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The purpose of this naturalistic qualitative inquiry was to develop a more complete understanding of the process of implementing community policing from the citizen participants' perspective. While an abundance of literature exists on the topic of community policing, with the exception of several survey and evaluation efforts, little examination of this topic has been conducted that devoted exclusive attention to citizen participation in this style of policing. It was citizen participant descriptions that formed the basis for this examination. The present study also examined the theoretical support for community policing by comparing the citizen descriptions of this concept to the component parts of critical social science (Fay, 1987), normative sponsorship theory (Sower, et al., 1957) and community education for development (Compton & McClusky, 1980).A purposive sample was utilized to examine this topic. This sample was composed of citizens (N = 71) from Fort Wayne, Indiana and Fort Worth, Texas who had participated with their respective municipal police departments in implementing community policing. The community policing efforts in these cities had been in existence since the early to mid 1990s. The sample was composed of citizens that came from different geographic areas of their respective cities, and who had spent at least one year working with assigned police officers and community groups. A questioning route was developed and participants were interviewed in focus group settings. Data analysis identified seven themes from the transcribed interviews. These themes were: (a) partners; (b) community education; (c) neighborhood associations; (d) involvement with government; (e) problem solving; (f) frustration with the city administration and (g) communication and managing community policing.The research found that relatively successful community policing efforts rely upon structured neighborhoods, ample community education, an emphasis on problem solving, open communication and strong support from the upper levels of municipal government. Many of these findings were supported by the literature in the field. Additionally, the theories purported to support community policing were found to confirm the citizens' experiences in these cities. / Department of Educational Leadership

This dissertation is interested in how people talk about character in a variety of public spheres. Specifically, it explores the tangled relationship between authenticity and ethos, or what is taken as the distinction between intrinsic and constructed character. While this dissertation does not presume to settle the question of authenticity’s actuality, it does discuss the ways authenticity cues in rhetorical acts continue to influence how “sincere character” in those acts is understood, even as audiences exhibit shrewdness in recognizing that character is a purposeful manifestation of the rhetor. The fundamental phenomenon this dissertation seeks to describe is how people, with better and worse success, negotiate the dissonance between valuing character as authentic and as presentation and representation. Character in this view is a much richer and more paradoxical concept than many discussions of the term admit. A too-diluted study of ethos limited strictly to pinpointing credibility in an argument makes it difficult to articulate why an exhibition of character sometimes works and sometimes flops. Ethos in its fullest complexity is, and is not, constructed by any single act; it is the consequence of narratives, both of those narratives, and also what we say about those narratives; it is something we know about a rhetor, at the same time that it comes from what the rhetor claims to know; it is, most important, an appeal to authenticity, even when we know ethos is discursively, kairotically, and socially constructed. This dissertation offers an expanded definition of ethos as rhetorical transactions that rhetors and audiences mutually negotiate in order to determine the extent to which all sides will have their rhetorical needs met, and the extent to which all sides can assent to the those needs. The dissertation, using the works of Wayne Booth, Kenneth Burke, and Chaïm Perelman as its primary theoretical structures, offers pedagogic implications for these mutual negotiations. / text

Since the Civil War, historians have tried to understand why eleven southern states seceded from the Union to form a new nation, the Confederate States of America. What compelled the South to favor disunion over union? While enduring stereotypes perpetuated by the Myth of the Lost Cause cast most southerners of the antebellum era as ardent secessionists, not all southerners favored disunion. In addition, not all states were enthusiastic about the prospects of leaving one Union only to join another. Secession and disunion have helped shape the identity of the imagined South, but many Georgians opposed secession. This dissertation examines the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Moore Wayne (1790-1867), a staunch Unionist from Savannah, Georgia. Wayne remained on the U.S. Supreme Court during the American Civil War, and this study explores why he remained loyal to the Union when his home state joined the Confederacy. Examining the nature of Wayne’s Unionism opens many avenues of inquiry into the nature of Georgia’s attitudes toward union and disunion in the antebellum era. By exploring the political, economic and social dimensions of Georgia Unionism and long opposition to secession, this work will add to the growing list of studies of southern Unionists.

The father and son architectural firm of T.J. Tolan & Son and later Brentwood S. Tolan designed seven county courthouses in Indiana, more than any other architectural firm but one. The Tolan firm also designed courthouses throughout the Midwest. Little is known about these architects, except that neither was formally trained. However, the Tolans designed high caliber courthouses that are viewed as some of the best in the state. Using primary and secondary sources, this thesis is an assessment of the courthouses constructed in Indiana by the architectural firm T.J. Tolan & Son and by Brentwood S. Tolan in the context of courthouses constructed in Indiana from the same period. / Department of Architecture

Young adult dystopian fictions follow the patterns established by the classic adult dystopias such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, but not completely. Young adult dystopias tend to end happily, a departure from the nightmarish ends of Winston Smith and John Savage. Young adult authors resist hopelessness, even if the fictional world demands it. Using a rhetorical approach established by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep, this thesis traces the reasons for the inclusion of hope and the strategies by which hope is created and maintained. Booth's rhetorical approach recognizes that a narrative is a relational act. At issue in this study is the consideration of what follows from viewing a narrative as a dynamic exchange between text, author and reader. Through a focus on rhetoric as identification, the responsibilities of both the author and the reader to a text are identified and discussed. Three young adult novels, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Giver by Lois Lowry and Feed by M.T. Anderson will be analyzed as case studies. Together the analysis of these novels reveals that storytelling is an act of forging identifications and forming alliances. The reader becomes more than just a spectator of the author's rhetoric; the reader is a fully involved member of the interpretive and evaluative process.

