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Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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Public Shaming And Power Shifts In Salem, Roma M. Blackham

BYU English Symposium

Public shaming has long been used in societies to maintain order in communities, and to enforce not only laws, but unspoken rules or societal constraints. However, while public shaming can be a valuable tool for communities, it can also lead to unjust rule – some might even call it mob rule. While many citizens of the United States tend to glorify democracy and the effects of democracy, the democratization of the justice system through public shaming has resulted in disastrous consequences in American history and promises dangerous repercussions if it continues to be used in the future. This claim is …

Five Minutes Of Fame, William Drew Chandler

BYU English Symposium

No abstract provided.

Ya Cover Art: Changes And Social Impact In The Last Twenty-Five Years, Jodie Bender

BYU English Symposium

This paper discusses changes to the cover art of young adult literature in the last twenty-five years, and how those changes have affected the success of YA novels and society’s perceptions of YA literature. These changes lead to the genderization of novels as well as misrepresentation of a novel’s content. This is particularly a problem among books by female authors. Genderization has a major impact on the type and gender of audience a book attracts, and it often limits, rather than expands, the type of readers attracted. Furthermore, the books that receive the highest awards, including the Michael L. Printz …

Wordsworth's Lifelong Lie, William Drew Chandler

BYU English Symposium

No abstract provided.

Deconstructing O'Connor's Grace Through Marxism, Aubri M. Devashrayee

BYU English Symposium

The works of Flannery O’Connor deal greatly with the concepts of grace and religion and how they save the lost characters in her stories. O’Connor’s works are very violent, as well as religious. Story after story shows that God “terrifies before He can bless,” as Robert Drake asserts in his article “The Bleeding Stinking Mad Shadow of Jesus” (185). There are many instances where it is doubtful that grace has been received, and when it has been, the characters are distinctly worse off than they were before. This is prevalent in all of O’Connor’s short stories, and when looking through …

Truman Capote And The Tarnished Tale Of In Cold Blood, Nicholas N. Montes

BYU English Symposium

This paper in the genre of psycho-biography examines recent reports of fraud in Capote's work on the novel In Cold Blood. While my paper tackles the reasons why Capote's journalism may not have been sound, his traumatic love affairs, an inappropriate relationship to a case detective, and tragic childhood, it is not the purpose to tarnish a beloved author's reputation.

Guided, Whitney C. Gibbons

BYU English Symposium

A lost soul trapped between life and death learns to let themselves feel painful emotions in order to forgive themselves and move on.

Fat Fairies: Stereotype, Body Type, And Personality Of Tv Godmothers, Ariel Peterson

BYU English Symposium

ABC’s Once Upon a Time introduced Catherine Lough Haggquist as Cinderella’s fairy godmother. Instead of playing Disney’s classically oversized, bumbling, air-headed godmother, Haggquist appeared cool and collected, dressed like a princess. And ABC killed Haggquist off in the very same episode. Was she too fit and smart for the godmother stereotype? Haggquist is not the only fairy to suffer for body type. Jeana Jorgensen and other feminist writers have seen the danger of age and body stereotyping entails. Adding to these arguments, I propose we approach fairy tale bodies as a spectrum where personality is attached to body type. Princesses …

Cinderella: The Significance And Timeless Nature Of A Folkloric Costume Narrative, Hayley C. Campbell

BYU English Symposium

No abstract provided.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Newspapers As Bakhtinian Chronotope In The Mysteries Of London And Sherlock Holmes, Conor Hilton

BYU English Symposium

Newspapers function as a Bakhtinian chronotope in George W.M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle adapted this usage of newspapers in his Sherlock Holms stories. The chronotope has several features and consequences. The features include an inherent emphasis on physicality, creating a concrete object to embody the ideas of information, communication, and technology; forging a link between newspapers and crime or criminality; and linking newspapers to low-brow and popular culture. These features originate in Reynolds’s work, but are carried over into Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories. They also bring with them consequences. The first is the legitimation …

Grace: Something Needed In The Modern Age, Jared N. Esplin

BYU English Symposium

A look at the various differences of opinion of what grace is based in the works of Flannery O'Connor and the possible influences on her own opinions. Influences including the writings and teachings of the Apostle Paul.

Hair, Voice, And Agency: Transformation, Growing Up, And Love In Fairy Tales, Denya I. Palmer

BYU English Symposium

Fairy tales are fraught with magical transformations. However, the most important transformation is not a magical one. Characters experience a true transformation of self when they use their agency to make decisions and act, making the shift from childhood to adulthood. The deepest transformations occur when the characters determine their own destiny. Part of this shift to adulthood also includes forming and maintaining relationships with others. The tales of Rapunzel (Grimm’s 1812) and Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837) include characters who transform both physically but also emotionally. Their agency and transformation of character is manifest through their voices and …

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 49, March 17, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Ellen G. White Symposium 2016: Breaking Ground In Understanding Life, Ministry, Prophetic Gift, Becky St. Clair

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

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Press Release: Civil Rights Trip Looks Back; Inspires Desire To Move Forward, College Communications

Reverend Charles Rice

News article detailing the 2016 "Religion and Civil Rights" annual class trip to historic sites in the American South, led by Reverend Charles Rice.

