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Nietzsche And Heraclitus, Virginia Lyle Jennings Howard
Nietzsche And Heraclitus, Virginia Lyle Jennings Howard
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Nietzshe's philosophical ideas are closely based upon his early studies of Greek thought. Unless his philosophy is approached from the standpoint of its foundation in the ancient Greeks, Heraclitus in particular, then it can be difficult to gain a coherent picture of Nietzsche's thought. In Heraclitus he found an affirmation of precisely what he loved about the ancient Greek way of life, its most fundamental concept: the contest. The Greeks embrace their apparently terrible characteristics and control them with a rule-governed contest. In the same way Heraclitus's universe consists of opposites which strive for dominion, not through wars of annihilation, …
Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 1992, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College
Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 1992, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College
Gumbo Yearbook
The Gumbo yearbook chronicles the entire academic year at LSU. In words and especially photos, the Gumbo shows the people, places, and events that make each year unique. In addition to formal portraits of schools and departments, the book contains hundreds of snapshots of students with their friends and dozens of pages showcasing organizations.
Impact Of The Preservice Field Experience In Foreign Language Teaching: A Study Of The Development Of Preservice Teachers' Perspectives In Foreign Language Teaching. (Volumes I And Ii)., Denise Egea-Kuehne
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Within the broader issue of teacher education, the focus of this study is on one of the most neglected areas of inquiry in the field of foreign languages, the preservice field experience, and the development of student teachers' perspectives of foreign language teaching. The following questions were specifically addressed: (1) What perspectives of foreign language teaching do student teachers hold upon completion of their program of university courses? (2) Is there an alteration of student teachers' perspectives of foreign language teaching during their student teaching semester? (3) What factors appear to influence student teachers' perspectives of foreign language teaching during …
Making The Secular Sacred: An Analysis Of Linguistic Devices Used To Give Religious Perspective To Ordinary Events., Wayne Porter Gregory
Making The Secular Sacred: An Analysis Of Linguistic Devices Used To Give Religious Perspective To Ordinary Events., Wayne Porter Gregory
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
It has been suggested that human beings do not possess social reality so much as they actively and cooperatively construct it by means of language in interaction with others. The manipulation of symbols, the creation of inferences, the posturing of one's personal identity all work together to enable participants (both speakers and hearers) in a given speech event to create social reality and reaffirm and maintain their social relationships. In religious speech communities, like the one investigated in this study, participants seek to create a different kind of social reality--one that encompasses all of the individual and corporate experiences of …
Metaphor Within/Without Metaphysics: Nietzsche, Heidegger, And Derrida., Jonggab Kim
Metaphor Within/Without Metaphysics: Nietzsche, Heidegger, And Derrida., Jonggab Kim
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The contemporary preoccupation with metaphor lies in its capability of deconstructing and disempowering metaphysics, and of creating a logic of uncertainty or a Derridian logic of supplements in opposition to the logic of identity and of non-contradiction. As a figure of speech saying one thing but meaning something else, metaphor contains in itself a certain alterity and otherness which resists a logical identity as well as a systematic philosophy. In my study of metaphor in the texts of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida, I inquire into the problematic relation or difference between philosophy and metaphor, focusing on how the former is …
Changing Patterns Of Centralization And Decentralization In American School Governance., Charles Walter Triche Iii
Changing Patterns Of Centralization And Decentralization In American School Governance., Charles Walter Triche Iii
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation traces the evolution of American school governance and educational administration from the mid-seventeenth century through 1991. It examines the arguments which surround the centralization or decentralization debate and traces the rationale for the adoption of either a centralist or decentralist manner of school governance. In tracing the evolution of the rationale used by educational administrators for the adoption of either a centralist or decentralist form of governance, this dissertation establishes an order to the debate, traces shifts in philosophy, determines the dominance of either centralist or decentralist philosophy during each historical period studied, and identifies reasons why that …
