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Issue No. 111: Spring 2019

La Crónica de Nuevo México

ii President’s Message

1 World War I and the Spanish Flu Pandemic in New Mexico by Rick Hendricks

6 Interview with David Holtby—A Preview of His Plenary Session of the 2019 New Mexico History Conference, “Conflicted Legacy: New Mexico and World War I”

10 Mock Peace Conference to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the World War I Armistice, by Judy Reinhartz

11 Book Reviews and Notes, compiled by Richard Melzer

12 HSNM News—Calls for Applications for 2019 HSNM Grant Programs

13 Anna’s Warning, edited by John Ramsay

What High School Students Want To Know About Music: An Information Literacy Instruction Course For A High School Music Camp, Michael J. Duffy Iv

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

The SEMINAR High School Summer Music Camp at Western Michigan University provided an opportunity to offer intensive music related information literacy instruction to a small group of high school students over a two-week session. These students participated in an assessment study in which they provided answers to questions related to information literacy learning outcomes before and after the course of instruction. This case study presents a model for lessons and curricular structure for an information literacy course in music for high school students.

Waiting For A Queer Change: Gender Identity Through Performative Waiting And The Boudoir Chronotope In Call Me By Your Name, Gregory R. Clarke

Theses : Honours

This thesis analyses André Aciman’s novel, Call Me By Your Name (2007), in light of its portrayal of a nineteen-eighties gay relationship that is not entirely defined by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Rather than the abjection associated with illness and death, I focus on the narrative’s evocation of pleasure and love for its protagonists, Elio and Oliver, who do not identify as exclusively gay. My argument focuses on Elio exemplifying and undermining Roland Barthes’ trope of the lover-who-waits as historically ‘feminine’ in A Lover’s Discourse. In doing so, I demonstrate how Barthes’s work prefigures Judith Butler’s gender performativity theory.

First, …

Applying Merleau-Ponty’S Phenomenology Of Perception To Maternal Well-Being In The First Twelve Months Following Birth, Anna Bosco

Theses

Maternal emotional wellbeing is a deeply personal experience embodied through society; however previous literature examining emotional adaptation to motherhood has focussed on negative outcomes, risk factors and pathology. This perspective is limiting and objectifies a mother’s experiences rather than exploring her being-in-the- world. In contrast to current conceptualisations, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception asserts a holistic view of the individual within the world, whereby the subjective body and the lived body are intertwined, and perception is a conversation between the body and the world. This conversation is how the mother embodies the world within her being, for example how she …

An Approach To Determining Customer Satisfaction In Traditional Serbian Restaurants, Florentin Smarandache, Dragisa Stanujkic, Darjan Karabasevic, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, F. Cavallaro

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The aim of this paper is to make a proposal for an easy–to–use approach to the evaluation of customer satisfaction in restaurants. In order to provide a reliable way to collect respondents’ real attitudes, an approach based on the use of smaller number of evaluation criteria and interactive questionnaire created in a spreadsheet file is proposed in this paper, whereby an easy-to-understand and simple-touse procedure is proposed for determining weights of criteria. In addition to the said, the proposed approach applies the simplified SERVQUAL-based approach, for which reason a simplified version of the Weighted Sum Method based on the decision …

The Perfecting Of The Octopus, Ila France Porcher

Animal Sentience

Cephalopods split away from the phylogenetic tree about half a billion years ago, and octopus evolution has been accelerated by an extremely low survival rate. This helps explain why this unusual animal presents qualities found in no other. It has a radially organized nervous system with a processing centre for each of its eight tentacles. Yet, although this might suggest that each tentacle has its own centre of consciousness, it remains just one animal, with one mouth to feed, and one life to lose, and it behaves as if it is centrally controlled. Its capacity for a range of intelligent …

Normal Editions Workshop Newsletter, 2019, Wonsook Kim School Of Art And Design

Normal Editions Workshop Newsletter

Annual newsletter for the Normal Editions Workshop, School of Art, Illinois State University.

