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Tales Of Empire: Orientalism In Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature, Brittany Renee Griffin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Children's literature often does not hold the same weight in the studies of a culture as its big brother, the novel. However, as children's literature is written by adults, to convey information which is important for a child to learn in order to be a functioning member of that society, it can be analyzed in the same way novels are, to provide insight into the broad sweeping issues that concerned the adults of that era. Nineteenth-century British children's literature in particular reveals the deep-seated preoccupation the British Empire had with its eastern colonies, and shows how England's relationship to those …

Ucc Minutes February 23, 2012, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Minutes

No abstract provided.

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Faculty Meeting, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, Arts & Sciences Faculty

The College of Liberal Arts Faculty Minutes

No abstract provided.

Contributors, Specs Journal

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

The Bates Student - Volume 141 Number 12 - February 15, 2012, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

Project Gaya: A Study Abroad Program Design For Fundación Operación Gaya Internacional, Lauren E. Johanson

Capstone Collection

Since 2008 Fundación Operación GAYA Internacional, a Costa Rican NGO has provided youth training and development programs to local youth in Costa Rica, empowering young people to be “architects” in the development of their own communities and to take the lead in creating a world that is more peaceful and just. Through the implementation of Project GAYA, the foundation will expand its programming to international youth for the first time.

The proposed program offers a comprehensive program design for a short-term study abroad experience for U.S. high school students to Costa Rica. Students will engage in experiential learning and critical …

Loss Of Αt-Catenin Alters The Hybrid Adhering Junctions In The Heart And Leads To Dilated Cardiomyopathy And Ventricular Arrhythmia Following Acute Ischemia., Jifen Li, Steven Goossens, Jolanda Van Hengel, Erhe Gao, Lan Cheng, Koen Tyberghein, Xiying Shang, Riet De Rycke, Frans Van Roy, Glenn L Radice

Center for Translational Medicine Faculty Papers

It is generally accepted that the intercalated disc (ICD) required for mechano-electrical coupling in the heart consists of three distinct junctional complexes: adherens junctions, desmosomes and gap junctions. However, recent morphological and molecular data indicate a mixing of adherens junctional and desmosomal components, resulting in a 'hybrid adhering junction' or 'area composita'. The α-catenin family member αT-catenin, part of the N-cadherin-catenin adhesion complex in the heart, is the only α-catenin that interacts with the desmosomal protein plakophilin-2 (PKP2). Thus, it has been postulated that αT-catenin might serve as a molecular integrator of the two adhesion complexes in the area composita. …

Contributors, Specs Journal

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.

The X-Men Meet An Insurmountable Foe: The Split Identity Of Fan Culture And The Rhetoric Of Action Figures, Luke Geddes

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Calcineurin In Dendritic Remodeling And Epileptogenesis In A Rat Model Of Traumatic Brain Injury, John Campbell

Theses and Dissertations

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, causes potentially preventable damage in part through the dysregulation of neural calcium levels. This dysregulation likely affects the activity of the calcium-sensitive phosphatase, calcineurin, with serious implications for neural function. To test this possibility, the present study characterized the role of calcineurin in a rat model of brain trauma, the lateral fluid percussion injury model. Golgi-Cox histochemistry revealed an acute post-TBI loss and delayed overgrowth of dendritic spines on principal cortical cells. The spine loss appeared to require calcineurin activity, since administering a calcineurin inhibitor, …

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Easterner, Vol. 63, No. 15, February 8, 2012, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about a proposal to dissolve the graduate math program, Eastern Washington University (EWU) track athletes qualifying for the Indoor Track Championship, the selection process for Dean of Students, responses to budget cuts, Associated Students (ASEWU) elections, deceased adminsitrative assistant Sally Eaton, improvements to the Pence Union Building (PUB), interactive whiteboards, student Luke Shoemaker, Kendo instructor Losuke Imamura, the preference of video games over pool in the PUB, and the men's basketball season.

Stony Brook Press, V. 33, N. 08, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 33, n. 08, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

Love And Citizenship: Catholics In An Election Year, Thomas Hughson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Columbia Chronicle (02/06/2012), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from February 6, 2012 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 44 pages and is listed as Volume 47, Number 19. Cover story: "Deans propose cuts" Editor-in-Chief: Brianna Wellen

It’S More Than Just Music: A Review Of Urban Science Education For The Hip-Hop Generation, Jose M. Rios

Democracy & Education

A review of the book Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation, by Christopher Emdin (Sense Publishing, 2010).

