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The Richest Legacy: Recovering The Lord's Supper As A Means Of Grace In The Free Methodist Church Usa, Jarad L. Bivins Jan 2015

The Richest Legacy: Recovering The Lord's Supper As A Means Of Grace In The Free Methodist Church Usa, Jarad L. Bivins

Theses and Dissertations

As descendants of the Wesleyan heritage, the Free Methodist Church USA maintains the belief that the Sacraments, particularly the Lord’s Supper, function as a means of grace within the church. Given the significant role that the Lord’s Supper played in early Methodist thought and practice, this thesis seeks to discover the level of fidelity the Free Methodist Church USA has when it comes to its understanding of the Lord’s Supper as a means of grace in the Wesleyan tradition. By exploring the current Free Methodist Church USA’s understanding of the sacrament, along with the historical Wesleyan relationship with the Lord’s …

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Response 2015, Seattle Pacific University Jan 2015

Response 2015, Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific Alumni Magazines

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Incrementalism V. Disjuncture: The President And American Political Development, Marc Landy Jan 2015

Incrementalism V. Disjuncture: The President And American Political Development, Marc Landy

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing J. David Alvis, Jeremy D. Bailey, and F. Flagg Taylor, The Contested Removal Power, 1789-2010; and Michael J. Gerhardt, The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy.

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Reading Intellectual Property Reform Through The Lens Of Constitutional Equality, Jessica Silbey Jan 2015

Reading Intellectual Property Reform Through The Lens Of Constitutional Equality, Jessica Silbey

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Bill D. Herman, The Fight Over Digital Rights: The Politics of Copyright and Technology; Aram Sinnreich, The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties; and Robert Spoo, Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain.

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Revision Of Progressive Era History Continues, Paul Kens Jan 2015

Revision Of Progressive Era History Continues, Paul Kens

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Joseph W. Postell and Jonathan O’Neill, Editors, Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era, and David M. Rabban, Law’s History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History.

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Institutions In Context, John D. Inazu Jan 2015

Institutions In Context, John D. Inazu

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Paul Horwitz, First Amendment Institutions.

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The Civic Constitution, Kathleen S. Sullivan Jan 2015

The Civic Constitution, Kathleen S. Sullivan

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Elizabeth Beaumont, The Civil Constitution: Civic Visions and Struggles in the Path Toward Constitutional Democracy; John E. Finn, Peopling the Constitution; and Kristin A. Goss, The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women’s Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice.

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The Birth And Rebirth Of Civil Rights In America, Leslie F. Goldstein Jan 2015

The Birth And Rebirth Of Civil Rights In America, Leslie F. Goldstein

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Gerard N. Magliocca, American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment, and George A. Rutherglen, Civil Rights in the Shadow of Slavery: The Constitution, Common Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

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Table Of Contents Jan 2015

Table Of Contents

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Generous, Not Just: What Feeds The River Of Tribal Despair And Poverty, Alexandria Mayfield Jan 2015

Generous, Not Just: What Feeds The River Of Tribal Despair And Poverty, Alexandria Mayfield

Tulsa Law Review

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Make Them Hear You: Participatory Defense And The Struggle For Criminal Justice Reform, Janet Moore, Marla Sandys, Raj Jayadev Jan 2015

Make Them Hear You: Participatory Defense And The Struggle For Criminal Justice Reform, Janet Moore, Marla Sandys, Raj Jayadev

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This Article introduces participatory defense as a powerful new model for improving public defense and challenging mass incarceration. This grassroots movement empowers the key stakeholders — people who face criminal charges, their families, and their communities — to become change agents who force greater transparency, accountability, and fairness from criminal justice systems. After introducing the model’s core principles and goals, the Article offers innovative analyses from doctrinal, theoretical and empirical perspectives. First, the Article connects participatory defense with the crisis-ridden history of the constitutional right to counsel, including that doctrine’s roots in the Due Process right to be heard. Second, …

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Rarity In Astragalus: A California Perspective, Philip W. Rundel, Thomas R. Huggins, Barry A. Prigge, M. Rasoul Sharifi Jan 2015

Rarity In Astragalus: A California Perspective, Philip W. Rundel, Thomas R. Huggins, Barry A. Prigge, M. Rasoul Sharifi

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Astragalus (Fabaceae), the largest genus of plants in the world with an estimated 3270 species, is known for large numbers of rare endemic species. An inventory of patterns of climatic, topographic, and edaphic diversity of Astragalus taxa in California (98 native species and 144 named taxa) provides a means to understand the occurrence of rarity in relation to climatic equitability and regional species richness of congeneric taxa. Most taxa in the genus have relatively small ranges of distribution, with 50% restricted geographically to a single Jepson Bioregion. The California Native Plant Society lists 51 Astragalus taxa (35% of the native …

