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Franco's Children: Representations Of Franco-Era Childhood In Contemporary Spanish Literature And Cinema, Miaowei Weng

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This study explores the politicization of "Franco's children" in El sur : 1981;1983), El florido pensil : 1994), Habíamos ganado la guerra: 2007), and La gloria de los niños: 2007). The phrase "Franco's children," on the one hand, implies the status of the authors and filmmakers as those who survived the early Franco regime as children and recall their childhood as adults; on the other hand, it refers to the child protagonists in the selected works that are set in wartime and the post-War period. The aim of the present study is to explore different strategies - both rhetorical and …

Prospects And Challenges Of Prison Libraries In Ghana: A Case Study Of The Nsawam Medium Security Prisons., Christopher Mfum

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

The study explored the provision of library services at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison in Ghana. Incarcerated people are confronted with isolation and are often faced with limitations of personal choices and quality decision making. Library services remain an important service in every society that values freedom. The prison library is one of the few places that offer solace and escape in the extremely regulated lives of prisoners. The report is the result of a study into the information needs of prisoners and the resources and services that are available for this special population. A total of 100 male …

Science On Law's Terms: Implications Of Procedural Legitimacy On Scientific Evidence, Nayha Acharya

LLM Theses

Scientific evidence is relied on more and more in litigation. Discussions and debates aimed at enabling courts to make the best use scientific evidence are increasingly critical. This thesis adds the perspective of procedural legitimacy to the science and law discussion. Procedural Legitimacy is the concept that consistent adherence to legal procedure maintains the overall legitimacy of the legal system, and the validity of its outcomes. I argue that the integrity of legal procedures must be maintained where scientific evidence is presented, so that judicial decisions that rely on scientific evidence are legitimate.

State V. Stone Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39229

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Materialism And Life Satisfaction Among Older People In Hong Kong : A Case Study And Comparison With Younger People, Yau Tsang Chan

Lingnan Theses

The rapidly ageing global population reminds us to pay attention to the psychology of ageing. As research on materialism among older people is rare, this study aimed to explore the relationships between materialism and life satisfaction among older people in Hong Kong, a rapidly ageing Chinese society. It also suggested a novel concept – intergenerational material expectations (IME) – to understand older people’s material expectations regarding their children. The data were compared with a younger group to find out if age differences existed. The study was a survey design among two age groups: older people aged 65+ and younger people …

Apple-Polishers, Ass-Kissers And Suck-Ups: Towards A Sociology Of Ingratiation, Daniel D. Martin, Janelle L. Wilson

The Qualitative Report

In this paper we use one form of communicative action, “brownnosing”, as a social lens for understanding power relations in both formal, organizational contexts and interpersonal relationships. We investigate this phenomenon by assessing processes of ingratiation at school and work settings. We do so using data collected from over one hundred student respondents to ascertain the meanings, uses, and outcomes of brownnosing. The study finds that members of the “millennial generation” develop skills in both the act of brownnosing and the detection of this form of communication as they participate in a variety of contexts, including family, school, work, and …

Listening To Their Voices: Middle Schoolers’ Perspectives Of Life In Middle School, Mary Anne Steinberg, Erica D. Mccray

The Qualitative Report

This article examines middle schoolers’ perspectives on their lives in middle school. Fifteen middle school students from three middle schools in the Southeast region of the United States participated in a basic qualitative study using focus groups at their schools where they were asked the central question, “If you could change one thing at your middle school, what would it be?” Findings show that students’ desire caring teachers, students want active classrooms, and students’ technology use impacts attitudes towards learning. Implications are that middle-school learning can increase relevance by teachers demonstrating care for students as individuals; structuring opportunities for students …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, August 19, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, August 19, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

A Daunting Journey

News Releases

No abstract provided.

2012 Summer Commencement Program, Commencement

Commencement Archives 2010-19

The program for the Portland State University 2012 Summer Commencement ceremony held August 18, 2012.

Acculturation Influences Of Sport Media On Hispanic-Americans, Stephen J. Zasucha Jr.

Sport Management Undergraduate

This research aimed to discover whether or not the largest sport media corporation in the United States; ESPN, promotes acculturation for Hispanic Americans to enter into Americanized sport culture through its Spanish-language magazine publication of ESPN Deportes. The content analysis examined the covers of both ESPN Deportes and ESPN The Magazine from the 2011-year, using the English version of ESPN The Magazine as a base. The total population of Hispanics within the United States totals 50,477,594 making it the largest minority demographic in the nation. Unfortunately for marketers the Hispanic population is not homogenous and differences in consumption patterns can …

Managerial Action And Resource Advantage Theory: Conceptual Frameworks Emanating From A Positive Theory Of Competition, Shelby D. Hunt, Sreedhar Madhavaram

Business Faculty Publications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate that conceptual frameworks developed from a general theory of competition, i.e. resourceadvantage (R-A) theory, can facilitate managerial action. Design/methodology/approach – After a brief overview of resource-advantage (R-A) theory, five conceptual frameworks are developed and offered for the purposes of managerial action. Findings – This paper identifies several conceptual frameworks and after noting that conceptual frameworks that do not have positive theoretical foundations may not be as useful as those that do, develops five conceptual frameworks that are based on R-A theory. Practical implications – The conceptual frameworks developed in this …

