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Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 10, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Greek Life Takes Over the Edgerton -- Black Friday Madness -- SHU Honors President Kennedy -- Baby, it’s Cold Outside -- Students Prefer DIY Gifts Over Store-Bought -- Ethics Bowl Competition -- Students head to Rockefeller Center for Tree Lighting

Literacy Practices In The Homes Of African American Families And Their Perceived Affects On The Language And Literacy Development Of Their Children, Delilah Ann Davis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this study was to explore the tenacities, practices, and discourse of family-based literacy practices and their connection in African American families. It scrutinized the influence of the practices of African American families on the multiple contexts of literacy practices in their passageway across the school-community periphery. The researcher used interviews, literacy practices blogs, and analyzing of literacy artifacts to identify and document the family literacy practices of five African American families with pre-school age children. The findings of the study revealed that each family shared some common literacy practices which may be associated with the ecology of …

The Development And Gentrification Of Musical Commerce In Williamsburg, Virginia, 1716-1775, Joshua R. Lehuray

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the burgeoning musical commerce industry in Williamsburg, Virginia between approximately 1716 to 1775. It especially focuses on the gentrification of this industry and the ways in which elite Virginians made use of music to establish themselves as inheritors of British culture and musical entertainment. A diversity of musical businesses appeared in Williamsburg during the eighteenth century, including instrument sellers, music and dancing teachers, and two theaters utilized by theatrical troupes, to name a few. Drawing on evidence from the Virginia Gazette, as well as journals, letters, playhouse reports, and account books, the thesis concludes that music provided …

Deafness: A Disability Or A Difference, Erica R. Harvey

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Civility And Gower's "Visio Anglie", Lynn Arner

Accessus

Deploying conventions from medieval courtesy manuals, Gower’s Visio Anglie assigned varied degrees of authority to Englishmen and women at the bodily level, a system of signification in which food, physical appearances, and overall comportment were key elements. Echoing courtesy manuals, the Visio constructed corporal marks of distinction, interpreted physical signifiers as indices of people’s inner character and value, and classified bodies into social groups accordingly. Offering understandings of civility that began with codes of bodily conduct and that expanded to claims about the cosmos, the Visio’s corporal regulatory system promoted particular understandings of citizenship and governance that sought to …

The Trentham Manuscript As Broken Prosthesis: Wholeness And Disability In Lancastrian England, Candace Barrington

Accessus

Gower’s Trentham manuscript allows us to think about pre-modern disabilities in three ways. First, because it encourages Henry IV to restore the body politic disabled by Richard II, we can see the manuscript as presenting itself as a prosthesis able to compensate, even cure, Henry’s illegitimate claims to the throne. Here, disability is a condition that needs to be eradicated at best, repaired at least.

Second, because the Trentham manuscript reports Gower’s blindness, we can examine how it registers that disability. As “Henrici quarti primus” makes clear, Gower’s disability allows him to assert his own legitimacy as king’s advisor. Here, …

Blindness, Confession, And Re-Membering In Gower's Confessio, Tory Vandeventer Pearman

Accessus

Much scholarship on Gower’s Confessio Amantis has focused on the poem’s assertion that poetic narration, represented by Amans’ ongoing confession, has the ability to restore the fragmentary natures of social and spiritual bodies. Surprisingly, the role that the (dis)abled body plays in the poem’s struggle with fragmentation and integration has been ignored. By focusing on the poem’s representation of blindness in the tales of Medusa and Constance, I will demonstrate that the formal structure and thematic explorations of the Confessio, in fact, rely upon the (dis)abled body and its inextricable relationship to narration. Indeed, it is Amans’ disabling illness …

Blind Advocacy: Blind Readers, Disability Theory, And Accessing John Gower, Jonathan Hsy

Accessus

Toward the end of his life, medieval poet John Gower (d. 1408) composed Latin poetry about his own progressive blindness, and later nineteenth-century Blind readers appropriated Gower’s work as part of a platform to advocate for changed perceptions and opportunities for the blind and other people with disabilities. In this essay, I approach nineteenth-century narrative compilations of blind lives (which include Gower’s) as transformative acts of literary historiography. These compilers not only appropriate the medieval blind poet to advance their own social and political ends, but they also create a new disability-centered approach to the entire Western artistic tradition. I …

Introduction, Georgiana Donavin, Eve Salisbury

Accessus

This Introduction by co-editors Georgiana Donavin and Eve Salisbury celebrates the publication of the first issue of Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media, a biannual publication of The Gower Project. The Introduction provides a short history of The Gower Project and explains the scope of Accessus: an e-journal dedicated to articles composed in electronic formats on Western European literature written before 1660. This first issue is dedicated to scholarship on the fourteenth-century English poet John Gower, who inspired the Project and this journal. For a decade The Gower Project has supported exciting new interpretations of …

25 Year Club: 32nd Annual Gala, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

25 Year Club: 32nd Annual Gala

December 3, 2013

• New Inductees
• Members
• Retirees

Law Library Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 3 - November/December 2013,, Kresge Law Library

Law Library Newsletter

Law Library Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 3 - November/December 2013,

• A library love story
• An article on the new digital repository, NDLScholarship
• Some info about new apps for your smartphone or tablet
• An introduction to the many faces you’ll see behind the Circulation desk
• Photos from the law school’s annual Halloween trick-or-treat event
• And many more articles

