New England Association of Schools and Colleges; Teacher participation in administration -- New England; High schools -- Accreditation -- New England
Public secondary schools invest in regional accreditation for accountability, quality, and instructional improvement. To understand the instructional improvement aspect, this study investigates whether the self-study process employed by NEASC...
Research work reported in the literature has demonstrated that tree-rings record past climatic events as the relationship between tree-ring widths and variations in climate (temperature and precipitation) can be modeled. Therefore, tree-rings are...
Social media has become popular for both personal and business use. Employees are increasingly using blogs and social networking sites. Companies are utilizing social media for marketing and advertising as well as for connecting with their publics....
Catholic Church -- United States; Hispanic American Catholics -- Religious life; Hispanic American Catholics -- United States
The thesis examines the influence of the Hispanic community of Puerto Rico, and other communities of Latin America, in Fairfield County since their arrival during the last half century. The study focuses on the discrimination that they faced...
"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Psychology."; Thesis advisor: Bradley Waite.; M.A.,Central Connecticut State University,,2012.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 35-40).
This paper invites a reconsideration of the circumstances surrounding the surrender of the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen, in April 1945. New evidence is introduced that challenges accepted interpretations and calls for a reassessment, in...
Short stories, Latin American; Hispanic American women in literature; Women and literature -- Latin America -- History
Since the beginning of time people have used storytelling to pass on history and entertain. During the Middle Ages more formal short stories began to take shape. With the invention of the printing press and the exploration of the New World, short...
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
In the middle of the 1800s the American nation ceased to be the United States and engaged in five horrible years of bloodshed. As the facts concerning the battles and fighting became concrete, and the actions of those who fought in the Civil War...
Media images are extremely powerful forces in modern American society. These images with which we are constantly bombarded by living in a capitalistic society can without a word portray to millions messages of prejudice, love, hate, happiness,...
The traditional definition of retirement and retirement migration is changing in the United States. This change in retirement is being fueled by the baby boomer generation. The retirement market is set to explode as this cohort of over 75 million...
This study focuses on the history of the linguistic minorities living in Italy and on their role in contemporary Italian society. The purpose is to understand current policies regulating the recognition of these minorities, and to gain knowledge...
Helping is a phenomenon that has been widely studied in psychology. Two types of helping that can occur within an organization are organizational citizenship behavior, or OCB, and volunteering. OCB is helping that occurs during the course of...
Africa, Central -- Politics and government -- 1960-; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1997; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1997-; Crimes against humanity -- Africa, Central; Crimes against...
In the Central Africa Region four million people from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have died largely unnoticed by western media from armed conflict and human rights abuses. Some scholars have written extensively that the conflict in...
Psychic trauma in literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Gender identity in literature
The project, "The Limits of Language: Gender, Trauma and the Holocaust," contributes a new theoretical reading regarding Holocaust literature. Traditionally, gender studies have provided insight into gendered responses to trauma, but not...
In the opinion of many observers, higher educational institutions currently suffer from a "parallel silo" syndrome, in which academic affairs and student affairs co-exist, but tend not to interact. This situation can be problematic for colleges...
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
The purpose of this thesis is to prove that Dickinson characterized her poetic discourse with unique figurative manipulations as well as autonomous stylistic and prosodic techniques to serve a process of poetic dismantlement of her contemporary...
Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Pasos perdidos -- Criticism and interpretation; Rivera, José Eustasio, 1888-1928. Vorágine -- Criticism and interpretation; Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
The purpose of this investigation is to discuss and compare the effects of travel on the main characters in two Spanish American fictional works: Los pasos perdidos by Alejo Carpentier and La vorágine by José Eustasio Rivera. Utilizing the...
Since the 1980's law enforcement has deployed traffic enforcement camera systems to monitor roadways for traffic violations. There are a variety of commercially available systems today that can capture images of vehicles running red lights, passing...
Bosnians--Connecticut--Hartford--Social conditions; Women refugees--Connecticut--Hartford--Social conditions; Women refugees--Bosnia and Hercegovina; War widows--Services for--Connecticut--Hartford; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Refugees
Between 1996 and 2000 a great number of Bosnian refugee women, single, married or widowed,
traumatized by war and loss, were relocated in the ‘South End’ of Hartford, owing to a large
program of resettlement launched by the U.S. Department of...
