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A Hospital For Maine: History Of Maine Medical Center, Maine Medical Center

Histories

A Hospital for Maine explores the evolution of patient care, education, and research through the microcosm of the state's first and foremost general hospital.

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A Hospital For Maine: Part 3- Three Become One, Maine Medical Center

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Introduction: On March 21, 1951, the charter creating Maine Medical Center was filed with the Maine secretary of state. From 1951 to 1956, it served as an administrative umbrella, providing managerial oversight to Maine General Hospital, Children’s Hospital (now a tenant of MGH), and the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary.

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Papers Of Clyde E. Van Valin Arc2000-011 - Finding Aid, Ats Special Collections And Archives

Finding Aids

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G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Review Of "Assuming A Body: Transgender And Rhetorics Of Materiality" By G. Salamon, Tamsin E. Lorraine

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Textos Del Derrumbe: Horacio Castellanos Moya, Fernando Vallejo, Daniel Guebel, Claudia Ferman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Me propongo aquí referirme a tres novelas que se publicaron entre los años 2001 y 2006, que pertenecen a tres escritores muy distantes entre sí en geografía, experiencia y propuesta literaria. Estos escritores también están separados generacionalmente: Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador, 1957) y Daniel Guebel (Argentina, 1956) y Fernando Vallejo (Colombia, 1942). Estas son Desmoronamiento (2006), de Horacio Castellano Moya; El desbarrancadero (2001) de Fernando Vallejo, y Derrumbe (2007), de Daniel Guebel. Estas novelas de obvias coincidencias en los títulos, pueden pensarse como espacios de representación de la crisis del "sujeto literario moderno", más allá de las diferencias nacionales …

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Invasion As Affliction: Worms And Bodily Infestation In African American Hoodoo Practices, Yvonne Patricia Chireau

Religion Faculty Works

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Giving Meaning To Martyrdom: What Presidential Assassinations Can Teach Us About American Political Culture, Aliza Alperin-Sheriff

Honors Papers

Four American presidents have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James Garfield in 1881, William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy in 1963. As a traumatic event, presidential assassination has caused Americans to be introspective and reflect on their nation's political past, present, and future. These reflections, which are aggregated and perpetuated by the mass media, reveal a great deal about American political culture. This thesis looks at the New York Times coverage of each assassination. In doing so, it explores the changing discourse about republicanism between 1865 and 1963, how each assassination was mobilized to serve distinct political …

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Japanese Nuclear Power Policy: Forty Years Of Construction, Confusion, And Conflict, Sarah Fries

Honors Papers

How could Japan, a victim of nuclear weapons, become the world's third largest nuclear power country? Drawing upon English and Japanese sources as well as pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear publications, I stove to provide a balanced analysis of Japan's nuclear power debate and context in which to understand the 2011 Fukushima Crisis. By analyzing the role of the press and the anti-nuclear and pro-nuclear coalitions, I provide arguments as to why the Japanese energy policy has been predominantly pro-nuclear since the 1950s and hazard an argument that nuclear power will likely continue to exist in Japan.

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Los Niños Que Se Quedan Atrás: La Doble Moral Sobre El Bilingüismo De Los Niños De Lengua Minoritaria En Las Escuelas Públicas Estadounidenses = The Children Left Behind: The Double Standard Of Bilingualism For Minority Language Children In American Public Schools, Emily Gazda

Honors Papers

En las escuelas estadounidenses los niños que hablan inglés se motivan para aprender una nueva lengua para ampliar los horizontes, pero los niños que entran en la escuela con otras lenguas - especialmente el español - se motivan para hablar solamente el inglés. Esta tesina intenta explorar el doble moral inherente en este sistema, y enfoca especialmente en el papel de la educación bilingüe dentro del acto Que Ningún niño se quede atrás (NCLB) de 2001. Establece las razones lingüísticas para la educación bilingüe y da un poco de su historia en los Estados Unidos, y termina con un análisis …

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"And The Light Flood Over The Land": Reading Region In Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Joshua Davidson

Honors Papers

An interdisciplinary analysis of Marilynne Robinson's second novel Gilead. Investigates the novel's interactions with various figurations of the Middle West, specifically the production of an affective reality in this supposedly affectless region. Uses the contributions of New Regionalist social historians to frame Robinson's work.

