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"I Don't Think She's Like The Rest Of Us" : The Freedom In Disadvantage For Orphan Girls In Early 20th Century Literature, Giavanna Palermo

Honors Theses

Marianne Hirsch notes that often, in literature, the absence of the mother is the basis for the heroine’s development. On this foundation, there is nothing new in the observation that orphan girls in literature enjoy a kind of freedom that comes from being without parents and, specifically, without a mother. What this paper seeks to examine, however, through the textual analysis of Johanna Spyri’s Heidi, Eleanor H. Porter’s Pollyanna, Kate Douglas Wiggin’s Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and Jean Webster’s Daddy Long Legs, is the way in which the figure …

"Helping People Find Freedom In Christ" A Journey Toward Fulfilling Christian Ministry In Community, Clifford E. Watt

Doctor of Ministry

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore a biblically based set of principles that will empower believers to have freedom in their Christian lives. There is an underlying belief contained in the Bible that it is natural for a believer to do ministry. Jesus said: "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last."3 He also reminded us: "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going …

Religion And Culture In Early Modern Europe: 1500-1800 (Book Review), John B. Roney

History Faculty Publications

Book review by John B. Roney.

Greyerz, Kaspar von. Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe: 1500-1800. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

9780195327656; 9780195327663 (pbk.)

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Seven-Volume Collection of Lewis Short Stories Published,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University (includes interview with editor Samuel J. Rogal)

“The Cross, The Flag, and the Presidential Elections”

“Elmer Gantry Sings Again”

“St. Cloud State University Receives Gift of the Manuscripts for Sinclair Lewis’s Play The Jayhawker“

“The Sinclair Lewis-Claude Washburn Friendship”

Muscogiana Vol. 19(1), Spring 2008, Reagan L. Grimsley

Muscogiana

No abstract provided.

Review: Code Orange, Ginger Nelms

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the young adult novel "Code Orange," by Caroline B. Cooney.

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2008, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Robert Miklitsch; Articles: A New Type of Queen: The Emergence of Beauty Pageants in America, 1880-1921 – Randi Hopkins; “What have we women to do with these matters?”: Women and Femininity in Pre-Revolutionary America, 1763-1775 – Megan Hatfield; Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! – Whitney Prose; Kenny and Wee on the Necessity of ‘Liberty of Indifference’ in Descartes’ Theory of Judgment – Larsa Ramsini; Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis – Adam Berner; Pope Pius XII: His Role with the Vatican in WWII – Kevin Crafton; The Genocide of the Herero Set the Tone for the Holocaust – …

Taking In: The Best Of Aib Photography 2008, Aib Students

Taking In

Taking In is the culmination of a semester's worth of work done by a group of thirteen students who set out to publish a collection of the best of AIB's student work. Guided by professor and artist Matthew Nash, and previous issues of Taking In, the class organized production, solicited work from peers, selected distinguished members of the art community to jury the work, and communicated with a team of designers to layout the book. The thirty-seven images are only a fraction of the work currently being produced by the students at the Art Institute of Boston, and there is …

In Defense Of Genius: Howells And The Limits Of Literary History, Claudia Stokes

English Faculty Research

In early 1886, William Dean Howells fell into an ugly public debate with the poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman. Carried out in the pages of Harper’s Monthly and the New Princeton Review, this dispute started as a disagreement about the origins of literary craftsmanship but quickly escalated into a heated epistemological squabble about the limits of historical knowledge. It began in March of that year, when Howells gave a mixed review to Stedman’s Poets of America (1885), a history of American poetry. Though Howells conceded the importance of Stedman’s contribution to the emerging discipline of American literary history, …

Review: Quest For The Dragon Stone, Erika Gschwind

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the picture book "Quest for the Dragon Stone," by Ami Blackford.

The Play Of Means And Ends: Justice In Lope's Fuenteovejuna, Matthew D. Stroud

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Lope’s masterpiece, Fuenteovejuna, is generally considered to be a glowing endorsement of the reign of Fernando and Isabel, who represent not just a glorious and hopeful Spanish history but political acumen, justice, and the triumph of good over evil. A closer examination of several key plot elements, however, reveals that almost every time characters are called upon to make decisions, they choose the option that at best circumvents the requirements for justice and at worst actively works to the detriment of the proper administration of justice and law. This study focuses on four pivotal moments—when Frondoso takes the Comendador’s …

Three Sunsets For Soprano And Chamber Orchestra, Adam Matthew Reifsteck

Masters Theses

Published after his death in 1898, Lewis Carroll's poem Three Sunsets explores the deepest of human emotions-love and loss. These complex emotions are often difficult to describe in words, yet Carroll is able to draw the reader into this world and project the shared feelings of all humanity. Unlike romantic poetry of his time, this work by Carroll is written in third person as a retelling of the story between two star-crossed lovers. This perspective allows the reader to experience the emotions of both the woman and the man. While Carroll's poetry remains open to all explanations of meaning, the …

