Digital Commons Network^™

Judicial Discretion To Condition, Thomas O. Main

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Wringing Rights Out Of The Mountains: Colorado's Centennial Constitution And The Ambivalent Promise Of Human Rights And Social Equality, Tom I. Romero Ii

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Child Marriage And Guardianship In Tanzania: Robbing Girls Of Their Childhood And Infantilizing Women, Tamar Ezer, Kate Kerr, Kara Major, Aparna Polavarapu, Tina Tolentino

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

The Science Of Persuasion: An Initial Exploration, Kathryn M. Stanchi

Scholarly Works

The purpose of this Article is to enhance knowledge of effective persuasive legal writing by taking the exploration in a somewhat different direction from the traditional approaches. This Article argues that it is critical for persuasive writers to study the existing social-science data about human decisionmaking. Trial lawyers have taken serious steps to study and probe social science for ideas about how to persuade (or pick) juries. Yet, decades after Jerome Frank reminded us that judges, like juries, are human, appellate lawyers have been slow to follow their trial brethren in the pursuit of scientific data about what persuades people. …

Paradise Impaired, Katherine Joy. Bernhard

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2003 - 2009

This thesis examines the duality of meaning conveyed by John Milton's use of language in the epic poem, Paradise Lost, specifically repetition, pairing, alliteration and puns. Following a long tradition of close readings, especially critics RA. Shoaf and Christopher Ricks, I argue that Milton conceives the Fall of Adam and Eve as a falling into polysemy, or multiplicity of signification. Very few critics have undertaken a close reading of words that signal coupling in the poem, and their relationship to pairs and oppositions relevant to Genesis. Shoaf identifies pairs and oppositions in the poem as duals and duels, and connects …

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Heather J. Boyer

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2003 - 2009

This thesis will investigate the ways in which Hillary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady of the United States and the Junior United States Senator from New York State, appropriated strategies of liberal feminism in her political career as the first modern, working mother to serve as First Lady. A feminist First Lady, Clinton broke through the social expectations placed upon that role in an unprecedented manner by taking an active part in the political strategy and substance of her husband's administration. Her successful campaign for the United States Senate in 2000 as the first former First Lady to hold such …

"It Is Our Duty To Sing", Matthew J. Snyder

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2003 - 2009

Great War veteran David Jones's poem about the war, In Parenthesis, has been attacked by literary critics Paul Fussell and Evelyn Cobley on the grounds that the poem, usually read as an instance of "literature of protest" against the war, indicates Jones's ideological complicity with the war through its extensive allusions to heroic Celtic myth, British literature, and Catholic liturgy. This thesis argues that Jones's intricate allusive network represents a mythopoetic method of endurance, a way of making order amidst the chaos of the Western Front. Jones's mythopoetic method, which I call allusive "seeing," serves as both a psychological defense …

Racial Violence, Christine Lynn. Sylvain

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2003 - 2009

This thesis examines recent explanations of racial violence in the Los Angeles Riots of 1992, the Oldham Riots of 2001, the French Riots of 2005, and the racial violence of 1992 in Germany. In each case I outline traditional theories claiming that racial violence is caused by competition between ethnic groups for housing, jobs, and cultural identity. These theories may benefit from consideration of the historical elements that have institutionalized racial discrimination in the systematic processes of integration. In conclusion, I argue that the governmental mechanisms of integration; including citizenship models, context of state formation, immigration policy, and nationalist ideology, …

Derivative Currents, Sarah Agnes Conway

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

From Turmoil To Discourse | The Function Of Rape And Incest In Fourteenth-Century "Popular" Middle English Romance, Desiree Cromwell

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Book Review: "Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals About Morality", Stacey A. Tovino

Scholarly Works

The field of neuroethics has been described as an amalgamation of two branches of inquiry: the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience, which has received considerable attention over the past three to four years, is concerned with the ethical principles that should guide brain research and the treatment of neurological disease, as well as the effects that advances in neuroscience have on our social, moral, and philosophical views. The neuroscience of ethics, which has received considerably less attention, may be described as a scientific approach to understanding ethical behavior. Psychiatrist and lawyer Laurence Tancredi …

Augmented Reality Device For First Response Scenarios, Robert Andrzej Bogucki

Master's Theses and Capstones

A prototype of a wearable computer system is proposed and implemented using commercial off-shelf components. The system is designed to allow the user to access location-specific information about an environment, and to provide capability for user tracking. Areas of applicability include primarily first response scenarios, with possible applications in maintenance or construction of buildings and other structures. Necessary preparation of the target environment prior to system's deployment is limited to noninvasive labeling using optical fiducial markers. The system relies on computational vision methods for registration of labels and user position. With the system the user has access to on-demand information …

A Mixed-Methods And Multi-Level Investigation Of The Effects Of A Crew Chief Intervention On Job Attitudes, Occupational Stress, And Organizational Commitment, Michael Charles Leo

Dissertations and Theses

High-profile instances of workplace violence and increased pressure from competitors have threatened the viability of one of the nation's largest employers, the United States Postal Service (USPS). As a result, the USPS began a massive change effort in the early 1990's. One of the initiatives implemented to improve labor-management relations was a derivative of the self-managed work team known as the crew chief program. This study provides a mixed-methods and multi-level approach to understand the impact this unique program had on organizational attitudes.

