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The Aural In Beloved, Jody Morgan
The Aural In Beloved, Jody Morgan
All Volumes (2001-2008)
I know that my effort is to be like something that has probably only been fully expressed perhaps in music . . . Writing novels is a way to encompass this-this something. Toni Morrison (Mckay, 152) In an interview with Christina Davis, Toni Morrison describes her writing as “aural literature . . . because I do hear it” (230). Beloved is a particularly rich example of Morrison’s “aural literature”, literature which sounds and resounds. In an interview with Paul Gilroy, Morrison elaborates that these sounds are primarily musical: “My parallel is always the music, because all of the strategies of …
Pardon Our French: French Stereotypes In American Media, Lauren Ferber
Pardon Our French: French Stereotypes In American Media, Lauren Ferber
All Volumes (2001-2008)
According to the mental models approach to media effects, Americans with no French contact are more likely to believe media display a more accurate picture of the French culture than in reality. Forty undergraduate students participated in a study to test the following hypotheses: (1) Viewers without French contact will accept more stereotypical statements than viewers with French contact (2) Viewers with French contact will have a longer response latency when assessing the truth value of stereotypical statements. Twenty participants had previous knowledge or experience of French culture and 20 did not. The participants watched a film clip, answered questionnaires, …
The Cultural House In Ostrov And Its Relation To Czech Secession Style, Dita Dlugosova-Knappova
The Cultural House In Ostrov And Its Relation To Czech Secession Style, Dita Dlugosova-Knappova
All Volumes (2001-2008)
Architecture in the former Czechoslovakia was heavily dominated by Soviet influence after the Communist Coup in February 1948. The research presented in this paper focuses on a building called the Cultural House, which was created during the worst times of political repression in the 1950s in a small town of Ostrov, located on the Czech western border with Germany. (Fig.1) It is in my opinion that for the Cultural House in this town, Czech architects were able to integrate their Austrian and Czech teachers’ ideas from the pre-World War II period and mixed Secession styles with Socialist Realism, in part …
The Relevance Of Confucian Philosophy To Modern Concepts Of Leadership And Followership, Sujeeta Dhakhwa, Stacey Enriquez
The Relevance Of Confucian Philosophy To Modern Concepts Of Leadership And Followership, Sujeeta Dhakhwa, Stacey Enriquez
All Volumes (2001-2008)
The purpose of this paper is to discuss Confucian philosophy and compare its relevance to modern concepts of leadership and followership. It will demonstrate that both exemplify the same ideology, though separated by centuries of history. The paper first introduces the reader to the history of Chinese government and the life of Confucius as a teacher. Then it will expand on the importance of understanding his philosophy on leadership and followership as well as its impact on China’s political and cultural development. It will then examine three Confucian teachings on leadership and three on followership. Finally, with this information, it …
Hymn To Death, Nicole R. Schmidt
The Application Of The "Revised Principle Of Alternate Possibilities" In A Causality Determined Universe, Nicholas Michaud
The Application Of The "Revised Principle Of Alternate Possibilities" In A Causality Determined Universe, Nicholas Michaud
All Volumes (2001-2008)
According to Henry J. Frankfurt, the claim that “ought implies can” is taken by many philosophers as so foundational as to almost be considered an “a priori” truth. In his paper “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility,” Frankfurt challenges this assumption. He proposes the “revised principle of alternate possibilities,” asserting that we intuitively absolve agents of moral responsibility only if they act solely because they could not do otherwise. Ten years later, John Martin Fischer challenges Frankfurt’s claim, asserting that this cannot be the case if an agent exists within a universe governed by actual sequence causation and therefore, moral accountability …
Resistance And Accommodation: Protestant Responses To Nazism, Mike Radcliffe
Resistance And Accommodation: Protestant Responses To Nazism, Mike Radcliffe
All Volumes (2001-2008)
Among Germany’s Christians in the early twentieth century, Protestants were the most prevalent. Protestantism was bound to Germany’s history and society in the man of Martin Luther and the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, and the Protestant church had since been a key force in constructing a moral universe for the German nation into the twentieth century. However, Hitler’s conscious construction of a new moral order directly challenged that universe by virtue of nationalism, allegiance to the Führer, racism, and eventually a war of conquest and genocide. His aim was total control, but “Nazi claims of success in converting the nation to …
Memory And Melodrama In Colonial And Postcolonial French Film, Mary Catherine Dillon