Schools/Citizen Science. A Response To "The Future Of Citizen Science", Matthew Weinstein

Democracy & Education

This paper builds on Mueller, Tippins, and Bryan's paper to ask how neoliberal restructuring impacts the form of appropriate and possible democratic science/education. It examines the compatibilities between antidemocratic tendencies of current schooling and common forms citizen science. It also clarifies several details regarding the street-medic movement. The paper suggests that distinguishing between democracy as participation and democracy as opposition would help clarify the appropriate forms, limits, and possibilities of democratic forms of science in schooling.

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Pastoral Care For The Mission Field: Taking Care Of The Beautiful Feet, Dottie Schulz

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Daily Announcements February 2012, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

Gender And Women's Studies Newsletter For February 2012, Uri Gender And Women's Studies Department

Gender and Women's Studies Publications

The February 2012 issue of Gender and Women’s Studies Newsletter, a periodical with articles written by faculty members and some related to events within the Gender and Women’s Studies program.

Actions Memo February 2012, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Action Memos

No abstract provided.

Poster Presentation: Big History: From A History Course To A First Year Contextualization Of The Whole Person, Mojgan Behmand

Collected Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Sensory, Physiological, Personality, And Cultural Attributes In Regular Spicy Food Users And Non-Users, Mary-Jon Ludy, Richard D. Mattes

Public and Allied Health Faculty Publications

Some individuals savor spicy foods, while others avoid them. Reasons underlying this range of hedonic responses are unknown. The purpose of this study was to explore the basis for individual differences in preference for spicy foods. Regular spicy food users ( n= 13) and non-users (n= 12) were characterized for selected sensory, physiological, personality, and cultural attributes. Individual differences between users and non-users were primarily related to sensory and cultural attributes (i.e., a higher proportion of users reported consuming spicy foods since childhood and users rated spicy foods as more palatable and were better able to discriminate this burn than …

Prism #60, February 2012, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Pt (Iv) Complexes As Prodrugs For Cisplatin, Yi Shi, Shu-An Liu, Deborah J. Kerwood, Jerry Goodisman, James C. Dabrowiak

Chemistry - All Scholarship

The antitumor effects of platinum(IV) complexes, considered prodrugs for cisplatin, are believed to be due to biological reduction of Pt(IV) to Pt(II), with the reduction products binding to DNA and other cellular targets. In this work we used pBR322 DNA to capture the products of reduction of oxoplatin, c,t,c-[PtCl ₂(OH) ₂(NH ₃) ₂], 3, and a carboxylate-modified analog, c,t,c-[PtCl ₂(OH)(O ₂CCH ₂CH ₂CO ₂H)(NH ₃) ₂], 4, by ascorbic acid (AsA) or glutathione (GSH). Since carbonate plays a significant role in the speciation of platinum complexes in solution, we …

Buttering Up The British: Irish Exports And The Tourist Gaze, Mary Ann Bolger

Articles

This paper argues that the advertising of Irish exports in the 1960s provided for their consumers a form of ‘tourism without travel’. (1) This concept is borrowed from Mark McGovern, who uses it to describe the experience of the consumer of the ‘Irish pub experience’ in his article ‘”The cracked pint glass of the servant”: the Irish pub, Irish identity and the tourist eye’ in Michael Cronin and Barbara O’Connor (eds) Irish tourism: image, culture, and identity. Clevedon; Buffalo, N.Y.: Channel View Publications, 2003 In particular, Kerrygold butter acted as an especially authentic souvenir of Ireland because it was, as …

Signifying The Place Of Unforgettable Memory: Atrocity And Trauma In A Post-Conflict Landscape, Ralph J. Hartley

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

After active inter-group lethal violence subsides places at which atrocities occurred are often assigned significance, reflecting an altered social topography influenced by ideology that may foster the hardening of socio-ethnic boundary distinctions. While using a comparativist approach, this paper explores the relationships between socio-cultural trauma, places of atrocity, and socio-political polarization. Two sites in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, where highly publicized massacres occurred, illustrate the power of place significance in social environments vulnerable to flare-ups of violent conflict.

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano's Journey From 'Indio Puro' To Cultural Mestizo: Indigenous Identity, Mestizaje, And Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Angelica Sanchez-Clark

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Like many Mexican Liberal intellectuals, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (b. Tixtla, Guerrero, 1834; d. San Remo, Italy, 1893) played a central role in defining the role that the mestizo—and, by force of circumstance, the Indian—would play in the formation of national identity after Mexicos independence from Spain. This dissertation examines Altamirano's literary and political works, as well as his personal correspondence, and his experiences as a soldier, educator, and politician, in order to understand how Altamirano, represented as an 'indio puro' who underwent the transformation to mestizo, exemplifies the link between Mexico's colonial past and its struggle to define its national …