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The Growing Use Of Social Media In Political Campaigns: How To Use Facebook, Twitter And Youtube To Create An Effective Social Media Campaign, Kaitlin Vonderschmitt May 2012

The Growing Use Of Social Media In Political Campaigns: How To Use Facebook, Twitter And Youtube To Create An Effective Social Media Campaign, Kaitlin Vonderschmitt

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

A political campaign is carefully crafted for each candidate, to address their constituency and present the candidate and party in the best possible way. After the creation of the United States suffrage was limited to land owning white men, these men were involved in politics by reading local newspapers and visiting the politicians face to face. However as we fast forward to the 1930’s President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the radio to connect with the American public, and then in 1960’s Nixon and Kennedy’s debate introduced the mass-produced version of face-to-face politics through televisions all over the country we begin …


“Make Your Move, Choose Your Food”: A Healthy Lifestyles Empowerment Campaign, Michelle Child May 2012

“Make Your Move, Choose Your Food”: A Healthy Lifestyles Empowerment Campaign, Michelle Child

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This thesis documents the campaign “Make Your Move. Choose Your Food.” This healthy lifestyles empowerment campaign was one of six conducted in Bowling Green, Kentucky during February 2012 for the Public Relations Student Society of America’s (PRSSA) 2011-2012 Bateman Case Study Competition through the public relations capstone courses Journalism 454 and 456. The objective of this campaign was to encourage children, teenagers, parents, educators and community organizations to improve their individual health and the health of the community. My team, consisting of four public relations seniors and myself, created three overall objectives grounded in research, planned strategies specific to our …


Changing The World From Classrooms To Communities: Designing And Disseminating A Service-Learning Curriculum For Teaching In A Formal Education Setting, Amanda English May 2012

Changing The World From Classrooms To Communities: Designing And Disseminating A Service-Learning Curriculum For Teaching In A Formal Education Setting, Amanda English

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

To change the world is a growing desire among many of today’s student populations, portrayed increasingly across the spectrum of media, social trends and career pursuits. While the demand grows among students for community-oriented and socially-responsible opportunities, the offerings in educational institutions must respond to these emerging requests with new and innovative academic programs. This text emphasizes the role of the developing discipline of service-learning in channeling these energies and providing students with deep and meaningful academic experiences. Its content seeks to combat misconceptions of service-learning as simply an extra-curricular activity and provide tangible methods for incorporating its concepts into …


Gough, William Henry, 1826-1910 (Sc 275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Gough, William Henry, 1826-1910 (Sc 275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 275. Record book of William H. Gough, the first sheriff of Meade County, Kentucky, containing notes of court cases and jury lists. Includes notes and diary entries relating to his activities at Mount Merino Seminary in Breckinridge County, and lists of students, 1841-1842.


Tichenor, A. K. (Sc 274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Tichenor, A. K. (Sc 274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 274. Record book of dry goods purchases in account with J. B. Dyer, a merchant at Sonora, Hardin County, Kentucky.


Barrick, Russell M., Jr. (Sc 273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Barrick, Russell M., Jr. (Sc 273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 273. Account books, 1859-1861, of a tobacco dealer of Barren County, Kentucky.


Marshall & Cowherd - Greensburg, Kentucky (Sc 271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Marshall & Cowherd - Greensburg, Kentucky (Sc 271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 271. Account book, 1859-1862, of general merchants at Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky.


Tinsley, Alanson, 1816-1899 (Sc 272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Tinsley, Alanson, 1816-1899 (Sc 272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 272. Account book, 1860-1861, of a general merchant at Trenton, Todd County, Kentucky.


What Do They Really Mean? A Translation Guide For New Student Affairs Professionals, Aaron W. Hughey Apr 2012

What Do They Really Mean? A Translation Guide For New Student Affairs Professionals, Aaron W. Hughey

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Louisville And Nashville Railroad Company (Mss 399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Louisville And Nashville Railroad Company (Mss 399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 399. Ledger book containing information about road repairs and construction projects on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad line, chiefly in Tennessee and Kentucky. The ledger includes tools and materials used in these projects, a brief account of the work, and information about employees used during the projects.


Smith, Zachariah Frederick, 1827-1911 (Sc 270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Smith, Zachariah Frederick, 1827-1911 (Sc 270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection. Letter book of a wholesale grocer in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes transactions of Lehman & Grafulla, merchants, and “Notes of Lehman, Rabold & Co.”


