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Carden, Vickie Wright (Fa 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Carden, Vickie Wright (Fa 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 318. Paper titled “The Jelly Snatcher” in which folk studies student Vickie Wright Carden details the paranormal activity surrounding Nancy Frew, a 23 year-old Bowling Green native, and her roommate, Vicki Taylor. Both women reported sensing malevolent spirits in their apartment, witnessed a comb fly off a dresser, and “lost” a jar of grape jelly—which they believe to have been “snatched” by the ghost. Carden offers possible theories relating to the poltergeist encounters, and even posits that Frew, along with her couch, attract the …

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Lin Daiyu--An Unyielding Girl In A Stifling Society, Haiwang Yuan Sep 2008

Lin Daiyu--An Unyielding Girl In A Stifling Society, Haiwang Yuan

DLPS Faculty Publications

Lin Daiyu is a famous Chinese young woman created by one of the four classic Chinese novels titled A Dream of the Red Mansions. The loss of her love and life was the result of a society where human choices were suppressed. Her story shows that in a society full of intrigues and corruption, a girl as pure and naive as her could never survive.

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Sep 2008

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of September 10, 2008 meeting.

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2008

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding retreat, emergency procedures, advertising and legislation.

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Ding Ling, Haiwang Yuan Sep 2008

Ding Ling, Haiwang Yuan

DLPS Faculty Publications

Ding Ling is one of the most controversial women of intellect in contemporary Chinese history. A writer, activist, and a CPC member, her life, legendary as it was, reflected the ups and downs of the modern and contemporary Chinese history.

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Monkey King, Haiwang Yuan Sep 2008

Monkey King, Haiwang Yuan

DLPS Faculty Publications

Journey to the West creates a monkey hero known as the Monkey King. The classic Chinese novel is epitomizes various aspects of the Chinese civilization, particularly in terms of its religions, its indigenous popular beliefs in particular.

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Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2008

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for September 9, 2008 meeting.

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Ua35/11 Arête September 2008, Honors College Sep 2008

Ua35/11 Arête September 2008, Honors College

Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Topscholar™ And Selectedworks™: Forging New Paths Of Information Access And Research, Connie Foster Sep 2008

Topscholar™ And Selectedworks™: Forging New Paths Of Information Access And Research, Connie Foster

SelectedWorks™

No abstract provided.

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Resolution 01-08-F - Support Of Emergency Communications, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2008

Resolution 01-08-F - Support Of Emergency Communications, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution in support of crisis management system.

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Chase, Barbara J. (Fa 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Chase, Barbara J. (Fa 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 316. Paper: "A Study of the Black Cosmetology Field" written by Barbara J. Chase for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Topscholar™ And Selectedworks™: Forging New Paths Of Information Access And Research, Connie Foster Sep 2008

Topscholar™ And Selectedworks™: Forging New Paths Of Information Access And Research, Connie Foster

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Presentation made before the WKU Academic Deans regarding the use of TopSCHOLAR and SelectedWorks in promoting scholarly publication among faculty.

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Email Re: Minutes 9-2-08, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2008

Email Re: Minutes 9-2-08, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Email regarding the minutes for the September 2, 2008 meeting and committee meeting times.

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Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. William P. King, Et Al. (Sc 1744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. William P. King, Et Al. (Sc 1744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1744. Record of trial held in Simpson County, Kentucky of William P. King, Charles Smith, Abraham Owen and seven others for the murder of Harvey King. Defendants and victim had all participated in a previous train robbery. Also includes a photocopy of The Life of King and Owen, Written by Themselves, Revised and Prepared by Rev. L. M. Horn, Explaining the Railroad Robbery and Murder of Harvey King (Louisville, Ky., 1867); and “‘A High Handed Outrage:’ The King & Owens Railroad Robbery of 1866,” a paper written …

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Chinese Fireworks, Haiwang Yuan Sep 2008

Chinese Fireworks, Haiwang Yuan

DLPS Faculty Publications

This article introduces the history of fireworks in China, including its recorded and legendary origins. It also discusses the production of and market for the fireworks. Current challenges and innovations are also mentioned.

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Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Sc 1721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Sc 1721), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1721. Correspondence related to the archaeological excavation of Fort Williams, a Civil War fortification at Glasgow, Kentucky. Includes report of archaeologist Jack M. Schock, news clipping from the Glasgow Daily Times, 14 July 1977, and photos.

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2008

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding committee vacancies, fall retreat, nominations and legislation.

