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University Commencement Ceremony, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

Dr. Elisa Fraser Wilson became the first woman to conduct the UTEP orchestra when she led the ensemble at the December, 2004 Commencement Ceremonies.

A 1908 Interview With The Author Of "Aunt Jane Of Kentucky", Lynn E. Niedermeier

Lynn E. Niedermeier

Bowling Green native Lida Calvert Obenchain wrote popular fiction and campaigned for woman suffrage. Interviewed after her first book of stories, Aunt Jane of Kentucky, was published under her pen name "Eliza Calvert Hall," Lida spoke about her family, literature, women's rights, and her work for the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. The interview, conducted by journalist Ewing Galloway, is reproduced here, with annotations to amplify the content.

Inside Unlv, Erin O'Donnell, Carol C. Harter, Diane Russell, Jennifer Vaughan

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

More Borrowing From Bellegarde In Delarivier Manley's Queen Zarah And The Zarazians, Rachel Carnell

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Review Of Shared Spaces And Divided Places: Material Dimensions Of Gender Relations And The American Historical Landscape., Mark T. Tebeau

History Faculty Publications

Reviews the book "Shared Spaces and Divided Places: Material Dimensions of Gender Relations and the American Historical Landscape," edited by Deborah L. Rotman and Ellen-Rose Savulis.

Spotting The Chick: An Essay On Formation In The Context Of Church As Family, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Lo! How A Rose E'Er Blooming, Jeffrey L. Pappas

Music Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

The Cutting Edge, November/December 2004, Vol. 14 Issue 6, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

Landmark Report (Vol. 24, No. 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.

Sergi Belbel's Theatre Of Pain, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Dins la seva memoria ("Within his Memory"), a Catalan play written by Sergi Bel-bel in 1986, begins in total darkness, an imprecise empty void in which the spectator hears only the deep, rhythmic gasps and sighs of the anonymous protagonist. ' As the stage lights slowly rise during this "preliminary" scene, Ell (or, "He," as the protagonist is generically called) is depicted on his knees, masturbating with his back to the audience. At first glance, his violent, self-inflicted pleasure may be interpreted as an ultimate affirmation of life; yet, his autoerotic gestures are also imbued with memories that carry …

Is Empathy Gendered And If So, Why? An Approach From Feminist Psychological Anthropology, Claudia Strauss

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Difference feminists have argued that women have special virtues. One such virtue would seem to be empathy, which has three main components: imaginative projection, awareness of the other's emotions, and concern. Empathy is closely related to identification. Psychological research and the author's own study of women's and men's talk about poverty and welfare use in the United States demonstrate women's greater empathic concern. However, some cross-cultural research shows greater sex differences in empathy in the United States than elsewhere. This combination of findings (women tend to demonstrate greater empathic concern, but this typical difference varies cross-culturally) requires a complex biocultural …

Newton, Maclaurin, And The Authority Of Mathematics, Judith V. Grabiner

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Sir Isaac Newton revolutionized physics and astronomy in his Principia. How did he do it? Would his method work on any area of inquiry, not only in science, but also about society and religion? We look at how some Newtonians, most notably Colin Maclaurin, combined sophisticated mathematical modeling and empirical data in what has come to be called the "Newtonian Style." We argue that this style was responsible not only for Maclaurin’s scientific success but for his ability to solve problems ranging from taxation to insurance to theology. We show how Maclaurin’s work strengthened the prestige of Newtonianism and …

Rodney Hilton, Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movement And The English Rising Of 1381, With A New Introduction By Christopher Dyer. Routledge, 2003, Cordelia Beattie

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

The Persistence Of Late Antiquity: Christ As Man And Woman In An Eighth-Century Miniature, Felice Lifshitz

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

The Visible Church In A Visual Culture, Susan L. Trollinger

English Faculty Publications

We live in a visual culture. To say that is to say, in the most obvious sense, that we live in a culture that is saturated by images. They are everywhere. We see them in the expected places: on our television and computer screens, in newspapers and magazines, on billboards, in our scrapbooks and photo albums, in picture frames and coffee table books. Increasingly, we see them in unexpected places. They show up on the floors of grocery stores, the backs of ATM receipts, the sides of tractor trailers and school buses, and even on the otherwise bare stomachs of …

The Reality Of Humiliation: A Reflection, Jonathan Schott

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"There are many factors that have played a role in the decrease of privacy in the United States today. Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, we as Americans have experienced a widening increase of governmental restrictions, searches, and inquiries that are set in place to insure our future security against terrorist threats. Coupled with this official state entrance into our privacy we also have been subject to deeper invasions privacy from the public sector. We now hunger to see into peoples’ personal lives and to live vicariously through …

Faith In Health And Health In Life, Sarah M. Piston

Verbum

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"It is all too common that people must learn to cope with the knowledge that a loved one is fighting a potentially deadly disease. The advancements of modern medicine, while helping to heal the body, oftentimes neglect the emotional and psychological effects an affliction has on the patient as well as his family and friends. Faith and religion of any sort can be an incredibly effective tool in dealing with such a distressing situation; not as a salve for the physical pain, but in addressing the emotional wounds that …

