Throughout history, dance is a powerful tool for expression of self or community. Art, especially dance, became a way to react to societal shifts and stalemates through means of storytelling. Through my choreography, I used history of modern dance such as the mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, an incredibly influential choreographer, Martha Graham, and her famous protege, Merce Cunningham. I used a combination of their methodology to choreograph my intrapersonal journey with dance and life.

In today's society most swedish people are saving money on saving accounts that give nointerest return. So, in this study we have examined two investment strategies GrahamScreener and Dogs of the dow. We wanted to see how the two strategies perform on theswedish stock markets and even see which one of them performs the best and gives back thehighest interest rate. After we have tested the two strategies on the two different markets overa 14-years period we got the resultat that Graham Screener is a way better strategy than Dogsof the dow. This gave us the conclusion that the theory that the efficient market hypothesisgives us that you can't overperform the market could be questioned with the data and theresultat this study gave us

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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur John Hedlund förhåller sig till det svenska samhället, hans s.k. ”teologi om världen”. Denna kommer att undersökas och analyseras med hjälp av tre frågor• Vilken är enligt Hedlund relationen mellan kristendomen och det moderna svenska samhället?• Hur ser Billy Graham på relationen mellan kristendomen och det amerikanska samhället?• Vilka likheter och skillnader finns i Hedlund och Graham när det gäller synen på kristendomen och samhället? Uppsatsen tar sitt avstamp år 1946. Utgångspunkten motiveras av att detta var ett viktigt brytningsår i Hedlunds verksamhet: han blev ”Nalenpastorn” med det svenska folket, och dessutom reste han detta år till USA för att studera de mötesserier som ”Youth for Christ” organiserade – dvs. den organisation som Graham då verkade för. Grahams Crusade i Los Angeles 1950 ses som det verkliga startskottet för hans karriär och redan senare samma år startade John Hedlund sin motsvarighet som han kallade för ”korståg”. Detta i kombination med både Sveriges och USA:s utveckling från efterkrigstiden och framåt gör tidpunkten till lämplig. Avgränsningen i slutet av denna uppsats sätts till de viktiga brytpunkter som både Sverige och USA kommer till mot slutet av 1980-talet. Jag menar att Sverige når en tydlig brytpunkt med Olof Palmes död 1986 medan det i det amerikanska fallet får bli kommunismens kollaps 1989.

“Exhibiting Evangelicalism” is a history of evangelical historical museums in the United States. It argues that conservative Protestant Christians in the United States developed practices for preserving and interpreting the past in public and deployed those practices toward varying theological, cultural, and political ends—an approach I term “evangelical heritage.” It further contends that evangelical heritage performed important work for its purveyors. Amid the boom in church attendance and religious affiliation after World War II, conservative Protestants deployed evangelical heritage to forge what they termed “neo-evangelicalism,” a rebranding of the old-time religion for postwar society. They also engaged evangelical heritage in their crusade to “win America for Christ,” convinced that an encounter with their tradition’s proud past could entice outsiders to convert to Christian faith. These elements never fully disappeared from the function of evangelical heritage. Even so, evangelical heritage did change over time. During the national bicentennial, for instance, evangelical heritage became a means by which neo-evangelicals, internally divided over matters of faith and politics, could project a united front by mapping their proud past onto the nation’s history. Such optimism did not last long. As the national consensus about the past shattered in the 1970s and 1980s, evangelical heritage morphed yet again. By the twenty-first century it had become a vehicle for nostalgia, immersing visitors in a mythic past that offered an imagined sense of comfort and reassurance amid conservative Protestants’ perceived loss of political and social influence. Evangelical heritage did not develop and evolve in a vacuum, however. From the start, it existed within and contributed to broader patterns of historical commemoration. In the postwar era, for instance, experiments in evangelical heritage intersected and overlapped with discourses and practices among bureaucrats, business leaders, social reformers, heritage professionals, and others regarding historic preservation, urban renewal, and the political purposes of civic memory. In the 1970s, neo-evangelical museum-makers helped to invent public history’s turn toward emotion, immersion, and experience as techniques through which to build visitors’ historical knowledge. As that trend became subject to intense internecine debate among public history professionals in the 1980s and 1990s, some conservative Protestant commemorators turned away from the mainstream of public history discourse. Instead, they embraced the theme park as a means of conveying ideological authority while retaining the trappings of the traditional museum as a way of courting intellectual authority—a trend that reached its apex at the turn of the twenty-first century. / History

