Poetry in Motion: The Devine Sarah on the English Stage

Winner: Undergraduate Research Award 2010--- During her 1879 London season, Sarah Bernhardt crafted the legendary phenomenon of Sarah Bernhardt by honing her corporal skills

The effects of sex-typed labeling in conjunction with sex-typed modeling upon preschool children's toy preference behavior

Modeling and labeling are two mechanisms which have been identified as playing an integral part in the development of children's sex-typed interests and activities. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the manner in which young children use these two sources of sex-appropriate information--modeling and labeling--to direct their subsequent preferences for sex-typed and neutral toys. Photographs of two equally attractive toys were presented to 144 three- and four-year-old children. One toy was verbally labeled as appropriate for boys and the other labeled appropriate for girls. Following the labeling procedure, the children viewed on a videotape monitor one of the labeled toys being played with by either a same-age boy or a same-age girl. After the videotape modeling sequence, the children were again shown photographs of the pair of toys and their toy preference behavior was recorded

Unruly gestures

In a search to connect more deeply with my environment, sense of place and what it means to care for it, I construct teetering, suspended structures that investigate the complex, sometimes invisible links between all things. Inspired by moments of odd ingenuity that happen when the typical solution breaks down, I work without a fully predetermined pattern or set of plans, piecing together wooden scraps, strings, matchsticks, broken glass, and other found objects, responding to space and material relationships as they develop. Working this way leaves the pieces vulnerable to each other and external forces. If one part fails, so do many others. In my practice, I reference ecosystems and the intimate relationships that form webs between parts in an effort to mimic and embody those ties, those webs of reciprocation - so I test, react and intuitively construct pieces until a whole emerges

A study of the relationship of the loss of excess weight to the motor performance ability of college women

Overweight and its more extreme condition, obesity, have been designated as "the number one health problem today." (3:23) This is a credible statement in light of the facts published in a Public Health Report of 1954 which indicated that twenty per cent or more of the United States population was at that time overweight. The estimates quoted were based upon evidence gathered in four different studies completed at different times and in different geographical locations. (10) These estimates have been substantiated by numerous empirical observations and the current periodical literature abounds in articles concerned with weight control

Fashioning femininities: sartorial literacy in english domestic fiction, 1740-1853

In this dissertation I argue that by using, adhering to, or subverting cultural conventions and tacit sumptuary laws, heroines of English domestic novels take advantage of society's scopic nature, exploiting the gaze in order to control and author their own identity, achieving agency and subjectivity through self-fashioning. The connection between dress and domesticity is most visible in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Domesticity--the ideology that idealized and promoted the home as the center of happiness and society (yet also separated from society)--defined the middle-class woman of this era. Domesticity is often discussed in terms of a highly surveilled space, and the ideal woman exists within that space. However, domestic novels often focus on women who do not fit in that space. Marginalized figures who are excluded from the ideal domestic scene for a variety of reasons--class, occupation, or suspect family ties--must find alternative means of accessing a secure social position. This alternative is often dress--they wear the clothes to secure the identity. The novels that I examine in this dissertation--Richardson's Pamela, Austen's Mansfield Park, Brontë's Villette, and Thackeray's Vanity Fair--all describe heroines who are marginalized and use dress to manipulate their identity. I argue that dress is a crucial component of language and performance, and agency is achieved through what I call sartorial literacy. In this paradigm, the gaze is part of a mutually discursive act, in which the female performer authors a text in clothing that is read by her audience or viewer; the heroine must have an understanding of the identity that the costume will communicate and how it will be read. This often leads to a paradox in which a heroine may appear to make herself an object of the gaze, to conform to social convention, but in doing so, may be subverting those conventions by achieving personal desire

Sex-typed attitudes, sex-typed contingency behaviors, and personality characteristics of male caregivers

