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The Man Who Knew Mary
No full text155 leaves. Advisor: Hiliary MastersThe novel, The Man Who Knew Mary, is a fancy of
science and art. It is a novel of analogy and simulacrum, of coincidence and synchronicity.
Beginning as an ethnobotanist, John Whitney, the central character through whose consciousness and unconsciousness the relevancies of the work flow, ends as a
simple chaste husband-protector of an orphaned girl whose time for giving birth is imminent.
There is an expedition into southwest Siberia undertaken by a team of eight scientists. From all parts of the world the men come and meet at Khandhad, a city at the rim of Asia.
This surface reality is seen as through old varnish, or as through a haze of the hashish the scientists constantly smoke. What is more clear and more cleanly visualized are the stances taken by the dramatic sets of dialogues into which the character-actors enter. These dialogues build and thicken
and a theme emerges: There is a wondrous correspondence between man and certain organisms in the world of botany. These
also are evidenced by rich mythological, Biblical, and linguistical allusions, and by turns of word plays botanically and humanly sexual. It may be said that the novel is signally a novel of words in the sense that words are seen here as male principles which want lodging in fertile matter to impregnate. This implanting by words is the manner of the Immaculate Conception and the manner, in a mystical poetic sense, of parthenocarpy - reproduction in the plant world without sexual union. Such parthenocarpy is common in fungi. It is through one species of mushroom, the Amanita muscaria, the divine mushroom, that John Whitney comes to his personal annunciation - words of mission into his ear spoken. Following a great storm the expedition is abandoned. One scientist, an Englishman named David Hailender, after an agaric eating ritual, rushes out into the wind and snow.
Whitney attempts a rescue, but because of the ingestlon of the agaric, fails and fails himself unconscious in a forest of birch. Here he receives the vision which signals for him the beginning of his mission. Whitney convalesces at an outpost while the other
scientists return home. A letter comes for Hailender. Whitney takes it and learns that a girl is coming to Khandhad to meet Hailender. She is homeless and pregnant. The pattern which has been building Whitney begins
to realize. He must go to Khandhad and take the girl. This is a fully conscious, fully intentional act, taken to bring the design to full focus.
The girl comes and Whitney takes her to a university somewhere in the western world where he had, before the expedition, scheduled a series of lectures. While working on the fifth and last lecture and in heavy use of hashish and opium, the pressure of the underlying design pushes to the surface and, whether succumbing to the force as something from the outside or falling before the workings of his own imagination and belief, Whitney falters and drifts irrevocably away from this science and enters into a nether-land of a poetic fancy controlled by distant and near memory and by acute visual perception. Whitney comes to his particular set of attitudes by what he had heard and by what he sees in the girl.
He believes in the Immaculate Conception; believes it has happened in the girl. He believes he has discovered the way of the intimacies between Mary, the mother of Jesus and Joseph, her husband-protector. Whitney focuses, finally, the full design. The cycle has come again to be lived. His role is to be abeyant, to be forever aware of the sexual mortality of the girl in his charge but to be forever abeyant
An Empirical Study Of The Promise And Effectiveness Of Teachers From Professional Development Vs. Traditional Models Of Education
No full text109 pagesTeacher preparatory programs need to evaluate their programs to determine if they are
producing highly effective teachers. This study utilized the professional development school
(PDS) program versus the traditional program to determine if there was a difference in the
promise and effectiveness of pre-service teachers.
The study analyzed the difference between PDS and traditional pre-service teachers
utilizing descriptive statistics, t-tests for independent means, and the Fisher’s Exact Test to
consider the background of pre-service teachers. Promise was assessed using t-tests for
independent means focusing on the Praxis II scores. Effectiveness was evaluated using the
Mann-Whitney U tests for independent means utilizing the percent of students scoring proficient
on the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) tests during the teachers’ first year teaching. Effect
size and power were also calculated.
