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Songs Of Expansion, Blake Ray

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

A collection of poetry.

Writing Center Outreach: What It Is And Why It Matters, Christine B. Ghattas

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Christine B. Ghattas argues that writing centers need to enact outreach programs that show faculty and students what goes on in writing centers and the ways writing centers benefit from the university community. She presents a description of the current situation of writing centers, an explanation of how outreach works, a case study of an outreach program in action, and ideas and recommendations for the future of writing center outreach.

D. Brian Peterman: One Man’S Service In The Coast Guard, Liza Scales

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Contains a book proposal about the life of D. Brian Peterman, three complete chapters, and a list of proposed chapters for the completed text.

Stonefingers, Chris Prince

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

The first 100 pages of a second draft of a novel. Created through multiple creative fiction workshops, a directed study on multi-linear narrative in long fiction, a novel workshop, and finally through my Capstone Project work.

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Write Poetry: A Biography Of American Poet Walter Griffin, Lawrence Sterne Stevens

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

The first four chapters of a biography of the poet Jasper Walter Griffin. They cover the first thirty years of his life, including Griffin's fatherless childhood in rural South Carolina, his imperious grandmother, his time at Gordon Military School (now Gordon College) in Barnesville, Ga., his tumultuous time in the Army in the U.S. and France, his brushes with the law, and a decade of defiance and anger, of various jobs from bellhop on Nantucket Island to carnival barker in Florida to shady home-improvement contract salesman, and of vagabonding around the U.S. as he searched for what he calls 'the …

Editing An Anthology: Editing, Publishing & Blogging, Jessica R. Allgaier

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Editorial work for proposed anthology collection, "The Oxford American Book of Great Nonfiction Writing"

The Facebook Story, Brittany Rowland

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

This capstone is an exploration of the Facebook phenomenon in today's world. It delves into Facebook's creation and evolution; the construction of an identity on online social-networking sites and the nature of Facebook relationships and interactions; and the News Feed controversy of 2006 and other issues of Facebook privacy and security.

Digging For The Rock Man: A Biography, Andy Hall

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

No abstract provided.

Ælfric And The Orient, Jacqueline Geaney Elkouz

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This dissertation examines why Ælfric's choice of texts included in his Lives of Saints differs so radically from contemporaneous lists of saints venerated by Anglo-Saxons. Writing between 992 and 1002, while England faced a second wave of invasions from the North, Ælfric selected saints predominantly from the Orient.

A close analysis of several of these lives reveals four major agents of persecution: Paganism, Judaism, Heresy, and Satan. Faced with such trials, most of the saints included in Ælfric's Lives commonly suffer a violent death and always stand firm in their faith in the face of persecution. For Ælfric, the orthodox …

The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: Where Is It Today?, Robert Deahl

College of Professional Studies Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Biopolitical Unconscious: Not-All Persons Are Political, Ross G. Shields

Media and Cultural Studies Honors Projects

It is a tenet of post-structuralist theory that discursive series fail in their attempts to constitute themselves as totalities. A system can fail in two distinct ways—from Kant’s dynamic and mathematic failures of reason, to Jacques Lacan’s equation of the two failures of language with the two failures (male and female) of sex. Biopolitical theory offers the most recent account of failure and collapse, now on the geopolitical scale. Given that the biopolitical subject too is sexed, this thesis asks the question: How does biopolitics fail? Franz Kafka’s aborted novels offer a premonition to a possible answer.

Pine Island: An Island Exploration, Syma Ebbin

Wrack Lines

Pine Island, now owned by the University of Connecticut, has a rich and colorful history. Just off the Avery Point campus, the island has been home to a fertilizer factory, then a playground, and now a study site for UConn students.

