Place and setting in the work of Sarah Orne Jewett

Although Sarah Orne Jewett's active career extended over thirty-four years, studies of her work have tended to ignore its chronological development, and in spite of the admitted importance of her settings relatively little attention has been given to their nature and function in her sketches. Her own comments make it obvious that she habitually worked from setting and character toward incident, and many of her remarks imply that setting suggested character as well. Since Jewett's native region has long been recognized as a major influence on her work, it is not surprising that she considered the places writers knew a major formative influence, and setting for her was an essential matrix generating both writer and story. Thus Jewett agreed with Eudora Welty's suggestion that place is basic to the validity, emotion, and perspective of fiction. Her relationship to her native Berwick, Maine, however, was less serene than many critics have realized, and to this emotional ambivalence must be added the ambiguity inherent in the relationship of real people to real places and of literary characters to their settings. This study demonstrates that Jewett's attitudes and emotions toward her settings are complicated, and the settings themselves are varied and complex. The places she depicts express and interact with her themes, provide a major source of interest in her stories, and supply clues, as they change, to her overall intellectual and emotional development

An assessment of the interest of executives of manufacturing firms in employer-sponsored child care centers

Women are entering the labor market in increasing numbers and remaining there even after the arrival of children in die family. If the mother is employed outside the home, arrangements must be made for the care of the children left at home. This study was designed to ascertain, by means of a questionnaire, whether or not industrial firms in North Carolina were providing child care facilities for the children of working mothers as an employee benefit and whether or not industrial firms would be interested in receiving information pertaining to a modular mobile child care center and its implications for use by industry. The firms chosen to receive the questionnaire were selected from the North Carolina Directory if Manufacturing Firms, 1968. The results revealed that only four firms were operating child care centers and that 60 per cent of the respondents indicated an interest in learning about the modular mobile center. The findings also indicated that a relationship existed between the number of female employees and the response to the questionnaire

Toward a behavioral contingency theory of security-related corruption control: understanding informal social controls

Information security is increasingly important to organizations, as security breaches are costly. Organizational insiders can be assets or vulnerabilities in the battle to secure information systems. However, organizational insiders’ security beliefs and behaviors are not well understood. In particular, little is known about how social influence affects insiders’ security behaviors, yet studies have shown that social influence is shown to be a strong predictor of security behavior. A deeper understanding of social influence is needed in the literature. Additionally, many security studies only examine a cross-sectional period with no concern for changes in beliefs and behaviors over time. Thus, little is known about how learning in previous life periods (e.g., childhood/adolescence and tenure at a previous job) influences insiders’ current security beliefs and behaviors. This study examines the influence that informal information security controls exert on the information security behaviors of organizational insiders. This study also identifies how perceptions of previous social learning experiences influence current security beliefs and behaviors. In particular, this dissertation highlights four security behaviors: security risk-taking behavior and security damaging behavior, and security compliant behavior and proactive security behavior. Through a qualitative study, a model of the effect of social learning on security behavior is developed. A quantitative test is then presented to further confirm the results of the qualitative study. Through the quantitative study, an initial exploration of social learning across national boundaries is also provided. The study also concerns itself with understanding how context influences information security beliefs and behaviors

Supreme Court rhetoric : explorations in the culture of argument and the language of the law

Perhaps nowhere in American life is the intersection of language, argumentation, and politics more intense, complex, and dynamic than in the written opinions issued by the United States Supreme Court. This study analyzes a small set of Supreme Court opinions in order to explore, from a rhetorical perspective, the genre of the Supreme Court opinion and the culture of argument as it is realized or symbolized in the texts. The analysis is grounded in the theoretical model of discourse developed by Walter H. Beale, as well as drawing eclectically on a variety of insights from figures such as Aristotle, Kenneth Burke, Michael Oakeshott, Richard M. Weaver, and James Boyd White. In Part One, Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) and McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) are examined as early examples of multiple-text and single-text opinions, respectively. The two cases suggest the range of generic possibilities in the writing of Supreme Court opinions. They also reveal the parameters of a rhetorical problem that has persisted throughout the Court's history: the conflict between the functions of the texts as deliberative forums and governmental instruments, between the individual roles of justices and their collective institutional identity, and between the justices' multiple voices and the Court's single judicial voice in a culture of argument

