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Volume 23

Synchronisms For Double Bass, Jeremy C. Baguyos

Music Faculty Publications

The Iowa State University of Science and Technology in Ames, Iowa, recently hosted the 2007 National Conference of the Society of Electro-acoustic Music In The United States (SEAMUS) from March 8th through the 10th. The annual SEAMUS conference brings together nationally recognized composers, performers, and researchers in the field of computer music for a half-week program of concerts and paper sessions. The 2007 conference featured the premier of Synchronisms No. 11 for Contrabass and Electronic Sounds by Mario Davidovsky (b. 1934). With coordination from SEAMUS, the work was commissioned by a consortium of various academic institutions. The work was composed …

Review Of Creating Language Crimes: How Law Enforcement Uses (And Misuses) Language By Roger W. Shuy, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

As he states in his preface, Shuy draws on his 30+ years as a linguistics professor at Georgetown University and his 25+ years as an expert witness and legal consultant to create this text that spans the mundane and the riveting, the commonplace and the esoterica of forensic linguistics. In so doing, his book “describes twelve actual cases in which alleged crimes were actually created by the use of various conversational strategies employed by law enforcement and its representatives, where no such crime is actually indicated by the language evidence” (12). When we read the transcripts associated with these cases, …

Book Review: Empire Of Ashes, Jeanne Reames

History Faculty Publications

Three historical novels about Alexander the Great were published in 2004 to coincide with the November release of Oliver Stone’s epic film on the conqueror: The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield, who is best known for Gates of Fire (1998) about the Battle of Thermopylae; Queen of the Amazons by Judith Tarr, who wrote about Alexander once before in Lord of the Two Lands (1993); and Empire of Ashes by relative newcomer Nicholas Nicastro.

The Private Library Of Eric Blair, Ronald R. Geibert

Books Authored by Wright State Faculty/Staff

Today is often labeled as the Information Age. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, we are inundated with pictures, video, sound, and text. DSL, cable, cell-phones, fax machines, satellite radio, and other technologies keep us instantly in touch with events. To be "connected" is to be seen as contemporary and knowledgeable.

Unfortunately, this instant access is not without risk. Much of this immediate information is unfiltered, untested, and, on occasions, suspect. The anonymous Internet "expert" that is quoted might no more be an expert than your next-door neighbor (in fact, that web site might just be the creation …

Feudal Strength!: Henry Ii And The Struggle For Royal Control In England, Jordan Paul Carr

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

In 1154 Henry II gained the throne of England after a long civil war between Henry and King Stephen of England. When Henry was crowned king England was in a chaotic state. The nobles had used the conflict to vastly increase their power at the expense of the king. Royal authority was at a low and the influence of the king had been greatly reduced by the war. Setting out to reassert the royal power of his grandfather Henry I of England, Henry II established massive reforms to the administration of justice and created Common Law in England. Through his …

The Journal Of Undergraduate Research: Volume 05

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

This is the complete issue of the South Dakota State University Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 5.

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2007, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

No abstract provided.

When You Say When, Meghan Prichard

The Angle

No abstract provided.

Wedding Bells, Jessica Tackabury

The Angle

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

"His photo was on her dresser near her wedding veil. The upper left-hand corner was missing and had a crease across his chest. He was dressed up in one of his work shirts and dirty torn up jeans held up by a pair of his signature green suspenders. His eyes looked at the camera dead on through the lenses of his glasses. The smile on his face was the smile she envisioned he would have that day. When he smiled, it had always showed a softer side of him."

The Vultures And Elephants Remind Me Of You, Elias Van Son

The Angle

No abstract provided.

Unspoken Word, Dominique Gray

The Angle

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

" 'I cant's take this anymore. My job is a joke and the rent is due,' a fed up husband complains. 'It's going to be okay,' responds the wife, trying to soothe her exhausted husband. 'It always has.' "

The Dangerous Quest For Nature Narratives In Goethe’S Werther: A Reading Of The Ruptured Monologue And The Ruptured Body, Heather I. Sullivan

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Assessing Goethe's narrative ruptures, this essay follows their trail in three directions: first through the editor's sudden interruption of Werther producing the post-epistolary multiplicity of voices, second in the alterations Goethe made to the 1787 version of Werther that enhance the theme of rupture itself, and third along the fault-lines delineated in three exemplary "letters of nature" from Werther.

Defining A Civil War Battlefield: Recent Archaeological Investigations At The Pickett's Mill State Historic Site, Paulding County, Georgia., Terry G. Powis, Jason Whatley, Mary T. Lumsden, Joseph Powell, Patrick Severts, Ron Hobgood, James Page

Faculty Articles

Recent investigations at the Pickett's Mill State Historic Site have yielded new insights into the Civil War battle that occurred in May 1864. Military and historical sources have documented that the major battle took place in a ravine, but that skirmishes also occurred in adjacent areas, including a large, open wheat field. Some reports have suggested that Confederate soldiers had forced Union troops out of the ravine into this field where they became exposed. In the summer of 2006 a variety of different archaeological techniques were employed to determine what role the wheat field played in the battle. This paper …

Letter From A War Zone: Some Thoughts On Setting An Activist Agenda, Rebecca Whisnant

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Essay is from a conference sponsored by Captive Daughters and DePaul University in Chicago.

Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, And The Postmodern Sublime, Andrew Slade

English Faculty Publications

Samuel Beckett's texts are populated with characters who have been so deprived of their humanity that humanity appears as essentially absent from his texts. The characters' presence in the diegesis is marked by unmistakable absences-absence of vision, of mobility, of sense, of name. Beckett's characters are often without: without hair, without teeth, without foreseeable future. The human character is at the limit of humanity and runs the risk of passing over into the grey zone of the inhuman. They lose track of their place, of their time, of their names. They frequently belong to no time and no place. When …

Global Feminist Ethics: Feminist Ethics And Social Theory, Rebecca Whisnant, Peggy Desautels

Philosophy Faculty Publications

This volume contains four sections, the first of which examines some of the special moral concerns that arise from assigning distinct activities and responsibilities to women and men respectively. It is difficult to argue against the view that women and not men are the birth-givers. But it is also true that death rates tied to pregnancy and birth-giving are unacceptably high in developing countries. Are women better off giving birth in hospitals with attending physicians (often male) or in homes with attending midwives (usually female)? Which approach should be "exported" to the developing world?

In the first chapter, "Exporting Childbirth," …

Even The Good Guys Are Bad In Sin City, Melanie Woods

Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies

No abstract provided.

A Matter Of Marching, A Matter Of Supply: Politics And Logistics In Arkansas, 1863-1864, Alfred Hoyt Wallace

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

In the spring of 1864, Major General Frederick Steele led his men out of Little Rock on orders to cooperate with Major General Nathaniel Banks's campaign up the Red River. The two forces never met as planned. Steele eventually captured Camden, Arkansas, but was obliged to retreat in the face of a determined Confederate force approaching him. The Camden Expedition, as this became known, has typically been cast as an expedition that failed due to a severe shortage of available food along the line of march. Upon closer investigation, however, particularly in the records of common soldiers, a different explanation …

Ursinus Magazine, Winter 2007, Wendy Greenberg, Joseph D. Chapline Jr., Ellen Cosgrove, Steven Christy

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art calendar • Taking Our Place is a rousing success • Helfferich Gym gets a facelift • Alumni forum • Faculty notes • Ursinus is host to celebrated director • Renowned environmentalist is commencement speaker • Music notes • Ursinus in the news • Wrestlers pin CC championship • Students rally to Relay for Life • Building a team, on and off the field: Championship coach and working mom • Bomberger: Turned around and open for business • Homecoming 2006 • Class notes • Hermann F. Eilts in memoriam: An appreciation • Into …

Organizational Expectations And Role Clarification Of Pastors And Educators Serving K-10 Schools Operated By The Georgia-Cumberland Conference Of Seventh-Day Adventists, Stanley E. Patterson

Dissertations

Problem Statement

The two major issues addressed in this study are the professional relationship that exists between the educators in K-10 schools and pastors who serve the churches that host the schools and the professional roles that each serves in the school. The roles and organizational expectations for each may impact the health of their professional relationship. The purpose of this study was to examine the leadership role expectations of pastors and educators in the K-10 school system o f the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Methodology

A survey instrument was administered to all K-10 teachers and principals in the …

The Roles, Needs, And Challenges Of Arkansas Women In Agriculture, Carmen C. Albright, Jennie S. Popp

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

Participants of the 2005-2007 Arkansas Women in Agriculture conferences were surveyed for this study to identify recent changes in their roles on and off the farm, the factors important to their success, and the problems they face in their businesses. Respondents were broken into two groups—Farm (women owner-operators of farms, ranches, or agribusinesses) and Non-farm (women working in supporting agricultural industries)—for comparisons and responses were also analyzed across years. Farm women most often reported problems keeping good employees each year, while Non-farm women often reported having problems with being respected as a female business person. For Farm women, the factor …

Swarthmore College, Christopher Densmore

Library Staff Works

No abstract provided.

Translation Of "An Ornament For Jewels: Love Poems For The Lord Of Gods" By Vedantadesika, Vedāntadeśika, Steven P. Hopkins , Translator

Religion Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Sacred-Land Theology: Green Spirit, Deconstruction, And The Question Of Idolatry In Contemporary Earthen Christianity, Mark I. Wallace

Religion Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Review Of "From Popular Medicine To Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, And Public Power In Costa Rica, 1800-1940" By S. Palmer, Diego Armus

History Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Heading South, John C. Hawley

English

Terminology is always a site of politics, and “global South” is no exception. Many of the places proposed as likely areas for discussion in the pages of this new journal are not, in fact, south of the equator. Nor are other areas that are, in fact, south of the border necessarily as appropriate for discussion in this journal. Yet it is appropriate to reach for another terminological alleyway like this one to help us reimagine, yet again, the peoples and topics in question. “Postcolonial,” either with or without a hyphen, is contentious; “commonwealth,” of course, has been long abandoned (and …

The Relevance Of Feenberg's Critical Theory Of Technology To Critical Visual Literacy: The Case Of Scientific And Technical Illustrations, Kathryn M. Northcut

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

Andrew Feenberg's critical theory of technology is an underutilized, relatively unknown resource in technical communication which could be exploited not only for its potential clarification of large social issues that involve our discipline, but also specifically toward the development of a critical theory of illustrations. Applications of critical theory help strengthen our discipline by forcing us to delineate extant approaches and consider whether democratic goals are being achieved through those approaches. If a critical theory of illustrations can be built from Feenberg's critical theory of technology, it should be useful for classroom instructors and researchers as well as theorists.

Introduction: Visual Communication In Life Sciences, Kathryn M. Northcut

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Review Of Martin Willis And Catherine Wynne, Eds., Victorian Literary Mesmerism And Martin Willis, Mesmerists, Monsters, And Machines: Science Fiction And The Cultures Of Science In The Nineteenth Century, Kristine Swenson

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

The article reviews two books including "Victorian Literary Mesmerism," edited by Martin Willis and Catherine Wynne, and "Mesmerists, Monsters and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century," by Martin Willis.