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The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume (Adam Potkay) (Reviewed by Michael Prince)

The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (John Kucich) (Reviewed by Christine L. Krueger)

Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Frederick M. Dolan) (Reviewed by Michael Holzman)

A. M. Klein: The Story of the Poet (Zailig Pollock) (Reviewed by Irving Massey)

Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies (Ed. Lynn Davidman and Shelly Tenenbaum) (Reviewed by Judith R. Baskin)

Hagerman, Henry Thomas, 1862-1935 (Sc 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Legal papers setting the execution date of Jim Buckner, African American, Marion County, Kentucky, as 9 June 1911, and stay of execution by Acting Governor William Hopkinson Cox until 8 July 1911, because of the incompletion of the installation of the electrocution apparatus. Henry Thomas Hagerman, warden of Kentucky Penitentiary, Eddyville, attested to Buckner’s death.

Mccreary, James Bennett, 1838-1918 (Sc 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 445. Appointment of Henry Thomas Hagerman of Eddyville, Kentucky as a delegate to the Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tennessee. Signed by Governor James Bennett McCreary.

Latter-Day Saint Young Adults, Narcissism, And Religiosity, Jacob D. Judd

Theses and Dissertations

According to recent research, Latter-day Saint young people are achieving desirable social outcomes at a higher rate than their peers of other backgrounds. As reasons for those findings have been offered, only social aspects of the LDS faith and culture have been given any attention. This thesis will provide an alternate interpretation of the data and provide new data through the administration of the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI). Results from the LDS ROS/NPI Study indicate that LDS young adults continue to score overly intrinsic on the ROS and score significantly lower on the NPI …

Responding To Natural Hazards: The Effects Of Disaster On Residential Location Decisions And Health Outcomes, James Ian Price

Economics ETDs

Exposure to natural hazards is rapidly increasing due to growing populations within floodplains and along hazard-prone coastlines. This trend, coupled with potential increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events from climate change, underscores the importance of disaster research and continued advancements in hazard risk mitigation. This dissertation conducts analyses regarding the effects of natural hazards on residential location choice, county migration rates, mental health status, and displacement. The results have practical implications for disaster risk management. Chapter 2 estimates household willingness-to-pay to live in lower hazard-risk areas. A model of residential location choice is developed in which …

Indicated Truancy Interventions: Effects On School Attendance Among Chronic Truant Students., Brandy R. Maynard, Katherine Tyson Mccrea, Terri D. Pigott, Michael S. Kelly

Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works

BACKGROUND
Truancy is a significant problem in the U.S. and in other countries around the world. Truancy has been linked to serious immediate and far-reaching consequences for youth, families, and schools and communities, leading researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to try to understand and to address the problem. Although numerous and significant steps have been taken at the local, state, and national levels to reduce truancy, the rates of truancy have at best remained stable or at worst been on the rise, depending on the indicator utilized to assess truancy rates.
The costs and impact of chronic truancy are significant, …

The Role Of Trait Forgiveness In Moderating The Relationship Between Materialism And Relationship Instability In Couples, Lance J. Dome

Theses and Dissertations

With evidence growing of the negative impact materialism exerts on the individual and the marital relationship, this study examines the effects of materialism on the marital relationship as well as the potential moderating effects of forgiveness. Specifically examined is the association between materialism and marital instability considering trait forgiveness as a potential moderating variable. The data for this study were taken from the Flourishing Families Project. Materialism, forgiveness, and marital instability measures with actor effects, partner effects, and moderation effects are analyzed. The findings of this study supported the hypothesis that materialism is related to marital instability and that forgiveness …

The Doors Of Perception: Unlocking Hispanic Access To Higher Education Faculty Positions In New Mexico, David Sanchez

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study investigates the perceptions of Hispanic tenure track faculty in New Mexico regarding their educational experiences, family background, and life experiences that empowered them to become professors. It is a qualitative study in which Hispanic tenure and/or tenure track faculty were interviewed. This study identifies institutional, group, and individual barriers to minority faculty positions in academia as well as assets that can be attributed to success. The literature review identifies barriers and assets in detail and provides extensive documentation regarding the continual difficulties that institutions of higher education have in diversifying the faculty. A conceptual model, entitled the Doors …

I Felt Like The Enemy And The Savior All At Once': English Teacher Identity In A Methods Course Wiki, Michelle Jewett

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

This study explores the identity constructions of two cohorts of preservice teachers enrolled in English methods courses during a semester of field experience. This research employs a qualitative methodology and documents the nature of participants responses posted to online wiki forum. Data sources include archived electronic interactions and course assignments such as reflective journals. Constant-comparative method as described by Creswell (2007), content analysis as described by Marshall & Rossman (2006), and Gee's (2003) notion of affinity identity are used to examine the discourses and ideologies of methods students as they construct notions of English teacher identity. Study findings indicate a …

Parental Asset Accumulation Trajectories And Children's College Outcomes, Vernon Loke

Center for Social Development Research

The effects of parental assets on children’s educational outcomes have mainly been explored from the perspective of asset holdings. However, the process of asset accumulation may also have effects. While asset-based policies are predicated on the premise of asset accumulation, little is known about the effects of different asset accumulation trajectories. This study attempts to fill this gap. The results indicate that youths born into households that had asset holdings significantly higher than zero have better college outcomes compared to youths born into households with lower levels of net worth that did not increase significantly over time. However, when lower-wealth …

Communion Meditation: Let Us Fix Our Eyes On Jesus, Phil Phillips

Leaven

No abstract provided.