Perceptual Evaluation Of Infant Articulatory Transitions., Nancye Chaney Roussel
Perceptual Evaluation Of Infant Articulatory Transitions., Nancye Chaney Roussel
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The transition portion of the speech signal has been identified as critical to the perception of both consonants and vowels. Furui (1986) demonstrated that for adult Japanese speakers a 10 ms segment of the transition centered on the area of maximum spectral movement contained the most critical information for joint consonant and vowel perception. The distribution of phonemic cues contained within consonant-vowel (CV) non-reduplicated (NRB) syllables of infants ages 6 months to 15 months was compared to the distribution observed in adult productions to examine the extent of coproductive overlap of infant consonant and vowel gestures. Truncated versions of infant …
Preschool Social Skills: The Development Of Prosocial Interactions., Mary Boone Vonbrock Treuting
Preschool Social Skills: The Development Of Prosocial Interactions., Mary Boone Vonbrock Treuting
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study examined differing perceptions of teachers and parents pertaining to frequency and importance of social skills and problem behaviors in preschool children. Specifically, the present investigation considered social skills of preschool children considered to be At-Risk for educationally handicapping conditions as well as a group of Typical preschool children. Both teacher and parent ratings on the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) (Gresham & Elliott, 1990) and the revised Conners Rating Scales (CRS), (Goyette, Conners, & Ulrich, 1978) were obtained from a sample of 95 preschool children. Fifty-two subjects were enrolled in an at-risk preschool program (i.e., Head Start) and …
Fonctions De L'Ecriture Dans Les "Elements D'Ideologie" D'Antoine Destutt De Tracy., Fabrice Gerard Teulon
Fonctions De L'Ecriture Dans Les "Elements D'Ideologie" D'Antoine Destutt De Tracy., Fabrice Gerard Teulon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
L'Ideologie tracyenne s'inscrit au point de clivage venant marquer d'apres Michel Foucault la fin de "l'episteme classique" et les debuts de "la modernite". Moment donc exemplaire dans l'histoire de la representation puisque le texte de Destutt de Tracy serait la "derniere philosophie classique"--ultime tentative de reorganisation du savoir sur un ordre epistemologique desormais echu. Pour les quelques linguistes et/ou semioticiens qui a la suite de Foucault ont redecouvert cette oeuvre longtemps oubliee, la raison de l'echec de la "science des idees" se trouve dans la definition meme de l'ecriture. Les signes, nous dit Destutt de Tracy, sont en definitive "vagues" …
Decolonizing The Text: Glissantian Readings In Caribbean And African-American Literatures., Debra Lynn Anderson
Decolonizing The Text: Glissantian Readings In Caribbean And African-American Literatures., Debra Lynn Anderson
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation proposes to derive a critical reading from the writings of the Martinican poet, novelist, and theorist, Edouard Glissant. This reading would most directly involve, but not limit itself to, literatures written by black writers from the Caribbean and the United States. As critics such as Christopher Miller and Anthony Appiah suggest, these literatures have become the ground upon which colonization is symbolically re-enacted. Criticism colonizes these literatures by its textual appropriation, its imposition of Western critical models, and by bringing its own assumptions to the text. The critically acclaimed prefaces of Jean-Paul Sartre ("Orphee noire") and Andre Breton …
Contact Phase: Forms Of Postmodernism. (Volumes I And Ii)., Michael Owen Crumb
Contact Phase: Forms Of Postmodernism. (Volumes I And Ii)., Michael Owen Crumb
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation examines variant mimetic strategies as the basis for a major dialectic within postmodern culture. The method applies and sometimes extends largely accepted theoretical statements on literary form. This synthesis provides an accessible, if at times complex, schema for organizing types, genres, and postmodern products based on image production and forms of spatial/temporal discourse. An investigation of several theorists and artists grounds a theory of literary and cinematic expressionism as the basis for postmodern culture, with particular emphasis given to the interpenetration of literary and cinematic styles in the twentieth century. An aesthetic dialectic emerges in the movement toward …
Cosmology And Curriculum: A Vision For An Ecozoic Age., Angela T. Lydon
Cosmology And Curriculum: A Vision For An Ecozoic Age., Angela T. Lydon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The text of this dissertation explores interconnections between cosmology and curriculum. I believe the demands of an Ecozoic Age will initiate a reconceptualizing of curriculum. Further, I believe the particular cosmological perspective I advance can help us with this reconceptualization. Chapter 1 utilizes the multi-faceted insights of scientific, historical, and speculative thought. The texts used in this chapter incorporate an engagement with past cultures (Ong, Eliade), with contemporary theoretical perspectives (Munitz, Haught, and Stafford), and with a scholarship that envisions alternative futures (Bohm). Chapter 2 uncovers how modernity's relationship to the earth is rooted in the scientific, political, and social …
