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Lack Of Men, Flame Throwers And Rabbit Drives: Student Life In Australia's First Rural Teachers College 1945-1955, Anthony Potts

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This article examines student life in an Australian rural teachers college. The paper is informed by studies on university student life and extends these to Australia’s first rural teachers college in the period 1945-1955. It explores the diversity of students’ experiences in a small college with predominately female students gradually supplemented by male students. It looks at staff student relations in a college struggling to train teachers for rural Australian towns in the immediate post World War II period. While these rural students’ lives were similar to those portrayed in the standard histories of teacher education students were well aware …

Post-Reform Medicaid Before The Court: Discordant Advocacy Reflects Conflicting Attitudes, Nicole Huberfeld

Faculty Scholarship

The Supreme Court will decide two major Medicaid cases this term that raise major questions about the program and the tensions it creates between the federal government and the states. The Court heard oral arguments on October 3d in Douglas v. Independent Living Center, a dispute between California and its Medicaid providers regarding reimbursement cuts due to California’s budget crisis. The Medicaid providers argue that these proposed cuts are so extreme as to violate federal law and thus the Supremacy Clause. Their contention hinges on the Equal Access Provision of the Medicaid Act, which commands states to pay healthcare providers …

Book Review: Judging Homosexuals: A History Of Gay Persecution In Quebec And France, By Patrice Corriveau; Translated By Käthe Roth, Robert Leckey

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Adopting Hris On Three Tiers Of Hrm: Evidence From Developing Economy, Irfan Saleem

Business Review

In information based economies, cross-sectional studies are needed to uncover missing linkage between Human Resource Management and Information Technology. Consequently Human Resource (HR) researchers and managers need to rethink about achieving organizational objectives with and through the people added by modernized technology in this information age. The main objective of this study is to identify the contribution of Human Resource Information System (HRIS) adoption impact on three tiers i.e. Operational, Functional and Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM). Findings show that that HRIS adoption significantly impacts HRM Operational Processes and moderately facilitates its Functional Processes and provides insignificant support for Strategic …

Revenge And Its Implications: Literati Discourse Of Justice In Late Qing And Modern Chinese Fiction, Yoojin Soh

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

My dissertation explores literati criticism of injustice embedded in revenge narratives. Ranging from the late Qing to modern China, this research project elaborates on the existing scholarship regarding historical and cultural meanings of revenge to demonstrate the use of earlier textual sources by intellectual writers to embody their ideas and strategies. The literati community inherited a keen sense of injustice in society from previous writing practice and passed it down to later generations. Revenge narratives were able to reinforce this intellectual tradition because the authors of social criticism could use fiction to express their anger and frustration over injustices suffered …

The Habit Of Prayer, Raymond Chapman, Markus H. Mcdowell

Leaven

No abstract provided.

The Road From Damascus, Richard Longennecker, Ronald L. Tyler

Leaven

No abstract provided.

The Paul Quest, Ben Witherington, Iii, Peggy A. Vining

Leaven

No abstract provided.

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FIVE: The Claremont Colleges Journal of Undergraduate Academic Writing

No abstract provided.

Book Review, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Shakespeare and the Jews (James Shapiro) (Reviewed by Suzanne Gossett)

Climate and Literature: Reflections of Enviroment (Ed.Janet Pérez and Wendell Aycock) (Reviewed by Alvin Snider)

Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture (Henry A Giroux)
Making Malcolm: The Myth & Meaning of Malcolm X (Michael Eric Dyson) (Reviewed by Jerry Herron)

Cultural Selection (Gary Taylor) (Reviewed by Peter Erickson)

Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition (Mack Smith) (Reviewed by Bruce Henricksen)

Our Vampires, Ourselves (Nina Auerbach) (Reviewed by Carol Colatrella)

Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind (Patricia Meyer Spacks) (Reviewed by Karen A. Weisman)

Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship …

Oral History Heirlooms: Vitality And Substance In Learning, Arlene Abate Carpenter

Theses and Dissertations

The major problem confronting educators is incorporating a simple, profitable, stimulating, and integrated learning technique in the classroom that motivates students, internalizes lessons, and produces active, enriched learners. This thesis demonstrates that the oral history genre is the viable solution. Nine planned project stages guide educators in establishing a new dimension of knowledge for students where interviews and research combine living memories with documented resources to create and preserve personalized history. The author obtained information through personal interviews with family members from the descendents of Vito Antonio Mevoli, Filomena (Onorato) Mevoli, Dominick Abate, and Catherine (Lorusso) Abate and researched data …

Provo City Library: Building Across A Century, Gregory M. Nelson

Faculty Publications

The public library in Provo City, Utah has undergone significant changes since the founding of the original 1906 building that was funded by Andrew Carnegie. The library has changed according to the needs of the community as it has adapted from its pioneer heritage to a modern service information organization. As it has adapted, however, the Provo Library has maintained its focus on community service with its physical facilities, collection development, community outreach and quality staffing.