The findings yielded one statistically significant difference between PDS and traditional
pre-service teachers within the demographic evaluation; there were proportionately more males
enrolled in the traditional program. There were no statistically significant differences found in
the areas of promise and effectiveness. When measuring the effect sizes a medium –to-large
difference was found showing the mean percent of proficient students in the PDS group being
larger than the mean percent of proficient in the traditional group in mathematics. This result
should be considered an area of further investigation.
This study is recommended to be replicated on a statewide basis to include all colleges
that participate in PDS programs due to the medium-to-large effect sizes found. Qualitative
studies are warranted to learn more about the impact the PDS program has on pre-service
teachers and the students in their future classrooms
A Portrait of an Iowa Woman Superintendent: A Study of Attributes and Barriers for Women Assessing the Position of Superintendent in Iowa
No full text[xiii], 326 leaves. Advisor: Catherine Gillespie.The problem: 10.5% of the superintendents and 71 % of teachers in lowa are
female. The problem for this study was to identify barriers that women face in
accessing the superintendency and the attributes needed to overcome those
barriers, in order to answer the question: What does it take to for a woman to
become a superintendent in lowa?
Procedure: A survey was electronically mailed to all 37 2003-2004 lowa female
superintendents, with 37 randomly selected male superintendents from an lowa
Department of Education list. The response rate to this survey was 97.2% for
males and 75.6% for females. Frequency response tables and data analysis,
primarily the Wilcoxon/Mann-Whitney/U Test, were used to determine significant
differences between the groups. Qualitative interviews were conducted with three
female superintendents and representatives of the three major superintendent
search firms in the state. Qualitative data were analyzed using iterations of the
constant comparative method. Stories were represented using characteristics of
the testimonio genre.
Findings: Quantitative: Significant differences included: Female superintendents
accessed the superintendency at older ages than males, were less likely to be
married, were more likely to be employed in schools of less than 3,000 students,
and 55% earned less than the average superintendent salary for the state.
Approximately 26% of female superintendents felt they received low support from
recruiters. Qualitative: Search consultants and school board presidents were the
gatekeepers in the selection process. Mentors and networking were critical to
women's career advancement. Women must exhibit perseverance, business
acumen, and "grit" in order to access a superintendency. Overt and covert
discrimination against women still exists which inhibits the advancement of more
women to positions of school leadership. The field of education demonstrated a
hegemonic and androcentric system which does not favor women in leadership.
Recommendations: (1) The disparity between the number of females certified in
lowa and those practicing as superintendents. (2) Perceptions of school boards,
especially school board presidents about hiring women as superintendents. (3)
Female superintendents' career stories, particularly about how they accessed the
superintendency. (4) Occurrences of bullying and mobbing in school
administration
A Study of Compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in Selected Iowa Public School Districts
No full text146 leaves. Advisor: Dr. Richard H. LampshireThe problem. The regulations for implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became effective in July, 1975. Three years have elapsed since the regulations went into effect and no one had identified the degree of its
implementation in Iowa schools. The purposes of this study were: (1) to assess the extent of compliance with the administrative requirements of Title IX in Iowa public schools, K-12; (2) to assess the extent of compliance with the program requirements of Title IX in Iowa public schools,
K-12; and (3) to determine if a relationship existed between compliance with the administrative requirements and compliance with the program requirements of Title IX.
Procedure. A questionnaire was developed to survey
local Title IX coordinators about compliance with Title IX. A total of sixty questionnaires were mailed. Fifty, or 83.33 percent, returned questionnaires which provided the data for this study. Respondents represented approximately
ten percent of all Iowa public school districts.
The questionnaire data were analyzed using a SPSS
computer program which yielded percentages, frequency distributions, cross tabulations with Chi-Square, Kruskall-Wallis H tests, and Mann-Whitney U tests. Responses were categorized by size of school district and by position and
sex of Title IX coordinator. The conventional alpha levels of .05 and .01 were established to determine significance.
