[{"id": "concept-138", "words": "4193", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "Effective Discipline for Misbehavior: In-School versus Out-of-School Suspension*", "date": "2003", "keywords": "behavior; discipline; iss; oss; problems; program; school; students; suspension", "summary": "School suspension: A study with secondary school students. Although there are several different strategies for classroom management and discipline, the most severe problems and occurrences usually lead to either in school suspension (ISS) or out of school suspension (OSS).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-139", "words": "4325", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "none", "title": "The Calculator in the Elementary Classroom: Making a Useful Tool Out of an Ineffective Crutch", "date": "2003", "keywords": "calculator; children; mathematics; reys; school; students; teachers; use", "summary": "The purpose of this paper is to review research that addresses both the positive and negative effects of calculator use in the primary grades. One study showed a direct correlation between teacher training and calculator use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-140", "words": "6571", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "none", "title": "Evaluating Academic Success in Student Athletes: A Literature Review", "date": "2003", "keywords": "academic; athletes; athletics; college; division; ncaa; performance; school; student", "summary": "In the world of collegiate athletics, student athletes across the country use the opportunities provided to them to become the future professional athletes, teachers, coaches, and business leaders of our world. So then why do we question the academic performance of student athletes?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-141", "words": "5299", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "none", "title": "Under the Reign of Doubt: Chaucer's House of Fame and Narrative Authority*", "date": "2003", "keywords": "authority; chaucer; evans; fame; geffrey; house; language; narrative; nature; poem", "summary": "That the text is made all the more baffling by an abrupt conclusion has led to much speculation from scholars regarding its finished or unfinished nature, especially pertaining to the identity of the man of great authority seen \u201catte laste\u201d (The Riverside Chaucer 373, l. 2155), who, ironically, will remain indefinitely unseen. Their rhetorical patterns are used not to form the harmonious whole one would imagine from a poem informed by Dante and Boethius, but rather one which leaves its traveler \u2014 who, as a man of the \u201cstudye\u201d (RC 356, l. 633) prefers books to experience \u2014 more bewildered (ostensible, though it is no more likely that the man or authority would provide a staid explanation for all that has preceded him) at the end of his journey than at the beginning.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-142", "words": "8577", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "No Army Inspired: The Failure of Nationalism at Antebellum West Point*", "date": "2003", "keywords": "academy; antebellum; board; cadets; class; evidence; military; morrison; nationalism; point; southern; states; union; united; war; west point", "summary": "Viewed in this light, Root\u2019s words beg an interesting question: to what extent were West Point cadets in the antebellum era \u201cinspired by the spirit of the Military Academy\u201d? Although West Point cadets felt a sense of obligation to the federal government for the education they had received, Ambrose asserts, \u201cit plainly was unreasonable to expect most southern graduates to 3 West Point graduates serving the Confederacy included Generals Robert E. Lee (class of 1829), Joseph E. Johnston (1829), P.G.T. Beauregard (1838), Lafayette McLaws (1842), James Longstreet (1842), Stonewall Jackson (1846), George E. Pickett (1846), A.P. Hill (1847), John Bell Hood (1853), and J.E.B. Stuart (1854).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-143", "words": "7256", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "75", "author": "none", "title": "The American Defeat at Quebec in 1775", "date": "2003", "keywords": "ainslie; american; arnold; british; canada; city; hatch; ibid; men; montgomery; new; press; quebec; york", "summary": "10 Wilson, Benedict Arnold, 54. 11 John Joseph Henry, Account of Arnold\u2019s Campaign against Quebec (New York: Arno Press, Inc., 1968), 11. Journals of the Members of Arnold\u2019s Expedition (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1953), 202-3. 18 Wilson, Benedict Arnold, 64.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-144", "words": "8151", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "none", "title": "The Economics of Peace: World War I and Scott Nearing's Radical American*", "date": "2003", "keywords": "american; council; labor; movement; nearing; new; new york; pacifists; peace; people; radical; socialist; war; wilson; workers; world; york", "summary": "Just as the American declaration of war fragmented pacifists in 1917, the \u201cRed Scare\u201d threatened to crush radical sentiment in 1919, and with the conclusion of the war in November, radicals focused all of their energies on fighting persecution. His trenchant views on capitalism and war propelled him to the forefront of the peace movement and the Socialist Party, while simultaneously earning him the scorn of liberal elites.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-145", "words": "9341", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "none", "title": "Currency Exchange Trading and Rogue Trader John Rusnak", "date": "2003", "keywords": "allfirst; bank; currency; exchange; john; john rusnak; losses; office; options; rate; rusnak; trades; trading; yen", "summary": "Hiring Mr. Rusnak was the start of an idea that was forming in the mind of Allfirst\u2019s Treasurer Dan Cronin. Mr. Rusnak focused on Spot and Forward contracts in his trading.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-146", "words": "11562", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Kierkegaard and Feminism: A Paradoxical Friendship*", "date": "2003", "keywords": "beauvoir; ethics; feminist; god; kierkegaard; man; philosophy; pseudonyms; way; women; works; world", "summary": "Updike tells us that for Kierkegaard woman is man\u2019s destruction, which explains Kierkegaard\u2019s breaking of his engagement to Regine: \u201c\u2018Woman,\u2019 he wrote in 1854, \u2018is egoism personified\u2026. By employing some of the essays in L\u00e9on and Walsh\u2019s anthology Feminist Interpretations of S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard, we can gain an idea as to how Kierkegaard has been read by recent feminists in order to see what a feminist employment of Kierkegaard would look like.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-147", "words": "5870", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "none", "title": "Amygdala Abnormality and Its Role in Autistic Socio-Emotional Impairment: A Proposed Study of Somatic Intervention Among Macaque Monkeys*", "date": "2003", "keywords": "amygdala; autism; autistic; et al; expressions; face; processing; research; sts", "summary": "As discussed previously, MRI and postmortem examinations have found moderate to severe structural abnormalities in autistic amygdala (Aylward et al., 1999). Consequently, the prevailing theory for autistic amygdala deformity proposes a deficit in neuronal pruning during early development (Rapin and Katzman, 1998; Aylward et al., 1999).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-148", "words": "5707", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "none", "title": "The Global Influence of New Public Management: Case Studies from Africa", "date": "2003", "keywords": "africa; decentralization; ghana; government; management; new; npm; privatization; public; reform", "summary": "The paper will address the issue of NPM with reference to the overlapping terms of privatization, decentralization and civil service reform, commenting on the influence they have had in Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda. As in Ghana some of these reductions came through the purging of ghost workers, which accounted for around 40 Moses Kiggundu (1998) \u2018Civil service reforms: limping into the twenty-first century\u2019 in Martin Minogue, Charles Polidano and David Hulme (eds) Beyond the New Public Management: Changing Ideas and Practices in Governance (Northampton, MA: E. Elgar), 158 41 Ayee, \u2018Ghana\u2019, 260-261 42 Willy McCourt (1998) \u2018Civil service reform equals retrenchment?