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Bud Fisher—Pioneer Dean Of The Comic Artists, Ray Thompson

The Courier

The George Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University has an extensive collection of original drawings by American cartoonists. Among the most famous of these are Bud Fisher's "Mutt and Jeff."

Bud Fisher set the pattern of a new phase of visual entertainment that has endured and blossomed to this day. Everybody knows of "Mutt and Jeff" - an American institution and a synonym for "tall and short." Fisher was one of the most copied of the early cartoonists. One can trace his influence through dozens of strips created between 1910 and 1920.

Franco-American Album, 1979 (Scrapbook #6), Franco-American Collection

Scrapbooks

Newspaper clippings with photographs of politics, schools, church, wedding anniversaries, obituaries and social events etc., in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine and Canada from 1979.

The Book Of The Pawnee: Pawnee Stories For Study And Enjoyment, Marge Critcher, Carolyn Boyum, Patti Huff, Paul A. Olson, Rosemary Bergstrom

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I. Meeting the Pawnee ............................... 1

II. Pawnee Beliefs .................................. . 3

The Pawnee Creation Story ...................... 3

The Boy Who Was Sacrificed ..................... 8

III. Pawnee Hero Stories ............................. 14

Lone Chief ................................. 14

Little Warrior's Counsel. ................ . . . .... 27

IV. Pawnee Folk Tales ............................... 30

The Snake Brother ........................... 30

Mosquitoes ................................. 37

V. Boy Stories .................................... 39

The Boy Who Talked with Lightning .............. 39

The Boy and the Wonderful Robe ............... .42

The Boys, the Thunderbird, and the Water Monster .. 50

VI. Coyote Stories .................................. 54

Coyote and the Blind Buffalo ................... …

A Few Great Stories Of The Santee People, Edna Peniska, Paul Robertson, Robert Frerichs, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Told by Many Nineteenth Century Santee and by Edna Peniska and Paul Robertson of the Modern Santee.

Gathered and Edited by Robert Frerichs and Paul A. Olson.

The fact that every known culture and civilization has acquired some sort of set of sacred stories is important. The eleven sacred stories in this work have multiple purposes. They possess a value as sheer entertainment; they also tell truths and lessons which explain the meaning of existence. Thus the Santee listener could fmd his place in the world and achieve an inner harmony through hearing stories. The characters in these stories are …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 2, Nancy K. Wierman, Joyce Demcher Moran, Louis Winkler, Alvin F. Kemp, Judith E. Fryer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Pennsylvania Dutchman
• Miz Ukraini: "We are From the Ukraine"
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XVII: German Language Almanacs
• Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect Stories
• Taufscheine: A New Index for People Hunters, Part II
• Aldes un Neies

C.L. Sonnichsen, Joyce Gibson Roach

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

El Paso is located at almost the farthest point of West Texas, where the Rio Grande River begins its sweep into the Big Bend country. Strangers find it a region extreme in its limitless supply of nothing. Even natives joke about the area. It is a place where “every living thing seems prepared to fight for its life. Even the plants go armed and hardly a shrub can be found without a spine or fang somewhere" (Roy Bean, p. 71). Texans do not expect a man from Minnesota with a Ph.D. from Harvard to write affectionately about the sand, …

From Selflessness To Selfishness: Various Types Of Deception In Four Of Twain's Novels, Kay L. Smith

Masters Theses

An interesting feature of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is the use of disguise and deception. The basis of much of the novels' actions concerns people who, for varied reasons, set out to fool other people. Other individuals or groups of people are self-deceived.

Motivations for the deception vary. Some entail selfless concerns of protecting a loved one. Some illustrate desires to maintain one's own safety and well-being. Still others involve negative, base qualities such as greed, …

Following In Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks: Autobiographical Notes By The Author Of Shuckin' And Jivin', Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

As I began to peruse collections and studies of black folklore, I found that although considerable work had been done from which I was l earning a great deal, there were some aspects of black folklore with which I was personally familiar (from my childhood in Charles City, Virginia, my college days in Petersburg, and my adult life in Richmond) that I had observed as influence in numerous literary works, particularly on temporary works, that were not included in the material was finding, or were not presented in anything even vaguely resembling the versions I knew and saw represented in …

Unlv 1979-80 Rebel Basketball Guide, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Basketball Programs

A guide for Rebel Basketball from 1979-1980.

