Leadership effectiveness can affect the success or failure of an organization. The way a leader (CEO, manager, supervisor etc.) communicates to employees can affect the degree to which employees will willingly follow and respect the leader, be...
Lobster fisheries -- Law and legislation -- Maine; Lobster fisheries -- Law and legislation -- Maine -- Harpswell Center
Since 1995, the Northeast lobstermen have been more regulated and managed than at any other point in the history of their industry. The lobster fishing industry has been a staple industry in the Northeast United States for over 200 years. From...
Macedonia -- Ethnic relations; Macedonia -- History -- 21st century
The Muslim Albanian-speaking population in the Balkan Peninsula has sought historically to unify the ethnic "Albanian lands" of Kosovo, western Macedonia and Albania but has been denied a single country. For example, in 1878 this dream of ethnic...
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...
Moroccans -- Spain -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- Spain -- Social conditions; Spain -- Emigration and immigration; Morocco -- Emigration and immigration
In light of globalization, it is important to understand the immigrant identity and experience. The Moroccan immigrant experience in Spain is especially important because it is an example of the cultural and physical convergence of Europe and...
The focus on communities and their impact on characters, individually and in
groups, is a major theme that runs throughout Toni Morrison's novels. It is when the
communities are in conflict with each other and their members that Morrison reveals...
My weekly reader -- History; Children's periodicals, American -- History
Charles Palmer Davis, visiting a one-room school in New England at the turn of the century, asked the pupils, "Who is the President of the United States?" Of the twenty-five first to fifth graders, only two knew the answer, one of whom was Davis's...
Proulx, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1846-1904; Education -- Manitoba -- History; Church and education -- Manitoba; French-Canadians -- Connecticut; Catholics -- Connecticut; Danielson (Conn.) -- Church history; Saint James Church (Danielson, Conn.)
The thesis is an examination of the role of Fr. Jean-Baptiste Proulx as an intermediary for the French-Canadian laity at St. James' Church in Danielson, Connecticut in the parish discord known as the Danielson Affair, and as a secret ambassador of...
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...
Role models -- Juvenile literature; Girls in literature
This study was designed to assess the current and past state of female role
models in young adolescent literature. Going on the assumption that there was indeed
a shortage of strong, independent female protagonists in youth literature, the...
Science -- Attitudes; Active learning; Learning by discovery
How well students perform in academic science courses over the long run is not as important as their understanding of broad science concepts and their attitudes toward science. As adults, these factors will influence their reaction to issues that...
Single-sex schools; Single-sex schools -- Connecticut -- Avon; Avon Old Farms School (Avon, Conn.) -- History
Over the last several decades statistics reveal that there is worldwide underachievement of boys in school. Regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, or economic background, boys as a group are struggling to be effectively educated. While girls are...
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...
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961; Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- Fiesta del Chivo; Alvarez, Julia. In the time of the butterflies; Dominican literature
The purpose of this thesis is to prove that La fiesta del chivo, written by Mario Vargas Llosa and En el tiempo de las mariposas, written by Julia Alvarez, clearly show the control that Rafael Trujillo Molina held over the Dominican Republic and...
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 -- Assassination attempt, 1950; Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- United States
In the annals of United States history the attempted assassination of President Harry S. Truman by two Puerto Rican Nationalists is by most measures a relatively small event, but at the time this incident took place it was indeed a major news...
When fueled, three elements of an organization's makeup-an individual's
personal characteristics, situational attributes, and environmental/working conditions,
either separately, or combined-can create a lethal mix of ingredients for workplace...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Spain; Spain -- Foreign relations -- 1939-1975
During World War II, Spain watched the international conflict from the sidelines. Spain, under the control of its fascist dictator, Francisco Franco, had to contend with the growing rivalry between Nazism and fascism on one side, and Soviet...
Zoning boards -- Connecticut; Zoning law -- Connecticut
Introduction The Zoning Boards of Appeals and the granting of variances are a integral part of the zoning system. However ZBA's and their functions are probably one of the most, if not the most misunderstood and abused aspect of the zoning system....