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Porwancher, Andrew. "American legal thought and the law of evidence, 1904-1940." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609802.
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Bruin, Thomas M. "Real estate investment trusts and market sentiment in the United States & Europe." View electronic thesis (PDF), 2009. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2009-2/rp/bruint/thomasbruin.pdf.
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Hudnor, Amy Claire. "Economic Approaches to Public and Private Land Conservation in the United States." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/HudnorAC2007.pdf.
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Wilson, Robin M. "Influence of demographic variables on the likelihood of management plans for land trust properties." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/678.
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Root, Jonathan B. "A people’s religion: the populist impulse in early Kansas Pentecostalism, 1901-1904." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1371.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of History
Robert D. Linder
This thesis examines early Pentecostalism in light of the Populist Movement. There are two main arguments in this study. First, I maintain that early Kansas Pentecostalism, as seen in the teachings of Charles Fox Parham, was heavily influenced by Populist ideas and language. Parham displayed Populist tendencies in his attacks on the Protestant Establishment, which he believed had neglected to care for the spiritual and physical needs of “the people.” This failure on the part of the churches led Parham to believe that a major reform of the church was needed. Parham went beyond simply criticizing the establishment. He also developed a popular theology that empowered individuals, many of whom were poor and working-class, and created a strong sense of collective aspiration. The second argument of this study is that Populism fostered a sociopolitical environment in which Pentecostalism could thrive. Parham’s confrontations with the Protestant Establishment and his concern with the needs of “the people” was attractive to many individuals who tended to support movements that sought to disrupt the status quo. One event that can shed light on early Kansas Pentecostalism’s relationship with Populism was a revival in Galena, Kansas, a lead and zinc mining town in the southeast corner of the state, that took place from October 1903 to January 1904. By examining some of the connections between the Populist movement and early Kansas Pentecostalism, this study provides some insight into the development of one of the most popular expressions of Christianity in the world.
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Kim, Jiwon. "Syngman Rhee's efforts in the United States to promote Korean independence from 1904 to 1945." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44961.
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This study examines Syngman Rhee's activities in the United States, from 1904 to 1945, as he tried to gain independence for Korea. Rhee was a prominent Korean nationalist, anti-communist, and first President of South Korea. Chapter One (1904-1918) examines how Rhee began his fight for Korean independence after consequential events in Korean history. Chapter Two (1919-1938) looks at Rhee's activities as a principal leader of Korean independence from 1919 to 1938. After the March First Movement in Korea in 1919, he became the President of the Korean Provisional Government and concentrated his efforts on diplomacy and propaganda in the United States. Chapter Three (1939-1945) focuses on Rhee's efforts for the recognition of the Korean Provisional Government and the guarantee of Korean independence immediately after the war. In addition, the chapter examines why Rhee started to fight against Russian aggression toward Korea. Chapter Four (after 1945) briefly examines Rhee' s continuous fight for Korean independence against Russian communism, after he returned to Korea. As this thesis concludes, Rhee's long struggle for Korean independence greatly contributed to the establishment of a democratic South Korea.
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Durr, David W. "Three Essays on Real Estate Investment Trusts and Financial Markets." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278203/.
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This dissertation is structured as three essays on real estate investment trusts and financial markets. It addresses the financial performance and systematic risk of different REIT types, the information content of REIT bankruptcies, and the effect of recent tax law changes on the REIT industry.
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Troutman, John William 1973. "The overlord of the savage world: Anthropology, the media, and the American Indian experience at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291662.
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The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis featured an anthropology exhibit consisting of living American Indians in order to display both stages in "civilization" and the benefits of federal Indian boarding school education for Indian children. Although fair organizers considered these the goals of the exhibit, the American Indians created their own experience at the fair. While the living conditions and the treatment of the native people were often deplorable, the American Indians found in many instances adventure and economic gain through selling their crafts to tourists. Analyzing the local and national media coverage of the exhibit provides an understanding of the racial and cultural ideologies disseminated throughout the country. This thesis combines a reconstruction of the American Indian experience with an analysis of the media coverage in order to understand more clearly the daily life and importance of the exhibit for all involved.
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Ault, Jonathan Bennett. "Closing the Open Door Policy: American Diplomatic and Military Reactions to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625920.
