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Coping With Everyday Classism: Experiences Of Low-Income People In A Southeastern Rural Community, Susan Faye Ritz Jan 2008

Coping With Everyday Classism: Experiences Of Low-Income People In A Southeastern Rural Community, Susan Faye Ritz

Open Access Dissertations

The present research provided an in-depth look at experiencing and coping with everyday classism in a sample of low-income people in a mid-size southeastern rural United States community. The study employed a qualitative methodology consisting of semi-structured interviews and analyzing the collected data using Grounded Theory Method. Of 50 participants selected for an interview, 40 described experiences with classism, each discussing two incidents, for a total of 80 incidents shared. Seven of the remaining 10 participants felt that they had not experienced classism, but at the same time, they provided insight into one proactive coping strategy that they appeared to …

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Time Perspectivism, Temporal Dynamics, And Battlefield Archaeology: A Case Study From The Santiago Campaign Of 1898, William E. Altizer Jan 2008

Time Perspectivism, Temporal Dynamics, And Battlefield Archaeology: A Case Study From The Santiago Campaign Of 1898, William E. Altizer

Nebraska Anthropologist

Given the unique ability of archaeology to illuminate temporal processes, archaeologists have begun employing a number of theoretical models to understand the nature of these processes, and the ways in which the modern archaeological landscape retains their physical traces. Battlefields, as discrete temporal events taking place in physical settings with their own history, offer an intriguing avenue to explore archaeological temporality. This paper reviews the ways in which archaeologists have employed the Annales approach and time perspectivism, and considers a case study in battlefield archaeology - the 1898 battlefield of EI Caney, Cuba.

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The "How" Of The Three Sisters: The Origins Of Agriculture In Mesoamerica And The Human Niche, Amanda J. Landon Jan 2008

The "How" Of The Three Sisters: The Origins Of Agriculture In Mesoamerica And The Human Niche, Amanda J. Landon

Nebraska Anthropologist

The origins of agriculture· in Mesoamerica have long interested archaeologists and antiquarians alike. The approaches used to understand the origins of the three sisters, maize, beans and squash, have changed over time as our understanding of the ecological context and ethnographic influences have changed. In this paper, I examine the history of the study of the origins of agriculture and assess the current evolutionary and ecological approaches to the topic. In Mesoamerica, the three sisters and humans shared a co evolutionary relationship in which humans invited the plants into the human niche and the plants thrived. Over time, the plants …

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In Search Of Blood-Stained Earth: A Consideration Of Battlefield Archaeology's Applicability To Pre-Historic Conflict In The Eastern And Central Regions Of North America, Andrew P. Mcfeaters Jan 2008

In Search Of Blood-Stained Earth: A Consideration Of Battlefield Archaeology's Applicability To Pre-Historic Conflict In The Eastern And Central Regions Of North America, Andrew P. Mcfeaters

Nebraska Anthropologist

During the last twenty-four years archaeologists have proven that we are now able to investigate a previously inaccessible part of the archaeological record: the battlefield. These fields of conflict, once inaccessible due to their nature, have become accessible to archaeologists through the use of metal detectors, the global positioning system (GPS), remote sensing, historical documents, maps, photographs (aerial and period), and the geographic information system (GIS), among the traditional methods used in archaeological research, such as surface surveys and excavation. However, battlefield archaeology's current scope is limited to those conflicts recorded by history. Is it possible for battlefield archaeologists to …

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Abajo Red-On-Orange And Early Pueblo I Cultural Diversity In The Northern San Juan Region, James R. Allison Jan 2008

Abajo Red-On-Orange And Early Pueblo I Cultural Diversity In The Northern San Juan Region, James R. Allison

Faculty Publications

During the early Pueblo I period, between A.D. 750 and 800, the first aggregated villages formed in what are now southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. At the same time, a new ceramic type, Abajo Red-on-orange, appeared and became the predominant decorated ceramic type at some early villages. Both the technology and the highly variable designs of Abajo Red-on-orange were unprecedented in local ceramics, suggesting the involvement of immigrant potters, a period of unusual innovation, or both. This paper documents the technology, distribution, and designs of Abajo Red-on-orange and what they suggest about early Pueblo I cultural diversity.

