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The Centrality Of Black Mountain Poetry, Nicholas S. Boone Oct 2020

The Centrality Of Black Mountain Poetry, Nicholas S. Boone

Faculty Research and Publications

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Is Feedback On Grammar Harmful Or Helpful? Questionable Answers And Unanswered Questions, Kristen Di Gennaro, Monika Ekiert Oct 2020

Is Feedback On Grammar Harmful Or Helpful? Questionable Answers And Unanswered Questions, Kristen Di Gennaro, Monika Ekiert

Publications and Research

Current composition practice relies on a decades-old summary of research concluding that a focus on grammar in students’ writing is useless, or even harmful. Conversely, hundreds of recent studies from the fields of second-language writing and applied linguistics claim to provide evidence of the benefits to providing feedback on grammar in students’ writing. This article summarizes the arguments for and against such feedback and problematizes the results of previous research by describing a quasi-experimental study measuring the effects, both positive and negative, of providing students with grammar feedback on their writing. Results show that, while feedback on specific grammatical forms …

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Letting Go Of The Unnecessary, Isabel Arnout Oct 2020

Letting Go Of The Unnecessary, Isabel Arnout

Intro to Creative Writing (ENG 185) Chapbook Project

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Plentiful, Maeve Conway Oct 2020

Plentiful, Maeve Conway

Intro to Creative Writing (ENG 185) Chapbook Project

This chapbook shows vulnerability and touches on topics that I deem extremely relatable for people my age. I enjoyed my creative writing class and the insight it had to offer. This project allowed me to expand my writing horizons with a mixture of poetry and short stories.

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Where Do They Learn It All?, Duncan Brown Oct 2020

Where Do They Learn It All?, Duncan Brown

Intro to Creative Writing (ENG 185) Chapbook Project

No abstract provided.

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Pregnant Violence In Post-3.11 Fiction, Doug Slaymaker Oct 2020

Pregnant Violence In Post-3.11 Fiction, Doug Slaymaker

Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Publications

This essay explores the violence and the threat of violence associated with pregnancy in Japanese fiction after the triple disasters—the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown—of March 11, 2011. There is hardly a female character in this fiction that is not confronted with questions about pregnancy and childbirth. The queries are surely motivated by genuine concern about the humans involved, but they are just as often about control, about a woman’s body as a public item, about responsibility to the child, and then to society at large. Childbearing in a disaster zone is profoundly anxiety-producing; but it is also worth examining …

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The Immortal Jane Austen: Why Her Novels Remain Popular, Jayrah Trapp Oct 2020

The Immortal Jane Austen: Why Her Novels Remain Popular, Jayrah Trapp

Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects

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Responding To Xenophobia: Politics, Populisms And Our Teaching, Phyllis E. Vanslyck Oct 2020

Responding To Xenophobia: Politics, Populisms And Our Teaching, Phyllis E. Vanslyck

Publications and Research

This essay explores ways faculty in the humanities may guide students through current manifestations of populism, specifically, this movement’s encouragement of xenophobia. As a member of an English department at a public community college in the United States, I argue, first, that community college students, who often have deep personal connections to the experiences of immigrants, may respond to the anti-immigrant rhetoric in useful and provocative ways. Second, I suggest that the related history of anti-immigration sentiment in American politics since the beginning of the 20th century can provide students with a powerful context for understanding xenophobia today. Third, I …

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The Blessed Bread Of Life: A Biblical Theology Perspective And Research Of John 6:30-35,44-58, Adina Shabe Oct 2020

The Blessed Bread Of Life: A Biblical Theology Perspective And Research Of John 6:30-35,44-58, Adina Shabe

Biblical Studies Student Projects

John 6 is a passage that can seem confusing, graphic even. However, through concepts of Biblical theology, exegesis and application, one can come to a greater understanding of the teaching of Jesus in this passage. Throughout John 6:30-35,44-58 Jesus defines Himself as the bread and blood in which we are to eat and drink of and the great importance that lies within eating and drinking of Him.

