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Earning The Green Light: How Organized Baseball Survived During World War Ii, Amanda Lauren Curto

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation examines how professional baseball survived and contributed to the United States war efforts during the Second World War. It argues baseball’s survival was dependent on its relationship with the federal government during the war. Previous scholarships studied baseball’s symbolism, cultural, economic, and social impacts during wartime. The scholarship has not explored how these methodologies sustained baseball while under wartime conditions. Drawing on primary sources including federal government records, correspondences, and national and local newspapers, this dissertation reconstructs the relationship between professional baseball and the federal government. Providing crucial support for Organized Baseball’s continuation came from President Franklin D. …

Lament Shift: Utilizing Biblical Lament As A Reframing Process To Help Church Members Of First Baptist Church Of Lumberton, Mississippi, Cope With Emotional Distress, Paul Wiseheart

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this DMIN action research project was to address the problem that church members at First Baptist Church of Lumberton, Mississippi (FBCL) were unprepared to use biblical lament as a meaning-making coping practice to manage emotional distress. The thesis statement was that if FBCL church members participated in Lament Shift, they would report greater preparedness to manage emotional distress. Lament Shift is a curriculum-based program designed to equip FBCL church members to use biblical lament as a meaning-making coping practice in the context of a four-week peer support group. The study used a pre-experimental mixed methods design and …

The Role Of The Prophetic Commissioning Formula In Matthew’S Gospel, Marcus N. Wilson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Scholars have long examined Matthew’s Gospel for its fulfillment quotations and theological emphases but have often overlooked its structural dependence on the Old Testament (OT) prophetic commissioning formula. This formula—divine encounter, mission mandate, prophetic objection, divine reassurance, and a sign of validation—serves as a critical framework throughout Matthew’s narrative, linking Christology, discipleship, and mission. This study addresses the gap by demonstrating how Matthew integrates these commissioning motifs to present Jesus as the ultimate fulfillment of Israel’s prophetic tradition and to emphasize the continuity between Israel’s covenantal promises and the mission inaugurated by Jesus.

While the Limited Commission (Matt 10:5–42) and …

Exploring The Practice Of Mindfulness In Ministry Among Kansas Assemblies Of God Clergy, Angela K. Sartain

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Interest in integrating mindfulness into Christian counseling and pastoral practice increased; however, very little research has documented its experience among Assemblies of God clergy. This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of Kansas Assemblies of God clergy who have engaged mindfulness within a ministry context. Based on acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, viewed through a Christian lens; the research examined understanding, adaptation, and practice regarding worship, leadership, and pastoral care. Data from in-depth interviews with Kansas Assemblies of God clergy were analyzed thematically and patterns of meaning and practice were discovered. The results revealed how Kansas Assemblies …

U.S. Navy Seal Operational Understanding From 1945 To 1989: A Case Study, Cade Morgan Kemp Pickford

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation will examine the evolution of U.S. Navy SEAL doctrine, mission scope, and overall strategic role from their formal establishment in 1962 through the Cold War interventions in Grenada (1983) and Panama (1989). It will argue that the SEALs transformed from a more experimental counterinsurgency force into a much stronger and more strategically significant instrument of U.S. military policy, shaped by the combat experience, institutional challenges, and ever-evolving geopolitical demands. Drawing upon several primary sources, including archival records, official military histories, several oral interviews, and doctrinal publications, this study employs a qualitative, thematic methodology to analyze patterns in operational …

The Truths Beneath The Story: Internal Conflict, Catharsis, And Psychological Allegory As The Catalyst For Transformation In Screenwriting, Heather Bixler

Masters Theses

The Tour is a psychological coming-of-age screenplay that constructs meaning through the interaction of the main character's internal contradictions, resulting in an emotionally and structurally driven transformation. The screenplay is an original feature-length screenplay that follows Claudia, a 17-year-old girl who finds herself in the Unknown World. There she meets The Heartmaker and discovers her heart is missing. She journeys to Pineville, a town that mirrors her life back home, where her late father is still alive, and the townspeople reflect hidden truths of those she loves. The Tour is a coming-of-age psychological drama with allegorical dimensions. The script explores …

Desegregation Of The Ranks: How The United States Military Was The First Professional Organization To Integrate All Ethnic Groups, Matthew Lee Spiller

Masters Theses

A nation’s military has often been at the forefront of social progression. The Spartans, a military society, granted women a voice in government and a degree of autonomy over their own lives, while the Athenians—the founders of democracy—considered women second-class citizens with no control over their own affairs. The United States military is no different, striving to ensure fair and equal treatment of all ethnicities within the armed forces. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the United States military—six years before the desegregation of public schools in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). This …

Breaking The Box: How Pandora's Box Activates And Reinforces Gender Ideologies Through Linguistic Adherence To Archetypal Hegemonic Masculinity, Hannah Pitkofsky