Re-mystifying the exhibition of medieval sacred objects

Through this study, I identify and ascertain contexts found within the medieval church, specifically focusing on the architectural experience of the Abbey of St.-Denis, and the design characteristics and features of three medieval objects, in order to see how museums can translate the messages of sacred medieval objects. In this work, I use theories of material culture and visual culture studies, museum practices, design observation and analysis to reveal a broader, conceptual way of applying curatorial and exhibition design practices. In addition, I rely heavily on a textual analysis of Abbot Suger's diary about St.-Denis to both provide a context for the artifacts under scrutiny and then to inspire contemporary curatorial and design practices. As objects shift from their place of origin to a museum setting, and then from one institution to another through museum loans and purchases, I posit that exhibit designers and curators must take great care in placement and display of these relics. Reverent and sacred presentation of inspirational and transcendent artifacts requires great sensitivity and scrutiny to translate both authentic context and material meaning for visitors. Of particular import, I show the connections between the medieval and contemporary worlds and the value inherent in the original contexts of objects as a catalyst for exhibition design. In doing so, I shed light to "re-mystify" the rich promise of artifacts to tell important stories in the museum, helping visitors to understand other worlds - and maybe more of their own - through meaningful exchange

A study of present practices in regard to the home experience projects of second and third year vocational homemaking pupils

For some time homemaking educators have shown interest in the use of the home experience project in teaching.1 Through it, the pupil under the guidance and supervision of her teacher has the opportunity to select, plan, carry out, and evaluate home projects which originate in or grow out of classwork. The North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction in its state plan for vocational education recognizes the importance of the home experience by stating: "Supervised home experiences shall be carried by each pupil in each semester of the vocational course."2 Obviously, this practical application of classroom learnings is of utmost importance for the development of the pupil and the teacher's evaluation of the pupils' progress and her own teaching

Ewe: For Brass Quintet

This work is a fusion of West African Drumming and Western Brass Quintet, with an emphasis on the Ewe people of Ghana. This project uses a standard Brass Quintet and takes secular and sacred melodies and rhythms but adds Western Classical harmonies on top of them. This project is a symbol of the universal properties of music across different regions

An investigation of middle school teachers' thinking about motivation

Motivation is an important topic of concern for teachers. A review of motivation research, though, revealed that students have been the focus of motivation research. When teachers have been included in studies, researchers have asked teachers to evaluate specific students, compared teacher and student perception of the same phenomena, or asked teachers to respond to their own a priori frameworks. Research on lay theories and teacher beliefs also yielded ideas important for this study. The purpose of this study was to explore teacher thinking about student motivation among middle school teachers. I designed a multi-method qualitative study to investigate teacher thinking about student motivation at the middle school level. In the first phase, I distributed a five-item, open-ended written questionnaire to teachers in two middle schools. The second phase of the study was a multiple case study of four teachers. Through interview and observation, I investigated each teacher's lay theory of motivation. Constant comparative analysis and a coding framework grounded in motivation research were used to analyze data. Teachers, I found, tend to define motivation in terms of expectancy. At the same time, they also tend to prioritize belonging over value and expectancy. These findings show that teachers, as a group, consider each domain to be important, and they understand the domains to interact and influence each other. Implications for teacher education, policy, and future research are discussed

Child care on the move : a modular mobile child care center

The number of mothers entering the labor market In the United States has increased steadily over the past decade. Providing adequate care for the children of these women is a societal problem. Child care services are expensive for the consumer and the provider of services. One of the largest initial items of expense is the cost of a facility. It was the purpose of this study to design, arrange for the manufacture of, equip with examples of appropriate educational materials, and exhibit to the public a modular mobile child care center that would be functional, esthetically appealing, economical, and also would meet local, state, and federal regulations pertaining to schools for young children. The study was designated Project Child Care

A study of space as an element in plastic design

The history of man is the story of an expanding universe. Between the very narrow concept of the universe held by primitive man and the cosmic concept that we hold today there lie centuries of slow but steady development. The desire to discover the physical units, and to attain to the spiritual limits of his universe has motivated countless excursions into the unknown and has gained for man a vast knowledge of the world in which he lives. "We possess today the most constructive and clear understanding of ourselves and our universe that man has ever held."1 Physically, our universe now knows no bounds. Man no longer seeks the limits of the seas or the continents; he knows already the measurements of the earth. It is rather towards the heavens that scientists turn their giant eyes to probe further the mysteries of the cosmos. Whether it is finite or infinite has not yet been determined but the vastness of the space already perceived, the complexity of the system in which groups of galaxies move with other groups and within other solar systems move with our own is an overwhelming phenomena