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Literature In The World: A Critical Discourse Study Of World Literature Pedagogy, Elisa Cogbill-Seiders Dec 2018

Literature In The World: A Critical Discourse Study Of World Literature Pedagogy, Elisa Cogbill-Seiders

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

“Literature in the World” is a critical discourse analysis of world literature pedagogy in U.S. higher education. It investigates the ways discourse communities in higher education produce and shape the field of world literature. The dissertation begins by establishing and analyzing the generic conventions of university mission statements, finding they are primarily dominated by discourse on global learning. It follows with an analysis of world literature course descriptions from the same schools. World literature course descriptions alternatively replicate, resist, or subvert global learning discourses. The last chapter uses findings from the first two chapters to trace how university and instructor …

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Case Study: Armenian And Cuban Ethnic Interest Groups In American Foreign Policy, Harry H. Terzian Dec 2018

Case Study: Armenian And Cuban Ethnic Interest Groups In American Foreign Policy, Harry H. Terzian

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Current academic research has moved away from comparative models as a mechanism by which to assess and understand socio-political as well as historical phenomena. In addition, comparative analysis when it comes to addressing ethnic lobbies is almost nonexistent within contemporary research. This work implements a comparative framework and as a result has unlocked a new approach when addressing ethnic advocacy organizations. The purpose of this research is to assess and document the history and impact of both Armenian and Cuban ethnic interest groups within the United States. Specifically, focusing upon the Armenian National Committee of America and the Cuban American …

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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Season Greetings!, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Dec 2018

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Season Greetings!, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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Faulkner's Media Romance, Julian Murphet., James Altman Dec 2018

Faulkner's Media Romance, Julian Murphet., James Altman

English Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Dec 2018

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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Cinematic Amnesia As Remembering: Coming Home (2014) And Red Amnesia (2014), Ying Bao Nov 2018

Cinematic Amnesia As Remembering: Coming Home (2014) And Red Amnesia (2014), Ying Bao

Department of World Languages Faculty Research

This article examines the trope of amnesia—the crisis of memory—in two recent Chinese-language films dealing with traumatic memories of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath: Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home (Guilai, 2014) and Wang Xiaoshuai’s Red Amnesia (Chuangru zhe, 2014). Cinematic representation of real and symbolic amnesia, I argue, can be an affective way to overcome historical amnesia, both institutionalized by the Party-state and privatized by individuals. By exploring the dynamics between forgetting and remembering at both collective and individual levels, we can reach a deeper understanding of the profound impact of the Cultural Revolution and its present-day repercussions.

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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Nov 2018

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

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Nevada Digital Newspaper Project, Carrie Gaxiola, Yvonne Wilk Oct 2018

Nevada Digital Newspaper Project, Carrie Gaxiola, Yvonne Wilk

Library Faculty Presentations

Chronicling America is a nation-wide project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to make historical newspapers available online and full text searchable. Nevada has participated in the project since 2014. Each grant cycle lasts two years and produces 100,000 digitized news pages for online access. Title selection is guided by an Advisory Board to represent each county of Nevada. These newspapers are the first draft of history, show the daily lives, perspectives, and events of the past. Much of the content offers rich research material within the topics of women’s rights and suffrage, …

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Unlv Magazine, Marta Meana, Tiffany Pereira, Juliet V. Casey, Jason Scavone, Keyonna Summers Oct 2018

Unlv Magazine, Marta Meana, Tiffany Pereira, Juliet V. Casey, Jason Scavone, Keyonna Summers

UNLV Magazine

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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Oct 2018

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

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Are Social Media Comparisons Thieves Of Joy?, Jessica F. Saunders, Asia A. Eaton Sep 2018

Are Social Media Comparisons Thieves Of Joy?, Jessica F. Saunders, Asia A. Eaton

Research Briefs

Women's eating behavior is impacted by socio-cultural factors, regardless of the main social networking site they use.

