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From Pupusas To Chimichangas: Exploring The Ways In Which Food Contributes To The Creation Of A Pan-Latino Identity, Sarah B. Fouts

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Framed through the standardizations of food and generalizations of people, this research explores the shifting ingredients of migrant identities and the ethnic foodways carried with them as they cross the border into the United States. Using ethnographic observational fieldwork, content analysis of menus, and semi-structured interviews with restaurant staff and migrant workers, this study examines the transnational narratives of the day laborer population and their deterritorialized food culture in post-Katrina New Orleans. Further, this research explores this flow of people and culture through a globalization lens in order to achieve a more holistic understanding of the “migrant experience” and how …

Filipino Writing In The United States: Reclaiming Whose America?, E. San Jr.

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

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Debunking Misconceptions: Do Jury Instructions Influence Comprehension And Verdict Selection, Aryssa Z. Washington

Psychology Theses

The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of jury instructions that debunk common misconceptions versus standard instructions, with regards to verdict choice, comprehension of the legal standard, and reasoning used to support verdict decisions. A case summary was read by 159 participants who then listened to auditory instructions from a judge regarding the legal standards for second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. They then completed measures assessing verdict, comprehension, and reasoning. While the results revealed that the legal instructions did not influence participants’ verdicts or comprehension of the legal standard, the data suggests that participants may have …

Yoshimura's Ghost: Essays On Rural Japan, Jen Cullerton Johnson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Yoshimura’s Ghost: Essays on Rural Japan is a collection of six essays exploring the cultural phenomena and daily life of rural Japan. The collection represents my experiences of living as an educator, wife, and mother living in a post 9/11 world. Although not chronological, the essays flow episodically and illustrate examples of the social and cultural concepts that struck me as elements of otherness. Some of the essays in this collection examine the parallels between the exclusion and isolation I felt in Japan as compared to other marginalized groups. Several of the essays describe the culture of Japanese schooling, perhaps …

Communicating To Persuade: The Effects Of Language Power And Nonverbal Immediacy On The Efficacy Of Persuasion, Natavan M. Gadzhiyeva

Communication

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of powerful speech and nonverbal immediacy on the efficacy of persuasion in a hypothetical sales presentation. Language power and nonverbal immediacy were hypothesized to affect persuasiveness through the potentially powerful nature of both, and to have an interaction effect on persuasiveness. A sample of 211 undergraduate students at a Northwestern University voluntarily completed an online survey, which contained a video clip of a sales presentation. Each participant randomly viewed one of four video clips, which differed in terms of language power (high vs low) and nonverbal immediacy (high vs low). …

An Acoustic Study Of Stem Prominence In HäN Athabascan, Jonathan T. Manker

Linguistics

Observations in many studies of Athabascan languages have indicated that the stem syllable displays phonetic prominence, perhaps due to its semantic or structural importance, which is realized through a variety of acoustic means. Features such as voicing, duration, manner of articulation, voice quality, and vowel quality pattern differently in stems and prefixes, both in the diachronic developments of Athabascan phonology as well as in the synchronic, phonetic realizations of individual phonemes. This acoustic study of the Hän language investigates the synchronic realization of this morphological conditioning in fricatives, stops, and vowels, and attempts to unify several different phonological effects into …

Intelligibility And The Sinewave Speech Carrier Phrase Effect, Danielle R. Werle

Honors Theses

Several studies have examined the perception of sinewave speech. Early work showed that listeners could transcribe sinewave sentences. Recent work on sinewave vowels found that listeners could recognize sinewave speech at the phonetic level with moderate (about 50-55%) accuracy. Sinewave vowel intelligibility scores improve significantly when preceded by a sinewave carrier phrase, an effect that disappears when the carrier phrase is removed. The present study was designed to examine this carrier phrase enhancement effect and analyze whether listeners require the carrier phrase to be intelligible to produce increased intelligibility scores. Sinusoidal carrier phrases and /hVd/ syllables were generated from recordings …

Assuming The White Man’S Burden: The Seizure Of The Philippines, 1898–1902, Mark D. Van Ells

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Time In Wilfrido D. Nolledo’S Fiction, Gerardo Z. Torres

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

The Materiality Of Mobile Pastoralism: Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives From Samburu, Kenya, Katherine Mary Grillo