The Utah Statesman, December 3, 2013, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Wmu International News Fall 2013, Haenicke Institute

WMU International News

In this issue:

• Empowering global engagement across the arts and sciences
• Employees abroad: Spanish immersion program expands understanding of international education
• Excelling in public relations key goal for Chinese twinning student
• WMU cultural anthropologist examines migration and lupus in Ecuador
• Ambiguity of borders continues to intrigue alumna from Berlin
• Visits to 35 countries complements global studies major
• Veteran administrator tapped to lead University’s international initiatives
• Future Iraqi engineer discovers the world at WMU
• WMU alumna coach points Japanese tennis player to Kalamazoo

Difference Does Not Mean Deficient: The Cultural And Higher Education Experiences Of Appalachian Women, Andrea D. Welch

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

December 3, 2013 College Council Minutes, Cuny Guttman Community College

College Council Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Holloway, Kaely. Talisman, Student Government Association Discuss Financial Options
• Pratt, Elliott. Bowl or Bust – Football
• Sproles, Katherine. Grant Creates Clinical Experiences & Practice in Teaching Teacher Program
• Marnon, Christian. WKU Can’t Keep It Up – Sexual Health
• French, Jackson. Student Teams Up with Student Government Association for Bench Proposal – Logan Eckler, Bus Stops
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Christmas
• Deck the Halls
• Pierce, Connor. Nick Bratcher’s Equality Is a Joke
• Watson, Paul. English Professor Wins International Award for Novel – David Bell
• Koch, Cameron. Benefit Auction to …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Jason Arnoldt, Saxophone, Jason Arnoldt

All Performances

No abstract provided.

"The President, The Prince And The People," Roland Rodriguez, Curator, Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, April - September 2008, Roland Rodriguez

Exhibit Posters

Exhibit Poster - "The President, the Prince and the People: A Selection of the Zimmerman Library's Literary and Pictorial Sources of the Mexican Reform and French Intervention periods," Roland Rodriguez, curator, Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, April - September 2008

"Under The Tropics: Early Scientific Explorations To Latin America," Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, Fall 2000, Inter-American Studies

Exhibit Posters

Exhibit Posters - "Under the Tropics: Early Scientific Explorations to Latin America," Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, Fall 2000

The Prospector, December 3, 2013, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: We Made It: With Debt, But We Made It...

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, December 3, 2013, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Protein Timing On Muscle Strength And Hypertrophy: A Meta-Analysis, Brad Jon Schoenfeld, Alan Albert Aragon, James W. Krieger

Publications and Research

Protein timing is a popular dietary strategy designed to optimize the adaptive response to exercise. The strategy involves consuming protein in and around a training session in an effort to facilitate muscular repair and remodeling, and thereby enhance post-exercise strength- and hypertrophy-related adaptations. Despite the apparent biological plausibility of the strategy, however, the effectiveness of protein timing in chronic training studies has been decidedly mixed. The purpose of this paper therefore was to conduct a multi-level meta-regression of randomized controlled trials to determine whether protein timing is a viable strategy for enhancing post-exercise muscular adaptations. The strength analysis comprised 478 …

December 3, 2013, Faculty Senate

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Um To Collaborate With Pioneering Open Education Consortium, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

University of Mississippi News

University becomes first institution to offer traditional graduate course with open components

Gardner-Webb University Set To Roll Out Revised Master Of Arts In English Program, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Gardner-Webb University Gayle Bolt Price School of Graduate Studies is unveiling a revised Master of Arts (MA) in English program, to include concentrations in English education, literature studies and writing studies. Administrators have announced the online-only teaching model for the program will begin in the fall semester of 2014. University officials are excited about the shift and believe the changes will help Gardner-Webb provide a quality education that meets the needs of modern professionals.

Methods For Inhibiting Tumor Cell Proliferation, James Turkson, Richard Jove, Jay Palmer, Heidi Kay, Hua Yu

USF Patents

The subject invention concerns methods for inhibition of STAT biological functions using platinum complexes.

Extreme Heat Awareness And Protective Behaviors In New York City, Kathryn Lane, Katherine Wheeler, Kizzy Charles-Guzman, Munerah Ahmed, Micheline Blum, Katherine Gregory, Nathan Graber, Nancy Clark, Thomas Matte

Publications and Research

Heat waves can be lethal and routinely prompt public warnings about the dangers of heat. With climate change, extreme heat events will become more frequent and intense. However, little is known about public awareness of heat warnings or behaviors during hot weather. Awareness of heat warnings, prevention behaviors, and air conditioning (AC) prevalence and use in New York City were assessed using quantitative and qualitative methods. A random sample telephone survey was conducted in September 2011 among 719 adults and follow-up focus groups were held in winter 2012 among seniors and potential senior caregivers. During summer 2011, 79 % of …

"Illustrated Identities: The Book In The Latino Imaginary," Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, March-May, 2011, Inter-American Studies

Exhibit Posters

Exhibit Poster - "Illustrated Identities: The Book in the Latino Imaginary," Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, March-May, 2011

Rating Action: Moody's Changes Outlook On Portuguese Banks' Government-Guaranteed Debt To Stable From Negative, Moody's Investor Service

Documents

No abstract provided.

The Cuban Spectacular: The Story Of Latin Jazz, Today To Yesterday, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.