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From Laboratory To Library: The History Of Wayne State University's Education Library, Suzan A. Alteri

Library Scholarly Publications

The Education Library at Wayne State University has a long and storied history. From its beginning at the Detroit Normal School to its final merger with the general library, the Education Library has been at the heart of not only Wayne State University, but also in the development of the College of Education. This paper chronicles the history of the library, and the people who created it, from its very beginning to its final place among the volumes of the Purdy/Kresge Library.

Lessons From The Laboratory: The Polar Opposites On The Public Sector Labor Law Spectrum, Ann C. Hodges

Law Faculty Publications

Section I analyzes the legal framework and history of collective bargaining in Illinois, and Section II follows with a similar analysis for Virginia. Each section includes current data about public sector employees and union activity in the two states. Section III follows with a discussion of possible explanations for the differences in the law of the two states. Section IV looks at the lessons from this analysis for state and federal lawmakers, unions, employers, and labor relations advocacy groups.

John Dewey And The Question Of Race: The Fight For Odell Waller, Sam F. Stack Jr.

Education and Culture

John Dewey and the Question of Race: The Fight for Odell Waller Abstract: In an attempt to better understand the complexity of American racism and democracy, this paper explores racism through the plight of an African American sharecropper, Odell Waller, and the reaction and involvement of John Dewey, America’s most liberal democratic philosopher of the 20th century. This exploration delves into the nature of American justice in one of the most difficult struggles in our history, the late years of the Depression and the early years of World War II. Furthermore, the paper traces Dewey’s limited discussion of race and …

Interview With President Abraham S. Fischler - President, Abraham S. Fischler

Oral Histories of Nova Southeastern University

NSU History, NSU Board of Directors, NSU innovative programs, finances, diversity, NSU Law School, Winstead, Formans, airfield, Rosenthal, Mailman, Mickey Segal, Leo Goodwin, Ray Pepinsky, James Farquhar, Mary McCahill, Broward County, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Gordon Sweet, New York Institute of Technology, Dr. Alex Schure, Behavioral Science Center, Louis Parker, William Richardson, Oceanography, R/V Gulfstream, Educational Leadership Program, clusters, Doctorate of Public Administration, Doctorate in Business Administration, Panama, Tinsley Ellis, Shirley Chisholm, Dental School, Shepard Broad, Shepard Broad Law Center, Ray Ferrero, William Horvitz, Mailman Family Center Building, Clinical Psychology, Jack LaBonte, Oral School, Theresa Castro, the Royal …

Parsing The Plagiary Scandals In History And Law, Arthur Austin

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] “In 2002 the history of History was scandal. The narrative started when a Pulitzer Prize winning professor was caught foisting bogus Vietnam War exploits as background for classroom discussion. His fantasy lapse prefaced a more serious irregularity—the author of the Bancroft Prize book award was accused of falsifying key research documents. The award was rescinded. The year reached a crescendo with two plagiarism cases “that shook the history profession to its core.”

Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin were “crossover” celebrities: esteemed academics—Pulitzer winners—with careers embellished by a public intellectual reputation. The media nurtured a Greek Tragedy —two superstars …

Salmon, Sage-Brush, And Safaris: Alaska’S Territorial Judicial System And The Adventures Of The Floating Court, 1901-1915, Michael Schwaiger

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Japanese Revolutionaries: The Architects Of The Meiji Restoration, 1860-1868, Dana Kenneth Teasley

Student Papers (History)

Scholars have offered many conflicting interpretations of the Japanese Meiji Restoration of 1868, but few have put forth a comprehensive analysis as to the nature of the protagonists and the motivation of those who initiated this revolutionary movement. Although historical interpretations of the Restoration and its heroes have ranged from a romantic and generalized theory of economic struggle to focused studies of individuals whose motivations were singular, the true character of the samurai revolutionaries behind the Restoration is the issue here. Of those samurai who, acquired knowledge of Western civilization and technology, took part in the Restoration, and witnessed the …

Historical Archaeology Of Marion Creek, Alaska: Placer Gold Mining And The Capitalist World-System, James W. Whitney

