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Review Of Lyric Opera Production Of Show Boat, Mark E. Lococo

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The premiere effort of the Renée Fleming Initiative brought Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s masterpiece Show Boat to the Lyric Opera stage, demonstrating an annual commitment to producing works of the American musical theatre. As Lyric’s general director Anthony Freud asserted in an open letter to patrons, “great works of musical theatre profit enormously from the resources of a major opera company.” While Francesca Zambello’s lavish production may have affirmed that statement within the context of the opera house, little attention was paid to the elements that make American musical theatre generically different from opera, most notably book scenes with …

Educational Leaders Serving Language Minority Students (1965-2001), Jenny Maria Neal

Dissertations

This study analyzes three legislations that affected education for language

minority students. The research starts with a historical overview of the foundation of the

United States and the education of the non-English speaking population. It examines the

conditions that led to the first Bilingual Education Act of 1968, the changes that appeared

in the Bilingual Education Act of 1974, and the development of Title III of the No Child

Left Behind Act of 2001. The country's response to English language learners and their

individual learning needs is looked at throughout each listed time period, as well as the

implications for …

Wet Chicago: Prohibition And The Development Of The Informal Alcohol Economy, Brian Doumeth Jolet

Dissertations

The Prohibition-era presents a story of both continuity and change. While the illegal alcohol manufacturing and selling that occurred during the period was not an aberration from the past, the resultant increased wealth and sway of the criminal underworld and the increasing disrespect for the law were new transformations. This dissertation seeks to understand the informal economy in alcohol by examining the multitude of men and women who participated in this black market in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The analysis describes the movement from small-time bootleggers operating within a narrow market to the development of a complex and hierarchical …

Examining Support That Exists For Social And Emotional Program Implementation In Elementary Charter Schools, Angela N. Brooks

Dissertations

This qualitative case study examines the perceptions of elementary charter school principals and teachers and the supports that exist for implementation of social and emotional learning programs. The experiences and perspectives of the participants in this research study will be significant to understanding the perceptions of what principals do to support social and emotional program implementation within a school.

The research questions in this research study are as follows:

1. According to the perceptions of elementary charter school principals, what do they do to support social and emotional learning program implementation in the school and in the classroom?

2. According …

Charlotte Brontë’S Villette, Mid-Victorian Anti-Catholicism, And The Turn To Secularism, Michael M. Clarke

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Although Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853) is frequently interpreted as anti-Catholic, reconciliation between Catholic and Protestant plays a pivotal role in the novel, as Lucy Snowe’s perspective evolves from narrow sectarianism to a more open stance. Brontë accomplishes this reconciliation by elucidating the differences at their deepest level: at the point where Protestantism challenges and ultimately evolves into a separate set of institutions from Catholicism. Drawing on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, this paper argues that, in its advocacy of the possibility of deep faith combined with religious pluralism, Villette anticipates modern secularism in the best sense of the word.

A Land Fit For Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, And Politics In Ireland Since 1914, Jason Robert Myers

Dissertations

Despite the fact that over 200,000 Irish men fought in the British Army during the First World War, Ireland's sizeable contribution to the war remained in the shadows of history for most of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines the cultural components of the memory of the Great War in Ireland and argues that, taken together, they constitute an alternative Irish national identity that threatened and challenged republican nationalism. These cultural components existed in the realm of vernacular memory, which lay beyond the reach of the Irish government. By examining commemorative rituals, war memorials, and popular culture, this project breathes …

Audible Identities: Passing And Sound Technologies, Pamela L. Caughie

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

At the March 2008 conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections held at Stanford University, audio historians played what they claim is the first recording of the human voice. It is a presumably female voice singing Au clair de la lune, though the distorted quality of the 10-second recording renders the words no more decipherable than the singer’s gender to an untutored ear. The recording was made in Paris in April 1860 on a ‘phonautograph’ invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (aka Leon Scott), nearly 20 years before Thomas Edison patented the phonograph in 1877. Sound waves captured …

Identity, Oppression, And Group Rights, Andrew Jared Pierce

Dissertations

The dissertation argues for a conception of group rights based on Habermasian discourse theory, as an alternative to the dominant multicultural liberal approach to group rights, which treats group rights as instrumental to individual rights.

