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Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Bachert, Sara. Rational Portrayal of the Irrationational in The Pit and the Pendulum
• Bell, Suzanne. Early Secret Involvement of the United States Military in Cambodia
• Brock, Beth. The Informal Caregiving System: The Frail Elderlys' Avenue of Choice
• Daniel, Janice. Child Sexual Abuse
• Johnson, Linda. International Telecommunications Trade with Japan
• Jones, LaMont. Ernie Pyle: Journalist Without Peer
• Kesserling, Marcia. Attitudes Toward the Need for Computer Literacy
• Lewis, Gloria. John Donne's Attitude Toward Love
• Majdi, …

Pondering O’Er The Skeleton: Decay As Controlling Metaphor In Don Juan, Lise Rodgers

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Amanda’S Mirror, Judy Stark

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this research project was to explore the problem-solving and positive self-concept techniques used in drama and dance programs. After studying the specific techniques of role play, pantomimes, and body control, the book Amanda's Mirror was written. The specific problem was can a children's book be written using problem-solving and positive self-concept techniques used in drama and dance programs.

Silas Marner: George Eliot And Mme Le Prince De Beaumont, Terence Dawson

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

At the beginning of chapter 15 of Silas Marner (1861), there is a reference to a well-known fairy tale. The paragraph is as follows:

That famous ring that pricked its owner when he forgot duty and followed desire - - I wonder if it pricked very hard when he set out on the chase, or whether it pricked but lightly then, and only pierced to the quick when the chase had long been ended, and hope, folding her wings, looked backward and became regret? (Penguin ed., p. 191)

Joseph Wiesenfarth has identified the fairy tale as 'Prince Darling.' He quotes …

Curved Like An Eye, George Perreault

Ahsahta Press

George Perreault’s Curved Like an Eye is an entrancing collection of works that explore personal loss and the resolution of love. It is a hard, distinct poetry in which the author prods the dark impulse of humanity and its own ache for renewal—its Spring when, as with the Ruminari, all possessions are burnt ceremoniously—leaving the spirit “clean, naked.” Perreault searches his own memory, his own yearnings, and finds not meaning or understanding, but brilliant and often haunting fragments of images tied to half-recollections of passions and vague motives. If at times he finds himself “clean, naked,” it is without denying …

Tutoring German Esl Students, Sabina Mussgnug

Masters Theses

Tutors of American university writing centers can be invaluable advisors for German ESL students who come to study in the United States. The tutors can directly assist German students in coping with their particular academic and cultural difficulties.

German students must adapt to the American academic conventions to become successful students at their U.S. universities. The tutors can point out to them the features of the American academic standard and show them effective methods for learning and studying in the American environment.

The American academic standard includes the students' almost perfect reading comprehension. Students must be prepared for heavy reading …

The Portrayal Of The European Immigrant In The Historical Fiction For Children And Young Adults, Gayle T. Wood

Graduate Research Papers

This research study used a content analysis technique to assess the portrayal of the European who emigrated to the United States from Europe between the years of 1832 and 1932. Portrayals were found in 15 works of historical fiction written for children or young adults and published after 1950 in the United States.

Descriptive occurrences in each book were examined for the realistic portrayal of the immigrant experience in six general areas: (1) the Americanization process, (2) the educational experience of the immigrant, (3) employment opportunities, (4) family relations, (5) conditions encountered during the emigration process, and (6) reasons for …

Reviews, Taum Santoski, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Christine Lowentrout

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

The Lost Road and Other Writings. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Taum Santoski.

Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol. 8. Beatrice Batson, David S. Robb, John Coates, Diane Edwards, Gwenyth E. Hood, George Musacchio, Brian G. Marsden, Stephen Medcalf. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Gesellschaft fur Literatur und Aesthetic. Gisbert Kranz. Reviewed by Christine Lowentrout.

C.S. Lewis and His World. David Barratt. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

All The Comforts: The Image Of Home In The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings, Wayne G. Hammond

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines the importance of home, especially the Shire, as metaphor in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Relates it to the importance of change vs. permanence as a recurring theme in both works.

An Index To Mythlore, Issues 1 To 50, Patricia Reynolds

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

By author and subject.

"The Paradise Ear": Thomas Merton, Poet, George Kilcourse

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Birthday Theology: A Reflection On Thomas Merton And The Bermuda Menage, Robert E. Daggy

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

1987 Literary Review (Vol. 3, No. 1), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

Royalty And Self-Absorption In Drummond's Poetry, David Reid

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Subject Index To The Tolkien Journal, Trevor Reynolds

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.

A Simple Solution For The Thorny Problem Of Park Protection: Focusing On Alternatives, David Mastbaum

External Development Affecting the National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had" (September 14-16)

116 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains footnotes and references.

Contains 3 attachments:

1) Article titled, "No Park Is an Island: A Simple Solution for the Thorny Problem of Park Protection," by David Mastbaum, from Resource Law Notes, Natural Resources Law Center.

2) Paper titled, "National Park Service War Work: December 7, 1941 to June 30, 1944" prepared by National Park Service.

3) Paper titled, "An Alternative to the Allen-Warner Valley Energy System: A Technical and Economic Analysis," by The Environmental Defense Fund, July 1980.

Agenda: External Development Affecting The National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had", University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

External Development Affecting the National Parks: Preserving "The Best Idea We Ever Had" (September 14-16)

Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Daniel Magraw.

The conference will be held at the Aspen Lodge, adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park, Colorado.

