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The South in Presidential Politics: The End of Democratic Hegemony

Description: The purpose of this paper is to document and quantify the primary reasons for the gradual erosion of southern Democratic hegemony in presidential elections during the last twenty-four years. The results confirm and reinforce the findings of the historical study, which indicates the primary reason for changing southern allegiance has been the changing philosophy of the Democratic Party in the civil rights field.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Buchholz, Michael O.
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The Southern Local Colorists and the New South Ideology: a Study in Literary Transition

Description: A school of fiction known as local color emerged following the Civil War. It reached its peak of productivity during the 1880's, and faded at the turn of the century. The purpose of this study is to illuminate the Southern authors of this school, giving major emphasis to their genre in relation to their significance for Southern history. The main sources for this study come from the novels and short stories of the authors themselves. Also found valuable to this study were the numerous books, ar… more
Date: May 1975
Creator: Morris, Linda Kay
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Soviet Oil Politics and the Middle East

Description: This investigation, covering the past two decades, attempts to determine what benefits the Soviets have sought to gain in their relationships with Middle Eastern oil-producing nations. Chapter I surveys the U.S.S.R.'s oil industry and its tentative prospects for the 1980's. Chapter II discusses Soviet involvement in the Middle East since 1950, including nationalization and oil embargoes. In Chapter III, developments less favorable to the U.S.S.R. are, analyzed: the growing influence of conserva… more
Date: December 1979
Creator: Abbas, Ehsan A. R.
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Spaces of Closed Subsets of a Topological Space

Description: The purpose of this paper is to examine selected topologies, the Vietoris topology in particular, on S(X), the collection of nonempty, closed subsets of a topological space X. Characteristics of open and closed subsets of S(X), with the Vietoris topology, are noted. The relationships between the space X and the space S(X), with the Vietoris topology, concerning the properties of countability, compactness, and connectedness and the separation properties are investigated. Additional topologies ar… more
Date: August 1974
Creator: Leslie, Patricia J.
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Spanish Romantic Drama Sources of Giuseppe Verdi Operas

Description: The Italian composer of operas, Giuseppe Verdi, relied heavily on plays of the Romantic Era as sources for opera librettos. Three such plays were from the Spanish Romantic School: El trovador and Simon Bocanegra by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, and Don Alvaro o la fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra, el Duque de Rivas. The operas which Verdi composed using these plays as sources--Il trovatore, Simon Boccanegra, and La forza del destino--range in popularity from near zenith (Il trovatore) to near n… more
Date: August 1972
Creator: Fleming, Leon O.
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Spanish surname recent migrant families: the relationships of life cycle, family status, socioeconomic status, and housing

Description: the problem with which this investigation deals is that of internal migration among Mexican-Americans living in the Southwest. Four factors, life cycle, family status, socioeconomic status, and housing and their effects on migration are considered.
Date: August 1976
Creator: Alexander, Tristan John
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Spectrographic Analysis of the Acoustical Properties of Selected Vowels in Choral Sound

Description: The purposes of this study were (1) to categorize examples of vowel sounds by means of subjective evaluation, (2) to ascertain by spectrographic analysis the distinguishing characteristics of the acoustical properties of the examples in the categories, (3) to determine the similarities and dissimilarities which exist within and between the categories, and (4) to analyze the implications of the findings for the teaching of choral singing.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Hunt, William A. (William Austin), 1931-
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Spectroscopic Investigation of Some Allyl Alkali Metal Compounds

Description: To gain better understanding of the nature of the carbonmetal bonding in 3-neopentylallyl alkali metal (5,5-dimethyl- 2-hexenyl alkali metal) systems, an investigation is extended to 3-neopentylallylpotassium. In addition, pertinent data on the 3-neopentylallyl systems are re-examined in an attempt to understand the trends in the bonding habits, as affected by the solvent, the cation and the temperature.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Moore, Michael L.
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The Spinster and Flabby Lucy

Description: Many contemporary writers maintain that a prime requisite of poetry is autobiographical sincerity. They would have the poet commit himself to an openness with his audience that is usually reserved for only the most intimate relationships. The thirty-two poems of this thesis were written as a reaction to current confessional trends and postulate that the creation of fictions to live by is an intrinsic part of the human process. Central to the work is the idea that past fictions, traditions, and … more
Date: August 1976
Creator: Angel, Shelly
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The Spiritual Journey in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke

Description: If any interpretation of Theodore Roethke's poetry is to be meaningful, it must be made in light of his life. The sense of psychological guilt and spiritual alienation that began in childhood after his father's death was intensified in early adulthood by his struggles with periodic insanity. Consequently, by the time he reached middle age, Theodore Roethke was embroiled in an internal conflict that had been developing over a number of years, and the ordering of this inner chaos became the prima… more
Date: August 1971
Creator: Neiman, Marilyn M.
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Spontaneous Imagery Within Shaped Formats