Loyola University Rome Center Yearbook 2007-2008, Loyola University Rome Center

Rome Center Yearbooks

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Chicago’S Little Sicily, Robert M. Lombardo

Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Southwest Chicago Foreclosure Study, Center For Urban Research And Learning, Nathan Benefield, Samantha Dwyer, Tonia Garnett, David Hannah, Amy Falcone

Center for Urban Research and Learning: Publications and Other Works

The Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago was contacted by the Southwest Organization Project to conduct a research project in conjunction with them, their institutional member, Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Lawn and Gage Park, and the Greater Southwest Development Corporation. This project seeks to identify the principles causes of foreclosures in these neighborhoods; to identify areas within the communities with a higher concentration of foreclosure and relate this to demographic, socioeconomic characteristics and housing stock in those areas; and to identify approaches to dealing with foreclosure as an issues. This project seeks to identify where …

Loyola University Rome Center 2002-2003, Loyola University Rome Center

Rome Center Yearbooks

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The Impact Of Irish Ireland On Young Poland, 1890-1918, John A. Merchant

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

John. A. Merchant examines the impact of a contemporary cultural movement, Irish Ireland, on its Polish counterpart, Young Poland. He traces the reception of Irish literature in the form of translations of works by W. B. Yeats and John Millington Synge in Poland through translations by Jan Kasprowicz, Zenon "Miriam" Przesmycki and others as well as through a variety of cultural commentaries by Polish critics and by means of stage productions of Irish plays by theater directors, such as Tadeusz Pawlikowski.

The Social Construction Of Reality Among Black Disadvantaged Adolescents: A Case Study Exploring The Relationship Of Poverty, Race, And Schooling, Loretta J. Brunious

Dissertations

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Global Training And Education: An Examination Of Context, Cultural Toughness, And Minimum Necessary Change In Internationally Diverse Organizational Settings, Leslie E. Dennis

Dissertations

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The American High School Experience: A Cinematic View From The 1980s, Maria Moraites

Dissertations

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The Occult Feminism Of Margaret Cousins In Modern Ireland And India, 1878-1954, Catherine Candy

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The Allegorical Ireland Figure In The Irish National Theatre, 1899-1926, Svetlana Novakovic

Dissertations

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Contemporary Celtic Counseling: Envisioning Pastoral Counseling In Ireland Into The Twenty-First Century, Maura Twohig

Master's Theses

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What Parish Are You From?: A Chicago Irish Community And Race Relations, Eileen M. Mcmahon

Dissertations

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Messages Of Childhood : Transmission Of Cultural Values In Selected Primary Reading Textbooks Of The Chicago Public Schools, From 1900-1950, Millicent Drower

Dissertations

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Thomas J. Farrell, Administrator: His Views On The Schools Of His Time, Joan C. Boscia

Dissertations

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A Case Study Of The Steinmetz Academic Centre For Wellness And Sports Science : Differential Program Preference Ratings By Group Constituency, Race, And Gender, Kay Tokunaga

Dissertations

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Gerry Fitt: Ulster Politician, Michael A. Murphy

Dissertations

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Education Of The Christian Clergy In The Cameroon Since 1957: Implications For And Problems In Religious Reconstruction And Nation-Building, Mbu Walters

Dissertations

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Irish-America And The Ulster Conflict, 1968-1995, Andrew J. Wilson

Dissertations

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The Irish Police, 1836-1914 : A Social History, Brian Griffin

Dissertations

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The Expansion And Decline Of Enrollment And Facilities Of Secondary Schools In The Archdiocese Of Chicago, 1955-1980: A Historical Study, George V. Fornero

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Big Ben The Builder: School Construction -- 1953-66, Cynthia A. Wnek

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Some Aspects Of The Life And Work Of John Ellis, King's Agent For West Florida 1763 To 1776, Julius Groner

Dissertations

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