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The Ingredients Of Comparison: The Semantics Of The Excessive Construction In Japanese, Xiao Li

Publications and Research

Excessives (e.g., this pair of pants is too long) are often considered as a ‘degree construction’ in the literature, presumably because it is assumed that their semantics involves a comparison of degrees. This paper takes a cross-linguistic look at the excessive construction in Japanese and raises the question of whether degrees are a necessary ingredient in the semantics of comparison. Unlike any degree morpheme in English, -sugi ‘to exceed’ can combine with either a gradable adjective (e.g., naga ‘long’) or a non-gradable verb (e.g., yomi ‘to read’) to form an excessive construction. In each case, a semantically different type of …

If You Don’T Want To Talk About Food, Don’T Sit Next To Me, Judith L. Polk

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

If You Don’t Want to Talk About Food, Don’t Sit Next to Me has as its main characters the same qualities taken from the new philosophy of Le Cordon Bleu: “Aspire, Discover, Flourish, Delight, and Thrive,” and the memories made while a full-time student.

Freedom From Equality: Democratic Education And The Failure Of The Nclb, Andrew X. Fleming

Student Research Symposium

Deeply rooted societal concerns about what role democratic ideals should play within systems of education, and how much sway the federal government should hold over educational institutions, have been at the forefront of American educational policy for decades. These questions have more recently been brought into the limelight once again within the context of the implementation of charter schools and the controversial No Child Left Behind act, and its subsequent failure. The expressed goal of this paper is to provide an examination of what philosophies and ideals of so-called "democratic education" are have played major roles in developing the discourse …

Locke, Figure, And Judgement: A Consistent Answer To The Molyneux Problem, Jamale Nagi

Student Research Symposium

Ever since the early modern period the Molyneux Problem has been a topic of debate both in the philosophy of perception and the psychology of perception. The problem centers on whether the senses share representational content between one another, or does each sense modality have its own stock of representational content that becomes associated with the others after some habituation. For example, if you knew a shape only by touch, could you identify that shape when seeing it for the first time without being allowed to touch the object? Typically, rationalists have held to the former claiming yes, while empiricists …

Retracing Foucault: Neoliberalism And The Occupy Movement, Jaycob Izso

Student Research Symposium

The Occupy movement presented itself as a reaction to a socio-economic relation; to some it decried the unconstrained expanses and injustices of capitalism, to others it was a resistance to the gross economic disparity perpetuated by a subset of the social strata that lacked governmental accountability. Branded by some as neo-Marxist, by others as merely lazy or lacking any concrete objectives – the Occupy movement met with mixed results. By providing an archaeology of neoliberal governmentality by-way of Michel Foucault; I believe we can not only elucidate the underpinning and political origins of the movement, but also seek to clarify …

Representation Of The Mother’S Body As A Narrative Conduit For Wartime Themes In Saga, Bess Pallares

Student Research Symposium

“Representation of the Mother’s Body as a Narrative Conduit for Wartime Themes in Saga” examines how both diagetic and extradiagetic art creates a visual syuzhet to convey themes of interdependence and transgenerational memory in the comic book series Saga. My method of research was a narrative analysis of volumes 1-4 of Saga, particularly focusing on the artistic representation of two mothers’ bodies within the narrative and on covers of the books, as related to the themes and story. As a result, I found in the artistic syuzhet that the representation of two characters’ bodies as they interact …

Dixon, William E. (Lg 338), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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FInding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 338. Original land grant, 1820, June 20, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William E. Dixon, assignee of James A. Porter, 150 acres in Butler and Warren Counties.

Reading, William (Lg 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 336. Copy of a land grant, 1813, November 16, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Reading, assignee of Samuel A. Curd, assignee of George Brown, 200 acres in Logan County.

Reading, William (Lg 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 332. Original land grant, 1813, August 5, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Reading, assignee of John Reading, 48 acres in Logan County.

Reading, William (Lg 330), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 330. Original land grant, 1809, February 15, by which Charles Scott, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Reading, assignee of the Trustees of the Bullitt Academy, 500 acres in Logan County.

Bayons, Philips (Lg 339), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 339. Original land grant, 1856, August 23, by which Charles S. Morehead, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Philip Bayons, assignee of John B. Smith, 34 acres in Butler County.

Howell, James (Lg 337), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 337. Original land grant, 1818, January 31, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James Howell 150 acres in Logan County.

Winkfield, John (Lg 335), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 335. Copy of a land grant, 1786, March 20, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to John Winkfield 1000 acres in Fayette County, Virginia.

Gamball, John (Lg 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 334. Original land grant, 1795, September 15, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Gamball 500 acres on Little Muddy Creek.

Carlisle, Matthew (Lg 331), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 331. Copy of a land grant, 1841, June 8, by which Robert P. Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Matthew Carlisle 220 acres in Logan County.