Unlv Lady Rebels 1979-1980, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Basketball Programs

Athletic Staff

Former Lady Rebel All Americas

Lady Rebels in the Pros

Lady Rebel Profiles

Last Year's Results and Statistics

Las Vegas Profile

National Statistics and Rankings

NIKE Tournament of Champions

Opponents

Past Records

Schedule

Season Outlook

Team Picture

Team Roster

UNLV Facts

UNLV Profile

Black Eve Or Madonna? A Study Of The Antithetical Views Of The Mother In Black American Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Within these two extreme views of woman - the mother who brings death and destruction versus the mother who brings life and salvation - where does the Black American mother stand? It seems to me that it would not be inappropriate to look at the literature, not as mere fiction, but rather as an interpretation and compilation of history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and a host of other areas. Thus the true literary artist reveals life more accurately and with more insight than any historical facts and statistical details, because he deals with the truth of the human heart, with the …

Fitzgerald's Use Of The Four Elements In The Great Gatsby, John Philip Hawkins

Masters Theses

A great deal has been written about the conscientious effort that went into the design of F. Scott Fitzgerald's popular novel, The Great Gatsby, with its various allusions and numerous symbols. A careful reading of this novel will unveil the author's preoccupation with numerous metaphysical images, particularly the four elements--air, earth, water, and fire--which are considered to be the essential components of all matter.

Fitzgerald uses the four elements in The Great Gatsby to coordinate mood and physical settings, to give dimension to the settings, and to bring characters into sharper focus. The novel employs four settings, each one …

Saul Bellow's Henderson The Rain King: A Fusion Of The Comic And The Serious, George William Russo

Masters Theses

Bellow's comic vision points to a compromise between the romantic notion that self-perfection is attainable and the pessimistic notion that man is ultimately impotent and thus destined to fail. Through Henderson, Bellow shows that although man does not--and ultimately cannot--completely free himself of somatic demands and limitations, he is nevertheless not defeated by them and thus not left a victim of emotionless observations.

Bellow draws upon four sources in Henderson's nature to create the humor in the novel and highlights Eugene Henderson as a comic hero by dramatizing that Henderson proves to be his own ironist. These sources can be …

Romantic Deviance And The Messianic Impulse In American Masculinity: Case Studies Of Moby-Dick, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, And Sometimes A Great Notion, William Carl Baurecht

American Studies ETDs

Masculinity is largely a product of myth that collides with reality in the modern world, evoking tensions, dilemmas, and contradictions, while prescribing idealized virtues. Manhood is defined by custom, mores, taboo, and the collective social illusion called the American Dream, a dream founded upon democratic idealism. This dissertation examines male national character. Renditions of manhood in three novels are discussed to explain the contemporary male ethos. Masculinity is engendered within the culture in either-or terms. However, in various ways, the protagonists of this investigation have been found to express a potential for a polymorphous masculinity, one which adheres to the …

Unlv "Rebels" Vs University Of Maryland "Terrapins", University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Basketball Programs

Team roster for both schools.

UNLV Schedule

List of UNLV Athletic Donors

Meet the Rebels

Opponent's Scouting Report

Jerry Tarkanian Story

Also contains information on other sports at UNLV

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 1, Martha B. Kriebel, William T. Parsons, Phyllis Vibbard Parsons, Antje Sommer, Judith E. Fryer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Women, Servants and Family Life in Early America
• "Be it Remembered that these Indentured Servants and Apprentices"
• Gute Socha fer Hame tzu Nemma
• Taufscheine: A New Index for People Hunters
• Aldes / Neies

Conscious Agents Of Time And Self: The Lives And Styles Of African-American Women As Seen Through Their Autobiographical Writings, Regina Lynn Blackburn

American Studies ETDs

This study of black women's lives-and self-conceptions in America is based on their own words. Autobiography proves to be a readily available source for examining the growth and development of black females. Analysis of their autobiographical accounts is thematic in this disser­tation. Chapter I, Introduction, is an overview of the literary criticism on autobiography. The values in autobiography, generally, and black female autobiography, specifically, are discussed. Chapter II, "Emerging Slave Women's Personalities and Concerns," presents the varied personality types among female slaves and ex-slaves, thus disputing the single slave personality theory, and the stereotypes emerging from the theory. The themes …

The Tradicion: Its Origins, Evolution And Importance In Hispano-American Literature, David C. Davenport

American Studies ETDs

A study is made of the initiation and development of the tradicion as a subgenre of the short story in Spanish America. The life of Ricardo Palma, its principal innovator, is reviewed to identify the influences and personal experiences which contributed to making his writing distinctive.

Literary history is examined to determine the literary antecedents of the tradicion, and its relationship to the cuadro de costumbres is explained, following which the tradicion itself is analyzed to differentiate it from other forms of short story and determine its essential characteristics of form, style and content of fiction and historical fact.

A …

A Comparative Study Of Communication Style In Japan And The United States As Revealed Through Content Analysis Of Television Commercials, Noriko Huruse

Dissertations and Theses

This study is an empirical analysis of communication styles in Japan and the United States. In particular, the study deals with communication styles in Japanese and American television commercials as a reflection of human communication styles in the two countries.

