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A Hairy Tale Analysis Of Adobe-Embedded Hair From Arrowhead Hill, Escalante, Utah, Bradley A. Newbold, Dr. Joel Janetski Sep 2013

A Hairy Tale Analysis Of Adobe-Embedded Hair From Arrowhead Hill, Escalante, Utah, Bradley A. Newbold, Dr. Joel Janetski

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During the Spring Term of 2004, the BYU Archaeological Field School excavated a portion of Arrowhead Hill, a Formative (or early agricultural) Period site a few miles west of Escalante, Utah. Two intriguing finds were made during that field season: two pit-house structures of varying style situated within a few meters of each other and multiple large, deep, spherical underground pits. Diagnostic characteristics of Formative Period pit-houses are, among others, the style of structure construction and the style and type of ceramic vessels recovered on or near the original floor of the structure. From this, it was concluded that one …

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Determining The Value Of Subsistence And Cash Crop Farming In Tamil Nadu, Indian Family’S Subsistence Strategies, Joseph Neil Ransom, Dr. Charles Nuckolls Sep 2013

Determining The Value Of Subsistence And Cash Crop Farming In Tamil Nadu, Indian Family’S Subsistence Strategies, Joseph Neil Ransom, Dr. Charles Nuckolls

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It is nearly impossible to asses the true conditions of a community from older books or research papers about neighboring areas. That said my background reading leading up to this research project had left me with the impression a large percentage of Indian farmers completely subsisted from their land. While other farmers spent their time cultivating crops for the market, these subsistence farmers planted their favorite foods for future consumption. Reading about subsistence farmers in Africa had lead me to believe these farmers lived a better quality of life than cash crop farmers because they were able to grow a …

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“They Are All My Children:” Grandparenting And Globalization In The K’Iche’ Eldercare System, Melarie Wheat, Dr. John Hawkins Sep 2013

“They Are All My Children:” Grandparenting And Globalization In The K’Iche’ Eldercare System, Melarie Wheat, Dr. John Hawkins

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“Tojo papi, tojo amor,” Juana playfully beckoned her young grandson from across the kitchen. The child glanced over at her, but instead toddled towards the plancha, the ceramic stove, aiming directly for the fire. Once there he proceeded to play with the ash emerging from the front of the plancha. The family, however, looked on unconcerned and continued their conversation about how many cows to buy in the market the next day. Suddenly Miguel, the grandfather, lunged forward shouting “no, no, no!” as he confiscated a flaming stick from his young grandchild. “Ai hombre!” the child’s exasperated mother exclaimed as …

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Minority Group Awareness In Tamil Nadu, India, Matt Shurtleff, Dr. Chad Emmett Sep 2013

Minority Group Awareness In Tamil Nadu, India, Matt Shurtleff, Dr. Chad Emmett

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Most political situations have an interesting background. They are the stuff that spy movies are made of. The involvement of India in the Sri Lankan civil war is no exception.

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Changing Agricultural Land Use In Suzhou, China, Emily J. Long, Dr. Richard H. Jackson Sep 2013

Changing Agricultural Land Use In Suzhou, China, Emily J. Long, Dr. Richard H. Jackson

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China’s recent economic boom has brought many changes to its urban and rural landscape. Urban communities are growing larger and are often encroaching upon important agricultural land. The city of Suzhou provides a prime case study of the effects that development can have on once fertile agricultural land in China. Suzhou is located in the fertile Yangtze River delta in the Jiangsu Province bordering Shanghai on the east. The city of Suzhou is over 2,500 years old and is famous for its beautiful scenery, classical gardens, and rich cultural heritage. This fertile delta provided good farming soil for thousands of …

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Ghana And The International Criminal Court Why Did Ghana Support The Creation Of The Icc?, Melissa Paredes, Dr. Darren Hawkins Sep 2013

Ghana And The International Criminal Court Why Did Ghana Support The Creation Of The Icc?, Melissa Paredes, Dr. Darren Hawkins

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Preliminary evidence pointed to Ghana as a likely leader in the creation of the International Criminal Court. Ghana was the sixth country to sign the Rome Statute for creation of the International Criminal Court. It was also one of the first countries to ratify the Statute, after the Ghanaian Parliament voted unanimously for the ratification. Currently, there is a Ghanaian woman serving as the Vice-President of the Court.

