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Platonic And Stoic Passions In Philo Of Alexandria, Loren Kerns

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

Philo of Alexandria forged his theory of the soul and its passions while expositing the meaning of Torah. Though writing as a Jewish teacher and disciple of Moses, his biblical reflections display a strong orientation toward Middle-Platonic philosophy. On the topic of the soul and its passions, however, Philo also exhibits significant Stoic influence. The introduction notes Philo’s apparent incompatible use of both the complex Platonic and the monistic Stoic psychological models. After assessing the degree to which Philo understood 'passion' to be a type of Stoic impulse or opinion (chapter one), chapter two demonstrates that Philo consistently drew upon …

The Holocaust And Mass Atrocity: The Continuing Challenge For Decision, Winston P. Nagan, Aitza M. Haddad

UF Law Faculty Publications

This article begins with an appraisal of a report published by the United States Institute for Peace and authored by the former Secretary of State, Albright, and former Secretary of Defense, Cohen. This Report generated a great deal of interest and reaction from scholars across the globe. The article will introduce the broad outline of this Report and provide a summary of the principal criticisms that it has generated. This sets the stage for approaching the problem that is sensitive to the issue that this phenomenon be explore with a view to developing usable insights and data as well as …

Unfinished Equality: The Case Of Black Boys, Nancy E. Dowd

UF Law Faculty Publications

Vulnerabilities and identities theories have an interdependent and symbiotic relationship that is critical to achieve social justice. Vulnerabilities analysis demands the state to explain and correct structural inequalities, while identities theories call for constructs and stereotypes to be confronted, challenged, and transformed in order to achieve justice and equality. An example of the value of both theoretical perspectives is in challenging, uncovering, and demanding action to end the subordination of black boys. Analyzing the situation of black boys, from birth to age eighteen, and the interaction they have with individuals, institutional structures, and culture leads to a conclusion that identity …

Higher Than The Original Stands The Translation: Translating Heidegger Into Filipino, Remmon E. Barbaza

Philosophy Department Faculty Publications

This paper is a reflection on the author’s experience of translating Martin Heidegger into Filipino. It first addresses the questions of principles underlying the act of translation, such as those of fidelity (to both source and target languages, original author and translator), as well as the role of the translator as an intermediary between the original author and the readers. Then it demonstrates examples of his experience of translating selected key terms and passages in Heidegger—such as sein, stellen, Ereignis, and their cognates—indicating the difficulties as well as the challenges that arise in the work of translation. A notable problem …

Complementarity And Post-Coloniality, Nirej S. Sekhon

Faculty Publications By Year

The International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction is complementary to that of national criminal jurisdictions. While most agree that complementarity is a cornerstone principle, debate continues as to what precisely it should mean for the ICC’s relationship to national criminal justice actors. “Positive complementarity,” a view many commentators hold, suggests that the ICC should use its power to educate, persuade, and prod states parties to undertake international criminal law investigations. For positive complementarity’s more optimistic proponents, the future holds promise for a coordinated system of global justice in which the ICC plays a secondary role to national courts in vindicating international criminal …

Proceedings Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences: Aeronautics And Space Science

Nebraska Academy of Sciences: Programs and Proceedings

Variability on AGN Absorption Lines Based on Hubble Space Telescope/COS Data

BALQSO Kinetic Luminosity Determination with C III* Measurements

Brewster Angle Microscopy and Characterizations of Langmuir Films

Sorting Light’s Total Angular Momentum for Communication Systems

The Phosphorylation Pattern of RPA2, in Response to Double-strand Breaks, Differs Depending on the Location in the Cell and the Phase of the Cell Cycle

The Diophantine Equation Ax⁴ + By⁴ = Cz⁴ in Quadratic Fields

The SBML Standard to Share Computational Models of Biological Systems

High Speed Electro-discharge Drilling and Wire Electrode-discharge Machining of Titanium Alloys for Aerospace Applications

Routing over …

Proceedings Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences: Anthropology

Nebraska Academy of Sciences: Programs and Proceedings

Presentations

A Marxist Approach to US Historical Archaeology: A Review and Summary of the History and Application of Marxism on the Field of Historical Archaeology in the US

John Collier, Anthropology, and the Indian New Deal

Colonoware and Culture: The Changing Interpretation of 17th Century Ceramic Traditions in the South Eastern United States

Creole Cottages and Garden Estates: Space and Purpose in Early New Orleans

Quality Control for In-field Photography: Digital Curationa and Non-collections of Artifacts

