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At Play In The Field Of Law: Symbolic Capital And Foreign Attorneys In Ll.M. Programs, Jan Hoffman French

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

In this Comment, I would like to pick up a thread of the authors' analysis and, in so doing, shift the emphasis a bit. That thread relates to their use of Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical conceptualizations of "field" and "forms of capital." In their analysis of admissions essays submitted by foreign-lawyer applicants, Lazarus-Black and Globokar consider how the discursive genre of the admissions essay orients itself to the powerladen structures that constitute the particular field within which the essay is playing, or to which it is addressed.8 They also use the Bourdieusian concepts of "cultural and linguistic capital" in relation to …

What Is Moral Reasoning?, Leland F. Saunders

SPU Works

No abstract provided.

"Le Créole Est Chez Moi": Le Créole Haïtien Et Dany Laferrière, Jessica Gerdisch

French: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Ethics In Exhibitions: Considering Indigenous Art, Rachel Bonner

Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics

No abstract provided.

What Makes Lawyers Happy? A Data-Driven Prescription To Redefine Professional Success, Lawrence S. Krieger, Kennon M. Sheldon

Scholarly Publications

This is the first theory-guided empirical research seeking to identify the correlates and contributors to the well-being and life satisfaction of lawyers. Data from several thousand lawyers in four states provide insights about diverse factors from law school and one’s legal career and personal life. Striking patterns appear repeatedly in the data and raise serious questions about the common priorities on law school campuses and among lawyers. External factors, which are often given the most attention and concern among law students and lawyers (factors oriented towards money and status—such as earnings, partnership in a law firm, law school debt, class …

American Freedom Speeches Parallel Corpus Design, Building, And Annotation Guidelines, Daniel Roush

Dennis Cokely Parallel Corpus: Related Materials

This is a research guide that describes the original procedures that were used in building, annotating, and coding the Cokely American Freedom Speeches Parallel Corpus.

Experiential Empathy: The Impact Of Service-Learning Immersion Experiences On College Students' Cross-Cultural Empathy, Amy Lynne Nicols

Master of Arts in Higher Education (MAHE) Theses

The purpose of the study is to understand the impact of service-learning immersion experiences on college students’ expression of cross-cultural empathy. The research question states: “How do intercultural service-learning programs impact a college student’s expression of cross-cultural empathy?” The research represented insights about a shared experience from eight participants who attended a small, faith-based, liberal arts institution in the Midwest. These students are part of a living-learning community; however, they participated in four different programs in domestic and international locations that allowed them to work with orphans and vulnerable children in an intercultural context. The researcher employed a phenomenological approach …

"Grace To Be Born And To Live As Variously As Possible": Tracing The Influence Of The Visual And Performing Arts On The Poetry Of Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Grice

Honors Thesis Collection

My thesis traces the influence of the three peripheral art forms on Frank O'Hara's poetry—visual art, cinema, and music. Jumping in and out of abstraction through catalogues that capture New York City as gritty and gilded, O'Hara diverts attention away from the heightened emotional state of the narrator. He additionally channels the fragmentary nature of Abstract Expressionism, jump cuts, and improvisational jazz. By the time of his death at the ripe age of forty, O'Hara produced a body of work as multifaceted as his artistic interests.

Alice In Wonderland: Dorothy Wordsworth's Search For Poetic Identity In Wordsworthian Nature, Maymay Liu

Honors Thesis Collection

This thesis explores Dorothy Wordsworth’s struggle to find poetic identity within her brother William Wordsworth’s literary conception of nature as the ancient, all-powerful “Mother Nature.” Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Dorothy navigates a similarly confusing, sometimes hostile, yet utterly enchanting world. I examine select poems by both Wordsworths, as well as extracts from Dorothy’s journals to show how the relationship between Dorothy and William was a process of creation and re-creation facilitated by the entity of “Mother Nature.”

The Gender Divide In Humor: How People Rate The Competence, Influence, And Funniness Of Men And Women By The Jokes They Tell And How They Tell Them, Christina Rozek

Honors Thesis Collection

How has the gender divide in humor—the widespread belief that men are funnier than women—arisen? Some theories in evolutionary biology provide compelling explanations for why it is more crucial for men than for women to be funny. I offer an alternative sociolinguistic perspective on the formation of this divide that focuses on the frequent association of women with a less powerful speech style, and how it may be changing. I investigated responses to jokes told by men and women using powerful and powerless styles. Hypothesis 1 was that jokes attributed to male speakers would receive higher ratings of competence, influence, …

How Wales Was Made So Happy: Exploring Nation And Nonsense In Shakespeare's Treatment Of The Welsh, Morgan Moore

Honors Thesis Collection

With famous lines like “On, on, you noblest English!,” and “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,” Shakespeare’s plays—especially the histories— are famous for their role in creating and glorifying English national identity. But equally important to an understanding of Shakespeare’s canon are minority British identities, and of these the most prevalent and most overlooked are the Welsh. This thesis focuses on Shakespeare’s Welsh characters, their roles and presentations, and chooses to examine the often paradoxical portrayals of such Welsh characters. In focusing on Sir Hugh Evans from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Fluellen from Henry V, Owen …

