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Market Competition And Individual Security In The Chilean Pension System, William Mahoney

Honors Theses

In 1981, Chile was the first country in the world to implement a privatized elderly social security system: the Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP). The system's creators argued that the forces of market competition would improve pension amounts and that the AFP would promote nation-wide equality in the pension system—the former pension system was not one system, but a collection of pension systems that were highly stratified by class. In 2017, pension payouts have not met expectations, and the AFP is one of the most salient and contentious issues in Chilean politics. The overarching objective of this thesis is …

Out Of Darkness, Have I Cried Unto Thee: An Examination Of The Treatment Of African Americans At The Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum During Reconstruction, James Gerald Paul

Honors Theses

The area of my research concerns the treatment of the mentally ill at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum during Reconstruction particularly mentally ill African Americans. My primary research came from reviewing archival documents regarding the asylum at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson, MS. The annual reports from the superintendent and board of trustees of the asylum provided the greatest amount of information. In addition to these documents, I also drew input from scholarly works on lunatic asylums including Whitney Barringer and Adia Brooks as well as writers on Reconstruction and the development of black culture in …

Macbeth In Film: Directorial Choices And Their Impact On The Audience, Kellie Suzanne Mcclelland

Honors Theses

In this thesis, I closely examine William Shakespeare's 17th century tragedy, Macbeth, in comparison to five film adaptations for a 21st century audience: Roman Polanski (1971), Philip Casson (1979), Geoffrey Wright (2006), Rupert Goold (2010), and Justin Kurzel (2015). I chose to survey the women in Macbeth specifically because of historical blame placed on either Lady Macbeth or the witches for Macbeth's actions. General critical perceptions are that these women robbed Macbeth of his agency or free will and urged him, coerced him, to commit unspeakable crimes to advance his career. What I found in these productions are a variety …

Sans Fin: Language Of Loss, Lane Jennings Proctor

Honors Theses

This is a hybrid collection of creative pieces that I have written in order to try to capture the feelings associated with loss and oppression. These pieces are only loosely related thematically and are not one single narrative. I especially wanted to focus on female characters who become disillusioned with their lives, find they have no real agency, or that they cannot truly write their own narratives. Through research on the Middle East, mostly focusing on Syria, and a close friendship with a Syrian refugee while I was studying abroad in Paris, I found the inspiration and ideas for many …

A Survey Of The History And Legality Of Sacred Music In American Public Schools, Anna Greenlee

Honors Theses

Sacred music has long been a staple of American public school music repertoire, even since the beginnings of school music in the nation. This text provides information for music educators to use as a defense of their use of sacred music for educational purposes. Also, this text gives examples of legal conflicts brought about by improper use of religious material within the public school arena. Additionally, this text provides detailed procedure and data analysis of a survey designed to evaluate the atmosphere surrounding sacred music repertoire choices in the American music classrooms of 2017.

How To Be A Girl: The Discourse Of Compulsory Heterosexuality, Desire, And Adolescent Female Sexuality In Seventeen And Cosmopolitan Magazines From The Late 20th Century, Danielle Keiser

Honors Theses

This work explores the discourse of adolescent sexuality and desire presented to readers by Seventeen and Cosmopolitan magazines published between 1970 and 1989. The essay draws distinctions between articles and advertisements, pointing to those articles and ads that promote what Adrienne Rich called compulsory heterosexuality and those that encourage a less restrictive kind of femininity. The essay claims that Seventeen, because it targets a younger audience than Cosmopolitan does, promotes a more sexually normative framework of heterosexual relationships, compulsory matrimony, and motherhood for young readers. Cosmopolitan, on the other hand, teaches readers to embrace female sexuality and desire without needing …

Evaluating The Success Of Russian Hybrid Warfare In Ukraine, Gage Adam

Honors Theses

This thesis investigates Russia's use of hybrid warfare in Ukraine, and whether the endeavor was successful. In order for Russian hybrid warfare to have been successful, the costs and repercussions of their actions must not outweigh their achieved goals. For this thesis, it was assumed that Russia's goals are: locking NATO and the EU out of Russia's remaining sphere of influence, demonstrating Russian solidarity, gaining territory, and boosting popularity for the current administration. Russia was able to achieve all of these goals with the annexation of Crimea and use of military force in the Donbass region. The costs of these …