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Murphy, Gretchen. "Locating the nation : literature, narrative, and the Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1904 : a genealogy of American exceptionalism /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9312.
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Glynn, Thomas Peter. "Books in the public sphere New York libraries and the culture-building enterprise, 1754-1904 /." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/doctoral/GLYNN_THOMAS_49.pdf.
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Cozort, Larry A. "The effect of accrued pension benefit preservation on worker mobility in muliemployer plans." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54746.
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The relationship between mobility of vested plan participants and the use of reciprocity agreements in multiemployer plans was investigated. The assumption that pension benefit forfeiture retards worker mobility was considered. The assumption that worker mobility is enhanced by benefit preservation is one of the justifications for tax incentives provided retirement plans.
Several variables were considered in addition to the use or nonuse of reciprocity agreements; however, none of the variables were found to be significantly related to the turnover rate for vested plan participants in multiemployer plans. The primary conclusion of the research was that the hypothesis that benefit preservation through the use of reciprocity agreements in multiemployer plans is ineffective in increasing turnover for vested plan participants could not be rejected.Ph. D.
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Rayneard, Max James Anthony. "Performing Literariness: Literature in the Event in South Africa and the United States." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12083.
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x, 208 p.In this dissertation "literariness" is defined not merely as a quality of form by which texts are evaluated as literary, but as an immanent and critical sensibility by which reading, writing, speaking, learning, and teaching subjects within the literary humanities engage language in its immediate aesthetic (and thus also historical and ethical) aspect. This reorientation seeks to address the literary academy's overwhelming archival focus, which risks eliding literary endeavor as an embodied undertaking that inevitably reflects the historical contingency of its enactment. Literary endeavor in higher education is thus understood as a performance by which subjects enact not only the effect of literary texts upon themselves but also the contingencies of their socio-economic, national, cultural, and personal contexts. Subjects' responses to literature are seen as implicit identity claims that, inevitably constituted of biases, can be evaluated through the lens of post-positivist realism in terms of their ethical and pragmatic usefulness. Framing this reoriented literariness in terms of its enactment in higher education literature classrooms, this dissertation addresses its pedagogical, methodological, and personal implications. The events of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the literature arising from it serve as a pivotal case study. The TRC Hearings, publically broadcast and pervasive in the national discourse of the time, enacted a scenario in which South Africans confronted the implications for personal and national identities of apartheid's racial abuses. The dissertation demonstrates through close reading and anecdotal evidence how J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull formally reactivate this scenario in the subject in the event of reading, while surveys of critical responses to these texts show how readers often resisted the texts' destabilizing effects. A critical account of the process that resulted in Telling, Eugene - a stage production in which U.S. military veterans tell their stories to their civilian communities - analyzes the idea of literariness in the U.S. and assesses its potential for socially engaged literary praxis.
Committee in charge: Linda Kintz, Chairperson; Suzanne Clark, Member; Michael Hames-Garcia, Member; John Schmor, Outside Member
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Barrett, Kevin Stanton. "Charitable giving and federal income tax policy : additional evidence based on panel-data elasticity estimates /." Diss., This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-135657/.
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Gernhardt, Phyllis J. "Prentiss Ingraham and the dime novel." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834145.
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This study examines the ideas and values of late nineteenth century American society through the popular art form of dime novel literature. The works of Prentiss Ingraham, one of the most prolific dime novel authors, with over 600 novels to his credit, and one of the most popular, with-at least one reprint of each title, served as the focus of this study. A reading and analysis of 75 of his novels provided insight into the social ideas of his time.The results of this study show nineteenth century America's perceptions of the ideal society and the romanticization of nineteenth century American beliefs. This ideal society was based on a democratic foundation and thrived on a balance between the ruggedness of the frontier and the refinement of Eastern civilization. Likewise, the ideal American hero possessed the same blending of these characteristics.Department of History
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Baich, Keith David. "American Scientists, Americanist Archaeology: The Committee on Radioactive Carbon 14." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/168.
