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Willful Understanding: Avicenna’S Philosophy Of Action And Theory Of The Will, Jon Mcginnis, Anthony Ruffus

Philosophy Faculty Works

In this study, we look at two interpretive puzzles associated with the thought of Avicenna that are still of intrinsic philosophical interest today. The first concerns to what extent, if at all, Avicenna’s deity can be said to act freely. The second concerns to what extent, if at all, humans within Avicenna’s philosophical system can be said to act freely. It is our contention that only through a careful analysis of Avicenna’s theory of action can one begin to assess his position concerning the status of the will and so provide a satisfactory response to these two interpretative issues. We …

029. Do Not Fear, Only Believe, Anthony Cook, Jason Broge

Table Talk: Family Devotions

A family devotion based on the accounts of Jesus healing Jairus' daughter and the healing of the unclean woman showing his authority over disease and death.

St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin, June 28, 2015

Saint Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

Saint Francis Brogia Deaf Center Church Bulletin Finding Aid

Mrs. Wanda Kay Williams-Walker

African American Funeral Programs

Mrs_Wanda_Kay_Williams_Walker.pdf - Funeral program for Mrs. Wanda Willimas-Walker

The Shadow Sometimes Skips, Clarence A. Amann

The Angle

No abstract provided.

Death, Clarence A. Amann

The Angle

No abstract provided.

Cox, Samuel (Lg 343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 343. Original land grant, 1809 February 8, by which Charles Scott, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Samuel Cox, assignee of Gladin Gorin 83 acres in Warren County.

Caldwell, Allen (Lg 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 342. Original land grant, 1827 August 22, by which Joseph Desha, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Allen Caldwell 160 acres of Section 13, township 2, range 4 in Calloway County, Kentucky.

Anderson, Richard (Lg 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 345. Photocopy of a land grant, 1794 January 28, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Richard C. Anderson assignee of Thomas Price and Garland Carr, assignees of Stephen Pettus, 123 2/3 acres and 993 1/3 acres on Grave Creek, a branch of Green River.

Christie, Gabriel (Lg 340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 340. Original land grant, 1777 November 19, by which Peter Chester, Governor of His Majesty’s Province of West Florida, granted to Gabriel Christie 1412 acres in West Florida.

Clayton, John (Lg 341), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 341. Original land grant, 1799 June 29, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to John Clayton 500 acres in Green County, Kentucky.

Anderson, Richard (Lg 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 346. Photocopy of a land grant, 1786 January 27, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Richard Anderson 100 acres on the Ohio River.

Anderson, Richard (Lg 344), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Land Grant 344. Photocopy of a land grant, 1798 December 27, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Richard C. Anderson 1000 acres on the Ohio River.

A Quantitative Approach To Beauty: Perceived Attractiveness Of Human Faces In World Painting., Juan Luis Suárez, Javier De La Rosa

CulturePlex Lab Publications

Has human beauty always been perceived in the same manner? We used a set of 120,000 paintings from different periods to analyze human faces between the 13th and the 20th centuries in order to establish whether there has been a single canon of beauty (that would maximize reproduction probabilities) or whether this has changed over time. Our study shows that when measuring averageness, symmetry, and orientation, the representation of human faces has not remained constant and that there are substantial differences between the faces depicted between the 15th and 18th centuries when compared to those of both the 13th and …

Upholding The Inartful Drafting Of Obamacare, Donald Roth

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Posting about ­­­­­­­­a recent challenge to the national Affordable Care Act (ACA) from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/upholding-the-inartful-drafting-of-obamacare/

Staff Congress Meeting Minutes, Staff Congress

University Archives Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Obama As Visual Icon: Blackness, Post-Raciality, And Multiculturalism In The Neoliberal Age, Jadira Gurulé

American Studies ETDs

This thesis examines the body of artwork produced in support of President Barack Obama during the 2008 United States' presidential election. It situates the artistic production from this election as both a product of and tool for furthering discourses of neoliberalism, multiculturalism, post-raciality, and American exceptionalism. A critical focus is trained on the ways in which Obama as a symbol and icon indexes and organizes knowledge about race, gender, sexuality, and national belonging in the United States and examines Obama as a form of visual archive. Visual culture studies, black cultural studies, and critical mixed-race scholarship are central to this …

The Critical Traveler At Palestine/Israel International Border Crossings: Settler Colonialism, Postcolonial Critique, And The United States As A Third State, Farah Nousheen

American Studies ETDs

I use the lens of the "critical traveler" to argue that the international border crossing of Palestine/Israel is both a settler colonial technology for the State of Israel, and a site of resistance for the transnational Palestinian solidarity movement. Israel deems certain travelers as critical to its settler colonial project. Israel marks Palestinian and Muslim travelers as racially critical to Israel that aims to be a Jewish majority state. Israel also marks travelers as critical because it suspects that these travelers espouse critical views of Israel's settler colonialist ideology and practice. As such, Israel has established a border security system …

‘Be Nice To People’ – Grandmother’S Advice Could Fix Many Of World’S Problems, Anthony Major

UCF Forum

As I began to write this column, my ears were ringing with the news story of another senseless shooting. This time it’s of nine people at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.