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The State Of Poverty And Food Insecurity In Maseru, Lesotho, Resetselemang Leduka, Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne, Cameron Mccordic, Thope Matobo, Ts’Episo Makoa, Matseliso Mphale, Mmantai Phaila, Moipone Letsie Jan 2015

The State Of Poverty And Food Insecurity In Maseru, Lesotho, Resetselemang Leduka, Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne, Cameron Mccordic, Thope Matobo, Ts’Episo Makoa, Matseliso Mphale, Mmantai Phaila, Moipone Letsie

Hungry Cities Partnership

This report on food insecurity in urban Lesotho is the latest in a series on Southern African cities issued by AFSUN. Like the previous reports, it focuses on one city (Maseru) and on poor neighbourhoods and households in that city. More than 60% of poor households surveyed in Maseru were severely food insecure. While food price increases worsen food insecurity for poor households, it is poverty that weakens the resilience of society to absorb these increases. This report argues that Maseru residents face specific and interrelated challenges with respect to food and nutrition insecurity. These are poverty; limited local livelihood …

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The Darkside Of Stereotypes: The Effects Of Crime In The Media On Racial Identity And Emotions, Shantel Campbell Jan 2015

The Darkside Of Stereotypes: The Effects Of Crime In The Media On Racial Identity And Emotions, Shantel Campbell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated how the image of Black criminality in the media affects the racial identity and emotions of Blacks. It also examined how the image of White criminality affects the racial identity and emotions of Whites as a point of comparison. These effects were studied through the lens of self-categorization theory and inter-group emotions theory. SCT posits that a person*s biases are a result of how relevant their social identity is to their self-concept. IET posits that the emotions a person feels are derived from the social group they belong to. This study analyzed 369 responses from participants who …

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Privacy In Cuba, Dan Epstein Jan 2015

Privacy In Cuba, Dan Epstein

International Program Papers

No abstract provided.

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The Case Against Judicialization Of The Wto Dispute Settlement System, Don (Dong Hyun) Song Jan 2015

The Case Against Judicialization Of The Wto Dispute Settlement System, Don (Dong Hyun) Song

International Program Papers

No abstract provided.

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The Cuban Health Care System And Child Health Outcomes: An Admirable Accomplishment With Lurking Questions, Josephine Schulte Jan 2015

The Cuban Health Care System And Child Health Outcomes: An Admirable Accomplishment With Lurking Questions, Josephine Schulte

International Program Papers

No abstract provided.

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Analysis Of Communication Between Indiana Superintendents And Public School Boards, Travis Brent Haire Jan 2015

Analysis Of Communication Between Indiana Superintendents And Public School Boards, Travis Brent Haire

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This quantitative study examined the communication preferences of superintendents and public school board members. The data for this study were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive statistics, t test, and one-way ANOVAs. All public school superintendents and school board members in Indiana were eligible to participate in this study. This study administered a survey to all public school superintendents and school board members in Indiana. A total of 271 participants responded, 84 superintendents and 187 school board members. The survey measured the preferred methods and frequency of communication by superintendents and school board members. The survey was tested for reliability using …

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Investigating The Excellence In Performance For Teachers Grant And Evaluation Programs Used In Relationship To Student Growth, Joseph A. Brown Jan 2015

Investigating The Excellence In Performance For Teachers Grant And Evaluation Programs Used In Relationship To Student Growth, Joseph A. Brown

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a significant difference on English language arts and math median growth model scores for school corporations and charter schools awarded the Excellence in Performance for Teachers Grant during the 2011–2012 and 2012–2013 school years compared to school corporations and charter schools not awarded the grant. This study also analyzed the impact the professional evaluation program selected had on 2011–2012 and 2012–2013 English language arts and math median growth model scores for school corporations and charter schools awarded the Excellence in Performance for Teachers Grant. School corporations and charter schools …

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English Language Learning Kindergartners' Dynamic Responses To Picturebook Reading, Jiyoung Yi Jan 2015

English Language Learning Kindergartners' Dynamic Responses To Picturebook Reading, Jiyoung Yi

Open Access Dissertations

This study explores the nature of English language learning by kindergartners as they engage in multimodal literacy practices in response to picturebook readings in a mainstream classroom. Three focal Spanish-speaking kindergartners and their classroom teacher took part in this study. Data were collected daily for four months in a half-day morning kindergarten program. The participants' verbal and nonverbal classroom interactions during picturebook readings were coded and analyzed to characterize the nature of ELL kindergartners' multimodal responses to picturebook readings. Findings indicate that the classroom instruction did not fully address the differences in the focal children's levels of English language proficiency. …

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A Phenomenographic Analysis Of First-Year Engineering Students' Experiences With Problems Involving Multiple Possible Solutions, Emily Dringenberg Jan 2015

