"Gsta Youth Testimony" Sign, 2021 University of Southern Maine
"Gsta Youth Testimony" Sign, Betsy Parsons
Betsy Parsons Collection
Sign created by Betsy Parsons for demonstration or march. Text reads: " GSTA Youth Testimony Helped Protect the Maine Human Rights Act".
Black, red, green, and blue text on white background. Acrylic or tempera on posterboard.
"Love Is Compassion..." Sign, 2021 University of Southern Maine
"Love Is Compassion..." Sign, Betsy Parsons
Betsy Parsons Collection
Sign created by Betsy Parsons for demonstration or march. Text reads: "Love is Compassion Love is Caring Love is Beautiful Love is Love"
Pastel marker on white background.
"Safe Schools For Glbt People" Sign, 2021 University of Southern Maine
"Safe Schools For Glbt People" Sign, Betsy Parsons
Betsy Parsons Collection
Sign created by Betsy Parsons for demonstration or march. Text reads: "GLSEN Safe SChools for GLBT People".
Black and red text on white background. GLSEN bumper sticker.
"We Are All In This Together" Sign, 2021 University of Southern Maine
"We Are All In This Together" Sign, Betsy Parsons
Betsy Parsons Collection
Sign created by Betsy Parsons for demonstration or march. Text reads "We Are All In This Together" in several languages.
"Proud Gay Student" Sign, 2021 University of Southern Maine
"Proud Gay Student" Sign, Betsy Parsons
Betsy Parsons Collection
Sign created for march or demonstration. Text reads: " Proud Son Christian Student Gay". Note, the word "Gay" is written vertically next to "son", "Christian" and "Student".
Acrylic paint on white background.
"Trans Students Are Everywhere" Sign, 2021 University of Southern Maine
"Trans Students Are Everywhere" Sign, Betsy Parsons
Betsy Parsons Collection
Sign created by Betsy Parsons for protest or march. Text reads "Trans Students Are Everywhere".
Handpainted rainbow text, likely acrylic or tempera on posterboard.
Conditional Recognition And The Popularization Of The Contemporary Wellness Industry, 2021 Dartmouth College
Conditional Recognition And The Popularization Of The Contemporary Wellness Industry, Janina Misiewicz
Dartmouth College Master’s Theses
During the second half of the twentieth century, liberalism gave way to neoliberalism, and as a result, the cultural role of wellness also expanded, leading to the creation of what Carl Cederström and André Spicer call “the wellness syndrome.” Now, in a society inundated by yoga studios, corporate mindfulness programs, and data tracking apps, wellness has expanded into a multibillion dollar industry. Yet the allure of wellness is not immediately understandable. What is it about wellness that has created an almost religious fervor among its adherents? This thesis offers a solution to this question in the form of what I …
Amjambo Africa! (July 2021), 2021 University of Southern Maine
Amjambo Africa! (July 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Juneteenth..................................2
Beautiful Blackbird Festival.....3
Publisher’s Editorial..................6
Immigration & the workforce.11
Finding freedom from Trauma Part II..................................12/19
World Market Basket .............14
Food for All Mobile Market
African beef & sauce with Eugénie Kipoy
Nouveaux Romans: reviews of recent novels by Francophone authors A partnership with Bates College .......................15/16/17
Sending money home ............20
Finance.....................................21
Columns. ......................24/25/26
Nigeria bans Twitter ...............27
Bombay Mahal ........................28
Tips&Info for Maine ..............29
ICE in Maine..................30/31
Translations
French .................................8
Swahili ................................9
Somali ...............................10
Kinyarwanda.....................22
Portuguese.........................23
Negritude Feminisms: Francophone Black Women Writers And Activists In France, Martinique, And Senegal From The 1920s To The 1980s, 2021 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Negritude Feminisms: Francophone Black Women Writers And Activists In France, Martinique, And Senegal From The 1920s To The 1980s, Korka Sall
Doctoral Dissertations
Negritude Feminisms: Francophone Black Women Writers and Activists in France, Martinique and Senegal from the 1920s to 1980s reframes debates about the participation and conversation of francophone women writers in the Negritude movement. I use the Negritude movement as a model to highlight its capacities and limits. Through an intergenerational analysis of the writings and personal experiences of Paulette Nardal and Suzanne Césaire from Martinique, Annette Mbaye d’Erneville and Aminata Sow Fall from Senegal, my dissertation charts common themes of racial consciousness, gender issues and the colonial problem developed by these women. Nardal, Césaire, Mbaye d’Erneville and Sow Fall played …
Undercover Heroines: The Role Of Women In The Oss, 2021 James Madison University
Undercover Heroines: The Role Of Women In The Oss, Alexander Pearson
MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference
Women played significant roles in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. Aline Griffith’s memoir The Spy Wore Red: My Adventures as an Undercover Agent in World War II recounts her work in preparation for the southern invasion of France following D-day, known as Operation Dragoon. Other written accounts from other female agents indicate that the leadership in Washington wanted women to fulfill traditional gender roles. For example, William J. Donovan stated that women in the OSS should be “behind desks and filing cases in Washington, invisible apron strings of an organization which touched every theater of …
Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, 2021 Rhode Island School of Design
Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills
Masters Theses
Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …
Sacred Music In Colonial Era Hispaniola: The Evangelization Of The Taino People, 2021 Tito Jose Gutierrez
Sacred Music In Colonial Era Hispaniola: The Evangelization Of The Taino People, Tito J. Gutierrez
Student Theses
During the 15th-18th centuries, the major European religious orders; the Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, and Jeronymites, journeyed to the newly colonized American territories in an attempt to convert the multitudes of natives peoples living there. Along with prayer books, crucifixes, and religious images, these missionaries brought sacred European music to American shores in an attempt to attract the native people to the Catholic faith.The use of music as a tool for conversion of native people in places such as Mexico, South America, California, and the South West United States, have been well researched and documented. However, the research of the spiritual …