On Epistemic Egalitarianism For My P-Zombie Twin: In Defense Of The Phenomenal Concept Strategy, Diane Smedberg

Honors Program Theses and Projects

One current debate in philosophy of mind concerns the ontological and epistemological nature of phenomenal consciousness. Two major camps dominate this debate: property dualists and physicalists. For property dualists, the existence of an epistemic gap between the physical and the phenomenal—that our knowledge of the physical does not secure our knowledge of the phenomenal—entails an ontological gap, so that the physical and the phenomenal exist as fundamentally distinct domains. For physicalists, the ontological gap does not exist because there is only one ontological type of phenomenal property. In this paper, I will criticize the property dualists’ position. I concentrate on …

Helm, Moses (Lg 333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 333. Original land grant, 1824, October 26, by which Joseph Desha, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Moses Helm, assignee of Oliver C. Porter, assignee of Robert Morrison, 19 ½ acres in Butler County.

Analysis Of Political Language Manipulation: Changing Public Perceptions Of The Poor Through The War On Poverty And Popular Literary Fiction, Sarah Mcguire

Honors Program Theses and Projects

I propose to explore the rhetoric and language surrounding poor people of color both through common culture in literature and political speeches and documents of contemporary politicians between the years 1965 and 1992. I am particularly interested in the evolution of the Johnson administration’s War on Poverty between the 1970s and 1990s. Additionally, the Reagan administration’s tear down of the welfare system in the 1980s is another area of interest. I will specifically be examining how images of the poor have been manipulated in order to preserve the power of the elite and how portrayals of poverty shift in the …

Re-Writing The Irish Gender Paradigm In Seamus Heaney’S "Oysters" And Eavan Boland's "How It Once Was In Our Country", Kristy Snow

Honors Program Theses and Projects

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Film Not Found: Current Cinematic Representation Of Fat Females And Scripting The Self, Amy Pistone

Honors Program Theses and Projects

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An Analysis Of American Propaganda In World War Ii And The Vietnam War, Connor Foley

Honors Program Theses and Projects

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Literature Of The First Encounters: Using Self-Immersion In The Scholarly Study Of First Encounter Texts To Develop A Fifth Grade Text Set, Angela Skrabec

Honors Program Theses and Projects

This interdisciplinary research project integrated training and techniques from two disciplines: English and Elementary Education. The purpose of the project was to immerse myself in the scholarly study of First Encounter (encounter between the natives and English settlers in the New World) texts in order to create a fifth grade text set, a selection of approximately 20-25 quality children’s books that represent a diverse range of reading levels and genres. My research entailed reading a variety of First Encounter literatures and using New Historicism to analyze each as part of my English scholarship. In addition, after reviewing research on literacy …

"Spirits Unequal": Masculinity And The Sexualization And Commodification Of Discourse In Bronte's Jane Eyre, Anastacia Lowe

Honors Program Theses and Projects

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"Mad As March Hares:" Kaiser Wilhelm Ii, Great Britain, And The Road To War, Jeffrey Kelly

Honors Program Theses and Projects

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Shaping The Future: Igniting Change In Fashion Advertising Through Graphic Design, Jessica Laudati

Honors Program Theses and Projects

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A Dark Side Of American History: Executive Order 9066 & Japanese American Internment During World War Ii, Kevin Costa

Honors Program Theses and Projects

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Leading Women: Henry James And Feminism In The Portrait Of A Lady, The Bostonians And The Golden Bowl, Emily Boockoff

Honors Program Theses and Projects

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Vanishing (Reformed) Youth, Donald Roth

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"The Pew Research Center released some of the first data from its 2014 research on the religious affiliations of the populace of the United States. With the comparisons made to a similar 2007 study, there are a lot of interesting tidbits floating in the data, but there are also some concerning trends"

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Interview With Harry M. Dalton - Oh 261, Harry Mcrae Dalton

Winthrop University Oral History Program

This interview was conducted for the as part of the Winthrop History Project spearheaded by Winthrop President Emeritus Dr. Anthony DiGiorgio and Rebecca Masters to “document the 24-year path of the original Winthrop College to becoming Winthrop University.” This effort was to produce a history of the institution and Dr. DiGiorgio’s tenure as president as a supplement to Dr. Ross Webb’s history of Winthrop (The Torch is Passed) that covered Winthrop history up to Dr. DiGiorgio becoming president. A key aspect of the project was a series of audio-taped interviews conducted with various members of the extended Winthrop …

Multimedia Reporting: Creating Unique Content That Spans Multiple Platforms, Joshua Carl Holland

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

With the continued ease of access to the internet, it has become a vital medium to distribute news and sports information. This study documents the process of starting from a relatively absent online product to developing daily web content. Trial and error of different original content ideas for online as well as experimentations with translating broadcast content into a web product are coupled with interviews from professionals to create a framework of how to go about establishing an internet presence in an age of instant news. The case is generally focused on sports media due to the nature of my …