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Government And Politics Newsletter, Issue 9, Sacred Heart University

Government and Politics Newsletter

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Interpretation, 1980 And 1880, Rachel Sagner Buurma, L. Heffernan

English Literature Faculty Works

This article reviews recent methodological interventions in the field of literary study, many of which take nineteenth-century critics, readers, or writers as models for their less interpretive reading practices. In seeking out nineteenth-century models for twenty-first-century critical practice, these critics imagine a world in which English literature never became a discipline. Some see these new methods as formalist, yet we argue that they actually emerge from historicist self-critique. Specifically, these contemporary critics view the historicist projects of the 1980s as overly influenced by disciplinary models of textual interpretation models that first arose, we show through our reading of the Jolly …

He Made The Books And He Died: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Faulkner's Death, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

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A Special Talk With Professor Richard Donato The University Of Pittsburgh, Pramarn Subphadoongchone

PASAA

In this issue, we are privileged to have an interview with Professor Richard Donato, Chairperson of the Department of Instruction and Learning in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Donato's research interest lies in the areas of second and foreign language acquisition, early language learning, classroom discourse analysis, and sociocultural theory. He has worked internationally on language education issues, and his work has appeared in a broad range of prestigious journals. With his wealth of publication and editorial experience, he has graciously shared with us invaluable practical tips and considerations in writing for scholarly publication in …

English In Southeast Asia: Features, Policy And Language In Use, Srowcha Dumrongthaveesak

PASAA

Low, E. L., & Azirah. H. (Eds.). (2012). English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

An Analysis Of English Language Learning Needs And Problems Of Underprivileged Children In A Slum Area In Bangkok Metropolis, Chanisara Tangkijmongkol, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi

PASAA

For underprivileged children living in a slum area, education is one of the primary tools contributing to a better life when they grow up. The present study aimed at investigating the needs and problems in English language learning of disadvantaged children in the Klong Toey slum, the largest slum in the Bangkok Metropolis. Data were collected by means of questionnaires and interviews with 100 children, volunteer teachers, and community members. The study findings showed that children from the slum area realize the significance of English and that they are interested in learning English through games, songs, videos, and TV programs. …

Those Conceptions Proliferate Everywhere: Reply To Kassor, Yasuo Deguchi, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

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Mary Zimmerman’S Candide: A Journey Of Realization, Costume Design And Production For The 2013 Regional Non-Professional Premiere At The University Of Nebraska–Lincoln, Mallory Maria Prucha

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work

This thesis describes the research, Costume Design and implementation for the non-professional Regional Premiere of the musical Candide, newly adapted from Voltaire by Mary Zimmerman with music by Leonard Bernstein and additional lyrics by Richard Wilbur, Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, and Dorothy Parker., presented at Kimball Hall on February 21-24, 2013. Directed by Alisa Belflower, the production was a collaborative effort between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film and School of Music with Mallory Maria Prucha serving as Costume/Make-Up Designer, Michaela Lynne Stein as Scenic Designer, Clay VanWinkle as Lighting Designer and David …

Coming Home To Herself, Steven P. Hopkins

Religion Faculty Works

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Practicing And Conducting Oral Tests In The Classroom, David Evans, John Herbert

PASAA

There are many directions that English language teaching approaches have taken in the past, including the grammar translation method, direct method, audio-lingual approach, and communicative teaching (Crystal, 2007, pp.437-440). Following on from the communicative approach that became popular in the 1970s, we have seen a move towards content-based teaching, and content and language integrated learning (CLIL). Moreover, as the concepts of English as an international language (EIL) and English as a lingua franca (ELF) grow in importance, the debate over which kind of English we should be teaching continues. In spite of the changing English teaching context, in many institutions …

Remarks For The Visit To Cambridge And Oxford, Delivered In Summer 2013, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Remarks for the Visit to Cambridge and Oxford, delivered in Summer 2013 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Review Of Mor Gabriel Aus Beth Qustan: Leben Und Legende Eines Syrischen Abtbischofs Aus Dem 7. Jahrhundert By Zeki Joseph, Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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David Walker, Harriet Beecher Stowe And The Logic Of Sentimental Terror, Kevin Pelletier

English Faculty Publications

With few exceptions, contemporary criticism reads nineteenth-century sentimental fiction as a literature of love. When Harriet Beecher Stowe famously asserted that the moral growth of the nation depended on each citizen’s ability to “feel right,” she voiced a sentiment shared by many of her contemporaries. It is no surprise, then, that scholars have assumed Stowe’s injunction to “feel right” was a call to feel compassion and love, for it was ostensibly through a rhetoric of Christian love that Stowe was able to foment a passionate outcry against slavery from many of her Northern readers. Indeed, sentimentalism’s transformative potential is best …

The Ordination Of Women In The American Church, Nicholas Miller

Faculty Publications

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Shall The Church Ordain Women As Pastors ? 1 Thoughts T Oward An Integrated Nt Perspective, Teresa Reeve

Faculty Publications

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The Rise Of The Moral Tale: Children's Literature, The Novel, And The Governess, Patrick C. Fleming

Faculty Publications

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Review Of Allan Gotthelf's Teleology, First Principles, And Scientific Method In Aristotle's Biology And James G. Lennox And Robert Bolton's (Ed.) Being, Nature, And Life In Aristotle, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Situating Moral Justification: Rethinking The Mission Of Moral Epistemology, Alison Jaggar, Theresa W. Tobin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