The first aim of this study was to investigate whether the crew chief program reduced employees' stress …

Effects Of Different Types Of Drinking And Driving Psas On Persons With Varying Levels Of Drinking And Driving Experience, Annesa Flentje Santa

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Santa, Annesa Flentje, M.A., Autumn 2006 Psychology Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience Chairperson: Bryan N. Cochran The potential effectiveness of different types of anti-driving under the influence (DUI) Public Service Announcements (PSAs) was examined in both a college sample and a clinical sample mandated to treatment following a DUI offense. The empathy, fear, and informational PSA approaches were examined. The empathy approach and fear approach were found to be different on both perceived effectiveness and affective responses as measured by the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule …

Risk-Sensitive Foraging In Humans Budgeting Time: Correlated With Real-World Financial Situation, Stephanie Carsten Kucera

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Foraging theory has been studied extensively in non-human animals. Using models developed through animal-study, researchers have recently begun to examine how humans make decisions with regard to resource-expenditure. Using a computer-based task, the proposed study investigated risk-sensitive decision-making, in humans. Participants were asked to "spend" a most valuable resource, time, in order to complete a computer-based task. Participants were asked to choose between two computer-generated selection boxes, each yielding a different delay-value. However, participants were given different feedback as to how each session progressed (i.e. whether ahead or behind) depending on the budget condition to which he was assigned. It …

Comparison Of Power Output Between Rotor And Normal Cranks During A 16.1 Km Time Trial, Walter Hailes

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Previous research has evaluated the Rotor crank system on indices of endurance performance (e.g. peak power output, VO2max, lactate threshold, onset of blood lactate accumulation, economy, delta, and gross efficiency) under laboratory conditions. However, previous research has not attempted to determine whether the use of the Rotor cranks can improve sustainable power output during a time trial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the Rotor crank system on 16.1km time trial performance in the field. Eleven recreationally trained cyclists (7 male, 4 female; age 21±2 yrs) volunteered to participate in the study. On two separate …

New Perspectives On Time-Honored Practices: A Review Essay, Virginia Todd Holeman

The Asbury Journal

A Book of Courtesy: The Art of Living with Yourself and Others
Sister M. Mercedes, O.P.
New York, New York: HarperSanFrancisco
2001, xvii; 108 pp. hardback, $14.95

Humility Matters for Practicing the Spiritual Life
Mary Margaret Funk
New York, New York: Continuum
2005, 188 pp. hardback, $19.95

On Apology
Aaron Lazare
New York, New York: Oxford University Press
2004, ix, 307 pp. paper, $24.00

Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
Paul Woodruff
New York, New York: Oxford University Press
2001, x, 248 pp. hardback, $12.95

Grace Notes: Layering Small Grace Upon Small Grace, Terry C. Muck

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Harry And Gretchen Billings And The People's Voice, Anne Elizabeth Pettinger

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Pettinger, Anne, M.A., Autumn 2006 Journalism Harry and Gretchen Billings and the People’s Voice Chairperson: Dennis Swibold Though the People’s Voice was published for three decades and during a time when Montana was undergoing significant change, little has been written about the paper and its long-time editors, Harry and Gretchen Billings. The weekly Voice, published in Helena from 1939 to 1969, was conceived in response to frustration over corporate control of most of the state’s dailies. As a cooperatively owned paper that refused commercial advertising and gave complete independence to its editor, the Voice was an anomaly in mid-twentieth century …

Using Place Attachment To Determine The Acceptability Of Restoring Fire To Its Natural Role In Wilderness Ecosystems, Eric Paul Turbeville

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This study was conducted to explore the social dimensions of wilderness fire management. I set out to answer the question what role does an individual’s attachment to place play in determining the acceptability of management actions directed towards fire? I feel that problems will arise if management agencies attempt to restore natural fire regimes to wilderness areas without accounting for the effects on meanings and values different people attach to landscapes. I used a qualitative method and conducted guided interviews with 27 people from three different groups: (1) fire and wilderness management personnel from the Bitterroot National Forest, (2) residents …

Unsettling Nature At The Frontier| Nature, Narrative, And Female Empowerment In Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!" And Mourning Dove's "Cogewea, The Half-Blood", Erin E. Hendel

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Postmodern Hybridity| The Magical Conflation Of Nature, Humankind, And Technology In Karen Tei Yamashita 'S Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest, John Wesley Ross

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Verbal Negotiation Of Affection In Romantic Relationships, Andrea Ann Richards

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Did King David Rape Bathsheba? A Case Study In Narrative Theology, Richard M. Davidson

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

The Moral Of The Story, Katie Beth Jones

Honors Program Theses

This thesis is written from the perspective of an elementary education major in anticipation of graduating and entering the teaching profession. Realizing the immense responsibility teachers bear for the academic and moral development of the next generation of Americans, she has researched the roles of various institutions in transmitting norms and values from one generation to the next and examined what gaps may exist in that transmission. Concerned for the future of American society, she set out to discover sources of what may be the demise of our culture and what role schools can and should have in the moral …

Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers And Merlin: Telling The Client's Story Using The Characters And Paradigm Of The Archetypal Hero's Journey, Ruth Anne Robbins

Seattle University Law Review

This Article focuses on the relationship of mythology and folklore heroes to everyday lawyering decisions regarding case theory when the audience is a judge or panel of judges rather than a jury. This Article adds to the discourse by beginning a conversation about what might be termed “applied legal storytelling.” The term pertains to ideas of how everyday lawyers can utilize elements of mythology as a persuasive technique in stories told directly to judges--either via bench trials or via legal writing documents such as briefs--on behalf of an individual client in everyday litigation. Parts II and III of this Article …

Many Are Chilled, But Few Are Frozen: How Transformative Learning In Popular Culture, Christianity, And Science Will Lead To The Eventual Demise Of Legally Sanctioned Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities In The United States, Susan J. Becker

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Feminist Interpretations Of Intellectual Property, Debora Halbert

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Copyright And Feminism In Digital Media, Dan L. Burk

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Mediation Ideology: Navigating Space From Myth To Reality In Sexual Harassment Dispute Resolution, Susan K. Hippensteele

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.