Analysis of Certain Wealth in Texas to Determine Possible Sources of Taxation for Educational Purposes (open access)

Analysis of Certain Wealth in Texas to Determine Possible Sources of Taxation for Educational Purposes

This study revelaed that the rank of Texas with other state in the United States in the expenditure for schools per pupil is thrty-fifth. It further discussed that there are possible sources of taxation in the properties. However, there is a wide variation that needs to be studied. It further justify that present administrative and legislative trends in searching for new source of taxation makes the problem an important one.
Date: August 1937
Creator: Hedgpeth, Armo T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Legal Authority and Limitations of Teachers Contracts (open access)

The Legal Authority and Limitations of Teachers Contracts

The purpose of this study is to determine the nature and characteristics of the contractual relathionship between boards of education and public school teachers. The purpose is also to determine by analysis of a group of contract forms the nature of the stipulations found in the average contract.
Date: August 1938
Creator: Bryant, Alton Morris
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Tenure (open access)

Teacher Tenure

This study examines teacher tenure and the effect it has on education, children, and the public in order to determine whether or not legislation is needed.
Date: August 1938
Creator: White, W. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Aid to Education (open access)

Federal Aid to Education

This thesis measures the degree to which the Federal Government has assisted formal education for children in the united States.
Date: August 1938
Creator: Wood, Andrew J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Certification of Teachers in Texas (open access)

The Certification of Teachers in Texas

This study examines the developmental history of teacher's certifications in Texas as a means to highlight needed improvements.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Lowe, Frank, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Political Career of Carl Schurz, 1868-1888 (open access)

An Analysis of the Political Career of Carl Schurz, 1868-1888

Carl Schurz, appearing on the American political stage during a period of great change, felt the influence of human events as he formulated his political thinking. He also was affected by his German birth, education, and revolutionary activity before his immigration to the United States. Indeed, it appears that much of his political thought was reaction to existing circumstances or events rather than pure contemplative thinking.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Palmer, Edwin D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government and the Housing of the Indigent Aged of Dallas--Possibilities and Actualities (open access)

Government and the Housing of the Indigent Aged of Dallas--Possibilities and Actualities

National aid, transmitted and modified by the state and supplemented by the community, is only beginning to be specifically applied to the housing needs of the indigent aged. It is to the question of government's role in the housing of this element of the population that this study is addressed.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Smith, Stephen Neil
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Political Theories of José Ortega y Gasset (open access)

The Political Theories of José Ortega y Gasset

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the complete writings of Ortega, bringing together the recurring themes in his works as they relate to politics and political theory, and describing them in systematic form.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Thomas, William Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Administrative and Judicial Evolution of the Occupational Disease Concept in Workmen's Compensation Legislation (open access)

Administrative and Judicial Evolution of the Occupational Disease Concept in Workmen's Compensation Legislation

The purpose of this study is to examine the theory of workmen's compensation, tracing its historical development and showing how the law evolved in the United States. Pertinent statutes and administrative and judicial decisions will be given to the evolution of the theory of compensable occupational diseases. Following an analysis of the occupational disease concept and the significance of this concept in modifying the basic theory, an effort will be made to evaluate the effect of this concept upon the meaning of the laws.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Hyde, Peter D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Certain Aspects of International Narcotics Law Enforcement 1949-1959 (open access)

An Analysis of Certain Aspects of International Narcotics Law Enforcement 1949-1959

This thesis is an analysis of aspects of international narcotics law enforcement from 1949-1959.
Date: August 1960
Creator: Dickson, James Galen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Khrushchev and Socialist Realism: a Study of the Political Control of Soviet Literature, 1960-1963 (open access)

Khrushchev and Socialist Realism: a Study of the Political Control of Soviet Literature, 1960-1963

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the topic of political control of literature within the Soviet Union. The specific scope of this examination includes an investigation of Nikita S. Khrushchev and his utilization of socialist realism as one of the primary methods of literary control during the period, 1960-1963. A study of literature and its political control will demonstrate the important and dynamic roles which the political control of literature fulfills in the political system.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Sanders, Harold R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The City of Denton Computer Installation: A Study of Conversion in a Medium-Sized Municipality (open access)

The City of Denton Computer Installation: A Study of Conversion in a Medium-Sized Municipality

It will be the purpose of this thesis to describe and analyze the events and factors which shaped installation of the first electronic data processing system acquired by the City of Denton, Texas--a "medium-sized" municpal organization operating under the council-manager plan. Because the environment may have some degree of effect upon such an effort within the public sector, a certain amount of space will be given over to description of the community as a geographic location, as an aggregation of people engaged in varied activities, and, by implication, as a background for the operation of a municipal government.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Joyce, John W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Input Model for Foreign Policy Crisis Decision-Making (open access)

