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Waking angels, a light unto the darkness, and a crescent still abides :
(2000)
Since the late 1970s, the wind and percussion music of David R. Gillingham has been enthusiastically received and frequently performed. Among the reasons often cited for their popular acceptance into the repertoire is the ...
A prospective cohort study of maternal factors in childhood asthma: Parity, obesity, fetal growth, and social stressors.
(2000)
This project uses prenatal, postnatal, and follow-up data from a prospective cohort study of 131 mother and child dyads to examine (1) risk factors for asthma in children at 4--7 years, (2) how having asthma changes the ...
A disarming laughter: The role of humor in tribal cultures. An examination of humor in contemporary Native American literature and art.
(2000)
Non-Indians have long considered Indian people to possess little or no sense of humor because they trustingly accept prevailing stereotypes. This dissertation dispels this assumption by showing that humor has served, and ...
Folklore motifs in persuasive gender writings: An interrogation.
(2000)
One of the difficulties faced by modern gender writers and scholars stems from the fact that modern conventions of what constitute valid modes of rhetoric and reasoning and valid scientific and scholarly paradigms were ...
Culture, politics and television: A cross-cultural comparative study of Korean and United States televised presidential debates.
(2000)
This dissertation treats televised presidential debates as a mirror of culture. However, the study sees the televised presidential debate as a traditionally Western or American political event. The televised presidential ...
Asian and Hispanic educational differences and their impact on spatial and socio-economic inequity in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
(2000)
During my 15 years as an English-as-a-second-language teacher in the Oklahoma City Public Schools I observed that Asian and Hispanic students had different degrees of academic success. Asians were better students than ...