<p>Christian engagement with beauty contests shifted dramatically between the initial Miss America pageant in 1921 and its 90th anniversary in 2011. This dissertation explores how and why many Christians found the organization an institution worthy of partnership with the church. It examines three aspects of Christian involvement in the contest: the long history of beauty pageants, the persistent emphasis on individual physical attractiveness, and the idea of witness in southern evangelical culture. It argues that after 1965, at least two factors enabled the unlikely marriage of Christians and the Miss America Organization: the perceived threat of second-wave feminism and evangelicalism's increasing desire to engage culture. In addition, Christian contestants gained rewards, both tangible and intangible, from their pageant participation. Most significantly for some Christian women, the competition functioned as an arena in which women could serve as Christian evangelists. Pleasure, prizes, performance, and purpose: contestants found all these and more on the stage. The goal here is not to prove that the Miss America pageant is somehow inherently religious, but rather that the Christians who participated in the contest were dealing with multiple expectations from church and culture that dictated, influenced, and explained their experience. This dissertation describes the place Christian women found in the Miss America pageant for their religious self-understanding. By telling the story of Christian women in a gendered and sexualized arena, I hope to emphasize the flexibility of gender roles and religious mores inherent in Christian participation.</p> / Dissertation

This thesis serves as documentation of my personal, intellectual, and physical process as an actor in creating the role of Miss Margarida in Miss Margarida's Way by Roberto Athayde. This document includes research, script analysis, character analysis, rehearsal journal, and an assessment of my performance. The University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre and Communications Arts in New Orleans, Louisiana produced Miss Margarida's Way during the Fall 2008 season. Miss Margarida's Way was performed in the Lab Theater of the Performing Arts Center at 7:30 pm December 3 at 6 with a matinee at 2:30pm on Sunday December 7th 2008.

"The purpose of this study was to ascertain observable differences between two sub-samples of veterans from Veterans Administration Center, Gulfport, who were given more than one trial visit from which each returned. In one group (hereafter referred to as sub-sample "A") each veteran stated the same reason for return on each subsequent trial visit failure. In the remaining group (sub-sample "B") each veteran gave upon returning each time a different cause for his return"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1960." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: James H. Williams, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis advisor: Lisa Cuklanz / There are strict rules and expectations that govern the world’s idea of femininity and beauty. What are the repercussions of selecting one type of beauty to be ideal on a global scale? After watching the pageant and reading previous scholars’ findings, I argue that the Miss America Pageant presents its participants as women to be admired while its practices objectify women’s bodies. Several myths dictate how contestants should behave and historically diversity has failed to break into the pageant. On a global scale, Miss America has inspired other international beauty pageants, causing countries to compete with one another for the most beautiful woman. Selecting one beauty often times is based purely on appearance, like body type or racial characteristics. The implications of one beauty means that all women, all over the world, feel compelled to meet the standards set by this one beauty, this winner. In turn, women who do not measure up feel inadequate and strive to change their appearances to meet the mold. This model also homogenizes the concept of beauty that previously was diverse and culturally based. Pageants, like Miss America, therefore encourage women to objectify themselves in order to meet an international beauty standard that is historically based on white or western appearances. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Communication Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication.

Orientador: Silvana Andrea Molina Lima / Resumo: O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar os indicadores de segurança do paciente em unidade coronariana de instituição privada. Método: Estudo descritivo, transversal, com abordagem quantitativa, realizado a partir de dados e anotações do processo de enfermagem do Hospital dos Fornecedores de Cana localizado na cidade de Piracicaba-SP. Foram avaliados os indicadores de segurança do paciente, sendo descritos: Parte 1- Cultura de Segurança dos hospitais na perspectiva da equipe de enfermagem, sendo aplicado questionário sobre segurança em hospitais (HSOPSC), que possui 42 dimensões; Parte 2- Incidentes relacionados à assistência à saúde: os dados foram coletados a partir dos registros contidos no processo de enfermagem e relatórios gerenciais do serviço. Foram incluídos todos os registros dos pacientes, que foram hospitalizados na unidade por doenças coronarianas agudas ou crônicas, do período de 01 de janeiro a 31 de dezembro de 2017. Produto: Elaborar um vídeo explicativo sobre a segurança do paciente com enfoque nas metas internacionais e como realizar as notificações ao núcleo de segurança do paciente. Resultados: Houve um maior percentual de respostas positivas nas dimensões relacionadas ao trabalho em equipe (37,5%), aprendizagem da organização (56,25%), percepção da segurança do paciente (81,25%), respostas não punitivas ao erro (62,50%), feedback e comunicação sobre erros (37,5%), abertura para comunicação (50,0%), apoio a gestão hospitalar (62,5%), frequência de e... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The present study aimed to analyze the safety indicators of the patient in a coronary unit of a private institution. Method: Descriptive study, with a quantitative approach, based on data and annotations of the nursing process of the Hospital dos Fornecedores de Cana (Suppliers Hospital of Cana) located in the city of Piracicaba-SP.The safety indicators of the patient were evaluated, being described: Part 1- Safety Culture of the hospitals from the perspective of the nursing team, being applied a questionnaire on safety in hospitals (HSOPSC), which has 42 dimensions, Part 2 - Incidents related to health care: data were collected from the records contained in the nursing process and management reports of the service. We included all records of the patients, who were hospitalized in the unit for acute or chronic coronary diseases, from January 1 to December 31, 2017. Results: There was a greater percentage of positive responses in the dimensions related to teamwork (37.5%), organizational learning (56.25%), perception of patient safety (81.25%), non-punitive responses to error (62.50%), feedback and communication about errors (37.5%), openness to communication (50.0%), hospital management support (62.5%), ) and shift (43.8%). There was a higher percentage of negative responses in the staff-related dimension (43.75%). Of the incidents that occurred in the patients admitted to the UCO, 100% were identified as adverse events, with 52% loss of peripheral venous access (PVA), 27% of... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

In my essay I will discuss the role of the main character, Miss Emily, in the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. The short story was written in 1930 and takes place in the small town of Jefferson, in the south of the USA. Miss Emily is the only person remaining of the Grierson family, a family seen as mighty, as it used to be wealthy and had a prominent position in the town, and therefore she considers herself as finer than the other townspeople. As a result, she never marries and keeps to herself most of the time. The story stretches over most of Miss Emily‟s life and the narrator focuses on her. When she in the end dies, it is revealed that she had poisoned her lover and slept next to the dead body for forty years. In this essay I suggest that Miss Emily is imaged as a goddess and I will try to show evidence for that by pointing out religious references in the text as well as by discussing the important role of the narrator. I will argue that due to the Grierson family‟s history being of importance to the town, the prominence of Miss Emily‟s looks, and the way she acts imply that she is seen by the townspeople as a goddess. Moreover, Miss Emily‟s relationship with Homer Barron and the description of her house will be analyzed to strengthen the idea that Miss Emily could be linked to divinity. In my view, if Miss Emily is perceived as a goddess, she is bound to emerge as more than a mentally disturbed woman who killed her lover.

Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Geosciences. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. "March 2003" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-118).

Thesis(M.S.)--Auburn University, 2005. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references.

Thesis (M.A.)--David Lipscomb University. Graduate Department in Bible Studies, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-147).