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Managing A Creative Practice, Julie C. Barrett

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

Myths and assumptions about creativity often lead us to believe that creativity is innate. Researchers find though, that we develop creative skills like any other ability, through opportunity, encouragement and practice. They also believe that most people fail to reach their creative potential, not because of lack of ability, but lack of opportunity. In this paper, I studied how creativity functions (specifically in terms of my own painting practice) and how it can be applied more flexibly. Certain factors, such as access to strong mentors, freedom to experiment, and readily available resources, help potentially exceptional minds find the passion to …

Greene County (Ark.) Records, 1834-2009

NEARA finding aids

This collection consists of 14 binders containing marriage records in Greene County, listing bride and groom alphabetically from the years of 1834 to 2004. There are also 19th century articles of incorporation, lists of ministers, probate records, and wills.

Interested Citizens For Voter Registration Grant Project Report, 2009

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The file in this collection contains a program, photographs, a flyer, and newspaper articles.

Portrait Of A People: Black Life On The North Side Of The River 1850–2000traveling Exhibit Grant Project Final Report, 2009

Finding aids

This collection contains one grant project final report, 21 contact sheets of images, one disc of images.

Scipio A. Jones Alumni Association Grant Project Report, 2009

Finding aids

This collection contains a grant project report for the Scipio A. Jones Alumni Association in paper and CD-ROM format.

Preservation Of African American Cemeteries Project Collection, 2007-2009

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The collection contains conference syllabi and material.

New Galilee Landmark Missionary Baptist Church Records, 1955-2009

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This collection contains church minutes, photograph albums, historical information, and printed ephemera.

Willis Turner/Finney Family Papers, 1839-2009

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This collection contains family history information, correspondence, school material, photographs, tax receipts, and a wedding album related to the Turner, Bluford, Finney, and Shelton families.

Greene County Records, 1834-2009

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This collection consists of 14 binders of marriage records indexes from Greene County, from 1834 to 2004. They list both the brides and grooms alphabetically. There are also indexes of 19th century articles of incorporation, lists of ministers, probate records, and wills.

Silas H. Hunt Community Development Corporation Grant Project, 2006-2009

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This collection contains materials prepared in conjunction with a Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant from the Black History Commission of Arkansas, and includes information on race relations in early 20th century America, an overview of Hunt’s life and legacy. Collection contains a 183-page document and one CD with digital copy of document. The Black History Commission of Arkansas (BHCA) was created by Act 1233 of 1991 and is composed of seven members appointed by the governor with approval of the Senate. The BHCA is charged with preserving the history of black Arkansans and black communities in Arkansas. This commission also …

Terror At Black Falls Movie Memorabilia Collection, 1914-2009

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The collection contains photographs of the Terror at Black Falls movie site at Scotland, Arkansas, and more recent photographs of House Peters, Jr. and Gary Gray returning to the community for visits. Promotional materials for Terror at Black Falls and other films House Peters, Jr. starred in are included. The collection contains copies of the film in DVD and VHS formats. Also included are photocopied newspaper clippings concerning House Peters, Jr.’s career, photocopied glamour shots and movie stills of House Peters, Sr. and House Peters, Jr., and correspondence between Mary Jean Hall and House Peters, Jr. and Gary Gray. An …

Waverly Methodist Church Records, 1896-2009

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This collection contains the church registers and membership records of the Waverly Methodist Church, Dallas County, Arkansas.

Black History Commission Of Arkansas Collection, 1914-2009

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This is an on-going collection that consists of biographical, church, school, and community histories. It contains items collected by members of the Black History Commission, the African American History Coordinator, and other contributors.

A December To Remember, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It has been a December to remember. As the month comes to a close with a remarkable flurry of headline sports stories, its clear that this one month was not only one for the memory bank, but that it may have been the most fitting way to end a year that has certified the decade as the Naughty Naughties. What seemed like an awkward tag at the beginning of the new century has become a most appropriate signature phrase as this decade comes to its ignominious close.

Chronicle Of The 39th Infantry Regiment From Normandy To The Elbe: June 1943 - May 1945, Richard B. Kann Jr.

9th Infantry Division Association Documents

The 39th Infantry Regiment fought as part of the 9th Infantry Division during World War II. This chonicle is a diary of the Regiment's daily operations and actions as it progressed across Europe during 1944 and 1945. The chronicle is portrayed from the vantage point of Richard B. Kann (father of the author) and Dale E. Smith, who served as medics in the 39th Infantry Regiment during that time.

Review Of The Library: An Illustrated History, Glenda A. Thornton

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

Review of The Library: An Illustrated History

Eva Vive En Otra Parte: Cambio De Signo E Identidad En Eva Perón De Copi, Karina Elizabeth Vázquez

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Por lo que respecta al siglo XIX, el viaje a París para la intelectualidad de América Latina fue una experiencia que determinó su actitud ante la problemática de sus respectivos países y que, si bien empezó siendo un viaje de aprendizaje y crecimiento, para algunos de ellos, terminó convirtiéndose en un proceso enajenante que los situaría en un no man’s land social.

