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A Slice Of Life: Selected Documents Of Medieval English Peasant Experience, Edwin Brezette Dewindt

TEAMS Documents of Practice

"Since the audience for this text is assumed to be primarily students of medieval history, nothing from a specifically literary text has been included. Further, since archaeology deals in artifacts and other physical remains, it is impractical to supply material from that discipline. Therefore, only material from record sources is provided . . . These are the only written materials that permit some measure of personalized contact with specific men and women from the past, so this gives them a special importance." - from the Introduction

"Permit Me Then Good Friends To Sing": Reflections, Reactions, And Manipulations In Civil War Songs, Joanne Thomas

Masters Theses

Musicologists, folklorists and historians agree that the music of the Civil War was a significant means of communication for Americans in all regions and classes. The popularity of music soared during the war, with songs about the war holding center stage. This study moves beyond the acknowledgment that these songs were an important means of communication to seeing what messages were being communicated by both professional and amateur songwriters. These lyricists criticized and praised behaviors, often pointing out the social acceptance or exclusion that could result from individual behaviors, made assumptions about and passed moral judgements on female, male, and …

Group Cohesiveness Represented Through A Multidimensional Analysis Of Group Improvisations, Rosemary Hakes

Masters Theses

This research examined the particular aspect of group process, group cohesiveness, through an electroacoustic analysis of group musical improvisations. The musical parameter, amplitude, was displayed and compared to independent judges' ratings of group cohesiveness. The interrater reliability for ratings of group cohesiveness vs. noncohesiveness was very high (100%). The interrater reliability for the degree of group cohesiveness or non-cohesiveness was, given the small number of examples used, adequate (80%). The improvisations rated cohesive by the judges also matched in rank order placement. The two dimensions of the amplitude patterns that were relevant to this study were density and form. These …

Moral Theory And Moral Life, Michael Pritchard

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This paper was originally presented as The Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture, January 25, 1996.

Symphony No. 1, Randon Myles Chisnell

Masters Theses

Symphony No. 1 is a three-part one movement piece for full orchestra. The harmonic structure is based on an underlying recurring harmonic progression. The melodic elements are based on a theme which is never heard in its entirety, but from which the harmonic progression was originally derived.

The Commercialization Of The Medieval Ideal: The Spanish Forger And Handbooks Of Illumination, Amy E. Dawson

Masters Theses

This study analyzes the commercialization of popular medievalism that occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. By examining the works of a forger of medieval manuscripts this research identifies a market created for works that expressed a particularly "Romantic" vision of medieval society. Moreover, this study offers a discussion of late nineteenth century handbooks that teach techniques of illumination. These works are examined to gain an understanding of the audience for which "medieval" works were created. Publication information reveals the popularity of these handbooks. The. prefatory material examined here pinpoints the idealization of the "medieval" that made handbooks …

Facets Of Courage: Colonel Charles Victor Deland And The American Civil War, Anthony P. Glesner

Masters Theses

This work constitutes a case study of a historical paradigm, that during the course of the Civil War civilians came to view the concepts of valor and virtue very much differently than soldiers, and that this caused tension within communities, both during the war, and after, when civilians continued to judge returning soldiers by an outdated sense of values, while the soldiers themselves, disillusioned by war, only wanted to forget. As time dimmed the memories of war, many veterans began to once again see it in terms of valor and virtue, and thus they reshaped their visions of war and …

On Interpreting Strong Supervenience, Zachary J. Ernst

Masters Theses

Jaegwon Kim's definition of strong supervenience has found application in such areas as the mind-body problem, aesthetics, morality, and the relationship between physics and the special sciences. The main reason for the popularity of supervenience is that it purportedly has a long laundry list of virtues. For instance, it has been claimed that supervenience accounts are non-reductive, capable of empirical verification, simple with respect to ontology, and explanatorily powerful.

In this paper, I examine Kim's definition of strong supervenience, arguing that a fundamental ambiguity in the definition makes it impossible for strong supervenience to possess all of these virtues simultaneously. …

Factors Affecting The Educational Attainment Of African-American Males: An Observational Analysis, Chauncey Williams

Masters Theses

African-American males participation in higher education has declined due to low academic achievement. The research suggests that this low achievement is caused by racism, academic preparation, self-esteem, teacher expectation, and goals. Although I agree with most of the research, I have concluded that along with teacher's expectations, four other factors greatly impact academic achievement. These other four factors are (1) school demographics, (2) curriculum, (3) parental involvement, and (4) peer pressure. These factors were observed through casual conversations with African-American male high school students in a large midwestern area. The observational analysis suggests that improvement in these areas will help …

Gay And Lesbian Adoptions: A Theoretical Examination Of Policy-Making And Organizational Decision Making, Thom Reilly

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Most of the inquiry into gay and lesbian adoptions has focused on the rights of this population toadopt, the constitutional issues surrounding gay and lesbian parenting, and the outcomes of children raised by homosexual parents. There has been scant focus at the policy-making or organizational level on this issue. Why have public adoption agencies failed to provide either regulation or written policy on the topic of adoption of children by gays and lesbians?

