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Trail Blazer - Volume 84, Number 7a, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

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Morehead State Trail Blazer published on March 25, 2010.

Metamorphoses - Theatrical Play Program, Carrie D. Applegate

Department of Theatre Arts Programs (UP 620)

Theatrical program for Theatre Arts Department production of Metamorphoses based on the myths of Ovid, written by Mary Zimmerman. Produced March 2010 in the Danny Peterson Theatre. The production featured an innovative set featuring a 2,700-gallon custom pool built by Theatre Arts faculty, Mike Baltzell & Fran Maxwell and Theatre Arts students.

American Hypocrisy In Foreign Policy: Operation Fubelt And The Overthrow Of Salvador Allende, David G. Huggins

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

There are many examples of United States hypocrisy in foreign policy, in numerous countries in virtually every region of the world. This paper will look at just one of those examples, the United States involvement in the overthrow of President Salvador Allende of Chile. Declassified government documents related to the CIA operation, codenamed FUBELT, are used to show key personnel involved and major aspects of the operation. These documents show a blatant disregard of the United States government's own ideology and policies regarding democracy, as well as its disregard of the United Nations documents that it signed to guarantee the …

The Grizzly, March 25, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Michael Delaney, James Kilduff, Liz Kilmer, Lisa Jobe, Sara Hourwitz, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Matt Whitman, Carly Siegler, Deborah Yanessa, Olivia Minick, Stefanie Moyer, Matt Campbell, James Wagner

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

27th Annual Airband Benefits Dignity House • Ursinus College Theater Presents "The Elephant Man" • Bank Robber Flees to Ursinus Campus Parking Lot • InterVarsity Group Travels to Camden Over Spring Break • Dangerous Risk to Multi-Tasking • Ursinus Field Hockey Intramurals are Open for Spring • UC Baseball Makes Best of Florida Trip • UC Alum Coaches Cornell to Sweet 16

2010 Adventist Historians' Conference, David Hamstra

Memory, Meaning & Faith

No abstract provided.

Imagined Realities, Defying Subjects: Voice, Sexuality And Subversion In African Women's Writing, Sarah Namulondo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The privileging of man in African societies has involved an erasure of identities and subjectivities of many women, holding them to an assumption of female inferiority. To counter the injustice, African women writers have engaged in rhetorical and performative strategies designed to reconstitute the cultural erasure as they try to claim status as individuals. But in the process, various cultural expectations such as their maternal roles act as constant bottlenecks to return them back to their prescribed roles as subordinate beings. This dissertation, “Imagined Realities, Defying Subjects: Voice, Sexuality and Subversion in African Women’s Writing” explores the methodologies of cultural …

Exploring Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis Disclosure To First-Degree Relatives: An African American Family Case Series, Kamilah B. Thomas

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cancer killer in the United States and the third most common cancer in African American men and women. Though the overall death rates have declined, this reduction in mortality is smaller for African Americans than for Whites. Factors that are protective against colorectal cancer include occupational or recreational physical activity, a diet high in fruits and vegetables, and colorectal cancer screening with removal of polyps (polypectomy) before they progress to cancer. Compliance with CRC screening recommendations requires people to know if a first-degree relative (parent, sibling, and child) or second-degree relative (aunt, uncle, …

System Identification In Automatic Database Memory Tuning, Tiffany Burrell

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Databases are very complex systems that require database system administrators to perform system tuning in order to achieve optimal performance. Memory tuning is vital to the performance of a database system because when the database workload exceeds its memory capacity, the results of the queries running on a system are delayed and can cause substantial user dissatisfaction. In order to solve this problem, this thesis presents a platform modeled after a closed control feedback loop to control the level of multi-query processing. Utilizing this platform provides two key assets. First, the system identification is acquired, which is one of two …

Residual Stress Analysis In 3c-Sic Thin Films By Substrate Curvature Method, Jose M. Carballo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Development of thin films has allowed for important improvements in optical, electronic and electromechanical devices within micrometer length scales. In order to grow thin films, there exist a wide variety of deposition techniques, as each technique offers a unique set of advantages. The main challenge of thin film deposition is to reach smallest possible dimensions, while achieving mechanical stability during operating conditions (including extreme temperatures and external forces, complex film structures and device configurations). Silicon carbide (SiC) is attractive for its resistance to harsh environments, and the potential it offers to improve performance in several microelectronic, micro-electromechanical, and optoelectronic applications. …

The Rebirth Of A Semi-Disintegrated Enterprise: Towards The Future Of Composites In Pre-Synthesized Domestic Dwellings; And The Societal Acceptance Of The Anti-In Situ Architectural Movement, Timothy James Keepers

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The prefabricated home has been said to be the site of innovation, exploration and sometimes spectacular failure since the mid 20th-century (Home Delivery, 8). Despite years of research and advancements in technology, pre-synthesization in the domestic realm has typically remained loyal to past construction methods/materials and banal aesthetic ripostes. As a result, the modern pre-synthesized home suffers in terms of programmatic diversity, spatial feedback, supertemporal expansion (in reference to the supertemporal art movement) and societal acceptance.