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The Growing Power Of Multinational Corporations, Steven Kapfer, Dr. Brian Champion Sep 2013

The Growing Power Of Multinational Corporations, Steven Kapfer, Dr. Brian Champion

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One of the most important issues states face is the growing power of the multinational corporation. Multinational corporations (MNC) have an immense influence in the international system, participating in the majority of economic activity and growth. It is therefore important to understand the effect that multinational corporations have on international relations in order to correctly identify why particular events happen. If policy is made without an accurate understanding of the international system then chances are that it will cause more harm than good.

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Field Study Impact Assessment In Highland Guatemala, Adriana Smith, Dr. John Hawkins Sep 2013

Field Study Impact Assessment In Highland Guatemala, Adriana Smith, Dr. John Hawkins

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I felt at home walking down the cement block street through Nahualá’s town center. It was good to be back in the small highland community in Guatemala where I had spent nearly every summer of my undergraduate career. It had been 10 years since the first group of anthropology students had come to study in these communities and since then, BYU students have been visiting every year for several months at a time. My interaction in years past with the K’iche’ has always left me wondering what they thought of me living in their homes, eating their food, and asking …

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Heart Rate Response Under Induced Stress: A Comparison Of Individuals With High And Low Ruminative Tendencies, Douglas Marchant, Dr. Claudia Clayton Sep 2013

Heart Rate Response Under Induced Stress: A Comparison Of Individuals With High And Low Ruminative Tendencies, Douglas Marchant, Dr. Claudia Clayton

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Rumination can be defined as persistent, recyclic thinking (Rippere, 1977). There are characteristic differences between normal rumination, which is simply recyclic thinking, and depressive rumination, which is characterized by recyclic thoughts focused on one’s depressive symptoms and the ramifications of those symptoms (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991). Therefore, depressive rumination is narrower in its content than normal rumination. Examples include revisiting private regrets and disappointments, focusing on feelings of loneliness, and dwelling on personal inadequacies (Davis & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2000). The following three examples of depressive rumination are characteristically different in focus than the depressive thoughts given above: “Why am I so sad?”, “Why …

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The Benefits And Responsibilities Of Discipline, Dr. Bruce Chadwick Sep 2013

The Benefits And Responsibilities Of Discipline, Dr. Bruce Chadwick

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Religious leaders and social scientists regard the family as the vital social entity of society. Deemed so, partly, because it has the ability to socialize children into competent adults. For the past several decades, the family has been undergoing vast changes, considerable decline in the eyes of some. The discipline and responsibility a child is raised under is crucial to their stability as adults.

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Poverty Alleviation Strategies On The Indigenous In Mexico, Claire Sharp, Dr. Tim B. Heaton Sep 2013

Poverty Alleviation Strategies On The Indigenous In Mexico, Claire Sharp, Dr. Tim B. Heaton

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Mexico’s national poverty initiatives are intended to provide assistance for those living in poverty. It is a development targeting concern that people who could most benefit from such poverty alleviation development programs are excluded, such as the indigenous populations and other minority groups. I will be assessing how indigenous populations are included in development initiatives of Mexico and providing a detailed case study of how these national development initiatives affect the Raramuri Indians of Chihuahua, Mexico. Determining the efficacy of development programs entails assessing whether the development projects address the local-level concerns of various groups in society, including the indigenous …

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Cross-Cultural Irregularities Of The Oq-45 When Administered To Students At The University Of Guadalajara In Guadalajara, Mexico Or How I Spent My Summer Vacation In Mexico, Ryan Nelson, Dr. Michael Lambert Sep 2013

Cross-Cultural Irregularities Of The Oq-45 When Administered To Students At The University Of Guadalajara In Guadalajara, Mexico Or How I Spent My Summer Vacation In Mexico, Ryan Nelson, Dr. Michael Lambert

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I met Dr. Espinito Romero at a clinical psychology conference held at Zion National Park in Southern Utah in March, 2004. He had traveled from Guadalajara, Mexico to this conference to present his poster on bowel irregularities in the lower intestine and their effects on mental health. I was attending the conference as a student of Dr. Michael Lambert and was giving a presentation on perfectionism and its possible inclusion on the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45) as a measure of mental health.