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-149", "words": "12449", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "none", "title": "Theodicy and the Nature of God in Nahum and Jonah", "date": "2003", "keywords": "audience; biblical; book; city; fall; god; john; jonah; justice; nahum; nature; nineveh; people; press; prophet", "summary": "Thus the sacrifice in the end is a narrative trick, since God prevents the sacrifice (in the fullest sense of the word) from occurring.92 Jonah does not die: he enters into the belly of a fish. Theodicy and the Nature of God in Nahum and Jonah.doc 1 Theodicy and the Nature of God in Nahum and Jonah Sandy Haney Department of Theology and Religious Studies Villanova University Edited by Edward Pettit Within the twelve minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible are the books of Nahum and Jonah.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-150", "words": "6896", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "none", "title": "Procesos de liberaci\u00f3n: Cambio de Armas: Luisa Valenzuela (Buenos Aires, 1938)", "date": "2003", "keywords": "amanda; armas; cambio; como; con; coyote; cuarta; cuento; del; deseo; donde; ella; entre; final; forma; historia; las; laura; lenguaje; lichem; los; magnarelli; medeiros; medio; mujer; m\u00e1s; opresi\u00f3n; para; poder; pol\u00edtica; por; puede; punto; que; ser; sexual; sin; sociedad; tema; una; valenzuela; versi\u00f3n; vista; voces", "summary": "Un tema sobresaliente es el de la sexualidad de la mujer y la problem\u00e1tica de expresarlo directamente. Sharon Magnarelli ve, como cuarta lectura, el cuento como La Bella Durmiente, adaptado a los sucesos del feminismo y la pol\u00edtica de la segunda mitad 8 del siglo XX en Latinoam\u00e9rica.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1520", "words": "8810", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cA Stout Heart Crushes Ill-Luck?\u201d: Materialism, British Masculinity, The Western Front, and the Changing Meaning of Luck in the Late-nineteenth and Early-twentieth Century", "date": "2013", "keywords": "battlefield; british; century; class; control; good; london; luck; masculinity; men; new; soldiers; superstition; university; war; world; york", "summary": "While anthropologists contend that war luck was intensely fatalistic, luck had many more facets. In the post-war decades, war time luck was manifested in the documentary-fiction, memoirs, and fictional works written by war survivors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1521", "words": "4221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "none", "title": "Diagnosis of Late-Life Depression: A Critical Review", "date": "2013", "keywords": "adults; age; depression; life; research; symptoms", "summary": "The discovery that major depression and minor depression have different etiologies highlights the importance of differential diagnosis. Minor depression is also associated with deteriorating physical health, in contrast with major depression, which seems to be independent of physical health (Beekman et al., 1997).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1522", "words": "4500", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "none", "title": "The Impact Of Climate Change On The Mistiming Of Bird-Resource Phenologies", "date": "2013", "keywords": "birds; breeding; change; et al; food; migration; population", "summary": "More specifically, warming presents a potential issue for migratory bird populations, and those that do not change their migration timing to match their resources available are at a significant disadvantage (Burger et al., 2012). Due to these shifts in so many ecosystem dynamics, such as flower timing, herbivore interactions, and seasonal breeding, climate change is causing a large shift in the possibilities of population trajectories for migratory bird populations (Johansson & Jonz\u00e9n, 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1523", "words": "5063", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "none", "title": "Women in Caskets: Commodities in Shakespeare\u2019s Pericles", "date": "2013", "keywords": "casket; daughter; exchange; father; incest; marina; marriage; merchant; pericles", "summary": "Exchanges and reunited wealth take precedent in the scene, and amid the joyous reunion, Cerimon reminds Pericles of his buried wealth, claiming, before he reveals Thaisa\u2019s rescue story: The choice of the word \u201ccasket\u201d in these early lines of Pericles brings to mind other famous Shakespearean caskets: the gold, silver and lead caskets with which Portia\u2019s deceased father negotiates her marriage in The Merchant of Venice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1524", "words": "7995", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "none", "title": "Examining the Mythic Past: 1950 Westerns and Interdisciplinary Interpretation*", "date": "2013", "keywords": "american; arrow; cold; corkin; edwards; film; gunfighter; indians; john; kilpatrick; new; pippin; searchers; shane; slotkin; western", "summary": "Since the golden era of Western film, the idea of the lone cowboy has leached into American political and cultural space, patrolling the range, acting righteously even if doing so requires a descent into the savage behavior of the dehumanized Other, upholding an ambiguous and necessarily racist (according to the cowboy) moral code. Indeed, Western films embodied an American cultural language produced and accepted by filmmakers and audiences alike which now exposes for interdisciplinary scholars latent information not so much about the eras portrayed in film as the time during which and the people by and for whom they were made.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1525", "words": "8772", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "False Patriots: American Mercenaries and the Fight for Independence*", "date": "2013", "keywords": "adams; allen; american; arnold; charlottesville; digital; jefferson; new; new york; papers; press; revolution; revolutionary; university; virginia; war; washington; york", "summary": "On a final side note, Canadian historian Barry Wilson has argued for Saratoga, Washington appointed Arnold military commander of a politically rancorous Philadelphia in 1778.13 Repeatedly libeled by fellow officers and ignored by Congress for promotions, Arnold sought to preserve what he valued most: \u201cI cannot draw my sword until my reputation, which is dearer than my life, is cleared up.\u201d14 Six months earlier, Benedict Arnold captured Fort Ticonderoga and secured the canons that would liberate Boston; but just four years later he would become early America\u2019s most infamous defector.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1526", "words": "10894", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Warrior, Hero, Mentor: The Influence of Prince Peter Bagration on the Fictional Protagonists of War and Peace*", "date": "2013", "keywords": "andrei; army; bagration; battle; general; ibid; lion; mikaberidze; military; nikolai; peace; peter; prince; prince bagration; rostov; russian; tolstoy; war", "summary": "The role of General Prince Peter Bagration as a literary character is less apparent. Similarly Leo Tolstoy in his epic, War and Peace, calls Prince Bagration \u201cthe hero of heroes,\u201d2 while spending little time developing his character, especially when compared to other significant historical figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Prince General Mikhail Kutuzov.