The occupation of police officer is a profession with many unique characteristics. Research on police work has shown that officers are continuously exposed to threats, must maintain a constant vigilance against crime, feel as if they must be in...
Gambling -- Psychological aspects; College students -- Attitudes
A review of the literature on the gambling behavior of college and university undergraduates explores the prevalence of gambling and also the prevalence of what is variously referred to as problem, pathological, disordered, or compulsive gambling...
This thesis is based on the premise that textile arts, including those produced in West Africa, naturally reflect the cultures and customs of the ethnic groups in which they are created. As such, they can provide us with unique and fascinating...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Evaluation; Readiness for school; School age (Entrance age)
The age a child should be when beginning formal education has become a focus of interest. How old should a child be? Is there a correlation between age and performance on mathematical strategies? Kindergarten programs have become more knowledge and...
Voluntarism; Social values; Sex differences (Psychology)
Volunteer work and factors that influence the choice to participate in volunteer work has become a focus of study in psychology. Examples of volunteer work that occur in or through an organization are coaching a little league baseball team and...
Computers -- Soviet Union; Computer industry -- Soviet Union
It is widely accepted that the technological and scientific phenomenon that came to be known as “Computing” contributed immensely in the development of the post-World War II industrial societies - to the extent that, today, the technological...
Transgender college students; Transgender college students -- Services for
One of the main goals of the student affairs professional is to provide relevant services to students and to protect their well being. In order to provide those services, it is imperative that student affairs professionals have the knowledge and be...
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Criticism and interpretation; Bible -- Influence; Bible -- In literature
The Bible has exerted a great influence on Western literature; however, at no time like the Spanish Golden Age period has the Bible been so relevant. There is no way of approaching a text from the periods of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...
This research focuses on the role of pictures in elementary mathematics, specifically algebra. The participants in the study were elementary algebra students in Math 099 at Central Connecticut State University, chosen for this study based on their...
Groundwater -- Connecticut -- Lieutenant River Watershed; Water quality -- Connecticut;
Water quality has become an important environmental issue as population growth and an expanded economy have caused increased degradation of many waterbodies. As a consequence of this degradation, stream characteristics are altered, habitats are...
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation; Mysticism in literature
In the large body of criticism dealing with Walt Whitman there are innumerable analyses of the poet's journalism, sexuality, politics, war experiences and post-war experiences, as well as his innovations in form, such as the use of free-verse,...
Family services -- Evaluation -- Connecticut -- New Britain; Crime prevention -- Evaluation -- Connecticut -- New Britain; Human services -- Evaluation -- Connecticut -- New Britain
This thesis describes the evaluation of two community programs run by the Human Resources Agency of New Britain, Inc.: the Family Support Program and the Crime Prevention Program. These programs were reviewed as part of a contract negotiated...
Teaching teams; High school teaching; Team learning approach in education;
This is a single embedded case study of one fringe-urban high school (the case) participating in a district-wide change initiative utilizing collaboration. As collaboration features prominently in the literature on school change, this study...
Communication in learning and scholarship; Education -- Demographic aspects
As interactions between people from different cultures increase, the need to understand and accept communication styles which sharply contrast with our own, becomes more evident. One individual characteristic that affects substantially the...
Botany -- Connecticut -- Branford (Town) -- Outer Island
The purpose of this study, on the Outer Island unit of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge in Branford, CT, from July 1998 to June 1999, was to conduct botanical research and to make an associated collection of plant specimens. All...
Anorexia nervosa -- Social aspects; Stress (Psychology)
This study examined the relationship of feminine gender role stress and anorexic symptoms. Participants included 90 Caucasian female college student volunteers enrolled in psychology courses at Central Connecticut State University. The Feminine...
Internet users -- Psychology; Television -- Dependency (Psychology); Personality
The present study examined whether relationships between media dependency and personality traits exist. Concerns expressed in the past literature on addiction were found in the areas of personality predispositions, social relationship difficulties,...
Buddhism and literature -- United States; Spanish American literature -- History and criticism
Jorge Luis Borges, el autor más influyente del cuento hispanoamericano, declaró en una entrevista que aprendió el alemán porque quería leer las obras de Schopenhauer, y que nunca había escrito una exposición sistemática de su punto de vista...
The present study examined whether relationships between
personality characteristics and emotional reactions to mass
media exist. Specifically, the purpose of this study was
to find out if anxiety sensitivity, neuroticism and
depression, may make...
Norman Mailer has never been portrayed as a favorite of female readers;
moreover, he has been persistently misunderstood in terms of the female role in his works
throughout his fifty-six year writing career. These misinterpretations may be...