[Editor's Page], Randall W. Younker

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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The Meaning Of The Intercessory Ministry Of Jesus Christ On Our Behalf In The Heavenly Sanctuary, Jiri Moskala Thd, Phd

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

"Christ’s intercessory ministry is twofold: He reveals God’s character and His values to humanity, and presents our needs, struggles, and issues to God. The Triune God closely collaborates in this double mission. A decision for Jesus Christ means complete salvation—eternal life (Heb 7:25), and He is always ready to help (1 John 2:1; 1:8-9)."

The Faithful And True Witness Of Revelation 1:5 And 3:14, S. Joseph Kidder

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

"Since the concept of witnessing is very broad in the Bible, I have limited this article to six: in ed and martys, in Psalm 89, in Isaiah 40-55, in the Johannine writing, in faithfulness, and in the character of God. The main emphasis throughout this article is on how each category enhances our understanding of the meaning and use of the phrase the “faithful and true witness” in Revelation."

Misinterpreted End-Time Issues: Five Myths In Adventism, Jiri Moskala Thd, Phd

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

"realize that my unpleasant Christian experience was built on five misunderstandings which assumed that the Bible and/or the Spirit of Prophecy: (1) teach that believers will only receive the seal of God at the end of time; (2) stand against the assurance of salvation; (3) affirm that living believers can be called and examined in the pre-advent judgment at any time; (4) proclaim that after the close of probation the Holy Spirit will be removed from the earth meaning that even believers will be without any supernatural help; and (5) declare that believers in Jesus Christ will be on their …

"Witness" And "Bearing Witness" In The Legal Settings Of The Pentateuch And The Gospel Of John: An Intertextual Study, Franklin A. Marti

Dissertations

This dissertation studies the words “witness” and “to bear witness” in the Pentateuch and in the Gospel of John, and at the same time presents an intertextual connection between these books.

The study begins with an introduction in which I present the background and statement of the problem, the purpose of the study, the delimitations and the methodology.

Following the introduction chapter 1 deals with the review of the literature from ANE documents to ancient Jewish interpretation. I conclude that even though the Code of Hammurabi and the Hittite treaties are documents with different purposes, they reflect a similar feature: …

A Study Of The Pokot Cultural Worldview: Missiological Implications For Seventh-Day Adventist Witness Among The Pastoral Nomads Of Kenya, Haron Matwetwe

Dissertations

Seventh-day Adventist witness among the nomadic peoples of the East Africa region is faced with a number of challenges. Although the Church enjoys relative success in reaching most communities, its growth and development appears restricted to locations occupied by the settled communities. Unfamiliarity with nomads’ cultural structures and values is partial explanation for why missionaries have failed to effectively connect with the nomads thereby hampering the establishment of a more vibrant mission work in pastoral nomadic regions.

This qualitative research sought to describe the Pokot cultural worldview as a step toward understanding their socio-cultural context and identify barriers to effective …

Koinonia: Experiences Of Cultural Diversity In The Andrews University Theological Seminary, Joshua N. Brantley

Master's Theses

The Andrews University Theological Seminary has a long standing history of attracting students from around the world seeking to acquire a Masters of Divinity (M.Div.). However, it is unclear how students of various backgrounds experience the seminary’s diversity. This study conducted an online survey with M.Div. students to examine the seminary’s performance according to the respondents as a whole and based on different ethnicities. The first hypothesis was that students of various ethnicities experienced the incorporation of diversity into the curriculum differently. The second hypothesis was that seminary events did not reflect the diversity of the student body and were …

Ideas About Nature In American Art And Visual Culture, Mark Graham

Faculty Publications

The stories we tell ourselves about nature deeply influence how we attempt to preserve, use, or restore nature as well as practices of art and art education that are concerned with ecological issues (Cronon 1996). Landscapes are culture before they are nature (Schama 1996). Yet, our ideas about wilderness, nature, landscape, and sustainability are fraught with paradox and debate. For example, Darwin’s fundamental assertions about the human relationship to nature continue to spark theological, political and educational controversies. Some environmentalists caution that our consumerist economy will destroy the planet and that we need to return to a less sophisticated technology …

Trying To Fit In With The Weird Parts Of The Internet: Online Subcultures And Content Creation, Isak Fedeler Knivsland

Honors Program Theses

Creating my thesis project has been quite a journey - perhaps a longer and more tedious journey than I anticipated, but rewarding nonetheless. Starting this project in the fall, I simply had the goal of making cool music, producing videos to accompany it, and getting some people to watch it. This is much easier said than done, however.