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1527", "words": "5010", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "none", "title": "A Good Beyond Sanity: Immanuel Kant and Ivan Karamazov on the Justifiability of Human Suffering", "date": "2013", "keywords": "antagonism; capacities; dostoevsky; human; ibid; kant; karamazov", "summary": "It requires that human beings form an agreement with each other, a law or a constitution, that protects both the rule of society and the freedom of the individual.33 Social antagonism inspires the creation of \u201ca perfectly just civic constitution,\u201d or of the commonwealth. One of the difficulties with social antagonism is that it can lead to the domination of one particular human being, or group of human beings, and the repression of all other human beings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1528", "words": "5829", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "Lipstick Signification and Written Flirtation: Gendering Metaphor in Locke\u2019s \u201cThe Abuse of Words\u201d*", "date": "2013", "keywords": "black; doeuff; language; locke; metaphor; philosophy; sex", "summary": "Instead of looking at the appearance and impact of sex metaphors in philosophical texts, I will discuss how the linguistic mechanism of metaphor itself, and figurative language at large, has been cast as an inferior and feminine mode of expression in philosophy. Here I do not mean that there is something inherently \u2018feminine\u2019 revealed in the use of figurative language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1529", "words": "8350", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "none", "title": "PTSD in Pre-School Children: A Review and Synthesis of Research on the Need for a Separate DSM Category*", "date": "2013", "keywords": "age; cases; children; criteria; dsm; event(s; ptsd; scheeringa; symptoms; traumatic", "summary": "The diagnostic criteria are therefore centralized around adults, yet young children are diagnosed under the same category (Kaminer, Seedat, & Stein, 2005). However, the focus is still on having enough symptoms at a certain frequency, rather than concentrating on the intensity of the symptoms and the level of impairment, which are found to be more discriminatory for younger children (Carrion, Weems, Ray, & Reiss, 2002; Cohen & Scheeringa, 2009).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1530", "words": "8685", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "none", "title": "The Legitimacy and Etiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder*", "date": "2013", "keywords": "abuse; alters; amnesia; disorder; identities; identity; memory; model; patients; scm; symptoms", "summary": "The Legitimacy and Etiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder Alexandra M Henning Psychology Abstract There exists a significant amount of disputation surrounding both the legitimacy and etiology of dissociative identity disorder (DID); two separate conflicts that are not mutually exclusive. The Legitimacy and Etiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder A significant amount of controversy has surrounded the legitimacy of a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID \u2013 previously known as multiple personality disorder, MPD), particularly within the framework of disagreements on the disorders etiology.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1531", "words": "6133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cHow Are Things in Glocca Morra?\u201d: Vilifying Capitalism and Prejudice through a Socialist Utopia in Finian\u2019s Rainbow*", "date": "2013", "keywords": "american; finian; gold; harburg; musical; new; rainbow; rawkins; senator; sharon; valley", "summary": "When the sheriff arrives to collect taxes at the start of the play, the citizens of Rainbow Valley protest. \u201cLook to the Rainbow\u201d: Socialist Utopia in Rainbow Valley The musical theatre genre is characterized by the conventions of heightened realism; when characters break out into songs and choreographed dance routines, the audience is required to suspend their disbelief if they still want to earnestly appreciate the characters\u2019 journeys.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1532", "words": "6527", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cIn His Light See Light\u201d: The Influence of Augustine on Ratzinger\u2019s Perspective on Creation*", "date": "2013", "keywords": "augustine; beings; creation; faith; god; ratzinger; spirit; spiritual; time; world", "summary": "As a doctoral student at the University of Munich, Ratzinger focused his dissertation on Volk und haus Gottes in Augustins lehre von der kirche (The People and the House of God in Augustine\u2019s Doctrine of the Church).4 For example, in dismissing any concept of God as artisan, Ratzinger echoes Augustine\u2019s aversion to this simile.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1695", "words": "6059", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "none", "title": "Wise Sex: Affirmation of Human Sexuality and Female Desire in the Song of Songs", "date": "2014", "keywords": "bergant; biblical; desire; ibid; love; lovers; sexuality; song; sparks; wisdom; woman", "summary": "Whereas this paper argues that the Song\u2019s wisdom lies in its call for mutuality in relationships and affirmation of human sexuality, Sparks argues that the Song was meant for a rather limited audience\u2014adolescent Jewish women\u2014 and that it focuses on \u201chow young women can avoid being hurt and disappointed in the world of young love. The role of women is often overlooked or only highlighted in reference to reproductive capabilities\u2014after all, women were a sort of male-owned property.27 Exum notes that sexual desire in the Bible, the Song notwithstanding, is depicted as risky, in need of control, under strict codes, and a predominantly male characteristic.28 Walsh explains several standard descriptions of biblical sex that contrast with the Song of Songs, making it an even more extraordinary addition to the Hebrew Scriptures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1708", "words": "4712", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "Mathematical Models of the Metastasis of Cancer*", "date": "2014", "keywords": "body; cancer; cells; metastatic; model; process; tumor", "summary": "Metastatic cancer cells can move either by direct contact with new organ sites or through the blood or lymphatic systems of the body, but there is a generally accepted path process for this spread (1). Microsoft Word - *Hoban - Mathematical Sciences.docx \u00a0 [CONCEPT, Vol. XXXVII (2014)] A Review of Mathematical Models of Metastatic Cancer Katrina Hoban Mathematical Sciences \u00a0 I. Introduction: The metastatic process of cancer When cancer cells detach from an original tumor site to spread throughout the body, it is called metastasis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1718", "words": "6824", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "none", "title": "NAGPRA and the Penn Museum: Reconciling Science and the Sacred*", "date": "2014", "keywords": "american; artifacts; collections; items; museum; nagpra; native; objects; penn; people; remains; repatriation; sacred; tlingit; university", "summary": "Composed jointly with members of several Native American Nations, most notably Hopi journalist and filmmaker Patty Talahongva, it will provide inside interpretations of these cultures (Figure 6).39 As Lead Curator of the exhibit, Williams reveals that the intent of Native American Voices is to express \u201cthat Native people are alive and relevant today, to convey issues of importance in the Native American community, and to teach people about what is going on today in Indian Country from the perspective of some of today\u2018s Native American leaders.