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  • President Clinton's health care rhetoric : the role of anecdotal evidence in promoting identification

    Creator:
    Dahl, Nicholas D.
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    The purpose of this study is to illuminate the presence and rhetorical effect of anecdotes in President Clinton's major health care address. It is the health care debate that shows most clearly how Clinton tries to direct a multi-level campaign that attempts to identify his interests (passage of the Health...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Speech Communication presented on April 26, 1994. Title: President Clinton's Health Care Rhetoric: The

  • Re-Viewing Literacy : A Language Arts Teacher's Perspective

    Creator:
    Van Develder, Pamela A.
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    A controversy regarding literacy lies at the heart of debates over the current state of American education. In response to the debate, this study reviews and analyzes the literacy theories of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Walter Ong, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, Shirley Brice Heath, and Paulo Freire. The author presents...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Interdisciplinary Studies in English, Speech Communication, and Curriculum & Instruction presented on July 26

  • The Blessingway : A Woman's Birth Ritual

    Creator:
    Biddle, Jeanette M.
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    This study examines participants' perceptions of the significant messages and meanings communicated to them through the ceremony of the Blessingway (a ritual titled after the Navajo Blessingway), a contemporary women's birth ritual performed by midwives. A narrative approach was used for data gathering based on Fisher's rationale that meaning emerges...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Speech Communication. Speech Communication. and Anthropolo presented on August 26, 1996. Title: The

  • Gender bias & teachers : college students' perceptions of sexual discrimination in their high school

    Creator:
    Hostetler, Catherine L.
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    The field of gender bias indicates that teachers are a significant source of gender-role socialization for students. This study focuses on post hoc recollections of college students' perceptions of gender bias exhibited by their high school teachers. Specifically, this study asks students to define sex discrimination, as well as describe...
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    Masters Thesis
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    studies indicate that the sex of the teacher really has no significant bearing on the frequency with

  • 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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    Objective Measurement 16 Loudness 22 Mechanisms of Tinnitus 26 -Treatment 30 Medical Treatments 31

  • Community mediation and culture : a study of Oregon programs

    Creator:
    Harrison, Janet E.
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    This descriptive research project is a survey and analysis of nineteen community mediation programs in the State of Oregon. These programs were evaluated to determine their responsiveness to issues of culture and ethnicity. Data was gathered by face-to-face and telephone interviews with community program staff members and administrators. Information was...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Orientations 26 LIST OF TABLES Table Page 2.1 Summary of Hall's Concept of High and Low Context

  • Metaphor and Bias : An In-Depth Look at CNN and Fox News Channel

    Creator:
    Duncan, Sara R.
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    This study links together two very complicated, but very important subjects: media bias and metaphor. More specifically, this study investigates whether or not examining a media outlet's use of metaphor is an effective methodology for investigating media bias. Using cluster analysis, I identified the source metaphors most commonly used on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ......................... 25 Methodology ....................................................... 26 Methodology Conclusions

  • Language Differences between Women and Men and the Attribution of Leadership

    Creator:
    Dunsworth, Sabrina J.
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    This research addresses the perception of leadership attributes in light of evaluator and target gender. It specifically investigates whether there is a difference in language usage when the evaluator is female versus when the evaluator is male. Two studies were conducted. A pre-test used instrumental development drawing from studies conducted...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Instrumentation……………………………………………...….26 The Bem Instrument…….……………………….…..…26 The Berlo et al. Instrument

  • So You’re Hosting a Conference: A Conference Planning Guide, NACURH Adventures in Conference Undertakings and a Resource Handbook A Qualitative Investigation and Analysis of NACURH, Inc. Regional Conferences

    Creator:
    Cheung, Cameo M.
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    Each conference hosted by a NACURH, Inc. affiliated school publishes a conference wrap-up report detailing the conference hosting process and the conference itself. As a resource, these reports are intended for future conference staffs, to share the lessons learned by the last conference staff. They contain pointers to and evaluations...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    were noted from each report. For the purposes of this research, no distinction was made between

  • The Influence of a Daughter's Managerial Style on Father-Daughter Work Relationships in Family-Owned Businesses

    Creator:
    Bottaro, Michelle Reser
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of a daughter's managerial style and her personal relationship with her father in father-daughter work relationships in family-owned businesses. This research is an attempt to reveal daughters' perceptions of these occurrences and interactions which often are overlooked in current research...
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    Masters Thesis
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    proprietorships, fall into one of the various definitions of family controlled businesses. Some scholars report