Assesing Lithics through Color Metrics

Refitting of Stone Artifacts Using Colorimetric Analysis

The Restroer of the Republic: An Analysis of Augustus’s Social, Moral, and …

Program And Proceedings: Nebraska Academy Of Sciences 1880–2013, 133rd Anniversary Year, One Hundred-Twenty-Third Annual Meeting

Nebraska Academy of Sciences: Programs and Proceedings

Aeronautics and Space Science

Collegiate Academy: Biology

Biological and Medical Sciences

Nebraska Chapter, National Council for Geographic Education

Chemistry and Physics

Collegiate Academy: Chemistry and Physics

Junior Academy, Senior High Competition

Aeronautics and Space Science, Poster Session

Anthropology

Nebraska Wesleyan University Health and Sciences Graduate School Fair

Aeronautics and Space Science, Poster Session

Maiben Memorial Lecture: Making People Smarter Using "Habits of Mind," Bob Feurer, North Bend High School

Collegiate Academy: Biology

Teaching of Science and Math

Applied Science and Technology

Junior Academy, Junior High Competition

The Liminality Of The Black Female “Freed” Slave In The Novels Of Morrison, Hurston, And Williams, Karen Ingram

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Arnold Van Gennep, a French ethnographer, explored the concept of ceremonies for ritual events in his text, The Rites of Passage. He examined societal processes whereby an individual moves from one socially constructed place to another — for example, a boy to a man with a Bar Mitzvah, or a girl to woman on her wedding night. This “passage” involves three phases: separation, transition, and reincorporation. Victor Turner, a British cultural anthropologist, takes van Gennep’s theory one step further and discusses the transition phase and how an individual can become stuck in the transitional stage: the liminal space. In his …

Education By Class: Observations From An Elite School, Diana Watson

Theses & ETDs

In this thesis I examine the curricula and teaching strategies employed by the History and Classics departments in the St. Stephen's Middle and High School Preparatory School in Bradenton, Florida. In-class, I focused on instances where teachers sought to elicit thoughtful class participation and engagement with complex social science topics. The individualistic style of education provides creative avenues of exploration for motivated students while allowing for others to pass with little effort. This method is a marker of upper and middle class education, while it is denied to the lower classes of the U.S.

Iraq In Jordan: An Anthropological Examination Of Iraqi Refugees In Jordan, Silvia Ulloa

Theses & ETDs

This thesis analyzes the situation of Iraqi refugees in Amman, Jordan. It seeks to illustrate a distinct refugee community and its experience in a host nation, as well as analyze the historical and political context that forces the Iraqi refugee community in Jordan into poverty, psychological and material discomfort, and keeps them in limbo, neither able to integrate into the host country nor move to third countries for permanent settlement. I look at the region's history, which is tightly interconnected and has ultimately had the effect of making efficient policy for refugees a political impossibility due to the sensitive issue …

A Little Starling Told Me: A Modern Day Translation Of Olga Martynova's Sogar Papageien Uberleben Uns, Dorothea Trotter

Theses & ETDs

Through the world wide web, today's translator has access to an infinite number of resources which enable her to give one group of language speakers, say English speakers, the option of reading a contemporary work from another language and culture like German. She can use online computer translators, find a multitude of forums in which the meaning and usage of a particular word is discussed in either language, and with a few taps and clicks on the keyboard, have an instantaneous explanation of what an unknown author referenced in her work. Despite these informational developments, translation is still traditional. The …

Science Blogging: Science Journalists Of The Internet, Allison Smith

Theses & ETDs

With traditional science journalism being faded out from newspapers due to economic impacts, science blogging has become a new means for readers to access to easy-to-read science news translated from jargon-filled scholarly articles. Science bloggers can make a profession out of what they do, providing an alternative to science news written by people without any science background. The aim of this study was to determine how readers interact with blogs, what they find important about them, and what their general demographics were. Through the use of an IRB-approved survey, I gathered these data. I found that science blog readers are …

Across Borders: A Historical Archaeological Approach To Plantation Landscapes In Florida, Jamaica, And Western Cuba, Travis Small

Theses & ETDs

Very few comparative studies have been undertaken in plantation archaeology, let alone within the relatively new field of landscape archaeology. In this study I examine the particulars and universalsof power relations seen in three plantation landscapes – in Jamaica,Florida, and western Cuba. In doing so, this thesis brings out thecontributions and shortcomings of a comparative approach to plantationarchaeology studies. The comparative methodology is useful forhighlighting the contributions, experiences and responses of enslavedindividuals although the generalization risks losing the specifics forslavery in each locale. This thesis also addresses the hired labor onplantations, whose presence is often ignored in popular and academicliterature, …