Findings. The study found the following: (1) Most
Iowa public school districts had appointed a Title IX coordinator, issued a board policy, disseminated information relative to Title IX to their clients, and conducted a self-evaluation. (2) Local Title IX coordinators were
mainly male administrators. Most of them were appointed after the required date, 54 percent were comfortable and 46 percent were uncomfortable or neutral with their assignments, and although they indicated that it was important to be active coordinators, they had not been very active.
(3) Large school districts differed from small and middle size districts in that they found fewer violations in employment through their self-evaluations, hired more women administrators, spent a smaller percentage of their athletic
budgets on girls athletics, and their ratio of women administrators to men administrators in the district was lower. (4 ) Title IX corrdinators who were central office administrators tended to disseminate more information about Title IX than coordinators in other positions. (5) Women Title
IX coordinators were found to be more comfortable with their assignments and were more active in implementing their responsibilities than were their male counterparts. (6) Most Iowa public school districts were in compliance with
the program requirements of Title IX. (7) The results obtained made it impossible to test the relationship between compliance with the administrative requirements of Title IX and compliance with its program mandates.
Conclusions. As a result of the self-report data
collected, the major conclusion of the study was the following: The majority of Iowa public school districts are in compliance with the majority of the administrative and program requirements of Title IX. A secondary conclusion reached was that the role of local Title IX coordinator is not very well-defined in public school districts.
Recommendations. (A) Research: As a result of the findings and major conclusion, the following recommendations were made for further research:
(1) Studies of Title IX compliance in Iowa that
concentrate on one aspect of Title IX requirements in order to assess quality of compliance.
(2) Studies in process regulations that test the
assumption that a built-in process for change will
lead to more effective compliance with the overall
intent of the regulation or law.
(B) Implementation: As a result of the findings and secondary conclusion, the following recommendations were made for further implementation of Title IX.
(1) Better defined role for the local Title IX
coordinator.
(2) On-going in-service on Title IX for local
coordinators, certified and non-certified staff,
students, parents and community residents.
(3) Outside monitoring of Local Educational
Agencies by the Iowa Department of Public Instruction and citizens' groups to assess the quality of local school district compliance with Title IX
Report on industrial attachment with Pratt & Whitney Services Pte Ltd
No full textThis report aims to cover the projects carried out by the author during his 22 week Industrial Attachment at Pratt & Whitney Services. The author was part of the Rotating Air Seal repair development team. He assisted in the Repair Process Launch Review preparation, which entails evaluating technical data, identifying critical to quality key product characteristics, evaulating capital requirements, identification of tooling requirements and creating summary of operations
Juvenalia, or How I came to own a Blu-Ray of Point Break
No full textAgony Klub and Publication Studio Vancouver are pleased to present Whitney Houston, vol. 2. A continuation of Whitney Houston, et. al., editor/author Casey Wei invites six writers to reflect on their relationship to popular music in film, keeping in mind that popular music has always been as much about the desire for an image as about the catchiness of a song. The resulting essays on Elliot Smith, Amélie, Real Genius, The Pixies, Drive, and The Conversation explore themes of time, love, and evolution.final article publishedReal Genius (1985
Dr. Whitney Wall- Veteran\u27s Mental Health Survey and Analysis
No full textDr. Whitney Wall speaks at the Chesnutt Library of Fayetteville State University about her recent work on a mental health survey of veterans and their needs.
Presented live on November 11, 2025 as part of Chesnutt Library\u27s Faculty Author Series.https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/faculty_author/1023/thumbnail.jp
The Future of Marketing Communications
No full textPanelists Jessica Garrett Modkins, Nathan Pieratt, Leo Morejon and Hugo Perez present The Future of Marketing Communications moderated by Whitney Drake at Integrate 2019 hosted by WVU Integrated Marketing Communications and Data Marketing Communications Graduate Programs
Edge piece on the author\u27s attempts to interview Whitney Houston, who was in P
No full textEdge piece on the author\u27s attempts to interview Whitney Houston, who was in Portland recently for the filming of The Preacher\u27s Wife
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