The role of weather in influencing tourist-recreation visitation
to the Oregon coast during the six-month summer season of May
through October has been investigated by this research. In addition,
the normal day-to-day fluctuations in coastal visitation has been
determined.
Based upon the normal visitation, the tourist-recreation season
on Oregon's coast...
The essays in this collection do not cluster about a specific theme, nor do they present a single unified interpretative approach to issues in the history of American foreign policy. Above all, William Appleman Williams is a teacher. And good teachers are disappointed with conformity. No one would ever come...
The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni
Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the
creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's
Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The
Bluest...
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships
between modern and traditional schools and children's self-concepts.
In order to do this, it was necessary to describe and define the
phenomenon "self-concept" as used in education and to describe what the
author meant by modern...
The purpose of this study was to assess changes in attitudes
toward behavioral understanding, marital role expectations, and self
concept in a selected group of high school girls. These subjects
were enrolled in a one semester child development course which
included observation and participation experiences with young children.
The subjects...
Effects of the marine environment on age and size at maturity, early marine growth, and abundance of chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, were studied at Olsen Creek during 1959-77. Chum salmon returned to Olsen Creek as predominately 3-, 4-, and 5-year fish; however, age composition varied from year to year. The...
One of the most powerful and life-changing events that can occur in the life of a family is
the death of a child. Researchers who have studied death and bereavement suggest that a
child's death has a dramatic impact on parents. However, little is known about the ways
in which...
The majority of self-concept and sociometric research on crippled
children has been comparative studies in which the disabled child has
been a minority member within a group of physically normal children.
This study takes a different avenue in that it investigated the self-concept and peer reputation of physically handicapped children...