Using Independence Training To Teach Independent Living Skills To Visually Impaired Children And Youth., Marie E. Taras
Using Independence Training To Teach Independent Living Skills To Visually Impaired Children And Youth., Marie E. Taras
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Two groups of students with visual impairments were taught various independent living skills. Five of the seven students also had a diagnosis of mental retardation. One group (three first graders) was taught the tasks of folding a shirt, making an emergency telephone call, and spreading soft foods with a knife. The other group (four young men) was taught to increase leisure skills through three different leatherwork tasks. Independence training was conducted in a group format, and included social learning components (e.g., self-evaluation, peer evaluation and reinforcement) in addition to traditional operant procedures (e.g., modeling, prompting). However, due to the presence …
"Mademoiselle De Maupin": A Close Reading And Study Of The Process Of Subjectivity In Theophile Gautier's Early Nineteenth Century Novel., Rebecca Lucille Tebeau
"Mademoiselle De Maupin": A Close Reading And Study Of The Process Of Subjectivity In Theophile Gautier's Early Nineteenth Century Novel., Rebecca Lucille Tebeau
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation proposes a close reading of Theophile Gautiers's Mademoiselle de Maupin. The purpose of this reading is to explore subjectivity by first assuming that it is a process, enacted by the protagonist's explorations of their own identities, but not an object contained in their elaborations. This view of subjectivity implies both the representational strategies of the protagonists, as well as the narrative strategies of the text. Since Mademoiselle de Maupin's narrative structure is so inconsistent and self-conscious, the explorations of self within the text draw attention to both the fiction of identity and the "identity" of fiction as a …
Politics, The Nationality Problem, And The Habsburg Army, 1848-1914. (Volumes I And Ii)., Lohr Eugene Miller Jr
Politics, The Nationality Problem, And The Habsburg Army, 1848-1914. (Volumes I And Ii)., Lohr Eugene Miller Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The army of the Habsburg Monarchy was the central institution of the Habsburg state, and it embodied the ideal of non-national, dynastic rule. The army leadership was aware of the dangers of nationalism, but in the period between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the revolutions of 1848, no attempt was made to overcome the danger of national disaffection. The revolutions of 1848 caused the army to remove Hungarian and Italian units from their homelands, but, despite the suspicion in which they were held, these troops fought well in the wars of 1859 and 1866. The financial weakness of …
A Comparison Of Language And Graphic Products Of Students From Kindergarten Classrooms Differing In Developmental Appropriateness Of Instruction., Jean Germany Mosley
A Comparison Of Language And Graphic Products Of Students From Kindergarten Classrooms Differing In Developmental Appropriateness Of Instruction., Jean Germany Mosley
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study examines the ways in which kindergartners from more and less developmentally appropriate classrooms negotiate the process of graphic communication. Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of this process are examined. Eighty-one kindergarten children from four classrooms were asked to tell a story both verbally and graphically. They were encouraged to include drawing, writing, or both on their paper. Then they were asked to tell the story that they had produced graphically. The children were students in one of four classrooms from a single school system that were identified as: (a) most developmentally appropriate beliefs and practices; (b) developmentally appropriate …
Normal And Pathological Breakdown In Arabic., Sabah Safi-Stagni
Normal And Pathological Breakdown In Arabic., Sabah Safi-Stagni
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The grammatical structure of Arabic allows for significant cross-linguistic comparisons in the study of Slips-of-the-tongue as well as aphasia. The dissertation presents a case study of the aphasic deficit in the speech of a speaker of Arabic, in particular, the Hijazi dialect spoken in the Western Province of Saudi Arabia, with a subsequent comparison with regular slips-of-the-tongue in the same dialect collected and analyzed by the same author. Both the slips-of-the-tongue data and the aphasia data have been collected in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by the present investigator. It was observed that in such a highly inflected language, …