\u201d40 Reconciling Science and the Sacred Jennifer L. Putnam History and Nonprofit Management On November 16, 1990, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1720", "words": "6648", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "none", "title": "Too inhuman: The Destabilization of Empire in Woolf's The Voyage Out*", "date": "2014", "keywords": "empire; human; mediators; novel; objects; rachel; social; terence; voyage; woolf; world", "summary": "\u201cHumans beings,\u201d so often the subject of Rachel\u2019s gaze (135) and thoughts are revealed to be controlled by non-human mediators, a revelation that upsets anthropocentric imperatives in the novel. His project seeks to read Woolf\u2019s writings in light of a post-humanist conception of the world, which \u201caccounts for the material entanglements of humans with non-human objects, animals, and environments\u201d (12), a theory informed by Gilles Deleuze.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1724", "words": "8762", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "none", "title": "A Statesman Divided? Abraham Lincoln's Views on Race", "date": "2014", "keywords": "abraham; abraham lincoln; douglas; equality; ibid; lincoln; negro; public; race; rights; slavery", "summary": "Lincoln masterfully crafted his remarks to \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1 George M. Fredrickson, Big Enough To Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008), 41. \u00a0 4 Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln on Race & Slavery, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1725", "words": "4117", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "none", "title": "The Impact of Nitrogen Eutrophication on Caribbean Coral Reefs: A Review*", "date": "2014", "keywords": "coral; disease; effects; et al; eutrophication; levels; nitrogen; pollution; rates; reefs", "summary": "Nutrient enrichment on coral reefs: is it a major cause of coral reef decline? The effects of nitrogen eutrophication on coral reefs was investigated in this review.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1728", "words": "6771", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "I Trust the Gospel and All Its Contents: The Disputation of Jirji the Monk and Medieval Islamic Knowledge of the Bible", "date": "2014", "keywords": "arabic; bible; christianity; christians; god; ibid; islam; islamic; jews; mohammad; qur\u2019an", "summary": "The Monk explains that, in all that time, and with the incredible extent of Christianity\u2014which the Moslem does not dispute, but in fact says that there were more Christians then \u201cthan there are now\u201d\u2014there would have been no way 49 Ibid. Jirji\u2019s successes at defending Christianity against the Muslims, and his clever arguments against Islam, seem to have been a very popular read among Coptic Christians, who had six manuscripts of the Disputation dating at least to the seventeenth century.1 The narrative, written as part of a genre of Christian literature dedicated to defending the truth of Christianity, succeeds in bolstering the religion, always an important goal for Christians, but particularly during an era of crusades.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1736", "words": "4581", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "none", "title": "In What Sense is the Prototokos a Kosmos? Origen's Exegesis of John 8:32*", "date": "2014", "keywords": "kosmos; marcus; order; origen; sense; wisdom; world; \u03ba\u03cc\u03c3\u00b5\u03bf\u03c2", "summary": "The word translated as \u201cworld\u201d in John\u2019s gospel and in Origen\u2019s text is \u03ba\u03cc\u03c3\u00b5\u03bf\u03c2 (kosmos). The light must be one of a metaphorical sense, since \u201cthe sun is the light of the world perceived by the senses\u201d (\u03b1\u1f30\u03c3\u03b8\u03b7\u03c4\u1f78\u03c2 \u03ba\u03cc\u03c3\u00b5\u03bf\u03c2).21 Origen thus supposes that \u201cthe Savior is the light of the spiritual world (\u03bd\u03bf\u03b7\u03c4\u1f78\u03c2 \u03ba\u03cc\u03c3\u00b5\u03bf\u03c2) because he shines on those who are rational and intellectual, that their mind may see its proper visions.\u201d22", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1737", "words": "4268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cNone but I bestir me\u201d: Failed Elegy as the Absence of Communal Language in Kyd\u2019s The Spanish Tragedy", "date": "2014", "keywords": "community; elegy; grief; hieronimo; isabella; language; speech", "summary": "If we agree with Nagy that public delivery and communal consumption are constituent features of formal elegy, then Hieronimo\u2019s dirge fails in its elegiac capacity precisely because it does not adequately \u201ccommunalize\u201d his grief. Under my argument, elegiac language has the same fate if it is not communally produced according to a process similar to the one described by Nagy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1738", "words": "4210", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "none", "title": "The Process and Implications of Self-Stigma in Schizophrenia", "date": "2014", "keywords": "corrigan; illness; schizophrenia; self; stigma; watson", "summary": "Brohan, Slade, Clement, and Thornicroft (2010) reviewed measures of the three aspects of stigma: perceived stigma (how the individual thinks society views him or her as a member of the stigmatized group), experienced stigma (experience of actual discrimination on the grounds of the stigmatized individual\u2019s perceived inferiority), and self-stigma (internalization of the shame, blame, hopelessness, guilt, and fear of discrimination associated with mental illness). Additionally, perceived stigma was assessed in 79% of the studies, experienced stigma in 46% of the studies, and self-stigma in only 33% of the studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1739", "words": "5142", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Dr. No and Dr. Strangelove: Cold War Anxiety in Film, 1962-1964*", "date": "2014", "keywords": "american; bond; candidate; cold; conflict; film; new; soviet; strangelove; war", "summary": "No and From Russia with Love, the first two installments of the adventures of Mi6 Special Agent James Bond 007, and the classic Cold War thrillers The Manchurian Candidate and Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb remain a vibrant part of the pop culture zeitgeist. By choosing to adapt Dr. No first, instead of another of Ian Fleming\u2019s books, the moviemakers \u201ccleverly connect Bond\u2019s adventure to the real concerns of the American audience about the actual Cold War space race, perhaps making Bond\u2019s story seem more realistic.\u201d7", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1749", "words": "4099", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Artemisia's Revenge: Rape and Art in the Work of Jean-Luc Nancy", "date": "2014", "keywords": "artemisia; image; nancy; sense; subject; violence", "summary": "To image violence, then, would be to make a representation of violence that is at the same time distinct from violence. In his paper \u201cImage and Violence\u201d, Nancy (2005b) defines violence as \u201cthe application of a force that remains foreign to the dynamic or energetic system into which it intervenes\u201d (16).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1830", "words": "10185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "The Untold Stories of Mormonism Exposed: Material Culture, Dime Novels, and Mormonism in American Society", "date": "2015", "keywords": "american; beadle; books; century; cover; dime; dime novels; history; lds; library; mormonism; mormons; new; new york; novels; pamphlets; press; regan; university; villanova; york", "summary": "Microsoft Word - Gorman Final Version -- for online.docx [CONCEPT, Vol. XXXVIII (2015)] The Untold Stories of Mormonism Exposed: Material Culture, Dime Novels, and Mormonism in American Society Daniel Gorman Jr. History Mormonism Exposed, a dime novel that librarian Demian Katz acquired for Villanova University Special Collections, is stored with a group of dime novels classified as the John Regan Five Cent Pamphlets. This paper is an object biography of Mormonism Exposed, considering the book in relation to dime novels and American Mormonism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1831", "words": "10033", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "none", "title": "Biofeedback and Anxiety Disorders: A Critical Review of EMG, EEG, and HRV Feedback", "date": "2015", "keywords": "alpha; anxiety; anxiety