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Long Before The Nhprc: Documentary Editing In Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Brent Tarter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

In 1791 Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to congratulate Ebenezer Hazard, of Pennsylvania, on the publication of the first two volumes of his Historical Collections, the first documentary edition of the public records of a state or colony. Jefferson’s letter is often quoted for its rationale for documentary editing. “Time and accident,” he wrote, “are committing daily havoc on the originals deposited in our public offices. The late war has done the work of centuries in this business. The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public …

The Pitfalls Of Digital History: Review Of Digital History: A Guide To Gathering, Preserving, And Presenting The Past On The Web. Daniel Cohen And Roy Rosenzweig., David Spiech

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

With Digital History, Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig have attempted to boost scholarly authors and editors into the wild world of web publishing, even those who have tried to maintain a conservative academic distrust of electronic media. They write engagingly and frankly, addressing the reader as a colleague who knows historical material well but needs comprehensive background about every facet of digital access and presentation.

Founding Fathers Face The Senate, Charlene Bickford

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

On December 15, 2007, The Washington Post published an article by staff writer Jeffrey H. Birnbaum titled “In the Course of Human Events, Still Unpublished: Congress Pressed on Founders’ Papers.” This article focused on complaints that the editions publishing the papers of Founders John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington, collectively known at the Founding Fathers Papers (FFP), which noted historian David McCullough called “as worthy as any publishing effort that I know of,” take too long to finish and are not accessible enough in the electronic age of free online resources. Comments from Rebecca W. …

Notes On Contributors 2008

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Kathleen Adams was Secretary of the Fellowship from 1968 until her retirement in the spring of this year. She initiated the Review in 1970, was editor until 1981 and co-editor 1982-91. She published Those of Us Who Loved Her in 1980 and A Community of Interest: The Story of the George Eliot Fellowship 1930-2000 in 2000.

Juliette Atkinson is a teaching assistant at University College London, where she recently completed her PhD thesis on Victorian Biography and the Representation of 'Obscure' Lives, which is partly concerned with the manner in which Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot influenced nineteenth-century life-writing.

Michael …

Full Circle: T. S. Eliot's Quest For Spiritual Fulfillment, Lindsay Sarin

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.

Senior Viola Recital, Johannah Fenton

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.

Freedom To Err: The Idea Of Natural Selection In Politics, Schools, And Courts, Paul D. Carrington

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Teaching Of 'Book History' In English And Cultural Studies Units, Per Henningsgaard

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

Book history is a field of study concerned with 'the influence of manuscript or printed materials on the development and transmission of culture', typically concentrating on six related topics: 'authorship, book selling, printing, publishing, distribution, and reading' (West, 2003). This article evaluates the teaching of book history in English and Cultural Studies units at the University of Western Australia (UWA), which ceased offering a stand-alone unit on the subject in the late 1980s. Since then, book history is only ever addressed in English and Cultural Studies units as an ancillary to other themes and theoretical inclinations, in particular text based …

Journal In Entirety

The Asbury Journal

Salient Experiences that Shape My Pedagogy
Frances S. Adeney

No Higher Calling: Personal Reflections on the Task of Teaching
David R Batler

A Chinese Christian Learns from Confucius
Kiem Kwa

Teaching as Hospitality
Ellen L. Marmon

Reflective Teaching in the Context of Community
Ruth Anne Reese

The Wesleyan Impulse in Teaching
Don Thorsen

Pioneer Girls: Mid-Twentieth Century American Evangelicalism's Girl Scouts
Timothy Larsen

Imprecatory Speech-Acts in the Book of Acts
David H. Wenkel

A Guide to Scholarlly Advancement for Graduate and Postgraduate Students
Fredrick J. Long and Matthew P. O'Reilly

Yahweh's Other Shoe by Kilian McDonnell A Book Review
J. …

Book Notes, Kenneth J. Collins

The Asbury Journal

Canonical Theism: A Proposal for Theology and the Church
William Abraham, Jason Vickers, and Natalie Van Kirk, eds.
2008. 352pp., paper, $36.00
Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, Co.
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

John Wesley's Ecclesiology: A Study in its Sources and Development
Gwang Seok Oh
2008. 324 pp., paper; $50.00
Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

Early Evangelicalism: A Global Intellectual History, 1670-1789
W.R. Ward
2006. 226pp., paper, $88.00
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

Assessing The Felt Reports Of The 1811-12 New Madrid Earthquakes In The Central United States, Ron Street, John D. Kiefer, Jerry L. Raisor

Report of Investigations--KGS

The damage and felt reports describing the New Madrid, Mo., earthquakes of 1811-12 need to be assessed in the historical context in which the events occurred. Log cabins in the frontier settlements along the lower Ohio River Valley, for example, were built with a rudimentary form of base isolation, and their response to the earthquakes should not be evaluated in the same way that a modern wood-frame or brick building would be.

