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Shenshi 紳士 Atau Gentry Cina: Sekilas Sejarah Dan Profil Kaum Aristokrat Cina Pada Zaman Kekaisaran, Adrianus L.G Waworuntu

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

In order to comprehend the many aspects of social and cultural historiography of traditional China, it is imperative to recognize who are the main actors. In traditional Chinese society, there is a significant category known as the Chinese gentry, or the shenshi 紳士 in Mandarin. They were known as the Chinese scholar-official class who administered the traditional Chinese dynastic government system since more than two-thousand years ago until the abolishment of the system in 1911. The Chinese gentry emerged from the intellectuals who became officials by going through a special, open-recruited, educational system; a system that enabled every person from …

Trophy Hunting And Trophy Size In Ugalla Game Reserve, Western Tanzania, P Wilfred

Tanzania Journal of Science

The present paper explores trends and variations in trophy size among wildlife species hunted in the Ugalla Game Reserve (UGR) of western Tanzania, in relation to hunting success (animals shot species-1 quota-1). Data on trophy hunting from 2006 – 2010 were obtained from the UGR office in Tabora Region. Forty-seven species were targeted by trophy hunters. Hunting success differed significantly across the species (Generalised Linear Model [GLM] with a binomial error structure: deviance chi-square [X2] = 9.64, d.f. = 44, p<0.001). Twenty-eight species had trophy size measurements, but only 6 species had measurements taken consistently throughout the data period. Although most of the shot animals were above their minimum trophy size limits (official trophy limits below which animals could not be removed) there was significant variation among species (GLM with normal errors: F5,201 = 509.12, p<0.001). Time (years) had no significant effect on trophy size, but the trend over time in trophy size differed significantly among species (F5,194 = 5.42, p<0.001). Of the trophy species, greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) had the largest mean trophy size, whereas warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) had  the lowest trophy size and showed a considerable decline. The majority of the animals had trophy sizes hovering just above their minimum limits. This should be monitored rigorously to avoid removing large numbers of actively breeding animals.

The Ethnic Security Dilemma And Ethnic Violence: An Alternative Empirical Model And Its Explanatory Power, Jiaxing Xu

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

Beginning in the 1990s, a trend of using the security dilemma to explain ethnic violence has emerged. However, previous research mainly focuses on individual cases with large-scale violence; whether ethnic security dilemma theory is a sound approach to explain less violent ethnic conflict remains unclear. This paper employs a large-N design and tests the hypothesis that the ethnic security dilemma causes ethnic conflicts, without discriminating between differences in severity and scale of conflict. The paper also conducts a longitudinal comparison with a previous quantitative model using the latest data available. The empirical results do not support the hypothesis and suggest …

Gsu View, 2012-07-30, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Finding A Way Out Of The Ethnographic Paradigm Jungle, Subhadip Roy, Pratyush Banerjee

The Qualitative Report

In this paper, an attempt has been made to develop a hybrid ethnographic paradigm, taking the best points from the different approaches of ethnographic research. The pioneering proponents of ethnography differed in their conceptualization of the method, resulting in the development of three distinct schools of thought-holistic, semiotic and behavioristic. These three ethnographic paradigms have their respective benefits and shortcomings. Following any one of these approaches may lead to only partial comprehension of the phenomenon by the ethnographer. This study wished to address this issue by developing a best practice approach, which will have the virtues of all the three …

Illinois State University Board Of Trustees Meeting Materials, July 27, 2012, Board Of Trustees

Illinois State University Board of Trustees (1995-2013)

Minutes, reports, and action items relating to the July 27, 2012 meeting of the Illinois State University Board of Trustees.

Murray Ledger And Times, July 27, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Introduction, Irving Massey

Criticism

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Sabbath & Management, Theology & Application, Michael E. Cafferky

Faculty Works

Without detracting from the importance of setting aside one day of worship each week some scholars believe that the meaning of Sabbath contains broader principles. This paper presents a summary of Sabbath theology based on two biblical themes: Creation and Covenant. It provides support for why managers should consider applying Sabbath principles in their work. Part III shows some of the ways in which this might play out in managerial work.