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Empirical Study Of Hate Crimes In The United States: A Systematic Test Of Levin And Mcdevitt's Typology Of Offenders., Rayna E. Momen Jan 2008

Empirical Study Of Hate Crimes In The United States: A Systematic Test Of Levin And Mcdevitt's Typology Of Offenders., Rayna E. Momen

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this study was to test Levin and McDevitt's Typology of Offenders theory using NIBRS data. Analysis of data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System on hate crime offenders (1995 - 2000) reveals that for thrill-seeking offenders 1) white adults age 18 and older are significantly more likely to commit hate crimes against perceived homosexuals, and 2) that white adults age 18 and older, suspected of using alcohol and/or drugs are significantly more likely to commit hate crimes against perceived homosexuals known to the victim, at the victim's residence/home. For defensive offenders, the following result was found 1) …

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Cultural Assimilation, Appropriation And Commercialization: Authenticity In Rap Music, 1997-2004., Jonathan P. Tummons Jan 2008

Cultural Assimilation, Appropriation And Commercialization: Authenticity In Rap Music, 1997-2004., Jonathan P. Tummons

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis examines the changes in authenticity in rap lyrics between 1997 and 2004. Throughout its American history, Black music has expressed the lived experiences, the psychological realities, of Africans in diaspora and has always functioned to help create, negotiate and maintain cultural identity or “Blackness”. Within the last 20 years, rap music has undergone a tremendous amount of commercialization and appropriation by capitalistic culture industries and their largely white consumer base which has resulted in the widespread assimilation of black cultural expression into popular (white) culture. Rap artists increasingly invoke their authenticity as a way of preserving their cultural …

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Laptops In The Sand: Using Rugged Computers In The Field, Michael T. Searcy, Scott Ure Jan 2008

Laptops In The Sand: Using Rugged Computers In The Field, Michael T. Searcy, Scott Ure

Faculty Publications

Computers have been used in the archaeology for decades to perform various tasks including statistical modeling, database management, geospatial analysis and other processes ranging from the relatively simple to the incredibly complex. Traditionally, computers are used in relatively “clean” environments such as indoor offices or laboratories. However, when subjected to harsh outdoor conditions with extreme temperatures, precipitation, dust, and debris, failure in some degree, ranging from the irritating to the catastrophic, is highly likely and often quite predictable. Sandy and dusty regions, as well as wet and humid areas, are particularly hostile to the delicate and environmentally sensitive processors, circuit …

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Globalization: Winners And Losers - Talking Points, Derek Wilmott Jan 2008

Globalization: Winners And Losers - Talking Points, Derek Wilmott

Publications

Supporters of free trade argue that globalization increases economic prosperity as well as opportunity, especially among developing nations. Critics argue that globalization has led to the exploitation of both workers and the environment, while contributing to the destabilization of undeveloped nations. Can free trade enhance civil liberties, lead more efficient allocation of resources, and increase prosperity through globalization? Or are the critics right?

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Orwell Was An Optimist: The Evolution Of Privacy In The United States And Its De-Evolution For American Employees, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 83 (2008), Robert Sprague Jan 2008

Orwell Was An Optimist: The Evolution Of Privacy In The United States And Its De-Evolution For American Employees, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 83 (2008), Robert Sprague

UIC Law Review

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Catholicism’S Critique Of Civil Society At The Turn Of The Millennium, George E. Garvey Jan 2008

Catholicism’S Critique Of Civil Society At The Turn Of The Millennium, George E. Garvey

Scholarly Articles

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Education And Promotion Of Human Rights From A European And American Perspective, Rett R. Ludwikowski Jan 2008

Education And Promotion Of Human Rights From A European And American Perspective, Rett R. Ludwikowski

Scholarly Articles

What are the concrete goals of human rights education and what obstacles may restrain the development of successful educational projects? What do we actually teach and how advanced are our educational programs in general, and academic education in particular? Is there a concrete consensus on the interdependencies between different types of human rights, their hierarchy, and the standards of their protection? Is an optimistic attitude regarding the universalistic doctrine of human rights fully rooted in facts? How may we communicate to our students the concept of universally recognized, irremovable, and interdependent rights while acknowledging the many ethical, religious and cultural …