Also, inaccuracies have crept into the databases used for estimating the epicenters and magnitudes of the earthquakes. For example, the magnitude of the December 16, 1811, earthquake has …

Palliative Sedation: An Ethical Option Of Last Resort, Rebecca A. Mcateer

Quill & Scope

In the wake of extensive discussion regarding the ethics of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, a more subtle debate is evolving around the topic of palliative sedation. Specifically, this is the administration of sedatives to terminally ill patients to relieve severe, treatment-refractory suffering due to the underlying illness. Palliative sedation has not been made obsolete by recent advances in pain management and symptom control; instead, it retains a vital role in managing select patients at the end of life. Rather than merely a disguised form of euthanasia, it is a morally distinct, ethically permissible option when exercised within appropriate limits.

Caged, Edward Yap

Quill & Scope

Caged was written during test week to represent the author’s feelings towards his expectations of medical school and the reality of medical school. The poem represents a struggle of the author’s own psyche to come to terms with what he has gotten himself into, the possibilities that could have existed otherwise, and his struggle in deciding to stay. The style in which the author presents the poem is in effort to impart the feeling of being constrained, and for the reader to feel the author’s helplessness.

Ignorant, Vedika Nehra

Quill & Scope

'One week of rest...Perhaps the television is wrong...A forced apathy guards every hello...A thirty-dollar prescription...Peaches cost more than pasta.'

Infant Mortality, April Tantillo

Quill & Scope

Despite an overall downward trend in neonatal and post neonatal deaths in recent years, the United States continues to rank poorly among developed nations for infant mortality. According to the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook, the United States ranked 180 out of 221 countries in 2007 (with the lowest infant mortality rate belonging to the country ranked 221). This paper seeks to explore continuing racial and socioeconomic disparities among U.S. women and their contribution to this disheartening truth.

Childhood Obesity, Richard Anderson

Quill & Scope

Childhood overweight and obesity are at an all-time high this country. This is discouraging because overweight and obese children are at a significantly increased risk of becoming obese adults. Treating the obese is expensive, resulting in a sizable contribution to total healthcare expenditures. Thus, it seems logical that we need to treat the problem in children to avoid having another generation of overweight and obese adults. School-based programs which push nutrition education and increased physical activity during the school day can help decrease childhood overweight and obesity. These programs produce excellent results and could be very cost-effective.

On The Books: Reading Overtreated, Jeffrey Eliason

Quill & Scope

Book review of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee.

Reflection On Medical Disunity, Poonam Kaushal

Quill & Scope

How does a physician endure the administrative and political pressure that often times, conflict and antagonize proper medical decisions? Having witnessed the problem for the first time in a doctor’s office, the author recognized that the health care problems do not innately begin with the insurance companies, hospital administrators or even an HMO, but with physicians failing to unite behind the common goal of caring for the health their patients. When physicians fail to overcome the aspects of a system that do not serve patients needs, they succumb to a flawed system that inevitably and fatally reigns over medical outcomes.

Warranties For Your Flat-Screen – Why Not For Your Bypass Surgery?, Anil Joseph Kulangara

Quill & Scope

If Health Care Delivery is a business, and patients are consumers, what is the product they’re buying? Who is liable for that product’s quality? If someone purchases a television set, they get a warranty. That warranty is the manufacturer’s guarantee to the customer that their company will be responsible for repairing or replacing that product should it prove to be defective within a few days of purchase. Could medicine ever be treated the same way? The following article describes Geisinger Health System’s ProvenCareSM program, which establishes flat package pricing and a 90-day “warranty” for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABGs).

Racial Disparities In The Us Healthcare System, J. Paul Nielsen

Quill & Scope

Provider mentality regarding minorities, both overt and subconscious, likely affects the quality of healthcare delivered. Survey research suggests that most (between 50-75%) Caucasian people believe minorities are less intelligent, more prone to violence, and less likely to be employed. More physicians identify themselves as Caucasian than all other races combined. One in five Spanish-speaking Latinos reports not seeking healthcare due to language barriers. Even when they have overcome barriers to getting healthcare, minority populations are still less likely than Caucasians to receive certain common medical procedures.

