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Undocumented And Queer: Carlos Manuel’S La Vida Loca, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

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Staging The Self, Staging Empowerment: An Overview Of Latina Theater And Performance, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

The origins of U.S. Latina¹ theater and performance can be situated in the Southwest during the time this geographical region was still under Spanish colonial domination.² Historically, Latinas have contributed to all the creative and technical components of U.S. theater and performance from its incipiency. I begin this chapter with a brief overview starting in the twentieth century and offer an example of an early type of performance, and then I proceed to focus, primarily, on the works created since 1980, briefly analyzing three Latina plays. Anglo American theater has slowly begun to recognize and incorporate theatrical cultural …

Rotrou’S Bélisaire: Hierarchy And Meaning, Nina Ekstein

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Bélisaire (1643) differs significantly from the bulk of Rotrou’s theater, perhaps above all in its array of profoundly disparate features. The notion of hierarchy offers a means of organizing the dissimilar elements and understanding the play as a whole. Like so many of Rotrou’s plays, the subject is not original. Its source is Mira de Amescua’s El ejemplo mayor de la Desdicha.

Ecocriticism, The Elements, And The Ascent/Descent Into Weather In Goethe’S Faust, Heather I. Sullivan

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

The ostensibly religious and ethical significance of Faust's final ascension after his death tends to distract, if not blind, readers to other possible implications of that upwards movement and to the idea that he may continue and return "back to earth." The assumption that heavenly powers reward Faust leads to the claim that Goethe's tragedy validates the quest of "land developers" or those who would strive regardless of the consequences. I propose, in contrast, that we read Faust's "final" ascension alongside Goethe's weather essay, "Witterungslehre 1825," and thereby note that this upward motion is not necessarily "final" at all but …

Forgiveness: The Key To Self-Healing— An Interview With Eva Mozes-Kor, Joanie Eppinga

Journal of Hate Studies

Eva Mozes-Kor was ten years old when she and her family were deported from their home in Transylvania to Auschwitz. There, Dr. Josef Mengele was doing medical experiments on twins. Eva’s mother, father, and two older sisters were put to death in the gas chambers, but Eva and her twin sister Miriam were preserved to be subjected to experiments. Eva was given an injection that nearly killed her at the time, and Miriam died of the aftereffects of the experiments many years later. As an adult, having married and moved to America, Eva watched her sister struggle with lingering medical …

The Elephant In The Room : A Metacritical Analysis Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Racism, Megan Grady

Graduate Thesis Collection

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Themistius On Concept Acquisition And Knowledge Of Essences, Myrna Gabbe

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Themistius's (ca. 317-ca. 388 C.E.) paraphrase of the De Anima is an influential and important work; however, it is not now regarded as profound or original and thereby sutTers from neglect. I argue that Themistius is misunderstood on the matter of Aristotle's productive and potential intellects. It is commonly held that Themistius gives to the productive intellect the role of illuminating images in order to produce universal thoughts In the potential intellect with epistemic certainty. I argue that Themistius's productive intellect does not transform images to reveal the forms contained therein, but gives to the potential intellect the ability, first, …

Feminism, Cultural Violence Of, Danielle Poe

Philosophy Faculty Publications

For most, if not all, self-defined feminists, feminism means support for equality between women and men. The difficulty with this definition, though, is determining what one means by "equality," by "women and men," and by "sex" and "gender." For some feminists, equality requires that differences between women and men be acknowledged and valued. For other feminists, equality means that the category "human" encompasses women and men and that the differences within a sex are greater than differences between the sexes.

Feminists also differ on what they mean by "women" and "men"; these terms can be defined biologically, genetically, culturally, religiously, …

Antinuclear Power Protests In The United States, Danielle Poe

Philosophy Faculty Publications

The history of nuclear power in the United States began with the top-secret Manhattan Project (1942-1946), in which the first atomic bomb was produced and used in 1945 against Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to the American Nuclear Society, a nuclear power industry association, the first U.S. city to use nuclear power for electricity was Arco, Idaho, in 1955. As of 2007, the United States had 104 operational nuclear power reactors, one nuclear power reactor under construction, and twenty-eight closed nuclear power reactors.

Between 1945, when the world became aware of the destructive power of atomic energy, and today, …

The Rhetoric Of Writing For A Male Audience, Danielle Black

Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies

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Portrayal Of Women And Clothing In Domestic Housework Commercials, Julie Brady Ramaccia

Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies

5✸`‰©5❷O";">There are over 90 million televisions in the United States, serving roughly 98% of the United States’ population. An average American will watch 30,000 commercials in a year, which results in a total of over 2,000,000 commercials in a lifetime (Allan and Coltrane, 1996; Bretl and Cantor, 1988). An American will end up spending about three years of his or her life watching commercials (Kilbourne, 2001). Since the media and particularly commercials are so pervasive in American society, it is imperative that the effects of this advertising be studied and understood. It is also important to analyze the clothing …

Domesticating The Diaspora: Memory And The Life Of Sister Katie, Caroline Waldron Merithew