The present study was designed to investigate the sex-typed attitudes, sex-typed contingency behaviors, and personality characteristics of male caregivers. The data for sex-typed attitudes were collected from The Sex-Typed Attitude Checklist, drawn from a study by Williams and Bennett (1975). The Adjective Check List (Gough & Heilbrun, 1965) assessed the personality characteristics of the respondents, and The Fagot-Patterson Checklist (1969) was employed to determine the sex-typed contingency behaviors of the male and female caregivers. A contrasting samples survey design was implemented. A random sample of 20 male caregivers who had adopted a traditionally feminine occupation was contrasted to 20 male engineers who were employed in a more traditionally masculine occupation. The male engineers were matched to the male caregivers on age, education, and years of experience. The contrasting variables were the sex-typed attitudinal preferences for boys and girls and the personality characteristics between the two groups. An additional group of 20 female caregivers matched by day care center, age, education, and experience was included to provide additional contrasts on the sex-typed attitudes and personality characteristics of the male caregivers. The sex-typed contingency behaviors of the male caregivers were also compared with those of the females

Culturally Responsive Beliefs and Practices of General and Special Education Teachers Implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) in Diverse Elementary Schools

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which diverse RTI schools in North Carolina engage in culturally responsive beliefs and practices. A total of eight diverse elementary schools participated in this study. Within these schools, 200 general and special education teachers in grades k-5 completed surveys. Areas surveyed included culturally responsive teacher practices, culturally responsive school practices, level of training, and demographics. Three open-ended questions addressed successes, barriers, and needs to implementing culturally responsive practices as part of RTI. The majority of participants had more than 10 years experience in education and had received training in culturally responsive practices. A key finding of this investigation was that a high proportion of the teachers agreed to employing all of the culturally responsive practices except for one. In addition, an equally high proportion of teachers perceived their school as employing all of the culturally responsive practices except one. Answers to open-ended questions both supported and refuted these findings. These findings of this study are discussed, including the implications for future research

Archaeological data management and analysis at Blandwood mansion.

This thesis involves the creation, organization, and analysis of digital archaeological data within a site Geographic Information System and Microsoft Access relational database. The data were the result of excavations at the Blandwood Mansion property in downtown Greensboro, NC, during the summer of 2008. The creation and implementation of the site GIS and custom relational database were discussed with a focus placed on increasing the efficiency of data storage and the speed at which data can be analyzed. The archaeological database was developed for the project and its creation and purpose were discussed with reference to the user experience. The specific methods of data analysis performed within the study include artifact dating via mean ceramic dating, equation based flat window glass dating, artifact distribution analysis using density mapping, and 3D soil layer modeling using statistical kriging. A number of other historical resources including Sanborn Fire Insurance maps and photos were integrated into the GIS to better understand the results obtained by the methods stated above. The final chapter briefly discusses some key insights provided by the study and recommendations of future archaeological exploration within the site

The life-history of Ischnura posita (Hagen) in relation to seasonal regulation : (Odonata: Coenagrionidae)

A study was conducted on Ischnura posita to gain information on aspects of its seasonal cycle and what types of regulation are imposed upon it in achieving metamorphosis and emergence. Information was obtained through a program of larval population sampling and field observations throughout one year. It was found that I. posita was a univoltine, and possibly bivoltine summer species. Emergence was initiated in early spring, and adults were flying from early spring to late autumn. Emergence extended over most of the flying period. There was evidence of a second generation in the same year (bivoltine). The overwintering population appeared in a number of different sizes, and there was no indication of a diapause

At the altar of lares : domesticity and housekeeping in Caroline Howard Gilman's Recollections of a housekeeper ; and, Plainly written : openness, politeness, and indirect discourse in Jane Austen's Emma

"Caroline Howard Gilman's novel is an early example of domestic fiction which sought to promote the authority of the middle-class woman. This paper explores the ways in which housekeeping was used as a tool of domesticity and a measurement of value in a domestic-oriented society. Gilman's text explores domesticity as both a catalyst for positive change as well as a limitation to class mutability. In using indirect discourse in her novel, Emma, Jane Austen exposes and critiques aspects of manners relating to gender and class. Despite valuing openness over empty politeness, Austen balances exposure and betrayal in her novel: although Emma's faults are made clear, the narrative does not betray her or make her unlikable. Austen exposes a critique of conventional social behavior without marking herself out as a radical. The intricate nature of indirect discourse allows the narrative to be both straightforward and reserved, to interrogate without openly rebelling."--Abstract from author supplied metadata