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

Mythology, such as Pandora’s Box, provides a strong ideological framework for how our society views certain issues, including femininity and female potential. However, the images presented in these stories are often artificially crafted with implicit biases that allegorize femininity within a pre-established masculine and patriarchal framework, whose core concepts remain persistent in contemporary culture. In this paper, I dissect contemporary English translations of the original Pandora myth by analyzing language patterns and examining their cultural and linguistic implications. Furthermore, I investigate the authorial rationale behind these lexical frameworks through the lens of contemporary hegemonic masculinity. I argue that the current …

Where Containment Was Born: Greece And The First Battlefield Of The Cold War, Christos Vourtsas

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation examines the origins, implementation, and consequences of United States intervention in Greece during the Greek Civil War (1946-1949), situating the conflict within the broader development of early Cold War strategy. It argues that American involvement in Greece represented the first fully realized application of containment policy and established precedents that shaped subsequent United States foreign interventions throughout the Cold War. The study begins by tracing the political and military fragmentation of Greece during the Axis occupation (1941-1944) and the subsequent breakdown of political reconciliation following the Varkiza Agreement in 1945. It demonstrates how the resurgence of political violence …

Empowering Elementary Music Students To Compose And Perform With Ipad, Matthew Martin Massengale

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

iPad is a popular device commonly used an educational tool, yet little information is available about how iPad can be used to supplement gaps in music education in elementary classes. It is widely accepted that music education increases student achievement across multiple curriculums: therefore, any techniques and tools available to deliver music lessons that may close gaps in access to quality music education are important to study and understand. Through qualitative research techniques, this study will examine and analyze the efficacy of using iPad in music lessons. Students will access music history and theory through apps installed on iPad. Students …

Besieged Emotions: Female Writers, Vicksburg, And The Domestic Sphere During The Civil War, Theresa Schaecher

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, is most often interpreted in terms of military strategy, leadership, and battlefield outcomes. While these perspectives provide important insights into the campaign, they have often placed less emphasis on the experiences of civilians who endured the forty-seven-day siege within the city. This dissertation examines the civilian experience through women's writings, arguing that their diaries and memoirs serve as analytical accounts of survival, emotional endurance, and social transformation under siege. Drawing on the writings of Mary Loughborough and other female civilians, this study employs content and narrative analyses to identify patterns of fear, grief, hope, and …

Elementary Music Educators And The Mcclosky Technique, Shannon Day

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Despite years of private vocal instruction and coursework on the singing voice, many music educators have not continued their vocal study beyond their former institutional requirements, nor have they received training in the proper use and care of the speaking voice, which has led to the development of vocal disorders and complaints of poor vocal health. This study examines the varying levels of vocal health among elementary music educators as they undergo vocal health exercises using the McClosky Technique. The McClosky Technique offers a distinctive approach to vocal health that emphasizes the release of muscular tension within the voice. The …

See-Judge-Act In The Age Of Viral Violence: Moral Agency, Praxis, And Social Media, Thomas Elias

Graduate Student Research Symposium

More and more, young adults are encountering war and violence through an unrelenting stream of social media images and videos: bombed apartment blocks, civilians fleeing airstrikes, and acts of political violence. Psychological research links exposure to unfiltered depictions of war with heightened trauma symptoms. In the age of social media, people undergo the moral processes online in response to war, terror, and injustice. While these platforms amplify global awareness, they also strain the capacities of moral agents to see clearly, judge responsibly, and act meaningfully. Drawing on Catholic social thought, digital ethics, and psychological research, this project explores how viral …

Women’S Peace Agency: Reading Africae Munus In The Framework Of Emilie Townes’ Womanist Ethics And The Cultural Production Of Evil, Leonard N. Zifac

Graduate Student Research Symposium

This paper employs Emilie M. Townes's womanist ethical framework—particularly her concept of the "cultural production of evil"—to critically examine Pope Benedict XVI's post-synodal exhortation Africae Munus (2011) and its treatment of African women's agency in peacebuilding. While Africae Munus calls the Church in Africa to serve reconciliation, justice, and peace, and acknowledges women's dignity and contributions to family and community life, the document largely confines women's roles to maternal, supportive, and domestic spheres without adequately challenging the patriarchal structures that systematically marginalize women from strategic leadership and formal peace processes. Drawing on Townes's analysis of how cultural narratives, religious discourse, …

The Flor-Ala Alumni Edition, Florence State Teachers College

Documents

The 1933 Publication of Alumni News from The Flor-Ala. This copy (folder) also includes a short bio on Beulah Young Pettey, who served as Vice President of the Senior class of 1940.

