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Gandydancing : A Nebraska Education

Creator:: Loshbaugh, Robert B.
Abstract:: This thesis is a work of literary non-fiction. It is divided into six sections. The first, "A Sense of Place," and the last, "Pulling a Geographical," are collage essays which establish and then reiterate major themes in the work: movement, work, geography, climate, people, and education--some curricular, some not. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Robert B. Loshbaugh for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in the co

Approval seeking motivation : a determinant of conformity to group norms inconsistent with personal values

Creator:: Martin, Harry J.
Abstract:: This study was designed to assess the effects of approval seeking motivation and social cost upon conformity to group norms which were inconsistent with personal values. Utilizing the Asch conformity paradigm, 321 subjects were exposed to a group opinion which was contradictory to one of their personal values. The results...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Harry Joseph Martin for the

Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953

Creator:: Jones, Sean G.
Abstract:: The research conducted here originated with the question of what caused the massive build-up of nuclear arsenals, which included ever larger and more powerful bombs and delivery systems from them, in the United States and the Soviet Union, even though the consensus beforehand was that nuclear energy should be prohibited...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: nuclear arsenals. 1 Harry S. Truman

Children and the communication of values through significant emotional events

Creator:: Biddle, Ronald Lon
Abstract:: This study addresses how parents communicate with their children about Significant Emotional Events (SEEs). A SEE is an experience that is so mentally engaging as to cause an individual to consider, examine, and possibly change one's initial values or value system. It examines parent's goals, concerns, and values related to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Emotional Events. Abstract approved: Gregg B. Walker This study addresses how parents communicate

Hull -Oakes Lumber Company's Steam-Powered Sawmill : A Case Study in Industrial Archaeology

Creator:: Wisner, George B.
Abstract:: By examining the combined written, ethnographic and physical evidence of a surviving steam-powered sawmill in the Douglas-fir region of the Pacific Northwest, this thesis seeks to supply new insights into the operation and adaptability of antiquated machinery during a period of rapid social and technological change and to develop a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -related death he witnessed. Retired Hull-Oakes sawmill workers Orin B. Nye and Harry Wallace

Off-shore oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean a comparative analysis of newspaper information and public attitude

Creator:: Tombropoulos, Charles B.
Abstract:: This research questions the effectiveness of newspapers as a vehicle of environmental information by determining whether the public attitude in Alaska towards off-shore oil exploration was consistent with that expressed in the local newspapers. All newspaper articles about off-shore oil exploration published in Alaska between 1980 and May 1987 were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: comparative analysis of newspaper information and public attitude AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Charles B

Stoicism, Enkrasia, and Happiness

Creator:: Bowman, John L.
Abstract:: Cicero wrote in Tusculan Disputations that we are born with the seeds of virtue which, if allowed to ripen, would lead us to a happy life (Cicero 227). However, as things are, we find ourselves in a world of "iniquity among a medley of wrong beliefs" that inhibits the ripening...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: philosophy on will, enkratic action, and the limits to reason. Harry G. Frankfurt’s Freedom of the Will and

American ideology and the atomic bomb

Creator:: Swartz, Scott E.
Abstract:: On August 6, 1945 the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The events that led up to the United States' decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and Harry S. Truman took his place as President of the United States in April. The atomic bombs were

The Roles and Responsibilities of Museum Boards of Directors, and an Investigation of the Perceptions of these Roles in Small History Museums in Oregon

Creator:: Brookhyser, Ann L.
Abstract:: For the type of museums discussed in this paper, the nonprofit organization type, the board of directors is the governing body. The board approves the policies that guide the staff in administering the museum. The relationship between the board and the staff should be one of respect and cooperation; but...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: are included in Appendix B. C Copyright by Ann L. Brookhyser February 20, 1991 All Rights

The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

Creator:: Butcher, Karyle S.
Abstract:: The depression of the 1930s had an early effect on the state of Oregon. A decline in timber and agricultural production resulted in severe unemployment in the late 1920s. State and local charitable organizations attempted to care for the unemployed but they did not have the financial resources to do...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: selected Harry L. Hopkins to be FERA's first administrator. The FERA was both similar and different from

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Gandydancing : A Nebraska Education

Approval seeking motivation : a determinant of conformity to group norms inconsistent with personal values

Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953

Children and the communication of values through significant emotional events

Hull -Oakes Lumber Company's Steam-Powered Sawmill : A Case Study in Industrial Archaeology

Off-shore oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean a comparative analysis of newspaper information and public attitude

Stoicism, Enkrasia, and Happiness

American ideology and the atomic bomb

The Roles and Responsibilities of Museum Boards of Directors, and an Investigation of the Perceptions of these Roles in Small History Museums in Oregon

The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

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