Memory And Melodrama In Colonial And Postcolonial French Film, Mary Catherine Dillon
All Volumes (2001-2008)
Critical analysis of colonial and postcolonial cinema is a growing field of academic research. The editor of the International Journal of Francophone Studies, Kamal Salhi, explains that many American and English university French programs now offer degrees in this area of study (2). One line of research in this field centers on colonial and postcolonial memory in French cinema. This is because colonial memory has a problematic relationship to French national ideology. This thesis explores the causal connection between French colonial and postcolonial memory and melodramatic structures. Two French films, Indochine and Chocolat were the subjects of this study. These …
Mine, April Fisher
Tantra: An Analysis, Damien L. Mcdonald
Tantra: An Analysis, Damien L. Mcdonald
All Volumes (2001-2008)
The tradition of Tantra, which is often without clear classification amongst scholars, does not have a single definition that thoroughly or accurately describes it. Because of the multifaceted nature of Tantric teachings, which include multiple goals and methods of practice, the task of defining Tantra is arduous at best. Without an agreed upon definition amongst scholars, Tantra can broadly be viewed as a connection to and simultaneous divergence from Vedic and Brahmanical teachings. This classification can be illustrated through an analysis of the Vedic and Tantric pantheon and rituals performed by each group’s practitioners. Additionally, an analysis of accounts by …
Looted Art: The Case Of The Parthenon Sculptures, Alison Lindsey Moore
Looted Art: The Case Of The Parthenon Sculptures, Alison Lindsey Moore
All Volumes (2001-2008)
Many artifacts which comprise private and museum collections today were possibly stolen from their country of origin and illegally smuggled into the country in which they now reside. In the late eighteenth century, the global powers of England and France exercised their authority over less powerful countries, such as Greece and Egypt, by exporting those countries’ traditional artifacts. Now, the governments of the less dominant countries no longer dismiss the pieces as useless artifacts, but view them as valuable cultural objects. The number of countries attempting to regain possession of lost artifacts from private and museum collections was recently increased. …
In The Lion’S Den: Orthodox Christians Under Ottoman Rule, 1400-1550, Neil Paradise
In The Lion’S Den: Orthodox Christians Under Ottoman Rule, 1400-1550, Neil Paradise
All Volumes (2001-2008)
The Ottoman Empire’s conquest of the Balkans and subsequent administration left a perplexing religious legacy. The Islamic Ottoman presence lasted almost five centuries, yet Christianity remained the overwhelming religion of choice in the area. The Ottoman treatment of subject Christians has been long debated, with characterizations ranging from a cosmopolitan haven of freedom to a brutal rule of forced conversion. However, the real picture appears far more complex than these generalizations – the Ottoman relationship with Orthodox Christianity in the Balkans changed over time, depending in part on religious tenets but also largely on the realities and varying situations facing …
Ruthless Oppressors? Unraveling The Myth About The Spanish Inquisition, Drek Ortiz
Ruthless Oppressors? Unraveling The Myth About The Spanish Inquisition, Drek Ortiz
All Volumes (2001-2008)
From its inception to the present, critics of the Spanish Inquisition has characterized the institution as omnipotent and oppressive and highlighted its role in the expulsion, forced conversion, and execution of supposed heretics. The latter perception is misleading. Revisionist historians by the 1960s dismissed the latter portrayal and offered a more objective description of the institution. A careful analysis of Inquisition records and secondary literature reveals that the Spanish Inquisition was less powerful and more benign than previously characterized.
The Cult Of Love, Michal Paul
The Cult Of Love, Michal Paul
All Volumes (2001-2008)
There can be no doubt that romantic love is, at a minimum, a cultural preoccupation; arguably, it closer resembles a frenzied obsession. Love is the subject of song lyrics, television shows, films, books, watercooler conversation, gossip, scandal, historic tragedy, and uncountable daydreams and fantasies. Type “romantic love” into a Google search and you will retrieve over 4,570,000 hits for websites featuring the topic. We even recognize a national holiday in its honor. Certainly one could say that love is an ultimate concern in American culture. Just how deep, though, is our devotion to its tenets? I argue that people live …
Spectacle Of Redemption: Film As Religious Iconography, Michal Paul
Spectacle Of Redemption: Film As Religious Iconography, Michal Paul
All Volumes (2001-2008)
In his book, Film as Religion: Myths Morals and Rituals, John C. Lyden argues that the movie theater has become a surrogate sacred space, where film provides for its audiences a system of world-naming that contributes to the formation of morals, the establishment of ritual, and a manner of addressing matters of ultimate concern.