All Part Of God's Plan?, Michael Galpin

Verbum

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"My whole life, my parents have always sent me to a catholic school. Ever since I can remember, I have had God in my life. What I was taught when I was young and impressionable, was that God is always with me, looking out for me and making sure I do the right thing, much like a father figure. I received all my sacraments, never asking any questions about the God that I believe in, the God that I was taught to believe in. It might sound naïve, but …

Living With Other Gods, Kristina Braell

Verbum

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"I genuflect in the darkened sanctuary of my church and slide into a cool pew. With a low thud the kneeler hits the floor and I kneel in prayer, concentrating on the blood-red flame of the candle. Christ is in this place, it whispers. Even the silence seems to listen as the answers to my prayers stream through the myriad-colored windows that drench me in richly stained light. I close my eyes, pray for guidance, and just think. God will not mind, and I smile to myself. Outside lies …

From Abraham To Jacob: Promise And Fulfillment, Linda Wert

Verbum

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"Since the beginning of time, God has had a special relationship with humans. After the creation of the heavens and the earth, God bestowed the rule of the land and sea to His most favored creation, man. Although Adam and Eve sinned against God, He still bestowed favor on them. He banished them from the Garden of Eden for their sin but gave them clothing (Genesis 3:21). When Cain killed Abel, God banned Cain from the land of his parents but put a mark upon him that he not …

Living With Other Gods, Quratulain Majoka

Verbum

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"America the melting pot,” how many times have we heard this remark, yet it is so true. It is a diverse melting pot of many people, cultures, and religions. Diversity can lead either to intolerance or to acceptance. It is up to us, as Homo sapiens, or wise humans to accept the latter. This however comes with a challenge, for we are compelled to defend ourselves in the face or ignorance and cruelty. We live in a very complex country and time, yet we face the same problems that …

The 10 Commandments, James L. Smith Jr.

Verbum

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"In the Qur’ān, there is not a list of commandments such as we see in the Bible; however, there are many injunctions throughout the text of the Qur’ān. From these, Caeser E. Farah extracts a list of 10 “commandments” in his book, Islam. When comparing these Islamic commandments with the Judeo-Christian 10 Commandments, we can see some obvious similarities, some subtle differences and some commandments that don’t even compare."

Living With Other Gods, Matt Zheleznyak

Verbum

No abstract provided.

Fire In The Soul Of Zurga: Bizet's The Pearl Fishers And Male Sati, Lori Dabbagh

Verbum

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"Although in recent years Georges Bizet’s “other” opera, Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers), has been performed on occasion, scant attention has been paid to it, compared to his world-renowned masterpiece Carmen. Even those who are not avowed opera goers have at least heard of the Habañera (L’amour est un oiseau rebelle) and more so, the ever-popular Toreador Song. Bizet penned The Pearl Fishers at age 25, and enthusiasts of this early work praise the “freshness of inspiration” which contributes to its “perennial success.” (9). …

Full Issue, No Author

Verbum

This is the full issue of Volume 2, Issue 1 of Verbum, published in Fall 2004 by the REST Club at St. John Fisher College. Articles from this issue are available as separate PDFs at http://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/verbum/vol2/iss1/

Invisible Points Of Departure: Reading Rothko’S Christological Imagery, Andrea Pappas

Art and Art History

Jewish identity increasingly figures in new histories of modernism in general, analyses of American art, and, recently, abstract expressionism.1 Although abstract paintings have signified “Jewishness” only since the late sixties, this essay looks at the antecedents of such re-identification in one canonical figure, Mark Rothko, examining three paintings from a narrow range of time in the early days of World War II. His Antigone of 1940 (Figure 1) remains one of his most familiar paintings from the formative period spanning 1940 to mid-1943. It is one of a small handful of works canonized from his early production: paintings that traditionally …

The War Of The Worlds, Wells, And The Fallacy Of Empire, John C. Hawley

English

In his summary of the contemporary reviews of The War of the Worlds (1898), William J. Scheick notes that their extensive number suggests that readers now recognized that Wells was an emerging writer whom they could not ignore. "There were, again," Scheick notes, "reservations about slipshod style, hasty plotting, vulgar content and cheap effects; but these doubts were overrun by the general verdict that this romance was one of the most ingenious stories of the year and the best work to date of an author who was one of the most original of the younger English novelists" (Scheick 5). Earlier …

Barden Park: A Case Study In Preservation, Richard E. Kelly

Culminating Projects in History

The impact of the presence of a city park in a neighborhood is profound in several ways. A case in point is Barden Park in the South Side/Barden Park Neighborhood of St. Cloud, Minnesota. This paper will discuss the development of the park throughout history; the development of parks as an essential part of the American city such as Central Park in New York City, Central-Loring Park in Minneapolis, and Central-Barden Park in St. Cloud.

Barden Park, originally named Central Park in 1855, is a prime example of the origination of public parks, first in the United States and later …

2004-2005 Nothing But Klezmer: Swingin' Jazz And Klezmer Band, Paul Green, Bob Weiner, Jack Bragin, Michael Klotz, Dave Levitan, Joe Belanger

Other Seasonal Concerts

Concert Dates:

• Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at 7:30 pm
• Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 7:30 pm

A Postmodern Landscape, Thomas J. Mickey

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.