Purpose of this Study: The purpose of this study was to explore the implementation of an integrated art and humanities project entitled " Paper Dolls" at the middle school level. The curriculum discussed in this paper is based primarily on Andrade's t . . .

Purpose of the Project: The purpose of this project was to secure funds for an experiential environmental career camp. As environmental challenges continue to increase, career opportunities and needs are shifting towards the green job market Youth are . . .

Purpose of the Study: In my thesis, I examine the role of Jewish women in British acculturation and political and civil emancipation efforts in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century. Histories written in the last hundred years on Jews in nine . . .

Purpose of the Study: The driving forces behind this research were my experiences as a teacher combined with my experiences as a participant learning mindfulness practices in a study at the University of California at San Francisco. I am interested in . . .

The inf1uence of landscape features and dispersal on the distribution, genetic structure and evolutionary history of a species has become an increasingly valuable component in phylogeographic studies and conservation biology. The California Giant Sala . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study 1s twofold: 1. to understand the larger historic context of progressive education in the United States and England in the past century in order to 2. understand the historical context in which the progre . . .

Abstract Climate change, resource depletion, and economic instability are conceivably the most pressing issues facing the world at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century. These challenges and the irrespective magnitudes are compounding . . .

Purpose of the Study: Alternative education students exhibit lower levels of academic motivation and lack access to positive social capital-building opportunities. This project examines the impact that the implementation of service-learning can have o . . .

Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to examine a simple means of identifying and treating students with convergence insufficiency in the Physical Education setting with the goal of eliminating or improving eye-teaming abnormalities rel . . .

This project-under the guise of deconstructing a city, beneath the lens of exploring articulations of space-asks language to answer for itself.

ABSTRACT Purpose of the Study: The purpose of my project is to re-examine the concept of sustainability on the local level within the context of oil and natural gas depletion. The intention is to build on current County sustainability efforts by compl . . .

Purpose: The Western gold rushes are often portrayed through sweeping statements and generalizations, many focusing largely on what has become the American institution of The Mining Camp: a bachelor society ripe with all the vice and violence of the f . . .

Purpose of the Study: The area encompassed within the boundaries of the Del Mar Ranch, or currently The Sea Ranch, has been largely ignored by historians of both Sonoma and Mendocino counties. There are two basic reasons for its neglect in county hist . . .

Framework and Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish whether the K-8 school setting could meet the educational needs of young adolescents who have been educated most recently in the history of American schooling in separate junior highs o . . .

Purpose of the Study: At the present time, California is known for its agricultural richness} but people should also know of the efforts and accomplishments of the early Japanese immigrants in the various fields of the state's agricultural development . . .

In my thesis, "A March of Complexities: Louisa May Alcott's Conflicted Response to Transcendentalism" in "Little Women", I explore Louisa May Alcott's both admiration for and frustration with her father Bronson Alcott's transcendentalism. I provide te . . .

Although large mammalian herbivores are known to have had large effects on the ecology and evolution of terrestrial plant communities, many herbivore populations have been dramatically reduced or extirpated from their pre-historic ranges due to huntin . . .

ABSTRACT Purpose of Study: To determine the role played by the Populists and the political development of the Peoples' Party in Sonoma County during the years of 1890-1896. Procedure: Research in the historical records of Sonoma County, the major publ . . .

ABSTRACT Purpose of the Study; Poor fruit set in Merlot occurs often in cool coastal climates such as the Napa Valley. The resulting low yields can decrease profits of both grape growers and wineries. This study was conducted in two parts. First, the . . .

ABSTRACT Purpose of the Project: Green building is the design and construction of buildings to minimize impacts on the natural environment as well as provide for healthy and comfortable interior environments for a building's occupants. Over the last 1 . . .

Purpose of the Project This Master's project involves designing and implementing an innovative outdoor environmental/environmental justice curriculum for a model program entitled Teen Eco Action. The place-based program is designed specifically for at . . .

In the past three decades the field of cultural resources management (CRM) has seen a rise in literature and initiatives geared towards public outreach and community engagement. This is primarily because archaeologists have recognized that effective a . . .

The Certified Local Government Program presents an opportunity for Sonoma to create an inventory of heritage resources that meets the requirements of the program, and is also a community-based project. The themes of civic engagement, community buildin . . .

Purpose of the Project: Rural Lake County is a geographically isolated and economically challenged county in Northern California. Options for healthy, fresh food are limited and a desire for organic and locally grown produce and processed foods is gro . . .

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place." -Washington Irvine The following piece of fic . . .

PURPOSE OF STUDY: Holocene landscape evolution has created significant biases in the nature and completeness of the archaeological record in much of California. Landscape changes include multiple cycles of deposition which have buried a substantial nu . . .

