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Differences in Student and Faculty Attitudes toward Physical Activity

The problem was to identify the differences in attitudes toward physical activity of students and faculty within a health, physical education, and recreation professional preparation program.

Date: June 1973

Creator: Judkins, Cleetis Wilburn

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Selected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: A Burkeian Analysis

In this study, Kenneth Burke's methods of dramatistic analysis is applied to the selected poetry of Nikki Giovanni, a Black contemporary female poet. The procedure, analysis of poetry for symbolic action, is a functional approach which focuses on the poetic language, Agency. The thesis, divided into four chapters, concentrates on discovery of the Purpose, a Black female motive, for the Act, Giovanni's poetry, in the Scene, contemporary Black America.

Date: August 1973

Creator: Tobola, Carolyn

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A Comparative Study and Model of the Certification Requirements for Vocational Office Education Teacher-Coordinators in the United States

The purposes of the study were (1) to describe the historical rationale for teacher certification, (2) to survey and report the present requirement of the states for certification as a vocational office education teacher-coordinator, (3) to survey leading business and office education educators for recommendations for vocational office education teacher-coordinator certification requirements, (4) to examine, survey, and report the characteristics and qualifications of employed vocational office… more

Date: May 1973

Creator: Bounds, Joan Karen Johnston, 1936-

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Conformational Analogs of Some Phytoactive Compounds

In an effort to determine if there is a specific conformational structure which is most effective at the appropriate active physiological site, the synthesis of a group of sterically restricted analogs was undertaken. A portion of the polymethylene carbon skeleton of glutaric acid was replaced by selected aromatic carbons in benzenedicarboxylic acids to produce a series of ridged conformers, and the relative plant growth regulating properties of these derivatives were determined.

Date: August 1973

Creator: Skelton, Wm. Paul

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A Comparison of the Desirability and Feasibility of Accountability Measures as Perceived by Public School Administrators and Teachers

This study had three main purposes. The first was to determine the perceptions of public school administrators toward desirability and toward feasibility of accountability items. The second was to determine the perceptions of public school teachers toward desirability and toward feasibility of accountability items. The third was to compare the perceptions of administrators with those of teachers and to indicate areas where they seemed to be in agreement or disagreement.

Date: May 1973

Creator: Kiamie, Robert A.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A System of Selection and Human Resource Development for Small Retailers of Apparel and Accessories

The study has a twofold purpose. The first is to determine the extent to which organized selection and training practices exist in small apparel and accessory retailing establishments, and the general attitude which small retailers of apparel and accessories express toward the value of selection and training functions. The second is to construct a practical system which can be used in small apparel and accessory retailing establishments.

Date: May 1973

Creator: Burr, Patricia LeMay

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Dramatic Expression in Thirty Musical Settings of Goethe's "Der Erlkonig"

This study is an investigation of the dramatic expression in thirty musical settings of Goethe's "Erlkonig," to attempt to determine why the works by Franz Schubert and Carl Loewe have achieved such popularity.

Date: May 1973

Creator: McDaniel, Mary Eileen

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A Study of Factors of Creativity in Three Selected Fields of Study

The purposes of the study are to identify factors of creativity which have been revealed in the fields of personality and cognitive theory, art education, and science, and to formulate a base for a theory of creativity.

Date: May 1973

Creator: Schutz, Edward E.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Level of Manifest Anxiety as a Predictor of Attitude Change Through Group Vocational Counseling

This study was conducted to compare changes in self-concept and dogmatism among high school subjects at three levels of manifest anxiety following group vocational counseling.

Date: May 1973

Creator: Liston, Curtis Thomas

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A Cross-Racial Study of Small Business Managers

The objective of this study is to define differences and similarities in certain aspects of education, experience, and business practices of White, Black, and Latin American small businessmen, and approximately fifty questions relating to their operations were asked.

Date: August 1973

Creator: Howard, Kenneth W.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A Survey of Perceived Relationships Between Higher Education Institutions and Daily Newspapers and Television Stations in Texas

The problem of this study was to determine perceived relationships between higher education institutions in Texas and daily newspapers and television stations in the state. It also was to determine roles, responsibilities, and priorities of college information office representatives.

Date: May 1973

Creator: Newbury, Joyce Donell

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A History of Lon Morris College

The problem with which this study is concerned is that of analyzing the implementation of the stated purposes of Lon Morris College of Jacksonville, Texas from 1847 to 1973. Histories and journals of the period, records and publications of the school and other institutions, and oral interviews of persons involved in its development provide data for the study. As a historical analysis, the study is divided according to successive periods in the school's development.

Date: May 1973

Creator: Jones, Glendell A.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Primary Productivity and Nutrient Relationships in Garza-Little Elm Reservoir

A large, multi-basin, reservoir (Garza-Little Elm Reservoir) in north central Texas was studied to determine the relative effects of various parameters on primary productivity. The basins were impounded several years apart,thus allowing the influence of age on water chemistry and biota to be considered. Another principal influence on water quality was secondary sewage effluent that entered one basin from a nearby source.

Date: May 1973

Creator: Smith, Jerry Allen

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Southwest Retort, Volume 25, Number 5, January 1973

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.

Date: January 1973