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One Last Month, Or Clancy's Time-Box, Safiyya Bintali Jan 2023

One Last Month, Or Clancy's Time-Box, Safiyya Bintali

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

One Last Month is a young adult (YA) novella of roughly forty-three thousand words aimed at readers in middle school and in early high school grades. Structurally, it is an “ensemble Bildungsroman”, wherein all the main characters—rather than just one—embark on journeys of emotional growth and are given significant plot focus. Through the characters, One Last Month focuses on the importance and influence of non-romantic love, specifically through homosocial relationships between the novella’s male characters. It also touches on the process of grief beyond the Kübler-Ross structure and, though more subtly, emotional expression in young men. Through one of the …


The Changing Role Of The Bass Clarinet: Support For Its Integration Into The Modern Clarinet Studio, Jennifer Beth Iles May 2015

The Changing Role Of The Bass Clarinet: Support For Its Integration Into The Modern Clarinet Studio, Jennifer Beth Iles

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The bass clarinet of the twenty-first century has come into its own. Composers often treat it as a solo instrument and clarinetists are more often expected to play bass clarinet. In the last half of the twentieth century, the amount of literature for bass clarinet has grown and the quality of the instruments have improved exponentially. Still, most university studios focus primarily on B-flat clarinet. This document is intended as a pedagogical guide for the inclusion of the bass clarinet in the clarinet studio. As support for incorporating the bass clarinet into the undergraduate curriculum, this document describes three areas …


About Phi Alpha Theta, Amelia K. Barker Sep 2011

About Phi Alpha Theta, Amelia K. Barker

Psi Sigma Siren

Founded in 1921, Phi Alpha Theta is the international history honor society. “We are a professional society whose mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. We seek to bring students, teachers, and writers of history together for intellectual and social exchanges, which promote and assist historical research and publication by our members in a variety of ways.”


From The President / From The Editor, Ashley Guthrie, Marie Rowley Apr 2011

From The President / From The Editor, Ashley Guthrie, Marie Rowley

Psi Sigma Siren

Love of historical scholarship and community service warrants active membership in UNLV‘s History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta—Psi Sigma Chapter. The five essays presented in this issue of the Psi Sigma Siren represent the strengths of our History Department and the hard work of our Phi Alpha Theta members.


About Phi Alpha Theta Apr 2011

About Phi Alpha Theta

Psi Sigma Siren

A description of the goals and activities of the international history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta, in general, and of the UNLV chapter, Psi Sigma, in particular. Contains contact information and chapter officers.