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Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2008

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for September 2, 2008 meeting.

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Deconstructing The Reflection In The Mirror:, Dr. Jill D. Duba, Aaron Kindsvatter, C J. Priddy Sep 2008

Deconstructing The Reflection In The Mirror:, Dr. Jill D. Duba, Aaron Kindsvatter, C J. Priddy

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

Women facing middle age and beyond are pressured by a cultural ideal of slimness. Literature pertaining to the factors affecting the societal perceptions of body image will be reviewed. Authors also will address relevant counseling interventions aimed at this population, specifically group therapy based in Narrative theory.

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Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds Vol. 7, No. 6, Wku Provost Sep 2008

Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds Vol. 7, No. 6, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs to highlight the activities of faculty, staff and alumni.

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Kernel Density Estimation Of Traffic Accidents In A Network Space, Zhixiao Xie, Jun Yan Sep 2008

Kernel Density Estimation Of Traffic Accidents In A Network Space, Zhixiao Xie, Jun Yan

Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty Publications

A standard planar Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) aims to produce a smooth density surface of spatial point events over a 2-D geographic space. However, the planar KDE may not be suited for characterizing certain point events, such as traffic accidents, which usually occur inside a 1-D linear space, the roadway network. This paper presents a novel network KDE approach to estimating the density of such spatial point events. One key feature of the new approach is that the network space is represented with basic linear units of equal network length, termed lixel (linear pixel), and related network topology. The use …

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The Influence Of Risk Perception, Vulnerability And Community Level Processes On Human-Wildlife Conflict In Southeastern Kenya, Jerry K. Daday, Douglas C. Smith, Michael K. Stokes, Charles Kimwele Sep 2008

The Influence Of Risk Perception, Vulnerability And Community Level Processes On Human-Wildlife Conflict In Southeastern Kenya, Jerry K. Daday, Douglas C. Smith, Michael K. Stokes, Charles Kimwele

Sociology Faculty Presentations

The prior literature on the sociology of disasters has primarily examined community responses to large-scale episodic disasters, such as in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. However, the study of persistent and chronic disasters in developing countries represents an area that has largely been ignored in prior studies. Flint and Luloff’s (2005) Inter-actional theory as a framework, our research examines the influence of perceived risk, vulnerability and community characteristics on human-wildlife conflict among 275 subsistence-based farmers living in four small villages in Southeastern Kenya. These farmers rely on a horticultural and pastoral economy for survival and …

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Ua23 An Alive Center Day, Paul N. Markham, Aurelia Spaulding Sep 2008

Ua23 An Alive Center Day, Paul N. Markham, Aurelia Spaulding

ALIVE Center Publications

No abstract provided.

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Ua7 Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah Sep 2008

Ua7 Ored Quarterly Newsletter, Sadiq Shah

ORED Quarterly Newsletter

Connecting Knowledge with Businesses and Society to Promote Economic Growth and to Enhance the Quality of Life

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Chinese Ethnicities And Their Culture: An Overview, Haiwang Yuan Aug 2008

Chinese Ethnicities And Their Culture: An Overview, Haiwang Yuan

DLPS Faculty Publications

China, the most populous country in the world, is also a nation of great diversity. In addition to the majority population of Han Chinese, there are some 55 officially recognized national minorities--including Tibetan, Mongol, Manchu, Zhuang, Dai, and Gaoshan. The folklore of these minorities is often obscure and difficult to find in the English-speaking world, as is information about the people, their cultural histories, and their traditional customs. This book fills a gap by offering more than 50 representative folktales from China's minorities, as well as background information on each of the ethnic groups.

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Aug 2008

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding office hours, budget, student engagement expo, tuition increase, nominations and legislation.

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Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Aug 2008

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for August 26, 2008 meeting.

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Seconds - Newsletter, Wku Student Government Association Aug 2008

Seconds - Newsletter, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

WKU Student Government Association newsletter, Seconds, includes issues for August 26, September 2, 9, 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 11, 24 and December 2.

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Perez, Linda (Fa 320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Perez, Linda (Fa 320), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 320. Paper titled "Ghost Stories and Beliefs of the Hispanic Community" written by Perez for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

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Ua3/9/5 Faculty & Staff Opening Convocation, Wku President's Office Aug 2008

Ua3/9/5 Faculty & Staff Opening Convocation, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at fall convocation. He discusses achievements, budget cuts, strategic planning, tuition, construction and degree productivity.

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