“Films can be taken as illusions in one sense, but can also have the force of reality by presenting a vision of how the world is as well as how it might be. In the ritual context of viewing a film, we ‘entertain’ the truth …
Men As Bars, Women As Hotels, Reginald Youngblood
Men As Bars, Women As Hotels, Reginald Youngblood
All Volumes (2001-2008)
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“Temporary Gentlemen” On The Western Front: Class Consciousness And The British Army Officer, 1914-1918, Laura Root
“Temporary Gentlemen” On The Western Front: Class Consciousness And The British Army Officer, 1914-1918, Laura Root
All Volumes (2001-2008)
A careful evaluation of diaries and memoirs of British temporary officers in World War I suggests that the class consciousness and Regular Army ideals inculcated during training had little bearing on officers’ actual experiences on the front lines. Their accounts confirm previous scholars’ conclusions about the presence of class feelings among officers, but the value they place on military effectiveness in the trenches is much more significant. After 1914, high casualty rates among junior officers forced the British army to seek candidates for commissions from social classes that, before the war, would not have been considered officer material. Accounts from …
Looking Behind The Veil Of An Idealized Past: The Useful Legacy Of A False Prophet, James Holeman
Looking Behind The Veil Of An Idealized Past: The Useful Legacy Of A False Prophet, James Holeman
All Volumes (2001-2008)
Traditional Muslim narratives maintain that in 632 C.E., while the Prophet Muhammad (c. 570-632) was on his deathbed, several Arabian tribes apostatized from Islam only to be “recaptured” by Muslim armies during a series of wars fought under the first Caliph Abu Bakr. Muslim traditions attributed leadership of those “apostate” movements to a number of “false prophets.” The most notorious of these “enemies of God” was Musaylima B. Habib, otherwise known as the “archliar” and the “false prophet” of Yamamah. Several scholars have attempted a historical reconstruction of Musaylima’s career, but the problematic nature of the primary source material renders …
The Birds In My Life, Christopher Sylvester
The Birds In My Life, Christopher Sylvester
All Volumes (2001-2008)
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Berkeley’S Idealist Theory Of Knowledge And Whether Or Not Empiricism Can Lead To Idealism, Stacey Macpherson
Berkeley’S Idealist Theory Of Knowledge And Whether Or Not Empiricism Can Lead To Idealism, Stacey Macpherson
All Volumes (2001-2008)
George Berkeley is perhaps one of the most unique and intriguing figures in the history of modern philosophy. Dissatisfied with and angered by the materialist philosophies of his contemporaries, especially the ideas of John Locke,
Berkeley called for a return to "common sense." But "common sense," for Berkeley, involved not just a skeptical view of materialism, but the assertion that the material world does not exist at all! Berkeley utilizes persuasive logical arguments and empiricist principles in order to refute the existence of matter. However, when he attempts to account for what does exist, he makes a startling claim which …
Artist Study: The Compositional Style Of Jazz Guitarist Nathen Page, Stephen Lesche
Artist Study: The Compositional Style Of Jazz Guitarist Nathen Page, Stephen Lesche
All Volumes (2001-2008)
For this project, I have composed three and arranged two compositions for jazz quartet in the style of Page. The featured instrumentation will be guitar, piano, drums, and bass, which is the same instrumentation that Page had used almost exclusively since he first formed his own group. In preparation for writing my compositions and arrangements, I first had to learn Page’s compositions and arrangements by transcribing them from his recordings. In presenting my compositions/arrangements, I will first present the Page composition that my work will be derived from, along with a short written explanation of the song. Then I will …
Hidden In The Strand, Laura Havice
Environmentalism And Zen Buddhism, Shari Jaymes
Environmentalism And Zen Buddhism, Shari Jaymes
All Volumes (2001-2008)
It seems as though Buddhism, and further Zen Buddhism, may offer ecology or environmentalism or conservationism (or any other “ism” in relation to the preservation of the natural world) a new perspective upon the problem of implementing a “land ethic.” There are many reasons to believe this, as the following work will show. I hope to determine whether or not Zen can be considered an ecological discipline.
