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Soulcraft 101: Faith, Doubt, And The Process Of Education, Boyd J. Petersen Jun 2009

Soulcraft 101: Faith, Doubt, And The Process Of Education, Boyd J. Petersen

Boyd J Petersen

Explores the interplay of education and doubt in the process of faith creation.


Collaborative Inquiry Projects That Enhance Everyone’S Professional Development, Bruce Robbins Jun 2009

Collaborative Inquiry Projects That Enhance Everyone’S Professional Development, Bruce Robbins

Bruce Robbins

No abstract provided.


“The Ungraspable Phantom: Death And Nature In Melville’S Later Poetry”, Tom Hillard May 2009

“The Ungraspable Phantom: Death And Nature In Melville’S Later Poetry”, Tom Hillard

Tom J. Hillard

No abstract provided.


The Tournament Of Tottenham, Linda Marie Zaerr May 2009

The Tournament Of Tottenham, Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


'Fiddling With Middle English Romance: Tuning, Timbre, And Rhythm' And 'AlterIng Sir Bevis: Precipitating Otherness In Medieval Romance', Linda Marie Zaerr May 2009

'Fiddling With Middle English Romance: Tuning, Timbre, And Rhythm' And 'AlterIng Sir Bevis: Precipitating Otherness In Medieval Romance', Linda Marie Zaerr

Linda Marie Zaerr

No abstract provided.


The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles Apr 2009

The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles

Nat DeBruin

Nelson Slade Bond had a varied writing career that spanned 70 years. Primarily known for science fiction short stories, Bond also wrote plays, radio and television scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, public relations material, and books. The collection reflects the author's professional and personal lives consisting of writings, correspondence, business papers and financial records from 1925 to 2005. The collection has approximately 370 magazines containing stories published by Nelson Bond. Although Bond wrote detective and sport stories, he is primarily known as a science fiction and fantasy author from the Golden Age of science fiction contemporary to authors such …


The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles Apr 2009

The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles

Lisle G Brown

Nelson Slade Bond had a varied writing career that spanned 70 years. Primarily known for science fiction short stories, Bond also wrote plays, radio and television scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, public relations material, and books. The collection reflects the author's professional and personal lives consisting of writings, correspondence, business papers and financial records from 1925 to 2005. The collection has approximately 370 magazines containing stories published by Nelson Bond. Although Bond wrote detective and sport stories, he is primarily known as a science fiction and fantasy author from the Golden Age of science fiction contemporary to authors such …


The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles Apr 2009

The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles

Andrew D. Earles

Nelson Slade Bond had a varied writing career that spanned 70 years. Primarily known for science fiction short stories, Bond also wrote plays, radio and television scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, public relations material, and books. The collection reflects the author's professional and personal lives consisting of writings, correspondence, business papers and financial records from 1925 to 2005. The collection has approximately 370 magazines containing stories published by Nelson Bond. Although Bond wrote detective and sport stories, he is primarily known as a science fiction and fantasy author from the Golden Age of science fiction contemporary to authors such …


Success In Distance Education: Do Learning Styles And Multiple Formats Matter?, John Battalio Apr 2009

Success In Distance Education: Do Learning Styles And Multiple Formats Matter?, John Battalio

John T. Battalio

Using data collected from 120 students enrolled in nine sections of an undergraduate technical communication course, this study found a number of statistically significant associations between students' learning styles, as defined by the Index of Learning Styles, and nine measures evaluating both academic performance and student preference. The study also measured student performance in collaborative and self-directed versions of the course, as well as full and summer sessions. Reflective learners were found to be the most successful online learners, excelling in collaborative, as well as self-directed versions of the course. Sequential learners also outperformed global learners. Learning styles were not …


The Displacement Of The American Novel: Imagining Aaron Burr And Haiti In Leonora Sansay’S Secret History, Michael Drexler Mar 2009

The Displacement Of The American Novel: Imagining Aaron Burr And Haiti In Leonora Sansay’S Secret History, Michael Drexler

Michael J Drexler

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Adrianne Wadewitz, Pamela Gay-White Mar 2009

Introduction, Adrianne Wadewitz, Pamela Gay-White

Adrianne Wadewitz

No abstract provided.


Behind The Short Story, Moya Costello Mar 2009

Behind The Short Story, Moya Costello

Dr Moya Costello

No abstract provided.


The Language Of The Spirit: An Interview With Scott Russell Sanders, Tom Montgomery-Fate Mar 2009

The Language Of The Spirit: An Interview With Scott Russell Sanders, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

No abstract provided.


