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Volume 10, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

El Salvador: Vietnam II, He May Croak Yet

Volume 9, Number 10, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Doonesbury Censored, Buses Boosted, Tampons Bloodied

Volume 9, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Free at Last? Who Are the Real Hostages?, Abortion, Liberation, Insulation, Sell-ebration

Volume 9, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Night of the Living Santas!

Internship With The Public Affairs Office, Illinois Arts Council, Ann Adele Dunn

Masters Theses

This paper reports on anticipated and actual experiences of an internship with the Public Affairs Office of the Illinois Arts Council. The internship, accompanied by this paper, was chosen in lieu of the traditional thesis to culminate the Master of Arts in Related Arts degree. In addition to the description, the paper includes a proposal for the internship, a daily log of internship activities, an appendix of the writings accomplished during the internship, and recommendations. The paper is 70 pages in length.

Being the first Related Arts graduate student to serve such an internship, it was inevitable that certain discrepancies …

An Intercultural Comparison Of Instrumental And Terminal Value Preferences Of American And Chinese Students, Ferne M. Rogers

Masters Theses

Robert Oliver has said, "Mankind is separated less by language barriers (grievous though they are) than it is by cultural differences." One effect of this separation can be denial of the rich experiences available through expansion of cultural perspectives. More serious effects in a thermo-nuclear world can be repeated conflict, war, even annihilation. Hence, it is in the interest of all to find a way to co-exist. The means for doing this begins with understanding the cultures of others through communication.

The first step in intercultural communication is acceptance of the worth of other systems. There are barriers, however, to …

Volume 9, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

What the Election Means

Volume 9, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Justice for All? Can Balance Be Achieved?, Organic Farming, Religious Right, Lead Poisoning, Minor Parties

Volume 9, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

"I Just Visited the New Mall!", Ill Prisons, Student Ghettos, Prenatal Care, Local Culture

Volume 9, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Join the Toxic Generation, Religion and Other Toxic Wastes

Volume 9, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Fight Back!, Gay Pride, Freight-Hopping, Lithium, Rape, Bugs

Volume 9, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Fundamentalism: The New Fascism?, Miller Park, God, Campbell, Bongs, CBS vs. Gays, Pontiac Acquittal

Volume 9, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

He Died for Your Teeth, Compost, Missiles, Nukes, Jails, Mortgages, Pigheads, Nuts

Volume 8, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Say No to the Draft, Tensions Build in Illinois Prisons, Gays Protest Movies, Snitch Spills Beans, Gen Tel Screws Up

Volume 8, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Pontiac Prisoners on Trial, Fire Hits Prison Bus: Survivors Tell Story, Narc Pix, BJHS Rules, Car Tax, Video Xians [Christians], Bus Transfer Center

Planning To Improve The Public Relations Program In The Mattoon Community Unit School District #2, Mattoon, Illinois, Howard Price Powell Jr.

Masters Theses

The purpose of the field experience was to improve the public relations program in the Mattoon Community Unit School District #2, Mattoon, Illinois. Since no one had been specifically assigned the responsibility for co-ordination of public relations, it was decided that a public relations committee would be established under the direction of the assistant superintendent of schools. I was in charge of the committee and was directed to report to the assistant superintendent of schools.

Since the Illinois Education Association had already set up a series of training sessions for Region 34, it was decided to take advantage of these …

Homiletics Courses In Five Major Protestant Denominations: A Rhetorical Analysis, Ricky W. Manwaring

Masters Theses

I. The Nature and Purpose of the Study. The hypothesis of this study was that the nature of the rhetorical training currently offered by major Protestant denominations could be discovered by analyzing the homiletic texts used by those denominations in their respective homiletics courses. It was the purpose of this study, through analyzing the homilectics textbooks used, to answer two questions: (1) What rhetorical canons are being included, or excluded from, the basic homiletics courses of the Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians? and (2) What differences and similarities, if any, exist in the homiletics courses of the Baptists, Methodists, …

Volume 8, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Clay Dooley, New Narc Pix, Gay Teachers, Christmas

Volume 8, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Wanted; Pope, Porn, Parks, Porks, Pride, Profits

Volume 8, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Pontiac Prisoners, Campbell, Hot Dead Monkeys, Porcine Landlords, Busted White Hen

Volume 8, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Cops Lie in Wait for Young "Criminals," The Draft, Thorazine, Channel 43, Gay Mother, M.E.G.

Volume 8, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

City Water: Is It Safe?, Pontiac Trials, WRBA Racism, Dumpsters, Drinking Age

Volume 8, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Ten Years After: Gay Pride Marches On, My Son the Gay Person, Lesbian Mothers, Gay Rage, Dumpsters, Turkey Busts, Retraction, Stateville, County Jail

Volume 8, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Nuclear Power Leaks, Gay Bar Opened Up, Daluga Shooting Covered Up, Jail Shakedown Trumped Up

Volume 7, Number 10, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Cops Go Berserk in Jail Shakedown, Food Stamps--How to Get 'Em

Volume 7, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

P-A Prints Trash, MEG's Garbage Swiped, No-Nukes Go to Court, Heterosexuals Commit Crimes

Volume 7, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

God, Godfrey, Gay Prisoners, Women in Music, MEG, Nukes

Volume 7, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Battered Women, Eastland Demo, Prison, MEG, Range War

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 …

Teacher Union Influence On Local School Board Elections, Donald Rex Starwalt

Masters Theses

During the past decade there has been a concerted effort by teacher unions in this country to gain political power. This effort has not been limited to the arena of partisan politics at the state and national levels. There have also been attempts at the local level to gain political influence over boards of education. The purpose of this study was to determine if the political action efforts of a local teacher association resulted in the election of the union's endorsed candidates to the board of education.

In order to make this determination, this study examines five board of education …