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Arête December 2007, Honors College

Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter

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The Walt Whitman Archive: The Body Of Work Electric, William A. Pannapacker

Faculty Publications

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Arête November 2007, Honors College

Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter

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Reinventing The Self: Native American Women's Autobiographies, Kristin Lynn Rozzell

English Dissertations

Native American women's autobiographies are complex writings that stretch the very genre itself. As the genre of autobiography is reinvented by both early and contemporary texts, the nature of self expression through that genre is also reinvented. With Leslie Marmon Silko's inventive 1981 autobiography Storyteller as the guide post for what an autobiography can be, I examine other autobiographies by Native American women that come before and after this work, naming some works autobiographies for the first time. Naming a work an autobiography gives credence to the autobiographer's chosen means of writing her life. Native American women reveal who they …

Frantic Fathers And Misplaced Mothers: Hegemonic Patriarchal Reinforcement Of The Traditional Family In American Film, Teriann Gaston Blaisdell

English Dissertations

Movies play an integral part in the formation of cultural identity and therefore should be subject to critical examination. This study examines the roles of mothers and fathers in films by looking at several basic techniques used to reinforce patriarchy. The focus will be an examination of post-1990s Hollywood film with relevant background information coming from earlier Hollywood films. Films which ridicule fathers who try to take on traditional female roles are first examined. In these films it is necessary for a woman to come in and rescue the man by embracing the role she was "intended" for. Another popular …

Review Of Eat This Book, By Eugene Peterson, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger

Faculty Publications

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Teaching Social Influence: Resources And Exercises From The Field Of Communication, John S. Seiter, R. H. Gass

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Effective teachers know that when students are engaged in active learning, they learn more, retain it longer, apply it better, and continue to learn (Weimer, 1993). One way to promote such learning is through the use of innovative classroom activities that lead students to understand, interpret, and/or apply information. In that spirit, educators in the field of communication have developed an array of activities and demonstrations for promoting active learning in students of social influence. To facilitate the use of such activities, this article uses an annotated bibliography format to review over 30 published articles designed by communication teachers to …

The Effect Of Compliments On Tipping Behavior In Hair Styling Salons, John S. Seiter, Eric Dutson

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This study examined the role of compliments on tipping behavior in hairstyling salons. Two female hair stylists cut and styled 115 customers' hair and either complimented or did not compliment the customers while interacting. Results indicated that hair stylists received significantly higher tips when complimenting their customers than when not complimenting them. These results and their implications are discussed.

Teaching Students How To Analyze And Adapt To Audiences, John S. Seiter, R. H. Gass

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Not long ago, one of the author's students told him, “I won't be able to make it to your class today. I have to study for a test in another course. Will I miss anything important?” The author, of course, had heard this excuse before, as many of us probably have. What made this interaction more amusing was what, by coincidence, the student was going to miss that day: a discussion on analyzing and adapting to audiences. Had she attended the class, we wonder if she would understand the negative ways in which her excuse might be interpreted by a …

Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. – Book Review, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

Openings, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

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Down And Back Again: A Swimmer's Body Moves Through Feminism, Young Adult Sport Literature And Film, Michelle Renee Sanders

English Dissertations

Contemporary material feminism is interested in finding new ways of writing and liberating women's bodies in literature, and some of these feminists are looking at sport literature to do so. Down and Back Again: A Swimmer's Body Moves Through Feminism, Young Adult Sport Literature and Film analyzes the ways in which women are represented and/or embodied in feminist theoretical texts, sport photographs, young adult sport fiction and film. By examining these texts in relation to each other and in relation to my own experience in sport, this dissertation creates a circular and recursive story, much like swimming laps, as I …

Shades Of Scarlett: Cultural Images Of Historical Southern Women, Gail Nash Tunnell

English Theses

The white antebellum/Civil War-era woman occupies an evolving archetypal status in American cultural consciousness throughout the twentieth century. In 1936, extending a one-hundred year tradition of featuring Southern belles in novels, Margaret Mitchell published Gone with the Wind; in 1996, Charles Frazier published Cold Mountain. Both of these novels offer striking images of the Southern belle as well as the "poor white" Southern woman. My paper will compare the images and interactions of upper and lower class female characters, considering the earlier stereotypical characteristics given to each group, the homosocial relationships between the two groups, and the revision of both, …

Death Of The American Dream: The Revolutionary Meaning Of Infant Mortality And Mourning In Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette, Tracey-Lynn Clough

