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Critical Realism and the Biographical Film Project
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
This paper explores aspects of a critical realist approach that have practical application to biographical documentary filmmaking as an ontological and methodological guide in the planning, production, and editing processes. ...
Gardiner C. Means and the 1980s Shareholders' Attempted Revolution
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
Gardiner C. Means was one of the first twentieth-century economists to have noticed the concentration of corporate power in the hands of managers. He believed that this power arrangement caused production inefficiency and ...
An Oreo Ain't Nothing But A Cookie: An Analysis of Identity Struggles of African Americans in Desegregated Public Schools from 1950 to 1968
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
“It is not just the white man who does not know the Negro's name, however; the Negro does not know either. . .the controversy over name is bound up with the most fundamental question of identity: the flight from blackness, ...
Backdating Stock Options: A Primer in Social Irresponsibility
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
Backdating stock options refers to the falsification of stock issuance documentation by corporate officials in order to receive a favorable stock price. A lower stock price provides assurance of a greater payoff once the ...
Penitence, Punishment, and Pain: Negotiating Personal Authority in Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
Francis Lathom's novel, The Midnight Bell (1798), uses conventional gothic themes of crime, guilt, and punishment to interrogate gender roles and to explore how individuals may conform to, reject, or subvert mechanisms of ...
Indiscriminate or Intentional: Locations of Nonprofit Organizations in Kansas City
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
This study examines the locations of Kansas City metropolitan area nonprofit organizations, as defined by the eleven-county Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Although several authors have conducted similar studies of nonprofits ...