Stephen Fuller: Jamaican Planter, British Ambassador, Closet Abolitionist, Garrett Nagaishi, Dr. Matthew Mason

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The 1780s witnessed the rise of abolitionism within the British Empire. In its Two Reports…from the Committee of the Honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica (1788), the Jamaican government, which greatly profited from slavery and the slave trade, responded to claims made against its treatment of slaves. The report attempted to demonstrate by logic and eyewitness testimony that slavery was valuable and consistent with moral principles. Shortly thereafter, Jamaica’s ambassador to British Parliament, Stephen Fuller, published Notes on the Two Reports from the Committee of the Honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica (1789). This tract, which did not contain Fuller’s …

Summary And Initial Response To The Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, Donald Roth

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"The primary components of this decision depend on both a narrative of continuity and change."

Posting about the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage ­­­­­­­­from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/a-summary-and-initial-response-to-the-same-sex-marriage-ruling/

The "Free Road": Indigenous Travel And Rights Of Passage On The Missouri River, Christopher Steinke

History ETDs

Well before Lewis and Clark, Native Americans traveled on the Missouri River, crossing it to visit friends and family members, shipping supplies downriver, and conducting visitors toward their villages. Their mobility on the upper Missouri River, an imposing and dangerous continental divide, granted them the power to define rights of passage across the midcontinent. Following the collapse of New Cahokia, Arikara and Mandan settlers pressed up the river valley and established expansive transportation and communication networks that stretched across the Missouri watershed. By 1650 their villages were influential centers of Native North America and places where river crossings held not …

The Word And The Flesh: The Transformation Of Female Slave Subject To Mystic Agent Through Performance In The Texts Of Úrsula De Jesus, Theresa (Chicaba) De Santo Domingo And Rosa Maria Egipcíaca, Rachel Spaulding

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Previous research about the African slave experience in the Ibero-Atlantic world has understood slave agency, or more polemically, slave autonomy, through the binary of accommodation versus resistance. However, current African Diaspora scholarship (Schwartz, Thornton, etc.) situates the slave experience within a spectrum of lived experiences. These lived experiences range from accommodation to resistance but often overlap: lived experiences expressed overtly as accommodation reveal covert resistance. My dissertation explores the words of three Afro-women: \xdarsula de Jesus (1604-1666), an Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Sister Teresa de Santo Domingo (1676-1748), also known as Sor Chicaba, who lived as a Dominican tertiary in Salamanca, Spain, …

Reformed Approach To The Interactions Of Science And Religion (Cont'd), Tony N. Jelsma

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"The relationship between faith and science is not just a scientific or theological topic."

Posting about conflicts between science and religion from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/a-reformed-approach-to-the-interactions-of-science-and-religion-contd/

International And Area Studies Workshop – Germanic Collections, Brian Vetruba

WashU Libraries Presentations

The Center for Research Libraries, along with the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) and the Western European Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is co-sponsoring an "International and Area Studies Workshop for Librarians" on Friday, June 26, 2015. The workshop is timed to coincide with the ALA Annual 2015 in San Francisco. The full-day workshop is designed to assist librarians who are newly responsible for Western European and Latin American humanities and social sciences collecting. It will cover publishing trends in Western Europe and Latin America, providing reference services, …

Oral History Transcript | Interview With Alba Corrado, June 25, 2015 & March 11, 2016, Alba Corrado, Andrew Martinez, Risd Archives, Peter O'Neill

RISD Oral History Project Transcripts

No abstract provided.

Neff, Loraine Savage, 1899-1994 (Sc 2920), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and two examples (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2920. Stamp collages made by Fisherville, Kentucky native Loraine S. Neff. Includes an article by Neff based on her family history, an article about her stamp collages, and the introduction to her book Original Quilting Designs.

What You Gotta Know To Play Good In The Iterated Prisoner’S Dilemma, Ethan Akin

Publications and Research

For the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma there exist good strategies which solve the problem when we restrict attention to the long term average payoff. When used by both players, these assure the cooperative payoff for each of them. Neither player can benefit by moving unilaterally to any other strategy, i.e., these provide Nash equilibria. In addition, if a player uses instead an alternative which decreases the opponent’s payoff below the cooperative level, then his own payoff is decreased as well. Thus, if we limit attention to the long term payoff, these strategies effectively stabilize cooperative behavior. The existence of such strategies …

Brents, Samuel Van Buren, Sr., 1881-1959 (Sc 2919), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2919. Typescripts of historical sketches of Clinton County, Kentucky and the county seat, Albany, based on information gathered by Albany attorney Samuel V. Brents, Sr. Includes legends regarding the origin of the name of each.

Browning, James Clarence, 1914-1942 (Mss 556), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 556. Letters of U.S. Army officer J.C. Browning to his wife Lila (Hardcastle) Browning, written during his World War II military service. Browning was killed in North Africa on 8 November 1942. Includes letters of condolence to his wife, papers relating to his military service, and miscellaneous family cards and letters.