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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 26, March 30, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Gsu View, 2015-03-30, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

The Preservation Of Afro-Cuban Culture In The Writings Of Lydia Cabrera, Alex Bravo

Revista Surco Sur

Lydia Cabrera wrote the stories of Cuba and its African descendant slaves, and each story became a piece of culture, a piece of religion, and a piece of history. She saved what would have been many lost traditions. Lydia Cabrera published over one hundred books in her life; she was an ethnographer, a historian, and a writer. Her writings painted the pictures that preserved the heart of Afro-Cuban culture, Santería.

La Dialectología En México: Hacia Un Enfoque Perceptual, Newell Douglas Porter

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Surveying Appalachia: Language Change And Perception, James Daniel Hasty, Becky Childs

ASA Annual Conference

This study investigates language change in Appalachia through preliminary results of a web-based survey of university students in southern Appalachia. The survey presents traditional phonetic, lexical, and morpho-syntactic Appalachian English features and asks respondents to report their use of these features and their observation of other speakers in their area including the discourse situation. Appalachian English is often thought of as a traditional form of speech associated with the older generation (Dial 1972, Montgomery 1979, Wolfram & Christian 1976). However, within the past two generations the social and linguistic landscape of Appalachia has greatly changed. Communities that lived mainly in …

J. Edwin Campbell: African American Poet, Educator And Activist, Michelle Haugh O'Malley, Christina Veladota, Elizabeth Smathers Shaw, Jack Wright

ASA Annual Conference

This session will introduce participants to James Edwin Campbell of Pomeroy, Ohio - a teacher, a poet, and an early advocate for the advancement of African-Americans in the late 19^th century – through several of his selected literary works. Campbell’s life, though tragically short, was immensely productive and will be considered from an historical as well as an academic perspective.

Campbell was an Appalachian African-American poet who celebrated an experience that was particular to the blacks of the river towns of Pomeroy, Ohio, Gallipolis, Ohio and Point Pleasant, WV. Campbell’s work stands in unique contrast to his contemporaries’ plaintive …

The Clinchfield And Unicoi County: Documenting The Oral History And Traditions Of A Railroad Community, Christopher R. W. Sharpe, John Curtis Goad, Emily Booker, Chad Fred Bailey, Joshua Wayne Lester, Maria Lovelady, Cathryn Washell

ASA Annual Conference

The panel will focus on the oral history and traditions of the Clinchfield from those that were there, as passengers, employees, landowners, and various other stakeholders of the railroad and Unicoi County.

Germany’S Western Front Translations From The German Official History Of The Great War, Mark Osborne Humphries, John Maker

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

Three Globalizations: An Essay In Inquiry, John Henry Schlegel

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

"The Markets Have Decided”: Markets As (Perceived) Deity And Ethical Implications Of Delegated Responsibility, Peter Seele, Lucas Zapf

Journal of Religion and Business Ethics

The term ‘the markets’ appears as if the markets were divine authorities with their own dignity that decide, sanction and threaten like a godlike power. This extends the standard-economic definition of the market as an egalitarian transaction mechanism under the circumstances of scarcity and competition. We explore and review the historical and theoretical base of this observation. We then analyze quotations on ‘the markets’ from selected media outlets during the economic crisis in 2008. We suggest that referring to “the markets” represents a rhetorically deified, metaphysical entity implying severe moral implications, as certain agents claim to act on behalf of …

Faculty Expectations And Perceptions Of Writing At A Community College, Lynn Kraemer-Siracusa

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this multi-method qualitative study was to determine the nature and extent of any gaps that exist between the writing skills faculty members across disciplines at a community college expect their students to utilize in intermediate-level writing intensive courses, their perceptions of the students' general ability to demonstrate those skills, and the importance of the learning outcomes of the two semesters of FYC courses. The faculty members identified a majority of the FYC learning outcomes as having some level of importance to their courses across disciplines. In addition, the directions for the writing assignments used by these faculty …

Undergraduate Symposium, 2015, College Of Arts & Sciences

Undergraduate Symposium Programs

No abstract provided.

The Political Pilgrim: William Lithgow Of Lanark On God And Country, Philip Anthony Davis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Travel literature has been understood to comment on the expectations and impressions of the traveler as they encountered foreign spaces, customs, and people. There has been an unspoken understanding, at best, that travelers who wrote their tales used these foreign spaces to engage in debates that were meaningful to their domestic audience. However, the author has been central to much of the analysis, disconnecting travel literature from other linguistic exercises that more directly offered observations that were directly rooted in domestic culture. Author-centered analysis isolates the traveler from the wider world in which they engaged. It also ignores the other …

Structuralist Legal Histories, Justin Desautels-Stein

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

Saving Money While Meeting Quality Targets In Latino Health Disparities: A Reason For Optimism, Claudia P. Santiago Md, Margaret Gallardo-Cochran Md, Luis Lopez Md, Betty Bohorquez Pa, Laura Gutierrez Md Facp Aahivm, Orlando Penaloza Md Facp Aahivm

Department of Medicine

No abstract provided.

