This thesis is an examination of how Chicago came to be the site of the 1983 Columbian Exposition, focusing on the factors of partisanship and sectionalism.

This study investigated the effect of visual feedback of the self upon the self-concepts of five educable mentally retarded (EMR) adolescent boys. The central question that the study investigated was, "Can films of EMR adolescents and the visual feedb . . .

This study will attempt to measure the vocational interest patterns of Pre-Technology students who attend a Richmond, California high school; further, it will attempt to determine if there is a relationship between the success of these students in the . . .

The purpose of the study detailed in this thesis was to investigate the differences between early and later enterers seven years after admission to kindergarten without adjusting for intelligence, then to reexamine the age groups with intelligence hel . . .

This paper analyzes the emergence, development, and future of Chinese new media, especially the Internet, through discussing the restrictions that Chinese media faced under the Kaiserism of the Chinese government in both old and new China. It will add . . .

By closely reading several of Wordsworth's more famous poems written prior to the completion of The Prelude, one can follow the significant development of his spiritual consciousness. This viewpoint also offers a fresh understanding of Wordsworth's ex . . .

Every Friday and Saturday night a short length of thoroughfare in San Leandro is jammed with kids and cars. About seven-thirty in the evening they begin to arrive, driving their polished and modified cars down the street to a particular intersection w . . .

This is a participant observation case study of an elementary school in Japan. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how Japanese elementary schools emphasize moral and social development as well as academic achievement. For this purpose, the J . . .

Wilderness is a concept: it is an idea about the qualities of a particular type of place and about the relationship we have with that place-type. What is the meaning of the wilderness concept in the American context, and what values are attached to it . . .

Children hold significant roles in most of Flannery O'Connor's fiction, yet critics rarely address her works in comparative discussions of child images in literature. This thesis is an examination of the children who appear as characters in O'Connor's . . .

This study investigated the subject of stress from an interdisciplinary orientation with the intent of formulating a premise as to what motivates people to pursue behaviors which, based on their predisposing relationship to illness and mortality stati . . .

In this thesis, the author examines four existing methods of stringed instrument instruction, noting that all four methods contain quality materials that help to develop musical technique and performance. However, the author believes that these method . . .

This thesis documents a study intended to investigate how police officers can benefit from training in the area of psychological counseling. The study examines how police departments teach officers new behaviors that might provide a new approach to ad . . .

This thesis details the composition of a new work for wind ensemble entitled "Flurry Above the Clouds." The complete score is included in the work.

Laboratory experiments were performed to adapt a catalytic colorimetric method to continuous flow analysis for the shipboard determination of iron(III) in seawater. System parameters such as reagent concentrations, reaction temperature, flow rate, . . .

The main purpose of this study is to show how heroism and leadership codes can be used in conjunction with myth and drama to craft new heroic leaders in society linguistically. This can be broken into three parts. The first purpose is to outline th . . .

The intent of this study was to develop and examine a school and home coordinated program to promote the reading achievement of first grade students. The specific objective was to assess a Reading Activity Kit used by first grade students at home . . .

This thesis examines the symbolism in aspects of environment and other background elements in the works of Charles Dickens. Phenomena such as the weather, rural landscapes, urban landscapes, factories and machines, and fire serve as symbols that revea . . .

This study used the Integrated Play Group model (Wolfberg and Schuler, 1992) to assess whether creating peer play groups for students with severe disabilities would increase the number of interactions between students with severe disabilities and the . . .

Elevated arsenic concentrations were detected in groundwater monitoring wells and a test well boring beneath the western portion of the Livermore Valley Basin in Pleasanton, California during regular sampling events in 1997. The source of the arseni . . .

This thesis is an investigation into the treatment of the myth of the American dream in two very different works from near opposite ends of the twentieth century that illuminates the central importance of the myth in America. The author uses a Marxi . . .

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 106 requires that companies accrue the expenses for nonpension postretirement benefits. The focus of this thesis is to examine the impact of SFAS No. 106 on companies and their employees. Particular att . . .

Nitrate loading is a pervasive water quality problem in the Salinas Valley due to its rich agricultural history. Row crops, including strawberries and lettuce, are grown in the area immediately surrounding the drinking water supply well that is the . . .

This thesis details the author's attempt to answer the question, "Whatever became of political science?"

The shallow-marine San Pablo Group in the hills east of San Francisco Bay, California, was deposited while the Pacific-North American plate margin was evolving from a convergent boundary to a transform margin at this latitude in middle to late Mioc . . .

