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Minutes From The December 9, 1999 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty

University of Montana Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from the December 9, 1999 meeting of the University of Montana faculty.

The Cowl - V.64 - N.12 - Dec 9, 1999

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 64 - No.12 - Dec 9, 1999. 36 pages.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 1990s

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Tempo Variances On Listener's Preference, Stephen D. Boyd

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Humanities at Morehead State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Communications by Stephen D. Boyd on December 3, 1999.

The Old Washington Collections: The Potential For An Engendered Archaeology Of The African Diaspora In Southwestern Arkansas, Jamie C. Brandon, Kathleen H. Cande

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Effects Of 2,4-D And 2,4,5-T Metabolites On Degradation Of Chlorinated Phenoxyacetic Acids, Dibenzofuran, And Dibenzo-P-Dioxin By Environmental Bacteria, James Franklin Rice

Doctoral Dissertations

Agent Orange herbicide contaminated soils were utilized in enrichment culture studies to isolate 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 2,4,5- trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T) degrading bacteria. HPLC analyses of these soils demonstrated the presence of 22.4 mg/kg 2,4-D and 73.8 mg/kg 2,4,5-T. Two bacteria, Burkholderia species strain JRBl and Burkholderia species strain JR7B3, were isolated from these soils. These strains were able to mineralize 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, respectively. Similar enrichment culture studies were unsuccessful in identifying dibenzofuran (DBF) and dibenzo-p-dioxin (DD) degrading bacteria. PGR experiments utilizing known genetic sequences from other 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T degrading bacteria have shown that these organisms contain gene …

Class Ethos And The Politics Of Inquiry: What The Barroom Can Teach Us About The Classroom, Julie Lindquist

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Pedagogy And Power Relations In English Studies ; Insights From Literary And Rhetorical Theory, Jeffrey Walter Walkington

Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation, I examine, against a history of current literature and composition teaching, the question of teacher authority versus student freedom in four different sites: the writing conference, especially as it takes place in writing centers; the“open” class discussion, particularly the issue of whether it encourages dissent or defusesit; non authoritarian strategies such as teaching in a circle and all they signify about classroom hierarchies; and the use of networked computers in the reading and writing course, which has been both endorsed and excoriated by leaders in the discipline.Chapter two draws heavily on recent social constructionist theories of composition …

The Spiritual Dimension Of Social Work Practice In And Through Research, Education, And Life Experience, Pauline Kay Burthwick

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years there has been an effort to reintroduce religion and spirituality as tangible constructs into social work education and practice in an effort to incorporate all aspects of the client's system (biological, psychological, social, spiritual) and to understand and appreciate the client's diversity and potential strengths and resources. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of social work practitioners as it relates to their social work practice and to the education of future social workers.

This study was composed of two parts. The first was a secondary data …

She's Right Up My Ally : Exploring Fandom And Social Difference In Five White Women's Perspectives On The Ally Mcbeal Television Show, Susannah Marie Iacovino

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to explore fandom and social difference through interviews with five young (23-35), white, middle-class, college educated, women who watch of the Fox television show Ally McBeal. Data was generated through three interviews focusing on certain themes with each of the participants. The first and second interviews were individual interviews and the third interview was a conference call involving all the participants. The participants identified on an emotional level with the characters and situations depicted in the show. For some, the emotional identification extended to a personal or professional level. All of the participants …

Size Fractionation Of Bacterial Functional Diversity Within Soils, Krista Lynne Kinneer

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

BIOLOGRTM GN and GP microtitre plates were used to compare functional diversity of large (>0.45 mum, LC) and small (<0.45 mum, SC) cells within A and B horizons of cultivated and forested Guernsey silt-loam soil without enrichment and following enrichment in dilution culture. Without enrichment, SC exhibited limited substrate utilization compared with LC. B horizon SC failed to positively utilize any carbon substrates, which suggests that they may be physiologically inactive and/or metabolically distinct from those in A horizon soils. Following enrichment, A horizon SC from highly diluted enrichment cultures produced substrate utilization patterns distinct both from all enrichments of LC and from SC obtained in less dilute enrichments. At any given inoculum dilution, A horizon SC exhibited greater substrate utilization than B horizon SC, which exhibited positive substrate utilization following enrichment. Amplified ribosomal DNA (ARDRA) analyses of SC dilution culture enrichments demonstrated distinct bacterial sub-populations from a single soil sample.

Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, And Postmodern Nostalgia In (Con)Texts Of Return, Patricia D. Fox

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Patricia D. Fox discusses in her article, "Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, and Postmodern Nostalgia in (Con)Texts of Return," the meditations, in novel and essay, of variously positioned writers and protagonists as each contemplates return to a never glimpsed or long-lost geographical and cultural center. Attempting to decipher the grounding in place and time, by heritage or tradition, Fox's analysis juxtaposes selected texts: Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Ethnicity, Identity and Culture (Richard Teleky, 1997); Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa (Keith B. Richburg, 1998); Dreaming in Cuban: A Novel (Cristina García, 1992); The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan, 1995); Next …

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, 'History,' And The Other, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, 'History,' and the Other," Steven Tötösy discusses the historical background of Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English Patient (1992). The historical background and its analysis extend to selected aspects of Anthony Minghella's and Michael Ondaatje's adaptation of the novel to film (1996) and the ensuing controversy after the release of the film. From the historical background Tötösy designates as the "Almásy theme" of the novel and the film, he relates Ondaatje's engagement of the protagonist -- Central European Hungarian László Almásy -- to the notion of the Other as a historical and fictional …

Théophile Gautier And The Orient, F. Elizabeth Dahab

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "Théophile Gautier and the Orient," F. Elizabeth Dahab discusses the function of the Orient in general, and in particular, the function of Ancient Egypt in some of Gautier's contes fantastiques written between 1835 and 1857. Gautier and many of his contemporaries including Baudelaire wanted to escape from a society dominated by the idea of progress. They expressed deep doubt in many of their texts and strived to find solace in the notion of permanence in art characteristic of Ancient Egyptian architecture and mortuary customs. They also believed that Ancient Egypt may provide an answer to humanity's quest …

The New Comparative Literature: A Review Article Of Work By Bassnett, Bernheimer, Chevrel, And Tötösy, Joseph Pivato

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Popular And Highbrow Literature: A Comparative View, Peter Swirski

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "Popular and Highbrow Literature: A Comparative View," Peter Swirski discusses the role and status of popular fiction in contemporary culture. Starting with the basic question, "Who needs popular fiction?," he surveys select sociological evidence and prevailing aesthetic arguments in order to take stock of the ways in which highbrow literature and popular fiction relate to each other. He begins with statistical and socio-economic data which casts a different lights on many myths prevailing in scholarship as well as in general social and cultural discourse, such as the death of the novel, the alleged decline of the reading …

A Comparative Approach To European Folk Poetry And The Erotic Wedding Motif, Louise O. Vasvari

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "A Comparative Approach to European Folk Poetry and the Erotic Wedding Motif," Louise O. Vasvari posits that while the corpus of folk poetry in any one area of Europe always differs from neighboring traditions, of greater interest is the existence of a large amount of related material across the continent. Nevertheless, while research in folk poetry has been rich in field collecting and cataloguing, there exists little in-depth comparative study of folk poetry. Doubtless, this is owing in part to the fact that the great majority of the texts are accessible only in the original language or …

Western Mediations In Reevaluating The Communist Past: A Comparative Analysis Of Gothár's Time Stands Still And Andonov's Yesterday, Roumiana Deltcheva

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Roumiana Deltcheva's article, "Western Mediations in Reevaluating the Communist Past: A Comparative Analysis of Gothár's Time Stands Still and Andonov's Yesterday," offers a comparative analysis of two films, Peter Gothár's Time Stands Still and Ivan Andonov's Yesterday. Both films appeared in the 1980s, in Hungary and Bulgaria, respectively, and were highly acclaimed by the critics and the audience. Both films deal with the Communist past of these two countries. In her analysis, Deltcheva's adopts the perspective of "in-between peripherality," a particular manifestation of the post-colonial paradigm in its application to East Central and Central Europe. The two films use similar …

