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"Donors", Andrea Marcusa

Ontario Review

Andrea Marcusa is a fiction and essay writer. Her work has appeared in Newsday, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. She was one of the winners of the Alabama Poets Society's 2003 writing competition and took first place in the Tiny Lights 2006 Essay Competition.

"Like Smoke" From Burning Green Sun, David Joiner

Ontario Review

In 1994, David Joiner became the first American to live and work in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, the location of the largest American air base during the war. He has contributed to two Fodor's™ guidebooks, including Fodor's™ Vietnam, and has published travel and culture articles in Vietnamese publications. The novel excerpt appearing here is his first published fiction, and he also has a story forthcoming in the Madison Review.

"Afterglow", Stellar Kim

Ontario Review

Stellar Kim is a fiction writer whose short stories have won several awards, including from The Atlantic Monthly, Iowa Review, and Ontario Review. Her recent work appears in The Best American Short Stories 2007, published by Houghton Mifflin and guest edited by Stephen King. Winner, The Cater V. Cooper Memorial Prize for Fiction, the Ontario Review, 2007.

"Remembering Ray Smith", Greg Johnson

Ontario Review

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Common Ground Speech, Delivered On June 13, 2014, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Common Ground Speech, delivered on June 13, 2014 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Cognitive Dissonance: Observing The Links Between Religiosity, Religious Beliefs, Gender And Religious Behavior, Thomas A. J. Mccall

Student Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to observe how religiosity, religious beliefs and gender correlated to religious behavior. To accomplish this a religiosity survey was administered to college students at a mid-south university from a random sample that was taken from students enrolled in oral communications classes. According to cognitive dissonance theory, individuals strive for consistency between beliefs and behaviors. Because of this, people who endorse religious beliefs should exhibit the religious behaviors that are associated with those beliefs. The study found strong and moderate positive correlations between specific religious behaviors and overall religiosity as well as moderate positive correlations …

A Brief History Of Public Health In Alexandria And Alexandria's Health Department, Krystyn R. Moon

History and American Studies Articles

One of the central tenets of public health is the belief that the practice of medicine serves the broader community; however, the specific meaning of the phrase “public health” is a historically contingent one. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, the public included only white, bourgeois men who met in coffee houses and other such establishments to discuss politics, business ventures, and popular culture. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the “public” included white working class men, the poor, women, and people of color. Eventually, politicians and medical doctors recognized that children should be included as part …

"Is That What You Dream About? Being A Monster?": Bella Swan And The Construction Of The Monstrous-Feminine In The Twilight Saga, Amanda Jayne Firestone

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

This dissertation argues that Bella Swan is a representation of Barbara Creed's monstrous-feminine which serves to reinforce ideologies that insist women are abject, inherently dangerous to men, and threatening to a patriarchal status quo. Through close-textual analysis of The Twilight Saga, I demonstrate how the monstrous-feminine frames the hysterical teenage body, hypersexuality, and eternal motherhood as simultaneously unacceptable and unavoidable. These negative women's stereotypes continue to persist in dominant popular culture, and this doublebind is overcome only by the impossible perfection of vampirism. The monstrous-feminine invites constructions of teenage bodies as unstable and unreliable, women's sexuality as dangerous and …

“Splitting Stars And Splitting Wood”: Address To New Members Of Phi Beta Kappa (Theta Of Minnesota), May 3, 2011, Erica Stonestreet

Headwaters

In recent years, there has been a widespread perception that liberal arts education in general, and humanities education in particular, are gradually being eroded away in the face of tightening budgets and an ever-growing emphasis on the practicality of education. If you’re going to college, after all, you’re supposed to end up with a so-called "good" job. And what better guarantee of a "good" job than a major in business or science, right?

Whether or not the perception about the decline of the liberal arts actually stands up to scrutiny, I tell my prospective philosophy majors when they come to …

“The Mysterious Stranger”: Address To New Members Of Phi Beta Kappa (Theta Of Minnesota), April 23, 2013, Scott Richardson

Headwaters

I used to know everything. Then I went to college. As I was about to enter college, I was pretty sure I had the world figured out. I didn’t need and certainly didn’t want my professors to do anything but reconfirm my beliefs, values, and vision of the world. I was in for a real surprise. There’s nothing innocent or comforting about a liberal arts education.

Australia’S Boatpeople Policy: Regional Cooperation Or Passing The Buck?, Christopher C. White

Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

The Australian government implemented a new policy in July 2013 in an attempt to more effectively address the recent spike in irregular migrants trying to reach its shores. In this paper, I examine the panic over migration in Australia concerning asylum seekers arriving by boat. The discussion is divided into two main themes. First, I look at how the Australian government is attempting to manage irregular immigration with a specific focus on the regional arrangement with Papua New Guinea. I argue that instead of mutually beneficial efforts at regional cooperation, the Australian government is merely shifting its responsibilities to a …

Intergenerational Conflicts In Iran: Myth Or Reallity?, Mohammad Hossein Panahi

Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

One of the important social issues attracting the attention of social thinkers in post WWII era has been the issue of intergenerational conflict. Presented by scholars such as Karl Manheim and Margaret Mead, it was thought that in post WWII era intergenerational conflicts or gap rose to a degree that it made the communication and understanding between pre and post WWII generations very difficult. It was theorized that this unbridgeable gap between the two generations was due to grave and rapid social changes that occurred in that era, so that these two generations experienced and lived in two totally different …

