The Effect of an Expressed Level of Aspiration in Determining Performance on a Subsequent Task (open access)

The Effect of an Expressed Level of Aspiration in Determining Performance on a Subsequent Task

There have been few investigations employing the level of aspiration as a motivational independent variable. The problem of the present study was to investigate the effect of an expressed level of aspiration on a subsequent level of performance on a cancellation task and to relate this effect to socio-economic classifications.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Hafner, Bruce W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
George Perkins and the Progressive Party : a Study of Divergent Goals (open access)

George Perkins and the Progressive Party : a Study of Divergent Goals

This study will focus on the role of George Perkins in the development and decline of the Progressive Party. Theodore Roosevelt is often at the center of this story for the Bull Moose and the Progressives were closely intertwined. Ultimately, the inconsistencies of the master-politician Roosevelt and the detrimental influence of Perkins contributed to the downfall of the Progressive Party of 1912.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Cobelle, Pete W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Description and Analysis of Selected Demographic and Socio-economic Characteristics of United States Manufacturing and Retail Trade Cities : 1950 and 1960 (open access)

A Description and Analysis of Selected Demographic and Socio-economic Characteristics of United States Manufacturing and Retail Trade Cities : 1950 and 1960

This is a descriptive study of functional specialization in cities and its relation to certain social, economic and demographic variables.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Heathington, Ronald W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Victorian Ideology and British Children's Literature, 1870-1914 (open access)

Victorian Ideology and British Children's Literature, 1870-1914

In many nations, children's literature is a propaganda element for society. The structure of society, both real and imagined, and the composition of the immature mind make children's literature, both good and bad, a method by which to shape future citizens. Through studying the literature of a particular period and in one country, the relationship between children's literature and the history of the times and the ideals of the adults of that age is made clearer. Literature for the young is a record of the spirit of the times.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Trugman, Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Direction of Aggression and Group Conformity of Policemen, Narcotic-Addicts, and Seventh Day Adventists as Measured by the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study (open access)

The Direction of Aggression and Group Conformity of Policemen, Narcotic-Addicts, and Seventh Day Adventists as Measured by the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study

The present study was an attempt to measure the direction of aggression among three diverse groups, namely, policemen, narcotic-addicts and Seventh Day Adventists. The second aspect of this investigation was to determine the group conformity tendencies of the three basic groups. The Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study was used as the measuring instrument.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Gerlach, Herman
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elements of Old English Prosody in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (open access)

Elements of Old English Prosody in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

This thesis attempts to explain the Anglo-Saxon influence on Hopkins's poetry by providing a biographical study of his life to determine when he acquired knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Youngblood, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": Critical Commentary, 1798-1968 (open access)

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": Critical Commentary, 1798-1968

The new elements in "The Ancient Mariner" were partly responsible for the unfavorable early reviews which vary much from the high praise the poem receives today. The purpose of this study is to record critical opinion of the poem from the contemporary reviews of 1798 to the intensive critical analysis of the 1960's.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Schlueter, Helen V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Indian Figure in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and William Gilmore Simm's The Yemassee (open access)

The Indian Figure in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and William Gilmore Simm's The Yemassee

Though it is important to establish the authenticity of Cooper's and Simm's thematic and historical Indians, it is more important to show that the writers were accurate in their delineation of the customs, personalities, and thoughts of the Indian tribes represented in the two books.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Maness, Ella Mae
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Verbal Reinforcement on the Behavior of Mild and Moderate Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Children (open access)

The Effects of Verbal Reinforcement on the Behavior of Mild and Moderate Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Children

The present study is an effort to investigate some of the pertinent implications, principles, and postulates revealed by learning theorists, specifically McCandless, using mentally retarded children as subjects.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Wheat, Darryl G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Recent Developments in the Sociological Perspective of Socialization (open access)

Some Recent Developments in the Sociological Perspective of Socialization

The primary significance of this inquiry is as a contribution to the continuing effort to categorize socialization studies and thereby to make more useful the accumulation of empirical knowledge in the field. This thesis presents a summary of sociological studies of socialization in the 1960's. It reviews articles published between January 1, 1960 and December 31, 1967.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Vlahon, Steven R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Frustration and Quest in the Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot (open access)

Frustration and Quest in the Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

A careful examination of the creative writing of T. S. Eliot reveals that his poetry can be divided for purposed of consideration into two phases. The first phase refers to those poems written up to and including "The Hollow Men". These early poems can best be grouped together and characterized by the term frustration. The poetry of the second phase, written after "The Hollow Man," is dominated by and best considered in regard to a quest for the ideal.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Parker, Donald G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Puromycin and Electroconvulsive Shock on Retention of Shock Avoidance Training in the Goldfish (open access)

The Effect of Puromycin and Electroconvulsive Shock on Retention of Shock Avoidance Training in the Goldfish

In general, the objective of the present study was to incorporate some of the new psycho-biological approaches, with the theories propagating their use, in studying the phenomena of long-term memory in the goldfish.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Trevino, James Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Saxophone: Its Development and use in the Orchestra (open access)

The Saxophone: Its Development and use in the Orchestra

The purpose of this study is to trace the invention and development of a greatly abused instrument, the saxophone, and its use in the symphony orchestra. The first chapter concerns the instrument's invention and acceptance. The second chapter discusses physical characteristics of the saxophone. The third chapter deals with the particular methods of using the saxophone in orchestral literature by various composers, from its use in the nineteenth century through the present. An appendix provides a comprehensive listing of orchestral literature in which the saxophone is utilized.
Date: May 1969
Creator: McFarland, Randall R. (Randall Roberts)
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Organization, Administration and Effectiveness of the Library Bookbindery at North Texas State University (open access)

A Study of the Organization, Administration and Effectiveness of the Library Bookbindery at North Texas State University

"This is a study to determine the effectiveness of the organization, administration, and implementation of the bookbindery at North Texas State University Library..."--1.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Smith, Gene D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evolution of the Executive Offices of the Continental Navy (open access)

Evolution of the Executive Offices of the Continental Navy

This study consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 is a study of the motives and intent of Congress in creating a navy. Chapters 2 and 3 examine the operations conducted by the Marine Committee, Chapter 2 being devoted to its early operations and Chapter 3 to its later operations. Chapters 4 and 5 examine, in turn, the work of the Board of Admiralty and the Agency of Marine.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Prather, Charles T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
British Opponents of the Great War (open access)

British Opponents of the Great War

The intensely divided but vocal minority that denounced Great Britain's declaration of war in 1914 and decried Britain's continuance in the war illustrated both the strengths and weaknesses of their nation's politics and the impotence of dissent against a majority united in arms.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Odom, Sue Kirby
System: The UNT Digital Library