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"Giving Rope and Pulling It Back" : Types and Patterns of Strategies Used by Parents to Prevent Adolescent Substance (Ab)use
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This study contributes to the INC theory by adding the stage of prevention to the parent-child relationships' timeline. Ten parents (six mothers and four fathers) were interviewed, and a memory enhancing timeline calendar ...
Once a Member, Always a Member: Identification Inducement Messages in National Sorority Magazines
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
As sorority membership numbers keep rising, national sororities need to be cognizant of the ways in which they may induce their members to remain active and involved within the organization. Identification inducement ...
From Preparation to Practice: An Applied Sports Broadcasting Course
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This project establishes the immense popularity of sports and explores the connection between sports and society, while establishing past weaknesses of broadcast education. It provides evidence of previous philosophical ...
Explaining Adolescent Behavior Intention to Consume Fast Food Using the Theory of Planned Behavior
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This study tested the utility of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain adolescent fast-food consumption among 349 high school adolescents. Subjective norms were further investigated to identify how parents and ...
Tonight It’s Government Funded: A Rhetorical Analysis of Manufactured Social Controversy and Government Funding of the Arts
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Thomas Goodnight’s definition of controversy offers an initial examination of Reverend Donald Wildmon and Reverend Pat Robertson’s attack of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), initiating the Culture Wars of 1989. ...
Incivility in the Informal Workplace: A Case Study of Emerald Lutheran Church
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This study examined how incivility is expressed in an informal church organization and the impact relationships among those in the organization have on incivility. The researcher had staff members of the church complete ...
Funding the Technology of a Research University
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Using the central information technology unit (CITU) on the North Dakota State University (NDSU) campus, this project triangulated two independent studies in an effort to converge data findings. The studies were conducted ...
Adapt or Perish: How Long-Term Unemployment Impacts Vocational Socialization and Professional Identification
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The present study examined 84 online narratives authored by 11 Suits--college-educated, middle-aged, white men--to examine how involuntary exit and long-term unemployment impacted their vocational socialization and ...
Rhetorical Agency in the Bhagavad Gita
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This M.A. thesis presents a rhetorical analysis of the Indian philosophical and religious text, The Bhagavad Gita. Utilizing Kenneth Burke's Pentad of act, scene, agent, agency and purpose as a primary interpretive lens ...
Leaving the Family: Exit from Totalistic Organizations
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The purpose of this study was to explore how members exit totalistic organizations. Existing organizational communication research has treated employee membership in an employment institution as the universal organizational ...