Coming Distractions: Postcards From Tomorrow Square

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

China Beat has been faithfully following James Fallows’s reports for the Atlanticfrom first Shanghai and now Beijing since he moved to China in 2006. His reports have covered topics from China’s international image to the financial crisis to theGreat Firewall, and he blogs regularly at the Atlantic‘s website. Fallows’s reports have now been gathered together in a collection, Postcards from Tomorrow Square, that will be available for purchase tomorrow. Over email, Fallows chatted with Kate Merkel-Hess about the new book and his thoughts about reporting from China.

Kate Merkel-Hess: Your forthcoming book Postcards from Tomorrow Square is a collection of …

Introduction To Ritual Theory Ritual Practice, Catherine M. Bell

Religious Studies

This book undertakes such an analysis in two ways: first, through a critical reading of how the notion of ritual has been used in the study of religion, society, and culture; and second, through an attempt to carve out an approach to ritual activities that is less encumbered by assumptions about thinking and acting and more disclosing of the strategies by which ritualized activities do what they do. I do not provide a comprehensive history of the term, a review of the most famous ethnographic examples, or a revised theory of ritual—useful though these projects might be. The purpose of …

Theoria, Theos, And Therapeia In Aristotle's Ethical Endings, Lawrence Jost

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

My basic complaint is that it’s not at all obvious that maximizing the theoretical activity of our most divine element does full justice to the richly textured environment provided by the first 9 1/2 books of the NE, which seemed to call for focused development of the full range of our human potential, combining moral and intellectual virtues along with provision for adequate supplies of external goods. The older language of the seemingly endless debate about whether or not the NE settles for an inclusive or dominant-end conception of eudaimonia has been redescribed - in Michael Pakaluk’s new terminology - …

Ethics Of Human Enhancement: An Executive Summary, Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin, Jesse Steinberg

Philosophy

With multi-year funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of researchers has just released a comprehensive report detailing ethical issues arising from human enhancement (Allhoff et al. 2009). While we direct the interested reader to that (much longer) report, we also thank the editors of this journal for the invitation to provide an executive summary thereof. This summary highlights key results from each section of that report and does so in a self-standing way; in other words, this summary presupposes no familiarity with the report and offers the opportunity to gain quick familiarity with its most central …

Epics And Ethics, Ananya Vajpeyi

History Faculty Publication Series

The Difficulty of Being Good could have been written by my uncle, or your grandmother, or indeed you or me, as we think about and try to make sense of the many risks, the shearing dilemmas, the awful humiliations, the terrible defeats, the ethical conundrums and the complex machinations that always have and always will characterise politics – both in the public realm of power, law and violence, but also the private realm of incessant adjustment and interaction between individuals.

Church Bulletin, December 24, 2009

Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Ottawa, Canada

Church Bulletin Finding Aid

What Writers Do. The Value Of Literary Imagination, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

On Tubes, By Ted Stevens, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract available

Meditation On Wendell Berry’S The Gift Of Good Land, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger

Faculty Publications

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The Faithful Flyer, 12-20-2009 To 01-03-2010, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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Reading Round-Up: 12/18/09

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

China Beat will be going on vacation for the next two weeks, and will return in 2010. Before we sign off for the holidays, here are a few stories that have caught our eye lately:

1. In the Business Standard, Pallavi Aiyar writes that the “Ghosts of Beijing Lurk in Brussels.” Moving from Beijing to Brussels, Aiyar was anticipating a departure from the relentless cycle of urban destruction and construction that had marked her years in China:

Imagine my surprise when I arrived at Schuman, the headquarters of the European Union and a 10-minute drive from downtown Brussels, to scenes …

Interview With David Emery By Mike Hastings, David F. Emery

George J. Mitchell Oral History Project

Biographical Note
David Farnham Emery was born on September 1, 1948, in Rockland, Maine. His father was a bookkeeper, accountant, and golfer (he also played baseball for the University of Pennsylvania), and his mother was a nurse. Both parents served in the military during World War II, his father as a staff sergeant and his mother as an officer. He grew up in a Republican family and attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1967-1970. He was elected to the Maine legislature immediately after graduation, during the Vietnam War. In 1974, he was elected as a U.S. congressman during …

Hall, Dorthie A. (Mss 295), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 295. Letters written to Dorthie A. Hall, student and editor of the "College Heights Herald" at Western Kentucky Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, during World War II. The male correspondents are all former students from Western, and they describe military life in their specific locations around the world. They all express devotion to Western and ask for details and comment about the school, sports teams, and the Bowling Green community.