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Using Voyant To Analyze A Novel, Ashley Reese

All Digital Pedagogy Resources

In this assignment, students will write a traditional argumentative essay about a novel discussed in class, but in addition to using a peer-reviewed article, the students will also use the digital tool Voyant to analyze the novel. Students are asked to think about their use of the tool Voyant in the conclusion of the essay.

Springsteen's Oppressed Working Class, Kaylee Bumpus

Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works

Bruce Springsteen’s exploration through the lives of oppressed working class people has been a prevalent theme throughout the four decades of his musicianship. This paper will discuss the motivations, methods, and impact of the blue collar characters that Springsteen writes about in his songs. The characters from specific songs will be analyzed and placed into one of three categories: law-abiding working class citizens, dreamers attempting to flee desolation, or sympathetic criminals. Specific examples will be used from some of Bruce Springsteen’s more well-known songs, such as “Thunder Road”, “Born to Run”, “The River”, and “Born in the U.S.A.”, and other …

Lawrence, Fall 2017, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

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Speaking Of Genocide: Double Binds And Political Discourse, Benjamin Meiches

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Genocide scholars have always argued over the best definition of genocide. However, recent genocide studies have begun to emphasize both the ‘contestable’ nature of genocide and, paradoxically, call for clear or rigid definitions of the term. This article evaluates this tension by examining the act of defining genocide as a type of epistemological practice. Placing the act of definition in the context of a complex socio-linguistic system, the article shows how genocide discourse is subject to a variety of demands and pressures. These pressures, internal to genocide discourse, inadvertently promote restrictive and paradoxical formulations of the concept. To illustrate this …

Remembering Hurricane Beulah: An Interview With Conjunto Legend Gilberto Perez On Hurricane Beulah Corridos, Commercialisim And Culture, Diana Noreen Rivera

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

An Interview with Conjunto music legend Gilberto Perez is presented, who has a prestigious career as a singer and accordionist. He talks about his experience of performing concerts, his band "Gilberto Perez y Sus Compadres" and band members and the significance of his corrido "Las Crecientes de Beulah" which is a narration of his experience at the time when a destructive hurricane Beulah had hit Rio Grande Valley in Texas, causing displacement of Mexicans as refugees.

Cultural Immersion And Global Health: An Experience Among The Guaranis, Alexandre A. Martins

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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College Graduation As An Entrance Requirement To Law Schools, W. Harrison Hitchler

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

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A Correlational Study: Personality Types And Foreign Language Acquisition In Undergraduate Students, Frank Capellan

Doctor of Education (Ed.D)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality types and second language acquisition. The study addressed a problem that is inadequately investigated in foreign language acquisition research; specifically, personality traits as predictors of language learning in college students studying Spanish as a foreign language. The researcher conducted one sample t-tests to assess statistically significant differences between mean personality type score and the test value, as well as, a multiple linear regression analysis. A convenient sample of college students (n=52) completed the Neris Personality Type Indicator at the beginning of the course, and took several examinations throughout …

Utrgv Commencement – Fall 2017, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley

UTRGV Commencement Programs

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Me And The Devil Was Walkin' Side-By-Side: Demythologizing (And Reviewing) The Cambridge Handbook Of Service Learning And Community Engagement, Dan W. Sarofian-Butin

Education Faculty Publications

Review essay of The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement, Corey W. Dolgon, Tania D. Mitchell, & Timothy K. Eatman (Eds.)
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Taverns, Theaters, Publics: The Intertheatrical Politics Of Caroline Drama, Allison Deutermann

Publications and Research

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Tourism And Representation: Digital Expressions And Implications Of Orientalism, Lily P. Ayau

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

As the tourism industry in Morocco expands, so does Morocco’s online presence. Digital representations of Morocco are often written by and geared toward Westerners; these are often projections of an imagined Morocco, one that is informed by Orientalist conceptions of the Arab/Islamic countries. This study aims to analyze a selection of online articles about touring Morocco in an effort to determine how the underlying Orientalist attitudes in these pieces fit into a larger narrative of exploitation and Western dominance.

The Perceived Mental Health Effects Of China’S One-Child Policy, Avery Rasmussen

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This study looked at the perceived impacts of China’s 30 year One-Child Policy (OCP). Previous studies suggested the OCP affected Chinese culture and society in a number of ways, however no studies (to the knowledge of the principal investigator) had looked at perceptions of the effects of the OCP on anxiety levels and other mental health issues of students in China. This study sought to fill the aforementioned knowledge gap and aimed to determine perceptions about the mental health effects of the OCP on students. Specifically, this study endeavored to gain a better understanding of perceptions of the effects of …

The Little 'So-Called Men' Go To The Movies, Walter C. Metz

Publications

This article offers an analysis of the representation of technology using the methods of German cultural studies scholar, Friedrich Kittler. I apply his book, Gramophone Film Typewriter to three films: Florian von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others, Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game, and Frederick Wiseman's High School.

