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Leadership across nations
(Northern Illinois University, 2010)
More and more industries are entering into a global economy, which opens the windows of possibilities but also brings new challenges. One such challenge is leaders being able to effectively lead such a diverse group of ...
Wilson pottery: pottery production in the context of enslavement in the South
(Northern Illinois University, 2015)
Pre-Civil War Southern pottery was at time produced by slaves. This is true in the case of J. M. Wilson's pottery in Seguin, Texas. By cataloguing and researching materials from a small collection of excavated pottery, the ...
Courting the Iron Horse: How the United States Exacted Limited Controls Over the Railroads in the Second World War
(Northern Illinois University, 2011)
This thesis explores the extent of US Government control over the railroads during the Second World War. The purpose of this project is to discover how much government regulation there was regarding the railroads and how ...
50 Years of Negligence: The Development of Tort Law as Viewed Through Illinois, 1850-1900
(Northern Illinois University, 2010)
The late nineteenth century (1850-1900) was a time of great change in American society, Fed by the expansion ofthe Industrial Revolution, the growth in legal doctrine matched the mechanized innovation. Tort Law, law that ...
Effects of Utility Value and Goals on Task Performance and Interest
(Northern Illinois University, 2011)
The perception of utility in tasks has been shown to facilitate performance and interest. This study (N = 160) is an extension of work by Hulleman and colleagues and is a 2 (success expectancy: high, low) x 2 (utility ...
lIIocutionary Force of Infant's Representational Gestures: A Review of the Research
(Northern Illinois University, 2011)
Teaching infants to use representational gestures has become popular because their use has been linked with vocabulary acquisition. It is also known that infants use gestures for different purposes, or communicative intents. ...
Paranormal Investigators
(Northern Illinois University, 2011)
"Paranormal Investigators" follows the lives of a team of four people, Dylan, Marx, Evelene, and Shelly. They go wherever they are needed, fighting the things that go bump in the night. When Dylan gets a call from his ...
Testing the Event in Isolation on Maui
(Northern Illinois University, 2011)
Archaeological theory has usually depended upon investigating locations through the entire length of occupation. The novelty of addressing archaeological data through the analysis of separate events in time has been proposed ...
Miltown: An American Antidepressant, 1945-1955
(Northern Illinois University, 2011)
Out of 2.4 billion drugs prescribed throughout America in 2005, antidepressants accounted for 118 million of them. Family doctor Ronald Dworkin, one of many critics of antidepressant use in America, argues that doctor's ...
U.S.-Swiss Relations: Is the United States fighting terrorist financing operations in Switzerland to the exten of its power?
(Northern Illinois University, 2011)
Switzerland has long been notorious for its acceptance of large, sometimes nefarious banking clients. However, in a world increasingly plagued by multi-millionaire terrorist organizations, that target large numbers of ...