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Este trabalho realiza um estudo da representação do coronelismo nas narrativas de ficção Xarqueada, de Pedro Wayne, publicada em 1937, e Gabriela, cravo e canela, de Jorge Amado, de 1958, ambientadas, respectivamente, no Sul e Nordeste do Brasil. Entendendo que os aspectos culturais e socioeconômicos são partes integrantes de uma configuração histórica regional, a pesquisa busca discutir a forma com que espaços distintos contribuem para a construção ficcional dos coronéis nas regiões de produção do charque e do cacau. Além disso, o estudo analisa como as atividades charqueadora e cacaueira estão relacionadas com as disputas de poder e como a modernidade, tanto em âmbito econômico quanto cultural, consiste em um fator importante na reorganização dos jogos de forças das oligarquias no cenário político regional e nacional. Dessa forma, visa-se contribuir com os estudos sociorregionais que tratam do coronelismo e de suas relações de poder nas áreas da literatura e da história. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-11-17T15:53:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Fernanda Alliatti Masutti.pdf: 1138045 bytes, checksum: 4dcecfbc0bf20e216b7215965dee1ace (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-17T15:53:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Fernanda Alliatti Masutti.pdf: 1138045 bytes, checksum: 4dcecfbc0bf20e216b7215965dee1ace (MD5) / This work performs a study of the coronelismo representation on the narratives of the Pedro Wayne’s fiction Xarqueada, published in 1937, and Jorge Amado’s Gabriela, cravo e canela, from 1958, settled, respectively, in the south and northeast regions of Brazil. Understanding that the cultural and socioeconomic aspects are inherit parts of a regional historical configuration, the research aims at discussing the way that distinct areas contribute to the coronels fictional construction in the cocoa and charque (jerked meat) production regions. Furthermore, the study proposes to analyze how charque and cocoa activities are related to power disputes and also how the modernity, in both economical and cultural levels, consists in an important factor in the reorganization of the oligarchies game of power in the regional and national scenario. As a result, the present study intends to contribute with the socioregional studies which deal with the coronelismo and its relations of power under the literature and history scope.

Este trabalho realiza um estudo da representação do coronelismo nas narrativas de ficção Xarqueada, de Pedro Wayne, publicada em 1937, e Gabriela, cravo e canela, de Jorge Amado, de 1958, ambientadas, respectivamente, no Sul e Nordeste do Brasil. Entendendo que os aspectos culturais e socioeconômicos são partes integrantes de uma configuração histórica regional, a pesquisa busca discutir a forma com que espaços distintos contribuem para a construção ficcional dos coronéis nas regiões de produção do charque e do cacau. Além disso, o estudo analisa como as atividades charqueadora e cacaueira estão relacionadas com as disputas de poder e como a modernidade, tanto em âmbito econômico quanto cultural, consiste em um fator importante na reorganização dos jogos de forças das oligarquias no cenário político regional e nacional. Dessa forma, visa-se contribuir com os estudos sociorregionais que tratam do coronelismo e de suas relações de poder nas áreas da literatura e da história. / This work performs a study of the coronelismo representation on the narratives of the Pedro Wayne’s fiction Xarqueada, published in 1937, and Jorge Amado’s Gabriela, cravo e canela, from 1958, settled, respectively, in the south and northeast regions of Brazil. Understanding that the cultural and socioeconomic aspects are inherit parts of a regional historical configuration, the research aims at discussing the way that distinct areas contribute to the coronels fictional construction in the cocoa and charque (jerked meat) production regions. Furthermore, the study proposes to analyze how charque and cocoa activities are related to power disputes and also how the modernity, in both economical and cultural levels, consists in an important factor in the reorganization of the oligarchies game of power in the regional and national scenario. As a result, the present study intends to contribute with the socioregional studies which deal with the coronelismo and its relations of power under the literature and history scope.

The aim of this essay is to examine the significance of the concept of sanctification in biblical theological reflection on economics through a comparative textual study. The theologians analyzed are Albino Barrera, Wayne Grudem, and Kathryn Tanner. In what way are their biblical and systematic theologies of economics related to their understanding of the concept of sanctification? What is the relationship between sanctification and the Bible’s words on economics? In a broader perspective, the essay aims to reflect on how the concept of sanctification can be viewed and enunciated in the light of a capitalist economic system. The theologians used in the essay all have their origins in disparate theological discourses, Christian communities, and academic disciplines. Barrera is a biblical scholar, economist and a priest in the Catholic Church. In Biblical Economic Ethics, Barrera writes an economic theology with an emphasis on social justice. Grudem is a Calvinist Baptist biblical scholar and systematic theologian, active in conservative evangelical theological discourse. In Politics according to the Bible, Grudem presents his biblical theology on politics and society. Tanner is a systematic theologian in the Episcopal Church, active in the disciplines of feminist and constructive theology. In Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism, she critiques the economic paradigm she describes as the new spirit of capitalism. Barrera, Grudem, and Tanner all make different readings of what the Bible has to say about economic life. Grudem actively endorses the economic system of today, while Barrera and Tanner have a more critical voice. Barrera sees sanctification as a gift of divine friendship from God. Grudem views sanctification as what comes after conversion from sin and the blessings granted by God. Tanner means that sanctification takes place through the work of the Spirit and by Jesus’ gift of a life in holiness. Through the essay a connection has been established between a person’s view on sanctification and their biblical theology on economics. Barrera’s, Grudem’s, and Tanner’s biblical theology on economics is closely connected to their understanding of the concept of sanctification. There seems to be a connection between the biblical material that is being analyzed, how it is analyzed, and what is being left out. A central finding in the essay is the connection between the understanding of sanctification as either a gift or a reward.