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Dynamics Between Weavers And Voluntourists In Guatemala: Giving Ideas, Taking Photos, Rebecca L. Nelson

Doctoral Dissertations

Drawing from 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the voluntourism program of a women’s weaving cooperative based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, this dissertation argues that voluntourists and their cooperative hosts developed more globally-oriented subjectivities through their daily information exchanges. Voluntourists shared their knowledge of tastes and practices in their countries; in return, the cooperative leaders offered them exposure to Mayan customs and weaving classes. At the same time, these interactions highlighted the hosts’ anxieties about sharing such knowledge. The cooperative leaders utilized their association with tourists to develop cosmopolitan competencies, pursue alternative gender relations, and push the boundaries of relationships with …

The Vehiculatio In Roman Imperial Regulation: Particular Solutions To A Systematic Problem, Russell S. Gentry

Madison Historical Review

Category: World History

As the Roman Empire pushed its frontiers beyond the Mediterranean world, imperial authorities from Augustus onward faced a serious challenge: information transfer. The government of the early Roman Empire was famously lean in its bureaucracy and relied on small teams of imperial specialists (hated as spies) and military officers selected by governors to carry official documents great distances. These individuals traveled using an ad hoc system designed to take advantage of whatever hospitality existed along the Roman roadways. Messengers commandeered food, buildings, animals, and even guides for most legs of their journey. Official travel passes issued with …

The Harikari Club: German Prisoners Of War And The Mass Escape Scare Of 1944-45 At Internment Camp Grande Ligne, Quebec, Martin Auger

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (May 4, 2015), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Six Graduating Macalester Seniors And One Alumna Receive Fulbrights, Macalester College

College Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Aerosol Size Distribution Measurements During The 2014 Nasa Sarp Campaign In The Central Valley And Sierra Nevada Mountains In California, Victoria A. Hampton

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Aerosols are directly and indirectly related to global climate by scattering radiation and also by seeding cloud formation. As a part of the 2014 NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), research flights were conducted over the Central California region to better understand air quality in large urban California cities and also in the Central Valley. Using a Droplet Measurement Technologies Ultra High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer (DMT-UHSAS), aerosol size distributions were measured across geographic regions of interest. Previous research has suggested that aerosols originating in the Central Valley may travel eastward to the Sierra Nevada and, once lifted orographically, could suppress …

Soft Power And Cultural Exchange: The Obama Administration And The Impact Of U.S. Public Diplomacy On The Beliefs Of Estonians, Kadri Lutter

Honors Theses

America's engagement with the world in the years following 9/11 is often criticized for being arrogant, conducted in a top-down fashion, and paying too little attention to listening and creating meaningful human interactions. Since 2009, President Obama has emphasized his belief in people-to-people contacts and soft power: the idea that a country can achieve what it wants in world politics by the power of attraction. Public diplomacy programs such as cultural and educational exchanges are believed to be valuable in creating lifelong friends for the United States, but there is little empirical evidence of their effectiveness as a foreign policy …

2015-May-04-Maj. Gen. Terry Haston To Speak At Etsu Rotc Commissioning, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet May 2015, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The May 2015 Monthly packet includes the May agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held April 2015.

The Bg News May 04, 2015, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. May 04, 2015. Volume 94-Issue 96.

2015-05-04 Program Reviews, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Program reviews submitted by the colleges to the Faculty Senate on May 4, 2015.

"Writing On The Soil": Literature's Influence On African Land Rights, Ng’Ang’A Muchiri

Open Access Dissertations

My research underscores complex interactions between African artistic production, nationalism, gender inequality, and land rights. I deploy East Africa’s literary oeuvre—including novels, short stories and a Swahili play—to explore mutually informing social and artistic contexts that inspire phenomena as diverse as administrative land policies and utopian reformist schemes. I read transnational fiction against colonial photography and political manifestos, to address the “cross-pollination” of ideas and discourses. “Writing on the Soil” argues that postcolonial theory needs re-orienting towards materialist criticism and political conversations regarding resource inequality as suggested by texts that reflect on the material structures of neo/colonial domination in Africa. …

Commencement Convocation Program, Sarasota - Manatee Campus, May 3, 2015, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Golden Bull Service & Outstanding Leadership Award - Jabari Williams; Outstanding Graduate - Colleen Bankuty; Outstanding Professor - Elaine Augustine; Paul Searls Webecke Award - Gregory Farrenkopf

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, May 3, 2015, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Lena-Alyeska Huebner, Zachary P. McNiece, Jennifer Nesslar, Jessica Woods, and Carlos Agatep; Outstanding Graduate - Jennifer Nesslar

A Biogeographic History Of The Plains Bison Focusing On Population And Range Dynamics, Grace Roman

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Early bison originated in Asia and migrated to North America by means of the Bering Land Bridge, which opened around 600,000 years ago. Just after the Wisconsin glaciation (11, 700 years ago), there were two allopatric species of bison residing in North American - the plains bison (Bos bison bison), and the woodland bison (Bos bison athabasce). European explorers and settlers recorded incredible numbers of bison in most parts of the present day United States. Bison thrived in North America until the mid-19th century, but experienced a drastic decline in population from about 60 million to …

“Seize The Time:” The Role Of Political Development In Building A Formerly Imprisoned Black Intellectual’S Subjectivity And Praxis, Sophia Hansen-Day

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

This article is featured in the journal Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, volume 4.

