The Impact of Failure on Elementary School Pupils (open access)

The Impact of Failure on Elementary School Pupils

The purpose of this study was to compare a group of successful and unsuccessful pupils who were in the fifth and sixth grades. It was the purpose to make comparisons between these two groups in terms of (1) school achievement, (2) mental ability, (3) personality, (i|) pupils as perceived by teachers and peers, (5) pupils' perceptions of teacher and school, (6) self perception, (7) school attendance, and (8) socioeconomic status.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Briggs, L. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Emotional Stimulation on Recognition and Inference (open access)

Effect of Emotional Stimulation on Recognition and Inference

The purpose of this study was to make an assessment of the probable effects of extraneous stimulation on both cognitive achievement or learning, and emotional reactions and autonomic arousals of students. While the focus of interest was upon possible disruptive effects, the kinds of measurements projected would make it possible to observe some effects of either kind, disruptive or facilitative.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Haddan, Eugene E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Use of Mechanical Pacers in Teaching Intermediate and Advanced College Typewriting (open access)

An Evaluation of the Use of Mechanical Pacers in Teaching Intermediate and Advanced College Typewriting

The problem of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the use of a mechanical pacing device in improving the typewriting skills of students in intermediate and advanced typewriting classes at the college level.
Date: August 1966
Creator: McAnally, Emmett Oresta, 1925-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relative Effectiveness of the Inductive-Deductive and the Deductive-Descriptive Methods in the Teaching of College Zoology (open access)

The Relative Effectiveness of the Inductive-Deductive and the Deductive-Descriptive Methods in the Teaching of College Zoology

This study was concerned with making a comparative analysis of the relative effectiveness of two teaching methods in increasing students' (a) knowledge and understanding of principles, (b) ability in critical thinking, and (c) science reasoning and understanding in an introductory college zoology course. The two methods were (a) a laboratory-centered inductive-deductive method and (b) the more commonly found deductive-descriptive method organized as a large lecture section with smaller laboratory sections.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Craik, Eva Lee, 1919-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Distribution of Prepositions in English Adverbial Phrases (open access)

The Distribution of Prepositions in English Adverbial Phrases

This thesis describes the rules of prepositions in English adverbial phrases.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Patton, Judy S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Etymological Examination of Aelfric's "Passion of Saint Sebastian, Martyr" (open access)

An Etymological Examination of Aelfric's "Passion of Saint Sebastian, Martyr"

This study looks at Aelfric's "Passion of Saint Sebastian, Martyr" from an etymological perspective.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Henderson, Robert A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Goals of the Peace Corps (open access)

The Goals of the Peace Corps

Agencies such as the Peace Corps are by nature benevolent, which means they are devised for the expressed purpose of granting aid to other persons. In this case, the avowed purpose is aid for the underdeveloped nations of the world. However, politicians lodged in governmental authority are not humanistic solely for the sake of helping others; there are political aims to be gained. What these aims are and how they affect the operation of a youth corps for peace is a major concern of this thesis.
Date: January 1966
Creator: Thompson, Christine E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Aptitudes and Success in Vocational and Educational Pursuits (open access)

The Relationship between Aptitudes and Success in Vocational and Educational Pursuits

The problem of this study was to determine the relationships between aptitudes and vocational and educational success and between aptitudes and vocational proficiency.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Lewis, Harry Jackson, 1918-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Righteousness at Any Cost: A Study in the Thought of William Thomas Manning (open access)

Righteousness at Any Cost: A Study in the Thought of William Thomas Manning

This thesis is intended as a detailed examination of Dr. Manning's activities and statements concerning war and peace. It will show his importance as a leader of public opinion on matters of American international responsibility; as a leader of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the same area; and as one of the very few Christian spokesmen of the past decades who anticipated and encouraged America's slowly growing understanding of her place in the family of nations.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Seabrook, John H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of a Sample of County Welfare Families with a Record of Pregnancy Causing Increases in Welfare Expenditures (open access)

An Analysis of a Sample of County Welfare Families with a Record of Pregnancy Causing Increases in Welfare Expenditures

This is a study of families that had pregnancies while they were recipients or potential recipients of public assistance.
Date: June 1966
Creator: Hollingsworth, Bruce Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexico and Mexicans in the Fiction of Steinbeck, Morris, Traven and Porter (open access)