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Yellow, In Peril: How Public Health Discourse On Tuberculosis (Tb) Reveals, Refines, And Reinforces The Racial Stigmatization Of Asian Americans, Laura Dellplain

Honors Papers

In this paper, I argue that while public health discourse on tuberculosis may reveal existent epidemiological trends in and among particular social groups, the discursive framing of this data unnecessarily racializes the disease. More specifically, public health discourse uses frameworks of "othering" and an imagined transnationalism to reflect but also refine and reinforce historicized stigmas of Asian Americans as non-normative, perpetual outsiders, and disease carriers. I assert that this discursive raciliazation of TB superficially constructs a causal link between Asian Americans and the incidence of TB in America and consequently results in significant social and political costs for many Asian …

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Agricultural Terracing And Landscape History At Monte Pallano, Abruzzo, Italy, James R. Countryman

Honors Papers

This study examines the role of agricultural terracing in the archaeological landscape of Monte Pallano, in the Sangro river valley of Abruzzo, Italy. This area is the research focus of the Sangro Valley Project, an ongoing archaeological project whose mission is to investigate and characterize long-term dynamics of human settlement and land use in this region. The project's 2010 and 2011 field seasons incorporated a program of mapping and reconnaissance survey and experimental excavation of abandoned agricultural terraces on the upper slopes of Monte Pallano. The survey was designed to assess the spatial distribution of agricultural terraces in the study …

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Reinventing Britain: British National Identity And The European Economic Community, 1967-1975, James Meade Klingensmith Jr.

Honors Papers

The project of European integration has always threatened traditional conceptions of national identity and sovereignty in member states of the European Community (EC), later the European Union. This is especially true in Great Britain, which has had an ambivalent relationship with the rest of Europe. This thesis presents a comparative analysis of two key moments in Britain's relationship with Europe, and thus two key moments for British national identity: the 1967 debate over British membership in the European Community, and the 1975 public referendum over remaining in the Community in which Britons voted to remain inside the EC by a …

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The Sino-Tibetan Dialogue: Talk Shop Or Path To Resolution?, Rene Kamm

Honors Papers

What degree of autonomy for Tibet is realistically achievable in a new world largely defined in terms of China's rise, a world in which international criticism weighs far less in the minds of Chinese leaders than the imperatives of holding on unchallenged to the reins of power? This thesis examines the ebbs and flows of the relationship between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama with regard to resolving the Tibet question; it also attempts to develop a realistic assessment of prospects for greater autonomy in the coming near future. It does so through a chronological account that tracks past …

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Archaeometric Characterization Of Roman Tile Fabrics From The Sangro Valley, Italy, Aaron Eli Goldberg

Honors Papers

In this paper, I use archaeometric methods to investigate the raw materials and manufacture of terracotta roof tiles from three Roman sites in the Sangro Valley, Abruzzo, Italy. Although fragmentary remains of the tegula and imbrex roof system are commonly uncovered at sites throughout the ancient world, these tiles are woefully understudied. Equally obscure are the workings of the economy of Samnium during and after its conquest by the Romans. As mass-produced industrial materials generally manufactured and used within a small radius, tiles may prove to be the ideal medium through which to explore the regional ceramic economy. This study …

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Scribbling Women: Female Historians In The Early American Republic, 1790-1814, Jennifer H. Graham

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Among the first generation of published authors in the early American republic, Mercy Otis Warren and Hannah Adams have unfortunately been pushed to the margins of historical discourse. As individuals and female historians, their lives are fascinating and dynamic, and their role in the development of a space for the female voice in the era’s intellectual discourse is critical. Thus, Adams and Warren can be treated as case studies to comment on the process by which American women's writing entered the public sphere during this era, the gendered backlash that occurred in response to this trend, as well as women's …

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Jazz Meets East: Cultural Dimensions Of Asynchronous Jazz Music Development In Modern China, Terence Hsieh

Honors Papers

Two important questions arise regarding the development of Jazz music in China. First, what common elements explain why Jazz music in these two cities, and indeed the country as a whole, is so less well developed than in other non-Western countries that managed to import and adapt it? Second, what explains the different aesthetic foci in the country's two greatest cities and major centers of such Chinese Jazz music? I will examine Jazz music in these two cities, with reference to the historical roots of Jazz in China, the competing co-development of different concepts of Chinese modernity in Shanghai and …

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Shades Of Cato And Brutus: Classical References In The Révolutions De Paris And The Rise Of Republicanism, June-October 1791, Suzanne Michelle Levin

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Historians have long assumed that French Revolutionaries invoked Antiquity as a model to imitate. Two major rival schools, the "Marxist" and the "Revisionist", base their interpretation of the Revolution in part on this assumption, but few have investigated it. This study examines the significance of classical references made by one journal, the Révolutions de Paris, in the aftermath of the king's flight and concludes that in this case, revolutionaries did not invoke Antiquity to imitate it, but to give legitimacy to the burgeoning republican movement.