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Willard Libby's development of carbon-14 dating at the University of Chicago immediately following World War II provided an unprecedented opportunity for the collaboration of archaeologists with a physical chemist. Libby's need for archaeological samples to test the dating process (1947-1951) meant that he relied upon the Committee on Radioactive Carbon 14, formed by the American Anthropological Association, for datable materials, as well as for assistance in all other archaeologically related aspects of the testing phase. The committee, under the leadership of archaeologist Frederick Johnson, served the mandated function of providing assistance to Libby, but simultaneously endeavored to utilize the new dating method to promote the development of the authority of anthropological professional organizations and further establish Americanist archaeology in a national and global context. Johnson's and the committee's approach to collaboration was informed by an understanding of opportunities provided by the postwar restructuring of the sciences. The purpose of the present study is to provide a history of the Committee on Radioactive Carbon 14 (1948-1952) as well as a to provide the context necessary to describe the bureaucratic and scientific goals of the committee. Frederick Johnson's career, and the manner in which it reflected general trends in twentieth century American anthropology, is discussed in detail, and utilized to present an explanation of his actions as committee chair. Willard Libby's development of carbon-14 dating is also discussed in detail, particularly in regard to his request for assistance from the archaeological community and subsequent collaborative work. The undeniable influence of carbon-14 dating on archaeological practice worldwide, and Libby's acceptance of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1960) for his development of the dating method, has provided reason enough for a plethora of articles and book length studies regarding carbon-14 dating. Yet, little has been written about the Committee on Radioactive Carbon 14 and its place in an analysis of the bureaucratic and collaborative science of the American mid-century. It is for this reason that the present study was undertaken.
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Farias, Flávio José de Moura. "A dimensão estratégica da política externa dos Estados Unidos no Caribe (1898-1904)." São Paulo : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/96284.
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Orientador: Oliveiros da Silva FerreiraBanca: Rafael Duarte Villa
Banca: Reginaldo Matar Nasser
O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais é instituido em parceria com a Unesp/Unicamp/PUC-SP, em projeto subsidiado pela CAPES, intitulado "Programa San Tiago Dantas"
Resumo: Após a guerra hispano-americana de 1898, os Estados Unidos instalaram bases navais em Cuba e Porto Rico, e começaram a construir um canal interoceânico no Panamá. O objetivo de nossa pesquisa, portanto, é analisar como os Estados Unidos conseguiram essas bases, a importância delas para a defesa do canal do Panamá e como elas se relacionaram com a política externa dos Estados Unidos para o Caribe estabelecida pelos presidentes William McKinley e Theodore Roosevelt.
Abstract: After the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States established naval bases in Cuba and Porto Rico, and started to build an interoceanic canal in Panama. The purpose of this research is, therefore, to analyze how the United States obtained these bases, their importance to the defense of the Panama Canal and how they connected with the American foreign policy for the Caribbean set up by presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Seely, Dagmar. "American Indian foundations : philanthropic change and adaptation /." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1847.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007.Department of Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Advisor(s): William Brescia, Frances A. Huehls, Dwight Burlingame. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-113).
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Macedo, Oígres Lêici Cordeiro de. "Construção diplomática, missão arquitetônica: os pavilhões do Brasil nas feiras internacionais de Saint Louis (1904) e Nova York (1939)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-20062012-155123/.
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Tanto o Pavilhão Brasileiro da Exposição de Saint Louis, ocorrido em 1904, de autoria do engenheiro Francisco Marcelino de Souza Aguiar, como o da Feira de Nova York, de 1939, dos arquitetos Lucio Costa e Oscar Niemeyer, carregavam a missão arquitetônica de representar a identidade do país. Manifestaram-se distintos em suas arquiteturas pela formação de seus autores e pelo lugar e época em que foram construídos. Esses edifícios revelam dimensões da vida nacional em ressonância com as relações políticas, comerciais e culturais tecidas para a sua realização. O conjunto de circunstâncias sobre as quais essas arquiteturas se fundamentam contraria suas aparentes oposições e lhes confere sentidos complementares. Uma construção diplomática que transpôs percalços políticos, conciliando-os para um projeto de modernização e superação do país frente aos passados recentes de cada um dos períodos. Esse trabalho diplomático estreitou relações da jovem República do Brasil com os EUA, paradigma de nação nova que reunia as condições materiais e tecnológicas para a construção dos dois pavilhões. Tomar esses dois casos como exemplares permite compreender os aspectos de diálogo entre tradições europeias e suas emulações americanas. Caminhos complementares da arquitetura e da diplomacia revelam as vontades correntes de modernização e da busca do estabelecimento de maioridade do país, assim como a intenção de sua inclusão como agente no \"Jogo de Nações\" que se abriu no século 20.Both the Brazilian Pavilion at the 1904 Saint Louis Word\'s Fair, authored by engineer Francisco Marcelino de Souza Aguiar, and the one at