Historical and geographical development of education in Vincennes city and Vincennes township

Not available.Clarence HowertonNot ListedNot ListedMaster of ScienceDepartment Not ListedCunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana State University.isua-thesis-1947-howertonMastersTitle from document title page. document formatted into pages: contains 64p : ill. Includes bibliography

Who Shot The Colonel?: Pinkerton Agent Stands Accused Of A Crime He Was Sent To Prevent

A Killing at Ball\u27s Bluff is the second installment in Michl Kilian\u27s Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery series. Kilian, Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and veteran mystery writer, has chosen to set his historical fiction series around significant battles and som...

A Comparison of Postural Stability in Gymnasts, Volleyball Players, and Non-Athletes

Balance and postural stability are crucial elements in daily activities and the training of athletes. Volleyball requires the athlete to be capable of regaining balance after jumping and landing. Gymnastics requires the athlete to have focus on multiple aspects of balance during the execution of a skill. Current literature has examined age, comparison of certain sports to other sports, and children in athletics, all with regards to postural stability. Current literature has shown that there is a correlation between balance training and increase of performance and decrease in injuries (Oliver & Di Brezzo, 2009). This research assessed the balance systems of athletes to determine if there is a relationship between two types of sports and balance function. The comparison of athletes to non-athletes indicated whether athletes have greater postural stability, the comparison of gymnasts to volleyball players indicated whether gymnasts have increased postural stability over volleyball players. A videonystagmography (VNG) and posturography assessment were used to evaluate postural stability. The VNG examines eye movement to check for possible vestibular dysfunction. The posturography assessment measures the participant’s center of pressure in five conditions, eyes open and closed on a rigid surface, eyes open and closed on a compliant surface, and limits of stability. Twenty participants, 6 gymnasts, 6 volleyball players and 8 non-athletes, were tested using the VNG and posturography equipment. There is insignificant statistical difference of postural stability between gymnasts, volleyball players and non-athletes

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Gender differences in coping: Implications for depression and crime

It is a common cultural belief that women employ emotion and passive focused coping methods more frequently than men. Likewise, most empirical evidence supports the idea that women are more likely to cope by modifying their emotional responses to stress, whereas males most often use and are more proficient with the problem solving approach (Billings and Moos 1984; Endler and Parker 1990; Milkie and Thoits 1993; Pearlin and Schooler 1978; Stone and Neale 1984). Despite considerable theoretical and empirical attention to these issues, there are still several gaps that remain in our understanding of the ways in which gender and coping interact, and, the implications of these processes. It is often suggested, for instance, that emotion-focused coping is maladaptive. The common assumption in nearly all of the coping literature is that emotion-focused coping is inferior to approach/problem oriented strategies, though there is little definitive evidence to confirm this speculation. Drawing from social psychological theories of stress and strain, I sought to build on earlier approaches to gender and coping by applying the stress process model to both mental health and criminological outcomes. Based on a representative sample of 1,803 young adults in Miami-Dade County, Florida, I examined the extent to which there were gender differences in coping styles: problem focused, emotion focused, and avoidance focused (Endler and Parker 1990). In addition, I examined the extent to which potential gender differences in coping styles could be explained by gender differences in chronic strain. I also examined the extent to which gender differences in depression and crime could be explained by gender differences in coping, net of chronic strain. Finally, I examined whether the effects of the different coping styles on outcomes of depression and crime were different for young women and men. Overall, the results of this dissertation suggested somewhat complex relationships among gender, coping, chronic strain, and stress outcomes in young adulthood. In general, some of my findings reaffirm what previous researchers have found, and some, contradict prior research. Overall, the young women in this sample were more inclined towards internalizing disorders, such as depression, while the men had higher levels of criminal behavior. With adjustment for socioeconomic status, there were no gender differences in the use of problem focused coping, which suggests that structural forces play an enormous role in the choice of coping strategies. Female respondents were much more likely to employ emotion-oriented strategies than the male respondents, but it appears that this is not fundamentally harmful for females as prior work has suggested. That is, the effects of using emotion focused coping strategies, such as the expression of feelings, increased depression for men, but not for women. Conversely, avoidance focused coping, a coping style that females used more frequently, increased predicted levels of depression and crime for both women and men. Similar to problem focused coping, socioeconomic status and exposure to chronic strain mediated some of the relationship between gender and avoidant focused coping such that women with the lowest resources and highest exposure to chronic strain were more likely to cope by avoidance. Nevertheless, women were still more likely to cope by avoidance than the men were, which suggests that socialization factors might have an influence on coping styles

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Understanding the Facilitator Role in a Latino Sexual Risk Reduction Program in Eastern North Carolina

North Carolina is a region of the country in need of sexual risk reduction (SRR) programs for Latino adolescents. In 2013, ¡Cuídate!, an evidence-based SRR program, was tested with Mexican and Central American youth in eastern NC. The program was implemented in the school-based health center of a middle school and a high school. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to understand the role of the community facilitator in delivering Cuidate!. Interviews were conducted with three community facilitators two years post-program intervention. Content analysis was used and a consensus was reached among three research team members. We identified four areas for future program implementation. The first, program sustainability, indicated the important role of the school and staff, and the cultural relevance of the program. The second, programimprovements, included bringing in parents and community partners, more time for specific activities, follow-up with students, and on-going facilitator mentoring. The third, training activities, included training in classroom management, cultural knowledge, and adolescent development. The fourth area, facilitator qualifications, included creating a non-judgmental atmosphere through familiarity and trust, and comfort with sexual health and culture. Results emphasize the importance of the role of the facilitator in successful program implementation.B.S

Assimilation’s Role in the Treatment of Native Girls at Federal Indian Boarding Schools

The purpose of this paper is to explore what role assimilation played in the education of Native girls, like my grandmother, who attended federal Indian boarding during the late 1800s through the early 1900s when federal boarding schools were most active. While Richard Henry Pratt sold the idea of federal boarding schools to the United States as a way to assimilate Natives into White culture, this paper will argue through the analysis of the Carlisle Indian School that the federal boarding schools’ true purpose was to eliminate the tribes by turning Native girls against them and using that control to create a second-class domestic workforce. To do this, I will explore five facets of the girls’ experiences in those schools: changing the external appearance of the girls, the outing system, how the students were pitted against each other, the financial burden the schools were under, religious indoctrination, and comparing and contrasting Native girls with White girls’ expectations. The research used in this paper includes secondary sources accessed through online journal archives and primary sources from a digital archive on Carlisle Indian School that include newspapers, letters, and telegrams. I focused on the Carlisle Indian School the most because as the government created more of the boarding schools across the country, they used Pratt’s as a base model. Thus, it explores what Native girls had to endure in the name of assimilation and brings light to a topic that has been shied away from in the national eye

Experiments in Painting

This report is a summation of an experiment to find the most creative approach for the writer in painting with watercolor. The research comes entirely from actual experiences and through experiments with the medium. Several approaches or methods of beginning a watercolor have been tried and analyzed following their completion