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A Study Of The Method Of Teaching Called "Scripture Chase" As Employed By The Full-Time Teachers Of The Seminaries Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Vernon W. Mattson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the LDS Seminary Scripture Chase in the following areas: (1) Principles of learning involved; (2) Percentage of full-time teachers using the Scripture Chase; (3) Teacher evaluation of the Scripture Chase in terms of (a) teacher training in the Scripture Chase, (b) student involvement and application, (c) areas of effectiveness and (d) evaluation and rating of the over-all program.
Questionnaires were sent to 498 full-time Seminary teachers in Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Canada with a return of 80.3 percent. The data revealed that 143, or 33 percent regularly use …

A Study Of Factors Which May Influence Attitudes Of Lds Teen-Agers Toward Family Home Evening, Don Leroy Miller

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify factors related to attitudes of teenagers toward the Family Home Evening Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hypotheses involving the relationships of certain factors to attitudes toward home evening were tested.

A cluster sample of twenty-three ninth grade classes was selected and data were gathered through use of a questionnaire. Statistics used in analysis of data included the Pearsonian product moment correlation coefficient, and analysis of variance. Responses to open-end questions were content analyzed by three independent judges.

Findings suggest that perceived participation by teenagers in planning and …

The "Deor" Legends: Their Dissemination In Germanic Literature, Doris Larraine Mabry

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The Dialectic Of The Theology Of Browning's Bishop Blougram, Sylvia Eunice Lowe

Masters Theses

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Faulkner's View Of The Moral And Social Dissolution Of The South, Patricia Lindsay Kerr

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The Land Legislation Of The Macedonian Dynasty, Eugenia Petridis

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Some Descriptions And Textual-Dramatic Criticism Of Shakespearian Plays In The British Dramatic Periodicals, The Period - 1850-1875: An Objective Report, John J. Ahern

Master's Theses

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Sonata For Clarinet And Piano, Opus 4, No. 2, Edwin L. Schoen

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

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A Comparative Investigation Of The Differing Responses To The Good News Of The Gospel Among The Highland And Jungle Quechua Indians Of Ecuador, William Richard Lemon

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Why does the Good News of the Gospel find greater response in some areas of the world than it does in other areas - even where there is a fairly close relationship geographically and culturally? This is one of the problems that the evangelical church is facing in some areas of Ecuador today. After many years of labor in some areas there has been little fruit, while in others there has been an abundant harvest - even to the amazement of some of the missionaries involved. It is the purpose of this project and report to investigate this paradox to …

An Analysis Of The Fourth Voyage Of Gulliver's Travels And Its Relevance To The Twentieth Century, Angelo Rodriguez

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Any work of art, by definition, is so designated because it speaks to all generations, irrespective of time or place, and regardless of artistic, political, economic, or ideological fads. To accept a work as art with anything less than these universalities is blind acceptance and pure idolatry. Each generation must determine the validity of the label art by determining the relevance of the work to its own generations. Unless a work of art can successfully meet such a test, the label is no more than a gentleman's agreement among self-designated arbiters of taste. Two recent critics, writing on the philosophy …

The Seasons : Four Poems By Robert Frost For Tenor And Orchestra : Opus 5 (1969), Richard Meeks

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

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The Twenty-Fifth Amendment To The Constitution Of The United States, Francis Joseph Romano

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This paper presents a study of the Twenty·-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The Amendment was first proposed to Congress as Senate and House Joint Resolutions in February 1965. It became law in February 1967, when Nevada secured the distinction of being the 38th state to ratify it, thus fulfilling the required agreement by three·-fourths of the states.

The Amendment has not yet been tested. It is the first comprehensive legislative attempt to solve three related problems that have plagued the executive branch of our government since the earliest days of the Union.

The Extension Of The Poor Law To Ireland, Thomas G. Conway

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Western Town Growth: A Study Of The Development Of Towns On The Western Shore Of Lake Michigan, 1815-1843, John Haeger

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Principles And Practices In Comedy: Shaw, Giraudoux, And Beckett, John Michael Mcinerney

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Speculative Reason And Religious Experience In Whitehead, William Martin O'Meara

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Structural Irony In Flannery O'Connor: Instrument Of The Writer's Vision, Melinda Keane

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Karl Grun: The Confrontation With Marx, 1844-1848, J. Strassmaier

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An Analysis Of The Psychozoological Tales Of Rafael Arévalo Martínez, Ricardo Cortez Costello

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This paper will identify and analyze the literary phenomenon of the preponderance of the transfer of dumb animal. traits, including mannerisms, instincts and brute social behavior to human beings as found in the prose of Rafael Arevalo Martlnez of Guatemala. This literary phenomenon has been called.zoomorphimn and psychozoology.

The Roosevelt Corollary To The Monroe Doctrine And The Santo Domingan Receivership Of 1905: Big Stick Or Big Brother?, Ronald Francis Reter

Master's Theses

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John Wild's Transition To A Philosophy Of The Lebenswelt, David Goicoechea

Master's Theses

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The Royal Hospital Of Saint Joseph Of The Indians Of Mexico City, James Richard Samec

Master's Theses

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An Approach To Imagery In The Poetry Of Theodore Roethke, Barbara Bubon Steinbeigle

Master's Theses

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Philipp G. Frank: Critic Of Modern Science, Justin. Synnestvedt

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Sentimentality In Juvenile Fiction Of The Eighteenth Century In England, Robert Bator

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The Development Of Macaulay's Essays, Margaret Cruikshank

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The Genesis, Reception, And Form Of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, Mary Mcgoohan Price

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Gabino Barreda And The Positivist Reforms In Mexican Education: The Law Of Public Instruction, 1867 And Its Reform, 1869, Josephine Helen Schulte

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Zosimus, Greek Historian Of The Fall Of The Roman Empire: An Appraisal Of His Validity And Merits, Daniel C. Scavone

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An Edition Of Shakespeare Restored By Lewis Theobald (1688-1744), Anthony Lala

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