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Concert Recording 2006-09-13, Sarah Mesko, Kristin Harwell, Rusty Helms, Seth Yost, Oliver Molina, Douglas Lindsey, Christopher Davis, Sandy Nieves, Michael Bollero

Concert Recordings & Programs

Little women. Things change, Jo / Mark Adamo -- Horn duet no. 1 / Coley Pitchford -- Land / Takatsugu Murmatsu -- Concerto in D / Johann Freidrich Fasch -- Trio for clarinet, violoncello, and piano in B♭ Major, op. 11 / Ludwig van Beethoven

Never Let Me Clone? Countering An Ethical Argument Against The Reproductive Cloning Of Humans, Yvette Pearson

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In the March 2006 issue of EMBO reports, Christof Tannert, a bioethicist at the Max Delbrück Research Centre in Berlin, Germany, presented a moral argument against human reproductive cloning on the basis of Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative (Tannert, 2006). In this article, I address some problems with Tannert’s views and show that our concerns about this prospective procedure should prompt us to scrutinize carefully the conventional procreative practices and attitudes. Indeed, if we set aside objections that are grounded in genetic determinism, many of the offensive features of human cloning are identical to problems with procreation by more conventional means, …

At Home In The City: Urban Domesticity In American Literature And Culture, 1850-1930, By Betsy Klimasmith, Cara Erdheim

English Faculty Publications

Book review by Cara Erdheim.

Klimasmith, Betsy. At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930. Durham, New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire Press, 2005.

Review Of: The Politics Of Human Frailty: A Theological Defence Of Political Liberalism, By Christopher J. Insole, Brian Stiltner

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Against the grain of much contemporary Christian theology, Christopher Insole’s The Politics of Human Frailty takes on the challenge of theologically defending political liberalism. Specifically, he defends a strand of political liberalism ‘informed by the theological conviction that the human person is a creature incapable of its own perfection, although nonetheless called to and made for this perfection’ (p. vii). Insole, University Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, attends to philosophers and theologians primarily in the British tradition, but also on the American side. Insole advances his argument mostly through readings of other authors. Positively, Insole …

Usos Del Aprendizaje Basado En Proyectos En La Enseñanza Del Español Como Lengua Extranjera, Pilar Munday

Languages Faculty Publications

El APRENDIZAJE BASADO EN proyectos es un modelo educativo que toma como base una actividad en grupo, relacionada con el mundo real y para la que se usan medios tecnológicos reales, que se completa durante un periodo de tiempo determinado de antemano y que tiene como resultado final un producto, presentación o actuación. Se diferencia de las actividades de clase tradicionales en que no es corta, ni se realiza de manera aislada por un estudiante que sólo hace lo que le dice el profesor.

Volume 20, Various Authors

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

No abstract provided.

Peggy And Frank Wood And Poughkeepsie's Catharine Street Community Center, Charles L. James

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Haiku For Mike Roche, Frank Pommersheim

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Colin Powell's Life Story As A 'Good Black' Narrative, Mari Boor Tonn

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The versions of Powell’s life examined in this chapter contain two overarching features ethnographers claim are means by which immigrant blacks work to accrue “good” black status. First, their emphasis on Powell as the son of industrious Jamaican immigrants comports with the common practice ethnographers locate among second-generation black immigrants of consciously telegraphing their ethnic heritage as a means of “filtering” themselves for the dominant culture so that they can ward off downward social mobility still linked to a black racial identity in the United States. The inclusion of ancestry in life stories by political hopefuls is not in itself …

Spiritual Literacy: A New Concept For A New Reality, Felicia A. Smith

The Christian Librarian

The idea of literacy is prevalent in today’s society, especially among librarians.There is much discussion of technological literacy and the digital divide. There are volumes written on cultural literacy and how we interact with different groups such as younger generations. There are books dedicated specifically to literacy in the 21st century. There are growing specialized “literacies” but none dealing with religion, per se. It is critical that librarians are aware of spiritual undertones inherent in information, in order to provide balanced information to patrons.

