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Old English Elegies : Language And Genre, Stephanie Opfer

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

The Old English elegies include a group of poems found in the Exeter Book manuscript that have traditionally been treated as a single genre due to their general sense of lament -- The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Riming Poem, Deor, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, Resignation, Riddle 60, The Husband's Message, and The Ruin. In this study, I conduct a linguistic stylistic analysis of all ten poems using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and a variety of computational and linguistic tools: Lexomics, Voyant, and Microsoft Excel. My results focus on three characteristics of the poetry: (1) the similarity of the …

One Bruised Apple, Stacie Mccall Whitaker

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

The Quinn Family is always moving, and sixteen-year-old Sadie is determined to find out what they’re running from. In yet another new neighborhood, Sadie is befriended by a group of teens seemingly plagued by the same sense of tragedy that shrouds the Quinn family. Sadie quickly falls for Trenton, a young black man, in a town and family that forbids interracial relationships. As their relationship develops and is ultimately exposed, the Quinn family secrets unravel and Sadie is left questioning all that she thought she knew about herself, her family, and the world.

Town Of Norway Annual Report Of The Municipal Officers 2017, Norway, Me.

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Intersecting Challenges: Mothers And Child Protection Law In Bc, Isabel Grant, Judith Mosoff, Susan B. Boyd, Ruben Lindy

All Faculty Publications

This paper is concerned with how courts in British Columbia adjudicate applications by the state to remove children permanently from their parents, usually their mothers. Overwhelmingly, these cases are about single mothers who experience mental disability and addiction, domestic violence, and poverty. Indigenous women are over-represented in our sample. The intergenerational effects of the child protection system also are clear as many of the mothers in our study were themselves raised in state care. The paper highlights the degree to which judges blame women for the precarious circumstances in which they live, which are often a product of austerity measures …

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Feminist Legal Scholarship In Sls, Susan B. Boyd, Debra Parkes

All Faculty Publications

This article offers a review of shifts in feminist legal theory since the early 1990s. We first use our respective histories and fields of expertise to provide a brief overview and highlight some key themes within feminist legal theory. We then examine Social & Legal Studies (SLS), asking whether it has met its key goal of integrating feminist analyses at every level. Our review suggests that SLS has offered many important contributions to feminist legal scholarship but has not fulfilled its lofty goal of integrating feminist analyses at every level of scholarship. It features feminist work quite consistently and some …

The Efficacy Of Biofeedback And Its Use Towards Adhd, Darius Witold Bieganski

CMC Senior Theses

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a psychopathology commonly characterized by general inattentiveness and/or a lack of impulse control resulting in hyperactive tendencies. ADHD is estimated to cost the United States roughly $266 billion every year. ADHD is currently treated via medications, cognitive behavioral therapy, or more recently, neurofeedback. Neurofeedback – and biofeedback in general – is the process of providing a patient with information about autonomic bodily functions so that they may control said autonomic function. In the case of ADHD, neurofeedback focuses on reinforcing the behaviors and sensations associated with attentiveness. Currently however, neurofeedback systems are large and …

Women And Social Movement In Modern Empires Since 1820, Elisabeth Armstrong

Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality: Faculty Publications

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A Critical Analysis Of The Effects Of Language Policy, Curriculum, And Assessment On Arabic L1 Student Performance In An Esl 1 Classroom, Juliane Bilotta

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis offers a preliminary analysis into looking at the ways in which Arabicspeaking ESL students are inadvertently marginalized by state standardization, curriculum, and dominant forms of classroom interactions in a NJ recovery program. Specifically, this analysis addresses the absence of orthographic training and a reliance on teacher-fronted, textbook based classroom exercises as a problematic structure that limits opportunities for Arabic-speaking students to participate successfully in an ESL 1 classroom. This data was collected during six-weeks of preliminary research during the summer of 2016 in a Jersey City, NJ ESL classroom. Using transcriptions of recorded data from lessons that typify …

Return On Investment Of The Cftp Framework With And Without Risk Assessment, Anne Lim Lee

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In recent years, numerous high tech companies have developed and used technology roadmaps when making their investment decisions. Jay Paap has proposed the Customer Focused Technology Planning (CFTP) framework to draw future technology roadmaps. However, the CFTP framework does not include risk assessment as a critical factor in decision making. The problem addressed in this quantitative study was that high tech companies are either losing money or getting a much smaller than expected return on investment when making technology investment decisions. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between returns on investment before and after adding risk …

Identity, Awareness, Action: A Study Of White Anti-Racist Faculty Praxis At Two Predominantly White Institutions, David Brian Hayes

Open Access Dissertations

Despite decades of research into the racial construct known as whiteness (e.g., Roediger, 1991; Frankenberg, 1993; Leonardo, 2002), as well as on white privilege and racism within predominantly white institutions (PWIs) (e.g., Harper & Hurtado, 2007), little research exists exploring the work of white faculty who confront racism in teaching, research, or service. In this study, I applied a Critical White Studies (Delgado & Stefancic, 1997) analytical frame to a Constructivist Grounded Theory (Charmaz, 2006) study of white anti-racist faculty in two predominantly white institutions within a state higher education system. The study used interviews with 11 white faculty members …