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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Sep 2018

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Caryll Batt Dziedziak, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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Civil Rights Or Sovereignty Rights? Understanding The Historical Conflict Between Native Americans And Organized Labor, Colleen O'Neill Aug 2018

Civil Rights Or Sovereignty Rights? Understanding The Historical Conflict Between Native Americans And Organized Labor, Colleen O'Neill

Occasional Papers

Unions have played important roles in Indigenous struggles in Latin America and in campaigns that fueled civil rights movements in the United States, including efforts to organize agricultural, hospitality, and health care workers. But, Native Americans have had less of a connection with organized labor. Indeed, in the current climate, labor and tribes seemed to be locked in an adversarial relationship. Tribal leaders see unions as a threat to their sovereignty. Unions, such as Unite-HERE and the United Food and Commercial Workers, clearly see their rights to organize as part of a larger civil rights struggle. Examining struggles between tribal …

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Shakespeare's Hamlet As A Pilgrimage Of The Soul, Joyce Ahn Aug 2018

Shakespeare's Hamlet As A Pilgrimage Of The Soul, Joyce Ahn

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This study proposes a reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a pilgrimage of the soul. There has been a consistent strain in Shakespeare scholarship which seeks to understand Hamlet and its peculiarly universal appeal in terms of its evocation of the human condition. Some examples of such commentary: Hamlet abounds in the disease imagery and is suffused with a mysterious sense of doom; it is the only play in Shakespeare with an explicit reference to Christmas; it evokes the medieval cycle plays which enacted the entire salvation history from the Creation of the world to the Last Judgment; and the play …

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Mental Health Research Productivity Of Nasp-Approved School Psychology Programs: 2010-2015, Mala Nash Aug 2018

Mental Health Research Productivity Of Nasp-Approved School Psychology Programs: 2010-2015, Mala Nash

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

With the evident need for mental health support of children and adolescents, there are identified professionals prepared to provide services within the school setting. The school psychologist is considered a key resource for providing mental health services such as preventive and crisis response (Dwyer, 2004; Armistead, 2008). Based on our country’s mental health needs and the significant role that schools can make in meeting those needs, it is pertinent to take a closer look at the literature specifically related to mental health. This review focused specifically on the field of school psychology’s contribution to mental health literature and established a …

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Epistemic Beliefs And The Innovation-Decision Process: A Mixed Methods Analysis Of Faculty Classroom Assessment Practice, Sharon G. Peterson Aug 2018

Epistemic Beliefs And The Innovation-Decision Process: A Mixed Methods Analysis Of Faculty Classroom Assessment Practice, Sharon G. Peterson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This study focuses on epistemic belief change and the innovation-decision processes of 193 faculty who participated in a professional development workshop series on classroom assessment. From this study population, focus groups were conducted with a criterion-based research sample of 30 workshop participants (i.e., spring workshop completers n = eight, spring workshop non-completers n =eight, fall workshop completers n = seven, and fall workshop non-completers n = seven). Very little attention in higher education research is devoted to how faculty conceptualize new knowledge during professional development, and how decisions about new knowledge affect existing knowledge. This study addresses this gap by …

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Females On Djia Corporate Boards Compared Globally, Anne H. Declouette Aug 2018

Females On Djia Corporate Boards Compared Globally, Anne H. Declouette

Research Briefs

It is well-established that corporate boards around the world have been overwhelmingly male. Since the 21st century in the U.S. was ushered in by numerous corporate scandals - with women taking important roles in dismantling unethical behavior - women's inclusion on boards of directors has become an increasing focal point of research and discourse. Despite the increased research and attention, women continue to be under-represented on corporate boards in most countries around the world - including the U.S. But one country has taken dramatic action to change this trend. Other first-world countries have approached the subject less forcefully and, therefore, …

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Sex And Gender Diversity Is Growing Across The Us, Georgiann Davis Jul 2018

Sex And Gender Diversity Is Growing Across The Us, Georgiann Davis

Sociology Faculty Research

Christine Hallquist, a transgender woman from Vermont, in 2018 made history as the first openly trans person to ever win the nomination of a major political party for governor. Sex and gender diverse people were once only able to be their authentic selves in gay and lesbian spaces. Today, from Danica Roem in Virginia to Betsy Driver in New Jersey to Hallquist in Vermont, they are running and winning major political posts throughout the United States.