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Biblical Theology Exegesis Of 1 Timothy 4:1-5, Samuel Hardy Oct 2020

Biblical Theology Exegesis Of 1 Timothy 4:1-5, Samuel Hardy

Biblical Studies Student Projects

This research paper takes a close look at Paul's theology from a short excerpt of his letter to Timothy. It is applicable to the lives of believers still today. Paul's letter touches on topics such as prophecy, apostasy, eschatology, and creation theology which are overarching themes throughout all of Scripture and this paper attempts to make those connections.

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A Biblical Theological Analysis Of Hebrews 3:7-14, Caleb Rolling Oct 2020

A Biblical Theological Analysis Of Hebrews 3:7-14, Caleb Rolling

Biblical Studies Student Projects

In Hebrews 3:7-14, the author of Hebrews encourages his distraught audience to persevere in faith while also warning of the consequences of apostasy. Throughout this paper, the text is examined in its canonical and immediate contexts, its meaning is explained within these contexts, and finally, the text is applied to the lives of contemporary Christians.

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Senior Seminar Write-Up, Reanna Phillips Oct 2020

Senior Seminar Write-Up, Reanna Phillips

IPHS 484: Senior Seminar

No abstract provided.

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Ex Libris, Fall 2020, West Virginia University Libraries Oct 2020

Ex Libris, Fall 2020, West Virginia University Libraries

Ex Libris: The WVU Libraries Magazine

KEEPING EVERYTHING MOVING FORWARD The Libraries helped the University community continue their academic journey and research pursuits during the pandemic.; ACHIEVING SUFFRAGE One hundred years ago, West Virginia legislators met at the State Capitol in Charleston to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended voting rights to women; WVRHC RECEIVES FIFTH NEH GRANT TO DIGITIZE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS So far, the WVRHC has digitized more than 400,000 pages from more than 60 historical West Virginia newspapers.

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The Syrian Conflict: Proxy War, Pyrrhic Victory, And Power Sharing Agreements, Steven Heydemann Oct 2020

The Syrian Conflict: Proxy War, Pyrrhic Victory, And Power Sharing Agreements, Steven Heydemann

Middle East Studies: Faculty Publications

The Syrian conflict presents as a case that has been well-studied in the power-sharing literature. It is typically coded as an ethno-sectarian civil war moving towards a decisive military victory by an authoritarian regime and thus unlikely to end in a power-sharing agreement. Yet Syria’s experience offers important insights into the effects of new conflict environments on prospects for power-sharing in ‘hard’ cases. Syria’s conflict exhibits attributes and is unfolding in an environment that requires rethinking simplistic correlations between the military and political outcomes of civil wars. Moreover, the form of political settlement that emerges in Syria may also complicate …

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In Quest Of A Coherent Portrait Of Paul: A Rejoinder To Michael Bird, Joel Kaminsky, Mark Reasoner Oct 2020

In Quest Of A Coherent Portrait Of Paul: A Rejoinder To Michael Bird, Joel Kaminsky, Mark Reasoner

Religion: Faculty Publications

This rejoinder to Michael Bird's critique of our argument in Joel Kaminsky and Mark Reasoner, "The Meaning and Telos of Israel's Election: An Interfaith Response to N. T. Wright's Reading of Paul," HTR 112 (2019) 421-46, acknowledges that Wright recognizes a dimension of intrinsic value in God's election of Israel, while it shows how Wright's metanarrative is not only unduly skewed toward an instrumental view of Israel's election but also, in effect, totally redefines Israel. Our rebuttal first reiterates some of our original claims and also presents new arguments against an exegesis of Second Isaiah that portrays Israel as divinely …

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Watching And Talking About Aids: Analog Tapes, Digital Cultures And Strategies For Connection, Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr Oct 2020

Watching And Talking About Aids: Analog Tapes, Digital Cultures And Strategies For Connection, Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr

Publications and Research

This paper is a conversation between activist videomaker Alexandra Juhasz and writer and organizer Theodore (ted) Kerr that explores the contemporary role of AIDS activist videos from the past.. Key to the text are ideas around history, technology, time, and community. Together they discuss and enact intergenerational dialogue, what to do with the imperfection of archives, and strategies for shared looking at the history of HIV through epochs. Their conversation is focused on a community created tape from, Bebashi — Transition to Hope, a Philadelphia non-profit.

