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Mr. Walter Sapp

African American Funeral Programs

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Filthy Fiction: The Writings Of Zhu Wen, Julia Lovell

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Chinese fiction of the 1990s was not short on shock value. If we think of the decade’s cultural tone being set by Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 command to unleash commercial forces, then the years that followed proved rich in works that would have done the old man proud. Quick off the mark was Jia Pingwa, who triumphantly became one of the earliest, most notorious cases of a serious writer surrendering to lurid populism, with his 1993 novel, The Ruined Capital (Feidu): a best-selling, soft-pornographic tale of a male writer’s travails through the corruption of contemporary China. Things were not looking much …

In Case You Missed It: Cambridge Companion To Modern Chinese Culture, Miri Kim

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

For scholars of China who are interested in modernity, the looming question seems to be, is ‘modernity’ a valid and useful analytical category for describing, explaining, and understanding China? And if so, how should modernity and its attendant conceptual apparatuses be deployed in investigations of China’s various aspects, historical, political, cultural, and so on? In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture, editor Kam Louie and a distinguished list of contributors seek to explore China within its particular modern contexts and clarify the idea of ‘modernity’ by using historical and contemporary cases.

In his introduction Louie writes, “At first glance, …

Readings For August 3

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

1. An important story emerged this weekend in the blogosphere: Chinese legal scholar Xu Zhiyong was taken from his home by police last Wednesday and has not been seen since. From Evan Osnos at The New Yorker:

Xu might not have reached Marshall status yet, but he is as close as China gets to a public-interest icon. He teaches law at the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. He has also run the Open Constitution Initiative, a legal aid and research organization that worked on many of China’s path-breaking cases. He and his colleagues had investigated the Sanlu milk scandal, …

Ireland And Frank Mccourt: A Painful Struggle Continues, Nicholas Hayes

University Chair in Critical Thinking Publications

No abstract provided.

Ada News - 08/03/2009, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

2009-08-03 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for August 3, 2009.

The Water Torture Of Baseball's Steroid Leaks, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

When I was a young boy I remember using the term "Chinese water torture" for any activity that seemed long, torturous, and pointless. I have been reminded of this repeatedly over the last few years as slowly, usually one by one, the names of those baseball players who tested positive for some sort of performance enhancing drugs have become public. Anonymous and confidential drug testing that was conducted for Major League baseball and the MLB Players Association in 2003 to determine the extent of a drug problem in baseball has turned out to be not so confidential.

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2009, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

THE JOHN MUIR NEWSLETTER FALL 2009 UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA Muir Center Has a New Home & New Staff This past June, Marilyn Norton, Administrative Assistant and Budget Accountant for the Division of Social Sciences, retired after fifteen years at Pacific. She and her husband, Dan, along with pets Abbey and Bear live in Mokelumne Hill, where they remain active in Restore Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Associates, and many conservation issues. We wish her the best in the years ahead as she explores more of the high country so familiar to Muir. During August, John Muir Center was moved …

John Bennett Walters, Total War, And The Raid On Randolph, Tennessee, Thomas Lee Anderson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The regnant interpretation of the American Civil War includes the fact that it evolved into a “total war,” which adumbrated the total wars of the twentieth century. Mark E. Neely, in 1991, published an influential paper calling this interpretation into question for the first time. In the article Neely revealed that the first mention of “total war” in connection with the Civil War was an article written in 1948 by John Bennett Walters about Gen. William T. Sherman and a raid he ordered on Randolph, Tennessee in reprisal for an attempted hijacking of the packet boat Eugene on the Mississippi …

History @ Eiu (August 2009), History

History at Eastern

No abstract provided.

Interview With Phoumee Xiong, Peter Chou Vang

Hmong Oral History Project

Interview with Phoumee Xiong discussing his experiences during the "Secret War" in Laos in the mid-1960s to early 1970s.

Interview conducted by student interviewer, Peter Chou Vang.

Macedonia Baptist Church - Lyon County, Kentucky (Mss 271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 271. Two record books of Macedonia Baptist Church, Kuttawa, Lyon County, Kentucky, for 1902-1923 and 1938-1947. Entries consist chiefly of church business meetings and membership lists.