In my head, this was to be a pretty straightforward project. I had made electronic music before and had been improving at it. I had edited some videos, though not for a few years. And I had experimented with marketing content. The …

Dissonance Reduction In Nonhuman Animals: Implications For Cognitive Dissonance Theory, Cindy Harmon-Jones, Nick Haslam, Brock Bastian

Animal Sentience

We review the evidence for dissonance reduction in nonhuman animals and examine the alternative explanations for these effects. If nonhuman animals engage in dissonance reduction, this supports the original theory as proposed by Festinger (1957) over the revisions to the theory that focused on the self-concept. Evidence of animal sentience, including dissonance reduction, may be a source of cognitive dissonance.

The Martial Law Andthe Makingof Special Authority Bythe Constitution(พระราชบัญญัติกฎอัยการศึกกับการสร้างอำนาจพิเศษ ในกรอบรัฐธรรมนูญ), Thep Boontanondha

Journal of Letters

The purpose of martial law is to control society during war or periods of civil unrest or chaos. The particular feature of martial law generally allows militaries to impose the law without permissions of governments. Thus, martial lawprobably, in a way, becomes a military's method of launching a coup.(จุดประสงค์ของกฎอัยการศึกคือ เพื่อรักษาความสงบของบ้านเมืองในยามสงคราม หรือในภาวะสุ่มเสี่ยงต่อการลุกฮือปฏิวัติจากกลุ่มต่อต้าน ลักษณะเฉพาะของกฎอัยการศึกคือ ให้สิทธิอำนาจแก่ทหารในการประกาศใช้ โดยไม่ต้องผ่านความเห็นชอบจากคณะรัฐมนตรี กฎอัยการศึกจึงเป็นเครื่องมือให้ทหารใช้ในการรัฐประหาร)

The Church Of The East And The Preservation Of Western Intellect(คริสตจักรแห่งตะวันออกกับการเก็บรักษาภูมิปัญญาตะวันตก), Supavit Thavaraputta

Journal of Letters

The Nestorians were the Christians who populated in the Middle East and played significant role in the history of Christianity during the 4th - 8thcenturies. These people had interacted with the Roman empire, the Sassanian empire, and the Islamic empire and established the Church of the East among the conflicts between these great powers.The study about this Church gives us some new aspects in the development of Christianity, including the theological interpretation which avoided the Roman influence, the relation between political issue and religious stand point, and, most important one, the preservation of Christian faith under non-Christian rulers. With these …

Names Of Chaofain The Rattanakosinperiod: A Study Of The Relationship Between Thai Language And Culture(พระนามเจ้าฟ้าสมัยรัตนโกสินทร์: การศึกษาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างภาษากับวัฒนธรรมไทย), Danai Ployplai, Siriporn Phakdeephasook

Journal of Letters

This article aims at examining names of Chaofain the Rattanakosinperiod by focusing on two aspects; namely 1) linguistic devices adopted in naming, and 2) thoughts, beliefs, and values reflected from the naming practice. The data was mainly collected from the book titled, "Rajsakulwongse" (the Royal Descent) (2011). Itis found that names of Chaofaconsist of two components: name and subname. This can be considered an exclusive attribute of the names of Chaofa. There are four types of linguistic devices mainly adopted in naming practice namely, lexical choice selection,making reference to other elites' names, using rhymes, and using auspicious characters. These linguistic …

Oral Proficiency Levels And Likely Use Of Language Forms Among Thai University Students Majoring In Japanese(ระดับความสามารถการพูดและแนวโน้มการใช้รูปภาษาของผู้เรียนภาษาญี่ปุ่นเป็นวิชาเอกชาวไทย ในคณะอักษรศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย), Kanolwan Laohaburanakit Katagiri