Materials and technologies are constantly upgrading in our increasingly technetronic society. Re-marketing the prefabricated home will require a similar modus operandi. Investigating the successes …

Depositional Dynamics In Seagrass Systems Of Tampa Bay, Fl: Influence Of Hydrodynamic Regime And Vegetation Density On Ecosystem Function, Alison Cheryl Meyers

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Many coastal ecosystems around the world are dominated by submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) habitats. These SAV habitats are known to provide many highly valuable ecosystem services such as habitat for commercial important species and increased water clarity. Water flow is an environmental variable which can have measurable effects on the ecosystem services provided by SAV, but is often not considered in studies assessing these services. This dissertation sought to investigate the links between SAV, primarily seagrasses, and hydrodynamics, paying special attention to the effects on sediments and fauna. Three main areas are discussed: (1) the effects of SAV on flow, …

Graduate Recital: Megan Walls, Trombone; March 25, 2010, Megan Walls Trombone

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 25, 2010
Sunday Evening
8:30 p.m.

Herbert Lee Barlow, Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

“Death, Goodness, And The Lost Daughter: The Homeric Hymn To Demeter And Carol Shields' Unless”, Aara Suksi

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

This research examines how a reading of Unless, conditioned by a familiarity with the traditional Greek myth, creates new meaning from the old story pattern.

Odysseus In Democratic Athens, Aara Suksi

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

This project explores the varied forms in which the early Homeric epic hero Odysseus re-appears in the culture of democratic Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.

Convergences Between Art And Physics, John G. Hatch

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

No abstract provided.

Historicity And Ecological Restoration, Eric Desjardins

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Traditional ecological restoration often relies on ideals of reversibility and balance of nature. I suggest that we should change these for a path-dependent view of natural processes. This conceptual shift also invites for philosophical and methodological revisions, such as favouring “futuristic” dynamic goals and alternative state models.

Idealization In Scientific Explanation, Robert Batterman, Nicolas Fillion, Robert Moir, James Overton

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Many phenomena pose interesting “fundamental” questions for both physics and philosophy of science. Understanding and explanation often seem to require non-Galilean, essential idealizations. But idealizations are false. This fact suggests that we need to give up on the view that truth is a necessary condition for explanation.

Never The Twain Shall Meet? Interspecialty Bioethics Education And Practice In Relation To Informed Consent For Surgery-Related Anesthesia, Kyoko Wada, Abraham Rudnick

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

The objectives of this research project are:

• Identify and analyze ethical problems concerning known practices regarding informed consent for surgery-related anesthesia
• Propose solutions to these problems, with a focus on interspecialty bioethics education

Conceptual Problems In Research Ethics, Charles Weijer

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

This poster addresses these issues:
• What good is medical research?
• What is owed to the study subject?
• When is research risk acceptable?
• How should we conduct research in developing countries?
• How should we conduct research involving communities?

Aristotle & The Tyranny Of Nature, John Thorp

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

No abstract provided.

Teaching And Learning Spanish In Second Life, Ana GarcíA-AlléN

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

It is generally assumed that the incorporation of new technologies in the process of language learning leads to better learning, but this is not always tested empirically. The primary goal of this study is to better understand student experiences and learning outcomes when using Second Life (SL) as a Teaching tool.

Dempsey, Joetta (Dorris), B. 1945 - Collector (Mss 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 314. Materials collected by Dempsey related to the Kennerly and Simmons families of Dunmor, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Includes news clippings about the history of Dunmor and Penrod, Kentucky; genealogical information about the Kennerly, Penrod, Studebaker families; and photographs of the Kennerly family.

2009-2010 Junior Recital - Marina Stojanovska (Piano), Marina Stojanovska

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Autobiography Of A Mountain Lion, Christopher Allan Prewitt

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Christopher Allan Prewitt on March 24, 2010.

Vindictive Virgins: Animate Images And Theories Of Art In Some Thirteenth-Century Miracle Stories, Alexa Sand

Art and Design Faculty Publications

It has been persuasively argued that before the fifteenth century the category of art as a theorized entity did not exist; this was a period for which we can write a history of the image, but not a history of art. Notably, Hans Belting, Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).View all notesCareful scrutiny of both intellectual and popular discourse on images, east and west, has resulted in the more cautious view that medieval people, while experiencing what we now call …

Faculty Recital, Michelle Latour, Weiwei Le, Andrew Smith, Jennifer Grim, Barbara Riske

Faculty Recitals

Program listing performers and works performed

John Cage Celebration, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

2009-2010 Performance Forum - March 24, 2010, Valentin Mansurov, Aziz Sapaev, Valeriya Polunina, Jose Menor, Cristina Rodriguez, Dejan Daskalov, Molin Wang, Maryna Yermolenko, Eri Park, Ioana Luca, Linda Kim

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Convocation, The Morelli Quintet, Kyle Milleret, Megan Hanson, David Andersen

Convocations

List of performers and performances.