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  • An Examination of the Equilibrium Theory of Intimacy in Dyadic Interactions

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    Almuaybid, Ameer J.
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    Videotapes of 90 dyadic interactions from Sommer and Bernieri (2015) were examined to assess verbal and nonverbal intimacy. Verbal intimacy (self-disclosing statements) and nonverbal intimacy behaviors (face gaze, distance, body orientation, and forward lean) were coded in every interaction. It was hypothesized that verbal intimacy (self-disclosure) would increase over time...
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    guidance as an undergraduate. Kathleen Bogart, PhD; Elizabeth Root, PhD; Leslie Burns, PhD; and Sarina

  • Visual Imagery On Social Media: Increasing Power Through The Use of Photographs on Social Media

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    Green, Julia M. (Julia Michelle)
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    Scholars promote the ability of visual imagery to have a number of political campaigning benefits such as influencing opinions and attitudes and encouraging vibrant, striving democracy while improving the quality of public knowledge and opinion. However, previous research on this subject has failed to identify how presidential candidates display their...
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  • Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

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    Littke, Amanda L.
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    Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...
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    emphasizing the importance of respect, Dr. Leslie Richards – for kindly becoming part of my wonderful, all

  • Feminist and Mormon: Reconciling Ideals of Equality and a Culture of Patriarchy

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    George, Julie A. (Julie Ann)
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    The aim of this study is to explore how women who identify as both active, believing Mormons and as feminists negotiate the contradictions between an ideology that values equality (feminism) and a religion that values patriarchy (Mormonism). Data were gathered through recorded and transcribed interviews with women who identify as...
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    Mormon feminists, and d) Mormonism contains empowering elements that are attractive to Mormon

  • Family Sustainable Survival and the Advocacy Response Scale based on Rural Perspectives of Additives and Chemical Exposures

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    Winterbourne, Amber H. S.
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    Learning is lifelong, life-wide and life-deep, meaning it happens anywhere, at any time (Banks, et al., 2007). The implications of learning with intent, is where “free choice learning” began (Falk and Dierking, 2002; 2010). Families play a vital role in developing an integrated curriculum including: rural anthropology (epigenetics, tribalism), Geosciences...
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    ), whom I love so much, thank you for lifetimes of encouragement. My father is Leslie Hayden. This is

  • A Rhetorical Analysis of Feminist Critics' References to Virginia Woolf

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    Stockton, Judith D.
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    Virginia Woolf wrote both prose and poetry, both fiction and non-fiction: she was both a creative writer and a politically conscious reporter. She left a wealth of beautifully crafted observations and comments that continue to be immensely quotable and influential. Feminist critics today use Woolf's vocabulary to continue the feminist...
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    Virginia Woolf AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Judith D. Stockton for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Factors in the Selection of Home Birth : A Comparative Study of Birthing Alternatives in Western Oregon

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    Fuhr-Dunn, Susan D.
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    Increasing demand for home birth has created an upheaval in the American medical profession and, is a controversial political and legal issue as well. This research, utilizing ethnographic, historical, and survey data analyzes contemporary home birth. A review of the so called "medicalization" of childbirth is presented noting that the...
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    study of birthing alternatives in western Oregon AN ABSTRACT CF THE THESIS OF Susan D. Fuhr-Dunn for

  • The Indian New Deal and the Effects it had on Federally Recognized Tribes

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    Hall, Gabriann
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    This paper covers the impact of Franklin D Roosevelt's, "Indian New Deal" and the effect it had on federally recognized Indian tribes. I have taken an in-depth look at specific areas of New Deal legislation including the Indian Reorganization Act, the Johnson O'Malley Act, and the Indian Arts and Crafts...
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    Abstract approved- urt eters This paper covers the impact of Franklin D Roosevelt's, "Indian New Deal

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

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    Streufert, Mary J.
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    Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
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    Leslie Stephen and Julia Jackson, Adeline Virginia Stephen was a fiery child until she contracted the

  • When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

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    Thomison, Patrick
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    The presence and significance of salmon for prehistoric and aboriginal people of the Columbia Plateau is a matter of considerable debate among anthropologists, archaeologists and historians. Data from over 100 archaeological sites are scrutinized in the light of an example salmon fishery developed from ethnographic and archaeological information on aboriginal...
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    of the cultural struc- ture that Leslie White constructed in The Science of Cul- ture (1949). In