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A Poetics Of Space: Opening Up A World Through Vessel Metaphors In Modern And Contemporary Poetry, Lili Pariser

Honors Papers

This project follows the strangely consistent fascination in modern and contemporary poetry with vessel objects. From Wallace Stevens' "jar [placed] in Tennessee," to "That vase" of Philip Larkin or James Merrill's "clear vase of dry leaves vibrating on and on," even so far back in literary history as the shapely "Grecian Urn" of John Keats' famous ode among numerous others, the genre is teeming with vessels. I argue that these kinds of objects open up distinctive possibilities for poetic exploration because of the unique way that they engage with space. Consequently, by using these objects as metaphors, poets are able …

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Re-Writing The Frontier Myth: Gender, Race, And Changing Conceptions Of American Identity In Little House On The Prairie, Kristin M. Sargeant

Honors Papers

"Little House on the Prairie" has remained popular since the release of the first book in 1932, and has enjoyed particular moments of resonance in the 1930s, 1970s, and late 1990s. This study explores why "Little House" has endured through multiple generations, looking at this phenomenon through the lens of historical memory. Through its placement within one of America's foundational myths, the frontier myth, and its subsequent democratization of that myth in moments of social and political change, "Little House" has celebrated America's ability to become more inclusive yet retain its most essential qualities. This thesis uses changing portrayals of …

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Rhetorics Of Empire: The Falangist Discourse Of War (1939-1943), M. Elena Aldea Agudo

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) a mix of right-wing ideologies existed among the Francoist forces. In sharp contrast with the Republican forces, the Francoist insurgents were successful in banding together despite their ideological differences. However, in the postwar era, this relative unity gave way to a struggle among the different ideological positions, each striving to impose its agenda for the new State. The party Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FET y de las JONS) assumed power, but was not entirely successful in advancing its totalitarian project, which it had inherited from the prewar …

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A Hospital For Maine: Part 2- A New Century, New Challenges, Maine Medical Center

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Part Two: By the early 20th century, the American hospital was undergoing a transformation from charitable institution to one catering to all levels of society. Many factors contributed to the metamorphosis, including the adoption of formal standards, the professionalization of nursing, and new surgical procedures. Scientific discoveries helped physicians understand the root causes of disease.

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A Hospital For Maine: Part 4- A New Corporate Structure, Maine Medical Center

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Part Four: As the 1970s dawned, the balance of power at Maine Medical Center was divided three ways. The board of trustees exercised general oversight, the medical staff held sway over medical issues, and the executive director managed operational activities.

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A Hospital For Maine: Part 5- A New Millennium, Maine Medical Center

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Part Five: The turn of a new century at Maine Medical Center.

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Hans Castorp Und 'Der Große Krieg'. Männlichkeitsbilder In Thomas Manns Roman 'Der Zauberberg', Simon Wester

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Pledging Peace In Aldous Huxley’S Eyeless In Gaza, Charles Andrews

English Faculty Scholarship

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Vincentian Footprints In China: The Lives, Deaths, And Legacies Of Francis Clet, Cm, And John Gabriel Perboyre, Cm, Anthony E. Clark

History Faculty Scholarship

The American poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), once wrote that, “The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.” And in this vein Vincent de Paul (1581- 1660) said that, “Love is inventive to infinity.” I would like to begin my comments about the Vincentian footprints in China by acknowledging that, based on my research, the Lazarist footprints there were at their root directed toward the goal of charity. And while I will necessarily recount instances of conflict, both cultural and religious, I acknowledge that much …

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Beijing's "Benedictine" Age: A Report On China's Renewal In Catholic Worship, Anthony E. Clark

History Faculty Scholarship

Confucius’ disciple, Yan Hui, once asked the Master how to become a good person. “Goodness,” the Master said, comes about when “one forms himself according to ritual.” China has never quite lost its Confucian sense of ritual, for ritual is what forms a person in goodness, and in his final exhortation to his inquisitive student, Confucius suggests that ritual forms our vision, our speech, and our actions. Little wonder, then, that when Jesuit missionaries first went to China in the late sixteenth century, one of the aspects of Christianity that attracted Chinese most was the richness of Catholic ritual. Few …

