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Movie: the musical! a three article dissertation examining the phenomenon of film as source material for Broadway musicals

Wallace, Richard (University of Alabama Libraries, 2004-08)

Prior to 1997, 52 musicals based on films were produced on Broadway over a time period of 45 years. From 1997 through April 24, 2017, 73 more film-based musicals opened, an increase of 138% in less than half the time. The ...
Examining sibling communication during parental health crises using social support, relational maintenance behaviors, family communication patterns, and relational outcomes

Carwile, Amy Muckleroy (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The huge demographic cohort of Baby Boomers is aging, and life expectancy rates are increasing. Even as adults deal with age-related health concerns of their own, they must also deal with health-related crises that may ...
A body of suffering: reading Shakespeare's tragedies through cognitive theory

Helms, Nicholas Ryan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

In this thesis I attempt to build and use a cognitive theory of tragedy. I base this theory upon the work of George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Mark Turner, whose studies of embodied metaphor and conceptual blending offer ...
Family and peer communication as determinants

Poston, Sarah Marisa (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The goal of this study was to better understand the influence of family and peers on HPV vaccination, illuminating specific influences of knowledge, family style, conflict as well as conversation. This study is one of the ...
Perimortem and postmortem fracture patterns in deer femora

Wright, Catherine Susan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

A question remains as to whether specific criteria can be used to differentiate perimortem and postmortem breakage patterns in deer femora. The purpose of this experiment was to discover if fracture characteristics, such ...
Religiosity, spirituality, and substance abuse

Allen, Thomas (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Religiosity and spirituality are concepts often considered means of reducing substance abuse and are employed in substance abuse recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. Substance abuse is a serious social problem ...
Parent and teacher influences on preschool children's emotion regulation, pre-academic and social skills

Smith, LaToya M. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The purpose of the present study is to examine parent and teacher influences on preschool children's emotion regulation, pre-academic and social skills. Parent-reported child behavior (i.e., effortful control and negative ...
The great white while

Gnall, Stacy Celine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This thesis is a collection of poems by Stacy Gnall.
Interfacial interactions of FeCo/Pd and FeCo/Ru multilayers

Walock, Michael James (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The FeCo system of alloys is perched atop the Slater-Pauling curve. As a result of this and its relatively low cost and ease of deposition, it is heavily used within the magnetic recording industry. However, new technology ...
Room where I get what I want

Holmes, Sarah Whitney (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Collection of poems.
Effect of different warm-ups and upper-body vibration on performance in Masters Swimmers

Nepocatych, Svetlana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effects of no, short, or regular warm-up and Upper-Body Vibration (UBV) only or UBV+ short warm-up on swimming performance in Masters Swimmers. Six females and four ...
Resegregation: a case study of the failure of the color blind ideal in K-12 schooling policy

Kinslow, Kathleen Mary (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Given the current trend for school districts to reorganize once unitary status is achieved, a cultural ethnography was conducted to determine how high school students experienced the inevitable resegregation in their school ...
Landscapes of memory: the cartography of longing

Strong, Frances Justina (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Landscapes of Memory: The Cartography of Longing examines three disparate twentieth century writers--Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Virginia Woolf--who use similar fictive strategies for the reclamation and revision ...
Self, world, and God in the poetry of Dickinson and Melville

Gilliland, Don (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville are the major nineteenth-century representatives of a strain of American poetry that may be termed, following Elisa New, "religiocentric." In support of this proposition, this study ...
Community and individual factors that influence housing need among low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS

Bennett, Russell Lee (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The objective of this research was to study the influence of individual- and community-level conditions on the housing needs among low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Secondary data analysis was conducted on ...
A comparative health analysis of the historic African American cemetery population from 1LA151, Foster Cemetery, to three contemporaneous historic southeastern African American cemetery populations

Thompson, Brandon Samuel (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The focus of this thesis involves the examination of two hypotheses stemming from field and osteological work at Foster Cemetery (1LA151) located in Lawrence County in northwest Alabama. The majority of this thesis assesses ...
Cultural coverture: an examination of the impact of early American marriage laws on contemporary American women

Steib, Summer Allison (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Under the system of coverture a married woman's civil identity was covered by her husband's civil identity and she was viewed to be civilly dead. The system of coverture originated in Europe and was part of the English ...
An integrative approach to resolving taxonomic controversy and reconstructing the evolutionary history of the southern leopard frog (rana sphenocephala)

Newman, Catherine Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This study presents an integrative approach to phylogeography and species delimitation that includes genetics, ecology, and morphology and applies this approach to the study system Rana sphenocephala, a widely distributed ...
Congruence of practice in Alabama schools with national and state policy texts for physical education

Asola, Eugene Fadola (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Case study work on the occupational socialization of physical education teachers in Alabama suggests a major incongruence between official, policy-described physical education and actual practice. To counter the negative ...
Effects of different types of warm-up on swimming performance in collegiate swimmers

Balilionis, Gytis (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of three different types of warm-up on swimming performance in NCAA Division I swimmers. Eight male and eight female swimmers utilized three warm-up protocols ...

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