disorder; biofeedback; control; disorder; eeg; emg; et al; heart; hrv; panic; patients; rate; research; training; treatment", "summary": "In this paper, I will review the available research on biofeedback treatments for anxiety disorders, a project I restrict to those anxiety disorders within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) categorization; I focus on those disorders that have received enough attention in the field to draw at least preliminary conclusions (panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and similar historical diagnoses). It has also been used to treat the more cognitive components of anxiety disorders and may be more effective in those disorders in which the cognitive experience is central, such as generalized anxiety disorder (Schoenberg & David, 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1834", "words": "9516", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cIf I Get Home Safe\u201d: William C. White\u2019s Experiences in the American Civil War", "date": "2015", "keywords": "69th; battle; c. white; catholic; civil; irish; letters; mc17; parents; philadelphia; states; union; war; white; william; william c.", "summary": "In fact, Modell and Lees point out that Philadelphia in 1850 had the sixth largest population of Irish people in the \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 31 Ancestry, \u201cWilliam White,\u201d in 1880 Census; Declaration for an Original Disability Pension: William C. White, Letters, 1861-1869 (MC17). 24 Ancestry, \u201cWilliam White,\u201d in 1880 Census. 25 This information was derived by combining White\u2019s discussions on 12th street and the fact that S. 12th Street was located in the ethnic neighborhood of Moyamensing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1835", "words": "5523", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "none", "title": "Application of a Markov Chain Traffic Model to the Greater Philadelphia Region", "date": "2015", "keywords": "exit; highway; matrix; model; number; time; traffic; vehicles", "summary": "This relation describes how an object in the (i, j)th slot in a matrix A0 \u2208 \u211c will end up in the (f(i), j + \u03c3(object))th slot of another matrix A1 \u2208 \u211c during one time step, where \ud835\udf0e \ud835\udc5c\ud835\udc4f\ud835\udc57\ud835\udc52\ud835\udc50\ud835\udc61 = 1, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0with \u00a0probability \u00a0\ud835\udc5d \u00a0 2, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0with \u00a0probability \u00a0\ud835\udc5e 3, with \u00a0probability \u00a0\ud835\udc5f \ud835\udc5d + \ud835\udc5e + \ud835\udc5f = 1 and \ud835\udc53: \ud835\udc56 \u21a6 {\ud835\udc56, \ud835\udc56 + 1, \ud835\udc56 \u2212 1} \u00a0 Mesoscopic Models Another category of traffic models, called mesoscopic or kinetic traffic models, examines vehicular movements as parts of a larger scale mechanism. If we are interested in what traffic density is like at the next time interval, the formula for qt+1 can be used: \ud835\udc2a\ud835\udc95!\ud835\udfcf = \ud835\udc63 \ud835\udc61 \ud835\udc2a\ud835\udc95 \u2219 \ud835\udc0f + 1 \u2212 \ud835\udc63 \ud835\udc61 \ud835\udc2a\ud835\udc95 = (2045, 3067, 2617.5, 4090, 5112.5, 3272.5, 4295)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1836", "words": "5739", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "none", "title": "Red Ink Algorithms: \"Wandering Rocks\" as a Virtual City*", "date": "2015", "keywords": "city; dublin; games; joyce; narrative; rocks; space; video; world", "summary": "\u201cWandering Rocks,\u201d like video game cities, functions on an algorithm. Today, in the era of virtual reality and video games, users are accustomed to algorithmically-assisted immersion in fictional worlds: the pixelated barkeep in a video game is not actually serving customers when the player leaves the inn, but the immersed player will pretend he did when the coding spawns empty ale steins on the player\u2019s next visit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1857", "words": "7869", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "none", "title": "Inequality in the Caribbean: A Case Study of Hispaniola", "date": "2015", "keywords": "democracy; development; economy; growth; haiti; ibid; inequality; institutions; latin; underdevelopment; world", "summary": "In \u201cWhat Makes Countries Rich or Poor?\u201d Diamond critiques the work of Acemoglu et al. and argues that alongside institution building, the geography of a state should be considered as a factor impacting power, prosperity, and poverty in a country.28 Diamond suggests that Rodrik et al. make a valid argument that politics and political institutions determine what economic institution the country will have, but also notes that the challenges geography poses complicates this process. Additionally, I argue that the Dominican Republic\u2019s willingness to adopt democratic values is key to why the eastern-most part of Hispaniola experiences stronger political institutions, better economic growth, and less overall political and economic inequality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1858", "words": "3463", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "none", "title": "Letting the Finite Vanish: Hegel, Tillich, and Caputo on the Ontological Philosophy of Religion*", "date": "2015", "keywords": "god; hegel; philosophy; religion; tillich", "summary": "The Two Types of Philosophy of Religion In \u201cThe Two Types of Philosophy of Religion,\u201d Tillich lays out two modes of approaching God: (1) ontological philosophy of religion and (2) cosmological philosophy of religion. Reframing the Problem: Post-Kantian and Post-Hegelian Philosophy of Religion The distinctions discussed above are valuable in sorting out the contemporary debates in continental philosophy of religion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1861", "words": "9517", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Seventh Fleet Standoff: A Two-Cut Analysis of the Decision to Neutralize Taiwan in June 1950*", "date": "2015", "keywords": "acheson; allison; china; ddrs; decision; invasion; june; military; policy; state; taiwan; truman; u.s", "summary": "52 Martin L. Lasater, The Taiwan Conundrum in U.S. China Policy (Boulder: Westview Press, 2000), p. 50. 84 Lasater, The Taiwan Conundrum in U.S. China Policy, p. 115.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-1881", "words": "6611", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "Rousseau on Health: A Study of Our Relations", "date": "2015", "keywords": "body; emile; health; man; pity; rousseau; sickness; suffering", "summary": "In what follows, I begin by addressing what Rousseau says about the body in a general sense, highlighting the causal connections he draws between the strength of body and the development of mind and, secondly, the importance they each hold for the cultivation of virtue. I suggested in the introduction to this essay that Rousseau gives us reason to be suspicious of any diametric between the mind and the body and asserts that the cultivation of body and soul or of body and mind are for one another: they \u201cgrow together,\u201d and each is \u201cextended by the other\u201d (118).5 Nonetheless, his insistence on the importance of exercise \u201cin order to make [Emile] wise and reasonable\u201d (118; emphasis mine) implies that the healthy body is a necessary condition for intelligence and virtue, and that one is inaugurated by the other.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2074", "words": "9254", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "none", "title": "Purchasing the Status: Religious Confraternities in Late-Colonial Venezuela", "date": "2016", "keywords": "almsgiving; brotherhood; brothers; caracas; church; colonial; concept; confraternity; de la; members; pesos; reales; san; venezuela; vol; xxxix", "summary": "El gobernador de Caracas. Don Francisco de Arreste y Reina, vecino de Caracas, mayordomo de la cofrad\u00eda del sant\u00edsimo de la iglesia de San Pablo, pide se aprueben las constituciones de dicha cofrad\u00eda.