Description: The primary concerns and problems which were addressed in this project were: 1. were the shaped formats more of less effective when derived directly from maps and/or photographic panoramas as opposed to deriving them from my own memory and imagination? 2.Was the negative space in which the intaglio prints float, more or less effective than the paintings and drawings which have no bordering negative space? 3. What differences exist in the spontaneous imagery when putting down the initial marks, … more
Date: August 1979
Creator: Hart, Michael Ralph
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Spontaneous Installations of Flexible Combinations of Woven Modular Forms

Description: The purpose of this project was to investigate the possibilities of reorganizing space by arranging woven modules. These units were to be separable and flexible in regard to their spacial relationships and interrelatedness in any installation. This problem was examined in these specific ways: 1) Is it possible to create a sense of volume in forms woven flat on a standard floor loom as simple, single-layer or double-layer fabrics and later manipulate them into three-dimensional structures? 2) ho… more
Date: August 1979
Creator: Burchett, Jayme Schaumann
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Spring Food Habits of Corydalus Cornutus L. in the Brazos River, Texas

Description: The objective of this study was to determine the kinds and numbers of food organisms consumed by Corydalus cornutus, and to investigate its periodicity of feeding during the spring months in the Brazos River, Palo Pinto County, Texas. A total of 468 larvae were collected at two-week intervals from February 29 to May 14, 1971. Larvae were taken at opportunity during three periods of the day, 6am.-12pm., 12pm.-6pm., and 6pm.-12am. A total of 23 different food items was observed in the 121 stomach… more
Date: August 1971
Creator: Friday, Gary P.
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The SSI and NU 6 in Clinical Hearing Aid Evaluation

Description: This paper reports on the comparison of the performance of fourteen normal hearing listeners and fourteen individuals with sensorineural hearing loss on the Synthetic Sentence Identification (SSI) and the Northwestern Auditory Test No. 6 (NU 6) in order to determine whether there are differences in performance of the two groups of listeners on the SSI and NU 6 and whether either test better reflects aided improvement and residual deficit. Both measures demonstrated significant aided improvement… more
Date: August 1977
Creator: Roddy, Norma
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Staff Development for Principals to Improve Kindergarten Programs

Description: A study was made to determine the views of elementary principals regarding criteria for a quality kindergarten program and to plan a staff development program based upon the data collected. The study was limited to elementary principals in the eight Texas counties of Education Service Center Region 10 with kindergartens on their campuses during the 1973-1974 school year. Principals who had kindergartens on their campuses before the 1973-1974 school year did not perform better on the questionnai… more
Date: August 1974
Creator: Smith, Jacquelyn Craig
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Staff Opinion Differences between Geriatric and Non-Geriatric Treatment Wards at a State Mental Hospital

Description: The primary purposes of the present study were (1) to see in which way, if any, the measured attitudes of psychiatric aides employed on geriatric wards differed from those of aides employed on non-geriatric wards at the same hospital; and (2) to explore the relationships between measured attitudes and other variables such as age, education, amount of experience as an aide, amount of experience on either geriatric or non-geriatric wards, and the number of patients per aide on each ward.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Curtis, Gerald R.
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Stage Witches During the Reign of King James I, 1603-1625

Description: A re-evaluation of the king's writings combined with a detailed study of these Jacobean plays provides sufficient evidence to support the main contentions of this thesis. First, it presents the proposition that the interest of James in witches and witchcraft has been misjudged and frequently either maligned or disregarded. Second, it demonstrates that the king's views on witchcraft comprise a philosophy which is consistent with the balance of his political and religious thought and action. Thir… more
Date: January 1970
Creator: Verges, Linda Kay
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The Standardization of the Basic Movement Performance Profile for Profoundly Retarded Institutionalized Residents

Description: The problem of this study was to standardize the Basic Movement Performance Profile with male and female profoundly retarded residents from the ten Texas state schools for the mentally retarded. To standardize the Basic Movement Performance Profile, the following objectives were formulated: 1. To determine if the test items found in the Basic Movement Performance Profile were valid and appropriate items to measure the basic movement skills of profoundly retarded residents of state institutions.… more
Date: August 1974
Creator: Ness, Richard A.
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The state of the art in environmental pollution control and impact analysis

Description: This study analyzes federal and state pollution control and abatement legislation and provides a one-volume working explanation of those laws applicable to business operations. This analysis is limited to legislation aimed at controlling air and water pollution, and solid waste management.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Thibodeaux, Mary Shepherd
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State Party Organization in Texas: An Analysis of the Membership and Staff of the State Executive Committees

Description: The purpose of this study is to analyze the state executive committees of the two major political parties in Texas and to present facts regarding the membership of the committees (the policy-makers) and the professional staff of the state party organization (the administrators of party policy).
Date: January 1970
Creator: Dunn, Charles DeWitt
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