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Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Fledge contest for first-year writing
• Kim Addonizio (Georgia Poetry Circuit) campus visit & reading

In A Consolidated World Of Alternative Facts Do You Experience The Dilemma Of Values?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.

Margaret Marie Evans

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral program for Margaret Evans. Service was held on January 24, 2017 in Villa Rica, Georgia.

Sherry Laverne Chisholm Bland

African American Funeral Programs

Sherry_-Laverne-_Chisholm_Bland.pdf - Funeral program for Sherry Laverne Chisholm Bland

Wilfrid François

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Thomas Wilder Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

Thomas--Tom--Wilder.pdf - Funeral program for Thomas Wilder Sr.

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• 2016 Brannen Creative Writing Award ceremony & reading

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• 2016 Brannen Creative Writing Award ceremony & reading

Annie Mae Saxon

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Lillie Bell Bailey Smith

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Ms. Louise Cuyler

African American Funeral Programs

Ms_Louise_Cuyler.pdf - Funeral program for Louise Cuyler

Tyre Dartanione Parks

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Tyre Dartanione Parks on Jan. 4, 2017 at Ben Samuel Hill Memorial Chapel

Lily Mae Harris

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Donald Austin Olewine Papers, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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This collection consists of Donald Austin Olewine’s research on various subjects related to medical physiology and biology. Materials span 1965-1982 and include published and unpublished articles, pamphlets, brochures, magazines, and student work.

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Accounting For Taste In Irish Traditional Music, Eryn T. Wagnon

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Although it is self-evident that people care about music, we don’t know how they make sense of their taste in it. In this study, I will explore how individuals explain their taste in music. I will specifically be focusing on the genre of Irish traditional music (ITM). One way to explore how people account for their taste in this genre is through a qualitative content analysis of online comments. I hope to demonstrate the vocabulary of motives for music preference, by focusing on how individuals account for their taste in Irish traditional music online. Also, this study will help show …

Shakespeare's "Honest And Vertuous" Ensigns: Transgressing The Military/Domestic Divide In The Henriad And Othello, Matthew R. Wentz

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This thesis explores how the military service of the ensign disrupts and ultimately obliterates domestic life in Shakespeare’s Henriad and Othello. The rank of the ensign held expectations of honesty and honor, yet Shakespeare portrays his only two ensign characters, Ancient Pistol and Iago, as ironically failing to adhere to these standards. The received view of Pistol that results from his portrayal in 2 Henry IV as a stock braggadocio is challenged by a sympathetic reading of his character, especially in Henry V. Although Pistol occasionally behaves with honor in Henry V, his military service results in …

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Coates Family Collection, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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Spanning 1988-2020, the collection highlights the life, career and personal interests of Dr. Basil L. Coates, former faculty member of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Southern University. Materials also reference Dr. Coates’ wife and fellow faculty member, Kay G. Coates, as well as their shared travels and research.

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Lotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Association Records, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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This collection consists of minutes of the Lotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Association (Bulloch County, Ga.) from 1905-1968. The minutes for 1906 are missing. The collection also includes printed minutes (ca. 1969-1971) of other Primitive Baptist Associations located mainly in Georgia.

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Betty Foy Sanders Art Collection Records, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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This collection consists of materials related to the Betty Foy Sanders Art Collection in the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Georgia Southern University. Materials span 1969 to 1985 and include brochures, promotional materials, and biographical sketches of exhibiting artists.

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White Actors In The Civil Rights Movement: Social Progressives In Americus, Georgia, Garret A. Moye

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This research explicates the complexity of race relations between whites and blacks during the mid-twentieth century by using the story of Koinonia Farm (now Koinonia Partners) in Americus, Georgia. Founded in 1942, Koinonia actively practiced and promoted equality between all ethnicities and emerged as a vanguard for liberal policies over a decade before the Civil Rights Movement reached Sumter County. Notably, Koinonians effected this change while refusing to engage or align with either the white liberal movement or the Civil Rights Movement, electing to avoid politicization of their endeavors in hopes of inspiring what they felt to be a truer …

Cognitive And Emotional Processes Involved In The Experience Of Objects As Holy Or Transcendent, Lotte J. Pummerer

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

In recent years, attitudes about religion/spirituality have become more pluralistic (Pew Research Center, 2015a). At the same time, the number of individuals who identify themselves as nonreligious, atheist or agnostic are growing (Pew Research Center, 2015b), yet we are lacking words and research to describe their attributions of transcendence in language not bound to religious concepts. This study aims at examining both concepts – holiness and transcendence – in their similarities and differences through assessing cognitive and emotional processes involved in experiences of objects.