A Comparative Analysis Of Text And Music And Gender And Audience In Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Andrea Fábry

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Andrea Fábry discusses in her article, "A Comparative Analysis of Text and Music and Gender and Audience in Duke Bluebeard's Castle," the image of Bluebeard as a metaphor for gender relations. Béla Bartók's opera and its libretto represent a prime example of the metaphor that in turn can be found in a range of text types, from fairy tales through novels to films. In the article, Fábry analyzes Bartók's contribution to the metaphor, namely with his opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle. She relates the opera to the text of the opera's libretto, written by film theoretician Béla Balázs, and places her …

Literature, "In-House" Writers, And Processes Of Success In Publishing, Frank De Glas

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Frank de Glas discusses in his article, "Literature, 'In-House' Writers, and Processes of Success in Publishing," the fact that too many studies of twentieth-century publishing practices concentrate on individual case studies while neglecting more general patterns and that too little use is made of theoretical concepts developed in the sociology of cultural production. He argues that one of the contributing elements in the economic and artistic success of a publishing house is the bringing together of a productive group of "in-house authors." To build up and to maintain such a group, publishers steadily launch new authors who they hope will …

Japanese Students' Perceived Need For Communicative English And Their Perceived Proficiency Levels, Takanori Mita

Dissertations

Japanese students of English need to develop their proficiencies not only in oral aspects but in overall practical language aspects. English programs from junior high school to college levels need to be improved in consideration of current needs of students.

This study was conducted to assess college students’ perceived need for changes in the English curricula enhancing communicative competence and to seek their perceived levels of proficiency at graduation in the four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in relationship with students’ majors, academic experience in English-speaking countries, and lengths of such experience.

The research was conducted in Tokyo …

The Knight Volume 10: Issue 7, Nova Southeastern University

The Current

No abstract provided.

Social Identity And Substance Abuse In The Lesbian Community, Molly Kerby

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of substance use (alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs) among members of the lesbian community. Additionally, the investigator attempted to determine if there was a relationship between negative social identity and low selfesteem that is reflected in higher rates of substance abuse. The data collection method employed in this study was a type of nonprobability sampling procedure referred to as a purposive sample. The questionnaire was derived from instruments used by other researchers and validated by an expert panel. In order to select respondents from the lesbian population to be included …

Theoretical Understanding Of Female Intercollegiate Athletes' Perceptions On Career Development, Kyung-Hoon Lee

Doctoral Dissertations

There are rapidly rising numbers of female athletes who enter and graduate from colleges and universities in the United States. Among those who graduate from colleges/universities, there are significant numbers of female athletes who have to encounter and overcome various types of social barriers as they pursue athletic career opportunities in American society. Under the influence of male-dominated social orders, female athletes may have limited opportunities in their chosen sports careers when compared to their male counterparts. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore how female intercollegiate athletes understand their athletic and academic experiences and their perceptions of …

Cross-Culture Contact : A Study Of Factors That Contribute To Culture Shock On Esl Students' Adjustment In The English Language Institute At The University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, Jingyun Li

Doctoral Dissertations

The factors that contribute to culture shock among international students who study abroad have been researched continuously since 1960. However, the findings remain controversial.

The purpose of this study was to identify, through survey research methodology, what demographic factors, including age, gender, marital status, nationality, length of stay in the U.S., previous travel experience in other countries, and number of American friends, were related to culture shock linguistically, socially, and psychologically among ESL students.

Subjects participating in this study were 66 ESL students who were native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish at the English Language Institute at The …

The Pan American (1999-11-30), Joe Leal

UTPA Archives - The Pan American

No abstract provided.

Prospectus, November 24, 1999, Liz Davis, Wendy Kim, Mitchell E. Wilson, Neil Bernstein

Prospectus 1999

No abstract provided.

Monitor Newsletter November 22, 1999, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

College Voice Vol. 23 No. 10, Connecticut College

1999-2000

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, November 19, 1999, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 113, Issue 58