Input Model for Foreign Policy Crisis Decision-Making

The purpose of this thesis will be to examine the decision-making process in crisis situations, defined as those presenting a high threat and short decisional time. Crisis situations in the area of foreign policy have become more acute and dangerous since the end of World War II and the rise of nuclear weapon delivery capabilities.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Linn, David W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Berlin Crisis of 1948 : A Theoretical Model of a Crisis Situation (open access)

The Berlin Crisis of 1948 : A Theoretical Model of a Crisis Situation

This study views the deeper reasons for acute crises between national systems or blocs of national systems as a function of major changes within the larger international structure. It seeks to construct eclectically a systematic and analytic model of acute international crises showing their occurrence between the balance of power and bipolar structures of the international system.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Martin, Joseph David
System: The UNT Digital Library
Limitations of Hungarian National Power in World War Two (open access)

Limitations of Hungarian National Power in World War Two

This study covers a period of a quarter of a century of Hungarian history, focusing on questions that affected the country's World War Two participation. It invokes the aid of value forming principles in order to reach conclusions. Its guiding principles relate to political theory affecting international relations.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Novak, Emilian E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Technology to United States Foreign Policy through Technical Assistance Programs to Underdeveloped Countries (open access)

The Relationship of Technology to United States Foreign Policy through Technical Assistance Programs to Underdeveloped Countries

The focus of this work lies in an examination of the effect of technological sophistication upon, and the reactions to technological sophistication by, the United States in its active participation in the international arena. Specifically, this work is to be an examination of one aspect of twentieth century technology, that of the transfer of technology, within the foreign policy considerations of the United States. This work will be further limited to an examination of American foreign policy of technology transfer to the underdeveloped countries of the world.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Griffitts, Garland W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Case Study of the Disintegration of the Judicial Concept of "State Action" under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments (open access)

A Case Study of the Disintegration of the Judicial Concept of "State Action" under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

The purpose of this study is to trace the judicial history of the disintegration of the traditional concept of "state action" and the consequent development of the new concept that the prohibitions of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments apply to private action among individuals.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Wattner, Victor E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Probation and Constitutional Protection (open access)

Probation and Constitutional Protection

This thesis analyzes the relationship between constitutional protections and probation in America. That relationship is not a clear one because traditional protections of individual rights focus on the person accused of a crime while probation focuses attention on the convicted defendant. Students of public law have paid little attention to the defendant following his conviction.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Killingsworth, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Albert Camus: Perspectives on the Nature of Political Revolt (open access)

Albert Camus: Perspectives on the Nature of Political Revolt

The scope and purpose of this thesis is an evaluation of Camus' literary and philosophical works and their implication to the concept of political revolt. His examination of the origins and effects of modern political revolutions provided insight to the nature of the twentieth century totalitarianism. His ideas also helped to explain the modern emergence of "irrational" terror and political oppression.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Conner, Jett Burnett
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tom Clark: The Role of Antitrust Law in the American Economy (open access)

Tom Clark: The Role of Antitrust Law in the American Economy

This thesis will analyze the work of Mr. Justice Tom C. Clark, in one field of law -- antitrust legislation. It is hoped to gain insight into the accomplishments and shortcomings of Mr. Justice Clark and to provide an appraisal of the Supreme Court's participation in the formulation of policy in the antitrust field.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Baum, John F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophical Irrationalism and Italian Fascism (open access)

Philosophical Irrationalism and Italian Fascism

The purpose of this work will be to trace the development from responsible scholasticism to irrational political violence, and to locate the various sources from which the intellectual acceptance of anti-humanitarian violence spring forth.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Bentley, Tom R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workmen's Compensation Claims Administration in Texas (open access)

Workmen's Compensation Claims Administration in Texas

This study is devoted to a detailed survey of the claims administrative machinery of the State of Texas workman's compensation program.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Kinnaird, Donald Lewis
System: The UNT Digital Library
President Truman and the Taft-Hartly Act (open access)

President Truman and the Taft-Hartly Act

Truman's activity prior to the passage of the Taft-Hartly Act, his veto, and his later use and conception of the law will form the main framework for this analysis. Although this will be the main emphasis of the study, an analysis of Harry S. Truman's earlier attitude development, especially toward labor, merits research, in so far as these attitudes affected his actions during the period under consideration.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Simpson, Phillip Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Attitudes of Non-Elective City Administrators toward their Publics: a Study of Cases in Two Cities (open access)

The Attitudes of Non-Elective City Administrators toward their Publics: a Study of Cases in Two Cities

This essay explores the question of what role does the public play in the operations of government, especially considering the bureaucracy of a democratic government.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Marshall, Ray Stephen
System: The UNT Digital Library