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  • Prepare Before You Say "I Do " : The Rhetorical Construction of Marriage in Premarital Counseling Programs

    Creator:
    Young, Jun
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    The increasing prevalence of marital breakdown in the United States has been met by the proliferation of premarital counseling programs in professional counseling centers and churches. As increasing masses of couples turn to premarital counseling to prevent future interpersonal problems, and as communities and churches across the United States deem...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of marriage in premarital counseling programs AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jun Young for the

  • Light soaking in metal-halide perovskites

    Creator:
    Watts, C. Lowell
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    Despite climate change requiring the cutback of fossil fuel consumption, the world continues to increase its energy demands each year. To meet the ambitious goals outlined during the Paris Agreement in 2015, which set a goal to limit global warming to 1.5°C [1], changes in energy production methods are necessary....
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    Dissertation
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    - C_Lowell_Watts_dissertation_Rev_Grad_Edits_V2.docx AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF C Lowell Watts for the degree of Doctor of

  • Enriching marital communication and marital adjustment of couples from India living in the United States

    Creator:
    Vijayalakshmi, Olaganatha P.
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    The primary objective of this investigation was to offer a marriage enrichment workshop enabling the participants to increase their communication and problem solving skills, and the prevention of future marital distress through an educational experience. Marital communication and marital adjustment scores were obtained from an experimental group consisting of 16...
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    Dissertation
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    . Abstract approved: BROOKE COLLISON The primary objective of this investigation was to offer a marriage

  • Constructing dependency in coping with stressful occupational events : at what cost for wives of professional athletes?

    Creator:
    Ortiz, Steven M.
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    In taking a multidimensional approach to selected areas of the much neglected sport marriage, this article identifies and examines the survival strategies used by wives in coping with stressful occupational events in the careers of their husbands. Using a control management perspective, the idea of control work is introduced and...
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    Article
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    multidimensional approach to selected areas of the much neglected sport marriage, this article identifies and

  • The accessible Chaucer

    Creator:
    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    Masters Thesis
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    decision of Chaucer (d. 1400) to emulate French and Italian poetry in his own vernacular is an indication

  • A Reproductive Justice Approach to Understanding Yoruba Women’s Experiences with Early Marriage and Bride Price in Nigeria

    Creator:
    Oladejo, Odunola D.
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    The cultural and social constructions of gender and sexuality play a major role in shaping an individual’s reproductive agency within the Yoruba society. This thesis suggests the need to apply a reproductive justice framework and transnational feminist theory as alternatives to individual-driven ‘choice’ and reproductive and sexual human rights. In...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Early Marriage and Bride Price in Nigeria. Abstract approved

  • Wedding Bells, Binaries and the Heterosexual Menace

    Creator:
    McNeill, Elizabeth
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    This research explores and aligns a postmodern method in line with a theoretical lens of "strategic political queer/feminism" to understand the construction and positioning of the issue/ problem of same-sex marriage. The method takes shape through a theoretical framework that leads to a political maneuver opening access to the rights...
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    Masters Thesis
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    APPENDIX C: Marriage Equality & Other Relationship Recognition Laws ......143 APPENDIX D: Hospital

  • The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

    Creator:
    Brock, Christopher J.
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    My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and Sources of the Clerk’s Tale……………………. 39 The Wife of Bath’s Debate on Marriage

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

    Creator:
    Foster, Brad D.
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    This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    OF THE THESIS OF Brad D. Foster for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on July 16

  • In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

    Creator:
    Herb, Danielle Kristine
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    My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Jerry was ―heading in the wrong direction for enlightenment‖ (M.Salinger, 13). Sex and marriage, as