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Compulse, Candise W. Henson

Student Publications

A short short story that looks at the details of a strange marriage between a minister with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and his pregnant wife as they attempt to exorcise five girls at a backwoods church camp.

What We Find In The Sea, David E. King

Student Publications

Personal essay in which the author recounts his struggle to come to terms with his lack of grief over his grandfather’s death.

The Problem Of Spite, David M. Florey

Student Publications

Spite is one of the most negative emotions. It ranges from the ruthless, malicious, and enormously destructive, to the trivial and seemingly harmless. Yet all spiteful acts seem to lack rational justification and to be preoccupied solely with the intent to harm—even at the risk of harm to oneself. To rid ourselves of this nasty emotion, I propose a solution which involves the elimination of the deep underlying causes that root spite within us. Drawing upon the emotion theories of Robert Solomon and Max Scheler, this thesis describes spite as an emotion, analyses what is wrong with spite, and proposes …

Just Another Girl, Julia D. Marshella

Student Publications

A non-fiction piece that explores the causes of the author’s depression while in college. While she is able to pinpoint specific events that have led to her unhappiness, she realizes that accepting her life in spite of these obstacles will allow her to move forward.

Cold And Calculating, Kathryn E. Slezak

Student Publications

This nonfiction essay investigates the relationship between eye contact and power in different situations. It brings up the idea that animals and humans are less different than often thought to be, and how body language is transcendent. It uses this underlying theme to investigate the author’s changing relationship with her father.

Everything, Hannah M. Frantz

Student Publications

This is a memoir piece that details a tumultuous period in my life between departing for my study abroad experience in Rwanda and Uganda, struggling with what I encountered there, and then attempting to reintegrate into the same life prior to my departure. Specifically, it focuses on my time in northern Uganda, and a women I met in an IDP (internal displaced persons) camp who really made me think about what my role should be both there and at home. This piece explores a number of themes including guilt, blame, and, ultimately, a certain amount of forgiveness.

A Temple Of Pleasure, A Temple Of Art: The Structural And Social Veneers Of Opulence In Charles Garnier's Paris Opéra, Sarah W. Parker

Student Publications

At the height of opulence in Second Empire France, Napoléon and Haussmann’s restructuring of Paris called for the construction of a new opera house, selecting from a smorgasbord of competitors the architectural design of the virtually unknown Charles Garnier. The plan employed all manner of techniques in order to present its decoration and composition as a veritable litany of formal styles, combining the Neoclassical with the Néobaroque, all with an affinity for the Beaux-Arts. Garnier’s vision implements modern technologies, while also rediscovering classic methods, and utilizes atypical materials to achieve classic ends, ultimately establishing the space as truly eclectic masterpiece, …

Abuelito, Margarita C. Delgado

Student Publications

An outsider’s perspective of the Spanish funerary process and the universal grappling with grief.

Jeff Davis, A Sour Apple Tree, And Treason: A Case Study Of Fear In The Post-Civil War Era, Brianna E. Kirk

Student Publications

The end of the Civil War raised many questions, one being how to piece back together the violently torn apart Union. With such an unprecedented war in American history, the exact course of how to do so was unknown. Would the country survive through Reconstruction, and how would sectional reconciliation be achieved? An even larger question was who to blame for the four long years of violence. In the minds of many northerners, that man was Jefferson Davis. Davis had not only led the secessionist movement, but was a traitor to the Union. By analyzing the calls for and against …

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 21, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“In Defense of Gopher Prairie: Main Street as a Critique of Urban Culture,” by James Nixon, Glasgow University

“Red in Retrospect”: A Review of Sinclair Lewis Remembered, edited by Gary Scharnhorst and Matthew Hofer, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“You Should Remember This”: A Review of The Noir Forties: The American People from Victory to Cold War by Richard Lingeman, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“Cass: Anatomy of a Moniker,” by Charles Pankenier

“Twin Farms Today,” by Susan O’Brien

“Sarcastic but Sympathetic, Babbitt is Premier Middle-Class Novel,” by Mark Roth

“Barnaby Conrad, Lewis’s Secretary, Dies …

Muscogiana Vol. 24(1), Spring 2013, Edward Howard

Muscogiana

No abstract provided.

