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  • Perceptions on informal performance feedback in Japanese subsidiary organizations : Japanese supervisors and U. S. subordinates

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    Kinefuchi, Etsuko
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    This study explored perceptions of performance feedback communicated by Japanese supervisors to their U.S. subordinates in Japanese subsidiaries in the U. S. Individual face-to-face interviews were conducted with both Japanese supervisors and U.S. subordinates and their responses were tape-recorded. The purpose of the study was to assess perceptual similarities and...
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    subsidiary organizations : Japanese supervisors and U. S. subordinates AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF

  • Perspectives from the Ranching Culture in the 1990's : Addressing Mythological and Environmental Concerns

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    Steward, Judith A.
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    Ideals of freedom, independence, and land ownership helped form and perpetuate the mythology of ranching in the United States. However, stereotypes emerged as a result of distortion from the media and the move away from the land. Social philosophies changed regarding the environment, land use, and the health and safety...
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    Perspectives from the ranching culture in the 1990's

  • The rhetoric of the Dalai Lama

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    Gorsevski, Ellen Weihe
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    This thesis examines the rhetoric (persuasive discourse) of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet. The analysis of this thesis provides an historical foundation of understanding for the international campaign of rhetoric which the Dalai Lama has been leading for the past forty years, culminating...
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    Rhetoric Of The Dalai Lama. Abstract Approved: Robert S. Iltis This thesis examines the rhetoric

  • Prepare Before You Say "I Do " : The Rhetorical Construction of Marriage in Premarital Counseling Programs

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    Young, Jun
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    The increasing prevalence of marital breakdown in the United States has been met by the proliferation of premarital counseling programs in professional counseling centers and churches. As increasing masses of couples turn to premarital counseling to prevent future interpersonal problems, and as communities and churches across the United States deem...
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    , and Human Development and Family Studies presented on November 20 1996. Title: Prepare Before You S

  • Theodore Dwight Weld's use of the judicial motif in American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

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    Trudeau, Justin Thomas
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    This thesis examines the rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Published anonymously in 1839, Weld's publication became the longest antislavery tract in American history. It left its mark on the abolitionist movement itself and future antislavery literary works most notably Uncle...
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    S. Iltis This thesis examines the rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery As It Is

  • NAFTA and Chiapas : problems and solutions

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    Veit, Steven J.
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    On New Year's Eve 1993, there was little indication that popular President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was about to take a monumental fall. Mexico was in the midst of unprecedented prosperity. The world's oldest ruling political party, Mexico's PRI, enjoyed substantial support. Allegations of corruption within an authoritarian regime were...
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    : NAFTA and Chiapas: Problems and Solutions. Abstract Approved: uy H. Wood On New Year's Eve 1993

  • Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rhetorical Strategy : A Case for the Functional Role of Narratio

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    Bruno, Edward Louis
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from the 1970's to the 1990's. Specifically, this study examines Jackson's use of narrative to empower himself, his constituency, and his political ideologies without possessing a traditional political platform. Jackson raised political and...
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    investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from the 1970's to the 1990's

  • Whose community is it anyway? : the CDA and cultural conflicts over speech and pornography

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    Christian, Mary Ann
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    The Communication Decency Act became law in 1996 and was immediately challenged on Constitutional grounds. It was subsequently declared unconstitutional based on the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. Using Fantasy Theme Analysis, an analysis of the dramatic elements of the key players was accomplished. The dramatic elements of Overall...
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    1960's, Defense Department staff realized that if one computer was sabotaged, the entire national

  • Effectiveness of Computerized Communication Treatment for Neurologically Impaired Adults

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    Krivak, Brenda M.
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    The single subject alternating treatment design experiment reported here compared the effectiveness of pencil-and-paper versus computerized communication treatment for neurologically impaired adults. Five stroke patients receiving outpatient speech/language treatment (ages 51-72) served as subjects. One subject completed the experiment as designed and clearly supported the hypothesis that a higher number...
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  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

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    O'Rourke, Kathryn Ann
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    The nature and extent of classical rhetoric's influence on subsequent ages has been the focus of much recent study. Scholars have been concerned with how classical authors, particularly Cicero and Quintilian, emerged in educational and rhetorical theories of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later centuries. Despite this flurry of...
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    Colson.22 W. H. S. Jones adds that, of the humanist educators' treatises during the Renaissance