An Annotated Bibliography For Small-Church Ministry, Dan Yarnell

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Promise And Fulfillment: Believing The Promises Of God, Victor Knowles

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Toward A Recovery Of The Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr., David Fleer

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Racism: Its Impact On The African American Family, Kenneth R. Greene

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Racial Reconciliation: A Neglected Mandate For Christian Unity, Robert Oldham Fife

Leaven

No abstract provided.

The Cross Of Christ As A Treatment For America's Racial Schizophrenia, Ira J. Jolivet Jr.

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Mapping Christian Eduction, Jack L. Seymour, James Riley Estep

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Children In The Worshiping Community, David Ng, Virginia Thomas, Eleanor Daniel

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down, Marva J. Dawn, Ruth E. Picker

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Come Let Us Adore Him, Dan Dozier, Clarence Hibbs

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Worship In Context, Everett W. Huffard

Leaven

No abstract provided.

The Great Recession And The Rhetorical Canons Of Law And Economics, Michael D. Murray

Law Faculty Publications

THE GREAT RECESSION AND THE RHETORICAL CANONS OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, by Michael D. Murray

Abstract

The Great Recession of 2008 and onward has drawn attention to the American economic and financial system, and has cast a critical spotlight on the theories, policies, and assumptions of the modern, neoclassical school of law and economics—often labeled the "Chicago School"—because this school of legal economic thought has had great influence on the American economy and financial system. The Chicago School's positions on deregulation and the limitation or elimination of oversight and government restraints on stock markets, derivative markets, and other financial practices …

Latino Studies With Lacan, H. N. Lukes

Criticism

Review ofDead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies by Antonio Viego. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. 293. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper.)

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (Gillian Beer) (Reviewed by Stuart Peterfreund)

Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Christine Rees) (Reviewed by John Allen Stevenson)

The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Terry Castle) (Reviewed by Scott J. Juengel)

Blake: A Biography (Peter Ackroyd) (Reviewed by Stephen C. Behrendt)

Wordsworth and the Question of "Romantic Religion" (Nancy Easterlin) (Reviewed by David P. Haney)

The Jews & Germany: From the 'Judeo German Symbiosis' to the Memory of Auschwitz (Enzo Traverso) (Reviewed by Richard Critchfield)

Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Carole Boyce) (Reviewed by Cheryl …

Calling All Prospective Csis: Unh Offers New Program In Forensics, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Technology Can Be Blessing, Curse To Students, Alexandra Pittman

UCF Forum

Many college students seem to have forgotten what a university is for because they have become lost within their own technology.

Forging Alliances Across Fronteras: Transnational Narratives Of Female Migration And The Family, Vanessa De Veritch Woodside

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This dissertation examines the effects of transnational migration on women with particular attention to the (re-)negotiation of personal and cultural identity resulting from the adoption of novel roles within Chicana narratives of Mexican migration. Chapter One offers a historical background regarding the U.S.-Mexico border, (im)migration, and more specifically, women and migration, as well as an overview of pertinent Chicano migrant literature that serves as an appropriate point of departure for discussion of Chicana re-writings of such texts. This discussion offers border feminism as a framework for analyzing the representation of evolving feminine roles and familial configurations in the context of …

Families Of Color In Crisis: Bearing The Weight Of The Financial Market Meltdown, André Douglas Pond Cummings

Law Faculty Scholarship

The financial market crisis of 2008 landed heaviest and hardest upon communities of color. In the minority communities that continue to bear the crushing weight of this crisis—which continues unrequited—women of color, and by extension, their families, are by far the group most devastated by the global market meltdown. In an ultimate irony, most economists, scholars, and commentators now agree that the collapse, which continues to ravage Main Street, was caused primarily by a select group of privileged white men–i.e., Wall Street executives, bankers, and the politicians purchased by Wall Street largess. The impact of Wall Street’s fascination with securitizing …

A Mother's Love: A Narrative Analysis Of Food Advertisements In An African American Targeted Women's Magazine, Janine Danielle Beahm

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines how food advertisers contributed to the cultural identity of the "good mother" in the 1990s and 2000s. It expands on previous research that investigated traditional gender ideologies in food advertisements by narrowing in on the specific stories presented to African American women. It highlights a time when advertisers were responding to the demands of African American activists to recognize the African American consumer, and depict African American characters in a positive light. A narrative method of inquiry is utilized to deconstruct the stories in 117 food advertisements running in Essence magazine (an African American targeted women's magazine) …