the New York Fair in 1939, by the architects Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, laded the architectural mission of representing the country\'s identity. They were distinct in their architectures due to the training of their authors and the place and time they were built. These buildings show the dimensions of national life to be in resonance with the political, commercial and cultural relations woven for their implementation. The set of circumstances these architectures are based on contradicts the apparent oppositions and gives them complementary directions. A diplomatic construction that has transposed political mishaps by conciliating them around a project to modernize the country as to the recent pasts of each of the periods. This diplomatic performance straitened the relations of the young Republic of Brazil with the United States, paradigm of a new nation that matched both the material conditions and the technology for the construction of the two pavilions. Taking these two cases as exemplary allows us to understand the aspects of the dialogue between the European traditions and their American emulations. The complementary paths of both architecture and diplomacy reveal the wish for modernisation and the search for the establishment of the country\'s majority, as well as the intention of its inclusion as a player in the \"Game of Nations\" which opened up in the 20 century
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Potter, Holly. "Leopold and Loeb : texts and contexts of an American cause célèbre." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22457.
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This thesis situates the famous Leopold and Loeb case within the context of social discourse about the criminal. I will argue that this case played an important role in mediating social attitudes towards criminality at two moments in American history: first, in the 1920s, when defense attorney Clarence Darrow used the Leopold and Loeb trial to challenge traditional assumptions about innate criminality and the existence of a criminal type; and later, in the post World War Two epoch, when concern with various forms of "deviant" behaviour intensified. This analysis of one particular criminal case and its manifold repercussions might also prove useful for opening similar inquiries into other causes celebres.
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Ney, Jason B. "Transculturalism in Emile Galle's art nouveau Ecole De Nancy and contemporary landscape architecture." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1191714.
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This study looks at the degree to which Emile Galle's theories of symbolic ornamentation are observed in contemporary landscape architecture design. Galle's theories consist of three components: the first relates to the functional aspects of design, and the last two relate to the aesthetic aspects. These three components are used to evaluate three case studies. In the case studies, Bicentennial Commons in Cincinnati and Canal Walk in Indianapolis show a partial though apparent utilization of Galle's theories, while Riverwalk in Milwaukee comes closest of the three to demonstrating the application of Galle's theories in Landscape Architecture. However, none fully exhibit Galle's theories. Nonetheless, the case studies, and in particular Riverwalk, exhibit the initial stages of a renewed interest in ornamentation in which culture is symbolically represented through nature. Landscape Architects, more than ever, are being called upon to embody the meaning of the land through a cultural synthesis in an expression of past/present and man/nature.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Singer, Jonathan Whitney. "Broken trusts: The Texas Attorney General versus the oil industry, 1889-1909." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/19438.
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The legal history of state antitrust enforcement and the oil industry in Texas illustrates how and why antitrust law contemplated complementary enforcement at the state and federal government level. Historians, economists, and lawyers have concentrated on federal antitrust law and enforcement, ignoring state efforts. Yet for most of the first twenty-five years following the enactment of the Sherman Antitrust Act, federal enforcement efforts were extremely limited, leaving the field to the states. Texas was one of several states that had strong antitrust laws, and whose attorneys general prosecuted antitrust violations with vigor. Political ambition was a factor in the decisions to investigate and prosecute cases against a highly visible target, the petroleum industry, but there was also a genuine belief in the goals of antitrust policy, and in the efficacy of enforcement of the laws. Enforcement efforts were also complicated by the fact that large oil companies provided vital commodities, articles of "prime necessity," to the citizens of Texas and following the discovery of large oil fields, played an increasingly important role in the economies of many Texas communities.
The Texas Attorney General's antitrust enforcement efforts against the oil industry in this time of transition from an agricultural society to an industrial society provide insights into the litigation process, and reveal how well the rhetoric of trust-busting fit with the reality of antitrust enforcement. The antitrust crusade against the petroleum industry also highlights the changing roles of state government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly the Attorney General's Department. The experience of Texas undermines the view that federal action has always dominated antitrust enforcement efforts and that antitrust litigation against Standard Oil was ineffective and ineffectual. Rather, the Texas Attorney General's litigations and their results suggest that some states took their role in the dual enforcement scheme seriously and that the measure of success of antitrust enforcement goes beyond the amount of monetary penalties collected, and companies permanently ousted from a state.