Discourses Of Exemplarity In Propertius Iv, Madeline Thayer

Honors Thesis Collection

Exemplarity is a commonly observed feature of the Roman cultural landscape, be it in respect to literature, monuments, or portraiture. Particularly in Augustan Rome, exemplary figures were utilized to express common cultural values intended to serve as a guide to moral conduct, and were intended to draw from the past in an attempt to unify and render cohesive a state that had suffered many years of civil war. Exemplary figures also served to ground Augustus's rule in the past. This thesis looks at exemplarity in Book IV of Propertius's Elegies, specifically regarding two characters, Cornelia and Tarpeia. Rather than …

'Defector' As Socio-Lexical Labeling: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis Of North Korean Defector Narratives In South Korea, Claire Yi

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

True Fiction: Three Writers' Approaches To Fact And/Or Fiction, Anna Krauthamer

Honors Thesis Collection

This thesis examines how three writers challenge our understandings of the fiction and non-fiction genres.

The Allincluding Language Of Ulysses, Hannah Degner

Honors Thesis Collection

Study of the text of Ulysses, Joyce's other major works, critical texts, biographical works and annotations to consider the manner in which Joyce's flexible, whimsical and almost always unconventional stylistic experiments tell a fuller story of life than established narrative styles. Joyce's inclusions and innovations make the novel an active process of engagement, puzzling, and probing--a process that brings the reader closer to the text, and the ideas within, through the reader's active engagement.

Wellesley Magazine Winter 2015, Wellesley College Alumnae Association

Wellesley Magazine (Alumnae Association)

Featured in this issue:

Flight to the Arctic / by Deborah Cramer ’73

In Varsity Veritas / by Rebecca Binder

Portrait of an Activist as a Young Woman / by Catherine O'Neill Grace

2014 Touro College & University System Faculty Publications, Touro College & University System

Faculty Publications Books

This is the 2014 edition of the Faculty Publications Book of the Touro College & University System. It includes all eligible 2014 publication citations of faculty within the Touro College & University System, including New York Medical College (NYMC). It was produced as a joint effort of the Touro College Libraries and the Health Sciences Library at NYMC.

Caregiver Perceptions Of Their Influence On Cancer Treatment Decision Making: Intersections Of Language, Identity, And Illness, Janice L. Krieger, Angela L. Palmer-Wackerly, Jessica L. Krok-Schoen, Phokeng M. Dailey, Julianne C. Wojno, Nancy Schoenberg, Electra D. Paskett, Mark Dignan

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Serious illness of a loved one can disrupt a caregiver’s sense of self and relationships. We examined the language caregivers use to describe the cancer treatment decision making of a loved one to understand how caregivers frame their own identity relative to a patient’s illness. We analyzed transcripts from in-depth interviews conducted with caregivers (N = 58) of cancer patients to examine the intersection among language, identity, and illness. Caregivers with a patient-level personal identity frame used phrases such as their body, their decision. Caregivers with a relational identity frame used plural pronouns such as we or our when describing …

Human Ghrelin Mitigates Intestinal Injury And Mortality After Whole Body Irradiation In Rats, Z. M. Wang, W.L. Yang, A. Jacob, M. Aziz, P. Wang

Journal Articles

Widespread use of ionizing radiation has led to the realization of the danger associated with radiation exposure. Although studies in radiation countermeasures were initiated a half century ago, an effective therapy for a radiomitigator has not been identified. Ghrelin is a gastrointestinal hormone, and administration of ghrelin is protective in animal models of injuries including radiation combined injury. To test whether ghrelin can be protective in whole body irradiaton (WBI) alone, male Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were treated with human ghrelin (20 nmol/rat) daily for 6 days starting at either 24 h or 48 h after 10 Gray (Gy) WBI …

Deep In The Burbs : A Participatory Action Research Project Exploring How The Social Trinity Impacts Spiritual Formation In Suburban Elca Congregations, Steven P. Thomason

Doctor of Philosophy Theses

Deep in the Burbs is a participatory action research project that gathered members from three upper-Midwest suburban ELCA congregations to explore how engagement with the social Trinity might impact the research team’s ideation or praxis of spiritual formation. The research team pursued this question through the practice of Dwelling in the Word—specifically in select passages from the Upper Room Discourse (John 13-17)—various modalities of communicative learning, and communicative action projects in the community. The data indicate three major themes that became important to the research team: the essential nature of relationships, the necessity of reflection, and the awareness of the …

Subcortical Modulation In Auditory Processing And Auditory Hallucinations, T. Ikuta, P. Derosse, M. Argyelan, K. H. Karlsgodt, P. B. Kingsley, P. R. Szeszko, A. K. Malhotra