History Faculty Publications

Three shrines in Illinois honor heroes of the working class: one for the legendary Mother Jones; one for the Virden martyrs, who died for coal mining unionism, and whose memory is kept alive by labor organizers around the world; and one for Catherine (Katie) Bianco DeRorre. Katie's monument, unlike the others, draws few visitors today. But when it was dedicated in 1961, men and women — on the floor of the U.S. Congress, in the neighborhood where Katie grew up, at American universities, in union halls, on the streets of New York City, and in Milan — took notice and …

Not All Autobiography Is Scholarship: Thinking, As A Catholic, About History, Una M. Cadegan

History Faculty Publications

My premise in this essay is that the historian of religion who is a believer has a distinctive need for conscious reflection on this autobiographical connection. Without conscious reflection, it is too easy fall into cheerleading on the one hand or score-settling on the other. is even easier, perhaps, to lapse into self-indulgence-hence the caveat of my title, which is aimed primarily at myself. Thinking about the roots of my work as an historian has made me more consciously attentive to doing the work of the historian, as historian, well. Thinking about where that work has taken me not only …

Stained Glass Windows Of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, Produced By Wilbur H. Burnham Studios, Michael J. Tevesz

Cleveland Memory

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral has over forty large stained glass windows that range in age from the 15 to the 20th Century. The medieval windows were produced in England and Germany, while the more contemporary windows were produced by such prominent studios as those directed by Willet, Connick, Tiffany, Heaton, Young, and Burnham. The more contemporary windows are of considerable artistic and historical interest, but there is very little information available about them. This monograph specifically focuses on the windows of Trinity Cathedral produced by the Wilbur H. Burnham Studios. The Burnham Studios windows are the most accessible windows within the …

Concert Recording 2010-11-04, Ronda Mains, Theresa Delaplain, Timothy Thompson, Barbara Fast

Concert Recordings & Programs

Serenade sous bois / Hedwige Chretien -- Sonata for flute and piano / Mel Bonis -- Sonata for obe and piano / Grazyna Bacewicz -- Ballade, pastorale, and dance / Eric Ewazen

Dispositions, Propensities And The Change Of Conditions, Alejandra Olivas-Davila

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this paper is to draw a clear line that allows us to thoroughly differentiate dispositions from propensities as well as the big problem that clouds both views. I will attempt to offer an account of the main issues that this properties face. I start by offering a general account of dispositions. In this account I offer a brief analysis of what it is to be a disposition. The distinction between categorical and dispositional property is explored. I move on to explain the evolution of the conditional analysis, as well as the problems it faces. The next point …

A History Of El Paso's Company E In World War Ii, Jorge Rodriguez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

For the most part, Hispanics in the U.S. military were not segregated into separate units, but there was, at least, one known exception. It is this particular story of a National Guard unit from El Paso, Texas designated as Company E that has received minimal attention by historians. This unit was unlike any other unit of the National Guard in that it consisted only of Mexican-Americans.

The Effects Of Acculturation On Healthcare In The Mexican-Origin Community: El Paso County, Texas, Aurelio Saldana

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This study was built around the understanding that there is complexity in the "Hispanic"¹ health care/acculturation phenomenon. The El Paso region provides an environment where an array of cultural influences produces an acculturation process whose dynamics appear to be unique but in fact are not dissimilar to other regions where cultures are coming into contact with each other. The way borderland acculturation manifests itself in local "Hispanic" healthcare behaviors contradicts the concept of the neat move from "traditional" to the "formal" biomedical paradigm. The actual behavior observed adds support to the more complex, segmented, multi-dimensional interpretations of healthcare behavior adaptation …

Exile In The Gramola: A Jewinican (Re)Collection, Roberto Alejandro Santos

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Exile in the Gramola: A Jewinican (Re)Collection is a poetic attempt at navigating the multicultural landscapes of the ethnic hybrid. It is a collection of poetry that aims to reveal how we ourselves become acculturated in the process acculturating others, and which also aims at promoting opportunities of cross-cultural dialogue, cross-cultural negotiation, cross-cultural overstanding, and cross-cultural endorsement.

Through the themes of exile, divorce, familial separation, and the mixing of the cultural movements of hip-hop and bachata, Exile reaches beyond ideas of ethnicity and cultural norms in order to reveal the hardships we share in our only commonality--our humanity.

Concert Recording 2010-11-15, Richard Bobo, Theresa Delaplain, Kristine Mezines, Travis Chilton, Andrea Schenk, Andrew Stephens, Carissa Porter, Cecilia Taher, Kris Still, Sarah Manasreh, Timothy Dailey, Michael Olefsky, Kevin Graber, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Quintelements Woodwind Quintet

Concert Recordings & Programs

Trio sonata no. 5 in F Major, ZWV 181/5 / Jan Dismas Zelenka -- Blue set no. 2 (1996) / Peter Schikele -- Bachianas Brasilieras no. 6, W 392 / Heitor Villa-Lobos -- Octet for wind instruments (1923) / Igor Stravinsky -- Stary brucoun, op. 210 / Julius Fucik

