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Historical Memory And Muslim Identity In Andalusia, Sarah Lynn Karp

Honors Theses

This paper concerns the negotiation of the medieval history of Islamic Spain for the purposes of identity creation and Muslim minority integration in Andalucia. The argument challenges essentialist hypotheses positing that history is absolute and demonstrates ‘innate’ characteristics of a culture. It provides an example of a contested national past which involves both periods of conflict and periods of peaceful coexistence. Many of the sources used are original language media sources, including newspaper articles, organization websites, and government documents. Interviews, data, and analysis gathered by Gema Martm-Muhoz, Gunther Dietz, Bebee Bahrami, and Nadia el- Shohoumi are used in conjunction with …

An Adventist Missiological Response To Traditional Beliefs In Kenya, Festus Felix Gumbo

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Seventh-day Adventist Christians in Kenya struggle to practice pure biblical teaching because many still practice African traditional beliefs. Many traditional beliefs are inconsistent with biblical teachings. This problem has contributed to syncretism that has weakened the Adventist message in Kenya. Many of the church members follow traditional beliefs because they fear to be condemned by members in society. The traditional belief that says a dead person continues to live and can communicate with the family is still strongly supported by many people in Kenya. This traditional belief contradicts biblical teaching concerning the dead. Other traditional issues church members struggle …

Reaching The Indian Communities In Zambia: A Biblical Model Of Evangelism, John Shumba

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Statistics show that there are a significant number of Asian-Indians who are Zambian nationals. But the church in Zambia has not come up with a program to reach them with the gospel. Therefore, it is important to develop a biblical model of evangelism to reach the Indian communities.

Method

Studies were conducted using available data to obtain information on the social, religious, cultural, and political milieu of the Indian communities in order to develop a modality for cross-cultural mission based on missiological principles and social science disciplines.

Results

Results indicate that there is need for a training program to …

Paul As Reparative Reasoner: Group Rivalry In Galatia, Susannah Ticciati

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

No abstract provided.

Disability, Advocacy And Coping : An Autoethnography On Non-Visible Disability, Dana L. Morella

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Analysis Of A Japanese Film And Its American Remake, Shogo Miura

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Engineering In The Making : An Ethnography Of Product Development, Armineh Noravian

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Osteoporosis In A Prehistoric Bay Area Population, Melynda Leigh Atwood

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Bulwark Against Anarchy: Affirmative Action, Emory Law School, And Southern Self-Help, William B. Turner

UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice

This article demonstrates that Pre-Start, Emory Law School's affirmative action program from 1966 to 1972, provides a useful case study for refraining the current debate around affirmative action in law school admissions. The author performs post-hoc strict scrutiny on Pre-Start, showing that it meets and exceeds the standard set in the leading affirmative action case, Grutter v. Bollinger. The historical context for Pre-Start demonstrates how similar the current arguments against affirmative action in law school admissions are to the arguments used against racial integration of public schools in the first half of the twentieth century. This analysis provides valuable historical …

Incommon- Inaugural Issue 2008, Michael J. Partipilo

InCommon

No abstract provided.

Science Fiction And Postmemory Han In Contemporary Korean American Literature, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

In this essay, Seo-Young Chu explores representations of a specifically Korean American type of postmemory that she calls "postmemory han."

Concert Recording 2008-10-22b, Yu Siu Wah

Concert Recordings & Programs

Liang xiao (nocturn, 1928) / Liu Tian Hua -- Jiang he shui (The flowing river water, early 1960s) / trans. Huang Hai Huai -- Hangong Qiuyue (Autumn moon at the Han palace) / arr. Lui Wen Cheng -- Erquan yingyue (Moon reflected on the second spring, 1950) / Hua Yan Jun -- Yubei Juishi Qu (Ballad of Northern Henan, early 1960s) / Liu Wen Jin -- Beiqiu huaijiu (Autumn Nostalgia, 2004) / arr. Yu Siu Wah -- Liubo qu (Flowing ripples 1952) / Sun Wen Ming -- Yi Meng shan (Yi Meng Mountain, early 1960s) / Zhang Rui -- Pinghu …

Nebraska Anthropologist Volume 23 : 2008 Table Of Contents

Nebraska Anthropologist

In Search of Blood-Stained Earth: A Consideration of Battlefield Archaeology's Applicability to Pre-Historic Conflict in the Eastern and Central Regions of North America (Andrew P. McFeaters)

Technological Introductions and Social Change: European Technology on the Great Plains (Andrew LaBounty)

Temporal Insanity: Woodland Archaeology and the Construction of Valid ChronologIies (Erin C. Dempsey)

Time Perspectivism, Temporal Dynamics, and Battlefield Archaeology: A Case Study from the Santiago Campaign of 1898 (William E. Altizer)

Collective Memory of the Prehistoric Past and the Archaeological Landscape (Cynthia J. Wiley)

Cultural Mentoring at Lincoln North Star High School: A Case Study (Stephen Damm)

The "How" of …

On The Internal Border: Colonial Difference, The Cold War, And The Locations Of "Underdevelopment", Alyosha Goldstein

American Studies Faculty and Staff Publications

In 1962, the recently established Peace Corps announced plans for an intensive field training initiative that would acclimate the agency's burgeoning multitude of volunteers to the conditions of poverty in "underdeveloped" countries and immerse them in "foreign" cultures ostensibly similar to where they would be later stationed. This training was designed to be "as realistic as possible, to give volunteers a 'feel' of the situation they will face." With this purpose in mind, the Second Annual Report of the Peace Corps recounted, "Trainees bound for social work in Colombian city slums were given on-the-job training in New York City's Spanish …