Charles W. Bennett's "The Purchase Of The Von Ranke Library." A Prefatory Note, John J. Morrison

The Courier

This article tells the story of Charles Wesley Bennett, who on behalf of Syracuse University purchased the Leopold von Ranke library in 1887. Some important details of the event had recently been uncovered through the discovery of an address Bennett had written for the dedication of the von Ranke Library, which was delivered posthumously (see Additional Information to locate this address).

An Address By Professor C.W. Bennett, Read At The Dedication Of The New Library At Syracuse University, Charles W. Bennett

The Courier

This article is adapted from an address written by Charles W. Bennett for the dedication of the Leopold von Ranke Library at Syracuse University in 1889. The address was delivered posthumously at the dedication. Bennett's address details the immeasurable contributions of Leopold von Ranke in the field of History, who developed the modern academic field of History in Berlin in the nineteenth century. The von Ranke collection can today be found at Syracuse University.

Mainely Gay, Vol.5, No.3 (July 1978), Susan Henderson, Kevin Mohr, Peter Prizer

Mainely Gay (1978-1980)

No abstract provided.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 4, Don Yoder, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Sara L. Matthews, Mark Workman, George A. Boeck, Jo Ann Early

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Dialect Church Service in the Pennsylvania German Culture
• Witchcraft Belief in a Pennsylvania German Family
• German Settlement of Northern Chester County in the 18th Century
• Medical Practice in Philadelphia at the Time of the Yellow Fever Epidemic, 1793
• Folkloric Aspects of the Common Law in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1799
• Runaway Advertisements: A Source for the Study of Working-Class Costume

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, Folk Festival Supplement, Richard Shaner, Tom Ahern, Theodore W. Jentsch, Mary E. Sise, Robert W. Murphy, John E. Stinsmen, Barry Mcfarland, Paul E. Forster, Anne E. Denney, Kristen R. Angstadt, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Hex Signs: A Living Tradition
• Decoys and How to Make Them
• Kutztown's Plain People
• The Old Country Kitchen: Where Food Preparation was an Art
• Wooden Toys, Games and Puzzles: The Delight of All Children
• A Sketch of the Seminar Stage Programs
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Furniture-Makers at the Kutztown Festival
• The Muzzle-Loading Gunsmith
• Those Rare Things Called "Antiques!"
• Mouth-Watering Baked Goods, Fresh From the Ovens!
• The Art of the Potter

The Place Of The Ranke Collection At Syracuse University: Some Brief Remarks, James M. Powell

The Courier

This brief article praises the efforts of Charles W. Bennett in securing the von Ranke Library (now the von Ranke Collection) for Syracuse University. It also recognizes the partners and friends of the library for the cataloging of the collection.

Library Associates 1958-1968: The Years Of Growth And Change, Elizabeth Mozley

The Courier

This article details the early history of The Courier and its support through the years by the Library Associates, written by the editor at that time, Elizabeth Mozley.

An Investigation Of Similarity Of The Value System Of The American And Japanese College Students, Hiroyoshi Taguchi

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the present research was to investigate whether or not there is similarity of values between American and Japanese college students. The following research hypothesis was established:

There is a positive relationship between the value system of the Japanese college students and that of American college students.

To test the above research hypothesis, the following three null hypotheses were tested in the present research:

1. There is no similarity between the value system of the Japanese male college students and that of American male college students whose ages are between 18 and 22.
2. There is no similarity between the …

Theatre As Cultural Indicator: Broadway Between World Wars, Krystan Veronica Douglas

American Studies ETDs

Any art form may be used as a cultural indicator because art is a product of the artist's perceptions of the society in which he or she creates. The drama of the commercial theatre is especially useful as a measure of a society's values, spirit, and temperament for it, more than any other art form, is dependent upon public acceptance for its existence. This study is designed to demonstrate the manner in which theatre may be used as a good indicator of its audience by examining the successful productions of several Broadway seasons. The examination of these plays centers upon …

The Self In Context: A History Of American Autobiography, Ruth Ann Banes

American Studies ETDs

This is a history of American autobiography based upon self-conceptions as they reflect social-historical contexts. Focusing on autobiographies written during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the author uncovers three seIf-conceptions: the exemplary self, the imperial self, and the historical self. An investigation of each demonstrates that changing self-conceptions alter the autobiographical form.

The author locates the exemplary self within the autobiographies of John Woolman, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. Based upon a universe of unquestioned verities, this se If-conception emphasizes universe I principles while diminishing individual importance. A textual analysis of eight ante-bellum slave narratives and the autobiographies …

The Hemingway Hero: A Reconsideration, Anne Hunt

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.