Model Minority On The Modernization Project: Images Of Chinese Religiosity In America, Emily Wu

Collected Faculty Scholarship

As the stereotypical model minority in the United States, Chinese Americans are rarely considered as religiously threatening. Those Chinese Americans who already were or became converted to mainstream Christianity are seen as cases of successful Americanization. Buddhism, another popular religious affiliation among the Chinese ethnics, is understood as a benign and respectable source of wisdom. Few Chinese ethnics identify themselves strictly as Daoist or Confucian, but there is a wide range of religious and spiritual practices that are diffused into their daily lives. Without specific religious affiliations or congregational headcount, eclectic practices such as ancestral worship, temple visits, home rituals, …

The Immortal Lafayette, Emalee Krulish

Tenor of Our Times

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of The Iranian Hostage Crisis On The 1980 Presidential Election, M. K. Collins

Tenor of Our Times

No abstract provided.

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2013, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Terry Castle; Interview with Dr. Karen Stohr; Essays: Olivier Messiaen and the Quartet for the End of Time—Jody Sjogren; No Ultimatums Necessary: Defending Diverse Poetry—Beth Gier; Are Negative Duties Enough? Basic Goods Deficits and the Institutional Approach to Human Rights—Beth Dwyer; Israel contra Becker: Rescuing the Enlightenment?—Emmy Hammond; Book Reviews: Ruins—Zach Alexander; Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace—Toshia Fries; Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times—Beth Dwyer; Mortality—Emmy Hammond; Gone Girl—Whitney Reed; Ten Thousand Saints—Beth Gier; The …

The Meeting Of Mothers, Midwives, And Men, Alyssa Kirkman

Tenor of Our Times

No abstract provided.

Taking In: A Selection Of Undergraduate Photography 2013, Aib Students

Taking In

Taking In is a student run project featuring a selection of work created by students attending the Art Institute of Boston. The project focuses on the business of promoting art and culminates each year with a juried exhibition, publication, and a website all designed to promote selected works of AIB artists. The selected pieces were chosen anonymously by a jury of distinguished members of the Boston art community to represent the best of AIB Photography in 2013. The book in your hands is the end result of a collective effort by those in the class.

A Content Analysis Of Music Therapy Theses And Dissertations From 2000 To 2012 From Amta Approved Graduate Programs, Liisa G. Flores

Masters Theses

The purpose of this content analysis was to categorize, code, and analyze trends related to graduate music therapy theses/dissertations completed from the year 2000 to 2012. Information was gathered related to what American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) approved schools have graduate programs and how many students have graduated from these institutions. Research questions addressed in this study were to determine (1) who were the thesis/dissertation advisors for students, (2) what was the type of goal for the research, (3) what types of studies were completed, and (4) what populations were studied.

Results included 35 schools offering graduate music therapy degrees. …

Ethical Ambivalence In Local Television Weathercasting: A Rossian Analysis, Vernon Keith Thompson

Masters Theses

Today’s television weathercasters are being called upon increasingly to go beyond benign weather prognostications to become the “newsroom experts” for science topics. The expectation to act as both scientists and journalists can cause ethical ambivalence (EA), a sociological condition in which, faced with conflicting norms, the subject feels that he/she is being pulled psychologically in two different directions (Jansen & Von Glinow, 1985). This thesis presents a Rossian analysis of climate change in weathercasting, a topic that captures the most important ethical tensions arising from conflicting duties within the weathercaster role, specifically: a) how might the duties of the television …

Reading Dewey’S Political Philosophy Through Addams’S Political Compromises, Marilyn Fischer

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Both John Dewey and Jane Addams believed that the cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. While their vision of democracy is rightly called radical, the processes through which they proposed to cure the ills of democracy are in large measure conservative, in the classical, Burkean sense of the term. To show this, I first explain how well their political philosophies line up, particularly their proposals for political reconstruction. I then use Addams’s experiences as a delegate to the 1912 Progressive Party Convention as a test case in real time for Dewey’s proposals for political reconstruction. The compromises …

Concert Recording 2013-04-01, Eddie W. Jones Sr., Amy Frenzel, Olga Greenhut, Kristine Mezines, Dipendra Sunam, Abby Carr, John Ford, Alexandra Bond, Staci Hatmaker, Kyle Ates, Morgan Aldridge, Torneshia Rogers, Colby Corcoran, Kristin Smith, Amanda Davis