A Spatial Analysis Of The Phenomenon Of Begging In The City Of Qurna And Its Social Impact For The Period 2021, Muhammad Khudair Salman Al-Ali

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

One of the social phenomena, including the city of Qurna, is the phenomena of begging, which were distributed among the city’s neighboods and concentrated in the cities commercial, The study showed that number of male beggars incteasd by55% compared to females.The study also found different social effects, with high rates of domestic violence and social disintegration, in addition to the spread of bullying among them.The study also showed the causes of begging foremost among whoch was unemployment, poverty and various other causes.Finally, I give some suggestions to limit the spread of the phenomenon and to develop solutions for it.

The Fiduciary Argument Against Conscientious Refusal In Healthcare, Michael Robinson

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

The question of when, if ever, healthcare professionals with conscientious objections should be accommodated by permitting them to refuse to provide medical interventions to which they morally object is a heated issue that has received significant attention in the medical ethics literature. While many professional medical associations have long held that such objections may be accommodated in a broad range of cases, a vocal and growing minority has been fervently arguing that the medical profession should cease accommodating conscientious objections and should rarely, if ever, permit clinicians to refrain from providing medical care merely because it conflicts with their conscience. …

Music History 10100: A Thousand Years Of Listening, Sophia Stoyanovich

Open Educational Resources

A Thousand Years of Listening is an undergraduate music history course elective at Hunter College that introduces students to the history of Western art music from the medieval era to the present through focused listening and musical analysis. Designed for students with no prior musical training, the course develops critical listening skills while exploring major composers, genres, styles, and historical contexts. Through listening, discussion, writing, and a live concert experience, students learn to engage with music as informed and thoughtful listeners.

The Interaction Of Intentionality With Enunciation Contexts In Hayat Raiss’S Novel “Midnight Of Baghdad”, Belgacem Mars

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

In this study, we examine the aspects of the interaction of intentionality with the denominator; and how it particularly gets adapted despite its requirements and constraints.

Intentionality: Foundations Of Knowledge And Its Dimensions In Fiction Discourse, Said Jabbar

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

If intentionality in its cognitive and philosophical origins, in particular, refers to the consciousness that connects a subject to his or her external environment through a medium of communication, which is language.

Intentionality In Modern Arab Criticism From The Authority Of Intent (Author) To The Authority Of Structure (Text), Ahlam Tarrach

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Modern Arab criticism is interested in intentionality and considers this practice as an important mechanism for reception and interpretation, drawing from the ancient Arab heritage and Western criticism and linguistics.

The Phenomenological Reference Of The Intentionality Of The Concept To The Function: The Meaning Of The Objectivity Of Judgment By Conscience, Souhaila Mimoun

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This study aims to analyse the perceptual function of “intentionality” from a phenomenological reference. This function is based on two principles. First, any perception is a perception of an object. In this sense, intentionality is the connection between the conscious self with a specific object geared towards perceiving its truth.

The Multiple Worlds Of Intentionality: Towards The Accessibility Of Identities, Ismail Choukri

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Accessibility is a cognitive ability that contributes to the reproduction of universes and to the construction of characteristics of the unknown world. Both indicate that they interact in the context of the dynamics of the society of mind that is characterized by the differentiation of patterns; each having a particular identity.

The Concept Of Intentionality In The History Of Philosophy Through The Thesis Of Candida De Sousa, Abdelouahed Lamrabet

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

The purpose of the article is to analyze the concept of intentionality through the history of philosophy, based on the thesis of the Brazilian researcher Candida Jaci De Sousa Melo, entitled “The Role of Intentionality in Conceptual Thinking”, defended in 2006 at the Université du Québec at Montréal.

The Concept Of Intentionality Between Brentano And Husserl, Mustapha Chadli

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

No abstract provided.

Perspective Of Political Discourse In The Light Of Intentionality And Technological Developments?, Mohammed Noubir

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

In this article, we propose to present some concepts and mechanisms that allow us to understand the functions of political discourse; mainly, collective intentionality and causal effectiveness in the production of physical effect in the context of intentional realism.

Intentionality Displays In Contemporary French Literature, Martine Motard-Noar

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

The works of Hélène Cixous and of Pascal Quignard can be described as spaces of intentionality where a narrative program unfolds.

Ngum A Jemea Or The Unshakable Faith Of Rudolf Dualla Manga Bell By David Mbanga Eyombwan: Between The Duty Of Individual, Tribal And (Trans)National Memory, Jovensel Ngamaleu

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Among the heroes-martyrs of the history of Cameroonian anti-colonial nationalism, we can mention, among others, Ruben Um Nyobe, Ernest Ouandié, Felix Moumié, Martin Paul Samba and Rudolf Dualla Manga Bell.

Intentionality, Or How Photography Became An Art, David Paigneau

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

The introduction of the daguerreotype in 1839, soon followed by the appearance of what we now call photography, was one of the most significant breaks in the history of representation.

Human Intention And Perfectibility In Islam, Massima Louwoungou

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

The text proposes to question again, freshly, the status of intention in Islam. It will be a question of seeing how, long before Husserl’s phenomenological theses, Islam already conceived man as a being of intention.