This is the first of two companion articles drawn from a larger project, provisionally entitled Undisciplining Moral Epistemology. The overall goal is to understand how moral claims may be rationally justified in a world characterized by cultural diversity and social inequality. To show why a new approach to moral justification is needed, it is argued that several currently influential philosophical accounts of moral justification lend themselves to rationalizing the moral claims of those with more social power. The present article explains how discourse ethics is flawed just in this way. The article begins by identifying several conditions of adequacy …

Naturalizing Moral Justification: Rethinking The Method Of Moral Epistemology, Theresa W. Tobin, Alison Jaggar

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

The companion piece to this article, “Situating Moral Justification,” challenges the idea that moral epistemology's mission is to establish a single, all‐purpose reasoning strategy for moral justification because no reasoning practice can be expected to deliver authoritative moral conclusions in all social contexts. The present article argues that rethinking the mission of moral epistemology requires rethinking its method as well. Philosophers cannot learn which reasoning practices are suitable to use in particular contexts exclusively by exploring logical relations among concepts. Instead, in order to understand which reasoning practices are capable of justifying moral claims in different types of contexts, we …

Affective Disorders Of The State: A Spinozan Diagnosis And Cure, Ericka L. Tucker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

The problems of contemporary states are in large part “affective disorders”; they are failures of states to properly understand and coordinate the emotions of the individuals within and in some instances outside the state. By excluding, imprisoning, and marginalizing members of their societies, states create internal enemies who ultimately enervate their own power and the possibility of peace and freedom within the state. Spinoza’s political theory, based on the notion that the best forms of state are those that coordinate the power and emotions of those within a state, offers us both a diagnosis of and a cure for these …

Community Radio In Political Theory And Development Practice, Ericka Tucker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

While to political theorists in the United States ‘community radio’ may seem a quaint holdover of the democratization movements of the 1960s, community radio has been an important tool in development contexts for decades. In this paper I investigate how community radio is conceptualized within and outside of the development frame, as a solution to development problems, as part of development projects communication strategy, and as a tool for increasing democratic political participation in development projects. I want to show that community radio is an essential tool of democratization and democracy outside of the development frame. To do so, I …

Spinoza’S Hobbesian Naturalism And Its Promise For A Feminist Theory Of Power, Ericka Tucker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Prelims, Prefatory Note To Ssl 37, Preface To Robert Burns & Friends, Patrick G. Scott, Anthony Jarrells, Kenneth G. Simpson

Studies in Scottish Literature

Prefatory note by Patrick Scott and Tony Jarrells, preface by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson

'He Just Did Not Listen To Me': Authority And Resistance In Writing Tutors' Encounters With Prior Learning, Daniel P. Kenzie

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations

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Theology In Parish Life, Skip Bell

Faculty Publications

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Transatlantic Intimacies: The Homoerotic Affect Worlds Of Nineteenth-Century Print Culture, Melissa R. Pompili

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The thesis argues that during the late-nineteenth century, an alternative means of same-sex erotic communication was conceived of in transatlantically published American and British künstlerroman novels written by female authors. This alternative discourse was communicated affectively to initiated readers by way of metaphorical descriptions of painting, music, accompanying illustrations, and photography, and these novels all participate in the work of moving non-normative sexuality into the public sphere at the turn of the century. Through readings of works by Kate Chopin, Julia Magruder, and Amy Levy, the thesis explores the ways that these affective interactions were constructed, and the manner in …

When Ye Are Assembled Together: Congregational Patterns And Worship Practices Of The Early Latter-Day Saints 1829-1846, Matthew Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

The worship experience in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is inextricably linked to the ward or branch. This thesis examines the development of the Latter-day Saint congregation at the church centers from 1829 to 1846: Palmyra and Fayette, New York; Harmony, Pennsylvania; Kirtland, Ohio; Independence, Liberty and Far West in Missouri; and Nauvoo, Illinois. This work not only documents the creation and development of congregations, but also gives attention to the other important elements developed during the early years that are still associated with modern Latter-day Saint wards: meeting and worship patterns, physical locations where meetings took …

Review Of Darko Suvin's Defined By A Hollow: Essays On Utopia, Science Fiction And Political Epistemology, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

This review considers Darko Suvin’s recent career anthology Defined by a Hollow with respect to debates about the relevance of Marxism and utopian critique in the context of a global neoliberal hegemony that (twenty years after Fukuyama) still imagines itself as the ‘end of history’. Suvin’s work suggests that the relationship between Marxism and aesthetics in such times is not simply a quirk of the academy, but is in fact a politically necessary conjoining of materialist praxis and quasi-religious inspiration.

Rez Realities: Exploring The Perceptions Of Crime And Justice Among Tribal Police Officers In Indian Country, Favian Alejandro Martin

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

Although American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AI/NA) compose just over 1% of the general population in the U.S., they experience higher rates of crime and violence than the total population and are dramatically over-represented in the criminal justice system. In light of these realities, the paucity of research on AI/NA crime, violence, and justice problems is appalling. What research does exist suggests that AI/NA crime and victimization is correlated with social problems such as poverty and illegal drug use which are linked to the social ills of colonialism. Drawing on the work of Loader (1997), this dissertation examines the perceptions …

The Residual Resistance Of The Individual Within The Rhizomatic Hegemony Of The Internet, Emma Katherine Wolfe

English Theses & Dissertations

Networked cyborgs that exist within the non-hierarchical rhizomatic network of the Internet risk losing the concept of their individuality as our identity becomes less important than the group. However, if the rhizomatic network is thought of as a hegemony that exists on the Internet, we can resist this through the residual notion of individual identity. Since cyborgs must perform in order to exist on the rhizomatic network, they can become aware of and perform their individuality through awareness of the computer medium. There are three methods for networked cyborgs to assert their individuality discussed in this thesis.

The first is …