Nebraska Summary: S1178 Fendt 933, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

(Review) Borges-Bioy En Contexto: Una Lectura Guiada De H. Bustos Domecq Y B. Suárez Lynch, By Cristina Parodi, Martín L. Gaspar

Spanish Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

雙關與歧義 : 以近期香港電影宣傳為例, Ambrose Yiu Lam Leung

Dissertations from all years

諧音因應漢語自身具備的語音特色而生，常被香港電影業界用作構成電影片名或相關宣傳語句，見例如：《緣來無限期》(Home again ，臺譯《愛情齡距離》2018)，宣傳語為「1月18日愛情回閨」。上例的港版片名以至宣傳導語均見諧音手法。縱觀電影業界，諧音在港版電影宣傳尤為常見，比起其他地區，如中國大陸、臺灣地區等，港版電影不論本地出品抑或外語翻譯作品同樣會同上諧音手法命名。在電影宣傳上巧妙運用諧音既能讓暸解該個語言體系的觀眾留下深刻印象，又能委婉地透露該片內容大要，藉此吸引觀眾購票入場。在現代漢語修辭當中，獨特的語音特色發展出不同修辭手法，雙關借音，便屬其一。然而，歧義主要因音而見，顯得兩者組成條件互有相似。雖歧義目前被廣泛視為語病，但歷來亦有學者將歧義歸入修辭。換句話說，關於歧義的修辭性質各家各說。有見學者眾說紛紜，本文遂以港版電影宣傳為研究對象，透過電影的諧音宣傳，展示電影當中所體現的雙關和歧義，由此分析兩者是否有異。文末整合各派意見之後，將提出己見。

淺析粵語虛詞「同」與「同埋」的分別, Shan Lam

Dissertations from all years

虛詞和實詞為漢語中兩個大類。相比實詞，漢語中的虛詞數目比實詞要少，且無法充當主要 的句法成分，但由於其語法功能之多，虛詞依然佔漢語中一個十分重要的位置。在意義上，虛詞可表達出抽象、非形態的語法意義，大部分實詞之間的關係、語氣等都需依靠虛詞表達。要理解漢語，就需要先理解漢語中的虛詞。

粵語為漢語系統其中一分支，有其獨特的語言方式及習慣，虛詞的使用方法與其他分支的亦不盡相同。「同」、「同埋」為粵語中常用的虛詞， 一般而言，語法書、語言工具書都將其解釋為與「同」相當的虛詞。但實際習慣上，其實有不少情況只能用其中之一，兩者並非完全相同。對這兩個虛詞的選擇，有可能會影響句子的意義，或違反粵語的語 法習慣。因此，本文將以日常例子找出現時研究中缺漏的，有關兩者的用法及意義，並分析兩者的分別。

另外，「埋」為粵語中另一常用虛詞，與「同埋」的關係亦值得討論。因此，在分析「同」與「同埋」的分別之後，本文亦會根據這些分別，討論「同埋」與「同」、「埋」的關係。

釋「脣」與「唇」字 : 兼論其成為異體字之源流, Kwun Wai Law

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一般人把表達「嘴脣」義的「脣」字當作「唇」的異體字，例如《漢語大詞典》便將「脣」列為「唇」的異體字，兩字都讀作chún，而一般場合也用「唇」多於「脣」。而古代的一些文獻，「嘴脣」之義也有寫作「脣」或「唇」的，兩字在字義、字音兩方面似乎構成異體字的關係，在任何場合都可作互換。

然而，翻查東漢許慎所著的《說文解字》，「脣」字解釋為「口耑也，从肉辰聲。䫃，古文脣从頁。」本義為「嘴脣」之義。而「唇」字解釋為「驚也，从口辰聲。」本義為「震驚」之義，兩字字義本不相同，不作混同。至於在字音方面，「脣」字在《廣韻》標作「食倫切」，為合口三等的全濁字，「唇」的反切則為「側鄰切」，為開口三等的全清字，兩字讀音絕不相同。可見，從兩字的字義及字音看，「脣」與「唇」在上古及中古時期都不構成異體字的關係。

雖然不少學者如(清)徐灝、章太炎都留意到兩字的不同，然而他們皆沒有對二字成為異體字的源流進行深入研究，二字在什麼時候、什麼原因混同成一起仍有不少探討的空間。因此，本文旨在解釋「脣」與「唇」字，並兼論兩字成為異體字的源流及其原因。

論《剪燈新話》中人鬼婚戀對女性文學形象的重建 : 〈以金鳳釵記〉、〈牡丹燈記〉和〈綠衣人傳〉為例, Tsz Ho Ng

Dissertations from all years

《剪燈新話》成於明洪武十一年，隨即因其獨特的思想題材而受到當時文人歡迎。作者瞿佑在序中提及《剪燈新話》旨於「勸善懲惡」，所記之事都是「遠不出百年，近止在數載」，能一定程度上反映元明時期的社會現實。凌雲翰亦以「造意之奇，措詞之妙，粲然自成一家」評之，可見其具有相當的文學價值。再者，《剪燈新話》興起後不斷出現如《剪燈餘話》、《覓燈因話》等仿效之作，甚至流傳到海外促使諸如越南之《傳奇漫錄》、日本之《奇異雜記談》、朝鮮之《金鰲新話》等作品，不但為明清小說發展甚至漢文化區文學帶來深遠影響。