The Achievement Gap in education exists on multiple levels, and tens of thousands of children of Latino immigrants find themselves at the lower end of the Achievement Gap in several categories: Latino ethnicity, economically disadvantaged, English L . . .

The purpose of this study was to document the reproductive phase of the life history of Taricha torosa, particularly the migration to and from the breeding pond. Twitty (1966) conducted a similar study with Taricha rivularis. He removed individual . . .

This thesis is an examination of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck.

Many English composition classrooms today are comprised of a mix of learners, notably in the culturally diverse region of the San Francisco Bay Area. At California State University, East Bay, for example, classes may include L1 and Generation 1.5 stud . . .

This thesis is an analysis of the author's composition, "String Quartet No. 1." The complete score is included in the work.

Between Redwood Valley and Potter Valley a range of hills rises 1000' above the valley floors. Three units have been mapped and described in these hills, which were previously mapped as undifferentiated rocks of the Central belt of the Franciscan Comp . . .

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a significant difference resulted in the spatial task performance of elementary school students who received vocal music training, versus those students in an attention placebo group who received . . .

The purpose of this research project is to develop a straightforward and cost-effective methodology that skilled geographic information system (GIS) users within local governments and nonprofit organizations can use to identify sites that have the gr . . .

The purpose of the research carried out for this thesis was to determine the impact and effectiveness of an intergenerational instructional model to improve family literacy. The particular model studied was home-based. A trained volunteer tutor me . . .

The purpose of this research is to bring an understanding of how nuclear tourism was and is perceived by the American population and has been incorporated into popular culture. This research chronicles how Americans feared nuclear, then embraced it, . . .

The metabolic syndrome is a condition that is characterized by a clustering of factors including insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, central obesity, and/or hypertension. This syndrome has no known cause but a dysfunctional renin angiotensin system (RAS . . .

Herpes simplex virus type II DNA subfragment Bam HI-E transforms immortalized rat cells to a complete tumorigenic phenotype. Southern blots showed that Bam HI-E hybridized to specific cellular DNA sequences, and that some of these sequences become . . .

This thesis details the author's internship with BlueWater Network, which involved applied anthropological fieldwork on the social organization of the Anti-Ford Campaign. The focus of the internship/thesis is on the political-ecological interaction be . . .

The Net-Media Composer is a unique art installation that dynamically extracts information from the web and lets users create multimedia artwork on an interactive table. This multimedia project demonstrates the effect that technology advancements hav . . .

This thesis consists of a work of fiction by the author in three parts, entitled: "Mellow Maui," "Three Fathers," and "One Mother."

In this study I used seismic refraction techniques to investigate two sites on active right-lateral strike-slip fault zones in the San Francisco Bay Area. I designed detailed refraction surveys near Mason Road on the Green Valley fault and at Tyson’s . . .

This thesis examines the origins and the experience of the identity of twice migrants: the Indo-Fijians of California, more specifically of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay area, who left Fiji between the years of 1950 and 2000. The complexity o . . .

Cash flow from operations (CFO) is an important component in the statement of cash flows. It is viewed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board and many users of the financial statements as a good indicator of whether a company will be in financi . . .

The C-value paradox, which is the lack of correlation between genome size and organism complexity, was the focus in many early studies of the genome. The "paradox" has now been resolved and can be explained by the presence of transposable elements. Tr . . .

This thesis analyzes the conquest of the California territory by the United States through a study of the response of the Californios, the Hispanic inhabitants of the region. The goal of the thesis is to establish that in spite of the Californios' mil . . .

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether children show the same gender differences in their speech patterns as those observed in adults in previous research. The speech patterns of interest are the "feminine" speech forms elaborated by . . .

This thesis is a study in cultural landscape focused on Ballard, Washington, a "neighborhood community" of Seattle. The author's research was designed to answer three questions, first: How Norwegian is Ballard and how do I know that? Second: How is B . . .

The argument in this paper is that such an environment has not been created; that economic integration has not led to fair or equal benefits; and that cooperation and accommodation have not replaced conflict as a method for settling disputes. The . . .

This study investigates the subsistence strategies revealed by the faunal remains from Yema-po (CA-Ala-423H). The site, which is situated in rural surroundings near San Leandro, California, was occupied by Chinese workers building the Lake Chabot . . .

This thesis describes a study that examines the following questions: (1) What is the validity of the Parent Perception Inventory (PPI) in assessing children's perceptions of positive and negative parental behaviors; and (2) Are Hispanic children's sco . . .