Multinational Enterprise Competition: Grounding The Eclectic Paradigm Of Foreign Production In Resource-Advantage Theory, Dennis E. Arnett, Sreedhar Madhavaram

Business Faculty Publications

Purpose – This paper seeks to explicate a dynamic theory of competition, i.e. the resource-advantage theory of competition, with the aim of developing a theoretical foundation for the eclectic paradigm of foreign production. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is conceptual in approach. Findings – The paper develops a set of five criteria that should be met by any theory that attempts to ground the eclectic paradigm. In addition, it demonstrates that the resource-advantage theory of competition meets all of these criteria. Research limitations/implications – By providing a theoretical foundation for the eclectic paradigm of foreign production, the paper provides researchers with …

Marxism On Facebook?

News Releases

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: August 17, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

August

No abstract provided.

The Role Of The Black Church In Addressing Ipv At The Community Level, Monika Black

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a signific.ant concern within the Black community and, in particular, for Black women. However, IPV is not always identified as a critical issue for the Black community to collectively respond to and/ or adequately address. Without an appropriate support system, many survivors dealing with IPV are left without sufficient resources. The purpose of this study was to conduct an organizational level analysis of the role the urban Black church can play in providing a continuum of supportive services for primarily heterosexual female survivors of IPV in the Black: community. For this study.twenty-five church leaders completed …

Mobile Ideas And (Im)Mobile Subjects: Women Writers And Women's Fashion Magazines In Nineteenth-Century Germany And Austria, Ruxandra Marcu Looft

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This dissertation explores how gender, class, and national identity were constructed and presented in three prominent nineteenth-century women's magazines: Der Bazar, Illustrirte Damenzeitung, La Mode Illustrée, Journal de la Famille, and Harper's Bazar), as well as in the works of three women writers of the time: Louise Otto, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Rosa Mayreder) through the lens of social, physical, and geographical mobility for women.

At a time of increasing industrialization and communication between countries of the Western world, the discourse on women's roles, as intersecting with their class and national belonging, was in many ways formed on an international …

Attracting Talent Across Cultures: The Impact Of Cultural Values On Generating And Maintaining Applicants, Emily Twichell

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

The current study investigated whether different strategies for attracting and maintaining applicants should be used in order to effectively recruit talent from different cultures, which had not been previously researched. It was predicted that culture would have a direct impact on what attracts individuals to apply to an organization, what causes them not to submit an application, and the length of time between submitting an application and being invited to interview. Additionally, it was predicted that culture would interact with perceptions of job posting content, application length, recruiter perceptions, and time delays in predicting job pursuit intentions and changes in …

Music: A Portrait Of Woman, Amy R. Wellman

Communication

Music in today's society is ubiquitous. It is in the car, the cinema, on television, in the doctor's office, in the home, on the other end of the phone; it really is everywhere. Music arguably is a large part of culture and as such, has the ability to construct social realities. In hopes to understand how media constructs the image of the female, a contextual analysis was performed on the lyrics of the top twenty-five country and pop songs according to Billboard.com. This was done using Grounded Theory through the employment of coding. Results showed that although country and pop …

Business Innovation Group (Big) News, Georgia Southern University

Business Innovation Group: News & Publications

• New Publication on Entrepreneurial Learning
• Enterprise and Small Business: Principles, Practice and Policy

Queer Marx, John Andrews

Criticism

The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism/em> by Kevin Floyd. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 304, 4 black-and-white photos. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

The Picaresque Saint: Representative Figures in Contemporary Fiction (R. W. B. Lewis) (Reviewed by Harry T. Moore, Southern Illinois University)

Henry Purcell, 1659-1695: Essays on His Music (ed. Imogen Holst) (Reviewed by Otto Kinkeldey, South Orange, New Jersey)

The Interior Distance (Georges Poulet, trans. Elliot Coleman) (Reviewed by Henri Peyre, Yale University)

Shelley's Later Poetry: A Study of His Prophetic Imagination (Milton Wilson) (Reviewed by Richard Harter Fogle, Tulane University)

The Subtler Language: Critical Readings of Neoclassic and Romantic Poems (Earl R. Wasserman) (Reviewed by Edward E. Botstetter, University of Washington)

The Weekly Challenger, August 16, 2012, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 16, 2012, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Social Science Division Meeting Minutes 08/16/2012, Social Science Division

Social Science Division

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (Julia Kristeva) (Reviewed by Eugen Baer, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

Petrarch's Poetics and Literary History (Marguerite R. Waller) (Reviewed by Andrea di Tommaso, Wayne State University)

Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts (Margot Heinemann) (Reviewed by Philip J. Finkelpearl, University of Massachusetts, Boston)

The Sword and the Spirit: Puritan Responses to the Bible (John R. Knott) (Reviewed by Boyd Berry, Virginia Commonwealth University)

Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot, & Lawrence (Judith Wilt) (Reviewed by Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University)

The Living Dead: A …