Oral Testimonies Of Female Emigrants From Northern Ireland: Finding The The Universal And Unique Stories Of Migration, 2021 Clark University
Oral Testimonies Of Female Emigrants From Northern Ireland: Finding The The Universal And Unique Stories Of Migration, Lisa Ahmed
International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE)
The purpose of this paper is to add a nuanced understanding to the study of women and migration. By using oral testimonies to conduct this narrative research study I was able to add to growing body of knowledge on women and migration. This study focused on women who arrived in the United States from Northern Ireland, for family the migration process started in Germany. The terms migration, emigration and immigration are used in the paper to describe people in movement within and across national borders. This narrative illustrates some of the consequences when nation states use their power to facilitate …
“Fortunate Art”: Short-Writing And Two Of Its Practitioners In Colonial New England, 2021 Independent Scholar
“Fortunate Art”: Short-Writing And Two Of Its Practitioners In Colonial New England, David Powers
Sermon Studies
Following the publication of Timothie Bright’s Characterie: An Art of shorte, swifte and secrete writing by Character in 1588, a spate of books on shorthand appeared in England. This technology echoed long-forgotten methods which had developed centuries before, while providing fresh techniques for composing and recording spoken speech. From their very beginnings these new systems proved especially applicable to religious purposes, though they also found academic, legal, and governmental applications. Clergy from those centuries left hundreds of “short-writing” manuscripts which are as yet untranscribed.
This article describes the principles behind “short-writing” as exemplified in two major systems in use in …
The “Age Of Rock” Versus The “Rock Of Ages”: Naturalism, Social Darwinism, And Fundamentalism In The Scopes Monkey Trial, 2021 Liberty University
The “Age Of Rock” Versus The “Rock Of Ages”: Naturalism, Social Darwinism, And Fundamentalism In The Scopes Monkey Trial, Bessie Blackburn
Helm's School of Government Conference - American Revival: Citizenship & Virtue
Greek mythology once predominated the highest forms of culture known to man. Myths of how fire came to be in the hands of humans, or how the peacock got its spotted feathers were beloved cultural tales of origins.[1] With the decline of the ancient cultures, new ones blossomed in their place. However, the question of origin has remained a pertinent, central question of each culture, no matter how modern. The question of origin dictates who a person believes himself to be, where he believes himself to be going, and what he believes himself to be doing. The question of …
Fake Italian: An 83% True Autobiography With Pseudonyms And Some Tall Tales, 2021 Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Fake Italian: An 83% True Autobiography With Pseudonyms And Some Tall Tales, Marc Dipaolo
Faculty Books & Book Chapters
In a city torn apart by racial tension, Damien Cavalieri is an adolescent without a tribe. His mother -who pines for the 1950s Brooklyn Italian community she grew up in- fears he lacks commitment to his heritage. Damien’s fellow Staten Islanders agree, dubbing him a “fake Italian” and bullying him for being artistic. Complicating matters, his efforts to make friends and date girls outside of the Italian community are thwarted time and again by circumstances beyond his control. When a tragic accident shakes Damien to his core, he begins a journey of self-discovery that will lead him to Italy, where …
Endless Scrolling: Technology, (Dis)Connection, And Place In Times Of Covid-19, 2021 Kennesaw State University
Endless Scrolling: Technology, (Dis)Connection, And Place In Times Of Covid-19, Felecia Glover
Master of Arts in American Studies Capstones
The COVID-19 pandemic created sudden ruptures in the ways many people connected with one another in their day to day lives. Though experiences differed, many turned to communication technology as a means to continue to connect despite COVID restrictions. For some this meant learning to collaborate with coworkers through a screen, while for others it allowed for a sense of closeness with those at a great geographical distance. For many, the seemingly separate spheres of the work, home, and social life all began to take place in one physical, and many virtual, spaces. Though it allows for a smoother transition …
Hip Hop Urbanist Reconstructions: Strategies & Tactics For Spatial Reparations, 2021 Syracuse University
Hip Hop Urbanist Reconstructions: Strategies & Tactics For Spatial Reparations, Isaac Howland
Architecture Senior Theses
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Amjambo Africa! (May 2021), 2021 University of Southern Maine
Amjambo Africa! (May 2021), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Chad’s president dies.........2/3
Corruption in Africa.........2/3
Maine & slave trade..............5
Vaccine pause/editorial .......6
Portland Empowered..........12
Onyx Emelo photo essay ...13
Liberation Farms photo essay.......................14
A taste of Jamaica................15
Support for AAPIcommunity........................17
Midcoast Literacy................18
Amran Osman.....................19
Minorities in Healthcare....20
Finance.................................21
Guest Columnists/community voices.....................24/25/26
Ekhlas Ahmed.....................27
Ryan Adams.........................28
Cynthia McGuirl.................28
Navigating benefits.............29
Racial justice........................31
Translations
French..................................7
Swahili.................................8
Somali..................................9
Kinyarwanda.....................22
Portuguese.........................23
May 2021, 2021 University of Southern Maine
May 2021, Temple Shalom
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Temple Shalom Encounters a 20th Century Yiddish American Phenomenon; From the Rabbi; From the President; Book Group; Community Notices