The impetus for this study evolved out of my scholarship in the areas of rhetoric and business management. In spite of the overall good feeling that in the twenty-first century women are working and procuring jobs in ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of music and reminiscence on the mood of persons who are elderly with dementia. Ten participants who resided in a nursing home were randomly assigned to one of three ...

Early American women rhetoricians wrote, published, and edited essential texts that contribute to American rhetoric; however, many of these texts have been overlooked and lost. This dissertation reclaims, remaps, and ...

In this paper a mathematical model of a biological waste cleaning plant is created and investigated. The model is described by a nonlinear system of two differential equations with one bounded control. An optimal control ...

New α,β-unsaturated hydroximoyl chlorides and hydroximates were synthesized and characterized. 13C NMR, 1H NMR, IR and elemental analysis were determined for each new compound. The kinetics of methoxide ion substitution ...

This study examines the rhetorics employed by school founder and civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961). "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible" signifies the complexities and contradictions inherent ...

Growing up in an immigrant family in America is a challenge for individuals, for they face the dilemma of abandoning their cultural identity through assimilation into the mainstream Anglo-American culture. Pat Mora, a ...

This dissertation examines how the term back-to-basics became a metaphor that drove a decade's conversations about teaching writing. It traces how political ruminations about the state of education affected the public's ...

Throughout history, religion and literature have offered patterns that allow people to acquire an understanding of the individual and his or her role within society as well as the universe. In the three novels of his Border ...

This dissertation presents an exploratory study of the interrelationships among Chinese fundamental modes of traditional thinking, linguistic features, and rhetorical patterns that are relevant to the understanding of ...