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2075", "words": "2909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "none", "title": "The Phylogeny of New World Chickadees in the family Paridae", "date": "2016", "keywords": "chickadee; paridae; phylogeny; species; tit", "summary": "In 2005 Frank Gill, formerly of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, elevated five of these suggestions to genera (Gill et al., 2005). Important to these changes was removing all New World taxa from Parus, with the seven chickadees placed in Poecile and the five crested titmice placed in Baeolophus (Gill et al., 2005).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2076", "words": "7166", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cThe Shadow in the Windowpane\u201d: Containment, Privacy, and Censorship in Pale Fire", "date": "2016", "keywords": "american; cold; concept; fire; gradus; kinbote; nabokov; narrative; poem; privacy; shade; war", "summary": "This narrative, which I refer to as the Zemblan narrative, reveals that Charles Kinbote is really Charles Xavier, the exiled king of a northern European country named Zembla; Xavier was overthrown by a populist plot and had to flee to a remote college town in America, where he lives disguised as Kinbote a professor of literature. Accordingly, he functions as Shade\u2019s diametrical opposite and as such is fully accessible to Kinbote: his actions are fully legible and he is completely knowable (even if, as Kinbote claims, there is not much to know).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2077", "words": "4892", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "71", "author": "none", "title": "La pluma del \u00e1guila imperial y cat\u00f3lica: La vida de San Juan de Sahag\u00fan como validaci\u00f3n de la iglesia y monarqu\u00eda en Espa\u00f1a*", "date": "2016", "keywords": "butler; cat\u00f3licos; como; concept; del; era; espa\u00f1a; figura; iglesia; introducci\u00f3n; isabel; juan; juan de; las; los; orden; osorio; para; por; print; que; reyes; sahag\u00fan; san; san juan; sus; una; vol; xxxix; \u00e1guila", "summary": "En figuras 3 y 4, podemos ver el \u00e1guila en los brazos de San Juan el Evangelista en el \u00e1bside de la iglesia de San Clement de Tahull en Catalu\u00f1a (siglo XII)6. El contexto hist\u00f3rico Se puede considerar el ministerio de San Juan de Sahag\u00fan durante el siglo XV como heraldo de la pol\u00edtica unificadora, reformadora y extremadamente cat\u00f3lica de Isabel I de Castilla y su esposo, Fernando II de Arag\u00f3n (Paredes-M\u00e9ndez et al. 58).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2078", "words": "11535", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "none", "title": "From the Frontlines to Silent Spring: DDT and America\u2019s War on Insects, 1941-1962*", "date": "2016", "keywords": "advertisement; american; bugs; carson; chemical; companies; concept; consumers; ddt; health; insects; killing; malaria; military; new; pacific; pesticide; press; science; spring; vol; war; world; world war; xxxix", "summary": "Advertisements for products like Industrial Management Corporation\u2019s new DDT aerosol bug bomb, known as INSECT-O-BLITZ, a name used to emphasize the effectiveness of the product, told consumers that the product \u201ckills moths, all mosquitoes, all gnats and other disease bearing flying insects THE U.S. ARMY WAY.\u201d65 Citizens who had been \u201cpawing the ground in eagerness\u201d for DDT since its debut in Naples purchased the pesticide in large quantities.61 By the end of 1945, DDT sales skyrocketed with chemical companies such as Merck reported over $61.1 million in domestic sales and over thirty million pounds of DDT sold to consumers and farmers between August and December.62 Demand for the product was so great that stores had difficulty keeping it in stock.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2079", "words": "5880", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "none", "title": "Analysis of Fractals from a Mathematical and Real-World Perspective", "date": "2016", "keywords": "concept; dimension; fractal; july; koch; mandelbrot; number; set; triangle; web", "summary": "The mass method involves \u201ccounting of border pixels in a sampling region, such as disc diameters, as a function of the sizes of the sample regions\u201d when given a digital representation of the image (Smith, Lange, and Marks, \u201cFractal methods...\u201d). = A\ud835\udc5f\ud835\udc51, where \u00b5(r) is the number of pixels (considered mass), r is the length of the edge of the boxes or circle diameter, A is a pre-factor (a CONCEPT, Vol. XXXIX (2016) 11 periodic function whose period is independent of the fractal dimension), D is the mass fractional dimension or slope of the plot of log \u00b5(r) vs. log r. (Smith, Lange, and Marks, \u201cFractal methods...\u201d).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2080", "words": "10383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "The Writing Living in Papyrus and Wool", "date": "2016", "keywords": "ancient; concept; greece; greek; knowledge; living; logos; new; papyrus; phaedrus; plato; practice; press; technology; vol; weaving; wool; writing; xxxix", "summary": "CONCEPT, Vol. XXXIX (2016) \u00a0 9 literary sense that Plato would term papyrus writing and the papyrus rolled scrolls of his age as pharmakon. These approaches, although important, tend to occlude the brute, material circumstances of ancient writing as well as Plato\u2019s particular, lived experience of \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1 Phaedrus 276A. (Plato.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2081", "words": "8215", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "none", "title": "Forced Labor in Latin America: Case Studies of Bolivia, Chile and Peru*", "date": "2016", "keywords": "bolivia; chile; country; human; international; labor; labor trafficking; laws; peru; reports; research; rights; sex; slavery; state; trafficking; workers", "summary": "21 Zhang, \u201cMeasuring Labor Trafficking,\u201d 470; Weitzer, \u201cNew Directions in Research,\u201d 7. 22 Nazli Avdan, \u201cHuman Trafficking and Migration Control Policy: Vicious or Virtuous Cycle?,\u201d Journal of Public Policy 32, no. 3 (December 2012): 193. 23 Ibid., 176. Sheldon X. Zhang et al., \u201cEstimating Labor Trafficking among Unauthorized Migrant Workers in San Diego,\u201d The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 653, no. 1 (May 1, 2014): 65\u201386.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2082", "words": "7733", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "none", "title": "Third Gender and the Third World: Tracing Social and Legal Acceptance of the Transgender Community in Developing Countries", "date": "2016", "keywords": "acceptance; aids; community; concept; countries; country; hiv; rights; sex; transgender; vol; world; xxxix; y es; yes", "summary": "58 Bibbi Abruzzini, \u201cFeature: Nepal NGO is working to protect transgender sex workers,\u201d Xinhua, 4 September 2014. As previously mentioned, scholarly work on transgender acceptance is minimal, especially in relation to developing countries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2083", "words": "6412", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "none", "title": "From Peasant to Queen: The Necessity of Realism in Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats\u2019s Kathleen Ni Houlihan", "date": "2016", "keywords": "abbey; abbey theatre; houlihan; irish; kathleen; ni houlihan; theatre; times; yeats", "summary": "The way individuals respond to this collision of the extraordinary with the normal is what Kathleen Ni Houlihan \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 57 Abbey Theatre. The Necessity of Realism in Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats\u2019s Kathleen Ni Houlihan Amanda Coffin Theatre The collaboration of William Butler Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in the writing of their 1902 play Kathleen Ni Houlihan has been painstakingly outlined and examined by numerous scholars of early Irish Drama.1 Thanks to this scholarly work, sole authorship of the play is no longer credited solely to Yeats, and