English Theses

This thesis explores the broader implications of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette through an acknowledgment and assessment of a male audience. The Coquette is a seduction narrative that is linked through form and tradition to Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy. However, this project examines the unique strategies Foster employs to make literary meaning outside the space of domesticity. The Coquette's social and political aims can be located in the textual divergences from similar texts of the period. Foster refuses to make narrative apologies, shifts the point of view, and appears determined to more …

Beyond Good And Evil: Sister Leopolda's Traumatic Will To Power, Alisha Stafford Feitosa

English Theses

This is an in-depth analysis of one of Louise Erdrich's most extraordinary characters, Sister Leopolda. I examine Leopolda first as a trauma victim who has suffered the loss of family, witnessed the death and assault of various friends, struggled with her mixed heritage, and fought to establish herself in a world where Indians were rapidly losing their power, their land, and their lives. Second, I use Friedrich Nietzsche's views of power to illustrate how Leopolda's seemingly random and fanatical exploits are actually examples of her will to power. Because of her disturbing past, Leopolda must struggle to survive; her astonishing …

Clark University Sinfonia, Clark University Sinfonia

Event Archive

Clark University Sinfonia

April 15, 2007

Razzo Hall, Traina Center, Clark University

Clark University Concert Choir And Chamber Chorus, Concert Choir And Chamber Chorus

Event Archive

Clark University Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus

Razzo Hall, Traina Center, Clark University

April 14, 2007

Clark University Concert Band, Concert Band

Event Archive

Clark University Concert Band

Razzo Hall, Traina Center, Clark University

April 14, 2007

Historical And Textual Evidence For The Early, Eyewitness Resurrection Reports (Video File), Gary R. Habermas

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (1973-2015)

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Ladies And Loners: A Comparative Gender Study Of The Romance And Popular Western, Courtney Rena Henderson

English Theses

Despite the efforts of readers, writers and cultural critics, the fact remains that romance and the Western genres are considered low art. The real impetus behind this paper is not whether or not or even why they are considered low art. The important questions for me, the cultural critic, are: Why are these books so popular? What do they offer their readers? In considering their popular appeal, I think the implication of gender is the most illuminating piece of the puzzle. In this thesis, I will analyze the gender-specific fantasies offered in the Western romance novel and the popular Western, …

Freeze-Frame: Time And Vision In Three Early Welty Stories, Barbara L. Coots

English Theses

Eudora Welty's early short stories provide a fitting career transition from photographer to writer. In particular, her creative figuration of time--enriched by her employment of photographic vision--graces her earliest collection, A Curtain of Green. In this paper, I apply a critical approach based on the narrative theory of time by Paul Ricoeur to discover meaning in three of those stories: "A Curtain of Green," "The Key," and "A Memory." Using Ricoeur's proposition of three mimetic stages--prefiguration, configuration, and refiguration--and taking the liberty to peer through the camera lens, I identify a unifying theme of feminine emergence that finds its definition …

Secession Era Editorials Tei Metadata (Xml Format), T. Lloyd Benson

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

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Ingratiation And Gratuity: The Effect Of Complimenting Customers On Tipping Behavior In Restaurants, John S. Seiter

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The present study examined the role of ingratiation on tipping behavior in restaurants. In the study, 2 female food servers waited on 94 couples eating dinner, and either complimented or did not compliment the couples on their dinner selections. Results indicated that food servers received significantly higher tips when complimenting their customers than when not complimenting them. These results and their implications are discussed.

Deception And Emotion: The Effects Of Motivation, Relationship Type, And Sex On Expected Feelings Of Guilt And Shame Following Acts Of Deception In United States And Chinese Samples, John S. Seiter, Jon Bruschke

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This study explored whether people expect to experience guilt and shame following acts of deception, and whether such expectations are mediated by the deceivers' motivation, culture, sex, and/or the type of relationship between the deceiver and deceived. Students from China and the United States imagined themselves in several deception scenarios and rated the degree to which they would expect to experience guilt and shame following the deception. The scenarios depicted messages told for different reasons (e.g., to avoid conflict, to appear better) and with various relational partners (e.g., friends, spouses, strangers). Results indicated that motive, culture, and relationship affect emotional …

Three Fanfares: Circle City Fanfare, Campane In Aria, Fanfare For A Common Band (2007), Frank Felice

Music Faculty Scores

Concert band/wind ensemble – composed for Robert Grechesky

Earthkeeping And The Bible, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger

Faculty Publications

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Mystery, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger

Faculty Publications

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Whitman And Dickinson, William A. Pannapacker, Paul Crumbley

Faculty Publications

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Winter Commencement (Decenber 4, 2012), John David Walt, Donald E. Demaray, James Earl Massey

ATS Chapel Services

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Winter Commencement (December 4, 2007), William E. Pannell

ATS Chapel Services

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