This paper seeks to explore the spiritual and moral heroic dynamics in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings through the Christian virtue of humble service. Examining the emerging Christian values in an arguably pagan world creates a dichotomy of her . . .

INTRODUCTION: Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Players have different skills for their positions; they must be able to maintain their physical performance at satisfactory levels to compete at elite levels. Although a large amount of data . . .

Purpose of the Project: The purpose of this project is to provide a curriculum guide for instructors of first or second year college American history, culture, and music students. After teaching this class for four years at the high school level, I ha . . .

Purpose of the Study: Garth St. Omer, a contemporary Caribbean author of novellas, develops many themes in his fiction that maybe found in fictional and philosophical writings by Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other French existentialists. This s . . .

Purpose: This study seeks to answer the following two questions: What social interactions in high school and college provide school-based social capital to first-generation Latino students? What school-based social capital is obtained by first-generat . . .

Field and greenhouse trials were conducted to assess the effects of Brassicaceous seed meals on weed growth and infectivity toward strawberry of the pathogen Macrophomina phaseolina, the causal agent of charcoal rot disease in strawberry cultivation. . . .

This project is an investigative inquiry into the implications of a compelling and inexplicable event: the sudden mass vanishing of billions of honeybees in what is now termed Colony Collapse Disorder. Use of a Heuristic framework engenders a deep exa . . .

Purpose of the Study: The years encompassing World War II represent a transitional period for California growers--a point at which the United States Government stepped in to ensure the survival of agribusiness farms by guaranteeing them an abundant su . . .

PURPOSE OF THESIS: The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) was established in 1934 by activists concerned over the preservation of natural landscapes and resources. The District currently has stewardship and management responsibilities for over 10 . . .

Purpose of the Study: This thesis project aims to understand how the use of a wiki for peer editing and revision, informal book discussions, and formal book club activities affects fourth and fifth graders' reading and writing experiences. Procedure: . . .

PURPOSE OF THESIS: The aims of this thesis are to provide Sonoma Land Trust with a cultural resources management plan that will fit neatly both into any regulatory framework that may become pertinent and with Sonoma Land Trust's mission and future pla . . .

Purpose of the Project: The purpose of this project is to document the cultural context and experiences of elder caregiving by Kenyan-Americans. From six narratives, the study explores these questions: What are the expectations of self and others in r . . .

Purpose of the Study: When students use language together to share and develop knowledge and meaning, they engage in linguistic processes that help them interpret, organize, and make sense of new information -processes that develop their theories of t . . .

Facilitation between plant species is increasingly recognized as a critical factor influencing the performance of individual plants and the dynamics of plant populations. Far fewer studies have considered the community-level consequences of facilitati . . .

Purpose of the Project: The purpose of this project is to display what I have discovered while researching student-centered learning. An appropriate way to show this is by highlighting the learning that takes place in a program that is student-centere . . .

Purpose of the Study: Classifying archaeological resources as nonrenewable has fostered an ethic demanding consideration by public agencies initiating potentially destructive activities. Consequently, modem archaeology is compliance driven. Compliance . . .

Purpose of the study: Cardiac Rehab programs help people recover from the physiological and psychological damage of a recent cardiovascular event through the education of patients about heart healthy lifestyle changes, lowering modifiable risk factors . . .

This thesis demonstrates that American individualism is a failed, alienating institution that continues to produce harmful effects upon the people of this country. Current rhetoric on identity and the myth of the American dream relies explicitly on Em . . .

This curriculum examines the reasons for the disproportionate rate of perpetration of sexual abuse within the Aboriginal community of Canada from a depth psychological perspective. Colonization left deep wounds within the first Nations of Canada. The . . .

PURPOSE OF THESIS: Interpretation is a form of education that encourages the public to appreciate cultural resources and commit to preserving them for future generations. Although there are laws, regulations, guidelines and policies that mandate or re . . .

In an age where modern technology and medical advances are improving quality of life, extending life expectancies, and improving the quality of health care around the world, the medical professional has become specialized. A new addition to the modern . . .

We conducted an incubation and rearing experiment to examine the effects of incubation temperature, sex, maternal size, and hatchling size on the growth trajectories of hatchling western pond turtles (Emys marmorata) for 25 weeks in captivity. 80 of t . . .

In the last decade a number of tragedies have taken place nationally which created a public perception that schools have become unsafe places for children. As a result, many states have adopted community oriented policing programs (COPS) that have led . . .

Purpose of Study: The goal of this thesis is to lay a strong foundation on which future research can build. To accomplish this goal I will create a synthesis of the Marin County archaeological data (excluding Point Reyes National Seashore), primarily . . .