Winlock, Joseph F. (Sc 269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Winlock, Joseph F. (Sc 269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 269. Account book of Dr. Joseph F. Winlock, physician of Greensburg, Kentucky, containing accounts of patients, some ailment cures and a small notebook probably carried by the doctor with entries to be copied into account book.


Stubbins & Lucas Pork House - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Stubbins & Lucas Pork House - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 265. Account book of R. S. Griffith, clerk to Stubbins & Lucas pork merchants, at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes accounts of sales to river steamboats.


Fairleigh, William, 1797-1865 (Sc 264), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Fairleigh, William, 1797-1865 (Sc 264), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 264. Account book, 1830-1835, of William Fairleigh, a general merchant at Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky. Also contains a list of fines collected as first clerk of Meade County and Circuit Courts.


42th Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University Mar 2012

42th Annual Wku Student Research Conference, Student Research Council, Western Kentucky University

Student Research Conference Select Presentations

No abstract provided.


Dickinson, W. H. (Sc 263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Dickinson, W. H. (Sc 263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Mansucripts Small Collection 263. Receipt book of W. H. Dickinson, Sheriff of Barren County, Kentucky.


Wooten, William H. (Sc 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Wooten, William H. (Sc 262), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 262. Two account books of William H. Wooten, carpenter and blacksmith in Bowling Green, Kentucky. One, 1857-1862, contains orders and lists work of hired hands. The second, 1857-1861, is a customer account book, 313p.


Jeffrey, Jonathan David, B. 1960 (Fa 574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Jeffrey, Jonathan David, B. 1960 (Fa 574), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 574. Oral history interview by Jonathan Jeffrey of Jerry Ellis Baker, conducted at his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding Baker’s life and accomplishments.


Jackson, Alfred Metcalfe, 1816-1865 (Sc 306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Jackson, Alfred Metcalfe, 1816-1865 (Sc 306), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 306. Account book of Alfred Metcalfe Jackson, a physician in South Carrollton, Kentucky.


Adams, George Bradley, 1819-1854 (Sc 305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Adams, George Bradley, 1819-1854 (Sc 305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 305. Account book, 1847-1848, of a blacksmith at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky.


Perringer & Wile - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Perringer & Wile - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 304. Account book, 1857-1858, of general merchants at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky.


Robertson, Smoot & Brown - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

Robertson, Smoot & Brown - Woodburn, Kentucky (Sc 307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 307. Two account books, 1860-1864, of Robertson, Smoot & Brown, general merchants at Woodburn, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes records of cash payments, credit accounts, and prescription accounts.


J. H. Wilson Tobacco Company - Mayfield, Kentucky (Sc 2514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2012

J. H. Wilson Tobacco Company - Mayfield, Kentucky (Sc 2514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2514. Advertising circular of J. H. Wilson Tobacco Company, a mail order firm in Mayfield, Kentucky. Includes details of the company’s reopening under a new tobacco tax imposed by the Revenue Act of 1918, testimonials, price list, order form, and offer of a free book by J. H. Wilson.


[Owning My Own Business], Dominique T. Dillard Feb 2012

[Owning My Own Business], Dominique T. Dillard

Undergraduate Research Award

No abstract provided.


Account Books (Sc 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Account Books (Sc 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 303. Two account books, 1852-1855, of a general merchant, possibly at Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Mcgoodwin & Parks? - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Mcgoodwin & Parks? - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 302. Ledger of sales, 1896-1898, of a grocer at Bowling Green, Kentucky, possibly the firm of McGoodwin & Parks.


Hatfield, Samuel (Sc 301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Hatfield, Samuel (Sc 301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 301. Account book, 1830-1873, of Samuel Hatfield, a general merchant in eastern Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes accounts of tobacco notes, tobacco, meal, and mules and pigs bought.


Davis, Robert (Sc 300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Davis, Robert (Sc 300), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 300. Account book, 1846-1847, of the estate of Robert Davis, a merchant at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a list of notes and accounts due, and cash received from the sale of his goods and chattels, including slaves.


Dinwiddie, William, 1787-1865 (Sc 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Dinwiddie, William, 1787-1865 (Sc 297), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 297. Account book of William Dinwiddie, a saddler and harness maker at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes loose sheets of account records.


Burnam, Tom L., 1830-1885 (Sc 299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2012

Burnam, Tom L., 1830-1885 (Sc 299), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 299. Book containing invoices, 1857-1858, rendered to Tom L. Burnam, a general merchant at Bowling Green, Kentucky.