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You Are That: An Upanishadic Approach To Empathic Writing Instruction In A High School Social Science Course, Andrew Otto Davis

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation reports the results of a qualitative research project investigating an approach to composition instruction in a high school social studies course that is based on the Upanishadic concept of tat tvam asi (you are that). Research for this study was conducted while I taught a section of Non-West History to high school juniors and seniors. This dissertation addresses the issues involved in the teaching of writing in a high school social science course. Specifically it focuses on the issues involved when a teacher attempts to construct a class that engages students to read and write in ways that …

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The Union Ticket

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

‘The union ticket’ is a short story comprising 3,800 words. Set in 1895 with the focus on shearing unionism and brutality of the era contrasted to the apparent calm of the landscape, ‘The union ticket’ tells the story of an orphaned teenager, adopted by his uncle and taken from the city into the bush for work experience in the shearing shed. The uncle wrongly assumes that a union ticket is not compulsory for a young, harmless boy, but the union representatives think differently and the story ends with dire consequences for the boy. The Australian bush sets the scene for …

Editorial Note: Environmental Writing Issue

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Editorial

To Whom It May Concern

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

In the closing decades of the 20^th Century the long tradition of writing and storytelling focused on nature and place began to attract for the first time a substantial, theorised body of critical response, usually brought together under the rubric of ecocriticism (Hornung ix). Landmark anthologies (e.g. Warren; Plant) and monographs (e.g. Buell; Murphy) began laying out a rough map of the theoretical territory and there were heated and lively contributions and contentions from different disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy (Plumwood; Cuomo; Warren); sociology (Salleh; Gare); politics (Bookchin; Eckersley). In 2011, Buell, Heise and Thornber offered a thoroughgoing review of …

The Inlet

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Environmental Writing

“Hewing Against The Grain”: John Haines’S Critique Of Robinson Jeffers

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

That American poet John Haines was in some way influenced by Robinson Jeffers is difficult to dispute. Literary critics have especially noted the similarity between Haines’s and Jeffers’s biographies. And yet, while a number of distinct parallels join these poets, perhaps more interesting are the ways in which Haines’s poetics differ from Jeffers’s. In particular, Haines utilizes Jeffers’s concept of the “inhuman” for his own purpose—namely, that is, to investigate the protean border between human artifice and the natural world. Haines utilizes a unique, often elegiac, voice to do so, ultimately arriving at a decidedly generous tone.

Help Is Inevitable

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Environmental Writing

Blue-Tongue Lizard & The Energies Of Shadow

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Environmental Writing

Affirmed

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Environmental Writing by Les Wicks

Notas, Cuentos Y Minificciones: Relatos En Periódicos Mexicanos Del Siglo Xix, Giordano Palma

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

Los periódicos de finales de siglo xix alteraron el proceso habitual de lectura; surgieron nuevos géneros y nuevos tipos de textos que buscaban satisfacer los formatos del periódico. Conjuntamente con la transformación de las formas textuales, se dieron nuevas prácticas de lectura, prácticas que premiaban la inmediatez y la brevedad. La empresa periodística estuvo fuertemente relacionada con la percepción de la modernidad, la apertura a nuevos espacios geográficos y la innovación tecnológica. En este contexto es que se comenzó a experimentar con distintos géneros literarios, que pudieran satisfacer esas necesidades. Dentro de estas nuevas formas surgieron las notas periodísticas, lugar …

Microrrelato Del “Saber Vivir” En Su Doble Acepción Normativa-Descriptiva: Más Allá De La Parodia Y Los Finales Sorprendentes; Lo Reflexivo, Ary Malaver

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

Tradicionalmente, el estudio del microrrelato se ha centrado en la discusión de aspectos tales como su caracterización, evolución histórica y estatus genérico. Este trabajo parte de la premisa de que son necesarios nuevos enfoques y por ello indaga en algunas cuestiones axiológicas y éticas en torno al microrrelato. Teniendo como punto de partida el concepto del “saber vivir”, según lo propone Ottmar Ette, se plantea la existencia de un microrrelato del saber vivir normativo-descriptivo que difiere de la correlación que Ette establece entre microficción y “saber vivir”. Este tipo de microficción se distingue por la presencia de una voluntad introspectiva …