Demonizing Judaism In The Soviet Union During The 1920s, Robert Weinberg

History Faculty Works

In this article, Robert Weinberg explores the visual representation of Judaism and observant Jews in the Soviet journal Bezbozhnik u stanka (The atheist at the workbench), which appeared in the 1920s. In their efforts to promote atheism and undermine organized religion, the artists responsible for the images in this journal singled out the Jewish god to be depicted with inhuman, bestial, and bizarre features such as a single eye and a nose made out of a fist. This portrayal of Judaism and religious Jews drew upon the pervasive antisemitic tropes and motifs in Russian culture and society and served to …

Articles The Acquisition Of English Adverbs By Thai Learners Rananda, Rananda Rungnaphawet

PASAA

This study explores the acquisition of English adverbs by Thai learners with respect to the range of positions of adjunction relative to the clause, applying the adjacency parameter as well as markedness theories. The subjects consisted of three groups, namely the native group, the advanced learner group, and the intermediate learner group. The results were as follows. In terms of the adjacency parameter, the native group placed adverbs quite equally between the clause-initial and the clause-medial positions. On the other hand, the learner groups put much more adverbs clause-initially. Despite these differences, the advanced group was on a par with …

The Effects Of Correction Feedback Techniques On Efl Learners's Pragmatic Production And Confidence, Pajaree Nipaspong, Sumalee Chinokul

PASAA

This paper reports on the effectiveness of explicit feedback and prompts in developing EFL learners' pragmatically appropriate refusal production and level of confidence. The study included 39 participants with two experimental groups and one control group. After the tenweek treatment, results from the oral refusal production tests and the rating scales revealed the effectiveness of prompts over explicit feedback in helping learners improve their refusal production and confidence. However, the control group receiving delayed feedback recorded the greatest confidence improvement, but the least refusal production gain. The key factors leading to the advantages of prompts may result from its provision …

Ability Of Efl Health Science Graduate Students In Identifying The Core Parts Of Long, Complex Sentences, Phan Banpho

PASAA

Professional academic articles often contain long, complex sentences, which can hinder comprehension. This study investigated the ability of 151 EFL health science graduate students taking an EFL course entitled Technical English for Medical Science Graduates in 2006 and 2007 in identifying the core parts of 15 long, complex sentences with an average length of 27.47 words (S.D. = 6.17), a minimum of 17 words and a maximum of 40 words. The readability index of these test sentences was 13.85 and the Flesch Index 44.18, indicating that students may find them difficult to read. Each sentence included one dependent clause - …

Opus, 2007-2008, Issue Vi, Suny Geneseo English Club

Opus

Words
5 Words, Nora Curry
6 While walking down 8'h, Meghan Pipe
7 The Color if Our Flesh, Patrick Morgan
8 Sensitivity, Kelly Hendricken
11 Home Alone, jillion Capewell
Corner Talk, james Merenda
12 Sometimes, Nora Curry
13 l' arbre, Laura Lonski
14 La Mer, Oliver Riley
15 She Was a Poem, Patrick Morgan
16 The Fountain, Alex Egan
18 Space, Dana LePage
19 ClosedWindow, Nora Curry
20 Dot-Dot-Dash, Lauren Soohoo
21 At the corner if Elmwood and West Main ... , Laura Lonski
22 "Don't Ever Fall in Love with an Artist," Kim Perrella
26 Somewhere I Am Dreaming, …

A Genre-Based Approach For Teaching Writing To Low-Proficiency Efl College Students, Yi-Chun Pan

PASAA

This paper describes a genre-based approach paired with a range of activities, aiming to provide low-proficiency EFL college students with the ability to create whole texts. A genre-based approach clearly assists students to understand textual and linguistic features, and various activities facilitate student reinforcement of their abilities in both the mechanics and organization of writing.

A Strategy For Evangelism With Samoans, Tauileata Moli

Doctor of Ministry

This paper will provide an evangelism plan designed to carry out this mandate among traditional Samoans in Samoa. The plan supports and utilizes the Samoan communal patriarchal family system. The thesis of this paper is that a Christian evangelistic model can be designed that is compatible with the Samoan communal, patriarchal family system. Chapter 1 of this dissertation describes conflicts caused by using individual evangelism style in the Samoan community, which is community oriented. Chapter 2 will provide historical information about the country of Samoa and its cultural background. Change and especially change that destroys the cultural system is very …

Giovanni Borelli’S De Motu Animalium, 1685, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Youthbuilders: 1974-2008 Building A Student Leadership Model, Denis Eldon Bell

Doctor of Ministry

The YouthBuilders is an itinerant group of students, ages 18-24 who volunteer for one year of community life and personal growth. They train and serve in what is now a co-operative opportunity sponsored by the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada and the Canadian Conference of the Brethren in Christ Church.