Although working in two different mediums, Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham created works during the 1940s and 1950s that share several analogous formal characteristics, as well as a body-centered process that reminded viewers of both the corporeality of the artists and of themselves. My thesis identifies and interprets the formal analogies evident in each the artists' approach to asymmetry, repetition, gravity, and space. I argue that the common aspects among the works of the three artists resulted from their participation in a shared modernist discourse circulating post-war America, especially in New York. This discourse provided the artists access to common sources of inspiration, such as the writings of Carl Jung, Native American imagery, and Asian cultures. Each of these elements characterizes the work of all three artists, along with similar ideas concerning the individual, national identity, and modern technology. / Art History

An acute shortage of African American teachers is well recognized. This shortage poses a problem as school systems attempt to employ a representative number of African American teachers commensurate to their diverse student population. The purpose of this study was to examine why 10 African American teachers in Roanoke City selected teaching and remain in the profession and how those reasons were influenced by two motivational variables (academic self-concept of ability and self-efficacy). Factors further affecting this relationship, such as environmental influences (i.e., home, school, and community)and institutional influences (i.e., experiences in the workplace,job satisfaction, and school climate), also were examined. The research design was a single explanatory case study. Yin (1994) contends that "how" and "why" questions (as used in this study) are explanatory in nature and suitable for a case-study design. Two sources of data were used: an initial survey instrument on environmental factors and a second survey on institutional factors. Two separate interviews were conducted with both instruments. Both sources were intended to capture participants' perceptions relevant to their experiences. A purposive sample of 10 local African American teachers was selected. Pattern matching and explanation building were the dominant modes of analysis. A conversational style with narratives written was used to reflect the richness of language used by the participants to describe their experiences. Findings revealed that home environmental experiences and preparation for teaching were positive overall because of practices used by parents and family members to socialize the the participants for success in school. Both direct assistance with school work and verbal encouragement enhanced academic self-concept of ability and self-efficacy for success in school and in teaching. School experiences before and during college were found rewarding and challenging. However, both types of experiences enhanced self-concept of ability and self-efficacy in attaining a teaching career as well as succeeding and remaining in the profession. Overall, rewarding experiences outweighed challenging ones. High expectations, assistance with school work, and teacher role models were typical examples of such experiences. Two major community influences played a significant role in interest and retention in teacher-education programs: (a) involvement in church activities and (b) sponsorship for teacher-education programs through partnerships with business and industry. The former reinforced self-concept in ability, and the latter afforded some participants an opportunity to attend college and enter a teacher-education program. Results on institutional factors and teacher retention were associated with experiences as classroom teachers, interactions with colleagues,relationships with building principals, and perceptions of the school system as a whole. / Ed. D.

This research project assesses the continued utility of Allison's three policy-making models in analyzing contemporary foreign policy problems. It also explores the effect of cultural considerations on Allison's concepts by delving into the unique themes of Japanese politics. The climate in which this policy decision is made is framed through a discussion of the strategic environment and Japanese defense policy following the Cold War and 9/11. The rational actor, organizational process, and bureaucratic politics models are applied to Japan's 2003 decision to field a missile defense system through a qualitative analysis of English-language secondary hard-copy and online sources. Some Japanese government materials are reviewed as well; the Japanese language, however, presented challenges to research. Despite the expectation that the rational actor model best describes the Japanese approach to missile defense, this project shows the true value of Allison's theories lies in their capacity to expose issues relevant to policy problems from varying perspectives. Japan's missile defense policy likely resulted from a combination of the three models, each influenced in varying degrees by the cultural aspects of Japanese politics. / Master of Arts

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