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Title: "How the stars were made", an original children's play and an analysis of the production problems
Creator: Dye, Patricia McKenna
Date: 1951
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Have your cake and eat it too" : negotiating a friends with benefits relationship
Creator: Bisson, Melissa A.
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Gaming" genre : serious games, genre theory, and rhetorical action
Creator: Sherlock, Lee
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Freedom" of the press in Turkey : journalist imprisonments during the last decade, 2002-2012
Creator: Kanver, Duygu
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The noticeable increase in the number of imprisoned journalists in the past three years drew national and international attention to the problems of press freedom in Turkey. Arrests of distinguished reporters of Turkey's mainstream media, along with the ongoing limitations on the freedom of Kurdish and socialist press, caused the country to be referred as "the world's biggest prison for journalists" by the non-governmental press freedom organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and the...
Show moreThe noticeable increase in the number of imprisoned journalists in the past three years drew national and international attention to the problems of press freedom in Turkey. Arrests of distinguished reporters of Turkey's mainstream media, along with the ongoing limitations on the freedom of Kurdish and socialist press, caused the country to be referred as "the world's biggest prison for journalists" by the non-governmental press freedom organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Statements of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government authorities claiming that the imprisoned journalists are "not journalists but terrorists," and their reluctance to amend the laws that cause hundreds of journalists to be jailed led to questioning the influence of politics on journalist imprisonments.This study explores the problems of press freedom with a focus on imprisoned journalists. Based upon in-depth interviews with journalists who were behind bars in the last decade, this study aims to answer the questions of what has changed in terms of freedom of expression in the last decade under AKP rule, for what obvious and underlying reasons the journalists are imprisoned, whether censorship has been a part of the problems of press freedom in the last decade, and how limitations on the freedom of expression affect the public.
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Title: "Framboidal" chalcocite from White Pine, Michigan
Creator: Alyanak, Nancy
Date: 1973
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "For a girl, you can really throw down" : women DJs in Chicago house music
Creator: Rowley, Margaret Lynn
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Flipping" educational technology professional development for K-12 educators
Creator: Spencer, Daniel
Date: 2012
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: As the demand for more effective professional development increases in K-12 schools, trainers must adjust their training methods to meet the needs of their teacher learners. Just as lecture-heavy, teacher-centered instruction only meet the learning needs of a small minority of students, "sit and get" professional development rarely results in the teachers gaining the skills and confidence necessary to use technology effectively in their instruction. To resolve the frustrations of teachers...
Show moreAs the demand for more effective professional development increases in K-12 schools, trainers must adjust their training methods to meet the needs of their teacher learners. Just as lecture-heavy, teacher-centered instruction only meet the learning needs of a small minority of students, "sit and get" professional development rarely results in the teachers gaining the skills and confidence necessary to use technology effectively in their instruction. To resolve the frustrations of teachers related to ineffective professional development, a "Flipped PD" training model was developed based on the learning needs of adult learners, the integration of technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK), learning activities, and the Flipped Classroom concept. Under this model, training shifts from a passive, trainer-centered format, to an active, learner-centered format where teachers learn to use technology in their classrooms by first focusing on pedagogical issues, then choosing the options that work best for addressing those issues in their unique situation, and completing "learn-by-doing" projects. Those who participate in "Flipped PD" style trainings tend to have more confidence upon completion that they can use the tools they were trained on in their teaching, as well as believe that the PD was engaging and a good use of their time.
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Title: "First you steal a chicken ..."
Creator: Heard, Linda Nagy
Date: 2002
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Errorless" discrimination learning and transfer in the mentally retarded
Creator: Krips, Lawrence Joseph
Date: 1971
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Echos of papiers collés in Picasso's 'El Guernica'"
Creator: Múnera-Ferreira, Angela
Date: 1991
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Downfall" : the American plans for the invasion of Japan in World War II
Creator: Vander Linde, Dean M. (Dean Marvin)
Date: 1987
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Corruption within the labor movement" : an attempt at definition through analysis of applicable literature
Creator: Cherry, James Edward
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Boil-off calorimetry" for determining food enthalpy
Creator: Groesbeck, Charles Wellington
Date: 1972
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Better than they were before" : athletics and American military preparedness during the Great War
Creator: Clubine, Douglas Lincoln
Date: 1994
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "As long as I get to be me" : the formative experiences of early career female jazz instrumentalists
Creator: Penno, Anna
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: With the goal of helping to create a more inclusive environment in which jazz education can flourish, the purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of female early career jazz instrumentalists. Four female jazz instrumentalists whose college experiences were based at the same large university in a Midwestern state served as the participants for this qualitative instrumental case study. Data sources included individual interviews, a focus group interview, and field notes based on...