After thirty-three years the YouthBuilders' adventure is just completing its tenth season of tour, involving the 13th and 14th teams, having trained 58 students in this model of leadershop development.

The practical application of this Doctor of Ministry dissertation is to investigate · · the history of this movement and …

Movies As The Vernacular Of Adolescence, Jacob Youmans

Doctor of Ministry

Audience: The primary audience/user of my project will be Christian teenagers with a desire to share their faith in a missional way in the vernacular of their peers. I also hope the project will be a resource for those who minister to and work with teenagers and desire to connect with them as well as inspire them to go out and be the church to their friends that do not know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

I hope my users will have more confidence in sharing their faith and will learn skills to talk about the sacred in the …

The Simpsons: A Reflection Of Violence, Theodore S. Huptich

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

Violence in the media has always been a concern to many people. There have been numerous studies that have reviewed the effect that violent television programming has had on the people that have viewed; most of these studies have shown an increase in aggression in the people that viewed the violent programming. However, there have been very few, if any, studies that have examined the amount and type of violence that exists in television programs. This study uses the television program "The Simpsons", due to its popularity and longevity, to examine the amount and type of violence that exists. This …

A Night In Neverland, Elizabeth Rebecca Beal

English Theses & Dissertations

A Night in Neverland is a collection of five short stories. Each story touches on illusion, fantasy, magical thinking, beauty and unhinged reality, and transformation. Also at the center of this collection is estrangement and identity, and the clash between.

In "A Night in Neverland," a high-school girl creates her own fantastic prom memories despite the dismal realities of the evening, "Somewhere Bright and Clear" follows another teenage girl and three of her friends, during a stolen weekend at her family's lake house, where she's promised her boyfriend something she never wanted to deliver. In "Wonderful, Wonderful" a woman breaks …

You Will Come Safe From The Sea, Peter J. Geye

Dissertations

Set against the Minnesota North Shore of Lake Superior, "You Will Come Safe From the Sea" examines the lives of Olaf and Noah Torr, a father and son whose long estrangement began after Olaf survived a shipwreck on Lake Superior. Thirty years after the wreck, Olaf is dying of cancer and has asked his son home to help him die. Over the course of two weeks in November, the protagonists learn each other's lives and summon the courage to forgive. Multiple stories-within-the-story evolve, including the harrowing account of the wreck of the SSRagnarek (Olaf s ore boat), and Noah's own …

Searching For Clooney, Roopa Swaminathan

English Theses & Dissertations

Searching for Clooney documents a decade of my life, beginning with my first trip to the U.S. in the early l 990s and culminating with my return in 2005. The manuscript takes a look at the many differences between American and Indian cultures. It also traces my attempt at trying to make it as a writer/ director in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

Border Ache, Joanna Eleftheriou

English Theses & Dissertations

Border Ache is a collection of essays that explore the author's experiences growing up as an American-born Greek Cypriot, brought back to her father's divided island at the age of ten. The essays consider the divisions created by ethnicity, gender, generation gaps, and religion in an effort to better understand the human conflicts hidden behind the political ones.

The Mechanical Hour, Ryan Thomas Fulcher

English Theses & Dissertations

Each of the five stories in this collection presents a character who feels compelled to do something out of the ordinary. In "Rock Creek Bridge," a lonely man interferes with a stranger's bleak plan. In "The Day Room," young married man suffers the lingering pangs of an old attachment. "The Mechanical Hour" features a man who suspects himself of harboring an unhealthy impulse. In "Occoquan," a young lobbyist falls lower than he thought possible. In "Ballplayers," an alternate take on the classic form of the baseball story, a man recounts his version of a theft he committed as a youth. …

Review Of "Wittgenstein And The Moral Life: Essays In Honor Of Cora Diamond" Edited By A. Crary, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Beliefs And Opinions About English Writing Of Students At A Thai University, Watana Padgate

PASAA

This study explored college students' beliefs and opinions about the necessity of writing skills in an EFL (English as a foreign language) context, problems and level of difficulty in English, and the students' experience in Thai composition and opinions about the benefits of writing Thai compositions on writing in English. The participants were students from Naresuan University, Thailand, consisting of 40 English-majored students and 239 non-English-majored students. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The findings revealed that both groups of students realized the significance of English writing and thought that it should be required for all students. However, …