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Ford, Gregory Jason, and 傅桂瑞. "Real Estate Investment Trusts in the United States." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89967627439989652369.
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碩士輔仁大學
國際創業與經營管理學程碩士在職專班
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This thesis analyzes Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in the United States. The thesis starts off by describing the history of how REITs came into existence. The paper then goes to analyze the legislative history and the implications the legislation had on REITs. The paper then selects one specific publicly traded REIT to analyze operationally and financially. The REIT that will be analyzed is in the health care sector. This paper will discuss the positive and negative aspects of the REIT as an investment vehicle. It will also address what type of investors is best suited to invest in a REIT. The thesis is concluded with a summary.
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Vink, Amber. "Cross border taxation of trusts a review of the use of foreign trusts and the interaction between the tax laws governing trusts in the United States and New Zealand /." 2008. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/vink%5Famber%5F200805%5Fllm.
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Hughes, Peter Mark. "An examination of subsidies provided by public universities to affiliated foundations." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/38191.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which public universities
are providing subsidies to tax-exempt, non-profit, legally distinct corporations
which serve as university-affiliated foundations. Specifically, this investigation
sought to determine (a) the percentage of universities providing subsidies, (b) the
types of subsidies provided, (c) the dollar value of subsidies provided by the universities,
and (d) whether statistically significant differences exist among the categories
of the value of the foundations' endowed funds, university size, and the amounts of
foundation unrestricted and restricted expenditures with respect to the presence,
type, and dollar ranges of subsidies provided by universities to their affiliated foundations.
A survey instrument was developed for purposes of gathering data for this
study. The accessible population surveyed consisted of all four-year public universities
and colleges with an enrollment exceeding 2,500 full-time students which were
members of the National Association of College and University Auditors. Of the
selected sample size of 125, a total of 83 usable responses were received, resulting
in a completion rate of 66 percent.
Based on the results of the study, the following information was obtained:
(a) 94 percent of the universities provided at least one type of subsidy to their
foundations; (b) 73 percent of the universities provided staff and 80 percent of the
universities provided office space to their foundation; (c) 50 percent of the universities
provided subsidies of $50,000 or more, 33 percent provided $100,000 or more,
and 20 percent provided $250,000 or more to their foundation; and (d) foundations
that received the lowest subsidies (zero) had the highest means for endowment values,
student enrollments, and expenditures.Graduation date: 1990
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Lottering, Natasia. "A comparison of tax legislation of trusts between South Africa and the United States of America on emigration." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30660.
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An estimated 81 142 South Africans emigrated to the United States of America in 2010
(The World Bank, 2010). If only one of these emigrants were a creator, donor or
beneficiary of a South African trust, then it is important to determine the tax implications
both in South Africa and the United States of America for the creator, donor or beneficiary.
In South Africa, the income and gains of the South African trust will be taxed in the hands
of the donor, beneficiary or the trust itself. But, in the United States of America, the tax
consequences could get rather complicated.
The main purpose of this study was to make a theoretical comparison of the tax
consequences of South African trusts both in South Africa and the United States of
America and determine the effect of the emigration of the South African donor and/or
beneficiaries to the United States of America.
Based on the literature reviewed, the donor will be taxed in South Africa if a donation,
settlement or other disposition was made, the beneficiary will be taxed if he/she has a
vested right to income and no donation, settlement or other disposition was made and the
South African trust will be taxed on any taxable income retained in the trust that is not
taxable in the hands of the donor or beneficiary. In the United States of America, the
South African trust will be liable for tax depending on its status as a business, investment
or ordinary trust and furthermore on its status as a grantor or non-grantor trust.Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Chiu, Yen-Ju, and 丘燕如. "Study on the Difference of Investment Performance between the Real Estate Investment Trusts and Real Estate in United States." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12783408616417149109.