Reaching New Audiences: An Ethnographic Study Of Youth Engagement At Historymiami Museum And The Ringling Museum Of Art, Jehan Sinclair

Theses & ETDs

In this thesis I argue that programs for young adults stimulate innovation within museum institutions and assist them in reaching a wider audience. These programs keep museums relevant in addition to helping them better meet the needs of the communities where they reside. Using ethnographic data from two museums that recently implemented programs to attract younger audiences, Miami's HistoryMiami and the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, I examine how the presence of these programs serves a pivotal role in rectifying a problematic historical legacy of classism that continues to influence contemporary conceptions of museums.

Addressing Diversity: The Construction Of Community Identifiers In The Devon Avenue Streetscape Plan, Madhuri Shukla

Theses & ETDs

There is a difference between the way ethnic communities develop an identity through lived experience, and the explicit physical representation of that identity in public place-making projects. This research examines the intersection of neighborhood identity politics, urban planning/design/art, and diversity, with a focus on. Through my experience as a participant observer on the design team of the Devon Avenue Streetscape Plan, I explore how place-making initiatives can address ethnic diversity in the creation of community identifiers. Using the tension between use value and exchange value, I consider the potential for gentrification as a result of highlighting neighborhood distinctness. I propose …

A Consequential Geography: Complex Social Dimensions Of Space And Power In South Africa, Wenonah Venter

Theses & ETDs

This historical and geographical analysis of South Africa aims to determine the extent to which the history of segregation and apartheid has affected the social and spatial form of the country's urban spaces. The history of segregation and apartheid in South Africa has left a distinct social and spatial form that, I argue, have consequential effects on the social equity of the nation's cities today. The apartheid is shown to be a social and spatial regime that used a determined spatiality to maintain hegemonic power over the nation. Additionally, I trace an Afrikaner nationalism from the early Dutch settlement of …

Class Ceilings: Filming An Elite Salvadoran Family, Alexander Wilson

Theses & ETDs

In the opening months of 2012, I visited El Salvador to conduct visual ethnographic fieldwork with my extended family, a group of political and economic elites. The study used hand-held digital video technology and a combination of visual and symbolic anthropological theory to frame and analyze the production of political and personal knowledge. The thesis and Spanish-language anthropological documentary film, Que mas, mi nino?, explore intersecting points of class and memory within an elite Latin American family to produce a living account of community identity. By tracing narratives and experiences, I argue that history is a malleable social construction that …

Yielding To The Octopus An Environmental History Of Agriculture, Imperialism, And Landlessness In Guatemala, Sophia Zimmerman

Theses & ETDs

Guatemala is home to some of the most diverse and ecologically significant ecosystems in Central America. Recently, the degrading rainforests and dramatic biodiversity loss has received attention from foreign conservation programs. These circumstances are complex and the stakeholder relationships, whether ecological or human, are often extremely vulnerable. Guatemala's colonial and liberal history, analyzed from an ecological perspective, illuminates aspects of the country's development and produce a more holistic understanding of current political, social, as well as environmental circumstances. Specific aspects of the country's development, such as the role of agriculture, private industry, and land dispossession, are vital to addressing these …

The Effects Of Video Self-Evaluation On Skill Acquisition With Yoga Postures, Holly Elizabeth Downs

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study evaluated the use of video self-evaluation and video feedback procedures to enhance the accuracy of yoga poses. In the self-evaluation intervention participants watched their behaviors via video and scored task analyses for feedback for each pose. In the video feedback intervention, the participants and the researcher together scored the task analyses for the behaviors along with practice during video recordings. The interventions were assessed in a multiple baseline across behaviors design. Results showed that both video self-evaluation increased the accuracy of all poses and video feedback further increased the accuracy on one pose for one participant

African Americans And Reconceptualization Of Identity: Black Participation In World War I And The Rise Of The New Negro Consciousness, Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand, Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Before the beginning of the twentieth century, the American Negro had undergone an allencompassing process of Otherization and inferiorization which represented blacks as inhuman, heathen and demonic. Under the tenacious hold of Calvinism, Capitalism and most notably Social Darwinism, blacks were forced to internalize the dominant negative stereotypes and thus over time came to view Uncle Tomism and assimilationism as the only possible survival strategies in the white-dominated United States. However, there emerged a paradigm shift in African Americans’ conception of themselves and their status in the country when a number of factors went hand in hand in the early …

The Consumption Of Mechanically Resistant Foods By Anthropoid Primates And Its Influence On Cranial Integration And Variation, Jana Makedonska

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

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Hypertension Prevalence Among Adults In The United States (Nhanes 2007-2010) : Are There Race And Hispanic Origin Differences?, Philip M. Dimura

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Purpose: To investigate the prevalence of hypertension across race and ethnic categories in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for years 2007 to 2010.

