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Women Who Don't Fit In : The Unmarried Woman In Shakespearean Comedy, Harold Nigel Ramdass

Student Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Automatic And Controlled Information Processing In Alzheimer's Disease, Linda S. Carozza

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This research investigation explored the cognitive processing operations of 18 healthy elderly (HE) subjects and 12 Alzheimer's Disease (AD) subjects in the mild clinical stage of the disease in their performance on a semantic priming task involving semantic lexical activations of both automatic and controlled processing natures.

Relatively little conclusive evidence has been documented regarding the relative roles of attention and memory processing in the lexical-semantic impairment of Alzheimer's Disease. A lexical decision processing task was implemented to investigate the effects of normal aging and neuropathological damage of Alzheimer's Disease on subjects' semantic priming abilities. The research design was based …

Child Sexual Abuse, Moral Panic, And The Mass Media: A Case Study In The Social Construction Of Deviance, Steven M. Gorelick

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This is a case study of newswork in a moral panic. Specifically, Stanley Cohen's concept of "moral panic" is used to examine the practices of a group of reporters who covered a widely publicized case of alleged child sexual abuse in a day-care center. Moral panics occur when a perceived threat to the social order emerges with such force, and with such little overt warning, that routine discourse about right and wrong gives way to a flood of indignation about an extraordinary breach of normal moral boundaries. Suspending normal rules governing social control, officials rush to crack down on the …

Advocate, October 1994, Vol. 6, No. 5, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Your Check is In the Mail: Students and the Research Foundation. Staff (p. 1)

DSC Allocates Student Funds Contrary to Court Findings. Michael Weinstein (p. 1)

Access Denied: Full-Time Need, Part-Time Schedule. Susanna Miller and Staff (p. 1)

LIU Strike: Adjuncts and Full-timers Go Out Together. Tom Smith (p. 1)

¡Qué Viva la Música! Untimely Death of a Sociology Professor. Courtney E. Guthreau (p. 1)

New Latin American and Caribbean Studies Concentration: A Cause for Celebration and Concern. Tracy Steffy (p. 1)

Graduate Students, AIDS and the Silence at CUNY: Part One. Tracy Morgan (p. 1)

Editorial: …

Effectiveness Compared: Asl Interpretation Vs. Transliteration, Sue Livingston, Bonnie Singer, Theodore Abramson

Publications and Research

Two kinds of interpretation are currently used to make the spoken language accessible to deaf students in regular college programs; namely, ASL Interpretation and Transliteration. To test the effectiveness of each kind, 43 students from several colleges of the City University of New York were divided into two groups by their preference for one or the other kind, and the groups divided according to level of education. Matched groups then received a narrative presentation and a lecture presentation, interpreted either one way or the other by experienced certified interpreters, and then answered questions on the material so received. The results …

Bronx Community College Of The City University Of New York Catalog 1994-96, Cuny Bronx Community College

Course Catalogs

Course catalog for Bronx Community College for 1994-96.

Some Consequences Of Semantic Externalism, Consuelo Preti

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Semantic externalism is the view that meaning and mental content are determined by relations to the world of objects and properties outside the physical boundaries of the subject of mental states. What you mean by your words–what you're thinking when you're thinking about something–is essentially constituted by the world at large. It has become customary to formulate externalism in terms of so-called twin earth cases–cases where (some kinds of) content do not supervene on inner states, but this formulation can be shown to be too limited to be of any great use in characterizing a theory of mind. A more …

Puerto Rican Music And Cultural Identity: Creative Appropriation Of Cuban Sources From Danza To Salsa, Peter L. Manuel

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Disseminating Heterotopia, Robert F. Reid-Pharr

Publications and Research

Focuses on the motion picture The Passion of Remembrance by Isaac Julien and Maureen Blackwood, and the book Tales of Neveryon by Samuel Delany. Highlights of the motion picture and the book; Author's argument that the tendency to ossify myths only leads to further confusion; Understanding of the mythic process.

Graduate Student Advocate, December 1993, Vol. 5, No. 6, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Organized Student Support for Yomi Falters. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed and Christina Pretto (p. 1)

History Program Hires Caribbeanist Palmer. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Computer Center Attempts Comeback. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Masthead (p. 2)

December in the News (p. 2)

Reynolds Not Nice, But Efficient, Says Chronicle. Pam Donovan.

Power Plays: Liberal Redux, Or, Just Say Yes. Elizabeth Powers.

Ceremony Held for African Burial Ground. Diana Agosta.)

CSI’s President Volpe Reinstated. Pam Donovan.

Blank Named Hunter’s President. Christina Pretto.

Action on Campus (p. 3)

Labor History, Latin America: The Advocate’s Must-Take Course of the Spring Semester.

Letter …

Reinventing The University: Finding The Place For Basic Writers, Jane E. Hindman

Publications and Research

A poststructuralist critique of basic writing placement and pedagogy, this paper argues that our notions of good writing (i.e., the criteria by which we as English professors and compositionists authorize and "place" students) come not from some general or transcendent standards, but rather from the practices by which we self-authorize within our own discourse community. Using Bartholomae and Petrosky's curriculum presented in Facts, Artifacts, Counterfacts as a point of departure, I propose a language-centered curriculum which uses discourse itself as the subject of the semester-Jong project wherein students eventually learn to critique our practices and create their own discourse communities. …

Graduate Student Advocate, March/April 1993, Vol. 5, No. 2, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Graduate Council Rejects WAR Report: DSC Resolution is Adopted with One Friendly Amendment. Christina Pretto (p. 1)

Horowitz Bypasses Student Government on Provost Search Committee Selection. Christina Pretto (p. 1)

Students Protest Report in Front of Board: Only 30 of 100 Students Let Inside 535 East 80 Street. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Action in Public. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 12)

Masthead (p. 2)

MARCH in the News (p. 2)

Resign, Reynolds, Insists a Faculty Group. Tom Burgess.

Hunter Senate Rejects WAR Report. Christina Pretto.

Cultural Determinism: Trained Pigeons Need Only Apply. Tom Smith.

Cartoon: Tomfoolery. Tom Smith.

Events …

Does Music Theory Need Musicology?, Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

Understood as a search for "the abstract principles embodied in music and the sounds of which it consists," music theory casts a wide net: it calls for a comparative sample and insists on a systematic methodology. As " the scholarly study of music, wherever it is found historically or geographically," musicology casts an even wider net. In practice, however, it has not been possible to transcend historical and geographical boundaries. (How often have you read an article on contemporary rock in JAMS or on Asian music in 19th-Century Music?) Obviously, any attempt to explore the juncture between music theory …

Psychoanalysis And Constructionalism: Clinical And Metapsychological Implications, Richard H. Loewus

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Attempts to reconceptualize the epistemological basis of psychoanalytic metapsychology and clinical praxis from constructionalist perspectives are reviewed and critiqued. The constructionalist epistemology of the American philosopher, Nelson Goodman, is absent in these discussions. Goodman offers a relativism with restraints, a constructionalist epistemology that asserts no one given reality to which our constructions must answer, but does not accept that therefore all constructions are equally valid. Instead, constructions, or what Goodman calls world versions must answer to standards of "Rightness". Goodman's reconception of philosophy subsumes the concept of truth as a special class of rightness, and replaces the concept of knowledge …

The Graduate Student Advocate, December 1992, Vol. 4, No. 2, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Cuts for Students, Raises for Administrators! Granville Ganter (p. 1)

Historic Marginalization & The Marginalization of a History. Diana Agosta (p. 1)

Ideological Hegemony: Inside a “Living Museum.” Michael Scott Weinstein (p. 1)

The Real Deal at Financial Aid: Interview with Janet Finello (p. 2)

Sex and Space: Another Look at the Urban Red Light District. Timothy J. Gilfoyle (p. 4)

Tomfoolery: “Neo-liberal and “Politically Correct”? Tom Smith (p. 5)

International Students and Financial Crisis. Manjula Giri (p. 5)

The Return of Martin Brian Guerre. Tom Smith (p. 6)

In Nineteen Hundred & Ninety-two. Text, Thomas Burgess; …

Bronx Community College Of The City University Of New York Catalog 1992-94 Gateway To Success, Cuny Bronx Community College

Course Catalogs

Course catalog for Bronx Community College for 1992-94.

Acting Hysteria: An Analysis Of The Actress And Her Part, Lydia Stryk

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines the woman's part in dramatic representation as a hysterical construct and explores the hystericizing effect that the playing of this construct has on the actress. Drawing on feminist psychoanalytic analyses of male psychology and on the historical origins of male-invented female hysteria, this study uses dramatic representation as a model and metaphor for woman's hystericization in Western culture.

Charcot's theatricalization of female hysteria through public performances of hysterical acts and the Ophelia as psychological/aesthetic model in British mental asylums are investigated as metaphorical sources for a new definition of female hysteria as a disease of performance, of …

Representing African Music, Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

Of all the currents of change that have swept the humanities during the last half-century, the most far-reaching revolve around language. Philosophy, history, and literary criticism, among other language-based disciplines, have developed what is often presented as a largely unprecedented self-consciousness about representation. The message to scholars in nonlanguage-based disciplines is clear: to be taken seriously, one can no longer view language as a transparent window to an objective reality but must confront the foundational political and ideological baggage of the medium itself, as well as its constant slippage in the hands of the producer.

The Graduate Student Advocate, September 1991, Vol. 3, No. 1, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Graduate School Administration Threatens Status of Over 1600 Students. Thomas Smith (p. 1)

Meet the President: An interview with Frances Degen Horowitz. Andrew Long, Thomas Smith, Jonathan Lang (p. 1)

Distinguished Psychologist Sylvia Scribner Dies at 67 (p. 1)

Contents (p. 1)

Around & About The Center

Automated System to Speed Book Checkout. Susan Newman (p. 2)

Commentary. Thomas Smith (p. 2)

Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the DSC. Michael Glassman (p. 3)

An Advocate Announcement: CUNY Grad Students Must Be Given CUNY Adjunct Positions (p. 3)

If You Can’t Strike, Stay Out of the …

Comprehension Strategies Of Two Deaf Readers, Sue Livingston

Publications and Research

Strategies for reading comprehension used by two deaf college students as they discussed assigned readings with their teacher and classmates are here shown in examples categorized, tallied, and compared. Both were active users of strategies, and their pattern of strategy use was similar: interpreting, questioning, paraphrasing, and integrating were the strategies most used. The student reader who preferred expressing and receiving English-like sign manifested a higher proportion of inaccurate interpretations and paraphrases than did the student reader who preferred receiving and expressing American Sign Language (ASL), primarily because the former was unfamiliar with written linguistic cues and conventions of narrative …

The Poetics Of Authorship In The Later Middle Ages: The Emergence Of The Modern Literary Persona, Burt Joseph Kimmelman

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Literary individualism manifested itself in the twelfth century both trivially and profoundly. Word puzzles and overt self-naming within a literary work, and discussions of the nature of poetry and the role of the poet in the world, increasingly considered the purpose and efficacy of writing and ultimately of language per se. Poets asserted themselves in their works not so much for the sake of self-promotion, in a modern sense, but to address and modulate contemporary intellectual and spiritual issues. Speculative grammar, nominalism and realism, often provided the material for poets such as Guillem IX, Marcabru, Dante, Chaucer and Langland. As …

Does Our Complex Writing Lower Test Scores On Mathematics Word Problems?, William (Bill) H. Williams, Sandra P. Clarkson

Publications and Research

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we describe one of a series of studies at Hunter College to determine whether students' reading proficiency affects their performance on mathematics "word" problems. Based on this study, we reached some specific conclusions:

1. Reading ability is a separate, quantifiable factor which impacts the performance of all students on mathematics word problems.

2. Less complex writing leads to better results on word problems for all students.

3. Less complex writing leads to even more improvement in test results for “weaker” readers [those needing reading remediation] than for “average” readers [those exempting reading remediation].

Collecting Folk Narratives In New York City Today, Francesca Sautman

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Bridge: Laguardia Community College Student Newspaper (Fall 1990), Laguardia Community College

The Bridge: LaGuardia Community College Student Newspaper

No abstract provided.

Bronx Community College Of The City University Of New York Catalog 1990-92 Gateway To Success, Cuny Bronx Community College

Course Catalogs

Course catalog for Bronx Community College for 1990-92.

A Developmental Perspective And Antisocial Behavior: Cognitive Functioning, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

G. R. Patterson et al (see record 1989-26278-001) failed to sufficiently address the idea that cognitive functioning is a factor which is related to both school failure and antisocial conduct. Findings consistent with the acculturation learning view are noted.

The Changing Face Of Fortune In Six English Versions Of The Tragedy Of Antony And Cleopatra, Mary Aileen Mallery

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study traces the development and changes in the depiction of the goddess Fortune in a selected group of dramas written between 1592 and 1678: the six English versions of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra. The concepts surrounding the goddess Fortune and her place in any culture change with the idea of the individual's ability to shape his own destiny. In the seventeenth century in particular Fortune becomes increasingly connected to questions of personal identity and what Stephen Greenblatt has called "self-fashioning," so that by 1678 the subject of John Dryden's All for Love is not the quest for …

El Espiritu Feminista En Las Obras De Dramaturgas Latinoamericanas, Luz A. Sonnino

Student Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Visual-Spatial And Set-Shifting Functions In Patients With Parkinson's Disease, Sarah A. Raskin

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) (N=20) were compared to age and education-matched normal control subjects (N=20) on 18 paper-and-pencil neuropsychological measures. These tests were chosen to measure two specific functions. The first set of tests was chosen to measure spatial orientation, and these tests were divided into those that measure personal orientation, extrapersonal orientation, mental rotation, and right/left orientation. The second set of tests was chosen to measure the ability to shift mental set. Hotelling's multivariate T² tests revealed a significant difference between the PD patients and the normal control subjects on the tests chosen to measure set-shifting ability …

Variation Procedures In Northern Ewe Song, V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

The major organizational principle of Northern Ewe song is one shared by numerous African, Oriental, and European musical traditions: a small number of models (variously described as "basic shapes," "archetypes," "background structures," "basic designs," "core patterns," "deep structures") is transformed in a wide variety of ways during performance. Variation takes place on different hierarchic levels both within and between songs and includes practically all of a song's dimensions (rhythm, interval, register, contour, harmony, and so on). This principle, although widely demonstrated in the literature on African song (see, among others, Jones 1976; Kauffman 1984; Schmidt 1984; and Erlmann 1985), is …