Concert Recording 2010-10-20, Bethany Hayes, Patrick Oliverio, Michael Moore, Corey Divine, Nathan Cunningham, Kris Still, Timothy Dailey, Joseph Pullara

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sinfonia in D (G.2) / Guiseppe Torelli -- Concerto (1796) / Joseph Haydn -- Concerto (1950) / Alexander Arutunian -- Sonata (1939) / Paul Hindemith -- Legend / Georges Enescu -- Proclamation (1955) / Ernest Bloch -- Concerto (1899) / Oskar Bohme -- Sonata (1995) / Eric Ewazen

Concert Recording 2010-03-31, Morgan Stevens, S. Michael Shuman, Bryce Vellios, Erin Pierce, Bethany Hayes, Paige Quinn, Amber Fox

Concert Recordings & Programs

C'est l'extase / Claude Debussy -- "Ah die Nachtigall" / Franz Schubert -- Reflections / Paul Basler -- La virgin de la Macarena / Rafael Mendez -- Large & allegro / Arthur Frackenpohl -- In the sea / Jeannine Maddox

Concert Recording 2011-02-01, Richard Rulli, Gerald Sloan, Charles Rigsby, Chalon L. Ragsdale, Stephen Gates, Benjamin Pierce, Timothy Knighten, Timothy Dailey, Patrick Oliverio, Joseph Pullara, Bethany Hayes, Michael Moore, Timothy Thompson, Megan Mills, Taylor Sitzman, Corbin Lehrer, Paige Quinn

Concert Recordings & Programs

Grosse fantasie (1990) / Jan Koetsier -- Vignettes for trumpet and percussion (2005). Running with Lionel ; Chuck's march ; Dinner with Andre ; Waltz in Berlin ; Leandro perpetuo ; Max ; Chasing Igor / James M. Stephenson -- Sonata for trumpet and violoncello, opus 21 (1958) / Yves Chardon -- Signals / Verne Reynolds

Concert Recording 2010-11-17, Jessica Carvin, Katie Zwit, Amber Cooper, Heather Rost, Paige Quinn, Nathan Cunningham, S. Michael Shuman, Anna Heintze, Anna Hall, Paige Grilliot

Concert Recordings & Programs

Mvmt. no. 1 - "Music for woodwind quintet" / Alexander Von Kreisler -- Legend / Georges Enesco -- Maya / Ian Clarke -- Elijah. Hear ye, Israel! / Felix Mendelssohn

Concert Recording 2010-06-17, Er-Gene Kahng, Miho Sakon, Jesse Collett, Stephen Gates, Anne-Lise Longuemare, Anne-Lise Longuemare

Concert Recordings & Programs

Trio sonata, op. 3, no. 2 / Archangelo Corelli -- Cafe music (1985) / Paul Schoenfield -- Piano quartet in c minor / Gabriel Faure

Concert Recording 2010-06-10, Ronda Mains, Theresa Delaplain, Timothy Thompson, Marsha Thompson, Er-Gene Kahng, Miho Sakon, Jesse Collett, Stephen Gates, Michael R. Montgomery, Barbara Fast

Concert Recordings & Programs

The village musicians (a musical joke), K. 522 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Fantasy (1932) / Benjamin Britten -- Vox Balanae (voice of the whale) / George Crumb

Concert Recording 2010-02-24a, Er-Gene Kahng, Miho Sakon, Jesse Collett, Stephen Gates, Jura Margulis

Concert Recordings & Programs

String quartet in F Major / Maurice Ravel -- Quintet in f minor for piano and strings, op. 34 / Johannes Brahms

Concert Recording 2010-02-02, Richard Rulli, Charles Rigsby, Karol Rulli, Sarah Houk, Babbette Allen, Amy Goodnow, Nophachai Cholthitchanta, Richard Bobo, Gerald Sloan, Chalon L. Ragsdale, Er-Gene Kahng, James Greeson, Amy Herzberg, Robert Ford, Timothy Thompson, Robert Mueller, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Encore String Quartet

Concert Recordings & Programs

Windows after Marc Chagall (1976). Blue window ; Green window ; Red window ; Golden window / Peter Eben -- Quintet for trumpet and strings (1990) / Eric Ewazen -- A soldier's tale (1918) / Igor Stravinsky

Concert Recording 2010-05-27, Ronda Mains, Er-Gene Kahng, Jesse Collett, Stephen Gates, Ryo Yanagitani

Concert Recordings & Programs

Piano trio in B♭ Major, op. 97, "Archduke" / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Trio for flute, viola, and cello / Albert Roussel -- Quartet for piano and strings in E♭ Major, op. 47 / Robert Schumann

Concert Recording 2010-04-01, Robert Kain, S. Michael Shuman

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concerto in D (1713) / Giuseppe Torelli -- Concerto (1796) / Joseph Haydn -- Dichterliebe (1840). Im wunderschonen Monat Mai ; Aus meinen Tranen spriessen ; Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube ; Ich grolle nicht ; Aus alten Marchen / Robert Schumann -- Sonata for trumpet and piano (1995) / Eric Ewazen