Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 168
"DIVINE" INTERVENTION: JAPANESE AND AMERICAN CHRISTIAN NARRATIVES OF THE PACIFIC WAR, THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS, AND THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION
(2011)
In 1995, American public opinion rallied around the sacrosanct "Good War" and its atomic culmination above Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum contemplated an inclusion of the ...
Unusual Campaign: NGOs' Long Battle to End Contra Aid
(2011)
In April 1985 the Reagan administration asked for $14 million in nonmilitary Contra aid. The House of Representatives rejected the request by a vote of 215 to 213. Shocked CIA director William Casey credited non-governmental ...
World at War: Mexican Identities, Insurgents, and the French Occupation, 1862-1867
(2011)
"World at War" focuses on the conditions of warfare inside Mexico during the mid-nineteenth century, specifically from 1862 through 1867. Despite 140 years of general Euro-American fascination with the French Intervention, ...
"The Schoolmaster is Abroad": The Diffusion of Educational Innovations in the Nineteenth Century British Empire
(2011)
The history of education has largely been written from a national perspective. This has limited our understanding of how educational developments have diffused across political boundaries leading to important and enduring ...
After Kourou: Settlement Schemes in French Guiana in the Age of Enlightenment
(2011)
AFTER KOUROU: SETTLEMENT SCHEMES IN FRENCH GUIANA IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENTAbstractBy Barbara Jean Traver, Ph.D.Washington State UniversityMay 2011 Chair: Sue PeabodyGuiana's distinctive characteristics - chronic low ...
No Place Like Home: Conceptualizing Korean Adoptee Evolving Spaces as Places Symbolizing Ethnic Identity
(2011)
This research explores the process by which Korean adoptees describe their formative years' place experiences (their adopting country), experience place (their birth country Korea), and the extent to which they begin to ...
Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Dimension and ADHD-IN Dimension: Distinct Constructs?
(2011)
The purpose of this study was to develop a teacher rating scale of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) and to use this new measure to better understand the relation of the SCT to ADHD-inattention (IN) subtype. Ten SCT items ...
Interdisciplinary Research Among U.S. Doctoral Graduates: An Examination of Definitions, Measurement, Early Career Outcomes, and Sex Differences
(2011)
Interdisciplinary research has become quite popular in recent years, yet there are many unanswered questions about it. This dissertation aims to address some of these unanswered questions about interdisciplinary research, ...
Large volume single crystal growth of Cadmium Zinc Telluride with minimal secondary phases for room temperature radiation detector application
(2011)
Two major aspects of Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CdZnTe) crystal growth for room temperature radiation detection application namely tellurium rich second phase defects and single crystal yield have been addressed. Various ...
EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE, COGNITIVE RIGIDITY AND COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY
(2011)
This research explored the relationships between organizational justice and cognitive rigidity. The overarching hypothesis of the study stated that being exposed to injustices would lead to a rigid mental set. In addition, ...