Kathleen Ni Houlihan must henceforth be considered a Yeats-Gregory collaboration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2084", "words": "7737", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "The \u03b4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 of Pauline Literature: Slavery and Freedom in the New Testament Epistles*", "date": "2016", "keywords": "god; group; human; jesus; members; paul; pauline; slavery; slaves; understanding", "summary": "Slaveholders encouraged education and could place slaves in high governmental positions; furthermore, slaves could own property, could participate in religious and cultural traditions like a freeborn, were not prohibited from public assembly, and could anticipate freedom after the age of 30.11 Slaves were not in their own social class, but often reflected that of their masters.12 The prospect of manumission was true and legitimate for most slaves who could survive until such an age, ensuring motivation for hard work and self-discipline. Furthermore, slavery was brutal since \u201cSlaves were estranged from their family and ethnic backgrounds\u2026 undergoing a death experience on a social level,\u201d due to the familial nature of ancient culture.15 Further scholars in the tradition of Patterson, including Bradley, assert that slavery was not palatable in any way, but the likely possibility of freedom and familial life ensured its survival.16 Glancy reasons that total subjection to the master included sexual exploitation, thus denying slaves even a modicum of their natural autonomy.17 One redeeming attribute discovered by Brown reminds scholars that, since slavery was an aspect of business, masters had reasons to protect slaves as an investment, just as slaves had reason to promote their master.18 Though the intention behind this reality is less than charitable, the fact remains that slaves were able to benefit from their master\u2019s pragmatic 10 Ibid., 119.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2181", "words": "5954", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "none", "title": "United States Propaganda in Iran and the Cold War Paradigm", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cia; department; document; iran; iranian; nsa; propaganda; state; u.s; united", "summary": "However, declassified documents also reveal that U.S. propaganda relied on arguments that actually undermined Orientalist ideas by showing commonalities between the West and Iran. 4 Therefore, anti-communist propaganda by the U.S. was not strictly intended to stop the spread of Communism, but rather to thwart Soviet propaganda that undermined U.S. interests by speaking to the concerns of Iranian nationalists.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2182", "words": "8293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "none", "title": "The Barroom Blitz: Competing Neural Underliers of Impulsive Aggressive Phenotype Have Different Implications in Antisocial Personality Disorder", "date": "2017", "keywords": "amygdala; aspd; bpd; disorder; ied; patients; personality; psychopathy; stimuli", "summary": "Clearly the inverse of the typical psychopath, this is a high emotional-responder with poor impulse control, as indicated by high limbic system response to emotional stimuli and potential threats, and impaired or abnormal prefrontal performance during attempts to inhibit emotional responses. In healthy individuals, the amygdala mediates rapid attention to emotional stimuli, particularly threat.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2186", "words": "7159", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "none", "title": "The Flint Water Crisis: A Narrative with Administrative Recommendations*", "date": "2017", "keywords": "city; crisis; epa; flint; government; kennedy; lead; mdeq; public; state; water", "summary": "The\u00a0KWA\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0municipal\u00a0service\u00a0corporation\u00a0which\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 provides\u00a0water\u00a0to\u00a0a\u00a0large\u00a0portion\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Mid\u2010Michigan\u00a0region\u00a0where\u00a0Flint\u00a0is\u00a0located.\u00a0 As\u00a0a\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 result\u00a0Detroit\u00a0Water\u00a0and\u00a0Sewer\u00a0informed\u00a0Kurtz\u00a0that\u00a0it\u00a0would\u00a0no\u00a0longer\u00a0distribute\u00a0water\u00a0to\u00a0Flint\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 as\u00a0of\u00a0April\u00a02014,\u00a0thus\u00a0giving\u00a0the\u00a0city\u2019s\u00a0leaders\u00a0one\u00a0year\u00a0to\u00a0procure\u00a0an\u00a0intermediate\u00a0water\u00a0source\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 while\u00a0the\u00a0pipeline\u00a0was\u00a0being\u00a0constructed.\u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2189", "words": "4768", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "Optimization in Academia*", "date": "2017", "keywords": "course; faculty; model; teach", "summary": "Data on number of adjunct faculty, number of total faculty and number of sections per course n_c\u00a0 13\u00a0 n_a\u00a0 14\u00a0 n_k\u00a0 20\u00a0 n_1\u00a0 2\u00a0 n_2\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_3\u00a0 2\u00a0 n_4\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_5\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_6\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_7\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_8\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_9\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_10\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_11\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_12\u00a0 1\u00a0 n_13\u00a0 2\u00a0 \u00a0 Analysis\u00a0and\u00a0Verification\u00a0 \u00a0 For\u00a0ease\u00a0of\u00a0analysis\u00a0and\u00a0verification,\u00a0the\u00a0results\u00a0are\u00a0presented\u00a0in\u00a0table\u00a04.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Comparison of integer programming solution to course schedule developed by Program Director.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2191", "words": "6614", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "Ship of Fools: Democracy and Religious Performance in Melville's The Confidence-Man*", "date": "2017", "keywords": "chapter; characters; confidence; confidence man; cosmopolitan; democracy; man; melville; novel; print; ship; way", "summary": "20 In particular, he emphasizes that Melville marks the separation between the private religious self and the public, social self, and he identifies this stance as prefiguring philosophical works such as Charles Taylor\u2019s A Secular Age (a theoretical influence for this study as well). Microsoft Word - 2191 Butler 1 \u201cShip of Fools\u201d: Democracy and Religious Performance in Melville\u2019s The Confidence-Man James Butler English In Book VI of Plato\u2019s Republic, Socrates, illustrating a thought experiment, describes a mutiny aboard a ship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2192", "words": "6609", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "none", "title": "An Instrument of Gender: Re-evaluating the Role of the Male-Midwife and the Lying-in Chamber in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England", "date": "2017", "keywords": "academy; chamber; england; forceps; male; midwife; midwives; science; space; women", "summary": "24 Cody, 41. 25 Ibid., 41-42. 26 See Laurinda S. Dixon, Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine (Ithaca, New York 1995) for more information on physicians who engaged with women during illness. In 1673, just two years after the printing of Sharp\u2019s The Midwives Book, Hugh I (1620-1720), the son of Dr. Peter Chamberlens (1601-1683), had re-petitioned the Crown of England, as previous generations of his family had done, to patent an instrument by which his family had gained much notoriety for as practicing male midwives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2195", "words": "5624", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "none", "title": "In Her Shape How Lovely: The Habit of Virtue in Paradise Lost*", "date": "2017", "keywords": "adam; book; eve; god; milton; paradise; satan; virtue", "summary": "If virtue and the search for truth are connected, true virtue cannot be fully attained in this life. Souls that would possess true virtue must be united to \u201cthe heavenly grace of faith.