Facebook Realness: Exploring Online Authenticity Through Drag Queens And The Infamous ‘Real Name Policy’, Ray Leblanc

Southern Anthropologist

Winner: 2015 Graduate Student Paper Competition

Early September 2014, Facebook profiles of popular drag queens on the West Coast were suspended for violating the rule of authenticity. Facebook profiles are designed to represent “real” people, and a battle began between corporate identity politics and the obnoxiously contradicting, subversive identities of drag performance. Drawing upon my own ethnographic work on drag performance and the social media of drag performers, I present this event as an opportunity to explore how drag queens bring their protest into cyberspace. Drag queens are disruptive cyborgs whose queer identity both on a digital and physical stage, …

Maintaining A Culturally Responsive And Engaging Classroom For Students From Eastern And Western Cultures, Chloe E. Delwiche

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The research question in this paper and project asks the question: How can I create a classroom environment that is engaging and interactive for students from both Eastern and Western cultures while maintaining a culturally responsive classroom that respects, accepts, and incorporates all cultures into content and instruction? This is a project that examines the differences in student engagement and interaction between students from Eastern and Western cultures. Social and cultural norms in Eastern and Western cultures are examined in this paper, as well as engagement in classrooms in Eastern and Western cultures and how this affects the classroom environment. …

Smc Fact Book 2017, Saint Mary's College Of California

SMC Fact Book

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Current Situation And Challenges Of Building A Japanese Lgbtq Ephemera Collection At Yale, Haruko Nakamura, Yoshie Yanagihara, Tetsuyuki Shida

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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"A Delirious Welcome To Anyone In Uniform:" The Gi Experience In Paris, July - September 1944, Bridget E. Ashton

Student Publications

Previous studies of relationships between American GIs and the French population during and after Liberation paint two extremes: one of a perfectly handsome American man doling out candy, cigarettes, and kisses, and the other of a rapist and conqueror. In reality, the situation proved to be somewhere between these two realities. In this paper, I will argue that the Franco-American relationship in the months of July, August, and September 1944 was one of utility and necessity that left the French vulnerable and powerless. Because of factors such as preexisting conditions left behind by German soldiers, language barriers, and material needs, …

The Culture Of Misdemeanor Courts, Jessica A. Roth

Articles

The misdemeanor courts that preside over the majority of criminal cases in the United States represent the “front porch” of our criminal justice system. These courts vary in myriad ways, including size, structure, and method of judicial appointment. Each also has its own culture – i.e., a settled way of doing things that reflects deeper assumptions about the court’s mission and its role in the community – which can assist or impede desired policy reforms. This Article, written for a Symposium issue of the Hofstra Law Review, draws upon the insights of organizational culture theory to explore how leaders can …

Film And Religion: Critical Concepts In Media And Cultural Studies, Joel Mayward

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of S. Brent Plate, ed. Film and Religion: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge Press, 2017.

Conversations On The Global South – Colonialism Revolutions, And Dictatorships: The Politics Of Heritage In The Philippines – A Conversation With Heritage Scholars And Advocates In The Country, Jose Jowel Canuday, Fernando Zialcita, Mark Evidente, Leon Mayo, Erik Akpedonu

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Heritage conservation practice and thinking in the Philippines have taken on complicated paths, as it is shaped and at the same time implicated by critical political and governance issues in the country. Social Transformations editor Jose Jowel Canuday conversed with leading Philippine actors working on a range of areas in heritage studies, advocacies, and issues, in particular anthropologist Fernando Zialcita, lawyer and environmental planner Mark Evidente, urban planner Leon Mayo, and architectural scholar/researcher Erik Akpedonu. Their conversation of the intricacies of heritage engagements in the country sheds light on the continuing contestations underlying colonial and revolutionary history, the complexity of …

Celebrating The Human Being In The Novels Of Zayd The Martyr, Dear Hussein Ali Al-Moussawi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This is a research in modern Arabic literature, a critical study of the contemporary Iraqi novel, the text of which is the novels of Zaid Al-Shaheed, which he wrote in celebration of his city of Samawah, and the people in it, and they are four novels, in which he devoted his tendency in literature, which is humanity and the celebration of man, and the novels shared their time, place and common cultural system, which calls for a comprehensive study of them, according to a single critical method, to reveal their cultural and aesthetic systems. The novel text was subjected to …

A New Approach To The Analysis Of Timbre, Megan L. Lavengood

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Two distinct approaches to timbre analysis exist, each with complementary strengths and limitations. First, music theorists from the 1980s adopt a positivist mindset and look for ways to quantify timbral phenomena, often using spectrograms, while avoiding any cultural dimensions in their work. Second, writings of the past five years focus on the cultural aspects of timbre but make no use of spectrograms. This dissertation builds upon these two approaches by synthesizing them: discussion is grounded in spectrogram analysis, but situated within a broad cultural context, through interactions with listener experience and ethnographic study of music periodicals and other published interviews. …

Leftist Militant Songs And War Of Position In Lebanon (1975-1977), Mohamad J. Hodeib

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This essay looks at the emergence of a generation of leftist militant songwriters against the backdrop of a revolutionary moment that influenced political and cultural landscapes in Beirut during the 1970s. After the Arab military defeat against Israel in 1967, the conjuncture of the Lebanese and Palestinian revolutionary movements in Lebanon fostered a revolutionary moment that manifested itself on different levels, including art and cultural expression. I look at the development of leftist militant songs, a genre, attitude, and approach to song production and performance that came to be at the intersection of radical theatre, poetry, and music. Productions by …

First Opinion: Honoring Diversity, Visual Storytelling, And Complex Friendships: Cece Bell’S El Deafo, Gretchen Papazian

First Opinions, Second Reactions

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Sociology Alum Is Associate Professor And Global Studies Advisor, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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"'We Must Not Look At Goblin Men, We Must Not Buy Their Fruits '": The Politics Of Feminine Consumption And Sexuality In Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market", Dawn Cunningham

Articulāte

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"You Can't Keep A Good Dog Down ": American Mythology And The (Impossibilities Of Change In All Dogs Go To Heaven, Emily Toler

Articulāte

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Brüno Is So Gay, Thomas Duering

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

Few comedians are as willing to confront American culture‟s greatest taboos for the sake of a joke as Sacha Baron Cohen. Baron Cohen originally gained popularity in America with his adorably ignorant and bumbling character, Borat. According to Biography.com, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was a surprise smash, bringing in more than $128 million at the box office”. Because of Borat‟s success, Baron Cohen is now known for a unique style of filmmaking in which his characters present themselves to people under false premises in an attempt to catch funny reactions on …