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China's Century And The West In History: Historical Research In China On The Early Modern Era, Anthony E. Clark

History Faculty Scholarship

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A Hospital For Maine: History Of Maine Medical Center, Maine Medical Center

Histories

A Hospital For Maine: Part 3- Three Become One, Maine Medical Center

Histories

Papers Of Clyde E. Van Valin Arc2000-011 - Finding Aid, Ats Special Collections And Archives

Finding Aids

G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

Review Of "Assuming A Body: Transgender And Rhetorics Of Materiality" By G. Salamon, Tamsin E. Lorraine

Philosophy Faculty Works

Textos Del Derrumbe: Horacio Castellanos Moya, Fernando Vallejo, Daniel Guebel, Claudia Ferman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Invasion As Affliction: Worms And Bodily Infestation In African American Hoodoo Practices, Yvonne Patricia Chireau

Religion Faculty Works

Giving Meaning To Martyrdom: What Presidential Assassinations Can Teach Us About American Political Culture, Aliza Alperin-Sheriff

Honors Papers

Japanese Nuclear Power Policy: Forty Years Of Construction, Confusion, And Conflict, Sarah Fries

Honors Papers

Los Niños Que Se Quedan Atrás: La Doble Moral Sobre El Bilingüismo De Los Niños De Lengua Minoritaria En Las Escuelas Públicas Estadounidenses = The Children Left Behind: The Double Standard Of Bilingualism For Minority Language Children In American Public Schools, Emily Gazda

Honors Papers

"And The Light Flood Over The Land": Reading Region In Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Joshua Davidson

Honors Papers

Yellow, In Peril: How Public Health Discourse On Tuberculosis (Tb) Reveals, Refines, And Reinforces The Racial Stigmatization Of Asian Americans, Laura Dellplain

Honors Papers

Agricultural Terracing And Landscape History At Monte Pallano, Abruzzo, Italy, James R. Countryman

Honors Papers

Reinventing Britain: British National Identity And The European Economic Community, 1967-1975, James Meade Klingensmith Jr.

Honors Papers

The Sino-Tibetan Dialogue: Talk Shop Or Path To Resolution?, Rene Kamm

Honors Papers

Archaeometric Characterization Of Roman Tile Fabrics From The Sangro Valley, Italy, Aaron Eli Goldberg

Honors Papers

Scribbling Women: Female Historians In The Early American Republic, 1790-1814, Jennifer H. Graham

Honors Papers

Jazz Meets East: Cultural Dimensions Of Asynchronous Jazz Music Development In Modern China, Terence Hsieh

Honors Papers

Shades Of Cato And Brutus: Classical References In The Révolutions De Paris And The Rise Of Republicanism, June-October 1791, Suzanne Michelle Levin

Honors Papers

A Poetics Of Space: Opening Up A World Through Vessel Metaphors In Modern And Contemporary Poetry, Lili Pariser

Honors Papers

Re-Writing The Frontier Myth: Gender, Race, And Changing Conceptions Of American Identity In Little House On The Prairie, Kristin M. Sargeant

Honors Papers

Rhetorics Of Empire: The Falangist Discourse Of War (1939-1943), M. Elena Aldea Agudo

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

A Hospital For Maine: Part 2- A New Century, New Challenges, Maine Medical Center

Histories

A Hospital For Maine: Part 4- A New Corporate Structure, Maine Medical Center

Histories

A Hospital For Maine: Part 5- A New Millennium, Maine Medical Center

Histories

Hans Castorp Und 'Der Große Krieg'. Männlichkeitsbilder In Thomas Manns Roman 'Der Zauberberg', Simon Wester

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Pledging Peace In Aldous Huxley’S Eyeless In Gaza, Charles Andrews

English Faculty Scholarship

Vincentian Footprints In China: The Lives, Deaths, And Legacies Of Francis Clet, Cm, And John Gabriel Perboyre, Cm, Anthony E. Clark

History Faculty Scholarship

Beijing's "Benedictine" Age: A Report On China's Renewal In Catholic Worship, Anthony E. Clark

History Faculty Scholarship

China's Century And The West In History: Historical Research In China On The Early Modern Era, Anthony E. Clark

History Faculty Scholarship