Feminist Commitment And Feminized Service: Nonprofits And Journals, Patricia White

Film & Media Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Théâtres Des Antilles: Traditions Et Scènes Contemporaines" By S. Bérard, Micheline Rice-Maximin

French & Francophone Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Going No Place?: Foreground Nostalgia And Psychological Spaces In Wharton's The House Of Mirth, Sean Scanlan

Publications and Research

This essay argues that the power of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth comes not from Lily Bart's function as a mere symptom of historical and economic pressures, but from the complex narrative and psychological process by which she negotiates a sequence of homes and their repeated collapse. Informing this process is nostalgia, a feeling that frames Lily Bart's step-by-step fall from riches to rags. Reading Lily via cognitive and family systems approaches suggests that Lily's rootlessness is predicated on a subtle transformation from her reliance upon simple “background” (aesthetic and monetary) nostalgia to a more complex and overwhelming “foreground” …

Opus, 2009-2010, Issue Viii, Suny Geneseo English Club

Opus

Poetry and Prose
5 Picnic I Elena Buttgereit
6 Delilah I Michael Roff
7 (continued)
8 Out Here in the Bounds I Walter Murphy
9 Slaying the Jabberwocky I Colleen Wilson
10 Acquiescence I Hannah Schmidt
11 Untitled I Wyatt Mentzinger
13 The Raven in Five Lines I Colleen Wilson
birthday candle I Shannon Harwood
14 Drowning Letters I Gavin David Chau
15 (continued)
16 (continued)
19 Drowning of Li Bai I Meghan Pipe
20 how it feels to lose someone I Kelly Hendricken
22 Going to See Stacy I Melissa Parietti
23 (continued)
24 (continued)
25 Trail Markers I …

Carolus Linnaeus (Carl Von Linné), 1707-1778: The Swede Who Named Almost Everything, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Adolphe De Plevitz And Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon: British Justice, Race, And Indian Labor In Mauritius And Fiji, 1871-1880, Loretta De Plevitz

Pacific Studies

This paper follows the relationship between the first substantive governor of Fiji, Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon, and Adolphe de Plevitz, a Frenchman by birth, who held strong beliefs about the supremacy of British justice and equality. The setting is two tiny British colonies, Mauritius and Fiji, in the latter part of the nineteenth century. In Fiji, Gordon encouraged the importation of indentured Indian workers to develop Queen Victoria’s newest colony; yet in Mauritius, his previous posting, he had reluctantly initiated a Royal Commission into the inequitable treatment of Indians who remained on the island after their period of indenture had …

Living In The Qollqoll: Urban Squatting On The Fiji Foreshore, Jenny Bryant-Tokalau

Pacific Studies

Fiji's 2006 coup was partially carried out as a response by Bainimarama to three pieces of legislation debated by the Qarase government. One was the Qoliqoli Act. Under the act, rights to the seabed, foreshore, and indigenous fisheries of Fiji would be invested in indigenous landowners. This was a long time in the making and would have recognized the rights of customary owners to coasts and other waterways. The legislation is stalled but may be revived in the future as indigenous Fijians demand to have land under their own control. Whether some compromise is ever reached and whether it ever …

Books Noted: Recent Pacific Island Publications: Selected Acquisitions, January 2009-December 2009, Riley M. Moffat

Pacific Studies

THIS LIST of significant publications relating to the Pacific Islands was selected from new acquisitions lists received from Brigham Young University–Hawai‘i, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, University of Auckland, East–West Center, University of the South Pacific, National Library of Australia, Melanesian Studies Resource Center, Center for Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Nijmegen, University of California San Diego, Secretariat of the Pacific Community Library, Center for South Pacific Studies, University of New South Wales, Macmillan Brown Library at University of Canterbury, and the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau’s Center for the Pacific Development Training. Other libraries …

Book Review Forum: Reverse Anthropology: Lndigenous Analysis Of Social And Environmental Relations In New Guinea, Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics Of Ecology In Papua New Guinea, Jill Nash

Pacific Studies

Kirsch, Stuart. Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 2006. Pp. 296. 2 figures, 2 illustrations, 2 maps. ISBN 0804753415 (cloth), US$60.00; ISBN 0804753423 (paper), US$23.95.

