Adams State Academic Research

This collection contains theses written by the graduates in Adams State University’s Masters programs.

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Mancos Civilian Public Service Camp No. 111
The establishment of the Selective Service System (SSS) by Congress was intended for conscientious objectors to serve their country during World War II without compromising their principles. On July 1, 1943, the SSS opened the Civilian Public Service Camp #111 at Jackson Gulch, in Mancos, Colorado. The director of the Selective Service was General Lewis B. Hershey; he oversaw the implementation of section 5g that created the non-combat service that for COs. CPS #111 took up the work of the previous Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp at the same location, preparing the Bureau of Reclamation's Mancos Project. The project was a dam and irrigation system that would provide water to farmlands, the town of Mancos, and Mesa Verde National Park. The camp operated for 966 days, from July 1, 1943, to February 20, 1946. In the camp's brief history, 364 men were assigned to the camp; their ages ranged from 17 to 40. The heart of this thesis will tell the stories of the men at camp. The camp's newsletter Action revealed the inner workings of camp life. It further debated the unconstitutionality of the CPS programs and how men essentially performed indentured labor or jail time for their personal convictions. As a result, the impact of the CPS has been overshadowed by WWII publications. Nonetheless the CPS program paved the way for a more tolerate view towards conscientious objectors.
Physical Activity Levels Associated With Physical Education Classes
The purpose of this study was to determine which type of physical education class activity helped sixth grade students best meet or exceed the goal of spending at least fifty percent of class time in the target heart rate zone. Research Questions The research question asked which physical education class, aerobics, team sports, or student choice activities result in sixth grade students spending the largest percentage of class time in the target heart rate zone. A secondary question asked whether or not current cardiovascular fitness levels impact the amount of time students spend in the target heart zone in the three different types of classes.
Prohibition for the Other Guy, Not for Me: Dry Spokane and the Symbolism of Temperance
In Washington State, the era of Prohibition spanned more than fifteen parched years. Begim1ing with the passage of the anti-saloon Initiative Number Three in 1914 and closing with the repeal of statewide Prohibition more than a full year before the 1933 ratification of the Twenty First Amendment, the Evergreen State's experience with de jure temperance continues to provide students of American history with fresh opportunities for reappraisal. Using the city of Spokane, the largest between Minneapolis and Seattle, as a lens through which to evaluate the legitimacy of popular memory's cynical appraisal of the nation's Dry years, one encounters two particular historical constructs of enduring salience. The fist pertains to motivation, the second to enforcement. To the former, the arc of Spokane's Prohibition era narrative adds a layer of regional nuance to the accepted veracity of Professor Joseph Gusfield's influential "status anxiety" thesis as a means to understand the popularity of a temperance movement very few individuals ever indented to adopt personally. That is, while voters in Spokane were indeed motivated by a desire to censure the behavioral nom1s of "the other," the maligned subgroup in this case being comprised of a very different socio-economic class than in the major metropolitan areas that so often serve as the backdrop for Prohibition era histories, they lacked wholesale the courage of their ostensibly Dry convictions. To the latter, a consideration of the distinctive patterns of the local enforcement of temperance-related violations reveals a disturbing link between status and prosecution evocative of contemporary anxieties over the relationship between disadvantaged sub-groups and law enforcement.
Reinterpreting a Nineteenth Century Dairy Agricultural Landscape
Site 44FX0543, located in the western Piedmont region of Fairfax County at Ellanor C. Lawrence Park, has had a long debated function by archaeologists and historians. A problematic interpretation of the site function as an enslaved African American dwelling dating to an unknown temporal period of ownership was the result of misinterpretation of landscape, previous archaeological investigations, and the likely misinformation gained through second-hand oral histories of the parkland. The research conducted for this thesis meant to confirm or reject the previous interpretations pertaining to the function of the site. Background research, primary documentary sources, previous artifact assemblages, new artifact collections, and regional site comparisons synthesized to conclude that the building did not serve as an enslaved laborers dwelling. In addition, the thesis research presented here argues that the Machen family built the structure in the third quarter of the nineteenth century as a feeding house to support their growing dairy agricultural operation.
Scapes
This body of visual work is not complete. It will be an ongoing investigation and self-realization process across a variety of mediums. The mediums I have chosen to re-present the idea of space within this current crystalized exhibition are; paint, poetry, and performance. All of which carry their own specific historic and purposeful meaning.
Sculptural Vessels Exploring Animal Yoga Asanas
To emphasize the symbolic expressions of these artists, the following analyses is organized into five sections. Discussion in the first section includes historical examples of ceramics from various cultures featuring hybrid-imagery used in combination with the functional-vessel. The second section will identify contemporary artists who have influenced this body of work philosophically, technically, and conceptually. The third section addresses the ideas that form the basis of this thesis exploration, why these yoga asanas are relevant within the yoga community and how these influences are conveyed in Yoga Asana Series. The fourth section delves into technical processes utilized in the creative process of the body of work. The paper concludes with a fifth section that offers a description and analysis of how all of the proceeding sections are evidenced in specific works of Yoga Asana Series.
Silt: The Stout Foundations of a Western Slope Town
