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Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 6 (December, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein Dec 1999

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 6 (December, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring a newspaper article on Bern Porter's predictions for the new millenium, and a "fond farewell" from editor Sheila Holtz -- followed by a retraction.


Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 5 (October, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein Oct 1999

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 5 (October, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring a poem by Bob Holman and a review of the art of Andrezej Dudek-Durer.


Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 4 (August 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein Aug 1999

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 4 (August 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking

Featuring 1991 Porter Preview interview and "Return to Belfast, Part II: the Long-Suppressed Bootleg Version" (installment 3 of 3).


Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 3 (June, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein Jun 1999

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 3 (June, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring an reprinted article on Bern Porter and poems by D. Russel and Nguyen Ducmanh.


Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 2 (April, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein Apr 1999

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 2 (April, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring found works by Bern Porter and Natasha Bernstein's "Return to Belfast, Part II."


Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 1 (February ,1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein Feb 1999

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 1 (February ,1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring "The Year 2000 (Y2K) Computer Problem (IV): Capitalism's Culpability" by George Shand and poems by Maureen Neville and Anne Welsh.


Shaping Realities: A Study Of The Connection Between White Hegemony In Popular Culture And The Deprecatory Self-Image Of African Americans, Rebecca Thornton Jan 1999

Shaping Realities: A Study Of The Connection Between White Hegemony In Popular Culture And The Deprecatory Self-Image Of African Americans, Rebecca Thornton

Honors Theses

The following paper will examine how the breakdown of politically motivated racism easily translated into popular culture. Defining African Americans only as stereotypes allowed for the hegemony that had kept African Americans inferior, to endure into a new era, one dominated almost wholly by popular culture. Divided into three chapters, this paper will systematically demonstrate how historically, politically, socially, and ideologically the African American race has been castigated and prostrated by those in power.


Sorting Out The American Dream - The Short Stories Of Raymond Carver, Matt Williams Jan 1999

Sorting Out The American Dream - The Short Stories Of Raymond Carver, Matt Williams

Honors Theses

As Robert Stone says of his friend and his friend's work, "People will always want to read him to get an insight into the life and art of the late-twentieth century America ... he will stand high" (Halpert 131), Carver's life and work started out in the "rag and bone shop of the heart" (Nesset 103). He started out telling us about the hardships and misfortunes that go along with being not only an American, but human. Carver showed us the darker side of the American experience, but with it, showed us that with time, hope can triumph. "Reaching deep, …