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Home And Family Living Analysis: The Family Meal Environment, Leah Schreiner, Shirley Klein Sep 2013

Home And Family Living Analysis: The Family Meal Environment, Leah Schreiner, Shirley Klein

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Family scholar Kerry Daly (2003) explains the need to examine aspects of everyday family activities that he describes as negative spaces. Two of these areas are time and space. The time and the space in which families do their work contribute to, and is the essence of, a family living environment. Aird (2002) also argues for the importance of everyday activities in the home and calls upon mothers and fathers to “create, protect, and defend the physical, emotional, and spiritual spaces” for the development of children. This study reports the development of an initial Home and Family Living Analysis (HFL-A) …

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Family Recreation In The Home: Home & Family Living Analysis, Rachel Loser, Dr. E. Jeffrey Sep 2013

Family Recreation In The Home: Home & Family Living Analysis, Rachel Loser, Dr. E. Jeffrey

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The recent development of the Home & Family Living Analysis (HFL-A) by myself, other students, and faculty of the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University initiated research on the affects of the “home” by administering a home-based scholarly inventory to make visible how the structure, technology, and design of the home and the activities of everyday family living interact and contribute to or detract from healthy family and spiritual relationships. As part of this project, useful aspects of family recreation in the home have been revealed. This project was funded by a $20,000 MEG grant as well as …

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Rise Up From Fragments: The Life And Arts Of The Virgin Anasazi, Cynthia Lee Killian Young, Dr. Marti L. Allen Sep 2013

Rise Up From Fragments: The Life And Arts Of The Virgin Anasazi, Cynthia Lee Killian Young, Dr. Marti L. Allen

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The adventure of planning and creating a museum exhibition began September 2003. While other museums may take a year or more to install a series of exhibits, we at the Museum of Peoples and Cultures (MPC) were able to create a professional exhibition in eight months. My whole project centers on a collection of Virgin or Western Anasazi artifacts that Mr. Lanny Talbot retrieved from his lands. The Talbot collection is one of the largest collections of Western Anasazi pottery allegedly found from one site.

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The Situation Of Burmese Migrants In Thailand, Thelma Young, Dr. Valerie Hudson Sep 2013

The Situation Of Burmese Migrants In Thailand, Thelma Young, Dr. Valerie Hudson

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Burma has been ruled by an authoritarian military junta since 1962. In 1988, the military brutally repressed the democracy movement that university students started, then spread throughout the entire country. The situation has severely deteriorated under the military, with Burma receiving the category of ‘Least Developed Country.’ The junta now known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) implements many policies that constrict all aspects of civilian’s lives- there is no freedom of speech, people cannot gather in large numbers, people are routinely forced to work in government projects for no pay, education is strictly limited, universities are closed, …

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Tokenism In Non-Native English Speakers: A Pilot Study, David A. Shwalb, Dr. Niwako Yamawaki Sep 2013

Tokenism In Non-Native English Speakers: A Pilot Study, David A. Shwalb, Dr. Niwako Yamawaki

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Over the past decade the number of international students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States has increased dramatically (Bollag, 2004). Currently, over 572,509 international students are attending American colleges and universities (Bollag, 2004), with approximately 2,000 at Brigham Young University (Light, 2004). Researchers acknowledge the important relationship between English proficiency and academic success for international students, but often fail to recognize many other possible obstacles to the academic success of international students. The purpose of this study was to identify and gain a better understanding of one such issue, specifically the negative impact token status may have …

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Disabled And Unemployed: Employment Variations In Europe, Cindy Otis, Dr. Wade Jacoby Sep 2013

Disabled And Unemployed: Employment Variations In Europe, Cindy Otis, Dr. Wade Jacoby

Journal of Undergraduate Research

According to the 1996 European Community Household Panel (ECHP) survey, disabled people account for an estimated 14.5 percent of the total working-age population of the European Union, of which 42.6 percent are employed (Van Lin et al. 2001). This means that of a population of 65 million people, roughly 30 million are employed. The European Union’s (EU) core disability strategy has a four-fold emphasis aimed at increasing the civil rights of people with disabilities. These emphasis include improving co-operation between the Member States, encouraging exchange and development of information and good practice in the EU, raising awareness of disability issues, …