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The development of America’s real estate securitization is flourishing in the financial system. From the perspective of investment, the REITs’ price and return rate on investment are the biggest factors affecting the desire for investment. This study analyzed REITs and real estate performance on the actual situation of US real estate market. It included index performance, stock prices and dividends and other differences in performance analysis. The study selected types of real estate equity securities, mortgage securities of real estate and real estate and analyzed their performance differences as well as investigated the correlation between US REITs and real estate rewards. The empirical results showed there are significant differences among US equity REITs, mortgage REITs and real estate in performance. In addition, there is low correlation between the US real estate securitization and real estate. This study may provide investors with a reference point in the portfolio decision-making.
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Yoshioka, Takayuki. "Representational roles of nonprofit organizations in policy advocacy." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3898.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This research explores what roles nonprofits play in political representation by applying the concept of the representational role to nonprofits. The representational role consists of representational focus and style. Representational focus shows those whom nonprofits aim to serve: members, constituents, or the general public. Representational style denotes the ways nonprofits advocate for their focal groups: the delegation, trusteeship, and educational styles. The survey and regression analysis results demonstrate that nonprofits serving their members are most likely to convey their members’ voices directly to policy makers: the delegation style. In contrast, nonprofits advocating for their constituents are likely to pursue what they independently identify as the interests of their constituents: the trusteeship style. Finally, nonprofits speaking for the general public are most likely to work toward educating the general public: the educational style. These results suggest that nonprofits play different roles in political representation, depending on the types of their focal groups.
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Vuillermin, Daniel. "Biography from below : Herbert Kruckman - a forgotten man of American art." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149895.
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Biography is a genre that has been largely dedicated to 'eminent' lives, yet there is a need to re-evaluate the grounds of biographical eligibility to encompass 'forgotten' and other marginalised lives. BIOGRAPHY FROM BELOW: HERBERT KRUCKMAN -A FORGOTTEN MAN OF AMERICAN ART is a study of one such unrecognised figure, the New York-born artist, cartoonist, illustrator, teacher and author, Herbert Kruckman (1904-98). Throughout his career, Kruckman's works addressed the poverty of the Great Depression, civil rights, workers' rights, European fascism and the perils of capitalism. This is exemplified by his numerous satirical cartoons in left-wing magazines such as New Masses, the Hat Worker and controversial books such as HoI' Up Yo' Head (1936). Kruckman, as a painter, was a key contributor to 1930s American Social Expressionism, yet a reluctance to exhibit and other acts of self-sabotage, along with shifts in the postwar aesthetic and political landscapes of America, hindered his career. By incorporating traditional biography with elements of social history and art history, this thesis is an original study of Kruckman, an artist whose works spanned the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Second World War, McCarthyism and the Cold War. This thesis is divided into two interrelated studies: PART ONE: BIOGRAPHY FROM BELOW and PART Two: HERBERT KRUCKMAN -A FORGOTTEN MAN OF AMERICAN ART. The first part comprises a brief study of 'biography from below', which makes the case for using biography to uncover and examine what Virginia Woolf described as 'obscure' lives. This is followed by a historical survey of the biography of the artist as subgenre, which argues that the status of the artist is intertwined with biographical recognition and representation. Part One concludes with a brief introduction to the study of the biographical historiography of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP), which underpins the second and major part of this thesis, Kruckman's biography. The need for a biography of Kruckman is not based solely on his artistic and political contributions. In addition to using biography as a means of exposing a 'forgotten' life, it employs the genre to examine from 'below' the single largest government-sponsored art movement in American history, the WPA/FAP, providing an insight into the experience of a 'typical' New Deal artist working through America's worst financial and social crisis, the Great Depression. Given that there are very few biographical studies of New Deal artists, especially its unknown or forgotten figures, this thesis seeks to make an original contribution to American history and art history through its detailed and extensive research ofan unknown artist. Moreover, this thesis provides a threefold contribution to biography: the first in terms of the addition of a new subject into written discourse; the second in the expansion of the boundaries of biographical eligibility through the introduction a new type of subject; and the third through its demonstration of how biography can be used to examine a social, political, and artistic movement. The broad aims of this thesis are to rescue Herbert Kruckman's life from what E.P Thompson once called the"enormous condescension of posterity", and, equally importantly, to demonstrate the salience of biography as a form of historical enquiry, a lens onto a neglected moment in the social and biographical history of American art.