雖然《剪燈新話》中的愛情題材作品共有九篇，然而涉及人鬼婚戀卻只有金鳳釵記、牡丹燈記與綠衣人傳三篇。本文將先論證中國傳統文學對女性形象的建構，再就上述三篇分別論證《剪燈新話》對女性形象的重建。首先借西方社會學家福柯Michel Foucault對權力和知識(Power/Knowledge)的理論分析金鳳釵記的兩性地位。然後，借西方電影批評家勞拉·穆爾維(Laura Mulvey)的男性凝視(male gaze)分析的男性凝視。最後借明清時期「唯情」一派學說分析綠衣人傳的「情至」觀念。

以〈賴索〉及《躁鬱的國家》為觀察文本，看黃凡如何表現政治與文學的互動性, Chun Ho Andrew Lau

Dissertations from all years

本論文要處理的中心問題為：黃凡如何運用不同文學手法，表現不同時期台灣所處的政治環境及問題。

首先為緒論，將略說明政治小說的崛起與發展（形成條件、作品概況），解嚴前的台灣文學如何受到政府的控制；然後略述黃凡於七十年代末期的冒起如何引起台灣文學界的轟動，並會配合當時政治、社會背景再作解說。

然後，會著重討論政治文學的特徵，並就〈賴索〉及《躁鬱的國家》兩部小說的時代背景作解釋，〈賴索〉寫於1979年，而《躁鬱的國家》則發表於2003年，相隔二十多年，解嚴前後，台灣環境的轉變所帶來的問題亦是作者創作的動機。

接著，會就文本作深入的分析，包括人物、情節如何與當時的政治環境掛鉤、使用什麼手法表現，從而令黃凡的作品有獨特性。本章更會將兩個文本作對讀，從而深入探究它們的相似性，以及一些根本問題。

最後，將會討論政治與文學如何互相影響，政治之操弄、社會之亂象在文學中有沒有解決的出路，並評論黃凡在政治文學寫作上的局限。

文末會為全文作總結。

淺析先老學︰容成思想及其流變, Kwun Cheong Lau

Dissertations from all years

本文受饒宗頤先生於1998年文章《（傳老子師）容成遺說鉤沉——先老學初探》啟發，故欲探究容成遺說對於老子以至往後學說有何影響。先老學一詞乃指對於道家思想起源－老子有所的影響的思想。一些上世紀出土的文獻，如《十問》、雲夢秦簡、九店楚簡等均有文獻能夠引證老子思想或有受容成氏（或容成子）思想所影響。容成一詞能散見於不同古代文獻中，而能夠反映出容成思想的成份與背景。而且在往後的不同學派的思想中，亦能見容成最為見稱的「治氣養精」之說。可見其影響實在不能忽視。為了顯示容成的核心思想，以及其往後的影響，本文將分成三部分。首先嘗試從不同文獻中整理出容成之身份以及其背後象徵的思想，然而詳細探討容成與老莊之間的近似，及其治氣養精之說，最後將從往後涉及其精氣論以及養生思想的學說加以梳理出當中的思想發展。

繁花似錦見一梔子, Hiu Lam Heung

Dissertations from all years

是次指導論文為一篇由多個人物描寫組成的散文創作，題目是《繁華似錦見一梔子》。

在日常生活中，每個人都會遇見不同的人。有些是自己的親友，有些是素未謀面的陌生人，他們也許行動古怪，卻有獨特的思考方式；也許他們不被身邊的人所接納的人，卻有值得被欣賞的長處。

本文紀錄筆者在求學期間遇見六個與眾不同的人，透過描寫主人公的經歷和內心獨白，帶出一個主題：無論一個人的外貌、行為和思想是否符合主流規範，也是值得被尊重、理解和關懷的。人應當有廣闊的胸懷，懂得以不同的角度看事物，不單單是知道或理解，甚至能欣賞他人。