Located on the Western Slope of Colorado, Silt is largely overlooked compared to its larger neighbors in Garfield County. While other towns in the county were founded for mining opportunities or as tourist destinations, Silt started as a crossroads for those working in agriculture. To many people that are unfamiliar to the area, the town is unique only for its quirky name, but the town has a rich history of growth and struggles that closely mirror the larger trends of the United States. Founded in 1915, the town celebrates its centennial this year, but its identity is still in question. Founded as an agricultural community that provided economic opportunities for the surrounding farms, ranches, and orchards, Silt's development was also influenced by mining and transportation trends. Slowly the agriculture and mining of the region were replaced with jobs outside of the town. Silt's true calling is being an Everytown, USA that united aspects of the American Dream for a population that was more diverse than some areas. The small community of Silt and its surrounding areas is the epitome of middle America trying to make its way in this nation while riding the trends of the economy and the federal government. World events and advances in technology also drastically altered life in town, but Silt never lost its small town feel. There is nothing extraordinary or disastrous that made up its legacy; instead it lived, worked, and grew towards the future like most Americans of all ethnicities did throughout history.
Sport Participation Activity In Female High School Students
The purpose of this study was to determine what factors affect female high school students' participation in sport activities. Factors such as parents, peers, glory, staying in shape, love and siblings all influence participation. For this study a sample of convince was used. Sixty high school female students, 28 athletes and 32 non-athletes, were surveyed using the The Participation Motivation Questionnaire, (PMQ). This questionnaire has been used in past studies and is a good measurement for physical activity motivation. According to this study, it was concluded that athletes are influenced more by intrinsic factors such as fun and fitness, and non athletes are influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Overall, for both athletes and non athletes, it was found that fun was the most influential factor among female high school students, but it was also concluded that several factors influenAce participation.
Survival of Spirit: A Social History of the Incarcerated Japanese Americans of World War II
The study of World War II Japanese American removal and incarceration remains fresh and interesting, even though it happened decades ago1 Despite the best efforts of those who had been uprooted, deprived of unalienable rights, and held captive against their will for over three years, little redress was to be found for more than a generation. A partial and belated governmental recognition and rectification finally came, but its insufficiency further fueled a smoldering fire that had been burning for some time. The smolder became a literary conflagration as an increasing number of scholarly works and firsthand accounts were published, decrying the abuses of incarceration, criticizing euphemisms like "relocation," and working to create a public sympathy and awareness of the injustices done to these American citizens. Prejudice and rectification are still the major themes of the most recent scholarly work, but a close reading of primary sources, from the imprisonment experience through the present day, reveals that those afflicted by this heinous ordeal and their descendants want the world to understand something else. The story of what happened to this victimized yet amazing people has been told. The sufferers want us to comprehend not just what happened to them, but what they did about it, how they survived in these camps, and what this perseverance says about their indomitable spirit. They want to be seen as transcendent survivors who displayed dignity and patience, and not as aggrieved victims.
The American Glider Program of World War II
Much as the glider program has oftentimes been overlooked by popular culture since the end of the war, so too has the program been largely overlooked by many academic studies of the war. Only a handful of books have been devoted to the glider program and many of those books were memoirs written by the pilots themselves. When looking at the few books devoted entirely to the program, three historical questions come up when looking at the glider program. The first question is how important was the glider program with regards to winning the war? The second question is how smooth was the creation and implementation of the glider program? Finally, what was the glider pilot experience like during the war?
The City of Spindles Meets Its Match: How the Female Operatives in Lowell, MA Developed into Labor Advocates and Altered Women's History
In an unassuming rural town in Massachusetts during the early 1800's a revolution in American economy and women's rights was born. Lowell, Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River, was the home of the textile industry in America. The Boston Associates, the brains and funds behind the textile mills, unwittingly set up a system, The Waltham-Lowell system, in order to maintain a paternalistic control over the female operatives at the Lowell textile mills. It was that very system which would unify the women of the mills towards creating the first permanent women's union, the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association. Under the direction of Sarah Bagley and through the women's labor literature of the time, the LFLRA, had an impact on the development of the women's rights movement later embarked upon by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The Cockle and the Chaff: Mississippi Catholics and School Desegregation
In 1970, Mississippi's Catholic schools began to actively desegregate. The decision to integrate came sixteen years after the Brown v. Board of Education federal mandate that American schools desegregate with all deliberate speed. The following thesis will examine why it took the Catholic Church in Mississippi so long to adhere to the Supreme Court's decision. This thesis will argue that Mississippi's two bishops during the Civil Rights era were enlightened, socially-progressive bishops who desired integration. Yet, swift change requires a strong grassroots movement. No such movement existed in Mississippi. Mississippi Catholics were not ready to follow their bishops for two reasons: they feared the consequences of violating a rigid caste system, and they enjoyed the benefits of cultural assimilation with their white, Protestant, and often racist, brethren. Despite the lack of grassroots support, the two bishops could have used their ecclesial authority to demand integration. Why did they not use their authority and insist on immediate integration? This thesis provides two answers, both centering on the second Vatican Council. The pre-Vatican II Church was primarily concerned with the soteriological Gospel. The Church emphasized the salvation of individual souls, not the transformation of unjust societies. The Post-Vatican ll Church declared herself to be a member of the world community. She accepted her role as an institution in the world, and the responsibility that would entail. Henceforth, Mississippi's bishops would take stronger and stronger stances on civil rights, specifically when it came to school integration. Nevertheless, Vatican II made it clear that a bishop was the shepherd of his entire flock-including those Catholics who supported segregation. Mississippi's bishops would have to find ways to persuade rather than dictate to their socially conservative flock who accepted Jim Crow as the Mississippi Way.

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