Negotiating Ethnosexual Difference In The Armenian Transnation, Nelli Sargsyan

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Since heteronormativity is an inextricable part of the ethnonationalist ideologies and discourses of Armenianness, conformity and transgression are communally policed both in the Republic of Armenia, as well as in the Armenian diaspora, albeit in different ways. In the diaspora it is through public silence regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) and queer self-identified Armenians that hetero-belonging is managed. In the Republic of Armenia, on the other hand, it is managed through hate speech promoted by public figures and through mass media. In both cases the anxiety that the issue of non-heteronormativity points to in the public outcry is that …

Products Of Social Distinction : Organic Residue Analysis Of Specialized Products In Bronze Age Cyprus, Zuzana Chovanec

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

In this study, I examine the emergence of social complexity during the Prehistoric Bronze Age (c. 2400-1750 B.C.) on the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus through a systematic program of organic residue analysis. I define a model based on the theoretical concept of the feast in conjunction with a product-centered approach that aims to identity a range of prestigious products, including perfumes, medicines, and psychoactive substances, that have been preserved in ceramic containers using Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS). The basis of the model is that feasting, in all its forms, serves as an arena in which various social, economic, political …

Geometric Morphometric Analysis Of Late Woodland Triangle Point Types From The Mohawk Valley, New York, Amy Nicole Marie Fox

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Borrowed from the field of biology, geometric morphometric analysis has been recently applied to lithic assemblages with great success. This paper discusses the results of a 2D morphometric analysis of triangle points from the Mohawk Valley, New York, the staple point form of the late pre-contact period. This morphometric approach, which uses outline data extracted from high-resolution photos of the projectile points, leverages multivariate statistical analysis to visualize intra-type variation present in the collection. Change in shape (via length-width ratios) has been previously documented for this collection, but this new application of morphometrics results is a more nuanced look into …

Workplace Gossip As A Way Of Coping With Occupational Stress, Urszula Kakar Maria

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between workplace gossip and occupation stress. Gossip has been recognized as a ubiquitous and influential, yet seriously under researched phenomenon in the workplace. It has been acknowledged that research on workplace gossip is of great value because it constitutes a big part of organizational communication, it serves important functions, and it has serious consequences for members and organization itself. The small number of studies may be in part explained by the lack of agreement among researchers on the definition of gossip.

Towards A Theory About Spanish Women In Sixteenth Century Hispaniola : A Research Guide And Case Studies, Lissette Acosta-Corniel

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation is a pioneering study about the first Spanish women of Hispaniola, the first European settlement of the Americas. Spanish women in sixteenth century Hispaniola have never been adequately identified, and as a consequence their history has not been written. One of the major setbacks about the history of Spanish women in colonial Hispaniola is to know where to look for information about them. For this reason, this dissertation offers a research guide about Spanish women in sixteenth century Hispaniola, and in order to learn about the quotidian lives of these women, this dissertation presents specific case studies and …

En El Aire Escribieron La Historia : Honduras, A System Of Hegemonic Powers And Underlying Social Resistance During The Central American Conflicts Of The 1970s And 1980s, Yaser Robles

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

During the Central American Conflicts of the 1970s and 1980s, Honduras played a central role by becoming both the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) lead training ground for the Nicaraguan Contras and the American central command of all major military operations to suppress revolutionary movements in Central America and the Caribbean. While never formally at war with a seemingly democratic political system post 1981 presidential elections, the life of the broader Honduran population was very much impacted by the 1970s and 1980s Central American conflicts. The people's experiences show a reality very similar to that of a country at war. However, …

Trans-Relational Poetics And Outsider American Modernist And Postmodernist Poetry, Anna Elena Eyre

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation is concerned with how language mediates the relationship between self and other, and in particular, mythopoetic language. The political potential of myth has long been condemned, so much so that the word "myth" is now synonymous with "false." I argue that this is a result of what I term as heroic mythopoesis wherein the relationship between self and other is predicated on a violent separation that reinforces conceptions of identity. In contrast, in what I term as trans-relational mythopoesis this relationship is contingent on an embodied exposure between self and other that reciprocally translates and transforms conceptions of …