What?? There’S A Genocide? Where?, Amaka Ozah, Farzana Nuruzzaman

Quill & Scope

Genocide is not a subject that people like to talk about, but the fact of the matter is that it does exist today. The genocide that is being referred to is that which is occurring in Darfur, Sudan. This genocide has claimed over 400,000 lives and displaced more than 2.5 million people since 2003. As the genocide continues, out of the sorrow arises the stories of healthcare professionals who have devoted their lives to providing medical care in the conflict-ridden countries such as Darfur. Leading the way in providing medical services in Darfur is the International Medical Corps.

Psychological Stress And Immune Function, Allison Rubin

Quill & Scope

Dr. Henry Maudsley said, "The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep." The medical community has always acknowledged that psychological stress can affect physical wellbeing, even though the mechanism was not always known. Now we know that this phenomenon is mediated by the body’s response to external stress and a person who does not cope with stress appropriately can experience immunosuppression. This phenomenon is especially important for the already immunosuppressed HIV+ population because life stresses specific to HIV+ people may contribute to disease progression. Furthermore, improving life stress in this population is linked with increased …

Trials And Tribulations: Readings And Misreadings Of The Revolutionary Body In French Women Novelists, 1792-1799, Antoinette Sol

Modern Languages Faculty Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Duality And The Problem Of Moral Self-Awareness In Dostoevsky's Dvoinik (The Double), Lonny Harrison

Modern Languages Faculty Publications - Archive

This dissertation investigates the problem of duality as it relates to the moral situation of the protagonist of F. M. Dostoevsky's novella Dvoinik (The Double, 1846). Bearing the cultural and literary heritage as well as contemporary social realities of mid-nineteenth century Russia steadily in mind, I analyse the duality motif in Dvoinik in terms of the protagonist's self-consciousness [samosoznanie] and moral perceptions. In particular, the moral ideas that underpin his self-definitions are products of what I refer to as moral selfawareness. In the course of my analysis, I interrogate the modulations of moral reasoning in the mind of the protagonist …

Sae Magazin : Das Magazin Von Sae Institute Und Sae Alumni Association 2008|1, Sae Institute

SAE Magazine (2007-2011)

No abstract provided.

Sae Magazin : Das Magazin Von Sae Institute Und Sae Alumni Association 2008|2, Sae Institute

SAE Magazine (2007-2011)

No abstract provided.

Texas And The Good Roads Movement: 1895 To 1948, Karl E. Wallace

History Theses - Archive

The Good Roads Movement in America grew directly out of concerns over the debilitating effects of rural isolation. However, as each state faced its own unique challenges to the building and maintenance of roads, the early movement reflected broad regional differences. In Texas, the breadth of its borders, the scattered and uneven distribution of its population, and numerous historically rooted prejudices towards the proper role of government defined its differences. Even after the need for good roads had become undeniable, and roads advocacy was galvanized into a national movement, the social and political divisions that existed within Texas would prevent …

On Their Own?: Mexican Immigrants' Assistance By Government, Ngos, And Self-Help At Times Of Natural Disaster In Wimauma, Florida, Nancy Raylene Scott

Philosophy & Humanities Theses - Archive

During the 2004 hurricane season, four successive storms struck Central Florida causing catastrophic damage to crops and displacing close to 195,000 migrant and seasonal workers. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis examines how government agencies and NGOs respond to such natural disasters by reaching out to Latino immigrant workers and families in Wimauma, Florida, and the diverse ways in which the immigrant community itself organized to confront the needs and problems brought about by these disasters. I pay particular attention to the role of Mexican immigrants’ kinship and social networks in developing adaptive strategies during times of stress and to …

Ecological Landscaping: From Scientific Practices To Public Practices And Policies, Loren Byrne

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Actor-Network Theory And Organizational Forming: An Amodern Path Dependence Perspective, Paul Donnelly

Conference papers

The organizational theory literature has identified the emergence and evolution of organizational forms as a critical issue to be addressed, yet new ways of looking at organizational form have yet to be addressed and there are concerns about the largely ahistorical and aprocessual character of much organizational theorizing. While path dependence, as conventionally conceived, presents an avenue for overcoming the lack of historical contingency in mainstream organizational theories, it does not maintain an opening for forming. Here is where actor-network theory comes in to not only argue that organizational forming is ongoing, but also show how it is made unrecognizable …