聲音與意義 - 古典詩歌新探國際研討會 : 在嶺南大學召開, Fei Li

《嶺南學報》復刊學術會議之二：「經學之傳承與開拓」國際學術會議暨「聲音與意義 - 古典詩歌新探」國際研討會 Conference on The Study of Confucian Classics & Chinese Poetic Art

No abstract provided.

The Sociocultural Functionality Of Afrikan Syncretism: The Case Of Spirituality, Nikitah O. Imani

Black Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Presented at the National Council of Black Studies meetings in Miami, Florida on March 8^th, 2014.

Mr. Carl "B. J." Curry, Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

Curry, Carl (BJ) Jr.pdf - Funeral program for Carl Curry

Mr. Kenneth O'Neal Walker

African American Funeral Programs

Mr_Kenneth_O'Neal_Walker.pdf - Funeral program for Mr. Kenneth O'Neal Walker

Visiting Artist Recital, Linda Morton, Janis Mckay, Timothy Hoft

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed.

Archie Lee Byrd

African American Funeral Programs

Interment at Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Denmark, Georgia

Bettie Murphy

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

P-08 A Composition Project: An Original 12-Tone Fugue Modeled After J.S. Bach’S Bwv 847, Ilana Cady

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

The specific goal of this project is to explore the compositional techniques of the 12-tone system developed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1921 and apply these techniques to fugal writing. In this process I am taking Bach’s fugue, BWV 847, and using it as the blueprint for my original 12-tone fugue. I will follow the same overarching structural pattern of BWV 847—retaining the number of voices, subject entries, and usage of the middle development section, while submitting them to the paradigms of 12-tone serialism. My composition will push the fugue form in an unexpected and more progressive direction. The 12-tone system …

P-21 Teaching Strategy: Explaining The History And Themes Of Abstract Expressionism To High School Students Through The Integrative Model, Kirk Maynard

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

The purpose of my thesis is to create a blueprint for teachers to explain art history to students in an efficient way without many blueprints and precedence to guide them. I have chosen to focus my topic on Abstract Expressionism and the model that I will be using to present the concept of Abstract Expressionism will be the integrated model instructional strategy. This integrated model will serve as the guide to creating well crafted art history lessons in the classroom. This integrated model will also be laid out and summarized in a lesson plan designed to give the teacher direction …

P-02 Service Un-Requited: African American Civil War Soldiers And Their Fight For Freedom And Pension Compensation, Clifford Allen

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

My research project consists of delving through over nine hundred pension records from the files of fifteen African American soldiers who participated in the Civil War. These documents are comprised of general affidavits, witness statements, physicians’ certificates, military enlistment records, marriage certificates, military roll/attendance records, certificates for discharge, and documentation of receipt of or rejection of pension requests. Using these documents I investigated the cases of these soldiers in order to discover why they did or did not receive their military pensions, the length of time the process of attaining their pensions required, and explore the stories of the soldiers …

P-03 Republic ‘On Earth As It Is In Heaven:’ The Freedom Of The Fall In Paradise Lost And His Dark Materials, Jordan Arellano

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

The epic poem Paradise Lost (1667, 74) retells the Biblical creation story through the blind eyes of the Christian political-poet John Milton. Three hundred years later, Milton’s work is recast by the atheist children’s and fantasy novelist Philip Pullman in the His Dark Materials trilogy (1995, 97, 2000). Although one might assume that these two writers’ perspectives would contradict one another, Pullman’s adaptation—though a perverted story of the Fall—still pursues the same goal as Milton’s by imagining a new and better social structure. And not only do they share that goal, but they also explore the same mechanism—free will.

