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Fighting Fire With Fire: A Refllection On The Ethics Of Clarence Darrow, Gerald F. Uelmen

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

Marriage Law: Obsolete Or Cutting Edge?, Michigan Journal Of Gender & Law

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Over the past hundred years, social and cultural expectations surrounding various forms of committed relationships have changed dramatically, and contemporary legal systems have struggled to adapt. The result has been an extraordinary opportunity to test fundamental assumptions about law, about the cultural understandings that are enforced through state power, and about the mechanisms that drive law's evolution. The Michigan Journal of Gender & Law has drawn together an exceptional group of panelists who will discuss these questions throughout the day.

Intelligence Versus Impulse: William H Seward And The Threat Of War With France Over Mexico, 1861--1867, Albert Joseph Griffin Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation argues that U.S. Secretary of State William Seward conceived a diplomatic strategy that enabled the U.S. to oust the French and their puppet emperor, Maximilian, from Mexico in 1867. The genius in Seward's approach lay in accomplishing this goal without committing U.S. forces. Using original diplomatic correspondence, this dissertation shows how Seward capitalized on both the weaknesses of the French, and the strengths of republican Mexico. It demonstrates how Seward bargained for the time needed for his strategy to work, even when many around him were pressing for precipitous action. It argues that Seward's diplomatic strategy succeeded in …

Ch 501 Church History I, J. Steven O'Malley

Syllabi

Bettenson, Henry. Documents of the Christian Church. (Oxford paperback, second ed.). This is a record of crucial letters and texts of official church proclamations that shaped the direction of church leadership in the history of the church. Gonzalez, Justo, The Story of Christianity, Volume I (Abingdon; paper ed.) [for use in elaborating theological developments at crucial junctures] Irvin, Dale, and Sunquist, Scott, eds., History of the World Christian Movement (Earliest Christianity to 1453), (Orbis, 2001). (abbreviated HWCM) [main secondary textbook] Kerr, Hugh T., ed. Readings in Christian Thought. (Abingdon paper ed.). A concise collection of selected texts illustrating style and …

Ch 600 History Of Methodism, Kenneth C. Kinghorn

Syllabi

1999. -Norwood, Frederick A., The Story of American Methodism, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974. -Rowe, Kenneth E., United Methodist Studies: Basic Bibliographies, Third edition, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992. (Note: This book is for reference, future consolation on specific subjects, and use in your used book store browsings.)

Ch 600 History Of Methodism, Kenneth C. Kinghorn

Syllabi

-Kinghorn, Kenneth, The Heritage of American Methodism, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999. -Norwood, Frederick A., The Story of American Methodism, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974. -Rowe, Kenneth E., United Methodist Studies: Basic Bibliographies, Third edition, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992. (Note: This book is for reference, future consolation on specific subjects, and use in your used book store browsings.)

History And Memory In Late Twentieth Century Civil War Literature: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Marion B. Lucas

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Obligations Impaired: Justice Jonathan Jasper Wright And The Failure Of Reconstruction In South Carolina, Caleb A. Jaffe

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Part I of this article, on the historiography of South Carolina Reconstruction, explains the difficulty scholars have had in uncovering the documentary history of Reconstruction, and outlines the development of historical interpretations of Reconstruction from the Nineteenth century Redeemer-era accounts to the revisionists of the 1970's. Part II provides brief biographies of both Justice Wright and William James Whipper. Parts III and IV track the different approaches of Whipper and Wright on two vital issues of their day: (1) whether to repudiate all private debts relating to slavery; and (2) how to construct a homestead law to protect cash-poor landowners. …

Abandoning The Pia Standard: A Comment On Gila V, Galen Lemei

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Part I of this Note examines the development of Indian reserved water rights, and the practicably irrigable acreage method of quantifying those rights, as defined by the Court. Part II describes the arguments of state and private interests that oppose broad Indian water rights. Part III discusses Gila V, including the Arizona Supreme Court's rationale for abandoning the standard set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court and the standard for quantifying Indian reserved rights that the court applied in its place. Part IV analyzes the Arizona Supreme Court's justifications for abandoning the standard, and considers alternate grounds for the …

Ch 702 Nicene And Post-Nicene Fathers, Meesaeng Lee Choi

Syllabi

1. Christopher A. Hall, Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1998). 2. One of Three Options a. Purchase: Phillip Schaff, ed., Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First and Second Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co. b. Use library reserve/reference, or intra. c. Use internet and produce your own copy: 1) Early Church Fathers: www.ccel.org/fathers2/ 2) Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/nicene and post-nicene fathers 3) New Advent: www.newadvent.org/fathers/ 4) One more additional website: home.flash.net/~smabry/docs/fathers.htm

Die Deutschen Von Marysville: The Germans Of Marysville, 1850-11860., Carole C. Terry