彼岸花, Wai Shan Yiu

Dissertations from all years

傳說彼岸花是地獄之花，有著死亡、離別與悲傷回憶的含義。花開彼岸，冷冽的外表既美麗又憂傷，可惜花生葉落，葉長花凋，此花在命運中注定孤獨。花朵盛開之日，是幸福的來臨，還是劫難的開始？

莠芳是名性工作者，她背負失敗的婚姻，獨自養活女兒，可惜母女關係一直疏離。故事講述她在位於油麻地的一棟唐樓工作，自卑的她拒絕別人的好意，卻又一直默默守護身邊的人，不論對女兒、朋友及鄰居等，也展現強烈的情感。隨著舊樓即將被收購重建，主角重新審視這座大廈對她的意義。她一直渴望擁有一個美好的家，但隨著收購的日子迫近，她的夢想是否能如願？

「一樓一」與唐樓的關係緊密，此篇小說旨在以獨特的視野帶出香港舊樓重建的議題。隨著社會發展，香港越來越多舊樓面臨被拆卸重建，莠芳的故事只是社會上的縮影，而事實上，更多小市民被地產商剝削，卻無處申訴。筆者希望通過小說寫出舊樓對某些市民的意義，並期望借此引起其他人對這議題的關注。《彼岸花》寫舊樓收購下的小市民、本地性工作者，也寫一個卑微的母親。

汪精衛廬山詩研究, Lai Kan Lam

Dissertations from all years

汪精衛，民國時期政治人物，早年以行刺清攝政王載灃失敗下獄傳世，後於第二次中日戰爭鼓吹「和平運動」而身敗名裂。至今學界研究大多論述其爭議的政治立場，近年雖有研究結合汪精衛的詩詞論述其背後的政治話語，但從文學角度研究汪精衛的詩詞，仍屬少數。

本文以汪精衛的山水詩為研究對象，以其廬山詩為例，全文共分四章：第一章為緒論，交代研究緣起、文獻回顧及研究方法，當中簡單交代汪精衛背景及研究山水詩在汪精衛的詩詞創作的意義。第二章以文史互證方法，嘗試疏理汪精衛出遊廬山的背景，並作創作時期的分類。第三章根據第二章創作時期的分類，提出汪精衛山水詩的藝術技巧及特色，從用境寫意、以景賦情、以我寫物三方面，論述汪精衛山水詩在不同時期的同異。第四章從歸立上兩章對汪精衛山水詩的論述，分析其詩中廬山的形象和意蘊作為結論。

楊向奎「五十凡論說」補述, Ziqian Yang

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關於《左傳》“五十凡”來源、性質的探討，自杜預提出始，就成為歷代學者爭論不休的話題，論者對其來源、性質的判定辨析迄今無定論。眾說大多考證片面，理據不足，或先入為主，或有師承關係，使得“五十凡”來源問題越來越複雜化，難以讓人信服。

直到上世紀三十年代，楊向奎先生(1910-2000)通過對《左傳》凡例逐條研究，辯駁大半，於一九三五年寫就〈略論“五十凡”〉一文，反駁了杜預說，孔子非本凡例而修《經》基本已成鐵案；經歷了對《小戴禮記》中類似凡例記載的整理，對《尚書大傳》引《左傳》凡例的歸納，加上細讀文本，楊先生進一步修正了自己的意見。其後發表的〈論凡例〉，澄清了若干歷代關於凡例來源的關鍵問題，普遍為當時及後世學者所接受。

本文旨在通過細析楊向奎“五十凡論說”，著重關注楊先生兩次論說之間的變化，找出變化的原因，指出楊先生“五十凡論說”中有說服力的地方，並嘗試對當中部分例說進行補充，使其更加完善。最後，以楊先生之說為基礎，筆者將嘗試對“五十凡”性質和來源問題提出幾點自己的想法。

Flex, Julian Randall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Within this project I have compiled a book length collection of poems entitled “FLEX” which explore questions of violence, inheritance and pastoral poetics. Taking place across the landscapes of Mississippi, The Dominican Republic, and contemporary Black masculinity FLEX serves to ask questions of what violences contributed to the speaker’s birth and what possibilities exist on the other side of such historical pain.

