Junction City Photographer J.J. Pennell

A collection of historical images depicting scenes at Ft. Riley and Junction City with a biography of Joseph Judd Pennell

Relationships among Cognitive Style, Learning Style and Targeted Reading Skills

This study investigated the relationships among cognitive style, learning style and targeted reading skills. To determine the variables the sample, 18 college students, was given the Group Embedded Figures Test, an adaptation of the Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Styles Questionnaire, the McGraw-Hill Basic Skills System Reading Test, the LaPray-Ross Graded Word List, and a cloze passage. The test scores and subscores were computer analyzed to determine correlation coefficients. Significant results were found between cognitive style (field dependence/independence) and several of the targeted reading skills. No significant correlation was shown between cognitive style and learning style. Learning style did not correlate significantly with the targeted reading skills

Dielectric constants and pair interactions in polar molecules

Intermolecular interactions effect the physical properties of polar substances to varying degrees. One property for which there exists the possibility of separating out the various components of this interaction (pairs, triplets, etc.) is the total molar polarization of a substance. These effects are quite dependent upon temperature and pressure, so if one is going to make measurements over a large range of these variables, one must develop a system that is capable of handling the conditions. Along with this there must be the necessary instrumentation and other apparatus for measuring dielectric constants which define total molar polarization. In this thesis, the theory behind these measurements will be studied along with the necessary equipment. Also, since one molecule which shows very interesting intermolecular effects is hydrogen fluoride, there will be some investigation into the problem in handling such a corrosive material and the preparation of its isotope, deuterium fluoride, for measurements of the effect of isotopic substitution

Book Review: On Fire

Larry Schwarm grew up on a farm in south-central Kansas, received an M.F.A. degree from the University of Kansas, and since 1988 has taught photography in the art department at Emporia State University, located in the Flint Hills of east-central Kansas, a remarkable geographical and topographical feature, where rolling hills extend for miles at a time, with no trees, fences, roads, or structures to impede them. On these hills is the largest remaining stand of the tallgrass prairie that once covered the eastern Great Plains. This land is now used for grazing, and each spring ranchers light fires to the dead remains of the last season\u27s grass, burning it off to keep back trees and weeds, while creating fertile conditions for new growth grass, whose tender shoots will nourish cattle grazed there

Book Review: On Fire

Larry Schwarm grew up on a farm in south-central Kansas, received an M.F.A. degree from the University of Kansas, and since 1988 has taught photography in the art department at Emporia State University, located in the Flint Hills of east-central Kansas, a remarkable geographical and topographical feature, where rolling hills extend for miles at a time, with no trees, fences, roads, or structures to impede them. On these hills is the largest remaining stand of the tallgrass prairie that once covered the eastern Great Plains. This land is now used for grazing, and each spring ranchers light fires to the dead remains of the last season\u27s grass, burning it off to keep back trees and weeds, while creating fertile conditions for new growth grass, whose tender shoots will nourish cattle grazed there

The Spring Street Church in the Age of Abolition

This study profiles the Spring Street Presbyterian Church in antebellum New York City as an integrated congregation active in the local abolitionist movement. It is framed against the rapid economic and social changes taking place within New York and the immediate neighborhood of the Eighth Ward during the early 19th century. Research focuses on religious antislavery during the Second Great Awakening and the place occupied by the Spring Street congregation as led by three of its antislavery pastors: Samuel H. Cox (1820-1825), Henry G. Ludlow, (1828-1837), and William Patton, (1837-1847). The study argues that Spring Street was a uniquely activist antislavery congregation over an extended period of time. Its participation within the public sphere was influenced by pastoral leadership, a history of racially integrated membership, and a reputation that attracted an activist membership