“Amidst The Chime Of The Razor Wire”: Narrating Poetic Justice In Guantanamo Bay, Kristina H. Reardon

The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal

The quest of poetic justice carries Marc Falkoff’s 2007 anthology Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak into the court of public (literary) opinion. While the Pentagon asserts that poetry poses special security risks, and related translation issues may obscure the artistry or message of some of the 17 poets’ verse, Falkoff’s volume nevertheless gives prisoners’ voices a forum in which they might be heard. At the nexus of legal and literary scholarship, poetic voice and its expression become a site of deconstructing identity. The Guantanamo poets invite readers to explore the ways that aesthetics form perceptions of their identity as …

El Nuevo Programa De Lengua Para El Primer Ciclo En Coastal Carolina University, Yun Sil Jeon

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

Siguiendo el sistema académico en los Estados Unidos, el estudio de pregrado en Coastal Carolina University se divide en dos ciclos claramente diferenciados: el primer ciclo dedicado a cursos de educación general (Core Courses) y el segundo ciclo donde el alumno completa sus cursos de especialidad (Major) y de libre elección (Electives o Minor). Este primer ciclo dedicado a cursos de educación general es característico en el sistema educativo universitario estadounidense. Durante los dos primeros años los alumnos cursan materias introductorias generales, tratando de abarcar todas las áreas del conocimiento humano, estrechamente ligadas a las áreas de conocimiento impartidas en …

College Senate Minutes March 26, 2015, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on March 26, 2015.

Michael Torre V. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance

2015 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

2015 Community Of Scholars Day, Lesley University

Community of Scholars Day—Programs

Session schedule for Community of Scholars Day 2015 - "Together We Are Lesley University." Event took place March 26, 2015.

Indicators Of Terrorism Vulnerability In Africa, Raymond J. Hill

Theses and Dissertations

Terrorism in Africa has increased more than six-fold since 1997, with an increase in lethality as well. The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars to counter this increase in terrorism; however, terrorism in Africa has increased seemingly unabated. Furthermore, these methods used to counter-terrorism have been reactionary as opposed to preventative. To address the terrorism threat to a country, we must first understand which characteristics make a country vulnerable to such a threat. A confirmatory analysis bridges the inter-discipline gap between quantitative and qualitative fields through as assessment of observational findings about the causes of terrorism. An exploratory analysis …

Multilingual Extraction Ontologies, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Yuri Tijerino

Journal of Undergraduate Research

On December 29, 2009 we were informed that our application for a 2010 MEG grant was approved. This final report sketches the accomplishments attained during the project’s timeframe since then.

Facilitating Motivation In A Virtual World Within A Second Language Acquisition Classroom, Andrew Warren Gump

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Developing A Somali Dictionary Application, Nick Thieberger, Nadia Faragaab

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

The Failed-State Paradigm And Implications For Politics And Practices Of International Security, Mohamed Omar Hashi

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

Contributors

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

The Ethical Responsibility Of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Theory Of Literature: On The Promoting Agency Of Literary Language To The Formation Of The Individual, Wei Jia

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Merleau-Ponty had revised Husserl's phenomenology of speech and Saussure's structuralist linguistics and developed his own phenomenology of speech, gaining insight into the intersubjectivity between speech and individual. His phenomenological research also shows that literary speech as a deviant form of everyday speech can not only boost the historical formation of the individual but also inherit something profound from the history.

Contemporary Chinese Art And Western Theory: The Question Of Hospitality, Kenaan Hagi

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The paper takes a philosophical instead of a historical perspective to look at contemporary Chinese art, concerned with the relationship between contemporary Chinese art and "Western" theory. In the attempt to articulate the relationship between contemporary Chinese art and "Western" theory, the paper proposes "the question of hospitality" as its approach to the issue, asking who exactly the host and the guest are and what kind of dynamics is suggests by a relationship of hospitality. It begins by proposing a brief sketch of a philosophical theme or dilemma that is supposed to be crucial for the development of "theory" in …

New Faculty Learning Community Mapping New Worlds Of Interdisciplinary Enquiry, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

What Happens When Parents And Students Engage In A Collaborative Book Club?, Samantha Dulude

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study investigates the potential benefits of students and their parents engaging in a collaborative book club using various texts and reader response activities. The parents and students completed a pre and post survey describing their literacy interests and engagement. Parents read various books with their children. Both parent and their child discussed the stories through a blog page and reader response activities. Narrative analysis was utilized and various themes surfaced from the data. For example: Character traits, parent-child interaction and bonding, and the value of reader response activities.