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Gender-Based Violence During The 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic: New Challenges And Adaptations At Haguruka, Asia Korkmaz Oct 2020

Gender-Based Violence During The 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic: New Challenges And Adaptations At Haguruka, Asia Korkmaz

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Haguruka is a Rwandan NGO founded in 1991 that works to ensure Rwandan women and youth’s access to their legal rights. In addition to providing free legal aid, Haguruka runs educational and capacity building programs across the country to combat gender-based violence (GBV).1 When the Rwandan government instituted lockdown measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in January of 2020, many of Haguruka’s programs were no longer feasible under the new guidelines. Additionally, emerging research has shown that incidents of GBV have increased globally due to policies to combat COVID-19.2 Rwanda is no exception. Through a desk review, …

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Analyzing The Social Impact Of Gacaca Courts In The Reconciliation Process In Rwanda, Mary Thibodeau Oct 2020

Analyzing The Social Impact Of Gacaca Courts In The Reconciliation Process In Rwanda, Mary Thibodeau

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Restorative justice is often misunderstood by Western academia in the context of community-based justice systems in African nations. The Gacaca courts used in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi are frequently criticized for their procedures and outcomes. However, a majority of these criticisms come from Western authors without having engaged in conversations with Rwandans and observing the effects of the trials within the nation. The only people who know and understand the impact of the Gacaca courts are Rwandans. I have been researching how the Gacaca trials contributed to homegrown solutions and their impact within communities in Rwanda …

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Pathos, Fall 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board Oct 2020

Pathos, Fall 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Interim Editor-in-Chief: Claire Miller

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“Islam, Immigrants, And The Angry Young Man: Laurent Cantet And The ‘Limits Of Fabricated Realism’.”, Elizabeth Toohey Oct 2020

“Islam, Immigrants, And The Angry Young Man: Laurent Cantet And The ‘Limits Of Fabricated Realism’.”, Elizabeth Toohey

Publications and Research

My paper juxtaposes Laurent Cantet’s films The Class (2008) and The Workshop (2017) to explore how they are infused with concerns about radical Islam and the place of Muslim immigrants in the West. Both films center on "angry young men" facing class-based marginalization, who are prone to anti-social behavior. In The Workshop, however, a great effort is made to reveal the intellectual potential and moral complexity of the young white French-born Antoine, whose alienation is defined by his attraction to the xenophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric of the Far Right, whereas viewers of The Class are kept at arm’s length …

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Outside Perspectives, Amber Taylor Oct 2020

Outside Perspectives, Amber Taylor

BYU Studies

I think most of us are familiar with a recent trend in storytelling to revisit and tell a traditional tale from the perspective of the antagonist. The live-action Disney movie Maleficent, for example, provides an empathetic backstory to the terrifyingly evil, but otherwise flat, character of Maleficent in the iconic animated version of Sleeping Beauty. The popular musical Wicked, by Stephen Schwartz, does the same with the character Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Even children’s books have gotten in on the postmodern storytelling action. In The True Story of …

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Connections Between The Jerusalem Center And The Local Israeli Academy, Jeffrey R. Chadwick Oct 2020

Connections Between The Jerusalem Center And The Local Israeli Academy, Jeffrey R. Chadwick

BYU Studies

It is a privilege to participate in this symposium marking the thirtieth anniversary of the 1989 dedication of the Jerusalem Center. It is also a privilege to have been a repeating member of the BYU Jerusalem faculty since 1982, two years before the ceremony which broke ground for the Jerusalem Center in the summer of 1984. I vividly remember watching the various phases of the Center’s construction (fig. 1) and being among the first to live and teach in the beautiful new building when it was occupied by students in 1987.

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La Glorification De France, Erin Yoo '22, Elizabeth Soyemi '22 Oct 2020

La Glorification De France, Erin Yoo '22, Elizabeth Soyemi '22

French II

No abstract provided.

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Mus 208 Music Theory I, George Lam Oct 2020

Mus 208 Music Theory I, George Lam

Open Educational Resources

Harmonic analysis of tonal music, with an emphasis on diatonic harmony. Topics may include counterpoint, Roman numeral analysis, lead sheet symbols, and voice leading.