Psi Sigma Siren

Histories of California addressing the years after the discovery of gold neglect the impact of European-born ethnic minorities on their new residences, particularly those living in the smaller cities that grew to meet the demands of the gold miners. The white newcomers to California during the gold rush years were not a homogeneous collection of Anglo-Saxon protestants. German immigrants, despite their small numbers, were a significant presence in the growing permanent cities of California such as Marysville. In that City, the third largest in California during the 1850s, the number of Germans who came and permanently stayed grew over the …

Depositional History Of The Black Mountain Conglomerate, Mohave County, Arizona: Sedimentary Response To Miocene Extension, Michelle Marie Williams

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study documents the Miocene depositional and extensional history for the area west of Wilson Ridge in the Black Mountains, northwestern Arizona. The field area, part of the Basin and Range province, lies within an area that experienced northward migration of intense volcanism several million years prior to significant regional extension. Extension propagated northward through the northern Colorado River extensional corridor to the Lake Mead area. Clastic sedimentary rocks in the basin are linked to the extension of the region; Documentation of the basin fill was conducted with the aim of determining whether sedimentary clasts can be tied to lithologies …

Ch 701 Ante-Nicene Patristic Literature, Meesaeng Lee Choi

Syllabi

1. Michael W. Holmes, ed., The Apostolic Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1999). 2. Robert M. Grant, Irenaeus of Lyons (London and New York: Routledge, 2000). 3. John Behr, St. Irenaeus of Lyons, On the Apostolic Preaching (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1997). 4. S. L. Greenslade, ed., Early Latin Theology (Louisville, KY: Westminster Press, 1956). 5. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (Hendrickson Publsihers, 1994). 6. Rowan A. Greer, Origen: An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer and Selected Works (Paulist Press, 1979).

Ch 550 Do 550 Cambridge Summer School In Contemporary Methodist Theology: A Wesleyan Paradigm Of Renewal For Today, Paul W. Chilcote

Syllabi

Paul Chilcote, The Wesleyan Tradition: A Paradigm for Renewal (Abingdon) Paul Chilcote, Praying in the Wesleyan Spirit (Upper Room) Michael Slaughter, Spiritual Entrepreneurs (Abingdon) Howard Snyder, The Radical Wesley (Wipf & Stock) Theodore Jennings, Good News to the Poor (Abingdon) Randy Maddox, ed. Rethinking Wesley’s Theology (Abingdon) Ted Campbell, John Wesley and Christian Antiquity (Abingdon) Rosie Nixson, Liberating Women for the Gospel (Hodder and Stoughton)

Mi 600 History Of The Christian Movement, Harold W. Snyder

Syllabi

Texts Anderson, Gerald H., Robert Coote, Norman Horner, and James Phillips, eds. Mission Legacies: Biographical Studies of Leaders of the Modern Missionary Movement. Orbis, 1994. Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 1986. Seamands, John T. Pioneers of the Younger Churches. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2001. Tucker, Ruth A. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983. Mission Frontiers (April, 2000) will also be used as a resource because of several articles it contains. Free copies will be distributed early in the semester.

Ch 600 History Of Methodism, Kenneth C. Kinghorn

Syllabi

General Learning Goals (1) To develop an appreciation for the Methodist heritage, so that the student who is interested in Methodism understands that our generation lives on the growing edge of this important Christian tradition. (2) To acquire basic factual knowledge of persons, ideas, places, events, and movements that helped shape the history of American Methodism. (3) To comprehend the factors that motivated American Methodism to develop its beliefs, practices, and structures and to grasp why, from time to time, the church modified them. (4) To understand the theological shifts that have taken place within American Methodism. (5) To view …

Ch 600 History Of Methodism, Kenneth C. Kinghorn

Syllabi

1999. -Norwood, Frederick A., The Story of American Methodism, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974. -Rowe, Kenneth E., United Methodist Studies: Basic Bibliographies, Third edition, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992. (Note: This book is for reference, future consolation on specific subjects, and use in your used book store browsings.)

An Integrated Approach To Teaching Washington State History In A Seventh Grade Humanities Block, Erika Lee Martin

All Graduate Projects

For the 2002-2003 school year, Sultan School District (WA) made the decision to move the Washington State History course from the high school level to be taught at the middle school level, specifically in the seventh grade Humanities block for a semester. This decision was made to be in compliance with the future state Social Studies requirements. Since the Humanities course was already based on the theory of integrating Geography with Language Arts, a new curriculum needed to be developed to incorporate the new Washington State History material. A team of teachers decided to take this task on and develop …

An Interdisciplinary, Teaming Approach To History And English Instruction At The Secondary Level, Miles J. Caples

All Graduate Projects

The relationship of integrating history and English objectives to enhance student achievement was studied. A model curriculum has been developed to connect U.S. History and American Literature content. Research has been obtained that indicates improved student learning when subjects are integrated in a relevant fashion. Secondary schools using interdisciplinary curriculum are showing improved GPA's, attendance and standardized test scores. Secondary teachers must align their daily lesson plans and assessments with the state essential learning's in both the history and language arts area.

Beowulf Clusters, Ian Cherry

Senior Seminars

No abstract provided.