Afterword::Recompiling, Christopher M. Kelty

Criticism

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Globalization And The Culture Of Tourism: A Complex Connectivity From The Postmodern Perspective, Jing Yang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

From the perspective of globalization,the representation of "connectivity" shows in the essence and extension of expanding tourism culture, and it constantly changes in response to the changes in the cultural dimension of globalization. An exploration into the process of connectivity will reveal the role of culture in intricate network of contacts. The ways by which globalization and the culture of tourism connect to culture are different, and both may promote people's national identification and personal cultural accomplishment. The paper hopes to expand the horizon of the cultural dimension of globalization through its topical focus and point out some practical significance …

Literary Theory Today, Culler Jonathan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Hunter-Gatherer Energetics And Human Obesity, Herman Pontzer, David A. Raichlen, Brian M. Wood, Audax Z. P. Mabulla, Susan B. Racette, Frank W. Marlowe

Publications and Research

Western lifestyles differ markedly from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and these differences in diet and activity level are often implicated in the global obesity pandemic. However, few physiological data for hunter-gatherer populations are available to test these models of obesity. In this study, we used the doubly-labeled water method to measure total daily energy expenditure (kCal/day) in Hadza hunter-gatherers to test whether foragers expend more energy each day than their Western counterparts. As expected, physical activity level, PAL, was greater among Hadza foragers than among Westerners. Nonetheless, average daily energy expenditure of traditional Hadza foragers was no different than …

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Criticism

Feminist Milton (Joseph Wittreich) (Reviewed by James Grantham Turner, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)

Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres (Leonard Tennenhouse) (Reviewed by Richard Strier, University of Chicago)

Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (Houston A. Baker, Jr.) (Reviewed by Mark A. Reid, University of Florida, Gainesville)

A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation (Sidonie Smith) (Reviewed by Kristina Straub, Carnegie Mellon University)

Becoming Isis: Myth, Magic, Medicine, And Reproduction In Ancient Egypt, Chrystal Elaine Goudsouzian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In ancient Egypt, sexuality, fertility, and the conception of children was of central importance not just to personal identity, but also to family and social structure. Because of the significance of birth in both the physical world and in the spiritual realm, references to reproduction, including fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth, can be found in a wide variety of textual sources. Specifically, mythic events and scenarios, including those in magical spells, medico-magical spells, and funerary texts, reflected Egyptian reproductive conceptions and practices. Further, the Egyptians employed and called on these mythic episodes and archetypes to create divinely charged myth-mirroring space, …

Deleuze's Critical Philosophy: The Differential Theory Of The Faculties, Cheri Lynne Carr

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation argues that a sustained treatment of Gilles Deleuze's relationship to Immanuel Kant is eesential to a refined understanding of Deleuze's thought in his seminal work Difference and Repetition (1968). Five years before writing Difference and Repetition Deleuze published Kant's Critical Philosophy (1963), a short but comprehensive survey of Kant's work that introduced within the general traidic structure of Kant's critiques a more finely-grained structure oriented around the concept of faculties or capacities of thought. Kant's Critical Philosophy sees Deleuze using Kant's recurrent descriptions of the relationships between the faculties of thought as an organizing principle to reveal the …

Out Of Joint: The Nexus Of Madness And Time-Consciousness, Heidi A. Samuelson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

According to Edmund Husserl, time is one of the most difficult phenomenological problems, and difficulties arise as soon as we attempt to reach an understanding of how temporal objectivity can become constituted in the subjective consciousness of time. I am focusing on one aspect of time-consciousness - the role it plays in studies of mental illness - in order to expose the difficulties, and ultimately the social problems, that arise when Husserlian structures of time-consciousness are taken as a medically normal foundation. In the first part of this project, I argue that Husserlian structures of time-consciousness are uncritically reliant upon …