A Sociolinguistic Perspective Toward Hiatus Resolution In Mexico City Spanish, Matthew Anthony Vuskovich

LSU Master's Theses

Vowels occurring adjacently across word boundaries form what is known as hiatus. In orthographic pronunciation, hiatus is defined by the brief pause between the two vowels as in yo – estoy and la – economía, where ‘-‘ represents a pause. However, since speakers of Spanish (or any other natural language) do not always pronounce orthographically when engaging in colloquial speech, the hiatus undergoes a variety of changes in order to accommodate certain phonological constraints. These changes are referred to as hiatus resolution and include vowel weakening, glide formation and vowel elision. As reported by the numerous studies of Spanish dialectology …

The Antikythera Youth In Its Context, Elisabeth Myers

LSU Master's Theses

The bronze statue known as the Antikythera Youth was discovered in numerous fragments by sponge divers in 1900 with the remains of an ancient shipwreck near the small island of Antikythera, south of the Peloponnesus of Greece. The divers, together with the Greek government, recovered the statue and the rest of the ship’s cargo. The statue was then taken to the National Archaeological Museum, where it was assembled and restored. In the 1950s, the statue underwent a second restoration. This thesis examines the condition of the statue after the restorations and the technique by which it was made. It also …

The Manner Of Mystery: Free Indirect Discourse And Epiphany In The Stories Of Flannery O'Connor, Denise Hopkins

LSU Master's Theses

This project addresses the narrative voice(s) in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, particularly in relation to her conception of art. O’Connor critics often polarize the cultural and religious worth of her stories. As a Catholic, O’Connor was convinced that the “the ultimate reality is the Incarnation” (HB 92). As an artist, O’Connor believed that fiction should begin with a writer’s attention to the natural world as she comprehends it through the senses. It is no wonder, then, that her fiction lends itself well to critics interested in both her theology and her presentation of issues of race, class, and gender. My …

Students' Perceptions Of Leadership And The Ways In Which Leadershape Influences The Development Of Student Leaders, David Dial

LSU Master's Theses

Student leadership development programs are an emerging topic of conversation within the field of student affairs. This paper uses the personal narratives of five recent graduates of the LeaderShape program to consider student perceptions of the effects of this program. A literature review discusses recent publications in the field of student leadership development. The interview data collected in this study confirm the findings of this recent research, including generally positive leadership experiences, improved racial relations, and the importance of small group interactions. Additionally, this thesis includes a cross-case analysis and discussion section that present several themes that emerged from participants' …

The Mccarran Internal Security Act, 1950-2005: Civil Liberties Versus National Security, Marc Patenaude

LSU Master's Theses

In response to increased tensions over the Cold War and internal security, and in response to increased anti-Communism during the Red Scare, Congress, in 1950, enacted a notorious piece of legislation. The McCarran Act was designed to combat both the increased threat of international aggression by Communist nations and, thanks to a Communist party inside the United States, the possibility of internal subversion on the domestic front. The McCarran Act created a Subversive Activities Control Board to register members of a “Communist-action organization or a Communist-front organization.” Also contained within the McCarran Act was an Emergency Detention statute, which gave …

Concert Recording 2006-10-31, Christopher Crawford, Kristin Harwell, Paige Grilliot, Krystle Maczka, Andrew Trantham, Christopher Davis, Lyndon Meyer, Ember Lanuti, Phyllis Lebert, Shelby Coplon, S. Michael Shuman, Ashley Chastain, Jenny Isabell, Ryan Williams, Carmen Lyon, Jonathan Perry, Andjela Subotic, George Spear, Tracy Hone, Sarah Mesko, Molly Volmer, Samantha Pacaccio George, Ashley Baker, Amy Locke, Chelsey Cavin, Katelyn Roberts, Leanne Scaggs, Echo Sibley, Sarah Chilcote

