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Vital Signs, Summer 2012, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A forty-eight page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, a research spotlight, alumni notes, and more.

Commencement 2012, Sacred Heart University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Graduate and Undergraduate ceremonies held May 12-13 2012.

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, May 1, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

USF St. Petersburg Graduations and Commencements

King O'Neal Award: John Boda, Andrew Thurston, Emily Young; Outstanding Graduate: Britanny Lyp

The Role Of Faith And Spirituality In The Work Of End-Of-Life Caregivers, Edward P. Stannard

Master of Arts in Religious Studies (M.A.R.S. Theses)

Nurses, certified nursing assistants and other healthcare workers who care for those who are terminally ill face issues of mortality and even existential questions every day on the job. These professionals, who have intimate contact with their patients daily, must find an inner source of strength and perseverance in order to face people who are at the end of their lives, who may be in pain, and who frequently are alone in their rooms aside from the institution’s staff. This study asks whether an inner sense of religious faith or spirituality helps end-of-life healthcare workers conduct their daily tasks and …

"She's An All-In-One Guru": Devotion To A 21st Century Mystic, Angela Carol Rudert

Religion - Dissertations

Anandmurti Gurumaa is a multi-lingual teacher of meditation and "spirituality" situated at the intersection of Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi and Sikh mystical traditions. This dissertation, employing inter-disciplinary methodology, provides an in-depth study of Gurumaa and her rapidly developing, disciple-driven transnational spiritual movement. I introduce Gurumaa and her circle of devotees within the cultural context of globetrotting Indian gurus and examine issues of tradition and innovation in her mission. Through ethnographic writing, I specifically turn to examples of Gurumaa's pluralism, gender activism and embrace of new media to discuss continuity and change within the tradition of guru-bhakti (devotion to the guru). Because …

Steadfastness And The Epistemology Of Disagreement, Chad Andrew Bogosian

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Suppose that you and an intellectual peer disagree about some proposition P in a field like philosophy, ethics, science, religion, politics, etc. As intellectual peers, they are roughly of equal intelligence and equally virtuous with respect to evaluating the evidence E in support of P. What is the epistemic significance of you and an intellectual `peer' disagreeing about whether some body of evidence E supports a given proposition P? Can two epistemic peers reasonably disagree? In Chapter 1, I consider the Equal Weight View according to which rationality requires you to give equal weight to you peer's response to the …

Kazakhstan: How Many Religious Books Await Compulsory State Censorship?, Felix Corley

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

The Farm A Hippie Commune As A Countercultural Diaspora, Kevin Mercer

HIM 1990-2015

Counterculture history is often divided, with a focus on either the turbulent 1960s or the "back to the land" exodus of the 1970s. A study of Stephen Gaskin and his followers' founding of The Farm, a rural commune near Summertown, Tennessee, provides a unique insight into the commonalities and connections of these two periods. It will be the aim of this thesis to weave the separate narratives of this demographic into one complete idea. The idea that the hippies constituted a counterculture suggests that once that culture went into exile, onto numerous communes, they existed as a diaspora. The Farm's …

Full Issue, No Author

Verbum

This is the full issue of Volume 9, Issue 2 of Verbum, published in Spring 2012 by the REST Club at St. John Fisher College. Articles from this issue are available as separate PDFs at http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/verbum/vol9/iss2/

A Virtual Tour Of Wku’S Main Campus, Zachary Ryle

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

In my WKU Honors College Capstone Experience entitled “A Virtual Tour of WKU’s Main Campus,” my task was to create a virtual tour students across the state, country and even around the world could use to view WKU’s campus without ever setting foot in Bowling Green. Throughout this experience, I filmed myself giving individual tour of over 60 different locations on WKU’s campus, with a total of 72 buildings and locations earning markers on the campus map. This virtual tour was created during the summer of 2011 and was completed by November of that same year. Once completed, Admissions Counselors …

Olympia: A Musical Composition For Wind Ensemble, Kyle Macdonald

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Olympia is a one movement musical composition to be performed by a wind ensemble. Written for the composer’s honors capstone project, Olympia is an exploration into the world of composing for large musical ensembles. The main theme, heard in the trombone solo at measure 40, is the proverbial “voice in the wilderness” that heroically comes out of chaos and is heard throughout the piece in different forms. Starting in short score with piano and percussion, the piece was then orchestrated into the final version. Written in the fall of 2011 and the spring of 2012, Olympia was rehearsed and performed …

Career Choices And The Influence Of Third Culture Kids On International Relations, Morgan Byttner

International and Global Studies Undergraduate Honors Theses

In a study of approximately 258 third culture kids (TCKs), I examine the effects that TCKs have on the field of International Relations through their educational, career, and lifestyle choices.

