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SPONTANEOUS STEINBECK: THE INFLUENCE OF ARTS INTEGRATION, PRIMARILY SPONTANEOUS PAINTING, ON THE READER RESPONSE OF HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS TO THE GRAPES OF WRATH
(2010)
This paper addresses my experience with a group of 11th grade students and their reading of The Grapes of Wrath (1939, 2002) by John Steinbeck. I questioned how the application of visual arts integration strategies, ...
Synthesis, Purification and Assembly of Gold and Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
(2010)
The aims of the current research include developing new synthetic strategies to prepare structurally complex gold nanoparticles and new size sorting methods to separate nanoparticles of larger size, as well as studying the ...
Parental and Personality Factors that Predict Students' Length of Piano Study
(2010)
The current study was designed to determine if interrelationships existed among the following variables: (a) parental behavioral support, (b) parental cognitive support, (c) parental personal support, (d) parental ...
LEADER COGNITION DURING ORGANIZATIONAL CRISIS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF OUTCOME FRAMING AND STRATEGIC ORIENTATION EFFECTS
(2010)
Leadership is traditionally understood as a social influence process, but leaders also have to think. This study, using a simulated leadership task, exposed participants to a complex, ambiguous organizational crisis and ...
Medium-Same versus Medium-Different Inoculation against Candidate and Political Stealth Group Sponsored Political Attack Advertising
(2010)
The 2008 presidential campaign contextualized this study of soft-money sponsored political spot negative advertising, its content, its influence, inoculation's blanket of protection against that influence and print versus ...
DEVELOPING AND EVALUATING A WEB-BASED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
(2010)
This dissertation proposes and evaluates a consolidated design methodology for web-based emergency management decision support systems (WEM-DSSs). The development of the proposed methodology draws upon a literature review ...
Reactivation Mechanisms of Heterogeneous, Complex Fault Zones
(2010)
Fault reactivation occurs on a short-term cycle of tens to thousands of years between infrequent earthquakes, and on long-term cycles of fault inactivity for 106 - 107 years. During long-term cycles, faults may heal and ...
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Hispanic Youth: A Study of Communication Patterns, Functional Fitness, and Psychological Health
(2010)
This study examines the psychological health and functional fitness of Hispanic youth from a theoretical perspective, specifically with respect to the role of their interpersonal communication patterns in their integration ...
The Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Grant Program: Now That This Voucher Program is Constitutional; How do We Apply its Lessons to Oklahoma
(2010)
The purpose of the study was to research and discuss if: (a) a voucher program is legal in the state of Oklahoma; (b) if legal, would parents use vouchers; and (c) what would impact parents' attitude to use vouchers. The ...
INCORPORATING MULTIPLE HISTORIES: THE POSSIBILITY OF NARRATIVE RUPTURE OF THE ARCHIVE IN V. AND BELOVED
(2010)
Novels of the twentieth century are grappling with the questions of identity in relation to history, but a self-reflexive history, a history that is always suspicious of itself. Alienated from cultural, religious and ...