This article pursues a theoretical examination of policy-making and organizational decision making to explore this issue. Additionally, a survey was distributed to adoption officials in each of …

A Comparison Of Gay And Lesbian Sensitivity Trainings On Student Counselors’ Attitudes Toward Same Gender Sexual Behavior, H. Dean Dorman

Dissertations

This study explored the effect of both gender and three different panel discussion formats on the positive modification of attitudes toward same gender sexual behavior. Subjects were randomly assigned to either a control group or one of three treatment groups: (1) a live panel discussion, (2) a videotape of the live panel discussion with a facilitator, or (3) a videotape of the live panel discussion without a facilitator.

Attitudes toward same gender sexual behavior were measured by pre- and posttests of the Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men Scale (ATLG) developed by Gregory Herek. Subjects in this study were 86 …

Censorship And The National Endowment For The Arts: An Analytical Look At The Enola Gay And Robert Mapplethorpe Controversies, Tamara L. Peterson

Honors Theses

This thesis is about government involvement in the arts community - how the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is affected, as well as the artists themselves. Censorship is the main focus. Selected for examination are two specific cases: an exhibition of the works of controversial photography, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the display of the Enola Gay fuselage at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The Enola Gay incident was more recent, with the exhibit opening in 1995 on the 50th Anniversary of the end of World War II, while the Mapplethorpe controversy began around 1988. Both of …

Of Barbed Wire And Red Roses--Ii: Suite For Large Brass Ensemble And Timpani (Parts), Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Opus 1b: 14 parts (69 pages) ; Parts for Timpani; Trumpet I - IV; Horn I - IV; t-Trombone I - III; b-Trombone; Tuba

The suite Of Barbed Wire and Red Roses—II celebrates the triumph of understanding over hatred, of peace over war. The thirteen brass and timpani are grouped in choirs by movement:

1. Fughetta for Timpani
2. Fanfare for Four Trumpets in B Flat, Three Tenor Trombones and Bass Trombone
3. Interlude for Four Horns in F and Tuba
4. "Of Barbed Wire and Red Roses" for Thirteen Brass and Timpani

Of Barbed Wire And Red Roses--Ii: Suite For Large Brass Ensemble And Timpani (Full Score), Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Opus 1b: 1 score (vi + 37 pages) ; includes acknowledgements, foreword

The suite Of Barbed Wire and Red Roses—II celebrates the triumph of understanding over hatred, of peace over war. The thirteen brass and timpani are grouped in choirs by movement:

1. Fughetta for Timpani
2. Fanfare for Four Trumpets in B Flat, Three Tenor Trombones and Bass Trombone
3. Interlude for Four Horns in F and Tuba
4. "Of Barbed Wire and Red Roses" for Thirteen Brass and Timpani

June Hall Mccash, Ed., The Cultural Patronage Of Medieval Women. University Of Georgia Press, 1996, Cynthia J. Brown

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Anne Clark Bartlett, Male Authors, Female Readers: Representation And Subjectivity In Middle English Devotional Literature. Cornell University Press, 1995, J. Wogan-Browne

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Message From The President, No.22 1996, Pamela Sheingorn

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Conference Announcements

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Wishing For History , Katharine Kerr

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Medieval Art As Nostalgia For The Future, Madeline H. Caviness

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Joan Of Arc: Maneuverable Medievalism, Flexible Feminism , Nadia Margolis

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Feminism Within And Without The Academy , Karma Lochrie, Clare A. Lees, Gillian R. Overing

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Marilynn Desmond, Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, And The Medieval Aeneid. Medieval Cultures 8. University Of Minnesota Press, 1994, Wendy Chapman Peek

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Jerold C. Frakes, Brides And Doom: Gender, Property, And Power In Medieval German Women's Epic. University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, Kathleen Rose

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Gayle Margherita, The Romance Of Origins: Language And Sexual Difference In Middle English Literature. University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, Anne Clark Bartlett

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Susan L. Smith, The Power Of Women: A Topos In Medieval Art And Literature. University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1995, Diane Wolfthal

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Ulrike Wiethaus, Ecstatic Transformation: Transpersonal Psychology In The Work Of Mechthild Of Magdeburg. Syracuse University Press, 1996, Amy M. Hollywood

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Newsletter, No.22 1996

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Newsletter, No.22 1996

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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A New Home For Mfn

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.