Thoreau In The ‘Burbs, Tom Montgomery-Fate Mar 2009

Thoreau In The ‘Burbs, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

Commentator Tom Montgomery-Fate wonders if Henry David Thoreau's commitment to solitude and nature masked a deep sense of loneliness. He imagines another - less simple - life for the writer.


Historic Photos Of Ernest Hemingway, James Plath Feb 2009

Historic Photos Of Ernest Hemingway, James Plath

James Plath

From the 1920s until his death in 1961, “Papa” Hemingway was a larger-than-life literary figure whose everyday exploits became legendary. He was a friend of celebrities, a war correspondent, journalist, renowned big-game hunter, record-setting saltwater angler, and hard-drinking brawler whose reputation preceded him. Though Hemingway was and remains an American icon, he was also first and foremost a human being, as these striking black-and-white photos remind.
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Going Graphic: Understanding What Graphic Novels Are -- And Aren't -- Can Help Teachers Make The Best Use Of This Literary Form, James Carter Feb 2009

Going Graphic: Understanding What Graphic Novels Are -- And Aren't -- Can Help Teachers Make The Best Use Of This Literary Form, James Carter

James B Carter

Best practice information for considering graphic novels in the k-12 classroom


Botanical Shakespeares: The Racial Logic Of Plant Life In Titus Andronicus, Jean E. Feerick Feb 2009

Botanical Shakespeares: The Racial Logic Of Plant Life In Titus Andronicus, Jean E. Feerick

Jean Feerick

The early modern epistemic overlap between plant and person, Feerick’s article demonstrates, can expand critical work on early modern race both in and beyond Shakespearean drama. It centers upon an analysis of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, a play that brings plant bodies and human bodies into dizzying dramatic collision. In contrast to critics of the Enlightenment who have argued that the drive to classify plants into phyla and species helped to shape epistemologies of human difference, both gendered and racialized, this article works backward, examining how the premodern logic of botany helped to constitute a different racial idiom. During this …


Modern Thoreau, Tom Montgomery-Fate Feb 2009

Modern Thoreau, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

Although Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" was written more than one hundred years ago, commentator Tom Montgomery-Fate finds that many of its ideas are relevant today.


Journal Of Sun, Tom Montgomery-Fate Feb 2009

Journal Of Sun, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

Commentator Tom Montgomery-Fate considers the cycles of the sun as he watches the days lengthen and waits for winter to melt into spring.


The Herons Return, Tom Montgomery-Fate Feb 2009

The Herons Return, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

Commentator Tom Montgomery-Fate writes about the return of the great blue heron to his farm in Michigan.


Ants, Tom Montgomery-Fate Feb 2009

Ants, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

Writer and professor Tom Montgomery-Fate reflects on what insects have to teach us about our hurried lives.


In Search Of Home, Tom Montgomery-Fate Feb 2009

In Search Of Home, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

Longing to go back to his birthplace in Iowa, Chicago commentator Tom Montgomery-Fate ponders the meaning of home.


Nature's Balance, Tom Montgomery-Fate Feb 2009

Nature's Balance, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

A possum feeds on fresh road kill, causing commentator Tom Montgomery-Fate to ponder the meaning of violence and the cycles of nature.


Spring, Tom Montgomery-Fate Feb 2009

Spring, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

In his efforts to teach his daughters an important lesson, writer Tom Montgomery Fate says he learned something even more valuable.


The Art Of Dying, Tom Montgomery-Fate Feb 2009

The Art Of Dying, Tom Montgomery-Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

A lonely act of surrender on the streets of downtown Chicago


Beet Inspector, Linda Niemann Feb 2009

Beet Inspector, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Part of the "Biography, Autobiography, Memoir and Personal Narrative" presentation series.


Organized Booming, Linda Niemann Jan 2009

Organized Booming, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.


“Mary Rowlandson, Ecocriticism, And The Puritan Gothic Frontier”, Tom Hillard Dec 2008

“Mary Rowlandson, Ecocriticism, And The Puritan Gothic Frontier”, Tom Hillard

Tom J. Hillard

No abstract provided.


Searching For The Early Eliot: Inventions Of The March Hare, Jayme Stayer Dec 2008

Searching For The Early Eliot: Inventions Of The March Hare, Jayme Stayer

Jayme Stayer

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Edinburgh History Of The Book In Scotland. Vol. 4, Professionalism And Diversity, 1880–2000, D. Finkelstein And A. Mccleery Eds., Rachel Buurma Dec 2008

Review Of The Edinburgh History Of The Book In Scotland. Vol. 4, Professionalism And Diversity, 1880–2000, D. Finkelstein And A. Mccleery Eds., Rachel Buurma

Rachel S Buurma

No abstract provided.