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Black Attitudes Towards Social Affiliation With Whites And Its Influence On Academic Achievement, Alvin Finderson

Masters Theses

If blacks are to compete successfully in white academia, they must be able to communicate and interact with white students and professors. Acceptance of middle-class white students with an academic achievement orientation, as friends and equals, should enable or assist blacks in developing positive attitudes toward academic achievement. This in turn should positively affect scholastic performance. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between black attitudes toward social affiliation with whites and successful academic performance on integrated campuses.

This hypothesis was tested by measuring the association between black self-reported grade point averages and their responses to an …

A Slide-Tape Presentation For Parent Orientation Of The Public Schools Of Hillsboro Unit District #3, Wayne C. Ford

Masters Theses

The Slide-Tape Presentation for Parent Orientation of the Public Schools of Hillsboro Unit District #3, Hillsboro, Illinois was created to show: 1) the location and type of building students attend in the district, 2) some of the activities provided for students in the elementary, middle and senior high school, 3) many of the ancillary services provided in the school district, and 4) the results of long-range facility planning done by the school board and citizens who reside in the school district.

Preparation of the multi-media package included the assembling of a slide bank of six hundred seventy-five slides. From this …

Self Disclosure Among The Chinese And American College Students, Mau-Sun Hua

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Moral Costs Of Crime: Prices, Information And Organization, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

More on price exaction, and punishments as conveyors of cost information in the criminal process.

Overurbanization And Its Relation To Economic Growth For Less Developed Countries, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

This paper does not have an abstract but examines the role of urbanization and over-urbanization in economic growth and decline in the developing world.

Informational Paradox And The Pricing Of Crime: Capital Sentencing Standards In Economic Perspective, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A further development of the price exaction model and an application to the problem of sentencing standards.

Overurbanization And Its Relation To Economic Growth For Less Developed Countries, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

This paper does not have an abstract but examines the role of urbanization and over-urbanization in economic growth and decline in the developing world.

And When Ye Shall Receive These Things (Motet) - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

This piece is written in a Renaissance polyphonic motet style for an A Cappella SATB choir with words from Moroni 10:4-5.

Rhetoric And Culture, Ruth Anderson, Beth Bennet, Barbara Johnstone, Michael Svoboda

Barbara Johnstone

A History Of The True People - The Cherokee Indians - Chapter 2, Robert K. Thomas

Robert K. Thomas

Written under the pseudonym of G.P. Horsefly, Robert Thomas wrote this volume for Indian kids in Michigan and whites who are 'acquainted with' Indians. The book pulls together Cherokee oral histories that Thomas heard. Chapter 2 is 'Living With Strangers'

Curriculum Vitae, Robert K. Thomas

Robert K. Thomas

No abstract provided.