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Richard Paul, Gloria Anzaluda, And Mestiza Consciousness: Shifting The Borders Of Critical Thinking, Margaret E. Cronin Sep 1997

Richard Paul, Gloria Anzaluda, And Mestiza Consciousness: Shifting The Borders Of Critical Thinking, Margaret E. Cronin

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

In recent years, many theorists and practitioners in the field of critical and creative thinking have moved beyond a discrete skills understanding of critical and creative thinking to advocate a more holistic approach. This approach focuses on recognizing underlying assumptions, analyzing frames of reference, and fore grounding personal and social biases. Yet despite this much needed move toward contextualizing thinking and the thinker, there is little attention given to the role that power and identity difference play in the development and teaching of thinking. This thesis concerns itself with the issues of power, identity, and difference in thinking by comparing …

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"The Bead Of Raw Sweat In A Field Of Dainty Perspirers": Nationalism, Whiteness And The Olympic-Class Ordeal Of Tonya Harding, Elizabeth L. Krause Jan 1996

"The Bead Of Raw Sweat In A Field Of Dainty Perspirers": Nationalism, Whiteness And The Olympic-Class Ordeal Of Tonya Harding, Elizabeth L. Krause

Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series

This paper examines the interrelations of whiteness, gender, class and nationalism as represented in popular media discourses surrounding the coverage of the assault on Olympic ice skater Nancy Kerrigan and the investigation of her rival, Tonya Harding. As with other recent works that have refocused the issue of "race" on whiteness, this essay seeks to unveil the exclusionary social processes in which boundaries are set and marked within the" difference" of whiteness. The concepts of habitus and historicity are used to understand how Tonya Harding became marked as "white trash," and the implications of her "flawed" qualifications are explored. Furthermore, …

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George Eliot: Beyond Feminism, Mary J Dengler Jan 1993

George Eliot: Beyond Feminism, Mary J Dengler

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The three central conflicts of George Eliot's life--an emotional conflict with male rejection, an intellectual conflict with orthodox Christianity, and a gender conflict with the limitations imposed on women--can be attributed largely to the nineteenth-century feminine ideologies. While Eliot used her nonfiction to criticize the ideas responsible for her conflicts, she used her poetry and fiction to dramatize the conflicts and develop an ideal of humanity. Eliot considered feminism, in Romola, as a resolution to these conflicts, then moved beyond feminism to develop her human ideal. This ideal, which transcends gender ideologies in response to natural and moral law, posits …

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Taylor University Echo: April 5, 1921, Taylor University Apr 1921

Taylor University Echo: April 5, 1921, Taylor University

1920-1921 (Volume 8)

Give Good Concert Students At Taylor — Baseball Season Opens With Spring Term — Freshman Class Party — Some New Facts — Locals — Woman’s Part — The Prophet Amos — “It Won’t Matter Anyway” — Chapel Talks — Midnight on the Ocean — Eulogonian News — Thalonian Literary Society — Eureka Debating Club — Holiness League — Volunteer News — Learn to Decide — Spring Fever — The Prayer Band — Glee Club — Our Spring Walk — Interclub Debate — Passion Week — Last Half of the Ninth Inning — Calendar — Anitomical Queries — Proverbios Espanoles — …

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Taylor University Echo: March 15, 1921, Taylor University Mar 1921

Taylor University Echo: March 15, 1921, Taylor University

1920-1921 (Volume 8)

Expression Department Gives Recital — Taylor Students Honored — President Vayhinger Resigns — The Cabinet Prospects — M. E. S. S. Team Win From All Taylor Team — Local Notes — Unity with Diversity — Notice — Should Taylor Be Made a Community Center? — Taylor University as a Social and Welfare Center — The Blessing of Laughter — Not Such a Large Place — Senate Locals — Volunteer Band — Philalethean Literary Society — Eulogonian News — Our Most Valuable Possession — Eureka Debating Club — The Prayer Band — A Wonderful World — Skimmed Milk — The Manly …

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Taylor University Echo: March 25, 1919, Taylor University Mar 1919

Taylor University Echo: March 25, 1919, Taylor University

1918-1919 (Volume 6)

St. Patrick’s Day at T. U. — Studio Recitals — Peace Conference — Local Echoes — Chronicle — Lead Thou Me On — The Deifying of Khaki by the Feminine Sex — Medals From German Cannon for Loan Workers — The Intensive Campaign — Official Directory — Save Now for Old Age — What is a Book Without a Man? — Exchanges — Prayer Band — The Volunteer Band — Holiness League — Vale the Editors, Hail the Co-Eds! — Thalonian — Philo Society — Rounding Out the Winter Term — Allowance to Child is Road to Economy — Local …

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