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The Fcs And The Usda: The Informational Efficiency Of The Federal Farm System Bond Market, T. Lance Toler, Dr. Farrell E. Jensen Sep 2013

The Fcs And The Usda: The Informational Efficiency Of The Federal Farm System Bond Market, T. Lance Toler, Dr. Farrell E. Jensen

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) prepares reports on the income and financial stability of American farmers and agricultural organizations. If the information in USDA reports on the financial stability of American agriculture is already known by the markets, then the prices of Federal Farm Credit System (FCS) Bank bonds, which are related to the credit risk associated with American agriculture, will not be affected by the release of the reports. If the information provided in the reports is new to the market, however, significant changes in FCS bond prices should immediately be seen as the new information is …

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Suzhou Urban Developments And Economic Growth The Impact Of Special Economic Zones And The Light Rail System, Songjie Li, Dr. Richard Jackson Sep 2013

Suzhou Urban Developments And Economic Growth The Impact Of Special Economic Zones And The Light Rail System, Songjie Li, Dr. Richard Jackson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Suzhou, China is an ancient Chinese city facing rapid and wrenching changes. Located in the Delta of the Yangtze River some fifty miles northwest of Shanghai, it is famous for its classical gardens and numerous canals that connect to the famous Grand Canal and Tai Lake. Suzhou is frequently mislabeled as the “Venice of the East”, but Chinese people more likely to call it the “Paradise on Earth”. Written historical records indicate that people started to live in Suzhou area over 4000 years ago, it is one of the oldest settlements in Yangtze River basin.

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Making Decisions About Migration: The American Dream With A Mexican Accent, Chris Sutter, Lynn England Sep 2013

Making Decisions About Migration: The American Dream With A Mexican Accent, Chris Sutter, Lynn England

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Mexican immigration to the United States is a noteworthy phenomenon, not void of controversy. Accusations and tensions have risen on both sides of the line in past months. The issue is not an ephemeral one. There are currently more than 20 million Mexicans living in this country, according to the 2000 US census. Numerous studies have been done to understand migration. Studies that focus solely on economics, however, may fail to put a human face on Mexican immigration. Behind the dollars and cents are real people making real decisions about leaving their home and country to try their luck in …

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Orca, Erin Huff Sep 2013

Orca, Erin Huff

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My ORCA project changed considerably from the time I applied for the grant, to when I stepped off of the airplane back in the U.S. after researching in Ghana. I initially wanted to study elder care in Ghana, but after reviewing the resources I had available to me in Ghana, I decided to study the experiences of Ghanaian diabetics. My research – which I reported in a paper entitled “Knowledge, Pain, and Poverty: Insights from Sixteen Ghanaian Diabetics” – sought to chronicle the daily experiences diabetics face in Ghana. Specifically, I was looking to see what kind of health care …

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Discussing Gender Equality In An Unequal Environment: Misrepresentations Of Life By Tamilian Women, Evan Carpenter, Dr. Julie Hartley Sep 2013

Discussing Gender Equality In An Unequal Environment: Misrepresentations Of Life By Tamilian Women, Evan Carpenter, Dr. Julie Hartley

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In May through September of 2005 I shot a documentary film about social progress for women in a village just outside the city of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. The original purpose was to learn how the social and domestic roles of a family are affected by a specific development program aimed at helping women become financially independent through microlending and vocational training. What I ended up with instead was an experiment in visual anthropology and an unusual story about the day to day lives of Tamil women and the other stories they tell to misrepresent their experiences.

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Relatedness And The Symbolic Substance Of Kinship Among The K’Iche’, Stephen Brady, Dr. Janis Nuckolls Sep 2013

Relatedness And The Symbolic Substance Of Kinship Among The K’Iche’, Stephen Brady, Dr. Janis Nuckolls

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Kinship studies was a central concern of socio-cultural anthropology for decades. The centrality of kinship within the discipline was due to the traditional anthropological practice of studying social structure among small-scale societies. Social anthropologists found that kinship provides people with an effective form of organization in the absence of a state. In many small-scale societies, descent determines the economic, political, religious, and social position of individuals. By the second half of the twentieth century kinship studies faced a rapid decline within social anthropology, in part because some anthropologists found that kinship studies were based on Western presuppositions about the biogenetic …