Journal of Letters

The study showed the result of Oral Proficiency levels and use of language forms among Japanese-majored Thai students in ChulalongkornUniversity. Oral Proficiency levels followed the guidelines by The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Ratings in 157 students showed that most of the students were classified as intermediate, and only 40% of the students had adequate language skills appropriate for their post-graduation employment. Analysis of database further revealed that Thai JFL learners tended to use a language form that was different from learners of other native languages and different from JSL learners. Thai JFL learners were more …

Naturalization In Japanese-Thai Translation:An Analysis Of Business Documents Translation(เทคนิคการแปลภาษาญี่ปุ่นเป็นภาษาไทยให้เป็นธรรมชาติ: วิเคราะห์การแปลเอกสารธุรกิจ), Somkiat Chawengkijwanich

Journal of Letters

This Study aims to investigate how naturalization is adopted as a translation strategy in Japanese business documents translated into Thai, analyzing various types of business documents such as letters, e-mails and speeches. The translation techniques canbe classified into the following three types:1. Using more specific expressions by considering the context or situation.2. Using Thai expressions commonly used in the same situation.3. Changing the structure or format into the ones that are commonlyused in Thai business documents.(บทความนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาการแปลเอกสารธุรกิจภาษาญี่ปุ่นเป็นภาษาไทยว่ามีการใช้เทคนิคอย่างไรเพื่อให้บทแปลมีความเป็นธรรมชาติ โดยวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลจากเอกสารธุรกิจหลากหลายประเภท เช่น จดหมาย อีเมล สุนทรพจน์ผลการวิจัยพบเทคนิคการแปลแบ่งออกได้เป็น 3ประเภท คือ 1. การปรับสำนวนโดยอิงบริบทหรือสถานการณ์ที่มีการใช้คำดังกล่าว และแปลโดยใช้สำนวนที่มีความหมายเฉพาะเจาะจง (หรือมีรายละเอียด) มากกว่าสำนวนในต้นฉบับ 2. การใช้สำนวนภาษาไทยที่นิยมใช้ในสถานการณ์เดียวกัน 3. การปรับเปลี่ยนโครงสร้าง หรือรูปแบบการเขียนให้สอดคล้องกับความนิยมในภาษาไทย)

An Analysis Of The Carrying Capacity In Cross-Border Tourism For Sustainable Development: A Case Study Of Ubonratchathani Province, Thailand And Champasak Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic(การวิเคราะห์ขีดความสามารถในการรองรับการท่องเที่ยวข้ามแดนเพื่อการพัฒนาอย่างยั่งยืน: กรณีศึกษาจังหวัดอุบลราชธานี ประเทศไทย และแขวงจำปาสัก สาธารณรัฐประชาธิปไตยประชาชนลาว), Ruethairat Plengwan, Thitirat Panbamrungkij

Journal of Letters

This study aims to establish a carrying capacity assessment system for cross-border tourism at Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand and Champasak, Lao PDR. This assessment is one of the key indicators of sustainable tourism development. It is composed of 14 indicators allocated into 3 categories: Physical-environment, Socio-cultural and Economic-Policy. Using Weight Linear Combination, the existing carrying capacity of cross-border tourism was investigated. Results indicated that Ubon Ratchathani and Champasak performed at the same mid-level of the carrying capacity (37.78 and 35.44%, respectively). However, in depth analysis at the district level in Ubon Ratchathani showed that Phibun Mangsahan district had the highest level …

Improving Performance Portability And Productivity Of Parallel Scientific Applications For Exascale, Hadia M R M Ahmed

All ETDs from UAB

The continuous emergence of new hardware architectures and software libraries create new opportunities and challenges for existing applications. While they promise better performance for applications, most of the times these applications' source code have to be modified to achieve the promised improvements. These modifications are labor intensive, error prone, and costly. Hence, users of applications either abandon the use of newer hardware and/or software and lose potential improvements, or abandon their application to build new one and lose time and effort spent on building them. Many tools are built to aid users in adapting their current application, in particular HPC …

