences.

China Experiences: journey to Yangkow, Fukien, as a college student, to teach English at Anglo-Chinese College, 1940-1941; description of living conditions, activities, and school in Yangkow; description of journey to America, 1941; enlists in Air Force in 1942 and spends year in intensive Chinese language study; returns to China as officer in the Office of Strategic Services; experiences on special mission in Fukien; returns to China, as Methodist missionary, to teach at Fukien Christian University (FCU) in Foochow; political unrest among student body of FCU; contacts with foreigners outside mission community; living …

Sir Thomas More, Humanist And Hero: A Man For All Ages., Noel Joseph Toups

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Thomas More has appeared in diverse works from the sixteenth to twentieth century; these works have usually treated him as a model of integrity and conscience whose love of truth made him a touchstone for judging a panoply of others. More's own century viewed him in conflicting ways. Tudor apologists--Hall, Holinshed, and Foxe--were critical of More's wit and treatment of heretics and deemed him prideful, whereas the recusants like Roper and Harpsfield pictured More loyal Londoner, devoted father, humanist, and man of conscience. Sixteenth century treatments culminate in those of Ro. Ba. and Munday. Munday's Thomas More, an essentially Protestant …

Nova University Center For The Advancement Of Education Course Descriptions For Courses In Gem Modules - August 21, 1980, Nova University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Market Women's Cooperatives: Giving Women Credit, Judith Bruce

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

In 1972, the Nicaraguan Foundation for Development (Fundación Nicaraguense de Desarrollo—FUNDE), one of two programs sponsored by the Nicaraguan Institute of Development, became aware of market women's need for credit. This issue of SEEDS describes FUNDE's experience in developing savings and loan cooperatives to meet this need. This summary stresses the human aspects of the process as much as the financial and technical ones. The project has been successful because the cooperatives have built upon the existing market women's culture, utilizing all the subtle and complex interpersonal relationships established over the years. In essence what the cooperatives have done is …

Hanover Street: An Experiment To Train Women In Welding And Carpentry, Peggy Antrobus, Barbara Rogers

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Hanover Street Project, formally known as the United Women’s Woodworking and Welding Project, is an experiment in training women for jobs usually held only by men. Begun in 1976, this was the first such program of the Jamaica Women's Bureau, established by the government during International Women's Year to ensure that women participate fully in Jamaica’s development. The project demonstrated that low-income women can learn non-traditional skills and can work together to improve their lives. Through trial and error, the project is providing the Women's Bureau with a wealth of information about teaching technical skills, working with other government …

Village Women Organize: The Mraru Bus Service, Jill Kneerim

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Mraru Women's Group in rural Kenya, like many community women's organizations around the world, is an example of a deeply rooted tradition of association and self-help among women. In 1971 the group began to gather its resources to solve a common problem—transportation. They raised money, bought a bus, and began a public transport service that made money; they now face other difficult questions such as reinvesting profits, serving members' broader needs, and maintaining a strong economic base. The Mraru Women's Group has shown unusual creativity and persistence in identifying common needs and organizing to meet them. They have also …

Sketches From Our Family Life In The Early Nineties, Dagmar, The Eldest Of The Flock

The Bridge

In the late Fall of 1890, Father went to the United States to get a job and to make a new home for us all. From Brooklyn the Reverend Anderson helped to send him on his way west, since he had been a farmer. At Chicago the Reverend Nielsen sent him to the Danish School and settlement at Elk Horn, Iowa, where he studied a little English and hired out on a farm, there to learn more English by practical experience.