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Facilitating Effective Training Programs For Traditional Medical Practitioners In Ghana: Guidelines Based On Prior Successes And Current Attitudes, Amy Lamprecht, Dr. William C. Olsen Sep 2013

Facilitating Effective Training Programs For Traditional Medical Practitioners In Ghana: Guidelines Based On Prior Successes And Current Attitudes, Amy Lamprecht, Dr. William C. Olsen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The medical system extant in Ghana today is a complex one made up of many different health care delivery sectors. As is often the case wherever competing systems of medicine exist, the traditional and Western medical systems that participate in health care in Ghana are not effectively integrated and do not cooperate at a level where efficacious communication between the two groups can be facilitated. In a nation where most of the government focus and funding for health care is directed towards Western medicine but where seventy percent of the population relies on traditional medicine, the need for an effective …

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Principles Of Family-Centered City Planning Achieving True Mixed-Income Housing In New Urbanist Developments, David Gay, Dr. Richard Jackson Sep 2013

Principles Of Family-Centered City Planning Achieving True Mixed-Income Housing In New Urbanist Developments, David Gay, Dr. Richard Jackson

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New Urbanism, or traditional neighborhood design (TND), is a growing trend in American real estate development. It is characterized by mixed-uses, a variety of housing sizes, and pedestrian-oriented streetscapes. It often encourages more efficient land uses, which, in turn, makes way for better transportation planning and less congested traffic patterns. These designs are more akin to pre-WWII development than to the typical contemporary subdivisions. New Urbanism aims to be more family friendly, especially in terms of affordability, but due to several underlying factors, these developments often demand an artificially large cost from homebuyers, excluding many potential residents who would most …

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A Climate Reconstruction And Drought Assessment Of The Wasatch Front, Daniel F. Bently, Dr. Matthew F. Bekker Sep 2013

A Climate Reconstruction And Drought Assessment Of The Wasatch Front, Daniel F. Bently, Dr. Matthew F. Bekker

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The purpose of this study was to extend the climate record of the Wasatch Front Area in order to assess drought along the Wasatch Front. In order to accomplish this, tree-ring analysis was done using Limber Pine (Pinus flexilus) trees from the rocky, north face of Mount Olympus, Wasatch Mountains.

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Vietnamese Migration To Cambodia, Kyle Larsen, Dr. Chad Emmett Sep 2013

Vietnamese Migration To Cambodia, Kyle Larsen, Dr. Chad Emmett

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Vietnamese migration to Cambodia is unique because, unlike most immigrants who seek sanctuary in a nation more economically and socially stable countries, the Vietnamese in Cambodia face many worse conditions than in Vietnam. In many ways, Cambodia is much less-developed than Vietnam in terms of GDP, literacy, poverty rates, and more. The traditional rivalry between Cambodia and Vietnam exacerbates the situation, which results in violence and social ostracism to the immigrants. According to the 2005 CIA Factbook, the Vietnamese make up five percent of the Cambodian national population of more than 13 million. Virtually all of them have migrated since …

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Sex Differences, Cheryll Garn Sep 2013

Sex Differences, Cheryll Garn

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This study investigates whether males and females use distinct brain systems while performing a picture naming task. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that in some cognitive processing domains, such as spoken language comprehension, males and females differ in terms of brain hemisphere activation, with a tendency for stronger left hemisphere lateralization in males. The purpose of this study is to test whether an analogous hemispheric difference (or other systematic difference) might be found between males and females in a picture naming task, which includes visual and verbal processing components. Brain activation differences were assessed using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

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Dependent Civil Society: The Círculos Bolivarianos In Venezuela, David Hansen, Dr. Kirk Hawkins Sep 2013

Dependent Civil Society: The Círculos Bolivarianos In Venezuela, David Hansen, Dr. Kirk Hawkins

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An important topic in political science is the role of civil society, voluntary organizations separate from the family and the state, in creating a democratic and pluralistic society that is able to effectively organize citizen participation to work through disagreement and conflicting interests in a peaceful manner. Social scientists are also engaged in the study of charismatic leaders and their effects upon political discourse, societal organization, and economic structure. Because a charismatic leader’s appeal arises primarily from his ability to gain the faith of followers that he embodies the will of the people, one important source of information about the …

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