Website Compliance With Ethical Guidelines By Psychologists And Professional Counselors, Joseph Yazvac Iii

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

There is currently very little research investigating the ethical practice of etherapy, and none that distinguishes between types of therapists in terms of their compliance with ethical codes pertaining to e-therapy. The American Psychological Association does not have ethical standards specific to the provision of e-therapy but the American Counseling Association does. The purpose of this study was to assess differences in ethical compliance for e-therapy websites sponsored by psychologists and e-therapy websites sponsored by professional counselors. Specific ethics codes for the practice of e-therapy of the American Counseling Association were used to generate an assessment instrument, which served as …

Grades 11- 12 Jacksonian Democracy, Michael Devlin

Social Studies

This lesson is a social studies lesson for grades 11 and 12 on Jacksonian democracy. Through this lesson students will be able to understand the characteristics of Jacksonian democracy, expanded suffrage, the importance of elected officials, the supremacy of federal over state, and the Indian removal. Students will have an understanding of the positive and negative aspects of this era. In this lesson, the class will be tiered into groups based on ability and interest where students will collaborate to create a news broadcast about the time period.

Review Of The Book The Great Patriotic War Of The Soviet Union, 1941-45: A Documentary Reader, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book The great patriotic war of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A documentary reader.

Almonds Along The Silk Road: The Exchange And Adaptation Of Ideas From West To East, Ken Albala

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

The article discusses the trade routes and the use of almonds to treat ailments. According to the author, almonds were among the first plants to be domesticated around world, particularly in Asia. It also notes that almonds would be ideal for treating colds and other phlegmatic disorders, as well as for bowels. Moreover, some forms in which almonds could be consumed are also mentioned, such as soaking or blanching and roasting.

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due (Sketching A Trajectory Of Feminist Medieval Studies), Felice Lifshitz

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Sisters Of Semitics: A Fresh Appreciation Of The Scholarship Of Agnes Smith Lewis And Margaret Dunlop Gibson, Rebecca J. W. Jefferson

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

The Women In Chaucer's "Marriage Group", Elizabeth Scala

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Katharina Schütz Zell. Church Mother: The Writings Of A Protestant Reformer In Sixteenth-Century Germany. Edited And Translated By Elsie Mckee. (The Other Voice In Early Modern Europe.) University Of Chicago Press, 2006., Joseph F. Patrouch

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Jeremy Goldberg. Communal Discord, Child Abduction, And Rape In The Later Middle Ages. (The New Middle Ages Series.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2008., Cordelia Beattie

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Jean Flori. Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Queen And Rebel. Translated By Olive Casse. Edinburgh University Press, 2007., Michael Evans

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Linda Maria Koldau. Frauen-Musik-Kultur. Ein Handbuch Zum Deutschen Sprachgebiet Der Frühen Neuzeit. Böhlau Verlag, 2005., Joseph F. Patrouch

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Elizabeth L'Estrange. Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty, And Visual Culture In The Later Middle Ages. (Manchester Medieval Studies.) Manchester University Press, 2008., Marian Bleeke

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Patrizia Bettella. The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models In Italian Poetry From The Middle Ages To The Baroque. University Of Toronto Press, 2005., F. Regina Psaki

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Rebecca Lynn Winer. Women, Wealth, And Community In Perpignan, C. 1250-1300: Christians, Jews, And Enslaved Muslims In A Medieval Mediterranean Town. Ashgate, 2006., Constance H. Berman

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.45 No.1 2009

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

The Origins Of The Modern Religious Lobby In Virginia, 1968-1980, Kenneth Skipper

All Theses

The 1960s conservative movement of Barry Goldwater gave rise to a politically active and influential block of voters that came to be known as the religious Right. Disillusioned with the direction of America and a government that seemed hostile to their views and values, religious-minded Americans began to organize to fight for the issues that were important to them. Virginia was an important battleground in the fight over these important social issues due to its unique demographic make-up with a more liberal and urban northern part with the rest of Virginia more conservative and rural. The organization of politically minded …

Twenty Miles To Rome: The Story Of South Carolina's First Medal Of Honor Winner In World War Ii, Charles Taylor

All Theses

This thesis, which has encompassed my life for the last several months, began as sort of an afterthought. A graduate course that I was taking in fall 2008 required the students to produce a prospectus for a new biography that should be added to the historical record. Looking to find a subject that I did not mind researching, I chose to write a proposal on my great uncle Furman L. Smith, who was South Carolina's first Congressional Medal of Honor winner in World War II. I had always had an interest in family history, but felt guilty that I knew …