P-15 Evolution Over Revolution: A Generic Criticism Of The Muscle Car’S Past And Present Hierarchy, John Irvine

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

Since the early 1960’s the Muscle Car has been seen as representative of American cultural idealism; a post-war expression of Americanism through the medium of octane obsession. Muscle Cars are seen abstractly as an embodiment of several cultural principles; however, what physically constitutes this embodiment, the convergence of these features into the ‘soul’ of the muscle car, is broadly the subject of speculation. The ‘soul’, or formative characteristics, will be established through the generic criticism of a cross section of First Generation 1960’s Muscle Cars. Through analysis of physical features and technical specifications, the substantive and stylistic elements necessary for …

P-16 Constructing Short Fiction: The Creative Writing Process, Mark Joslin

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

This project explores a creative fiction writer’s process through writing four pieces of short fiction. Documenting his progress along the way, the writer uses peer-revision to refine his work. This method means to improve early drafts by both interacting with readers and utilizing the examples of well-known authors. The writer’s stories will be considered successful if their plot moves at a bright pace, if the characters and settings are authentic, and if they come to a satisfying conclusion. The project will consist of these stories and an accompanying writer’s notebook, which examines certain revisions representative of a move to good …

P-20 Isolation And Disconnection, Lynda Lee

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

As one of the most recurrent subjects of visual art, the human form has been an important means of communicating human experiences and expressing the philosophical and scientific thoughts of a society. During the early 20th century, artists in Europe began distorting and abstracting the human figure in ways that were unprecedented and often times visually unsettling to emphasize its withdrawn and isolated condition while also suggesting a sense of fragility and vulnerability. Although there are various forms of isolation that can result from a number of different causes, this project explores the concept of social isolation brought about by …

P-22 Te Amo Mujer, Ivan Ruiz

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

Te Amo Mujer is a documentary film project exploring the story of Don Gustavo Jiménez, an old man who lives in a small village in the south of Mexico, and the grandfather of the filmmaker. The film seeks to use the narrative of Don Gustavo to explore the question of why we live where we live. The thesis of the film, or more accurately the suggestion, as the film is a very personal work, is that we live where we do, and how we do, out of love for the people that are closest to us.

P-23 Worldview 2.0: Revisiting, Refinding, And Refining Faith In The University Years, Jacina Shultz

Honors Scholars & Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium Programs

In this non-fiction, creative extended essay, I revisit my worldview essay from Western Heritage, specifically focusing on my belief in a loving God. I trace my path to this belief, beginning with my freshmen year of college when I first started to question its legitimacy. Though teetering on the edge of agnosticism, I eventually learned how a belief in a loving God is not a blind one. I came to understand what it means to have a relationship with God. The project reconstructs the reasoning that verified to me that a faith in God does not have to be ignorant. …

An Instructional Model To Support Problem-Based Historical Inquiry: The Persistent Issues In History Network, Thomas Brush, John Saye

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

For over a decade, we have collaborated with secondary school history teachers in an evolving line of inquiry that applies research-based propositions to the design and testing of a problem-based learning framework and a set of wise practices that represent a professional teaching knowledge base for implementing a particular model of instruction, problem-based historical inquiry (PBHI). PBHI centers history instruction on decision-making about persistent societal problems as they occur in particular historical periods. In order to prepare future teachers to be better able to implement this model in their classrooms, we have integrated components of this model throughout our secondary …

When To “Open It” Only Meant Untying The Pyjama Strings: Partition And Narrativity Gone Astray, Sarbani Banerjee

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

My paper studies how brevity manifested itself through a complete breakdown of language system in reaction to the animosity circumscribing the Partition of India. I look into Sadaat Hasan Manto’s selected Urdu short stories to demonstrate how the pared off pattern of writing coupled with creation of specific information lapses helps to project hostility in its denuded form. The dark side of language emerges through minimum clarification, where the unedited picture of gruesome carnage becomes the lone guarantor of informal accounts, generating perspectives that had hitherto been rebuffed by the selective versions of mainstream history.

Through his economization of words, …