Ritualization Of Ethno-Nationalism: A Textual Analysis Of A Hungarian Corpus Christi Procession, Lisa Pope Fischer

Publications and Research

Observing a Corpus Christi procession in post-socialist Hungary, this article uses a textual analysis to explore how the ritual mirrors post-socialist trends that affirm Hungarian identity. This article serves to both document an interesting ritual procession but also view it in light of growing ethno-nationalism that both unites a community yet also shows exclusion of others. It is like a mirror at a microcosmic level that reflects a kind of ritualization of ethno-nationalism.

Terrorist Watchlists, Jeffrey D. Kahn

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

This chapter assesses the legal history and policy development of the U.S. government's system of terrorist watchlists and the institutions established to create and use them. Watchlisting is in fact an old practice given new meaning by technological change and the societal impact of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Statutes and judicial precedents from an earlier era on which the first post-9/11 watchlists were built were not made to regulate the expanded uses of the new watchlists and presented few if any constraints on their development. Civil litigation has both revealed the inner workings of terrorist watchlists and spurred …

Development And Validation Of The Internalized Classism Scale For Poor And Working Class In The United States, Aleska Randa Hagan

Theses and Dissertations

The poor and working class are largely overlooked or ignored across many aspects of U.S society including public policy, societal structure, representation in media, and even in the realm of psychological research (Lott, 2002; Smith, 2005). Furthermore, of the scanty representations and descriptions of the poor and working class that are available, most are derived from oppressive classist views and negative stereotypes (Smith, 2010). Classism pervades the social structure of the United States. Classist beliefs and experiences of classism are internalized by all members of society to some degree. Working class and poor people who experience internalized classism are likely …

Informants & Cooperators, Daniel C. Richman

Faculty Scholarship

The police have long relied on informants to make critical cases, and prosecutors have long relied on cooperator testimony at trials. Still, concerns about these tools for obtaining closely held information have substantially increased in recent years. Reliability concerns have loomed largest, but broader social costs have also been identified. After highlighting both the value of informants and cooperators and the pathologies associated with them, this chapter explores the external and internal measures that can or should be deployed to regulate their use.

Citizenship Overreach, Peter J. Spiro

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article examines international law limitations on the ascription of citizenship and national self-definition. The United States is exceptionally generous in its extension of citizenship. Alone among the major developed states, it extends citizenship to almost all persons in its territory at the moment of birth. This birthright citizenship is constitutionally protected under the Fourteenth Amendment. At the same time that it is generous at the front end, U.S. citizenship is sticky at the back. Termination of citizenship on the individual’s part can involve substantial fees. Expatriation is contingent on tax compliance and, in some cases, will implicate the recognition …

The Deprivatization Of Art: Dan Graham As An Art Worker, Jordana Cotilletta

Dissertations and Theses

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การนำเสนอชุดบทเพลงที่ใช้สอนในวิชาปฏิบัติกีตาร์ไฟฟ้าระดับปริญญาตรี, วัยวุฒิ พรมจีน

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ 1. เพื่อศึกษาและนำเสนอบทเพลงในสไตล์ต่างๆ ที่ใช้ในวิชาปฏิบัติกีตาร์ไฟฟ้าระดับปริญญาตรี 2. เพื่อศึกษาอัตลักษณ์ของบทเพลงในสไตล์ต่างๆ และศึกษาวิธีการเปลี่ยนสไตล์บทเพลง งานวิจัยชิ้นนี้ใช้ระเบียบวิธีการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ (Qualitative Research) มีขั้นตอนดังนี้ 1) วิเคราะห์รวบรวมสาระดนตรีที่ใช้สอนกีตาร์ไฟฟ้าในระดับอุดมศึกษา 2) วิเคราะห์องค์ประกอบดนตรีของบทเพลงในสไตล์ต่างๆ จากตำราสอนกีตาร์และบทเพลงที่คัดสรร 3) ตรวจสอบความถูกต้องโดยผู้เชี่ยวชาญกีตาร์ไฟฟ้าในสไตล์ต่างๆ 12 คน เก็บข้อมูลโดยใช้แบบสัมภาษณ์ผู้เชี่ยวชาญเป็นเครื่องมือวิจัยเกี่ยวกับองค์ประกอบดนตรีของแต่ละสไตล์ จากนั้นวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลของบทเพลงกีตาร์ไฟฟ้าในสไตล์ต่างๆ จำแนกตามองค์ประกอบดนตรี ผลการวิจัยแบ่งออกเป็น 2 ตอนได้แก่ ตอนที่ 1 ผลการศึกษาและนำเสนอชุดบทเพลงที่ใช้สอนในวิชาปฏิบัติกีตาร์ไฟฟ้าระดับปริญญาตรีในบทเพลงสไตล์บลูส์ 30 เพลง คันทรี่ 30 เพลง ร็อค 40 เพลง และฟังก์กับโซล 30 เพลง โดยวิเคราะห์องค์ประกอบดนตรี 4 ด้าน 1) จังหวะวิเคราะห์ ความเร็ว (tempo) อัตราจังหวะ (Time signature) และรูปแบบจังหวะ 2) ทำนองวิเคราะห์การใช้บันใดเสียงและโมด 3) เสียงประสานวิเคราะห์ลักษณะการใช้ทางเดินคอร์ด 4) สีสันของเสียงวิเคราะห์การใช้เทคนิคและการใช้ประเภทของเสียงกีตาร์ เอฟเฟค ซึ่งรายละเอียดดนตรีในแต่ละสไตล์มีความแตกต่างกัน ตอนที่ 2 ผลของวิธีการเปลี่ยนสไตล์บทเพลงที่ได้จากการวิเคราะห์ในตอนที่ 1 นำมาสรุปสิ่งที่เป็นอัตลักษณ์ของดนตรีแต่ละสไตล์เพื่อใช้ในการเปลี่ยนสไตล์บทเพลง และนำเสนอตัวอย่างการเปลี่ยนสไตล์บทเพลงที่ผู้วิจัยสร้างขึ้น 5 บทเพลง