Mexico and Mexicans in the Fiction of Steinbeck, Morris, Traven and Porter

The purpose of this study is to investigate what seem to be the principal attitudes of Americans toward Mexico and Mexicans as expressed by four contemporary American authors, and to point out and evaluate salient features in their respective treatment of the subject.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Maass, Henry Eugene Lester
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Community Junior College: A Study of the Dallas County Junior College (open access)

The Community Junior College: A Study of the Dallas County Junior College

"The thesis is concerned with the intricacies and problems of community leadership in a metropolitan environment, and the work with a state governing agency that oversees all work done within its jurisdiction...The thesis consists of the history and function of the junior college movement in the United States, the history of Dallas County Junior College from the time it was just an idea up to March 15, 1966, and brief statement of the future course of this vast undertaking." -- leaf 1
Date: August 1966
Creator: Altick, Frank J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Private Group Influence in Public Policy Formulation: The Dallas Motion Picture Classification Ordinance of April 5, 1965 (open access)

Private Group Influence in Public Policy Formulation: The Dallas Motion Picture Classification Ordinance of April 5, 1965

This thesis is an account of the events surrounding the passage of the Dallas Motion Picture Classification Ordinance of April 5, 1965. A stalemate between two disputing private factions in the city leads to public policy in the form of a municipal ordinance. Litigation quickly follows, and in the final analysis, a judicial determination temporarily ends the controversy...This investigation reveals that the council did not formulate public policy of its own volition, but only acted as an extension of the private struggle which had lasted for approximately thirty-six months.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Gregory, Donald D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political and Social Significance in Selected Drama of Henry Fielding (open access)

Political and Social Significance in Selected Drama of Henry Fielding

The purpose of this thesis are to show that Fielding's dramas reflect the social and political abuses prevalent in England during the first four decades of the eighteenth century; to show through careful delineation of specific drams that those dramas led to repeated attempts by the Walpole Ministry to pass a licensing act; and to show that Fielding was seriously concerned about the political and social deterioration which he felt was occurring during the decade of the 1730's.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Rosenbalm, John O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Insurance Scandal: a Study of Inadequate Regulation (open access)

The Texas Insurance Scandal: a Study of Inadequate Regulation

Since to trace and examine all of the insurance companies that were involved in scandal and fraud would be far too extensive a task for this study, seven companies have been chosen for examination because they best illustrate the consequences of weak insurance regulation in Texas. In studying each company major emphasis has been given to the factors which contributed directly to the eventual receivership of the company.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Wolfskill, Walter G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mexican Military Movements in the Texas Revolution (open access)

Mexican Military Movements in the Texas Revolution

"This thesis describes the art of logistics practiced by Santa-Anna and his staff in the marches from Northern Mexico to San Jacinto and Goliad, and the subsequent withdrawal. The method, or methods, employed to keep such an army in fighting condition are analyzed as it moved slowly and uncertainly across the desert and semi-desert areas, over burnt-out prairies and flooding rivers. To obtain the most complete picture of the Mexican army's movements and needs, the letters and diaries of the outstanding Mexican participants were used. Whenever possible American sources were studied to substantiate any seemingly questionable information in the Mexican accounts...As this thesis is primarily concerned with logistics, battles are not covered in detail. In cases where a conflict between American and Mexican sources exists concerning any phase of the Mexican military movements during the Texan revolution, both sides are presented, and an attempt made to evaluate them objectively." -- leaf x.
Date: January 1966
Creator: Flannery, 'Tina
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Production Book for an Experimental Staging of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General (open access)

A Production Book for an Experimental Staging of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General

The January 17 and 18, 1966, thesis production presented at North Texas State University was an experimental production of The Inspector General, as based on historical, philosophical, and analytical study of both the play and the author, Nikolai Gogol. A thesis production consists of a written analysis and evaluation of the play and its author and the actual production of the play. The thesis production enables the candidate to illustrate his mastery of theatre discipline. The written portion demonstrates his ability to develop the concepts necessary to the production of a play, and the presentation of the play offers the candidate the opportunity to show his creativity and aesthetic understanding of theatre.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Peninger, John Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
George Eliot and the Evangelical Mind (open access)

George Eliot and the Evangelical Mind

Gordon Haight, in his biographical preface to the letters of George Eliot, states the "without her intimate knowledge of the Evangelical mind George Eliot would have lacked part of the experience on which her wide sympathy was founded." This thesis is an exploration of, a commentary on, Haight's remark.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Jones, Jesse C.
System: The UNT Digital Library