A Bargain At Any Cost: The Rise Of Dollar General, Frances Evelyn Barrett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Dollar General Corporation has grown into a retail titan with more than 15 000 stores across the continental United States. The first chapter of this thesis traces the history of this multibillion-dollar firm since its founding as a family-run business in Scottsville Kentucky in the late 1930s. Situating Dollar General’s history within the evolving contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries illustrates that Dollar General Stores succeed when the economy staggers. Neoliberalism and global finance capitalism have only exacerbated the geographic expansion and profitability of the company as the second chapter begins to explore. Although Dollar General Stores open at …

Fictionalist Truth Conditions For An Expressivist Semantics Of Slurs, Celine J. Geday

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

There are broadly two kinds of accounts of slurs: ones that place the derogation in the content of what is said or some concept associated with the words themselves or those that argue derogation takes places in the expression of some state of the slur-user – that derogation is part of the use of the slurring words. In this paper I argue that an expressivist account of slurs can be combined with a semantic account in which the truth conditions of the semantic account are fictional.

Evolution Of The Final Girl: Exploring Feminism And Femininity In Halloween (1978-2018), Maya Zhou, Maya Zhou

Scripps Senior Theses

Decades of horror film research and theorizations have shown us that there is a reason why this particular genre has been an important part of film history from the beginning: namely, the idea that horror both reflects and shapes our historically and culturally specific anxieties.

By examining the Final Girl trope in Halloween (the 1978 original versus 2018 version), this paper traces the evolution of female protagonists and whether a more modern film accurately reflects the increasing role of feminism in society, or sticks to traditional conventions of misogyny and male-dominated visual pleasure. Placing the newer film in the context …

“Alexa, Are You Conscious?”: Exploring The Possibility Of Machine Consciousness, Emma Cornwell

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis seeks to answer the following question: “could a machine be capable of consciousness?” I begin to tackle this question by providing a presumed definition of consciousness, employing Bernard Baars’ Global Workspace Theory. Next, I look to various discussions of machine intelligence and whether or not this would be sufficient for categorizing a machine as conscious. And lastly, I explore the notion that the human brain may be a sort of computational system itself and the implications this notion has for the potential that non-human systems may achieve consciousness.

Through these sections, I ultimately conclude that a machine could …

Concert Recording 2019-11-15, Andres Diaz, Dominic K. Na, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Suite for two cellos and piano. I. Introduction, Andante maestoso ma con moto ; II. Scherzo, Allegro ; III. Arioso, Lento, Rubato ; IV. Finale, Allegro / Gian Carlo Menotti -- [15:15]. Sonata for cello and piano, op. 19 in G minor. I. Lento ; Allegro moderato ; II. Allegro scherzando ; III. Andante ; IV. Allegro mosso / Sergei Rachmaninov -- [56:24]. Additional work not on the program: Fancy on the Bach air / Corigliano.

The Hungarian Religious Leaders' Statements On The Migration From 2016 And 2017, Krisztina Barcsa, Sára Heidl, Kitti Sándor

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This paper is about the statements of Hungarian religious leaders concerning the issue of migration. The article is a continuation of a previous study in which we summarized articles and opinions published in the period from 2015 to the beginning of 2016. The statements that have been made since then are contained in this article. Different opinions can be found from the leaders of the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist churches, Jewish and Islamic leaders, and the Congregation of Faith and the Evangelical Brotherhood of Hungary. In addition to migration issues, cultural, ethnic, religious and moral differences and questions arise …

Country Snapshot Montenegro, Belgrade Open School

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

A brief summary of the history and current status of religion in Montenegro.

Frontmatter (Volume 39, Issue 7), Beth Admiraal

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

The Kennedy Effect: John F. Kennedy's 1959 Trip To Kansas And Its Relationship To His National Campaign, Randy Gonzales

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

ABSTRACT

Massachusetts senator and presidential hopeful John F. Kennedy visited Kansas in November 1959 as part of his strategy to win the Democratic Party nomination. Kennedy made stops in five cities in two days, meeting party officials and wooing potential delegates. The candidate first spoke in Kansas City and Wichita on November 19 before flying to Dodge City November 20 after another appearance in Wichita that morning. After a noon luncheon in Dodge City Kennedy made a speech in Salina before his stop in Hays. In Hays, Kennedy gave a television interview, met the press at a news conference, rode …

"Our Gang", Jacque Mcdonald

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

“Our Gang”

The process of scooping up earth with a little blue spoon taught me to dig deeper. My ceramic sculptures of imaginative but vulnerable children begins with close observation and builds a rich visual memory. My memories of my elementary school classmates fused with photographic references provide rich resources for the children in Our Gang.

In my studio I draw the figure out with the bone structure, so I can see how to move the parts without losing the anatomy. Planning and measuring on a pre-made guide for uniformity and precise measurements is important in keeping the size of …