Factors associated with the clothing selection practices of
Oregon horse show exhibitors were studied by means of a mailed
questionnaire. Purposes of the study were to determine the extent
to which exhibitors believe that apparel enters into a judge's evaluation
of competitors, to determine the extent to which trainers provide...
The purpose of the study was to attempt to develop a methodological
approach which would tap the contribution of the literary
artist to the understanding of human behavior. It was assumed that
a content analysis of the social attitudes expressed in fiction would
yield data which was complimentary, if not...
The purpose of this study was to construct a measuring instrument
involving attitudes toward money. Seven scales were developed
using the Likert method of summated ratings. Five of these were
shown to be acceptably reliable for use in measuring attitudes of
groups similar to the standardization group of 4-H youth...
The purpose of this study was to investigate some of the
factors from childhood experience which might contribute to the kind
of church attendance practices which individuals adopt as adults.
The factors chosen for investigation were enforced church attendance
in childhood, parental church attendance practices, the kind of discipline
employed...
The study is based on a frame of reference for comparing characteristics
of ordered pairs of members of small groups ("relators" in relation to "co-relatives"). An attempt is made to replicate selected
findings from a study of the acquaintance process reported by
Theodore Newcomb. The effectiveness of three measures of...
Law enforcement in Indian Country has been characterized as a “maze of injustice”—one in which offenders too easily escape and victims are too easily lost (Amnesty International, 2007). Tribal, state, and federal governments have recently sought to amend this through the passage of the Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA)...
The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...