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Through the use of ethnohistorical data, the Saponi and Nottoway Indians of seventeenth-century Virginia are analyzed in terms of basic, or group, personality and acculturation history. Through a reconstruction of the contrasting reactions of these communities to eighteenth-century English activity, a test for the motivating influence of personality and history on this behavior is made. It is determined that the Saponi and Nottoway shared similar basic personalities, but that they experienced different seventeenth-century histories. By the eighteenth century, the behavior patterns of each community were consistent with the different levels of acculturation attained by each community as a result of their different histories. It is concluded that in the case of the Nottoway and. Saponi, acculturation history served as the primary motivational factor in their different reactions to eighteenth-century English activity. Personality became a factor only as a result of the stress placed upon it by acculturation.

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The goldenrod genus Solidago L. is one of the larger genera in the flowering plant family Asteraceae. The genus is primarily North American and was recently revised in Flora of North America. In contrast, Solidago in South America is not well understood and has been thought to be represented by one group in one subsection the S. chilensis complex with only two species. However, among specimens borrowed to analyze the Solidago chilensis complex were a small number of collections of two additional species, S. missouriensis Nutt. and S. virgaurea [synonym: S. patagonica], from two different subsections not previously reported from South America. Using multivariate morphometric analyses on a matrix of 50 traits of 160 specimens (stepwise discriminant, classificatory and canonical analyses), the distinctiveness of the Solidago chilensis complex was tested and found to be statistically different from three morphologically similar North America species. Using just the 104 specimens of the Solidago chilensis complex, the previously published classification dividing the complex into two species was tested and found to be supported statistically but with many misclassifications a posteriori. Alternative ways of dividing the complex into species and varieties were explored in order to create a statistically strongly supported revised classification of the Solidago chilensis complex with two species, S. chilensis and S. microglossa.

Prospective adoptive parents in British Columbia are required by provincial law to attend workshops on parenting. Key advice given to parents wishing to adopt transnationally, transracially, or both, suggests promoting a positive identity in their children; an identity founded on feelings of belonging within their own family, as well as an acknowledgment of their background. This advice is largely influenced by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, as well as Canada's national policy of multiculturalism. Bearing these external laws, policies, and ideologies in mind, this thesis explores how white Canadian parents who adopt black children from the United States respond to this advice. Within this thesis, I contextualize the adoption of black children from the United States by white Canadian parents in a local, national, international and global historical perspective. / Graduate

The cleavage in voter loyalties that was to sustain the Second Party System in Ohio was created in the thirty years before 1830. Its origins are to be found in the national disputes of the 17908, which by 1802 had become involved with the issue of Ohio statehood. These early divisions were more deep-rooted than commonly assumed, dictating political behaviour for over a decade and providing political experiences that became controlling influences on later developments. However, the more immediate origin of the divisions established by the 1830s was the many-sided crisis of 1819-22, which made men look to politics for the solution of their problems, break with older loyalties and create new ones. In Ohio the demands for a non-slave-holding President and positive federal economic legislation melded into what became the National Republican and Whig parties, though a minority of Ohioans - for reasons peculiar to particular localities and particular ethnocultural groups - insisted on supporting Andrew Jackson in 1824 and subsequent years. The contest between these two groupings drew unprecedented numbers of new voters to the polls in 1828, most of whom committed themselves to Jackson, thus establishing the balanced distribution of party strength that was to persist for decades. Jackson's advantage in 1828 came from neither superior party organization nor the "rise of democracy," but from the opportunity to harness social resentments of long standing which had previously disrupted rather than reinforced party ties. Jackson's partisans could also call upon old-party loyalties that dated back to the War of 1812, and so created a party that bore some resemblance to the Jeffersonian Democrats, even if the crisis of the early 1820s had forged a nationalist opposition party far more powerful electorally in Ohio than the Federalists had ever been.

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