John Buchan (1875-1940) has a literary reputation as a minor novelist, based mainly on his success as a popular fiction writer, the inventor of the spy thriller in his best-known novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). Although there has been considerably increased scholarly intere…
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How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunif…
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to understand how Black middle-class women describe their experiences that influenced their decisions to be stay-at-home mothers in the southeastern United States. Data were obtained from 32 Black middle-class stay-at-home mo…
The 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in the West Coast of Africa was a historically unprecedented epidemic with a sustained spread in multiple West African nations, including Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization (WHO) classified Sierra Leone as a high Ebola-affected country as i…
This study evaluates the personal histories and beliefs of twelve qualifying middle school mathematics teachers to determine the role experiences and beliefs play in how teachers transform challenging classes into relatively high achievers. Effective is defined as recommended by…
The notion of a family church could be taken to unhealthy levels in a faith community where the membership is comprised of people who share the same racial/ethnic and socio-cultural identities. Moreover, this sameness may not reflect the reality of the surrounding community. The…
This thesis contributes to knowledge in the field of medical anthropology, particularly in Egypt and the Middle East, in two specific ways. First, the thesis demonstrates how a limited focus on kinship and micro social relations precludes a full understanding of the life experie…
This explorative study of fifty-nine Asian Indian women assesses the relationship between the clinical symptoms of grief culturally prescribed mourning rituals. Three questionnaires were utilized to collect data: General Information Questionnaire, Grief Experience Inventory (GEI…
This thesis intends to focus on the text of the Decalogue in the Hebrew Bible, and to interpret it in the literary, cultural, and reader's contexts, and feminist perspective. In a broader horizon, the methods of literary criticism, historical criticism, reader-response criticism…
This research study explored the difference between subordinates' perceptions of their leaders' leadership style within the banking industry in Lebanon and the United States. This was done through exploring their differences toward the consideration and initiation structure dime…
The main purpose of this research was to examine and describe the factors and attitudes that influenced sports participation among adolescent girls in Kenya. The research questionnaire was surveyed among adolescent girls 12-16 years (N=3942) in ten tribes residing in ten Distric…
Foreign language learners come to the literature classroom possessing a native language and a culture that could be very different from the English language and its cultures. This could have profound effects on how these learners interact with and respond to the literature of th…
For years, critics have used Black writers' interweaving of African-derived oral textual features and European written forms to reject the concept of the Great Divide between orality and writing in literacy studies. These critics primarily see the hybridized texts of writers of …
This study aimed to investigate the acquisition of the four non-generic uses of the English definite article the by Arabic learners of English in Saudi Arabia. These non-generic uses included textual, situational, cultural and structural. This study had three goals: (1) to deter…
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the influence of culture on Nigerian women's attitudes towards menopause. This study was exploratory and descriptive. The sample consisted of ten purposeful selected menopausal Nigerian women. The data for the study were gath…
The dissertation was an inquiry into political expression in African American and Nigerian art. The approach employed was comparative and interpretative in that in the examination of Nigerian and African American cultures, and the works of African American and Nigerian artists, …