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This thesis represents the first comprehensive ethnoarchaeological study to date on the material culture of African mobile pastoralism, a way of life economically, culturally, and ideologically centered on the herding of livestock. In Africa, tens of millions of people today still rely on cattle-based pastoralism for survival in arid lands that are unsuitable for agricultural production. Our understanding of ancient pastoralism is still hampered, however, by a belief held by many that nomadic populations such as pastoralists are difficult to trace in the archaeological record. Results from ethnographic research among modern Samburu cattle pastoralists in Kenya in fact challenge common …

The Federal Democratic Republic Of Ethiopia: Liberal Democratic Or Authoritarian Regime?, Solomon Terfa

African Social Science Review

The leaders of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia adopted their constitution on December 8, 1994. This analysis argues that the ethno-linguistic federal political system adopted by the founding members is problematic because the framers superimposed the constitution on the citizens dogmatically without thoroughly examining the country’s objective reality. Hence, the author contends that the ethnic federalist paradigm adopted in Ethiopia is diametrically opposed to the wishes and aspirations of the people as validated by a survey he conducted between 1992 and 1993. He draws from this, perhaps the first and only study on this pertinent topic, to argue his …

May 16, 2012: William Saroyan International Prize For Writing, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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Warm Compression – Damp Gestures, Melanie Mclain

Theses and Dissertations

Thoughts on vulnerability, emotions, social interaction, self-awareness, skin, touching, bodily functions, and the combination of all these ideas into a confined space filled with heat and humidity just enough to leave you feeling damp and perhaps a bit sore.

Abrogation And Appropriation: Post-Colonial Literature In The Philippines, E. Vallado Daroy

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

The Tasaday Controversy, Edited By Headland, S.J. Ocampo

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Living Without The State: A Rear View Mirror Of Nigeria's 50 Years Of Independence, Emmanuel Olugbade Ojo, P. F. Adebayo

African Social Science Review

The purpose of this analysis is twofold. First, it undertakes a critical review of Nigeria’s performance within the five decades of its nationhood. Second, it compares its performance vis-à-vis a number of new states which started almost at the same time in both Africa and Asia using basic economic and political indicators. The article, however, infers that Nigerian political-economic performance is appalling, which has subjected citizens to living almost without the state in all ramifications. For a balanced view, the analysis argues that although there are few giant strides in terms of educational development and reduction in infant mortality as …

Book Review, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Hieroglyph of Tradition: Freud, Benjamin, Gadamer, Novalis, Kant (Angelika Rauch) (Reviewed by Irving Massey, SUNY at Buffalo)

Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (G. E. Bentley) (Reviewed by Kathryn Freeman, University of Miami)

Disarming the Nation: Women’s Writing and the American Civil War (Elizabeth Young) (Reviewed by Joseph Helminski, University of Toledo)

Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination (S. Lillian Kremer) (Reviewed by Meri-Jane Rochelson, Florida International University)

Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century (Laura Brown) (Reviewed by Jodi L. Wyett, Xavier University)

Led by Language: The Poetry and Poetics of Susan …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (Barbara M. Benedict) (Reviewed by Dennis Todd, Georgetown University)

Ehud’s Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution (James Holstun) (Reviewed by Sharon Achinstein, Oxford University)

Feeding on Infinity: Readings in the Romantic Rhetoric of Internalization (Joshua Wilner) (Reviewed by Alison Hickey, Wellesley College)

Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History (Deborah Elise White) (Reviewed by Lisa M. Steinman, Reed College)

Irish Classics (Declan Kiberd) (Reviewed by Lauren Onkey, Ball State University)

Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood (Joseph Valente) (Reviewed by Carol A. Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Blake and …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society (Geoffrey Harpham) (Reviewed by James O’Rourke, Florida State University)

The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (Angela Esterhammer) (Reviewed by Thomas Pfau, Duke University)

British Romanticism and the Science of Mind (Alan Richardson) (Reviewed by Irving Massey, State University of New York, Buffalo)

Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production (Thomas Pfau) (Reviewed by Karen A. Weisman, University of Toronto)

The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy (David P. Haney) (Reviewed by Paul Youngquist, Penn State University)

Lord …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Day Late, Dollar Short: The Next Generation and the New Academy (Ed. Peter C. Herman) (Reviewed by Jerry Herron, Wayne State University)

Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry’s Construction of Modern Jewish Thought (David B. Ruderman) (Reviewed by Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University)