Does it make a contribution (negative or positive) to a land ethic? And further, what does Zen think of the conservation movement? What does environmentalism think of Zen?
Luminous, April E. Fisher
Censured Mystics: Expression And Accusation In Sixteenth Century Spain, Allison Ralph
Censured Mystics: Expression And Accusation In Sixteenth Century Spain, Allison Ralph
All Volumes (2001-2008)
In sixteenth-century Spain, women were among the individuals in society with the most limits placed on their behavior, and with the least ability to practice self-determination.
Since social and religious norms are interrelated and influence each other, their twin ladders of social mobility are also related. Some courageous women created for themselves upward social mobility by using the separate hierarchy of religious devotion. Since ecstatic religious experience and special access to the holy were regarded as a gift from God, this religious hierarchy could be described as level of access to the holy and was less defined and more fluid …
Discussing The Allegedly Democratic Nature Of Judicial Review, Eddie Sarnowski
Discussing The Allegedly Democratic Nature Of Judicial Review, Eddie Sarnowski
All Volumes (2001-2008)
Defined as the function of the court to interpret and apply the constitution to particular circumstances and legal issues, judicial review has become a noteworthy expression of the power of the judiciary. Nearly 200 years old, this seemingly simple doctrine has instigated a substantial amount of political controversy and debate from which three individuals should be recognized for their contributions. Ronald Dworkin, a proponent of judicial activism, believes in “leaving issues to the court’s judgment” and investing our faith in their decisions (Dworkin 526). Supporting Dworkin, John Arthur asserts that judicial review promotes democracy, and more importantly, imposes safeguards against …
Photo Intelligence And The Cuban Missile Crisis, Adam P. Bejger
Photo Intelligence And The Cuban Missile Crisis, Adam P. Bejger
All Volumes (2001-2008)
The Cuban Missile Crisis served as a prime example of the importance of photointelligence in the successful management of an international crisis. President Kennedy was provided with excellent, but not faultless, intelligence through the use of photointelligence. Kennedy used photointelligence to decide upon his policy of quarantine. The quarantine and subsequent diplomatic efforts led to a successful resolution of the missile crisis, with a minimum loss to American interests. During the Crisis, Kennedy followed the example of President Eisenhower in using photointelligence to make foreign policy decisions.
The People Of The Buses, Alexander Diaz
The People Of The Buses, Alexander Diaz
All Volumes (2001-2008)
This past summer I traveled for a month by bus through four Central American countries. During my month long journey, I traveled for over 70 hours and across 1,800 miles on local buses. My trip started in Belize, from there I made my way to Guatemala, through El Salvador and
Honduras then back to Guatemala, finally ending my trip where I began: Belize.
This trip manifested itself in my mind as a result of previous trips I made to Central America. During my prior travels to this region of the world, I became fascinated with the people and culture of …
"If The Spanish Would But Join" The Forgotten Implications Of Spanish Involvement In The American Revolution, Allison Coble
"If The Spanish Would But Join" The Forgotten Implications Of Spanish Involvement In The American Revolution, Allison Coble
All Volumes (2001-2008)
The participation of other countries is generally absent from most American recollections of the Revolutionary War. The stories of the War of Independence generally invoke images of the young colonies rebelling against the British monarchy, but how could a small strip of colonies break away from Britain unaided? Acknowledgement is given to the French, if only briefly, for their presence at the Battle of Yorktown, but Americans tends to forget that France was the first ally of the United States. Even less attention is given to another European county that aided the war effort. Although rarely mentioned in textbooks, Spain …
Pterodactyls: Directing The Move From Page To Stage, Shawn Lenoble
Pterodactyls: Directing The Move From Page To Stage, Shawn Lenoble
All Volumes (2001-2008)
The process for producing Pterodactyls (Nov. 2001) started one and a half years prior to an audience member even contemplating stepping into the Robinson Theatre to see a production of a play by the award-winning playwright Nicky Silver. I knew for a long time that I wanted to direct a play, but Pterodactyls was not always my choice. Initially, I had thought of doing Christopher Durang's, Beyond Therapy, but a simple reading of a monologue changed all that.