(A) critical introduction to the book of Isaiah.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

The Impact of Community Based Adventure Therapy on Stress and Coping Skills in Adults.

Stress and coping skills are among the most essential components of the mental health counseling field. The use of coping skills (e.g., meditation, physical activities, appropriate uses of leisure) has been identified as an effective strategy for stress management. Adventure therapy has emerged as a modality that can positively augment other therapeutic approaches by improving coping skills and assisting clients in managing stress. As with all therapies, a positive working alliance has been found to be important toward achieving clinical outcomes. This study explored how adventure therapy enhanced learned coping strategies for stress and improved therapeutic alliance. Outcomes from this exploratory research highlighted the potential of adventure therapy to decrease stress, increase coping skills, and build therapeutic rapport with the therapist

Who Owns Taiwan: A Search for International Title

The question of sovereignty over Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores), avoided for nearly thirty years, can no longer be deferred, for the radical shifts and sudden realignments in Far Eastern politics have thrust the controverted status of the island-state into the political foreground. The international legal issue has been joined over the sufficiency of China\u27s claim to the islands. Despite an intervening civil and domestic ideological war, that claim has been remarkably consistent, whether pressed by adherents of the Nationalist or Communist cause. Indeed, Nationalist and Communist Chinese share an identity of interest here: Nationalist China has supported Communist China\u27s pretensions to territory, while Peking has confirmed Nationalist aspirations, if only to claim benefit as the successor state

Microwave Ionization of an Atomic Electron Wave Packet

A short microwave pulse is used to ionize a lithium Rydberg wave packet launched from the core at a well-defined phase of the field. We observe a strong dependence on the relative phase between the motion of the wave packet and the oscillations of the field. This phase dependent ionization is also studied as a function of the relative frequency. Our experimental observations are in good qualitative agreement with a one-dimensional classical model of wave packet ionization

Microwave Ionization of an Atomic Electron Wave Packet

A short microwave pulse is used to ionize a lithium Rydberg wave packet launched from the core at a well-defined phase of the field. We observe a strong dependence on the relative phase between the motion of the wave packet and the oscillations of the field. This phase dependent ionization is also studied as a function of the relative frequency. Our experimental observations are in good qualitative agreement with a one-dimensional classical model of wave packet ionization