Beckett and Poststructuralism (Anthony Uhlmann) (Reviewed by Thomas J. Cousineau, Washington College)

The Hieroglyph of Tradition, Freud, Benjamin, Gadamer, Novalis, Kant (Angelika Rauch) (Reviewed by Agne`s Conacher, Queen’s University)

Shakespeare and the Bible (Steven Marx) (Reviewed by Harmonie Loberg, University of South Florida)

Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice (Arthur L. Little, …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon (Graham L. Hammill) (Reviewed by Bruce R. Smith, Georgetown University)

Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf (Natania Rosenfeld) (Reviewed by Brenda R. Silver, Dartmouth College)

The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf ’s Last Years (Herbert Marder) (Reviewed by Lisa Low, Pace University)

Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English Renaissance Drama (Michael Neill) (Reviewed by Ira Clark, University of Florida)

Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics (Reed Way Dasenbrock) (Reviewed by Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut)

At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary …

Book Review, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture (Ann C. Colley) (Reviewed by William A. Kumbier, Missouri Southern State College)

The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (Cristina Lafont; trans. José Medina) (Reviewed by Moshe Gold, Fordham University)

Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Culture (Jeffrey Wallen) (Reviewed by C. Jon Delogu, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail)

The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (Ed. David Fuller and Patricia Waugh) (Reviewed by Jeffrey Wallen, Hampshire College)

Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England (David Zaret) (Reviewed by David Cressy, Ohio State University)

Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Keats’s Paradise Lost (Beth Lau)
Keats’s Odes and Contemporary Criticism (James O’Rourke) (Reviewed by Grant Scott, Muhlenberg College)

Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England (Joss Marsh) (Reviewed by Kyle Grimes, University of Alabama, Birmingham)

The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Scepticism, 1680–1750 (James Herrick) (Reviewed by Justin Champion, University of London)

Wilde the Irishman (Ed. Jerusha McCormack) (Reviewed by Christine M. Carlton, Wayne State University)

The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Masculinity (Christopher Lane) (Reviewed by David W. Toise, Long Island University)

The Devil’s Mousetrap: Redemption and Colonial American Literature (Linda Munk) …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry (Alan Golding)
The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects, 1940–1990 (Jed Rasula) (Reviewed by Lytle Shaw, University of California, Berkeley)

Echoes of Translation: Reading between Texts (Rainer Nägele) (Reviewed by Angelika Rauch-Rapaport, Wayne State University)

Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness: The Tempest and the Transformation of Renaissance Theatrical Forms (John G. Demaray) (Reviewed by Mark Aune, Wayne State University)

Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem (Michael O’Neill) (Reviewed by Robert J. Griffin, Tel Aviv University)

Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (Marita Sturken) (Reviewed by …

Building Blocks To Growth : An Examination Of Block Building's Impact On Social And Emotional Development, Diana Elisabeth Dube

Graduate Student Independent Studies

Explores the role that independent and group block building play in early childhood development, and specifically examines the impact of early childhood block play on social and emotional development.

The Relationship Between Teacher Satisfaction And Developmentally Responsive Structures At New York City Middle Schools, Elianna Rose Lippold-Johnson

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The purpose of this research was to investigate the experience of teachers at two New York City middle schools to see how developmentally responsive school-wide structures influenced their professional satisfaction and commitment to their schools.

The Implementation And Modification Of Three 4th Grade Social Studies Content Lessons For English Language Learners And Students With Disabilities, Benelly Peralta

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The focus of this investigation was to take three general social studies content lessons created for a general education classroom and modify them for the particular needs of students with disabilities and English language learners.

Confederated Tribes Of The Grand Ronde: A Look At Where They Were 100 Years Ago And Where They Are Today, Ashley Burgess

2012 Yamhill Enrichment Society (YES) Internships

Students enrolled in the Regional Interdisciplinary Internship course prepare final presentations covering all of their work during the spring semester and present their work to their colleagues, Linfield staff and faculty, community partners, and community sponsors of the internship programs. Ashley Burgess interned with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and gave this presentation as part of her YES Internship during 2012.

This research project looks at the Confederate Tribes of Grand Ronde (CTGR) 100 years ago through today and was part of “McMinnville 100 Years Ago,” a project sponsored by the Yamhill Enrichment Society (YES). The presentation describes the …

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Witness

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 5/15/2012, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.