A Phenomenographic Analysis Of First-Year Engineering Students' Experiences With Problems Involving Multiple Possible Solutions, Emily Dringenberg

Open Access Dissertations

Engineers are expected to solve problems that are ill-structured. These problems are presented with a lack of necessary information and allow for different ways of engaging with the problem; they are open-ended and involve multiple possible solutions with multiple means of evaluation. In order to allow maximum time for students to develop skills for solving such problems, undergraduate engineering programs can introduce such problems during the first year of students’ education, in the form of cornerstone design tasks. This provides students with more opportunities to develop their ability to engage with ill-structured problems, which are characteristic of engineering work. Researchers …

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The Creation Of Daoism, Paul Fischer Jan 2015

The Creation Of Daoism, Paul Fischer

Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications

This paper examines the creation of Daoism in its earliest, pre-Eastern Han period. After an examination of the critical terms "scholar/master" and "author/ school", I argue that, given the paucity of evidence, Sima Tan and Liu Xin should be credited with creating this tradition. The body of this article considers the definitions of Daoism given by these two scholars and all of the extant texts that Liu Xin classified as "Daoist." Based on these texts, I then suggest an amended definition of Daoism. In the conclusion, I address the recent claim that the daojia /daijiao dichotomy is false, speculating that …

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'In' Or 'As' Space?: A Model Of Complexity, With Philosophical, Simulatory, And Empirical Ramifications, Charles H. Smith Jan 2015

'In' Or 'As' Space?: A Model Of Complexity, With Philosophical, Simulatory, And Empirical Ramifications, Charles H. Smith

DLPS Faculty Publications

A General Systems model based on ideas originating with the writings of Benedict de Spinoza is described, starting with its philosophical underpinnings, and proceeding on to its relation to modern systems concepts, including attempts to simulate the relationships posed, and measure real world structures. Central to the idea is the notion that spatial extension may not have a prior existence, but emerges only through an entropy maximization process in which information and energy exchange is balanced among some limited number of subsystems that in sum comprise any given functioning complex system. Related published empiricism concerning geographical/geological systems – the hypsometry …

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Giving Highlights Jan 2015

Giving Highlights

Sooner Lawyer Archive

No abstract provided.

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Class Notes Jan 2015

Class Notes

Sooner Lawyer Archive

No abstract provided.

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Ou Law Updates Jan 2015

Ou Law Updates

Sooner Lawyer Archive

No abstract provided.

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Exploring Ways Social Media Data Inform Public Issues Communication: An Analysis Of Twitter Conversation During The 2012-2013 Drought In Nebraska, Adam Wagler, Karen J. Cannon Jan 2015

Exploring Ways Social Media Data Inform Public Issues Communication: An Analysis Of Twitter Conversation During The 2012-2013 Drought In Nebraska, Adam Wagler, Karen J. Cannon

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Social networking sites often are used to maintain close social ties, but increasingly they are used for information and news dissemination, specifically about major events and crises. In 2012, a historic drought struck the Midwest, destroying or damaging portions of major field crops in major agricultural production states. By the end of August 2012, 90% of Nebraska was declared in extreme or exceptional drought, leading to bans on irrigation, damaged crops, and record-low yields as well as damaging the state’s leading economic sector. This case study used social media monitoring and analysis to explore online Twitter conversations related to this …

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Unity, New Hampshire Annual Report Year Ending December 31, 2014., Unity Town Representatives Jan 2015

Unity, New Hampshire Annual Report Year Ending December 31, 2014., Unity Town Representatives

Unity, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

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Advanced Placement Teachers' Professional Development, Janet Faye Page Jan 2015

Advanced Placement Teachers' Professional Development, Janet Faye Page

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to add to existingEducational literature on the role of the Advanced Placement (AP) teacher in AP course success for students, including the role teacher professional development plays in those courses. Since 2009, the state of Indiana has required high schools to offer at least two AP courses, and at the district level, school corporations are expected to provide AP science and math courses. Nationally the number of students taking AP courses continues to grow; the number of students scoring at least a 3 on an AP exam is not keeping pace with the growth …

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Revealing The Concealed: An Examination Of College Students' Perceptions Of Personal And Campus Safety Regarding Concealed Handguns On Campus, Jason T. Spratt Jan 2015

Revealing The Concealed: An Examination Of College Students' Perceptions Of Personal And Campus Safety Regarding Concealed Handguns On Campus, Jason T. Spratt

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore how the presence of concealed handguns on public higherEducation campuses impacts students' perceptions and behaviors. A survey instrument was used to explore students' perceptions of safety and behaviors as they relate to the presence of concealed guns on campus. Purposive and convenience sampling was used to select student participants. For this study, a total of 2,060 surveys were completed and used for analysis from students at a large public university in an urban, Midwestern setting. A review of prior literature found that the current study represents the largest study conducted at a …

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