Show moreWith the goal of helping to create a more inclusive environment in which jazz education can flourish, the purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of female early career jazz instrumentalists. Four female jazz instrumentalists whose college experiences were based at the same large university in a Midwestern state served as the participants for this qualitative instrumental case study. Data sources included individual interviews, a focus group interview, and field notes based on observations of two participants' rehearsals and performances. Six major themes with sub-themes emerged from this study: (1) Perceptions of the influence of gender, (2) Influence of perceptions of place, (3) Influence of supportive relationships, (4) Resilience through personal characteristics, (5) Beneficial dispositions for improvisation, and (6) Salient improvisation teaching and learning approaches. Based on the findings, I recommended that music educators be cognizant of the overt and nuanced ways that gender can impact their students' experiences. This awareness could help educators recognize and minimize gendered preconceptions that could be perpetuated within their classrooms and facilitate an informed approach toward addressing gender-related challenges. Particular attention to the social dynamics among students may help to cultivate mutually respectful peer relationships. Students could benefit from both theoretical and aural approaches to improvisation learning as well as extensive opportunities to apply and enhance their abilities through performance.
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Title: "Am I my brother's keeper?" A historiography of twentieth century Black-Jewish relations
Creator: White, Amaris J.
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Between 1920 and 2007, approximately one hundred articles and essays, twenty monographs, and six anthologies have been published on the intriguing relationship between Black and Jewish Americans. This body of scholarship is dense, wide-reaching, analytically sound, and is often times a reflection of changes in American history and society. This essay critically surveys the significant scholarship published on the relationships between African Americans and Jewish Americans during the...
Show moreBetween 1920 and 2007, approximately one hundred articles and essays, twenty monographs, and six anthologies have been published on the intriguing relationship between Black and Jewish Americans. This body of scholarship is dense, wide-reaching, analytically sound, and is often times a reflection of changes in American history and society. This essay critically surveys the significant scholarship published on the relationships between African Americans and Jewish Americans during the twentieth century. This comprehensive historiography serves as a tool for exploring how various historical interactions between Blacks and Jews were influenced by the rules, conventions, and protocols of a broader American culture. By critically studying the intersection between race, class, economics, politics, education, and identity formation, I am better able to assess historical interactions between African Americans and Jewish Americans. Looking at the associations between these two historically marginalized groups we can better understand the implications of categories such as ethnicity on intercultural coalition building and how we can overcome barriers that have strained and divided Black-Jewish relations.
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Title: "All the forms today are merely parades and arrangements" : the relationship between the music and film of "Le Ballet Mécanique" and their influence on time
Creator: Baumgart, Emily Michelle
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACT"ALL THE FORMS TODAY ARE MERELY PARADES AND ARRANGEMENTS"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MUSIC AND FILM OF LE BALLET MÉCANIQUE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON TIMEByEmily Michelle BaumgartThis paper offers a structural and cognitive exploration of Léger, Murphy and Antheil's Le Ballet Mécanique of 1924. Though much recent literature has addressed the iconic and groundbreaking film by concentrating on the audio or visual elements separately, this paper addresses both as a unit; specifically, it...
Show moreABSTRACT"ALL THE FORMS TODAY ARE MERELY PARADES AND ARRANGEMENTS"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MUSIC AND FILM OF LE BALLET MÉCANIQUE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON TIMEByEmily Michelle BaumgartThis paper offers a structural and cognitive exploration of Léger, Murphy and Antheil's Le Ballet Mécanique of 1924. Though much recent literature has addressed the iconic and groundbreaking film by concentrating on the audio or visual elements separately, this paper addresses both as a unit; specifically, it explores the form and structure, or lack thereof, inherent in the abstract nature of the film. While some analyses have claimed there is a clear sense of organization within either film or music (Lawder, 1975; Oja, 2000), this paper takes the opposite approach by theorizing that there is no coherent form to be found in either. Instead, there is a focus on the use of irregular repetition found in both the visual and aural media: looping in the visual element and ostinato in the aural. Furthermore, this study places an emphasis on the effect these unusual techniques will have on an audience. Drawing on the cognitive literature regarding perception and attention, this paper investigates the role that non-narrative video plays in time perception and disorientation. It uses principles of Gestalt psychology and previous timing experiments to accomplish these aims, postulating that the lack of structure, repetitive nature, and disunity between visual and aural elements will lead to a distorted sense of time.
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