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An Exploration Of The Career Paths Of Industry Accountants In A Public Accounting World, Amy R. Wolf Jan 2008

An Exploration Of The Career Paths Of Industry Accountants In A Public Accounting World, Amy R. Wolf

Honors Capstones

Accounting is one of the hottest careers with many job options available to accounting graduates. Most people believe all accountants are Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and work for public accounting firms; however, many work as industry accountants. Despite this fact, today's educational programs often focus on preparing students for public accounting careers. Through the primary research of this study, the Accountant Career Path Survey, 31 industry accountants reported their career paths and rated how well their education helped them develop a variety of skills. The respondents also rated the importance of these skills to their success in the jobs they …

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The Survival Of Customary Law In The Northern Mariana Islands, Elizabeth Barrett Ristroph Jan 2008

The Survival Of Customary Law In The Northern Mariana Islands, Elizabeth Barrett Ristroph

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

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A Process Theory Of Natural Law And The Rule Of Law In China, Mark Modak-Truran Jan 2008

A Process Theory Of Natural Law And The Rule Of Law In China, Mark Modak-Truran

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

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Legitimation Crisis, Reifying Human Rights And The Norm-Creating Power Of The Factual: Reply To Reifying Law: Let Them Be Lions, Gunnar Beck Jan 2008

Legitimation Crisis, Reifying Human Rights And The Norm-Creating Power Of The Factual: Reply To Reifying Law: Let Them Be Lions, Gunnar Beck

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

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The Merida Initiative For Mexico And Central America: The New Paradigm For Security Cooperation, Attacking Organized Crime, Corruption And Violence, Steven E. Hendrix Jan 2008

The Merida Initiative For Mexico And Central America: The New Paradigm For Security Cooperation, Attacking Organized Crime, Corruption And Violence, Steven E. Hendrix

Loyola University Chicago International Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Innocent Initiations: Female Agency In Eroticized Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen Jan 2008

Innocent Initiations: Female Agency In Eroticized Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Bawdy folktales have generated controversy and scholarship for centuries, and their literary, sexually explicit descendants, eroticized fairy tales, are also deserving of attention. Marketed in short story collections as erotica, eroticized fairy tales use fairy-tale characters, plots, and themes as the setting for sexual adventures. Some of these tales focus on a naïve heroine’s initiation into sexual pleasure without her knowing precisely what is going on. I have termed these “innocent initiation” tales. Their use of traditional fairy-tale motifs contributes to discourse about female sexuality, agency, and objectification.

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Sibyl 2008, Otterbein University Jan 2008

Sibyl 2008, Otterbein University

Otterbein University Yearbooks

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The View From Here To There: Aesthetics Of Travel In The Midwest - Design Brief, Historical Administration Jan 2008

The View From Here To There: Aesthetics Of Travel In The Midwest - Design Brief, Historical Administration

From Here to There: Aesthetics of Travel in the Midwest - Docs

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Nanotechnology - Scientific And Regulatory Challenges, David B. Fischer Jan 2008

Nanotechnology - Scientific And Regulatory Challenges, David B. Fischer

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

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The Airy And The Irrational: Elaborating On The Meanings Of The Petimetra From A Selection Of Goya’S Caprichos And The Spanish Periodical El Censor*, Ana Hontanilla Jan 2008

The Airy And The Irrational: Elaborating On The Meanings Of The Petimetra From A Selection Of Goya’S Caprichos And The Spanish Periodical El Censor*, Ana Hontanilla

Decimonónica

In the final years of the eighteenth century, a number of Francisco de Goya’s etchings from his collection known as Caprichos visually inscribed the female within the literary production of his time, most evidently perhaps within the satirical publication El Censor.1 The eighteenth-century Spanish female prototype, depicted in a number of El Censor’s essays and later seen in a few of Goya’s Caprichos, was the petimetra: a cultural invention employed and exploited with misogynist tone. The petimetra was a contemporary fashionably dressed woman, mainly adopting French styles, who may equally have been a member of the …

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Do Reasonable Efforts Require Cultural Competence - The Importance Of Culturally Competent Reunification Services In The California Child Welfare System, Nell Clement Jan 2008

Do Reasonable Efforts Require Cultural Competence - The Importance Of Culturally Competent Reunification Services In The California Child Welfare System, Nell Clement

UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice

Despite the disproportionate number of culturally diverse families represented in the California child welfare system, there exists no statutory requirement that families in crisis be provided with reunification services that are culturally competent. This note examines the evolution of the child welfare system in United States in recent decades and the current child welfare law in California. This note discusses the negative effect of removal of culturally diverse children from their families and communities and the specific aspects of the child welfare system that play a part in this removal. Clement concludes by advocating for statutory recognition of culture in …

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Transnational Law, Peer Zumbansen Jan 2008

Transnational Law, Peer Zumbansen

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

This chapter traces the development of the concept of Transnational Law since Philip Jessup's Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School in 1955. Jessup had famously challenged the doctrinal and conceptual boundaries of both public and private international law to suggest that another concept be more adequately suited to capture the myriad normative and transactional relations across national borders. "I shall use", Jessup wrote, "the term 'transnational law' to include all law which regulates actions or events that transcend national frontiers. Both public and private international law are included, as are other rules which do not wholly fit into such standard …

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New Governance' In European Corporate Law Regulation As Transnational Legal Pluralism, Peer Zumbansen Jan 2008

New Governance' In European Corporate Law Regulation As Transnational Legal Pluralism, Peer Zumbansen

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

The present transformation of European corporate governance regulation mirrors the challenges that have been facing the EUs continuously evolving polity, marked by tensions between centralized integration programs on the one hand and Member States embedded capitalisms, path-dependencies and rent-seeking on the other. As longstanding concerns with remaining obstacles to more mobility for workers, services, business entities and capital in recent years are aligned with post-Lisbon commitments to creating the Worlds leading competitive market, European corporate governance regulation [ECGR] has become exposed to and implicated in a set of highly dynamic regulatory experiments. In this context, New Governance offers itself as …

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Reconceptualizing Law And Politics In The Transnational Constitutional And Legal Pluralist Approaches, Ruth Buchanan Jan 2008

Reconceptualizing Law And Politics In The Transnational Constitutional And Legal Pluralist Approaches, Ruth Buchanan

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

Despite the apparent fluidity that characterizes this historical moment as well as this moment in legal scholarship, this paper argues that there is also an enduring rigidity in the persistence of a modernist conception of law. In the way that the important questions raised for legal scholars in the current moment are identified as questions for legal theory, they are also already 'framed' in terms of a particular approach to the relationship between legality and legitimacy. This is revealed in debates over post-national constitutionalism which, even as they purport to transcend the nation-state, fail to escape some form of reinscription …

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Indigenous Self-Determination And The State, Shin Imai Jan 2008

Indigenous Self-Determination And The State, Shin Imai

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

The right of indigenous self-determination is now accepted at both the national and international level, but the exercise of the right to self-determination does not connote any specific institutional arrangement. This chapter, from the forthcoming book, "Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives", (Hart Publishing, Oxford), describes a variety of arrangements in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Indigenous people have the greatest political autonomy in the sovereignty/self-government model found in the United States and in the latest self government agreements from Canada. The self-administration/self-management model provides for indigenous entities to deliver social services and educational …

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Exploring Interdisciplinary Prayer Research In A Health Context, E. James Baesler Jan 2008

Exploring Interdisciplinary Prayer Research In A Health Context, E. James Baesler

Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

Communication, Psychology, and Sociology are three leading academic disciplines engaged in the social scientific study of prayer, the spiritual communication between a believer(s) and God, but rarely do these disciplines collaborate in interdisciplinary prayer scholarship. Possibilities for interdisciplinary prayer research in a health context are explored through a review of the literature and academic interviews. Interdisciplinary linkages in the prayer-health context are organized in an integral "all-quadrant" theoretical model, and an assessment of the viability of interdisciplinary prayer-health research is considered.

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Kenyon Collegiate - Undated Jan 2008

Kenyon Collegiate - Undated

Kenyon Collegiate

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An Unintended And Absurd Expansion: The Application Of The Archaeological Resources Protection Act To Foreign Lands, Andrew Adler Jan 2008

An Unintended And Absurd Expansion: The Application Of The Archaeological Resources Protection Act To Foreign Lands, Andrew Adler

New Mexico Law Review

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