The study consisted of two parts with a total of 206 Christian and 52 nonreligious/atheistic/agnostic participants. …

“There Was That In Her Face And Form Which Made Him Loathe The Sight Of Her”: Disfiguration And Deformity Of Female Characters In 19th Century American Women’S Literature, Kelsi E. Cunningham Miss

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Wilkins Freeman challenge the way that society treats and views the disabled and deformed. Through different representations of the disabled characters, the three short stories by these authors reveal the realities that women faced in the 19^th century in response to rigid beauty standards and expectations. The authors in this study address the marginalized position of the disabled characters and show how society’s attempts to “normalize” the women confine them to a fixed identity. Analyzing the texts in relation to disability studies and the authors’ perceived effectiveness of social charity will …

The Parton Paradox: A History Of Race And Gender In The Career Of Dolly Parton, Lindsey L. Hammers

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

With a career that has spanned over five decades, country music artist Dolly Parton has continually redefined her image and her music to remain relevant. By incorporating the musical and lyrical stylings of disco and other popular music genres into her songs, Parton moved beyond music’s color line to increase her popularity as an artist. This thesis shows how Parton established a distinct career that catered to different audiences as she traversed the musical color line and repackaged what feminism looked like to country music fans during the Women’s Movement of the 1960s. Placing Parton’s actions in conversation with music’s …

Female Art And Artisans In Edith Wharton’S The House Of Mirth, The Custom Of The Country, And “Roman Fever”, Julia B. Welch

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

In early twentieth century old and new New York social circles, the marriage market’s commodification of women acted as the controlling factor for relationships, female power, and personal identity. When considering Wharton’s works for the first-hand viewpoint that she provided of the marriage market, it becomes clear that her interest in art plays heavily into the way women comport themselves within her novels. In order to discuss this relationship in Edith Wharton’s works, I’ve created terms that delineate the various ways female characters respond to the pressures of the marriage market. The best way to analyze Wharton’s women is by …

Wiley Nessmith Family Letters, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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This collection consists of correspondence from Wiley Nessmith to his wife, Martha Ann Nesmith written during the Civil War from 1862-1865. Also included are typed transcripts, published and unpublished materials on the Nessmith family, and correspondence between Franklyn Hatch and the Nessmith family concerning the letters.

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Sheet Music Collection, 1910-1950, University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library

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This collection is an amalgamation of sheet music collections from five sources: the almost 2000 pieces of sheet music of early-20th century popular music acquired by Dr. Warren Fields in 1980 from Ms. L. Lieuwenkamp of Savannah, who had been a silent movie pianist; the 67 pieces which were acquired by Smith C. Banks from Mr. George Beasley and family in 1996; and the 218 pieces which came with the papers of Ronald J. Neil in 1994; eleven pieces from the late Richard B. Harwell; and 48 pieces, as well as music books and magazines, from Carolyn Lee.

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Robert John Henderson Deloach Collection, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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This collection consists of twenty-eight photocopies of Robert John Henderson DeLoach’s correspondence with Georgia Governer. Eugene Talmadge from the early 1940s, related materials including newspaper clippings, an inscribed copy of Deloach’s book on John Burroughs, photographs, glass slides, and an obituary are also included.

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Georgia Southern College Student Theatre Collection, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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This collection consists of programs, photographs, and promotional material from Georgia Southern College’s social events as well as campus and local theatre productions from 1936 to 1988. Documented are productions performed on Georgia Southern’s campus, mostly by outside theatre companies.

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Percy H. Perkins, Jr. Architectural Drawings, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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This collection consists of materials relating to author and gemologist Percy H. Perkins. Materials span 1923 to 1985, and consist of architecture drawings for various significant buildings in southeast Georgia, including a six room schoolhouse in Claxton, GA, Pembroke State Bank, the Stadium & Athletic Field for Morris Brown College, the Women's Dormitory School for Officers’ Training at The Salvation Army Headquarters, Bacon County Elementary School, Claxton High School, and Evans County Training School.

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