Carter, Lillie Mae (Bland), 1919-1982 (Mss 558), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 558. This collection documents native Kentuckian Lillie Mae (Bland) Carters’ work as a poet and public school teacher in Toledo, Ohio. It includes correspondence, publications, unpublished poems, and printed material pertinent to her educational career and achievements. Of particular note is a folder of letters and autographs from African American poet Langston Hughes.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Collins, Emma. Bucks for Bright Ideas Opens Entries – Kentucky Innovation Network
• Kast, Monica. When the Well Runs Dry – Saudi Arabia, International Students
• Abri, Madihah. Ivan Wilson Hosts Gallery of Art from Bowling Green & Cuban Students
• Camp, Jodi. Student Veterans Alliance Elects New President – Joseph Hunter
• Collins, Emma. Nursing School Plans to End Associate Degree Program – Curriculum
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon Those Were the Days
• Johnson, Jack. Ding Dong the Witch is Eh
• Moore, Millie. On-Campus Pets Could Benefits Students, Community – Housing & Residence …

Krapp's Last Tape, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2015-2016 Art Between Real and Imagined

Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape is a solo/dialogue. One actor onstage carries on a conversation with his own voice recorded many years before. An old man sitting alone in his den on his birthday gets ready to make a recording about the past year of his life, as he has done on every birthday since he was a young man. Getting ready to make the new recording, he listens to a recording he made some 30 years before, at the end of a year that was perhaps the last truly happy one in his life. Bitter, funny, ironic, he finds …

Music Around Noon, Heather Moore, Ethan Reed, Michael Seaman

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Junior Recital, Taylor Darrow, Jared Jamias

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Hillman College Is A Different World From Where You Come From: A Thematic Analysis Of Relationships In A Different World, Natilie Williams

Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on the identity and relationships portrayed in the television series, A Different World. Although the popular series ended in 1993, this show continues to resonate with the African-American community. Specifically, Ron, D. Wayne, and Whitley are the primary characters of focus. Ron and D. Wayne maintain a brotherhood, while Whitley and D. Wayne maintain a romantic relationship. Both of these relationships include implicit expectations, illustrate varying levels of reciprocity, and provide identity-shaping communicative feedback.

2015-2016 The Four B'S: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, And Bartok, Carol Cole, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Faculty Recitals

No abstract provided.

Faculty Recital: Andy Rummel, Tuba; March 17, 2016, Andy Rummel Tuba

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
March 17, 2016
Thursday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Writing Resistance: Agency And Politics In The Postmodern And Contemporary Novel, Bradley Michael Poling

Theses and Dissertations

This project seeks to substantiate a key ambivalence at the heart of contemporary literature: what does it mean to "return" to politics? Critics of contemporary literature have outlined the new literary aesthetic, using social and political engagement as a key component in distinguishing the contemporary novel from its postmodern predecessor. This project, in response to this claim, will examine both the discursive and representation politics of two landmark postmodern novels, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Don DeLillo's Libra, while examining Jennifer Eganâ??s A Visit from the Goon Squad as a descendent of this literary lineage. This project argues that the …

Solid Metaphor And Sacred Space: Interpreting The Paradigmatic And Syntagmatic Relations Found At Beth Alpha Synagogue, Evan Carter

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, more than an iconic symbol of Jewish identity was destroyed. As the epicenter of religious life for Jews within the land of Israel, the Temple stood as both a symbol for religious hope and as the physical embodiment of Judaism. Yet, in the centuries that would follow synagogue’s like the one found at Beth Alpha would come to fill its absence.

In this thesis I will demonstrate how the use of Christopher Tilley’s theory of the solid metaphor helps us to better understand both the art and architecture of the …

Investigating Alternative Subsistence Strategies Among The Homeless Near Tampa, Florida, Matthew Peter Rooney

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Modern homelessness is one of the most pressing social and political problems of our time. Several hundred thousand people experience homelessness in the United States each year, and the U.S. Department of Housing, which attempts to count those people, has admitted that their statistics are conservative estimates at best. A recent archaeological study (Zimmerman et al 2010) examining material culture associated with homeless communities in Indianapolis has suggested that those who are considered chronically homeless have generally abandoned wage labor and are instead pursuing urban foraging as a subsistence strategy. In order to better understand the structures of homeless communities, …

2015-2016 Performance Forum - March 17, 2016, Alla Sorokoleova, Tatiana Lokhina, Jared Harrison, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Julia Jakkel, Marija Trajkovska, Alberto Zilbertstein, Patricia Cova, Olga Kim

Performance Forum

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Mille-Feuille Magazine Littéraire, Spring/Printemps 2016, Pascale-Anne Brault

Mille-Feuille Magazine Littéraire

Mille-Feuille: 1. du latin millefolium, nom vulgaire d'une espèce d'achillée dont les feuilles sont très finement découpées en tous sens. Appelée encore 'herbe aux coupures', 'herbe au charpentier', 'herbe au voiturier', c'est une plante vivace qui croît au bord des chemins, dans les pelouses sèches, et dont les fleurs, blanches ou roses, sont réunies en capitules. 2. pâtisserie, connue aux Etats-Unis sous le nom de 'Napoleon'. Composée de fins feuillets de pâte feuilletée entre lesquels on intercale une crème pâtissière au beurre ou une crème chantilly. 3. les mille feuillets de prose et de poésie qui, nous l'espérons, finiront par …

Theoria, Sanjay Rau, Ryan Kollar

Akesis

I heal through meditation.

Upon turning 13 years old, I began the practice of meditation under the tutelage of Hindu priests in Chennai, India. The expectation of this experience was to learn to clear out all distractions, focus intently on breathing and recite certain passages of Scripture.

At the time, meditation involved sitting cross-legged and reciting certain phrases 1008 times. The hot, muggy weather and mosquitos that plagued summers in Chennai made this task even harder. While difficult and seemingly purposeless at first, I began to appreciate and better understand the power that meditative practices provided in the following summer …