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Falder, Michael Thurlo. "Trends in Deferred Giving at Small Private Universities." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3069.
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Kienker, Brittany Lynn. "The Henry Ford : sustaining Henry Ford's philanthropic legacy." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4654.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This dissertation argues that the Edison Institute (presently known as The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan) survived internal and external challenges through the evolution of the Ford family’s leadership and the organization’s funding strategy. Following Henry Ford’s death, the museum complex relied upon the Ford Foundation and the Ford Motor Company Fund as its sole means of philanthropic support. These foundations granted the Edison Institute a significant endowment, which it used to sustain its facilities in conjunction with its inaugural fundraising program. Navigating a changing legal, corporate, and philanthropic landscape in Detroit and around the world, the Ford family perpetuated Henry Ford’s legacy at the Edison Institute with the valuable guidance of executives and staff of their corporation, foundation, and philanthropies. Together they transitioned the Edison Institute into a sustainable and public nonprofit organization by overcoming threats related to the deaths of two generations of the Ford family, changes in the Edison Institute’s administration and organizational structure, the reorganization of the Ford Foundation, the effects of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, and legal complications due to overlap between the Fords’ corporate and philanthropic interests. The Ford family provided integral leadership for the development and evolution of the Edison Institute’s funding strategy and its relationship to their other corporate and philanthropic enterprises. The Institute’s management and funding can be best understood within the context of philanthropic developments of the Ford family during this period, including the formation of the Ford Foundation’s funding and concurrent activity. This dissertation focuses on the research question of how the Edison Institute survived the Ford family’s evolving philanthropic strategy to seek a sustainable funding and management structure. The work examines its central research question over multiple chapters organized around the Ford family’s changing leadership at the Edison Institute, the increase of professionalized managers, and the Ford’s use of their corporation and philanthropies to provide integral support to the Edison Institute. In order to sustain the Edison Institute throughout the twentieth century, it adapted its operations to accommodate Henry Ford’s founding legacy, its legal environment, and the evolving practice of philanthropy in the United States.
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Pretes, Michael. "Renewing the wealth of nations." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49418.
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This thesis explores how capital flows are linked to economic development and
proposes an alternative pathway to enhancing livelihoods in the marginal spaces of
the global economy, drawing on examples from North America and the Pacific. Mainstream theories of development are largely based on European and North American examples, and argue for a progression of developmental stages from agriculture to industry to services, based on a flow of capital from core to periphery. Such theories are not place-specific, and do not reflect the particular conditions of remote and marginal places. In the peripheral spaces of the global economy, investment opportunities
may be limited. An alternative practice is to invest outside the region of capital
generation, through the mechanism of a trust fund. I argue that local development
can be achieved through investing in global financial markets, in core countries,
rather than at the site of capital generation. In this way, local development is not limited to the marginal place where the benefits are to be felt; peripheral capital instead flows into the core to seek out the best investment opportunities. The local development process becomes differently spatialized by engaging global financial markets. Capital generated in the periphery often comes in temporary streams, or windfalls, and benefits decline when the resource is depleted. Such non-renewable
resources can be transformed into renewable fiscal ones when capital generated from resource extraction is invested in financial markets through a trust fund. To make non-renewable resources renewable, they can be converted from a physical form into a financial form, thus extending the benefits of capital into perpetuity. This thesis suggests that trust funds may serve as an alternative development mechanism in certain peripheral spaces of the global economy. Trust funds receive a share of resource revenues and increase them through investment. States can establish trust funds as an instrument of government policy, with all citizens as beneficiaries. Trust funds allow for re-spatializing the nature of
investment as well as for sustaining it over time. My analysis is based on the examination of six case studies. Two of these
are peripheral economies in North America: the state of Alaska in the United States, and the province of Alberta in Canada. Both Alaska and Alberta established trust funds to manage their petroleum revenues. The four remaining cases are independent Pacific island nations: Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu. Each of these island nations established a trust fund to manage windfall resource revenues. The performance of these six trust funds has varied, largely reflecting policy choices. I develop a set of six criteria for the management of a successful fund. In this thesis, I ask development practitioners to reimagine the economic spaces of marginal economies and the relationship between core and periphery. I argue for a separation of the sites of capital generation and capital investment, and for transforming non-renewable windfall resources into renewable fiscal ones.