Concert Recordings & Programs

Light in the piazza. Il mondo era vuoto / Adam Guettel -- Vittoria, mio core! / Giacomo Carissimi -- Pompeo. Amor preparami / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Come raggio di sol / Antonio Caldara -- Piangero la sorte mia / George Frederic Handel -- Danza, danza, fanciulla gentile / Francesco Durante -- Un moto di gioia / Wolgang Amadeus Mozart -- Nozze di Figaro. Voi, che sapete / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Don Giovanni. Batti, batti, o bel Mazetto / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Cosi fan tutte. Donne mie, la fate a tanti / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Don Pasquale. So …

Evaluating Miriam Solomon's Social Empiricism: The Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis, Robby Joseph Burleigh

LSU Master's Theses

Throughout the history of science, philosophers and scientists alike have sought to codify a set of rules that would guarantee those who practice science success. These rules, if followed faithfully, would eliminate the guesswork from science, and instead, mold the practice of science into a rule - governed enterprise. Many philosophers of science have attempted to generate the rules that would govern successful scientific practice; however, with no success. Miriam Solomon attempts to give scientists heuristic advice by using a naturalistic approach in which she uses various case studies throughout the history of science to illustrate her approach. The core …

Musical Time And Revealed Timelessness, Michael Vincent Blandino

LSU Master's Theses

Scholarship on musical time recognizes the depiction of timelessness in music as a possibility. However, many theories of musical timelessness center around total stasis as the ideal method for creation of the effect, tolerating relative motion only out of necessity and viewing such motion as a weakening force in this regard. There is little investigation of the interaction between other modes of musical time and the mode of timelessness. Hence, no theory offers a comprehensive expansion of scope to include more complex depictions of timelessness in relation to time. This paper addresses these points, offering a framework for understanding musical …

Informed Decision Making, Jonathan D. Tall

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis will address the issue of appealing (or deferring) to the authority of expertise. The effects of the social character of knowledge highlight two points with regard to this issue. First, they leave the layman in an epistemically inferior position. Thus, the layman must appeal to the authority of experts. The second point, related to the first point, is the implicit role of trust in deferring to expert authority. Though I will pay attention to each of these points, the focus of this thesis will be on the former. If we accept that one must appeal to the authority …

Brackish, Hillary Dalton Major

LSU Master's Theses

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Roving 'Twixt Land And Sea: Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, And The Maritime World-System', James W. Long

LSU Master's Theses

Although Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad are generally regarded as sea writers, both wrote numerous works concerned primarily with events on land. But critical approaches to both writers display a tendency to prioritize one set of environments. A result of such approaches is to overlook the manner in which Melville and Conrad explore the relationship between land and sea. This paper argues that one way to analyze how both writers examine that relationship is by locating it within the space of the modern world-system. Immanuel Wallerstein defines the modern world-system as the capitalist world-economy that qualifies as the only historical …

The Effect Of Music Tempo On Movement Responses Of Preschool Children, Melanie Woods Alexander

LSU Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of tempo on movement responses of children ages one to three. For two weeks, 17 children between the ages of 22 and 36 months were videotaped twice per week to observe and measure their movement responses to fast and slow musical stimuli. During these sessions, the children were videotaped in their classrooms, engaged in either free play or in a quiet group activity. The videotaped sessions were then analyzed using a Motor Observation Form. Once all of the tapes had been viewed and scored, overall percentages of movement and no …

Biopolitics Or The Legislation Of Life: A Foucauldian Analysis, Marina Basu

LSU Master's Theses

Michel Foucault uses the term biopolitics to highlight the focus on life that is at the center of contemporary politics. Biopower or biopolitics is the maximization of life through various regulatory apparatuses that monitor, modify, and control life processes. I elucidate and exemplify Foucault's framework in order to show how the medical discourse exercises a certain kind of power over bodies in the name of health. My argument is that through the mechanisms of biopower, the juridico-medical discourse simultaneously makes pregnancy into an object of study and the pregnant woman into a subject of power. With the help of a …

Playing At Command: Midshipmen And Quarterdeck Boys In The Royal Navy, 1793-1815, Samantha A. Cavell