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Christianity And Gambling: An Introduction, Massimo Leone Jul 2018

Christianity And Gambling: An Introduction, Massimo Leone

Occasional Papers

Religions hold complex relations with games and, in particular, with gambling. The article focuses on Christianity. On the one hand, the history of this religion shows a tendency to condemn games as source of distraction from spiritual rectitude and to stigmatize gambling, above all, as opening to metaphysical randomness and, as a consequence, as challenge to the idea of divine omniscience. On the other hand, Christianity has also sought to reinterpret games, and even gambling, as possible occasion for moral improvement and as useful distraction from the hardship of monastic life. A theological perspective that reaches its peak in Thomas …

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Book Review Of Epistrophies Jazz And The Literary Imagination, James H. Altman Jul 2018

Book Review Of Epistrophies Jazz And The Literary Imagination, James H. Altman

English Faculty Research

This book review examines Brent Hayes Edwards’s Epistrophies Jazz and the Literary Imagination, and the insightful conclusions he draws from the, largely, unexplored links between jazz and literature.

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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Jul 2018

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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Stormy Present: Conservatism And The Problem Of Slavery In Northern Politics, 1846-1865, Michael Green Jun 2018

Stormy Present: Conservatism And The Problem Of Slavery In Northern Politics, 1846-1865, Michael Green

History Faculty Research

Historians have been fighting about the causes and effects of the Civil War since they were using quill pens, and they figure to keep doing so until long after the laptop computer on which this is written has become an antique. Now Adam I. P. Smith, a scholar of mid-19th-century America and especially its political culture, has joined the battle to argue that one of the dominant impulses and attitudes associated with the years leading up and including the American Civil War was conservatism. As the conflicting interpretations of the era suggest, that may be the case, but the reforms …

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Review Of: Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice To The People, James H. Altman Jun 2018

Review Of: Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice To The People, James H. Altman

English Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

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Ptsd Among Working Women In A Developing Country, Lung-Chang Chien, Taylor J. Fitch, Xiao Yu, Mohammad Monjural Karim, Hasanat Alamgir Jun 2018

Ptsd Among Working Women In A Developing Country, Lung-Chang Chien, Taylor J. Fitch, Xiao Yu, Mohammad Monjural Karim, Hasanat Alamgir

Research Briefs

No abstract provided.

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Spook Fest Style Guide, M. Valenzano May 2018

Spook Fest Style Guide, M. Valenzano

Graphic Design and Media Program: Studio II

This style guide contains branding guidelines for Spook Fest, including logo design, logo use, color palette, and typography.

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The Medina Style Guide, J. Llontop May 2018

The Medina Style Guide, J. Llontop

Graphic Design and Media Program: Studio II

This style guide provides branding guidelines include for The Medina, including proper logo usage, typography, and color palette.

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Welcome To The Nba: Battle Born Horns, A. Rodriguez May 2018

Welcome To The Nba: Battle Born Horns, A. Rodriguez

Graphic Design and Media Program: Studio II

This style guide provides branding concepts for the Battle Born Horns including logo and uniform designs, color palette, and typography.

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Born & Raised, Jennifer Date May 2018

Born & Raised, Jennifer Date

Graphic Design and Media Program: Studio II

This style guide provides branding guidelines include for Born & Raised, a local Las Vegas sports bar. Guidelines include proper logo usage, typography, and color palette.

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Hard Rock Style Guide, Brittni Sacco May 2018

Hard Rock Style Guide, Brittni Sacco

Graphic Design and Media Program: Studio II

This style guide provides branding guidelines for Hard Rock Las Vegas, including proper logo use, typography, and color palette.

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Life Aquatic, Car Paayas May 2018

Life Aquatic, Car Paayas

Graphic Design and Media Program: Studio II

This style guide provides branding guidelines for Life Aquatic, an oceanic exhibition that brings life to the Wes Anderson film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The style guide includes proper employee attire, logo usage, typography, and color palette.

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