West, Paige. 2006. Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2006. Pp. 352. 25 illustrations. ISBN 978-0-8223-3712-6 (cloth), US$89.95; ISBN 978-0-8223-3749-2 (paper), US$24.95.

Review: JILL NASH

PROFESSOR EMERITA, BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE

Book Review: Cluny Macpherson And La‘Avasa Macpherson, The Warm Winds Of Change: Globalisation In Contemporary Samoa, Unasa Leulu Felise Va'a

Pacific Studies

Cluny Macpherson and La‘avasa Macpherson. The Warm Winds of Change: Globalisation in Contemporary Samoa. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2009. Pp. 224. ISBN 971869404451. US$45.00 paper.

Reviewed by Unasa Leulu Felise Va‘a

Book Review Forum Response: Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis Of Social And Environmental Relations In New Guinea, Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics Of Ecology In Papua New Guinea., Paige West

Pacific Studies

Kirsch, Stuart. Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea.

West, Paige. Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea.

RESPONSE: PAIGE WEST

BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Vol. 33 No. 1 (2010): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Front Matter for the Vol. 33, No 1-Apr 2010 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal.

Is Catherine Crazy? The Role Of Schizophrenia And The Character Catherine In David Auburn's Play Proof: Exploring The Script From Research To Performance, Karin M. Lorenz

Theses

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'A Great Disturbance In The Force:' Thematic Dissonance Between The Two Star Wars Trilogies, Lauren Baiers

Honors Theses

All fans, scholars, and critics have their favorite films. Some support all of the films equally, some embrace the special editions, and others deny the existence of any movies other than the original versions of the first three films released. No matter what critics and fans say, all of the live-action movies are Star Wars movies: they follow the same mythology and bear the words "Star Wars" in their titles. However, the themes of the two trilogies of the Star Wars saga conflict. The prequel trilogy undermines the concerns of the original Star Wars trilogy by subverting the themes of …

Anticipated Effects Of The U.S. Mexico City Policy On The Attainability Of The Millennium Development Goals And Future Development Efforts In Sub-Saharan Africa, Katherine Clare Alexander

Anthós

In the low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the performance of pyramidal reproductive health and family planning services with public outreach initiatives has not met the expectations or the needs of the communities they serve. Insufficient case management, limited management capacity and referral and communication failures are challenges faced on the delivery level, while on the policy level these health clinics face insufficient coordination among organizations and weak links between programs (Schneider, 2006). The Mexico City Policy, first introduced by President Reagan in 1984, only exacerbated these challenges for organizations that offer comprehensive contraception and family planning programs by denying any …

Weblogs As Autobiographical Discourse, Matthew Bellinger

Anthós

In this essay, I wish to pursue an – admittedly all too brief – inspection of the weblog as a form of autobiographical discourse. In essence, I want to ask the question, "How does the blog as a medium shape a particular kind of self-representation?" To accomplish this, I will first provide a working definition of the autobiographical blog. Next, I will examine two elements that I believe are key to the blog as a form of discourse; that is, the blog’s temporal logic and its unique author-reader relationship. To conclude, I will argue that the aforementioned elements mark the …

The Imprint Of Foucault’S The Order Of Things On The Works Of François Jacob, Harry Newcomb

Anthós

My intent is to examine the interplay between Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things, originally published in France as Les Mots et les choses (Words and Things) in 1966, François Jacob’s history of heredity, The Logic of Life, published in France in 1970, and his autobiography, The Statue Within, 1987.

FrançOis Jacob (1920-2013). Statue IntéRieure. English -- Criticism And Interpretation, Lindsay Tucker

Anthós

The Statue Within: An Autobiography is a seemingly candid reflection of the life and work of the French Nobel laureate, François Jacob. In 1965, he and his research partners (Jacques Monod & André Lwoff) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. Nobel Prize recipients are required to provide an autobiographical statement, which can be found on their website (http://www.nobelprize.org). When comparing these two autobiographical works, one finds radical differences in structure and content. I examine here how Jacob approaches the following elements in each work: passage of …