Anthropology

"Archaeological investigations of two placer gold mining sites on Marion Creek, Alaska, a tributary of the Koyukuk River, challenge the myth of the independent prospectors of the last frontier and reveal their dependence on the capitalist world-system. The Grassy Mound Cabin site (CHN-024) consists of a small cabin and trash scatter representing individual placer mining dated to the first decade of the 20th century. The Marion Creek Mining Complex site (WIS-286) is a multi-feature site reflecting capital and labor-intensive mining from multiple occupations during the first and second decades of the 20th century. The historical context of gold mining in …

The Best He Could, As Fast As He Could : The World War Ii Experiences Of Wesley Crawley, Willard Stanley

Crawley, Wesley C.

No abstract provided.

The Importance Of Intelligence In Combating A Modern Insurgency, Kevin Reamer

Journal of Strategic Security

Throughout history the world has been plagued by insurgencies. While the underlying causes of each new insurgency have been different, they are all similar in certain areas. This similarity entails that the effective countering of an insurgency can be turned into a science with a set of guidelines to follow based on conditions on the ground. Guidelines are important because insurgencies are flexible and to defeat them the counterinsurgency must be equally flexible if not more flexible. Good intelligence is critical to the success of an insurgency. With their small, poorly equipped forces, the leaders of insurgencies need to know …

Yours For Victory: The Wartime Story Of Howard Peach, Jillian Emma, Kurt Spear

Peach, Howard I.

No abstract provided.

“Johnny Came To College To Get An Education – He Found Romance Anyway”: The Unconventional Wartime Story Of John And Marie Teigue Renza, Julien Dumont, Katie Gorham

Renza, John S.

No abstract provided.

A Place Like This: An Environmental Justice History Of The Owens Valley - Water In Indigenous, Colonial, And Manzanar Stories, Monica Embrey

Pomona Senior Theses

This text provides an environmental justice analysis of the stories of the people who lived in the Owens Valley, who watered its land and cultivated its crops—pine trees, apple trees, and kabocha alike. Telling the personal stories of challenge and resistance that manifested alongside the oppressive forces of military and state domination provides the opportunity to align forcibly relocated, exploited and incarcerated people’s struggles throughout time. This text starts with The Nü’ma Peoples who were the first humans to live in the Owens Valley and continues with the struggle for empire between rival colonial empires of agriculture and distant urban …

War And Video Games, Nicholas A. Perry

Senior Honors Projects

War has been a subject of many different mediums. Through the portrayal of war, great movies have given insights on human conditions in wartime. War has also been the subject of several video games that are incredibly popular in mass culture. The difference between war movies and war games are that war games are interactive, requiring the players to act out violence in a digital form whereas movies are passive and reiterative in outcome.

There have been many criticisms of war video games ranging from their ability to condition players to violence to their role as propaganda for recruitment, but …

Persuasion In Contemporary Presidential Campaigns, Dylan Moore

Senior Honors Projects

Persuasion has been the foundation and objective of political campaigns since the first contested presidential election in 1796. While this foundation has not changed, the methods of persuading have undergone many changes over the years. Persuasion tactics of past presidential campaigns have used mediums such as print and television but it was not until the last two presidential elections that voters had the internet to supplement their decision-making process.

It is with the rise of the internet that we can see the greatest shift in contemporary campaigns tactics. Candidates’ websites serve as a “one stop shop” for voters to attain …

Concernlines: A Timeline View Of Co-Occurring Concerns, Christoph Treude, Margaret-Anne Storey

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Understanding the evolution of a software system requires understanding how information about the release history, non-functional requirements and project milestones relates to functional requirements on the software components. This short paper describes a new tool, called CONCERNLINES, that supports this cognitive process by visualizing co-occurring concerns over time.