A Drift Towards Nostalgia: The River Trip As Journal Of A Changing View Of American Wilderness, Richard D. Davis

Master's Theses

As early as the 1820s and 1830s, observers of the American scene, such as George Catlin, John James Audubon, and Alexis de Tocqueville, were expressing misgivings over the rapid settlement of the American West. In their concern over the passing of pristine landscapes and native cultures was a note of nostalgia for an earlier time, the era of exploration, whose journals echoed the freshness of discovery and spoke of the beauty and inexhaustible promise of the New World. The elegiac tone has become more explicit in our own time. In the works of twentieth century writers is seen a haunting …

Fall 1979, The Vehicle

The Vehicle

Vol. 3 No. 1

From Eternal To Personal World Order: An Analysis Of Milton, Swift, And Twain, Marian O'Brien Paul

Student Work

The particular mental concept through which an author views the universe which surrounds him with which he must interact will, by extension, influence the way his literary characters relate themselves to the world in which he places them. It is of value to analyze the nature of that influence. If the author’s vision of reality is consistent with that of the immediately accepted world viewpoint, he will probably embrace that concept in his writings. Another Author who is aware of changes in the popular mode of viewing the universe may reflect these in what he writes, and the nuances of …

A Contrastive Analysis Of English And Colloquial Egyptian Comparatives: A Study Made On A Sample Of Egyptian Adult Learners, Mariam Hussein Ghaleb Osman

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Deathsongs For Cynddylan: An Annotated Translation Of The Heledd Poems From The Red Book Of Hergest., Anne Mcconney

Student Work

In the Red Book of Hergest, one of the so-called "Four Ancient-Books of Wales," there are one hundred and seven short stanzas that tell the story of an early prince of Powys named Cynddylan, of his last battle and death, and of the grief of those who survived the burning of his fortress, Pengwern. It is a terse poem, telling in fine-honed imagery of a firelit world, brutal and bright and childlike, detailing the movements of pain and the ragged perimeters of survival in verse as lucid as water.

The Dislocated Self: Robert Lowell's "The Mills Of The Kavanaughs."., Eugene Wyatt Prunty

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Celticism Of James Stephens., Sylvia Rody Mclaurin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Contraceptives And Common Sense: Conventional Methods Reconsidered, Judith Bruce, S. Bruce Schearer

Reproductive Health

Since the 1960s, the solution to contraception problems has been based increasingly on complexity, not simplicity. The oral contraceptive was developed in the late 1950s using newly discovered synthetic hormones that act in intricate ways on glands in the brain. Intrauterine devices were widely introduced in the 1960s in a host of scientifically engineered configurations that act inside a woman’s uterus. Nearly half of all married couples in the United States who use some method of contraception use either the pill or IUD. In examining emerging social trends and considering the special needs of some large groups for better contraceptives—adolescents, …

Notebook - January-December 1979, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Newsletter - Notebook

Contents:

The Search for Sixteenth Century Santa Elena.....p. 1
A functional Study of the Kershaw House Site in Camden, South Carolina.....p. 1
The Recording and Analysis of Private Relic Collections and Associated Archeological Sites in South Carolina - A Pilot Study.....p. 13
Current Research in the Southeast.....p. 19
Institute Publications for 1979.....p. 28
On Distinguishing Between French and English Spall-Type Gunflints.....p. 31
The Geology of Gun Spalls.....p. 37

The Relationship Between Stress, Anxiety, And Forms Of Content Learning, June C. Taylor

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

There is little doubt that anxiety is prevalent in today's world, and that students in school experience and are affected by anxiety. School is an evaluative experience and, as such, provides a wide variety of situations in which students are pressured to meet certain standards. Junior high school students, specifically, face an almost constant barrage of personal, social and academic situations new to them but with which they are expected to cope. Some students are able and willing to express their feelings of anxiety verbally to guidance counselors and others; some students exhibit these feelings physically in such activities as …

Spring 1978, The Vehicle

The Vehicle

No abstract provided.

Philosophy And Myth In Thomas Hardy's Novels And "The Dynasts", Gordon Glen Wickens

Digitized Theses

No abstract provided.

Aspects Of Evil In Five Metrical Old English Saints' Lives, Brian Arthur Shaw

Digitized Theses

No abstract provided.

Childishness In The Age Of Reason, Robert James Hughes

Doctoral Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Significance Of "Blood": Noble Descent And Kinship In Thomas Malory's "Morte Darthur", Paul Valmore Roberge

Doctoral Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Middle English Breton Lais : A Study Of The Confluences Of Folk And Fairy Lore And Medieval Christian Teachings, Deborah Absey Kauffman

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.