LSU Master's Theses

The golden age of the Royal Navy, which saw its apotheosis at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, also presented one of the great paradoxes of modern naval organization. "Young gentlemen," some as young as eight or nine, were placed in positions of authority aboard His Majesty's ships and expected to command veteran mariners with decades of sea experience. The effectiveness of this system, and the continued success of the Royal Navy as an institution, tended to belie the obvious disadvantages of placing adolescent recruits on the quarterdecks of active men-of-war. This study examines two aspects of the process that …

All The World's A Stage: Pageantry As Propaganda At The Court Of Elizabeth I, 1558-1569, Kimberly Kay Reynolds

LSU Master's Theses

Elizabeth I of England was one of the most celebrated monarchs in history. Authors, playwrights, and artists venerated her in their art. At her accession, however, her subjects were unsure about their new queen. She was an illegitimate female ruling a religiously divided kingdom. In response to this, Elizabeth and her council initiated a propaganda campaign that created an image of Elizabeth as a wise, just, and well-beloved ruler. This thesis will examine Elizabeth’s coronation procession, the performance of plays and masques at court, and the queen’s annual progresses to show how Elizabeth and her subjects used drama, pageantry, and …

Mothers Grimm And Other House Held Tales, Holly Kay Streekstra

LSU Master's Theses

Mothers Grimm and Other House Held Tales is a body of work that uses fairy tale archetypes and narrative traditions to comment upon tensions and conflicts in sexual self-understanding. This is achieved through a reflection on attitudes that women adopt regarding their own sexuality. Such a reflection is instigated through a presentation of prominent cultural archetypes that exist, no longer as received ideas, but as a bold and entertaining expression of how sex can change our attitude towards those ideas that we often take for granted. Through an assemblage of objects and video, this body of work evokes a domestic …

Considering Blackness In George A. Romero's Night Of The Living Dead: An Historical Exploration, Jennifer Whitney Dotson

LSU Master's Theses

When George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968, the independent black and white zombie film stunned American moviegoers. Having assaulted the audience with a new level of violence-laden gore, Night of the Living Dead received much attention from both popular and critical audiences, with the former rushing to theaters to see the film over and over and the latter almost universally panning the film for its poor taste and gratuitous violence. Since its release, however, Night of the Living Dead has become one of the most written about horror films in American history, with critics …

Concert Recording 2006-04-26a, Andrew Irvin, Ryan Cockerham, Luke Hubbard, Mercy Warris

Concert Recordings & Programs

Caprice variations for unaccompanied violin / George Rochberg -- Etudes speciales, op. 36. No. 9, marche: Allegro moderato / Jacques-Fereol Mazas -- Graceful ghost rag / William Bolcom -- Die tote Stadt. Marietta's Lied / Erich Wolfgang Korngold -- Caprice, no. 9 / Niccolo Paganini -- Caprice, no. 1 / Delphin Alard -- String quartet no. 2 in D major / Alexander Borodin

Concert Recording 2006-04-09, Luke Hubbard, Andy Moon, Ryan Cockerham, Lyndon Meyer, Derrick Doyle, Sam Ross, Jessica Sudduth, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Percussion Quartet, Mercy Warris

Concert Recordings & Programs

"the persistence of past chemistries" / Charles Griffith -- 2nd suite for cello in D minor, BWV 1008. Allemande ; Saraband / J.S. Bach -- Laudatio / Bernhard Krol -- Tzigane / Maurice Ravel -- Mourning dove sonnet / Christopher Deane -- Story hour / Phillip Parker -- The quartet in G minor, op. 25. IV. Rondo alla zingharese: presto / Johannes Brahms

Concert Recording 2006-03-02, Rossitza Jekova-Goza, Ryan Cockerham, Tara Mueller, Jessica Middleton, Andrew Thompson, Luke Hubbard, Karen Kruse, Stephen Gates, Mercy Warris, Lyndon Meyer

Concert Recordings & Programs

Octet for strings in E♭ major, op. 20 / Felix Mendelssohn -- Piano quartet in G minor, op. 25 / Johannes Brahms