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African American Parental Involvement (open access)

African American Parental Involvement

This paper discusses a research project on the relationship between African American parent volunteer involvement and student reading scores.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Brookshire, Nikki & Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing Classroom Assessments to District Assessments to Analyze Assessment Guided Instruction Effectiveness (open access)

Comparing Classroom Assessments to District Assessments to Analyze Assessment Guided Instruction Effectiveness

This paper discusses research in assessment guided instruction.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Western, Vanessa S. & Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effectiveness of Growth Plans in Kindergarten Classrooms (open access)

Effectiveness of Growth Plans in Kindergarten Classrooms

This paper discusses research on the effectiveness of growth plans in kindergarten classrooms.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Leslie, Rachel & Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Guardianship on the Rights of Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Case Study (open access)

The Impact of Guardianship on the Rights of Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Case Study

This paper discusses a research study on the impact of guardianship on the rights of individuals with developmental disabilities.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Smith, Martin & Olness, Gloria Streit
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legitimacy and Participation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Public Opinion in Costa Rica, 2004-2008 (open access)

Legitimacy and Participation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Public Opinion in Costa Rica, 2004-2008

This paper discusses legitimacy and participation and a longitudinal analysis of public opinion in Costa Rice from 2004-2008.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Pascoe, Henry & Booth, John A.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Make a Move: Creating a Culturally Aware Community of Masters and Scholars (open access)

Make a Move: Creating a Culturally Aware Community of Masters and Scholars

This paper explores the experience of 30 university students in their final year of the teacher education program.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Montejano, Sara N. & Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (open access)

Mental Illness in Literature: Case Studies of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This study examines mental illness in literature, with a focus on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar', the primary texts of the research, and develops similarities and personal connections between the authors and their mentally unstable main characters.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Dyer, Darby & Flowers, Theresa
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The "Nature" of Sovereignty and the Female Intellectual in Milton's Paradise Lost (open access)

The "Nature" of Sovereignty and the Female Intellectual in Milton's Paradise Lost

This paper examines the effect of Queen Elizabeth I's sovereignty as a monarch on English literature in the 17th century England, especially the work of John Milton, 'Paradise Lost'.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Trotter, Megan & Curran, Kevin
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Read to Succeed (open access)

Read to Succeed

This paper discusses research on reading and a study on transition times in the classroom.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Daniel, Monica & Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rebuilding the World with Green BRICs (open access)

Rebuilding the World with Green BRICs

This paper discusses social, economic, and global issues and research on rebuilding the world with green, energy-efficient strategies for Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC).
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Hubby, Desiree & Engen, Ryan
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stepping Into Another Culture: On-site and Societal Research Considerations of a Documentary Film Director (open access)

Stepping Into Another Culture: On-site and Societal Research Considerations of a Documentary Film Director

This University Scholars Day keynote address discusses on-site and societal research considerations of a documentary film director.
Date: April 15, 2010
Creator: Levin, C. Melinda
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Action of Action Research: A Case Study of Four Projects in a Professional Development School (open access)

The Action of Action Research: A Case Study of Four Projects in a Professional Development School

Introductory paper to the special section on education in the 2010 edition of The Eagle Feather, which examines the viability of action research as a meaningful form of research applicable to social settings, such as schools.
Date: 2010
Creator: Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Indian Cultural Identity: A Narrative Analysis of Identity in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (open access)

American Indian Cultural Identity: A Narrative Analysis of Identity in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Paper explores how American Indians navigate life and connect to their heritage within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
Date: 2010
Creator: Cevaal-Moore, Yolonda L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Avalokiteśvara: Bodhisattvas and Signs of Change (open access)

Avalokiteśvara: Bodhisattvas and Signs of Change

Paper examines the evolution and transformation of Buddhism in different cultures by focusing on the example of Avalokiteśvara, a Bodhisattva traditionally depicted as a man who was eventually depicted as Kuan-yin, a woman, once fully transitioned into Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Date: 2010
Creator: Santayana, S.M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Freedman’s Town: One Community’s Preservation Within a Gentrified Environment (open access)

Dallas Freedman’s Town: One Community’s Preservation Within a Gentrified Environment

Paper discusses the effects of gentrification on communities by focusing on Dallas Freedman’s Town/North Dallas—established by freed slaves in the 1860’s—and the Saint Paul United Methodist Church congregation.
Date: 2010
Creator: Velin, Gabriel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and Health Practitioners (open access)

Do You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and Health Practitioners

Paper discusses recurring themes in cross-cultural communication between medical practitioners and refugees, specifically Vietnamese refugees who have lived in the United States for more than 20 years, at the Dallas County Health Services Refugee Clinic, including substitution, omission, editorialization with the use of an interpreter, and nonverbal communication expressed by both populations.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haynes, Kayla Marie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Counterterrorist Policy on Terrorist Success in Western Europe (open access)

The Effect of Counterterrorist Policy on Terrorist Success in Western Europe

Paper examines the effectiveness of post-9/11 counterterrorism policies in Western Europe.
Date: 2010
Creator: McGee, Daniel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes (open access)

Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes

Paper explores the role played by ethnicity in civil war in terms of sparking international disputes.
Date: 2010
Creator: Kenwick, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Explanations for Mass Provincial Protest in China (open access)

Explanations for Mass Provincial Protest in China

Paper explores the evolution of mass local protests in China and the factors that contribute to the likelihood of mass protest in a province.
Date: 2010
Creator: Chan, Victor Cheung Yin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fitzgerald’s Women: Motherhood and Masculinity in the Flapper Era (open access)

Fitzgerald’s Women: Motherhood and Masculinity in the Flapper Era

Paper discusses how changing gender roles in the 1920s, particularly for mothers, are depicted in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and how mother figures influence the development of his leading male characters.
Date: 2010
Creator: Vincent, Emily S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flight Control Subsystem (open access)

Flight Control Subsystem

Paper describes a project with the goal of designing and prototyping a small-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), offering dual-channel real-time video, data logging, and waypoint tracking.
Date: 2010
Creator: Williams, Jennifer; Bratton, David; Jones, Aaron; Anderson, Alyse; Befort, Jonathan; Lowe, Ryan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gender Equality and Post-Conflict Peace (open access)

Gender Equality and Post-Conflict Peace

Paper explores relationship between gender equality and the duration of peace in post civil war societies.
Date: 2010
Creator: Kelly, Eliza
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Globalization and Indigenous Group Violence in Latin America (open access)

Globalization and Indigenous Group Violence in Latin America

Paper investigates the relationship between levels of globalization and indigenous conflict in Latin America.
Date: 2010
Creator: Rojas, Jacqueline I.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Practices among Immigrants to the US: The Intersection of Cosmopolitan Medicine and Traditional Ethnopharmacology (open access)

Health Practices among Immigrants to the US: The Intersection of Cosmopolitan Medicine and Traditional Ethnopharmacology

Paper examines customer and vendor relations and generational transmission of ethnomedicine in a multicultural aspect focusing on the immigrant spectrum of traditional medicine from the angle of the Mexican American community.
Date: 2010
Creator: Bernal, Rubén
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library