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...
Secondary educators covering the topic of American slavery have the arduous challenge of breaking down one of the darkest periods of United States History. A daunting prospect for the classroom teacher is the idea of helping their students...
This thesis seeks to determine if organizational values and defined behaviors that are communicated throughout the organization can increase employee satisfaction, commitment and performance outcomes. This research explains how these values are...
Geography -- Study and teaching; Geography -- Study and teaching -- Aids and devices;
Introduction
The main objective of this curriculum guide is to provide educators with materials
and resources designed to promote cultural awareness with middle school students
and meet specific geographic objectives and standards. Geography is a...
This research examines how a cycle of poor nutrition has been created in the Frog Hollow neighborhood, an urban food desert, in Hartford, Connecticut. The absence of large chain grocery stores and the ubiquity of fast, high-fat, high-calorie...
As an Advanced Placement Calculus (APC) teacher I have observed many students struggle with the transition from pre-calculus to calculus. Many of these students were successful in algebra, geometry, and even pre-calculus but the concepts of...
This thesis explores William Butler Yeats's definitions of himself as poet and also
his role as a poet. Tracing Yeats's definition of himself in these roles as he progresses
from youth to old age allows the reader to observe the changes Yeats...
In the early days of aviation, particularly after World War I, many geographers wrote about the value of observing a place from above. They thought aerial observations would be a valuable aid to regional studies. This early enthusiasm for observing...
Arguedas, Alcides, 1879-1946; Marof, Tristán; Bolivian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
The research stated here is an investigation of literature weaved by political views of Bolivian pre-rights times that may have held great influence upon political changes towards social rights of the later half of the twentieth century. Alcides...
Corporate culture; Corporations -- Sociological aspects; Symbolism in organizations
A society's culture is a creation of its history, the result of both real and fabricated events. In the same manner, history plays a significant role in the creation of a corporate culture. Organizations working in a traditional environment rely on...
The purpose of this thesis was to uncover the most recent climactic conditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. This research was conducted in two ways. First a meta-analysis was conducted on papers and research involving global warming and...
Pharmaceutical industry -- United States; Drugs -- United States -- Marketing
The Pharmaceutical Industry spends billions of dollars each year advertising their products to consumers, often via direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) on television, radio, and the Internet. This level of prescription drug promotion has...
Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States; Arab-Israeli conflict; United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East
A presumption that the United States and Israel are joined in a common struggle against terrorism has become a part of the political orthodoxy of both the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties. Implicit in this worldview is the premise that the...
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...
Brazil is rapidly transitioning into an economic superpower and key global player in the 21st century - a development that few if any could have predicted even just a quarter-century ago when the country was deeply mired in foreign debt and racked...
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Selections. 1984 -- Criticism and interpretation
Critics have been struggling to find a consistent theme that permeates Herman Melville’s Pierre; or, the Ambiguities (1852). There is the pamphlet on which a lecture by a man named Plotinus Plinlimmon is written down in the middle of the story....
Drug traffic -- Colombia; Guerrilla warfare -- Colombia; Colombia -- Social conditions
During the 1980's, Latin America was one of the major concerns of the U.S. foreign policy. Countries like Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Colombia had unstable governments and civil war created a clear and present danger to the national security of the...
Judaism; Zionism; Israel; Israel and the diaspora; Israel--Politics and government--1993-
After introducing the reader to a brief history of Judaism, this thesis describes the connection that Jewish people have with their land. A premise that is central to understanding Jewish history is the continued unity of the Jewish nation, even in...
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...
Service learning -- United States; AmeriCorps (U.S.)
In the recent past there has been a growing concern for the decline in civic and political attitudes long associated with a spirit of citizenship in America (Keeter, Zukin, Andolina, & Jenkins, 2002; Putnam, 2000). A review of the literature...