Immigrants, Roma And Sinti Unveil The “National” In Italian Identity, Francesco Melfi

Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

This essay picks up a few threads in the ongoing debate on national identity in Italy. Immigration and the intertwining of cultures locally have stretched the contours of the nation state to a breaking point. As a result, the social self has become a sharply contested terrain between those who want to install a symbolic electronic fence around an imagined fatherland and those who want a more inclusive nation at home in a global world. After discussing the views of Amin Maalouf (2000), Alessandro Dal Lago (2009), Abdelmalek Sayad (1999) and Patrick Manning (2005) on national identity and migration in …

More Than A Tribesman: The New African Diasporan Identity, Stephen M. Magu

Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

Current global levels of immigration stand at about 300 million persons; of these, IFAD estimates that 30 million Africans are in the Diaspora. The contributions of diasporic Africans to their communities and to the cultural experiences of the United States are multimodal. To their domiciles, they contribute economically, empowering their families to become more active and less dependent on the state, while transmitting ideas about democracy and better government. At the same time, they contribute to their adopted homelands through social and cultural activities, cultural festivals and other indicators of cultural connectedness to their motherlands. The African diaspora of necessity …

Daily Border Crossings: Negotiations Of Gender, Body And Subjectivity In The Lives Of Women Workers In Urban Malls., Rachana Johri Dr., Krishna Menon Dr.

Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

The last two decades have seen the emergence of not just new markets but new market spaces that provide a visual experience of products and persons that closely approximates the field set up by the global media. Malls represent the concrete representations of unabashed celebration and acknowledgment of desire. Malls are one of the spaces that shape everyday lives suggesting the rightfulness of fulfilling sexual, cultural, social and gastronomic desires. One ‘category’ of persons presumably shaped by these spaces are those who work in them. Our concern is particularly with the negotiation of body and subjectivity as women travel daily, …

The Body As Politic: Education And The Performance Art Of Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dana Cole

Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

Art has been used as a tool in many fields as a method to tap into different ways of knowing and learning. It promotes creativity and individual expression by encouraging innovation and by opening up possibilities to different ways of expressing and experiencing. My work looks at the performance art of Guillermo Gómez-Peña as a form of public pedagogy using a/r/tography, an arts-based methodology, to illuminate way art it can be used to enhance the learning experience. This article examine the in-between spaces created in Gómez-Peña’s work as epistemological borderzones underscoring how borders come together in heterogeneity, contradiction, and flux …

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Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

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Introduction, Antonio Medina-Rivera, Lee F. Wilberschied Ph.D.

Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

This introduction precedes the initial issue of the journal Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions.

Center For Art & Theater News, Georgia Southern University

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The Subjection Of Authority And Death Through Humor: Carnivalesque, Incongruity, And Absurdism In Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian And No Country For Old Men, Ruth Ellen Covington

Theses and Dissertations

Cormac McCarthy's representation of the comic theories of the carnivalesque, incongruity, and absurdism by the antagonists of Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men demonstrates the unique and ostensible power of humor over (or at least, its awareness of and reconciliation to the absurdity of) death; it also emphasizes the supreme power and influence of humor as a means for destroying other institutions and philosophies which claim knowledge or authority but fail to sustain individuals in times of crisis. This makes humor a formidable factor in determining and justifying the outcome of human interactions and in defining the strengths …

High Risk, High Yield: Embodied Facilitation For Racial Justice In Writing Workshops Across The Disciplines, Beth Godbee, Jasmine Kar Tang

English Faculty Research and Publications

If one of the lifelines of WAC involves facilitating workshops with/for faculty, TAs, tutors, and others across campus, then how can we better attend to issues of racial diversity? This interactive session looks at the intersection of the writing center pedagogies and critical race studies. Featuring reflection on a series of movement-based workshops, the co-authors argue for a high-risk, high-yield model of facilitation, one that requires awareness of social locations, identities, and histories.

Wiley, Benjamin (Lg 104), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 104. Original land grant, 5 February 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Benjamin Wiley, assignee of Francis Barner, assignee of Davies Brown, Jr., who was assignee of William Likins, 200 acres in Warren County.

Lafferty, Samuel (Lg 114), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 114. Original land grant, 27 January 1816, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Samuel Lafferty, assignee of Samuel Bents, 200 acres in Cumberland County.

Whitsitt, John (Lg 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 105. Original land grant, 22 January 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Whitsitt, assignee of Polly Davidson, 300 acres in Warren County.

Viney, Abraham (Lg 106), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 106. Original land grant, 5 June 1816, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Abraham Viney, assignee of James Wilcox, 200 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Hinch, John (Lg 147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 147. Original land grant, 13 September 1813, by which Richard Hickman, Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Hinch, assignee of Henry Gorin, assignee of Samuel Cox, 80 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.

Lee, Edmund F. (Lg 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 156. Copy of land grant, 21 March 1808, by which Christopher Greenup, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Edmund F. Lee, 2000 acres on Gasper River, Kentucky.

Bratton, William (Lg 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 103. Original land grant, 11 April 1815, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Bratton, assignee of Henry Lyons, 200 acres in Warren County.

Harrald, Robert (Lg 101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 101. Original land grant,10 January 1815, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Harrald, assignee of Michael Oneal, 33 acres in Warren County.

Thompson, George (Lg 107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 107. Copy of land grant, 9 February 1814, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to George Thompson, assignee of Elijah M. Covington, who was assignee of William Knight, 160 acres in Warren County, Kentucky.