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2020 Culture Shift: Measuring Covid-19 Impact On San Diego Arts And Culture Nonprofits, Thomas Abruzzo, Laura Deitrick, Christine Jones, Jonathan Glus Oct 2020

2020 Culture Shift: Measuring Covid-19 Impact On San Diego Arts And Culture Nonprofits, Thomas Abruzzo, Laura Deitrick, Christine Jones, Jonathan Glus

Arts and Culture

To better understand the impacts of the pandemic on City-funded arts and culture nonprofits and their workforce, The Nonprofit Institute at the University of San Diego – on behalf of the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture – conducted a survey of arts and culture organizations funded by the City in fiscal year 2020. In that year, the City invested $11.4 million in arts and culture organizations. In fiscal year 2021, the City was forced to reduced annual funding to approximately $5.7 million due to drastically reduced tax revenues. Eight months into the pandemic, many City-funded arts …

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Quantifying The Rising “Blue Wave”: The Five Metro Areas That Determined The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, Jake Davidson, Jon Chun, Katherine Elkins Oct 2020

Quantifying The Rising “Blue Wave”: The Five Metro Areas That Determined The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, Jake Davidson, Jon Chun, Katherine Elkins

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

With the 2020 Presidential Election completed and Joe Biden elected as the United States’ 46th President, strategists of the Democratic Party must now shift their focus toward defending this victory in 2024. We will be assessing the outlook for the Democratic Party going forward by examining changes in voting behavior from 2016 to 2020 in five key counties: Milwaukee County (WI), Maricopa County (AZ), Wayne County (MI), Philadelphia County (PA), and Fulton County (GA). These counties were chosen for two reasons. First, they are all in states President-Elect Biden flipped from President Trump. Secondly, while they are all urban counties, …

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Improv Theater And Artificial Intelligence, Izzy Michels Oct 2020

Improv Theater And Artificial Intelligence, Izzy Michels

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

Improvisational theater is an art form where unscripted theater is performed. Dialogue, characters, and actions are created on the spot. Errors made within an improvisational theater scene are encouraged, and can form an input to how the scene evolves. Ultimately this project focuses on the evolution and creation of artificial intelligence bots interacting with the world of improv theater. Chatbots Versus Improv Bots A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an online chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. There are many different types of chatbots ranging from …

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Equal Prize Money In Grand Slam Tennis: A Sentiment Analysis Of Tweets, Ilana Blackwood Oct 2020

Equal Prize Money In Grand Slam Tennis: A Sentiment Analysis Of Tweets, Ilana Blackwood

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

Gender inequality in sports has been an issue for a very long time. Two major disputed issues have been the difference in media coverage as well as the disproportionate attention given to male athletes1. Over the years, tennis has been at the forefront of the fight against these issues. One of the most important moments in this movement came in 1973 when Billie Jean King threatened to boycott the U.S. Open which led to the finally agreeing to equal pay for men and women. In the same year she further sealed the legitimacy of equal pay in the sport when …

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Social Media’S Impact On Immigration Policies Public’S Response To Children In Cages, Celeste Ramirez Diaz Oct 2020

Social Media’S Impact On Immigration Policies Public’S Response To Children In Cages, Celeste Ramirez Diaz

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, there has been many political movement and involvement throughout social media regarding each political party’s response to the economic situation undergoing in the United States as well as how they prepare to target certain issues within the political agenda. One of the first points for both parties was to ensure the most accurate response to the safety and protection of U.S residents who are affected by this pandemic in many ways. However, there was a question if the current administration was also considering the lives, safety, and protection of those in facilities where they are to …

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2020 Election Fraud: What Can Twitter Teach Us?, Jill Noorily Oct 2020

2020 Election Fraud: What Can Twitter Teach Us?, Jill Noorily

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

Through data analysis, we can explore the intersection of social media and politics. Focusing on election fraud in the 2020 presidential election, I collected 36,000 tweets and used topic modeling to analyze the tweets. Using topic modeling to find word frequency and topics, I was able to further understand how social media, specifically Twitter, interacts with individual’s views of US democracy and the electoral process. Throughout the project, it becomes clear that social media is a platform that can be used to amplify anxiety, fear, concerns, and misinformation. This study of voter fraud provides insights into the inner workings of …

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