Indian nations into dependent wards of the United States oriented Indigenous resistance toward ensuring the survival of Indian peoples, lands, and resources. I argue that strategies of survivance -- a literary theory describing actions designed to ensure...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] An environmental history of Kansas City and an urban history of the Missouri River, this dissertation shows how interconnected the city and the river were through the twentieth...

The object of this thesis is to ascertain if any broad correlation exists between the lipase content of an organ and its state of fat metabolism. The author has chosen the liver as an organ, with its lipase content and fat ...

Applied research in clinical settings substantiates the beneficial effects of group operant systems with a variety of patient populations and problems. Additional proof of either the clinical potential or efficacy of reinforcement programs...

The consolidation of schools occurring over the last 100 years in America has had a monumental effect on American education today. It has also affected the way rural students interact with school, including how they get there and how they engage...

The sublethal effects of ecdysone agonist methoxyfenozide on the mating behavior and field orientation of codling moth, Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus), was examined. Five different lure types were placed in the upper canopy of 25 apple trees in a 5-acre...

The Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka) is a federally-listed endangered cyprinid species native to small headwater prairie streams in the mid-west of the United States. It generally spawns over and around sunfish (Lepomis sp.) nests. The objectives...

Although his movement was a labor movement that targeted only a small portion of Mexican Americans, Cesar Chavez has often been compared to Martin Luther King, Jr., and has been portrayed as a civil rights leader on the same level. This dissertation...

"This study is primarily concerned with an observation of Wilkins' journalistic image as reflected in his newspaper, magazine and syndicated columns concerning the racial and economic problems of the Negro American. A detailed observation is made...

Jefferson's early life and his writings until 1784, to provide a survey of his geographic thought. It will look at his work in surveying, cartography, climatology, his influence on military movements during the Revolutionary War, his contribution...

Edgar Degas' portrayal of women has generated particular interest. His subjects were often thought to be women of ill-repute, yet Degas shows them hard at work. I believe that Degas purposefully set out to chronicle the ...

Territoriality is a suite of behaviors through which animals secure access to particular areas or resources. It is prevalent across animal groups and has the potential to exert substantial influence on fitness by mediating how individuals...

the past two decades. However, the danger of non-target poisoning to seabirds has rarely been examined. In a second study, I assessed the risk of rodenticide bait to nesting Sooty Terns using placebo bait. I found no evidence of pellet ingestion based...

This thesis examines how a complicated mix of factors converged to influence the planning, proposal, protest, and final route of the Mark Twain Expressway through St. Louis's North Side in the 1950s. To proponents, the expressway symbolized...

The ripening of mackinawite (Fe₁+ₓS) to pyrite (FeS₂) or greigite (Fe²⁺Fe³⁺ ₂S₄) was examined at temperatures between 23 and 90°C to better understand the kinetics of low temperature iron sulfide crystallization in the ...

of the press and autonomy became the professional values most at stake for newsworkers as denominational leaders insisted journalists should concentrate on promotion. Through the Civil Rights Movement, most journalists tried to maintain a centrist position...

This thesis is a local study of the women's movement in Missouri. The primary topic is organized feminist activity, though it shows also feminist/antifeminist interactions. Missouri early established an official Commission on the Status of Women...

In this case study, 38 Black and White participants shared their recollections of intergroup contact during the first 15 years of desegregation (1954-1969) at a Historically Black University in a predominantly White Midwestern community. Faculty...

The Hushpuckney Shale of the Swope Formation and the Stark Shale of the Dennis Formation, two black shales in the Pennsylvanian Kansas City group, contain elevated concentrations of transition and based metal elements, ...