Preliminary Investigations Toward A Theory Of Pattern For Technology Design, Annalisa Aguilar

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

It is argued that today's scarcity of computer tools compatible with human experience derives from an antiquated dualistic model of mind, as passed down through the mid-20th century, during the early development of the computer and artificial intelligence, and up to the present day. Rather than settle for technology as inevitable and instead of depending upon worldviews that are no longer aligned with current empirical findings on human cognition, this thesis renders a broad imperative for a design theory informed by an ecological understanding of mind in society, with a worldview that reflects the historical development of technology as tools, …

Abstinence Mission At Odds With Evidence: Sticky Shame And Forbidden Pleasures, Lynn Koller

Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach

Abstinence-only-until-marriage (AOUM) programs made prevalent over the last decade remain widespread in U.S. public schools, despite failure to demonstrate effectiveness at reducing the onset of teenage sexual activity or decreasing unplanned pregnancies or the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) (Kirby, 2007; Trenholm, et al., 2007). These programs remain popular in the face of The Personal Responsibility and Education Program (PREP) (2010), which created a funding stream for medically-accurate sexuality education programs that have demonstrated evidence of success at meeting program goals. Long-standing objections about the efficacy and ethics of AOUM programs are valid and compelling; however opponents often fail …

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Criticism

Against Deconstruction (John M. Ellis) (Reviewed by Jeffrey Williams, East Carolina University)

When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics (Trinh T. Minh-ha) (Reviewed by Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University)

Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (Patrick Brantlinger) (Reviewed by Ajay Heble, University of Guelph)

Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics (Bruce R. Smith) (Reviewed by Jonathan Crewe, Dartmouth College)

Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship (Michael C. Schoenfeldt) (Reviewed by Claude J. Summers, University of Michigan-Dearborn)

Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (Michael Moon) (Reviewed by Patrick …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

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Critical Writings, 1953-1978 (Paul de Man) (Reviewed by Mark Conroy, Ohio State University)

Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination (David Loewenstein) (Reviewed by Richard Halpern, University of Colorado, Boulder)

A Form of Sound Words: The Religious Poetry of Christopher Smart (Harriet Guest) (Reviewed by Clement Hawes, Souther Illinois University)

Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination (Daniel P. Watkins) (Reviewed by Grant F. Scott, Muhlenberg College)

Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting (Richard C. Moreland) (Reviewed by Karl F. Zender, University of California, Davis)

Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity …

Failing To Do Justice: The Quandary Of The Poor In Eighth Century Israel And Judah, Stuart Love

Leaven

No abstract provided.

A Place Of Uncertainty

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

University Place

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Exit The Eighties

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Debunking The Jockette Myth

Syracuse University Magazine

Over 20 short years,we have witnesseda revolution inour acceptance of thefemale athlete.Nowhere is thismore evident thanon a college campus.

A Survey Of The Non-Users Of A Technological University Library, J. Lubans Jr.

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Interview With Troy Davis Regarding Ccc (Fa 81), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of an oral history interview done with Troy Davis related to his work in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Mammoth Cave in the 1930s.

Singing Japan’S Heart And Soul: A Discourse On The Black Enka Singer Jero And Race Politics In Japan, Neriko Musha Doerr, Yuri Kumagai

East Asian Languages & Cultures: Faculty Publications

This article analyses a discourse around the ascendancy of Jero, an ‘African-American’ male dressed in hip-hop attire singing enka, a genre of music that has been dubbed ‘the heart and soul of Japan.’ Since his debut in Japan in February 2008, Jero has attracted much media attention. This article analyses a prominent discourse, ‘Jero is almost Japanese because he sings enka well.’ While many argue that to challenge stereotypes and racism is to introduce alternative role models, we show that such alternative role models can also reinforce the existing regime of difference of Japanese vs. the Other and perpetuate …

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