A Loss Of Innocence: Shifting Imaginaries Of The Twin Cities In The 1970’S, Rob Granfelt

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

This article is featured in the journal Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, volume 4.

"Ours To Displace, Ours To Protect": The Borderlands Of American Indian Histories, Whiteness, And The Wilderness Ideal, Victoria A. Lewis

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

'"Ours to Displace, Ours to Protect": The Borderlands of American Indian Histories, Whiteness, and the Wilderness Ideal' is featured in the journal Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, volume 4.

Relocation Of Older Adults And Transitions, Cheryl Atherley- Todd

GWEP Conference

No abstract provided.

Lost Prophets: Tertullian, Eusebius, Epiphanius, And Early Montanism, Brice Andrew Larson

Seminary Masters Theses

ABSTRACT The dearth of reliable primary source material on the New Prophecy has led to a proliferation of interpretations of the character of the movement. However, a careful examination of the New Prophecy’s preserved sayings, the writings of Tertullian, and the movement’s earliest critics preserved by Eusebius and Epiphanius reveal a movement steeped in the Christian tradition that came into conflict with other Christians because of their willingness to pay ministers and their passive understanding of the charisma of prophecy.

“The Missouri Conservation Commision: Part I: The Need For It And The Constitutional Amendment That Established It”, Quinta Scott

The Confluence (2009-2020)

In this first of two lavishly illustrated articles, Quinta Scott traces the evolution of thinking in Missouri that led to the creation of the state Conservation Commission and the influence of Aldo Leopold and Nash Buckingham.

2014 College Of Business And Economics Sustainability Report, College Of Business And Economics At Boise State University

Sustainability Reports

In publishing our sustainability report for the College of Business and Economics (COBE) at Boise State University, we are making our first attempt to transparently report on the social, economic, and environmental impacts that we have on our key stakeholders, and to role model this leading corporate and organizational practice to inspire our business and academic peers to follow suit. To fully align with our mission, we put learning at the heart of this effort: 15 student sustainability reporters researched, collected the data, and wrote this report, and three spring 2015 COBE classes contributed additional expertise, including a graduate accounting …

The Metro Manila Report: National Landscape, Current Challenges And Opportunities For Growth, Institute For Societal Leadership, John W. Ellington

Institute of Societal Leadership Research Collection

Although Western colonisers have, to varying degrees, shaped the political structures and economies of nearly all modern Southeast Asian nations, they achieved an unmatched level of cultural and institutional penetration in the Philippines. Far from the Indic influences that inspired Angkor Wat, Borobudur and Bagan, the island group was only marginally sanskritised during the pre-colonial period. With some notable exceptions in the south, Muslim communities were also never able to establish firm roots. Mindanao, Sulu and even southern Luzon were home to maritime sultanates beginning in the late 14th century, but a Spanish victory over the Muslim Rajah of Maynila …

The Use Of Criminal Profilers In The Prosecution Of Serial Killers, Chelsea Van Aken

Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept of criminal profiling in terms of serial killers in the United States. The research provided in this paper was found using the most recent research available on the topic. The FBI’s Behavioral Unit, or National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC), is the current leading law enforcement agency that investigates these types of crimes. They utilize definitions, typographies, and motives to create a criminal profile to investigate serial killings. Ultimately, these profiles are inadequate because they are inconclusive and exclude multiple suspects that are potentially dangerous. Therefore, criminal …

Gla-Moo-Rous, Rebecca Soja

Architecture Thesis Prep

T

he contention of this thesis

is that architecture designed

for consumption currently

contributes to distancing

consumers from a relationship

with food (speci

fi cally looking at

beef) by emphasizing commercial

attitudes and commodities and

failing to participate in earlier

production and processing phases.

If architecture and spatial or visual

relationships have the ability to

entice through masking, then

there must be potential for design

throughout the food chain- from

farm to fork- with the agency to

do the opposite: contribute to a

more transparent food system and

perhaps even more sustainable

alternatives. With increasing

demand for a transparent

food …

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 25: May 2015, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• WMU shares applied behavior analysis training videos for autism
• WMU room and board rates to increase by 3.3 percent this fall
• Bush named American Council on Education Fellow
• Torres Wins National Literature Award
• Enrique Gamez '14 wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Shane Preston '12 Speaks to WMU Students Student honored for leadership, service
• Two area seniors win $20,000 scholarships to study at WMU
• WMU among grant winners recognized at 'Americas' summit

The Narrative Of Solitude In Mary Shelley's The Last Man, Margaret Atwood's The Year Of The Flood, And Cormac Mccarthy's The Road, John Nelson Balsavich

Master’s Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.

Mandala Spring/Summer 2015, Center For Southeast Asian Studies

Mandala

No abstract provided.

Broadband Report 2015: The Connection To New Hampshire's Future, Broadband Center Of Excellence (Bcoe)

Broadband Center of Excellence

No abstract provided.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale To Speak At Macalester Commencement, Macalester College

College Press Releases

No abstract provided.