Migrant Nation-Builders: The Development Of Austria-Hungary's National Projects In The United States, 1880s-1920s, Kristina Evans Poznan

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation charts the ways in which migrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire crafted new forms of identification in the United States, complicating their relationships with their home and host states. Transatlantic migration and migrants’ heightened nationalism were, I argue, causative factors in the dismantling of the Habsburg Empire into ethnically-based states after Word War I. Rather than focusing on a single ethnic group, Migrant Nation-Builders looks broadly at early multilingual immigrant institutions, Austro-Hungarian and American perceptions of panslavism, and the splintering of immigrant institutions in the United States along linguistic lines. The project traces the long arm of homeland authorities, …

Patient Perspectives On Mental Health Therapy For Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Me) And Chronic Fatique Syndrome (Cfs), Brooke Denmark

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This study explored perspectives on mental health therapy of individuals with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and/or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). ME/CFS can lead to major reduction in quality of life; however, due to limited knowledge about etiologies or effective medical treatments, symptoms may be deemed psychosomatic and patients are referred to mental health treatment. This mixed methods study gathered responses from 169 individuals who identified as having ME, CFS, and/or ME/CFS from ten reported countries. Some of the common themes for what participants found most helpful from therapy were validation, help adjusting to the changes in their lives, and processing grief …

Bs News January/February

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

Armed Response: An Unfortunate Legacy Of Apartheid, Leila Lawlor

Faculty Publications By Year

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Experiences Of Racialized Service Providers Who Work With Racialized Clients: Functions And Constraints Of Master And Counter-Narratives Of Helping, Racism, And Vicarious Racism, Prapti Giri

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

What are the experiences of racialized frontline workers? How do they experience vicarious racism? I interviewed 8 frontline workers who were involved in counseling racialized individuals. The narrative paradigm, constructivist self-development theory (CSDT), and critical race theory (CRT) were the theoretical frames that guided the interviews and data analysis in order to answer these questions. I conducted a structural narrative analysis, which revealed how participants utilized assumptions from master narratives and at other times countered them. Interviewees occasionally stepped outside of the master narrative entirely, for example, by rejecting the categorization of race. According to CSDT, our meanings are determined …

Leading With Conviction: The Transformative Role Of Formerly Incarcerated Leaders In Reducing Mass Incarceration, Susan Sturm, Haran Tae

Faculty Scholarship

This report documents the roles of formerly incarcerated leaders engaged in work related to reducing incarceration and rebuilding communities, drawing on in-depth interviews with 48 of these leaders conducted over a period of 14 months. These “leaders with conviction” have developed a set of capabilities that enable them to advance transformative change, both in the lives of individuals affected by mass incarceration and in the criminal legal systems that have devastated so many lives and communities. Their leadership assumes particular importance in the era of the Trump Presidency, when the durability of the ideological coalitions to undo the failed apparatus …

Shakespeare And Classical Cosmology, Jean E. Feerick

Jean Feerick

The Trial And Incarceration Of Andy Dufresne, Jonathan K. Van Patten

Jonathan Van Patten

No abstract provided.

Article Dedication To Patrick K. Duffy (The Trial And Incarceration Of Andy Dufresne), Jonathan K. Van Patten

Jonathan Van Patten

No abstract provided.

Daredevil: Legal (And Moral?) Vigilante, Stephen E. Henderson

Stephen E Henderson

The Second Amendment & Private Law (2017), Cody Jacobs

Cody Jacobs

No abstract provided.

Race And Colonization, Jean E. Feerick

Jean Feerick