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Review: At Home In Mossy Creek, Emily Rogers

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the shared novel "At Home in Mossy Creek," by Debra Leigh Smith, Sandra Chastain, Debra Dixon, and Martha Crockett, with others.

Review: Romancing God: Evangelical Women And Inspirational Fiction, Kate Farley

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction," by Lynn S. Neal.

Review: Stand Up For Alabama: Governor George Wallace, Peter Otto

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the non-fiction book "Stand Up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace," by Jeff Frederick.

Review: An Angry Drum Echoed: Mary Musgrove, Queen Of The Creeks, Vanessa Cowle

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the young adult biographical novel "An Angry Drum Echoed: Mary Musgrove, Queen of the Creeks," by Pamela Bauer Mueller.

Urf: Islamic Biomedical Ethics In Rural Mali, Amanda Reider

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Anxious faces gather at the entrance to La Grande Mosquée de Sanankoroba, an imposing cement structure amongst small mud homes, awaiting the imam’s decision. He is not a mujtahid , but offers fatwas nonetheless; today’s is on birth control. Men crowd around—and a few women at the rear—to hear him speak out against birth control, against the use of oral contraception, for being against Islam and against God’s plan. And when his speech finishes, the faces disappear, back into their homes, and little discussion ensues. Instead, men return to their wives to share the verdict, to denounce family planning as …

Model Minorities, Models Of Resistance: Native Figures In Asian Canadian Literature, Marie Lo

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

In Lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article:

In the special Amerasia issue titled “Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel,” editor Henry Yu notes that despite similar thematic concerns in Asian Canadian and Asian American cultural production, works by Asian Canadian artists are also “entangled in broader cultural and political formations that speak to the importance of First Nations struggles” (xviii). The centrality of First Nations struggles in the Canadian political and cultural landscape is reflected in the representation of Native culture in Asian Canadian texts. Though these representations vary, Native presence in works such …

Review Of Invading Mexico: America’S Continental Dream And The Mexican War, 1846-1848. By Joseph Wheelan. (New York: Carrol And Graf Publishers, 2007. Pp. 490. Cast Of Characters, Prologue, Epilogue, Bibliography, Notes, Index, Acknowledgments. Isbn-13: 978-0-786719-4. $27.95), Anthony K. Knopp

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Review Of Cortina: Defending The Mexican Name In Texas. By Jerry Thompson. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. Pp. 344. Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Isbn 1-58544-592-4. $32.50), Jose A. P. Alaniz

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Only Thing I Ever Got From You, Janet Edwards

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Cob Building: Movements And Moments Of Survival, Jeanine Marie Minge

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Cob, as an arts-based research process, creates movements and moments of survival. Survival is an ideological construction and an actual, local practice. Survival is also about desiring and fulfilling arts-based desires to work with the land through academic and material scavenging. Cob creates strategies for surviving, for working with our respective environments wisely. Cob building teaches people how to negotiate the natural economy and their relationships to labor and each other through an artistic and intimate practice. From a feminist poststructural lens, survival happens on the local level, between and with people. Cob building creates knowledge through creative, kinesthetic, and …

The Influence Of Valenced Images On Perceptual Learning, Noah Sulman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study aimed to determine whether the rate of perceptual learning in a vernier discrimination task could be influenced by affective images. Forty-eight (30 Female, 18 Male) subjects were instructed to indicate the direction of an offset over 620 trials. Subjects were primed with either negative, positive or neutral photographs before making the discrimination on all test trials. Feedback regarding offset performance was provided on each trial. Despite initial pilot data indicating that subjects primed with negative, arousing images improved performance over those primed with either neutral or positive images, there was ultimately no reliable advantage for any of the …

Metallopeptides As Model Systems For The Study Of Cu(Ii)-Dependent Oxidation Chemistry, William Maung Tay

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Copper is one of the essential metal ions for aerobic organisms. Two well known functions of copper in the biological systems are electron transfer and molecular oxygen interaction. Thus, this metal can be found in haemocyanin, an oxygen carrier protein, and superoxide dismutase, an enzyme that involves in electron transfer. In addition, having a positive redox potential allows copper to be involved in redox chemistry. It is the redox properties of copper that are responsible for many important biochemical processes. Although the copper-containing oxidases have been well studied over the years, certain mechanistic details such as reaction intermediates remain to …

Lagrange Interpolation On Leja Points, Rodney Taylor

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation we investigate Lagrange interpolation. Our first result will deal with a hierarchy of interpolation schemes. Specifically, we will show that given a triangular array of points in a regular compact set K, such that the corresponding Lebesgue constants are subexponential, one always has the uniform convergence of L_n(f) to f for all functions analytic on K. We will then show that uniform convergence of L_n(f) to f for all analytic functions f is equivalent to the fact that the probability measures γ_n = 1/n Σ^{n …}

"They Are Gone And I Am Going": The Battle Of Memphis 6 June 1862, Matthew T. Eng

History Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the 6 June 1862 naval battle of Memphis between the Confederate River Defense Fleet and Union Ram Fleet and Western Flotilla. In just under two hours, the crowded and anxious populace lined along the Memphis bluffs witnessed the complete destruction of the last remaining Confederate fleet along the Mississippi River. Within the combined Union army and navy operations throughout the late winter and spring of 1862, the clash of iron-wielded rams and gunboats that occurred on a casually warm June morning tells much of the scope of the western war and its importance in ultimately securing the …

The Mass. Memories Road Show: Some Notes On Bridging And Bonding, Joanne M. Riley

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications

Four years ago, the Mass. Studies Project at UMass Boston launched a cultural heritage project that we dubbed the “Mass. Memories Road Show,” a real-world mashup of PBS’s Antiques Road Show (people bring their personal stuff to a local event for professional perusal) and the Library of Congress’ American Memory Project (digitize historic stuff and share it with the world). Our ambitious goal was – and still is! – to visit each of the 351 communities in Massachusetts, inviting residents to bring in photographs that reflect themselves and their families in that community. At the public “Road Show” events, we …

Review Of Songs Of Ourselves: The Uses Of Poetry In America By Joan Shelley Rubin, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Six Degrees Of Separation, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Poet's Life, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

The article reviews the book "The Pear is Ripe: A Memoir," by John Montague.

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. …

A Comparative Study Of Physician Knowledge, Attitudes, Referral Practices, And Barriers To Use Of Music Therapy And Related Allied Health Professions, Rebecca Elayn Frohardt

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to gather information regarding physicians' knowledge, attitudes, referral practices and barriers to use of music therapy in medical settings, as compared with related allied health professions. It is hoped that this knowledge will help music therapists identify opportunities for education and research, leading to the continued expansion of music therapy in health care. Participants were asked to complete a one-time online survey with 20 questions pertaining to basic demographic information, knowledge, attitudes, referral practices, and perceived barriers to use for music therapy and four related allied health professions. Forty-two physicians completed the survey beyond …

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 54, March 31, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Ccu Newsletter, March 31, 2008, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

The Art Of Early Printed Books: Judaica Gems & English Bibles From The Collection Of Rabbi Howard R. Buechler, Beth Mobley

Exhibits

No abstract provided.

Letter Circa March 31, 2008, Iwao Shimada

Overview

Letter of condolence from Reverend Iwao Shimada, pastor of the Kagura-cho Free Methodist Church (formerly the Nishinomiya Free Methodist Church), to Florence DeShazer on Jacob's death.

The Chanticleer, 2008-03-31, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.