The Evaluation Of Perampanel As A Neuroprotective Pharmacotherapy In Traumatic Brain Injury, Virginia Aida

All ETDs from UAB

In the United States, 2.5 million people experience a traumatic brain injury (TBI) every year and an estimated 5.3 million are living with a TBI-related disability. A TBI alters the function of the brain and the brain pathology often resulting in long-lasting cognitive impairment, motor function impairments, and emotional changes. In conjunction with the physical changes a victim of TBI experiences, the injury can take a financial toll. It is estimated that 76.3 billion dollars is attributed to the direct and indirect costs of sustaining a TBI every year in the United States. Despite improvements in managing TBI, there are …

Rotten Bananas, Hip Hop Heads, And The American Individual: Teaching Eddie Huang’S Memoir Fresh Off The Boat And Its Tropes Of Literacy, Wilson C. Chen

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

This essay focuses on Fresh Off the Boat as an eminently teachable coming-of-age story, provides critical contexts and directions for teaching this ideologically suggestive text, and sets forth the interpretive argument that the structures and themes of the memoir are fundamentally shaped by the literacy narrative at its core. As such, the text enters into conversation with other literacy narratives that have become so foundational in the teaching of multiethnic literature in the U.S. Moreover, Huang’s tropes of literacy draw from enduring, mythified Americanist discourses that are suggestive of a masculine individualism that, while not unique, is recognizable, instructive, and …

"It's Oil And Water": Race, Gender, Power, And Trauma In Vu Tran's Dragonfish, Quan-Manh Ha, Chase Greenfield

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

ABSTRACT: This article analyzes in-depth the interplay between race, gender, power, and trauma in Vu Tran’s debut novel, Dragonfish. We argue that Dragonfish focuses on the relationships, desires, and conflicts among its three protagonists—Robert, Suzy, and Sonny—to highlight how their postwar interactions complicate race, gender, trauma, and remembrance. The three protagonists engage in an intense socio-political struggle for dominance and control, which is riddled with irony, heart-wrenching pain, and misleading appearances. They experience hardship and loss, but they rely on each other for recovery from past and present trauma, and to advance their own varying personal priorities and agendas: …

Language, Immigration And Acculturation In The Short Stories Of Ha Jin, Louis J. Parascandola, Rajul Punjabi

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

"The Problems of Acculturation: Flushing, Queens, in the Short Stories of Ha Jin"

Abstract:

Noted author Ha Jin is often thought of as a Chinese author despite the fact that all of his writing has been written in English. Two of his later works, A Free Life (2007) and A Good Fall (2009) are set among the Chinese community in Flushing, Queens. This essay examines three short stories "An English Professor," "A Pension Plan," and "Temporary Love" from A Good Fall. In these works, Jin discusses the problems of acculturation these immigrants face, including learning English, finding employment, and dealing …

Ecumenism: Rapprochement Through Co-Working To Reconciliation, Cyril Hovorun

Theological Studies Faculty Works

This paper explores some forms of interaction between the Catholic and Orthodox churches in different contexts. Some of these forms are helpful, but not always efficient, and some are not helpful. Theological dialogues belong to the former category of interactions: they are helpful, but not efficient. Alliances on an ideological basis, for instance on the basis of “traditional values,” are unhelpful, because they polarise the churches internally. This article instead proposes a collaboration in the public domain as an alternative way of rapprochement between the two churches. The Ukrainian Maidan (the revolution of 2014) exemplifies a co-working space, which proved …

Contemplative Pedagogy: A Descriptive Account Of Two Approaches To Student Engagement At Loyola Marymount University, Jane Brucker, Christopher Key Chapple

Theological Studies Faculty Works

In this article the alternating voices of colleagues and collaborators Jane Brucker and Christopher Chapple describe their way of using contemplative pedagogies to bring Engaged Learning to their students at Loyola Marymount University. A requirement of the curriculum for all undergraduate students, these courses integrate study and reflection beyond the classroom. As a professor of studio arts, Brucker has developed techniques of awareness that utilize a contemplative approach with students engaged in drawing and creative activity in a studio or off-campus setting. As a professor of comparative theology, Chapple has designed course requirements for meditation experience and field visits that …