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. What can we poor females do / Henry Purcell -- [0:02:18]. The telephone. Lucy's aria / Gian Carlo Menotti -- [06:17]. Every time I feel de spirit / arranged by Harry T. Burleigh -- [09:17]. Carmen. L'amour est un oiseau rebelled (Habanera) / Georges Bizet -- [12:17]. O del mio dolce ardor / Chistoph W. von Gluck -- [16:07]. Semele. Where e'er you walk / George F. Handel -- [20:54]. Go lovely rose / Roger Quilter -- [23:32]. Man is for the woman made / Henry Purcell -- [25:09]. Les Contes D'Hoffman. Elle a fui, la tourterelle! / Jacques …

Response: An Invitation To A Too-Long Postponed Conversation: Race And Composition By Octavio Pimentel, Cruz Medina

English

Octavio Pimentel’s “Racism and Composition: Redesigning the Composition Classroom to be more Culturally Inclusive” critically provokes pedagogical and programmatic questions by focusing on pressing issues of race and language within a historical context relevant to the field of rhetoric and composition.

Vocation As Parish: The Missional Possibilities Of Inhabiting Your Workplace, Anderson Campbell

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

No abstract provided.

Into A Great Nation: Mennonites And Nationalism In Imperial Germany, 1871-1900, Benjamin W. Goossen , '13

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

Historians of the early Kaiserreich have often linked the rise of modern nationalism to the assimilation of minority groups into the new German nation state. In the case of Mennonites, the assimilation narrative tells only half the story. German nationalism served not only to Germanize many Mennonites living in the Empire; it also spurred the parallel formation of a transnational Mennonite consciousness akin to the development of Jewish Zionism. Using a wide variety of sources ranging from newspapers and letters to children’s stories and congregational address books, this thesis tracks Mennonites’ changing attitudes toward ethnicity, geography, education, historiography, and festival …

Building A House Of Peace: The Origins Of The Imperial Presidency And The Framework For Executive Power, 1933-1960, Katherine Elizabeth Ellison

Dissertations

This project offers a fundamental rethinking of the origins of the imperial presidency, taking an interdisciplinary approach as perceived through the interactions of the executive, legislative, and judiciary branches of government during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. In light of the end of the Cold War and twenty-first century recurrence of the imperial presidency after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the original thesis proposed by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in The Imperial Presidency and other works based on the periodization of the Cold War is in need of updating.

By utilizing legal theories, political science models, and historical analysis, …

Almost Touching, Almost Free, Dustin M. Hoffman

Dissertations

This collection of stories delves into themes of the working class. These stories of working-class characters range from realism to fabulism to experimental, because the story of working-class people is complex and always shifting. Some of the stories travel backward in time to shepherds and traveling crusaders, while others take on much more contemporary voices, speaking from the point of view of sex workers, carpenters, office workers, ice cream van drivers, and salesmen. If these stories have one thing in common, it is that the characters are searching for identity, for a concrete sense of self that seems to have …

Flickers In The Dark, Stephanie Hines

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Alayna "Laney" Moreland is living in an emotional and abusive household. Her mother, Janelle, is an alcoholic. Laney grew up at a young age taking care of her. Janelle's boyfriend, Nick, is physically and verbally abusive towards Laney. Janelle tries to prevent it, but can't. Janelle eventually loses the battle with depression and commits suicide. Laney is placed in foster care after child protective services realizes what Nick is doing to her. Laney eventually learns how to cope with her mother's death and deal with her past.

Socialeighfood Memoir Cookbook, Leigh Takata

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

A memoir, along with a cookbook and articles about food. Contains adult content.

Related internet content can be found at:

http://www.socialeighfood.com
https://www.facebook.com/SociaLeighFood
https://twitter.com/SocialLeighFood

To Love Again?, Shunkedra Zachery

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

A screenplay. The story addresses the question whether or not a person should forgive someone who as caused them great heartache. The main character, Michael Phillips, loves his wife Kiera, but believes she is having an affair with his brother Tony. His jealousy consumes him and he abandons his wife and child. The story resumes several years later, after the death of Michael's father. As the story unfolds, Michael seeks to find the friend who betrayed him, make peace with his brother, and convince his wife to love him again.

Last Trip To Disneyland, Freeman Mensa Montaque

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Screenplay. John and Sally Danes are a father and daughter living in desperate times. In order to make ends meet, they're forced to engage in some less than exemplary acts. They soon find themselves way in over their heads once they make a gruesome discovery. Soon after, the police and a trio of killers are both hot on their trail, and they have to tread carefully. One mistake could prove to be fatal.