The Rhetoric Of Redemption: A Development Of Kenneth Burke's Theory Of Guilt-Purification-Redemption And Its Application To Martin Luther King, Jr.'S "I Have A Dream" Speech., David A. Bobbitt
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation presents an exposition and development of Kenneth Burke's theory of guilt-purification-redemption (also referred to as the "redemption drama"), and then an application of that theory through a critical analysis of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. King's speech is treated as the "representative anecdote" of the moderate wing of the first phase of the civil rights movement. The speech became an authorizing text on race relations and provided the movement with an articulation of its logic and narrative form. Usually Burke's theory is seen as positing two primary modes of purification of guilt: victimage and …
The Theatre Of Religion: Jimmy Swaggart Within American Myth Discourse., Terry Grant Byars
The Theatre Of Religion: Jimmy Swaggart Within American Myth Discourse., Terry Grant Byars
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study explores the myth of the self-made man in American popular culture and how Jimmy Swaggart, the renowned televangelist, manipulates this myth in representing himself as an American hero. Central to such inquiry is Swaggart's use of theatrical device in promoting his heroism. Three fundamental questions provide the focus for investigation: (1) How in general does the creation of myth serve the needs of culture? (2) How specifically does the myth of self-made-ness benefit American culture? and (3) How is Swaggart able to participate in this powerful myth (especially using theatrical modes) in order to gain cultural sanction? In …
Dialogue Journal Writing In A Foreign Language Classroom: Assessing Communicative Competence And Proficiency., Lynn Patricia Baudrand-Aertker
Dialogue Journal Writing In A Foreign Language Classroom: Assessing Communicative Competence And Proficiency., Lynn Patricia Baudrand-Aertker
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This research studied dialogue journal writing, as it occurred between a teacher and twenty-one students in a French III high school. Results on attitude questionnaire indicated that dialogue journals helped students overcome their fear of the written form and increase their self-confidence and willingness to write. By demystifying the writing process, writing in their dialogue journals helped these students develop positive attitudes. The results on writing proficiency pre and post-tests indicated that students performed as well or better than students after four years of a foreign language in a high school setting or four semesters of college instruction. The dialogue …
Modernity And War In The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot., Patricia Anne Gabilondo
Modernity And War In The Poetry Of T. S. Eliot., Patricia Anne Gabilondo
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Although most readers of T. S. Eliot have agreed that the European experience of world war and the resultant political and cultural dislocations provided an important context and source of imagery for much of his work, what has not been recognized is Eliot's use of figures of war to represent the intimate yet antagonistic relations between the poet's writing of modernity and the text that is history. Beginning with a tropological analysis of Eliot's "A Note on War Poetry," relative to both the genre of war poetry and aesthetic modernity, this study examines the figural interpenetration of war and literary …
Theatrical Intervention In The Aids Crisis: Performance, Politics, And Social Change., Cindy J. Kistenberg
Theatrical Intervention In The Aids Crisis: Performance, Politics, And Social Change., Cindy J. Kistenberg
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of performance as a means of social change by focusing on performances that have arisen out of the AIDS crisis. Working from a cultural studies perspective, I attempt to delineate both the possibilities and limitations for this perspective on social change. By comparing the various forms these performances have taken, I offer an explanation as to how these forms inhibit or enhance the ability of a performance to challenge the dominant discourse on AIDS, and create and mobilize communities that can act in the fight against AIDS. I begin by …
Autobiographical Amnesia: Memory, Myth, Curriculum., Gregory Michael Nixon
Autobiographical Amnesia: Memory, Myth, Curriculum., Gregory Michael Nixon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Autobiography in curriculum theory and practice is being more and more acknowledged as a major force leading toward the development of reflectively analytical teachers, reflexive practitioners, and discursively self-aware individuals. I look to two vital aspects of self-narration to explore. I speak firstly of memory, without which narrative continuity would be impossible. Memory is as involved with learning as it is with storytelling, and I would agree with Krell (1978) that "inquiry into memory and the theory of pedagogy go hand in hand" (p. 131). I eschew the models of memory provided by the behavioral sciences, empirical psychology, cognitive psychology, …