The Complex Origin Of Astyanax Cavefish, Joshua B. Gross

KIP Articles

Background The loss of phenotypic characters is a common feature of evolution. Cave organisms provide excellent models for investigating the underlying patterns and processes governing the evolutionary loss of phenotypic traits. The blind Mexican cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus, represents a particularly strong model for both developmental and genetic analyses as these fish can be raised in the laboratory and hybridized with conspecific surface form counterparts to produce large F2 pedigrees. As studies have begun to illuminate the genetic bases for trait evolution in these cavefish, it has become increasingly important to understand these phenotypic changes within the context of cavefish origins. …

Syncretism In Philippine Catholicism Its Historical Causes, S.J. Schumacher

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Digital Media And Art: Always Already Complicit?, Jay David Bolter

Criticism

Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (Lisa Gitelman)
Avatars of Story (Marie-Laure Ryan)
Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (Johanna Drucker)

Interpreting Communities: Private Acts And Public Culture In Early Modern England, Nicholas Mcdowell

Criticism

Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England (Pamela Allen Brown)
Increase and Multiply: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England (David Glimp)
Common Bodies: Women, Touch, and Power in Seventeenth-Century England (Laura Gowing)
Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200–1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society (Katherine A. Lynch)
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature (Jennifer Richards)
Reading, Society, and Politics in Early Modern England (Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker)

Cuisine & Traditions Rescue: An Historic Face About The Culinary Relationship Between Mexico And Ireland, Jose Bossuet Martinez

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

Dam Complications In Senegal: How River Dams May Hurt More Than Help Vulnerable Populations In Water-Stressed Regions, Colleen Diessner

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Political Emotions: Toward A Fresh Perspective On Collective Emotion In Composition Work, Ingrid Jonna Gilfus

Writing Program – Dissertations

This dissertation examines theories of emotion in politically contentious discourse in order to better understand the implications for teachers and students in composition classrooms where critical pedagogical practices lead to contentious political work. I suggest that partly as a result of the social and political turn in composition studies, the expectation for disrupting the normative political values and beliefs of students has become part of the curriculum in many writing classrooms. Yet teachers and students charged with such learning goals may be largely unaware of and unprepared for the role emotion might play in this teaching and learning situation. I …

Review Of The Book "The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’S Families After World War Ii," By Tara Zahra, Shannon Lee Fogg

History and Political Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Redefining, Crafting, And Re/Presenting Contemporary Ethnicities: Honduran National Identity, 1994–2006, Cordelia A. Frewen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, Fourth World populations, including those in Honduras, have been steadily gaining partial recognition of cultural rights; yet often official discourses of national identity continue to subsume cultural traditions of indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. Honduras's heterogeneous ethnic pluralism has historically been combined to promote a more cohesive national identity of a homogenized, mayanized, indo-Hispanic mestizaje. Exclusion and mis- or under-representation of indigenous groups is reinforced by popular imagination, particularly in the cultural heritage and tourism sectors. Firmly situated within regional Latin American and global trends, over the past two decades, official discourse on …

Scattered Data Interpolation On Embedded Submanifolds With Restricted Positive Definite Kernels: Sobolev Error Estimates, Edward J. Fuselier, Grady Wright

Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this paper we present error estimates for kernel interpolation at scattered sites on manifolds. The kernels we consider will be obtained by the restriction of positive definite kernels on R^d, such as radial basis functions, to a smooth, compact embedded submanifold M ⊂ R^d with no boundary. For restricted kernels having finite smoothness, we provide a complete characterization of the native space on M. After this and some preliminary setup, we present Sobolev-type error estimates for the interpolation problem for smooth and non-smooth kernels. In the case of non-smooth kernels, we provide error estimates for target …

Facebook's Afterlife, Jason Mazzone

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Courier, June 2012, Tennessee. Historical Commission.

Tennessee Historical Commission

No abstract provided.

A Small Scale Energy Harvester From Wind Induced Vibrations, Ahmed Sayed Ahmed Abdel-Fattah

Theses and Dissertations

In this study, a new device for wind energy harvesting on a small-scale was proposed. This system is well suited for powering remote wireless sensors as a cheaper, more environmentally friendly alternative to conventional dry cell batteries which is a need that is being addressed by many recent research studies. The device consists of a cantilever beam with the free end attached to a square section box that is subjected to the air stream inducing aero-elastic flutter. Flutter is a coupled torsion, plunge instability that has been historically studied to be avoided by aerospace and civil engineers. A magnet is …

Growing Gardens: Botanical Gardens, Public Space And Conservation, Terra Celeste Colburn

Master's Theses

This thesis examines the history of botanical gardens and their evolution

from ancient spaces to the modern gardens of the 20th century. I provide a brief

overview of botanical gardens, with a focus on the unique intersection of public

participation and scientific study that started to occur within garden spaces during

the 20th century, which still continues today. I reveal the history of gardens that

influenced the uses of gardens today, with a focus on: the first ancient gardens

and the dependency societies had on them, the influence of science in gardens

starting in the Enlightenment period, the shift away …

Charity And Nationalism: The Case Of ‘Abd Allah Al-Nadim’S Islamic Philanthropic Society, Mohamed Amr Gamal-Eldin

Theses and Dissertations

My paper argues that charity can be used as a lens to examine nationalism. Due to the transformation of the institution of charity in late nineteenth-century Egypt new charities were developed. In the nineteenth century charity was changing due to the state centralization policies of Mehmed ‘Ali (r. 1805-48), who founded state-run shelters and soup kitchens and enacted prohibitions against begging. Later because of decentralization policies under Said Pasha (r.1854-1863) and Khedive Ismail (r.1863-1879), there was a move away from state control of charity, and the gradual erection of a number of private charitable associations that aimed to help the …

The Struggles Of The Native Clergy In Pampanga, 1771–77, Luciano P.R. Santiago

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Religious Experience In The Philippines: From Mythos Through Logos Kairos, Ramon C. Reyes

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (Christina Britzolakis) (Reviewed by Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside)

Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi) (Reviewed by Yael Halevi-Wise, Brandeis University)

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (Laura Hinton) (Reviewed by Andrea Henderson, University of Michigan)

The Life of Henry Fielding (Ronald Paulson) (Reviewed by John Stevenson, University of Colorado, Bolder)