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11_18_2018 The Nexus Of Northwest Arkansas - Thesis By Chuck Davis.Pdf, Chuck Davis Nov 2018

11_18_2018 The Nexus Of Northwest Arkansas - Thesis By Chuck Davis.Pdf, Chuck Davis

Chuck Davis

My photographs are about power and place. Situated by context to a bygone era, Northwest Arkansas is now the illogical home of the world’s largest company.  Attendant economic and sociological forces are changing this rural area rapidly, as I examine effects upon the region and its residents – historical, contemporary, and transient.
With a narrative, neo-journalistic voice, I seek to convey new complexities to the state of Arkansas and specifically its northwest region. Postcards and placards react and reverse the popular shibboleth of a slow, rural sociotype – the Southern man, woman and family – which is at odds with …

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Canal Boy To President 1881 Miller Ed.Pdf, Jon Miller Aug 2018

Canal Boy To President 1881 Miller Ed.Pdf, Jon Miller

Jon Miller

No abstract provided.

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The Elijah Burritt Affair: David Walker's Appeal And Partisan Journalism In Antebellum Milledgeville, Glenn Mcnair Jul 2018

The Elijah Burritt Affair: David Walker's Appeal And Partisan Journalism In Antebellum Milledgeville, Glenn Mcnair

Glenn McNair

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Slave Women, Capital Crime, And Criminal Justice In Georgia, Glenn Mcnair Jul 2018

Slave Women, Capital Crime, And Criminal Justice In Georgia, Glenn Mcnair

Glenn McNair

No abstract provided.

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Melcom 2018: Oriental Manuscripts At The University Of Michigan (Slides), Roberta L. Dougherty Jun 2018

Melcom 2018: Oriental Manuscripts At The University Of Michigan (Slides), Roberta L. Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

This paper tells the story of the birth and growth of the collection of Islamic manuscripts at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA). While the story has interest in its own right, this paper will also attempt to situate it in the larger story of the collecting of antiquities by Orientalists that began in Europe, first by wealthy dilettantes and royalty, then by museums as they began to grow and be established in the nineteenth century, and continued along similar lines in the young United States by wealthy industrialists and the museums and universities they patronized. Also having a …

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Melcom 2018: Oriental Manuscripts At The University Of Michigan, Roberta L. Dougherty Jun 2018

Melcom 2018: Oriental Manuscripts At The University Of Michigan, Roberta L. Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

This paper tells the story of the birth and growth of the collection of Islamic manuscripts at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA). While the story has interest in its own right, this paper will also attempt to situate it in the larger story of the collecting of antiquities by Orientalists that began in Europe, first by wealthy dilettantes and royalty, then by museums as they began to grow and be established in the nineteenth century, and continued along similar lines in the young United States by wealthy industrialists and the museums and universities they patronized. Also having a …

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‘…Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...: The Music Of Bob Dylan And Sam Shepard, Katherine Weiss May 2018

‘…Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...: The Music Of Bob Dylan And Sam Shepard, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

No abstract provided.

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Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Sophie Treadwell's Machinal: Electrifying The Female Body, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: The American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell dedicated her literary career to exploring the lives and motives of lonely and trapped individuals.

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Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss May 2018

Book Review Of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard And The Aesthetics Of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of Emma Creedon, Sam Shepard and the Aesthetics of Performance Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, xi + 199 pp., $90.00.

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Book Review Of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition In American Political Theater By Ilka Saal, Katherine Weiss May 2018

Book Review Of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition In American Political Theater By Ilka Saal, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater by Ilka Saal. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007. 244 pp. $69.95.

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"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss May 2018

"... Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...": Sam Shepard And Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl", Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Excerpt: In 1975, Bob Dylan invited Sam Shepard, the young playwright who had ignited the Off-Broadway and London theatre scene, to go on tour with him in order to write scenes and dialogue for a film of the Rolling Thunder Revue.

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Nineteenth-Century Ohio Literature, Vol. 1, Jon Miller Apr 2018

Nineteenth-Century Ohio Literature, Vol. 1, Jon Miller

Jon Miller

No abstract provided.

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Sacred Heart University Celebrates Mlk, Encourages Students To ‘Stay Woke’ Jan 2018

Sacred Heart University Celebrates Mlk, Encourages Students To ‘Stay Woke’

Karreem Mebane

Sacred Heart University students, faculty and staff gathered in University Commons recently for a celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. that focused on being aware, calling out injustices and creating change.
The event, “Celebration and Reflection: The Many Voices of Social Justice,”—which took place two days after what would have been King’s 89th birthday—was moderated by Karreem Mebane, director of Volunteer Programs and Service Learning.

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Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Hero, Michael David Bonifonte Dec 2017

Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Hero, Michael David Bonifonte

Scott T. Allison

This chapter seeks to explore Edgar Allan Poe’s heroism, incorporating many of the ideas from recent heroism science to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was not just a gifted yet impoverished writer, he was a bona fide Richmond hero.

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Edward Elbridge Salisbury, 1814-1901, Robin Dougherty Dec 2017

Edward Elbridge Salisbury, 1814-1901, Robin Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

No abstract provided.

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Beyond Greed Is Good: Pop Culture In The Business Law Classroom, Felice Batlan, Joshua Bass Dec 2017

Beyond Greed Is Good: Pop Culture In The Business Law Classroom, Felice Batlan, Joshua Bass

Felice J Batlan

No abstract provided.

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Emily Dickinson, Fascicle 26 / Packet 84 (Mobile Version), Jon Miller Dec 2017

Emily Dickinson, Fascicle 26 / Packet 84 (Mobile Version), Jon Miller

Jon Miller

This edition of Emily Dickinson's "Packet 84," also known as "Fascicle 26," reproduces the text and annotations of this 26-page bundle of poems in Dickinson's hand. The text is made from the electronic version of the original now available from the Emily Dickinson Collection in the Amherst College Digital Collections. This is the mobile version of this edition. To assist researchers, the poems are titled with the Franklin ("F") and Johnson ("J") numbers. Note, however, that the texts in this edition are not the same as the versions published by Franklin or Johnson, as editors necessarily make a number of …

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Emily Dickinson, Fascicle 26 / Packet 84, Jon Miller Dec 2017

Emily Dickinson, Fascicle 26 / Packet 84, Jon Miller

Jon Miller

This edition of Emily Dickinson's "Packet 84," also known as "Fascicle 26," reproduces the text and annotations of this 26-page bundle of poems in Dickinson's hand. The text is made from the electronic version of the original now available from the Emily Dickinson Collection in the Amherst College Digital Collections. If you print this version double-sided on 8.5 by 11 paper and cut those three pages in half, you'll have six pages to fold, pile up, and staple (or sew) into a 24-page booklet that mimics the form in which Dickinson preserved them. To assist researchers, the poems are titled …

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