This study will examine the neglected comic element in American poetry, placing it in the rich and distinctive traditions of American humor.

This new edition is a second effort to assist scholars in their study of the Truman period. It reassesses the Presidential Library and collected scholarship that defines the period.

In domestic policy the Eightieth Congress is best known for its attack on the New Deal programs and its refusal to expand the welfare state. A close examination, however, reveals the limited mature of the attack as well ...

-quality, low-cost coal logs at a high production rate. In this thesis, a commercial scale rotary press for compacting coal logs and biomass logs is designed. This machine is not a small, conventional tablet rotary press used by the pharmaceutical industry...

and creating a game-theoretic model of the libertarian arguments for a free press. The central argument of this study is that an open media industry - one where journalists are free to report the news and express a diverse range of opinions without fear...

. This thesis examines that debate as it took place in four newspapers: the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the Irish Worker, and the Irish Press. These newspapers had competing audiences and ideologies, and each had a different take on the Spanish Civil War...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examined how print coverage of depression and antidepressants changed during the time period from 2002 to 2006 in regards to the FDA's 2004 decision to include black...

This map highlights landmarks and buildings around the University of Missouri campus, as well as provides information about notable alumni....

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Southern Baptists, the largest evangelical group in the United States, has its own media world, including publishing houses, newspapers and even its own wire service. This large...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This article uses a content analysis to examine newspaper coverage and press releases coverage of the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records...

A selected bibliography of resources addressing research on the human body which was compiled primarily by librarians at the MU Libraries for the 2008 Body Project Conference....

Spectrum offers informational pieces on diverse topics from all University of Missouri campuses....

This study examined how the U.S. and South Korean media covered the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, a negotiation process that began in 2003 and is still incomplete. It also investigated journalists' ...

to coverage provided by the traditional press, represented in this study by the states' Associated Press bureaus. The study used Van Dijk's (1998a; 1998b) description of ideology and Tuchman's (1972) dissection of objectivity as theoretical lenses to guide...

In November 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the labor union representing U.S. film, television and radio writers, called a strike targeted at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a trade association ...

Although females have campaigned for offices in the executive branch of the U.S. government, none have been elected. According to some scholars and researchers, one of the reasons females have been unable to break through ...