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  • FUBAR: A Narrative Analysis of War Remains

    Creator:
    Williams, Clay R.
    Abstract:
    The virtual reality (VR) experience War Remains created by Dan Carlin claims that it is an immersive memory in attempt to give its audience the “tiniest taste of” what-it-was-like to experience a WWI battle (Carlin, 2020). This claim aligns with the growing belief that VR can be the ultimate empathy...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech Communication, Applied Ethics

  • Transforming sectionalism to unity through narrative in John Brown Gordon's "The last days of the Confederacy"

    Creator:
    Acklin, David R.
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    John Brown Gordon was committed to the mission of national reconciliation. He knew that the South would have to embrace the North to repair the devastation of the Civil War. Driven by dedication to public service after the war, he worked through his positions in governmental offices to help the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    persons as narrative beings- their inherent awareness of narrative probability, what constitutes a

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

    Creator:
    Trudeau, Justin Thomas
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    Is as, "the greatest of the antislavery pamphlets; in all probability, the most crushing indictment

  • NAFTA and Chiapas : problems and solutions

    Creator:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    NAFTA and Chiapas : problems and solutions AN ABSTRACT OF

  • Worldminded Attitudes of Japanese College Students in Japan and in the United States

    Creator:
    Ishida, Etsuko
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    This study focused on the worldminded attitudes of Japanese college students in Japan and in the United States. The effects of studying abroad and the change in attitudes between Japanese college male students and female students were examined in terms of worldmindedness, which is defined as a frame of reference,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Worldminded attitudes of Japanese college students in

  • Physicians' attitudes toward hearing aids

    Creator:
    Van Kessel, Jeanette M.
    Abstract:
    The central purpose of this study was to examine physicians' knowledge of and attitudes toward hearing aids. This study was conducted with 71 general practitioners affiliated with Scarborough General Hospital in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. Attitude was measured by a 5-point Likert-type scale developed for the study. Knowledge was measured through...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Physicians' attitudes toward hearing aids AN ABSTRACT OF

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

    Creator:
    Bruno, Edward Louis
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    functionalist view of narrative, as defined by Lucaites and Condit (1985), is applied to Jackson's 1984, 1988

  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

    Creator:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    Smith's Annals of University College and Pittis's Memoirs of Dr. Radcliffe. Both contain information on

  • Predicting in situ hearing aid reponse from pure tone hearing tests and ear canal resonance

    Creator:
    Allen, Daniel P.
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    Real ear measurements are being used to predict and validate hearing aid fittings. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the hearing aid response as measured by real ear measurements to pure tone hearing thresholds and ear canal resonance. In order to test this hypothesis clinically,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Table 7: Probability of Pure Tone Thresholds Predicting Hearing Aid Response 66 Table 8: Probability

  • A Study of Tinnitus Patients With Normal Peripheral Auditory Systems

    Creator:
    Gehring, Maribeth Young
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    Tinnitus is usually accompanied by a hearing loss; however, many patients with tinnitus present with normal hearing. The hypothesis was proposed that individuals with tinnitus who do not have an accompanying peripheral hearing loss, have tinnitus as a result of a disorder in the Central Auditory Nervous System. In order...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of the applied sound was then roughly adjusted to match that of the patient's tinnitus. The bandwidth