Creating The Pre-Columbian Mythological Figure : The Mochica, Guillermo Guardia

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Route 66 In New Mexico: A Select Guide To Museum, Archival, And Library Resources, Russ Davidson

CSWR Reference Tools

A growing interest, on both popular and scholarly levels, in the study and preservation of historic roads in the United States has highlighted the need for supporting documentation and likewise spurred the production of related bibliographic tools and guides. Building on earlier contributions, this listing of primary resources documenting the history and development of Route 66 in New Mexico reflects the expanding interest in the subject and--it is hoped--offers historians and others a wider range of materials on which to base their research and writing.

Hslic Annual Report Fy2007-08, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

HSLIC Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Tolling For The Luckless, The Abandoned And Forsaked: Community Safety, Therapeutic Jurisprudence And International Human Rights Law As Applied To Prisoners And Detainees, Michael L. Perlin, Astrid Birgden

Articles & Chapters

There has been an explosion of interest in therapeutic jurisprudence as both a filter and lens for viewing theextent to which the legal system serves therapeutic or anti therapeutic consequences. However, little attention has been paid to the impact of therapeutic jurisprudence on questions of international human rights law and the role of forensic psychologists. Human rights are based on legal, social, and moral rules. The paper will propose that human rights principles can add to the normative base of therapeutic jurisprudence, and in turn, therapeutic jurisprudence can assist forensic psychologists to actively address human rights. As duty bearers, forensic …

Global Finance, Business And Human Rights, Faith Stevelman

Articles & Chapters

Global Finance, Business and Human Rights: With Commentary on Backer's Views on the 2008, Protect-Respect-Remedy Framework Presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council

Virtual Colonization, Andras Margitay-Becht, Dana Herrera

School of Liberal Arts Faculty Works

The intersections of virtual worlds, imagined communities and ``real life´´ are producing complex liminal spaces that social scientists are gradually surveying. Although their economic potential and impact has been examined in great detail, the extensive effect they have on international relations and trade is so far largely unmapped. The paper will discuss the various spaces where the existence of virtual societies change the way countries and societies interact with one another, detailing the effect on culture, division of labour and international trade. Can it truly be optimal for a low-income economy to specialize in the production of virtual goods? What …

The Spillikin (Vol. 25), Valparaiso University

The Spillikin - The Christ College Newsletter

No abstract provided.

New College Class Of 2008 Commencement Program, New College Of Florida

Office of the Registrar Collection

Twelve page program detailing the order of events for commencement at the New College of Florida, including location and dates of events, speakers' names and subjects and songs sung.

University Reporter - Volume 12, Number 05 - January 2008

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about the University's 25-year master plan, a collaboration between the University's public radio station and the Institute for Asian American Studies, the dedication of the Boston State College Room, GoKids programming, and other news from UMass Boston.

Economic Systems In Africa, Michael Kevane

Economics

An enormous variety of experiences and possibilities characterized African economic systems at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Small village communities continued to till the soil and raise goats, sheep, cows, and chickens using the same techniques of their grandfathers, renewing all the while traditions of social solidarity and hospitality that have characterized rural Africa for centuries.Overhead, however,multinational corporations owned and operated by African nationals organized transcontinental air travel, microwave and satellite transmissions, and cell phone networks. Africa globalized with the rest of the world, though in different ways. Exports of goods and services stagnated even as migration generated new …

Diminished Access, Diverted Exclusion: Women And Land Tenure In Sub-Saharan Africa, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray

Economics

Increasing commercialization, population growth and concurrent increases in land value have affected women's land rights in Africa. Most of the literature concentrates on how these changes have led to an erosion of women's rights. This paper examines some of the processes by which women's rights to land are diminishing. First, we examine cases where rights previously utilized have become less important; that is, the incidence of exercising rights has decreased. Second, we investigate how women's rights to land decrease as the public meanings underlying the social interpretation and enforcement of rights are manipulated. Third, we examine women's diminishing access to …

Insights- October 2008, University Relations Staff

Insights

No abstract provided.

Fearing Islam In Uzbekistan : Islamic Tendencies, Extremist Violence, And Authoritarian Secularism, Russell Zanca

Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

An Interview With Kenneth A. Bruffee, Michele A. Eodice

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Poisoners, Larcenists, And The Mad Chambermaid: Villainy In Late Victorian Detective Fiction, Jennifer Filion

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis seeks to identify patterns of villainy in late nineteenth-century detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this study identifies and focuses on six primary categories: the visual depiction of the criminal, the criminal class, the jewelry heist, the colonial subject, the violent female offender, and the domestic villain. The creation of each criminal category and the reinforcement of that “type” in popular literature functions to establish order and to support beliefs …

"Everybody Loves Trees": Policing American Cities Through Street Trees, Irus Braverman

Journal Articles

Recently, municipalities have been investing large sums of money as well as much bureaucratic and professional effort into making their cities not only a more "treefull" place, but also a place that surveys, measures, regulates, and manages its trees. This article explores the transformation of the utilitarian discourse on trees, which focuses on the benefits of trees and greenery, into a normative discourse whereby trees are not only considered good but are also represented as if they are or should be loved by everybody. This transformation is not only the result of top-down governmental policies. It is also a consequence …