Cg By Nvidia, Chad Holloway

Senior Seminars

This paper has been written in order to teach the reader about a new programming language by NVidia called Cg. The author, an undergraduate computer science student at Bridgewater College, is still at a beginner's level of programming in Cg and relies heavily on a book called "The Cg Tutorial" (Fernando). However, the following paper will give excellent insight into the history, usability and programming functionality of the Cg language with background information on the history of Computer Graphics.

Video Game Programming, Travis Mcmullen

Senior Seminars

No abstract provided.

Vocational Science And The Politics Of Independence: The Boston Marine Society, 1754--1812, Matthew Gaston Mckenzie

Doctoral Dissertations

Between 1754 and 1812 the Boston Marine Society developed vocational scientific practices adapted from day-to-day work routines to expand the navigational knowledge of New England's coastlines. For this reason, the Marine Society's navigational work suggests important parallels with the history of colonial science in other areas during the late eighteenth century. Notwithstanding most other studies in the history of American science, the Boston Marine Society indicates that colonial Boston shipmasters were not dependent upon learned societies for their navigational research needs. Rather, they adapted their mutual aid society and developed methodologies to collect navigational observations, analyze them for reliability and …

Sundials And Their Shady Past, Elliott Ostler, Neal Grandgenett

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

Throughout history, patterned approaches to determining and subdividing time have been considered among the greatest natural mathematical connections ever conceived by mankind. Over the years, this mathematical quest for time has certainly been shrouded in utility (as evidenced by atomic clocks that are accurate to within trillionths of a second by using the mathematically predictable resonance frequencies of elements such as Cesium), but the more romantic and aesthetic virtues of historical time pieces lie in the interplay between pure mathematics and architectural beauty. Although the movement of celestial bodies relative to one another has acted as a basis for the …

Tax Stories And Tax Histories: Is There A Role For History In Shaping Tax Law?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Reviews

The teaching of law is usually rather ahistorical. Teachers commonly focus on current doctrine and policy debates, discarding on the "garbage pile of history" any law that has been repealed or superseded. And yet, much of law teaching is still based on reading cases. And cases are by definition historical artifacts - they arise from a specific time and place, and reflect a frequently long-gone historical context. Thus, it is hard to imagine a modern law course completely devoid of history, even if the history gets short shrift. A constitutional law course, for example, will likely include some discussion of …

Asanti Daughter Of Zion: The Life And Memory Of Harriet Tubman, Katherine Clifford Larson

Doctoral Dissertations

We all believe that we know Harriet Tubman (1820--1913): slave, famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, abolitionist, spy, nurse, and suffragist. Her successful, secret journeys into the slave states to rescue bondwomen, men, and children have immortalized her in the minds of Americans for over one hundred and thirty years. One of the most famous women in our nation's history, we have come to know the narrative of her life only through juvenile biographies. These stories made Tubman's life a legendary one by reconstituting her into a historical and cultural icon suitable for mass consumption as the "Mother of her …

The Effect Of Slavery On Southern Farmland Values In The Antebellum And Postbellum Era, Brandon Devlin

Honors Theses

In the past 30 years, the legacy of African-American slavery has experienced a transformation in historical perspective. Morality aside, several historians have suggested that the accepted views regarding slavery need revision, particularly in an economic sense. Utilizing cliometrics, census records, diaries, and first-hand accounts of slavery in the South, economic historians such as Robert Fogel and Stanley Engennan have made a compelling case for the viability and profitability of slavery by exposing the nuances of the system that historical generalities often ignore. Of course, words like "viable" and ''profitable" do not necessarily mean "virtuous"or even "preferable", but it does imply …

Questioning The Universality Of Human Rights, Paul J. Magnarella

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Universal Human Rights? edited by Robert G. Patman. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. 244pp.

and

Dealing with Human Rights: Asian and Western Views on the Value of Human Rights edited by Martha Meijer. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2001. 183pp.

and

The Philosophy of Human Rights by Patrick Hayden. St. Paul: Paragon House, 2001. 686pp.

Nature Of Talk And Interaction In The Singapore History Classroom, Pamela Chellappah Thuraisingam

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

History is a complex subject. It is more propositional than procedural in nature (Nichol, 1984), and involves adductive thinking (Booth, 1983), where historical evidence and facts are 'teased out' and a convincing account of the past is then reconstructed through speculation, imagination and empathy (Nichol, 1984; Booth, 1983). The teaching and learning of history should not just be the transmission of knowledge, but rather it should involve a process whereby students and teachers interact in order to analyze evidence, raise questions and hypotheses, synthesize facts, and communicate their ideas, understand others' viewpoints, consider values, reflect and engage in moral reasoning …

Perspectives On An Epidemic: The Yellow Fever In 1793 Philadelphia, Karen Patyk

Constructing the Past

This article discusses the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, and how there are several different accounts of what happened then. It also notes that the official descriptions given by the doctors of the time are not the entire story and that they leave some important things out.