Journal Articles

Hearing perception in individuals with auditory hallucinations has not been well studied. Auditory hallucinations have previously been shown to involve primary auditory cortex activation. This activation suggests that auditory hallucinations activate the terminal of the auditory pathway as if auditory signals are submitted from the cochlea, and that a hallucinatory event is therefore perceived as hearing. The primary auditory cortex is stimulated by some unknown source that is outside of the auditory pathway. The current study aimed to assess the outcomes of stimulating the primary auditory cortex through the auditory pathway in individuals who have experienced auditory hallucinations. Sixteen patients …

A Study Of The Perceptions Of Diversity And Inclusion Initiatives In Producing Improved Productive Work Cultures, Robert T. Crouch

Education Dissertations and Projects

Organizations today view diversity in the workforce as extending beyond antidiscrimination laws. Diversity in the workplace is viewed as a means for organizations to maintain a competitive edge in the global job market by focusing on inclusion and performance. Organizations have begun to recognize that diversity results in economic benefits when initiatives are aligned with their strategic plans, goals, and core values (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1999).

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of departmental personnel regarding the impact of diversity and inclusion initiatives in improving and sustaining productive work cultures. Additionally, this study sought to …

Teacher Perceptions Of The Impact Of Digital Photo Stories On Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Julia J. Conn

Education Dissertations and Projects

This study employed a qualitative method, multiple case study design to examine teacher perceptions of the impact of digital photo stories used as an instructional strategy with students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Five highly qualified teachers of students with ASD from four public schools in a western North Carolina school district participated in open-ended interviews before and after creating and completing a digital photo story utilizing a digital photo-story tool with students with ASD.

The guiding question for this study was “How does the use of digital photo stories as an instructional tool impact teacher perceptions of students with …

A Study Of The Social And Emotional Growth And Development Of Students With Disabilities In An Inclusive Setting In An Inner-City Middle School, Heather Rachelle Lemmons

Education Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this retrospective, explanatory sequential mixed-methods study was to determine the impact of an inclusive educational setting on the behavioral, social, and emotional growth and development of students with various disabilities. Many aspects of a student’s educational experiences can be affected by a proper placement in an inclusive setting with non-disabled peers including discipline rates and referrals, need for behavioral goals and plans, and perceptions concerning personal social growth and development.

The setting for this research study was an inner-city middle school serving Grades 7 and 8 in western North Carolina. Eighth-grade middle school students identified as students …

Hiding Your Emotions In Plain Sight: Differences Between Real Anger And Feigned Anger In Japanese Girls' Speech, Aidan Aannestad

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

This paper demonstrates the use of non-denotative meaning markers as a way of indicating a speaker’s emotional state. Japanese has a number of such markers, and they pattern differently according to the speaker’s emotion; creating distinctions between speech acts under various emotional circumstances. This paper examines the dialogue of three fictional characters from Japanese television and demonstrates visible differences in their speech patterns between real anger and feigned anger.

Virginia Commonwealth University Courses [2015], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of courses for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Incidental Vocabulary Learning In Second Language Acquisition: A Literature Review, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos

World Languages & Cultures Department Publications

This literature review aims to analyze previous studies that address the incidental learning of vocabulary in second language acquisition. The articles included in this literature review look into the understanding of vocabulary learning through incidental means, the relationship of reading and incidental vocabulary learning, and the strategies and tasks that promote the incidental learning of vocabulary. The findings show that L2 learners develop much of their vocabulary by incidental means through exposure to words in informative contexts. Moreover, this exposure is promoted by reading, and enhanced through multimodal glosses. Further research may focus on listening for higher lexical retention rates, …

“We Believe That God Speaks Danish.” Assimilation Vs Identity In Sanpete County, Utah, Claus Elholm Andersen, Elizabeth Peterson

The Bridge

Most accounts hold that Danes in America assimilated rapidly and effectively into mainstream culture…but was that always the case? This article focuses on a small community in Utah that was home to a large proportion of Danes and other Scandinavians. A close examination of this community reveals that the assimilation process was not always as straightforward a process as we oft en hear.

"Hills Like White Elephants": Epistemic, Nonepistemic And Nonseeing, Gene Washington

English Faculty Publications

This essay, a though-experiment, explores the value of reading literary texts (with the example of Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants") from the point of view of epistemic, nonepistemic and nonseeing. Epistemic seeing is defined as seeing with "belief-content" nonepistemic seeing without it. The technique is to examine each example of the word "seeing" (or one of the members of its family, "look, watch," "blink") and let it "lead" you to the object, its contest, and implications in the story as a whole..

2015 Equity And Diversity Report, Children's Mercy Hospital

Equity & Diversity Annual Reports

A report on equity and diversity at Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics, in the care it provides, the people it serves, and in its workforce. Specifically discusses the Equity & Diversity Council, The Office of Equity and Diversity,Patient-Provider Communications, Care Delivery and Support Mechanisms, Workforce Diversity and Inclusion, Education and Training, Public Accountability and Quality Improvement, Community Engagement, and Research.