University Of Central Florida Undergraduate Catalog, 2012 - 2013, University Of Central Florida

UCF Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Saucers And The Sacred: The Folklore Of Ufo Narratives, Preston C. Copeland

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

In 1973, nineteen year old Calvin Parker and forty two year old Charles Hickson, both of Gauter, Mississippi were fishing in the Pascagoula river when they heard a buzzing noise behind them. Both turned and were terrified to see a ten-foot wide, eight-foot- high, glowing egg-shaped object with blue lights at its front hovering just above the ground about forty feet from the riverbank. As the men, frozen with fright, watched, a door appeared in the object, and three strange Beings floated just above the river toward them. The beings had legs but did not use them. They were about …

The Undergraduate Classroom As A Community Of Inquiry, Cara Taylor Miller Phd

Dissertations

This project contributes to the literature on action research and undergraduate pedagogy for leadership development through application and expansion of existing theory on collaborative ways of teaching and learning. I applied a participatory, inquiry-based approach to teaching an undergraduate course in leadership studies over four semesters using the action research process of recursively asking and answering living questions in real time about teaching and learning with students' participating as co-researchers. Reflection on my initial, mostly traditional teaching strategies generated questions about the students' detachment from and resistance to exercising leadership, as well as the challenge of aligning my deepest values …

Resource Reviews, Phyllis Fox

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Portraits Of Progress: The Rise Of Realism In Jane Austen's Clergy, Rachel Elizabeth Cason

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This work examines the development of Austen's characterization of the clergy. It uses examples of three prominent clerical types: Henry Tilney, too good to be true ; William Collins, too ridiculous to be believable ; and Edmund Bertram, realistic because he is both flawed and virtuous. Utilizing critical sources from the last sixty years, this thesis demonstrates that previous scholars have overlooked the idea that the development of Austen's clerical characters can be used to chart Austen's progress as a writer. As such, this thesis fills in where other scholars have left off.

U.S. Citizens As Enemy Combatants: Indication Of A Roll-Back Of Civil Liberties Or A Sign Of Our Jurisprudential Evolution?, Joseph Kubler

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - April 19, 2012

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Saving Their Own Souls: How Rluipa Failed To Deliver On Its Promises, Sarah Gerwig-Moore

Legislation and Policy Brief

In the summer of 2001, as a graduate student in law and theology, I began work on a master’s thesis that examined the predicament of men of faith on San Quentin’s Condemned Row. I was working in the California Appellate Project—mostly assisting with direct appeals and state habeas petitions on behalf of men under a death sentence—when a colleague guided me into theological conversations with some of our clients. On Condemned Row, they waited—up to five years to be assigned a court-appointed appellate attorney, on judges’ rulings, and to find whether the legal system would ultimately exact the penalty it …

The Election Of A Lesbian Mayor In A Religiously Conservative City: The Case Of Houston, Texas, Nancy Stockwell Morris

Open Access Theses

The American South in general remains a pocket of predominantly conservative, Baptist and Evangelical Christian hegemony; however, metropolitan areas of the South display more diversity and pluralism as a result of foreign and domestic migration into the region, changes in religious affiliation, an increasing population choosing no religious affiliation, and the growing influence of popular culture on religious participation. These forces act within a paradigm of neosecularization in which personal conscience exerts more influence than religious authority. Houston, Texas, within the context of the South, serves as the case study that demonstrates the temporal and spatial changes to Houston’s religious …

Crusader, April 27 2012, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

April 27, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Is Religious Ignorance A Crime Against The First Amendment?, Peter Steinfels

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

No abstract provided.

Solar Array And Charging Station Celebration Welcome, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

No abstract provided.

The Cowl - V. 76 - N. 23 - Apr 26, 2012

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 76 - Number 23 - April 26, 2012. 36 pages.

Holy Cross Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 2, Spring 2012, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Magazine

Syllabus: Advanced Spanish Composition and Conversation
with Professor Esther L. Levine
By Pam Reponen

Fr. Boroughs on The Hill
The new president connects with the Holy Cross community
By Suzanne Morrissey

Around the World in (Less Than) 80 Days
Intensive four- and six-week Summer Study Abroad programs offer Holy Cross participants a global perspective in lasting ways.
By Christine Hofmann-Bourque

The Top 25 Moments in Holy Cross History
What events shook the campus? Changed it forever? Brought it the greatest honor? Review the list, then cast your vote for the Number One Moment.
Introduction by Rev. Anthony J. Kuzniewski, S.J., …

April 25, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Celtic Benediction: Morning And Night Prayer, J. Philip Newell, Markus H. Mcdowell

Leaven

No abstract provided.

No Longer I: Being Transformed Into The Image Of Christ, Larry E. Hall, Perry L. Stepp

Leaven

No abstract provided.