It was Wallace Stegner who called the national parks "the best idea we ever had." The continuing increases in usage attest to their popularity. National parks are created to preserve areas of special scenic and cultural value for enjoyment and use. Managing the parks in a manner that protects the important values and purposes for which they were created presents important and difficult …

1986 Literary Review (Vol. 2, No. 1), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

Adam Bede And Riehl's "Social-Political-Conservatism", A.G. Van Den Broek

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

George Eliot's Adam Bede is seen frequently to be a good, but flawed novel, an interesting precursor to the much finer Middlemarch and other later novels. U. C. Knoepflmacher, in George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of Realism, considers that, essentially, Eliot shared John MiIton's purpose of justifying "Man's lot in the temporal world." Knoepflmacher adds: "Her own belief in scientific veracity did not allow her to create a supernatural world of essences; yet in her way she shared Milton's purpose. 11 But then he says:

The epic strain that was to find its most complex embodiment in Middlemarch is …

Mexican-American Language : Usage, Attitudes, Maintenance, Instruction, And Policy, Pan American University At Brownsville. Rio Grande Series In Language And Linguistics

Rio Grande Research Group for Language and Linguistics Series

Golden Age, Boom, Sesquicentennial: Texas Spanish as a Natural Resource for the Humanities / Chesler C. Christian, Jr. -- Archaic Lexical Variants In The Spanish of the Lower Rio Grande Valley / George K. Green -- Archaic Forms With A Parallel Ponderative Function In The Spanish of the Lower Rio Grande Valley / George K. Green -- Parallel Ponderative Forms In The Spanish of The Lower Rio Grande Valley and The General Spanish System of Nuancing In Fixes / George K. Green -- Meaning and Placement of Standard and Kansas Spanish Adjectives / Gerald L. Denning -- Linguistic Attitudes and …

Setting And Scene As Narrative Technique In The Raj Quartet, Barbara Knight Degyansky

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

The Trans-Cosmic Journeys In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Steven Yandell

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Focuses on the journeys between worlds in the Chronicles of Narnia, presenting a chart of more than 60 such journeys. Notes participants, method of transport, starting and ending place and time, and surrounding circumstances. Develops geographies of the worlds and their relationships, and discusses the functions of these journeys in terms of plot. Maps and charts.

The Pastoral Tradition In Film, Andrew J. Ford

Honors Theses

The pastoral, whether in painting, music, literature, or film, has always attempted to capture that fleeting moment in history, real or unreal, where man is autonomous. The pastoral life occurs only after man has gained a considerable amount of control over nature and before he has found himself controlled by his fellow man or by those common evils made real and specific by civilization. In other words, the pastoral tries to capture or create that period in history where man has conquered the wilderness in some major way, usually by farming or animal herding, but has not yet become involved …

The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter Vol. 9, Nos. 2, 1985, Eugene O'Neill Society

Eugene O’Neill Newsletter

The Eugene O’Neill Newsletter is the official newsletter of the Eugene O’Neill Society, an organization of scholars, theater professionals, and enthusiasts, which began meeting in 1978. This publication, created by Suffolk University Professor Fred Wilkins in 1977, started off as part newsletter and part academic journal. In 1989, the publication name was changed to the Eugene O'Neill Review to denote its focus on scholarship. In recent years, the O'Neill Society re-started publication of the newsletter. This site includes newsletter issues from 1977-1989. Newer issues are available on the Eugene O'Neill Society website: https://www.eugeneoneillsociety.org/newsletters.html

A New Topography: Elizabeth Bishop's Late Poems, Jennifer Soalt

Honors Papers

Geography III, the title of Elizabeth Bishop's last book of poems prepares her readers for both a passage through familiar territory and an exploration of unmapped terrain. A return to the northern landscape of A Cold Spring and the southern landscape of Brazil is promised at the same time that a third and entirely new landscape is hinted at; we can find the Nova Scotia of "At the Fishouses" and "Cape Breton" in "The Moose" and "The End of March" and we can find the tropics of "Song for the Rainy Season" and "The Armadillo" in "Crusoe in England", but …

A Strange Judgement Of God's? Stevenson's The Merry Men, Tom Shearer

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Mythopoesis, Sarah Beach

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.

Uncouth Innocence: Some Links Between Chrétien De Troyes, Wolfram Von Eschenbach And J.R.R. Tolkien, J. S. Ryan

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Sees a subtle but pervasive similarity between von Eschenbach and Tolkien in “tone and central philosophies.” Sees “the whole medieval treatment of the Percival/Parzival theme” as “a general source for the various aspects of the hobbit character.” Also sees structural parallels between Chrétien de Troyes, von Eschenbach, and Lord of the Rings.

Trees In Tolkien, And What Happened Under Them, Elizabeth Harrod

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Analyzes Tolkien’s use of trees as symbols, using terms from Jungian psychology, Mircea Eliade’s studies of myth, and Buddhism. Sees the four hobbits as representing different aspects of the ego in the journey toward self-hood and individuation.

Reviews, Jessica Yates, Thomas M. Egan, Verlyn Flieger, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Lawrence Mack Hall

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

The Book of Lost Tales. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Jessica Yates.

The Book of Lost Tales. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Thomas M. Egan.

Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World. Verlyn Flieger. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis -- A Study of till We Have Faces. Peter J. Schakel. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

In Search of C.S. Lewis. Stephen Schofield. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Spirits in Bondage, a Cycle of Lyrics. C.S. Lewis. Reviewed by Lawrence Mack Hall.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary …