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Moonscape, Deborah Starr Lake

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Moonscape is a short novel exploring the interplay of incest and prostitution. The novel is set in Las Vegas in the late seventies, with flashbacks to the thirties when Hoover Dam was built. The thesis relies on first person narratives to incorporate three points of view; two feminine, one masculine. The inspiration for the novel comes from William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!, but the form and setting for the piece follows T. S. Eliot's poem, "The Wasteland". One character is patterned after Eliot's Sweeney, the heathen pragmatist who appears throughout his poetry until 1927, the year of Eliot's conversion to Anglicanism. …

The Lantern Yearbook, 1998

Lambuth Lantern Yearbook

"The Lantern" yearbook of Lambuth University in Jackson, Tennessee, for 1998.

Symbolic Student Speech Since Tinker, George W Flanders

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

When students exercise their First Amendment right of free speech, it can sometimes conflict with the obligation of public school officials to maintain a safe and orderly environment on their campuses. Three Supreme Court decisions---Tinker v. Des Moines, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), Bethel v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986), and Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988)---have addressed the most common types of student expression. Hazelwood dealt with school-sponsored printed material and Fraser established ground rules to handle public address by students. In both instances, the Supreme Court endorsed the school's authority to regulate the amount of "free speech" that …

News And Views Of The South Carolina Library Association V.19 N.1 01/1998

South Carolina Libraries

News and Views of the South Carolina Library Association v.19 n.1 01/1998

The Coffeehouse Papers, Lambuth University, Literary And Visual Art Magazine 1997-98

Lambuth Coffeehouse Papers

33 pgs.,

Cover Art,

Acknowledgements,

Title Page Art,

18 art pieces,

12 poems,

Teacher's Lives And Beliefs: Influences That Shape The Teaching Of U. S. History, Michael H. Romanowski

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The purpose of this study was to examine the complex influences that shape the teaching of U. S. history. Six secondary American history teachers participated in interviews and classroom observations centering on factors that affect their approach to the teaching of U. S. history. Findings indicate that there are various influences that play a significant role in determining the version of U. S. history students have the opportunity to learn. These include teachers’ personal beliefs about religion and morality, the affect of history professors, and teachers’ social class and family backgrounds. Several suggestions are made as to how teacher education …

The Supermarket Supply Chain In Shanghai, Gavin Sinclair, Ananth Iyer, Jane Anderson

Department of Management Faculty Publications

The authors conducted a series of structured interviews with managers of ten supermarket chains in Shanghai to compare supermarket business practices in Shanghai with those in the United States, emphasizing logistics management issues. Shanghai supermarkets tend to be smaller than U.S. stores, but the store layout and product selection are similar in both countries. While the Shanghai supermarkets have modern scanning equipment, they do little quantitative sales or inventory analysis.

Voluntary Participation And Spite In Public Good Provision Experiments: An International Comparison, Timothy N. Cason, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, T. Yamato

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

This paper studies public good provision in the laboratory using the voluntary contribution mechanism, in a cross-cultural experiment conducted in the United States and Japan. Our environment differs from the standard voluntary contribution mechanism because in one treatment, subjects first decide whether or not to participate in providing this public good. This participation decision is conveyed to the other subject prior to the subjects' contribution decisions.

K.S. Maniam's The Return : Voice And The Indian Immigrant In Malaysia / By Ratna Malar Selvaratnam, Ratna Malar Selvaratnam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Comparing Working Capital Practices In Canada, The United States, And Australia: A Note, Nabil T. Koury, Keith V. Smith, Peter I. Mackay

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

No abstract provided.

1998 Directory Of Indiana State, County, City And Town Officials Responsible For Road And Street Work, Herpicc

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Directory

Contact information for agency officials and employees responsible for Indiana’s local road infrastructure.

Simple But Efficient Methods For Estimation Of Value Loss, Capacity Loss Due To Suction Valve Throttling And Heat Transfer In Cylinder, L. Boeswirth, V. Milovanova

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Understanding Cultural Influences On The Descriptive Language Of Pain, Alice Christine Chaney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Yellowman Tapes, Barre Toelken

English Faculty Publications

This article considers the final disposal of field-recorded tapes that are believed by the informant's family to embody certain dangers to researchers, to the natural world, and to themselves. Motives for keeping or destroying the tapes are discussed in the light of modern concerns such as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Navajo worldview, scholarly interests, fieldwork ethics, and personal responsibilities of the fieldworker. I espouse the view that folklorists stand to learn more and do better work when scholarly decisions are guided by the culture we study, even when taking this course causes disruption in our academic …

A Person Of Letters In Parliament : Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Career As A Member Of The House Of Commons And A Minister Of Government 1831-1866, Richard Russell Caldwell

Wayne State University Dissertations

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, received today as a prolific but minor author of the early and middle Victorian periods, was an accomplished politician and orator and acknowledged so by his contemporaries. The context and content of Bulwer's work in Parliament and in the Cabinet provide insight not only into Bulwer himself, a literary person who was, in his day, politically prominent, but as well into the role that a person of letters might play in the Victorian House of Conunons. Through a variety of approaches, conceptual, analytical, biographical, argumentational and rhetorical, this study reveals Bulwer's grasp of events and policy and his …

Language Dependency In Parsing: Evidence From Monolingual And Bilingual Processing, Eva M. Fernández

Publications and Research

Language dependency in parsing results when the parsing strategies used by bilinguals depend on the language of the input, in the case that cross-linguistic differences in processing exist. If bilingual parsing is language independent, on the other hand, bilinguals will process all input using the same strategies---those of L1, those of L2, or an amalgamated or compromised set of L1 and L2 strategies. This discussion evaluates existing research on bilingual processing, regarding how well it addresses questions related to the language dependency issue, as well as recent research on cross-linguistic differences in parsing. As a preview into the future of …

Claude Gentry : The Life Of A Truly Southern Historian And Author And The Local Color Characteristics Of His Freedom Hills Novels, Sharon Lee Franklin Bishop

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The World Is 18% Gray, David Gardner

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Alternative And Complementary Medicine : A Focus On Qigong / By Shannon Larry Sumrall, Shannon Larry Sumrall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Mounting The Butterfly : A Production Study Of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly / By Robert Andrew Strickland, Robert Andrew Strickland

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Gender Roles In Edith Nesbit's The Phoenix And The Carpet / By Christy A. Soper, Christy A. Soper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

English-Only In The Workplace: A New Judicial Lens Will Provide More Comprehensive Title Vii Protection, Raechel L. Adams

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Proactive Corporate-Shareholder Relations: Filling The Communications Void, Beth-Ann Roth

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Review: The Writing Center Resource Manual, Doug Enders

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Back Cover

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Toward A Critical Theory Of Technology And Writing, Sharon Thomas, Danielle Devoss, Mark Hara

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Fifty Years And Other Stories / By Leslie Frances Walker, Leslie Frances Walker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Relation Between Rumination And Impaired Memory In Dysphoric Moods, Paula T. Hertel

Psychology Faculty Research

College students in dysphoric or nondysphoric moods studied pairs of words and later took a fragment-completion test of memory for targets from the pairs (under process-dissociation procedures for obtaining estimates of controlled and automatic retrieval; L. L. Jacoby, 1996). Between the study and test phases, some participants waited quietly for 7 min; others rated self-focused materials designed to invoke ruminations in the dysphoric group; and still others rated self-irrelevant and task-irrelevant materials. A dysphoria-related impairment in controlled retrieval occurred in the first 2 conditions but not in the 3rd condition. These results show that the nature of task-irrelevant thoughts contributes …

50+ Recent Young Adult Novels That Can Work In The Classroom, Diana Mitchell

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

Growing Toward Best Practice, Jennifer Ochoa

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.