Unlawful Assembly And The Fredericksburg Mayor's Court Order Books, 1821-1834, Sarah K. Blunkosky

Theses and Dissertations

Unlawful assembly accounts extracted from the Fredericksburg Mayor’s Court Order Books from 1821-1834, reveal rare glimpses of unsupervised, alleged illegal interactions between free and enslaved individuals, many of whom do not appear in other records. Authorities enforced laws banning free blacks and persons of mixed race from interacting with enslaved persons and whites at unlawful assemblies to keep peace in the town, to prevent sexual relationships between white women and free and enslaved black men, and to prevent alliance building between individuals. The complex connections necessary to arrange unlawful assemblies threatened the town’s safety with insurrection if these individuals developed …

The Pacifican April 30, 2009, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 25, Issue 22, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Mr. SHU 2009 is crowned -- New common core grant -- Free Printing gets cut by IT department -- Video games pose as possible addition for students -- Darfur survivor tells his story at SHU -- The Internship Section -- School year comes to an end, summer brings possibilities -- Advice gets passed along from seniors to incoming freshmen -- Rave of the week: Spectrum staff reflect on their past four years -- He Said/ She Said... -- MAX Exhibition bigger, better than ever before -- LiLo looking for love on eHarmony.com? -- Indie folk duo Chris and …

The Pacifican April 23, 2009, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 25, Issue 21, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Budget to be expanded for increase in financial aid -- Tug o' war -- Popular prof departs from honors program -- SHU awareness of STDs -- Special celebration Earth Day '09 -- Sorority helps all girls feel like princesses -- Are college reunions becoming an event of the past? -- Graduating seniors anticipate life after Sacred Heart -- Rant of the week: Viewers of reality show misjudge family -- He Said/ She Said... -- Haunting in Connecticut not the true story -- Summer festivals for all music lovers -- Courtney UnLoved as incident is publicized -- Boulder band …

The Pacifican April 16, 2009, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

The Pacifican April 2, 2009, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Free Winona, Free Winona

Free Winona Newspaper

Free Winona is a newspaper published in Winona, Minnesota in 2008 and 2009. This issue includes:

• Soil Broken at Community Garden;
• Building on the Bluffland;
• How to Build a Walmart;
• Tracking the WSU Footprint;
• Columns: Wild Nettle Distro, Brian Patrick Sanders Jr., Runaway Train of Thought, Really Really Free Market News

The Development Of Nationalism In The Indian Case, Sriram Madhusoodanan

Grace Allen Scholars Theses

Narratives, particularly historical narratives, frame our identities: they tell the story of our origins and provide us with direction to guide future action. Considering the numerous movements they have fostered in past 200 years, few identities have been as powerful a motor for social change or emerged as loudly on the world stage as national identities. In this context, India presents a unique case. In attempting to classify it, India could be labeled a multi‐nation state, due to the immense diversity of linguistic, cultural and ethnic groups that reside within it, each with its own particular historical narrative and myths …

Pacific Review Spring 2009, Alumni Association Of The University Of The Pacific

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

From Silent Film To Youtube™ : Tracing The Historical Roots Of Motion Picture Technologies In Education, Chareen Snelson, Ross A. Perkins

Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article traces the historical roots of YouTube™ and online video to examine it within the context of educational motion picture history. The current state of online video is discussed first followed by a thematic analysis of the history of educational motion pictures from silent film to YouTube. The historical literature reveals recurring themes and issues, which include: (1) the intrinsic advantages of motion picture technologies, (2) differing opinions about the benefits of film and video, and (3) access and equipment issues. Previous historical accounts fall short of addressing how these themes connect to online video. The potential future of …

Spring 2009, College Of The Pacific

History News

No abstract provided.

The Pacifican March 26, 2009, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 25, Issue 19, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Bogus Bonuses -- Kilbourne: Body image advocate -- Online program launched to ensure campus safety -- Celebrities influence student actions -- Expert shares diary of famous Catholic intellect -- March mandatory laptop check a must for students -- Coed rooming, a growing trend among some colleges -- Rant of the week: Brand name of coffee influences students' purchase -- He Said/ She Said -- Model behavior not seen at "ANTM" auditions -- Cast of "Gossip Girl" faces real life drama -- Mileyworld.com makes it up to fans -- President takes on "Tonight Show" -- Spill on ski trail …