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2196", "words": "7883", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "none", "title": "Ecological Landmarks in Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s Their Eyes Were Watching God: An Ecocritical and Feminist Reading", "date": "2017", "keywords": "cake; hurston; janie; joe; killicks; marriage; nanny; nature; pear; relationship; tea; tea cake; tree", "summary": "While Tea Cake betrays his and Janie\u2019s ecosystem resulting in ecological judgement, Janie immortalizes Tea Cake in her memories, the only place where he is not corrupted. Janie\u2019s hope for an egalitarian marriage derives directly from her relationship to and knowledge of nature, while Killicks\u2019 objectification of Janie mirrors his utilitarian view of nature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2197", "words": "6526", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "none", "title": "Nothing But a Good Man Feeling Bad: How Toomer Sings the Blues in Cane", "date": "2017", "keywords": "beauty; blues; cane; music; narrator; song; toomer; verse; way; white", "summary": "Jean Toomer\u2019s Cane evokes the cultural essence of the blues by employing techniques that actually transform Toomer\u2019s novel into a form of blues itself. Structurally and aesthetically, the book is not symbolic of the blues but actually functions as blues.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2200", "words": "4168", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "In thousand Liveries dight: Contemplating the Landscape in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso*", "date": "2017", "keywords": "companion; il penseroso; landscapes; l\u2019allegro; milton; penseroso; poems", "summary": "Milton depicts Il Penseroso, by contrast, as a \u201cscholar-errant roaming in a gothic landscape\u2026\u201d30 Il Penseroso truly has more free time \u2013 as he Repetto 11 can spend midnights in his lonely tower (86-87) or his days napping by a river (139-149) \u2013 but his reputation as a \u201cscholar-errant\u201d marks his true class superiority. Microsoft Word - 2200 Repetto Repetto 1 In Thousand Liveries Dight: Contemplating Landscape in Milton\u2019s L\u2019Allegro and Il Penseroso William Anthony Repetto English L\u2019Allegro and Il Penseroso present two ostensibly juxtaposed visions of the poetic imagination.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2202", "words": "4746", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "none", "title": "Our Lord Hitler: An Historical Basis for the Theocracy in Swastika Night", "date": "2017", "keywords": "burdiken; germany; history; hitler; ideology; nazi; new; night; religion; swastika", "summary": "(Adolf Hitler, qtd. (Fest Hitler 533) Hitler was on a messianic mission to conquer the world and to literally sow the seeds of a pure Aryan race, which alone had the capacity to realize the best sort of society for mankind.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2261", "words": "9025", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "none", "title": "From Tribe to Nation: Assessing the Influence of Political Exclusion and Access to Mobilization Resources on Kurdish Ethnonationalism", "date": "2018", "keywords": "ethnonationalism; exclusion; identity; inclusion; iran; iraq; kurdish; kurds; new; salience; state; turkey", "summary": "Coherence is measured by the presence and cohesiveness of Kurdish political goals as expressed by organized entities, which include political parties but are not limited to legalized channels. Moderate Kurdish political groups were tolerated and Tehran intermittently negotiated with the KDPI.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2263", "words": "8008", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "none", "title": "Lyric Messene: Collaborative Ethnogenesis and Historical Narrative", "date": "2018", "keywords": "alcock; cambridge; city; cult; harvard; identity; luraghi; lyric; messene; messenian; new; oxford; pausanias; press; spartan; traditions; university; \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76", "summary": "For the god of Ithome took (or takes) pleasure in the Muse who is pure and wears free sandals.17 These verses emphasize Messenian cult tradition (Zeus of Ithome) and the heritage of a free Messenian territory (\u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u03cd\u03b8\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c3\u03ac\u03bc\u03b2\u03b1\u03bb\u1fbd \u1f14\u03c7\u03bf\u03b9\u03c3\u03b1). While criticism of Messenian tradition is certainly warranted, ethnogenesis was not simply cynical propaganda on the part of the Thebans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2264", "words": "7864", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "none", "title": "An Inappropriate Football \u201cFormation\u201d: Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s 2016 Super Bowl Performance, Mystery, and the Narratives of Football and Race in America", "date": "2018", "keywords": "beyonc\u00e9; bowl; change; communication; event; football; meaning; pearce; people; performance; race; sports; super", "summary": "This dedication to a story is what Pearce (1989) calls \u201cenmeshment,\u201d and it can have serious implications for social meaning creation. The constructionist perspective puts the power of meaning creation and construction into the hands of collective communication, and thus the entirety of human life is made up of constructed meanings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2275", "words": "6391", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cMarriage is the tomb of trust and love\u201d: Marriage and Divorce in Olympe de Gouges\u2019 Plays", "date": "2018", "keywords": "de gouges; divorce; gouges; marriage; ninon; olympe; revolution; wife; women", "summary": "It is not surprising De Gouges was a strong advocate for the right to divorce. In Le Mariage de Ch\u00e9rubin, De Gouges voices her opinion about forced marriage through the character Figaro, who compares it to religious vows: \u201cthe intended will say Yes, as if she were saying her vows.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2276", "words": "5576", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "Which On-Base Percentage Shows the Highest True Ability of a Baseball Player?", "date": "2018", "keywords": "ability; appearances; distribution; model; obp; plate", "summary": "Using the Second Model Table 2 gives posterior true abilities, posterior standard deviations, and average plate appearances for the corresponding top ten OBP\u2019s and the corresponding bottom ten OBP\u2019s using the second model (We were able to find the posterior mean for plate appearances with this model). The binomial distribution B(n, p) is a probability mass function (probability distribution function for discrete random variables) that models the number of successes or failures of n independent identical trials where each trial only has an outcome of a success with probability p or failure with probability 1\u2212 p.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2277", "words": "8796", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Reimagining the American Revolution: Jonathan Boucher\u2019s Loyalist Perspective", "date": "2018", "keywords": "american; american revolution; annapolis; boucher; british; church; colonies; colonists; ibid; jonathan; revolution; state; virginia; washington", "summary": "In 1738, Jonathan Boucher was born in Cumberland County, England, to parents of great talents, but meager resources.8 Although Boucher\u2019s father received an ample inheritance, he constantly drew on it as he struggled to find success in the business world. Although Boucher often spoke about the importance of reason and rationality, his experience illustrates how central his relationships and emotions were to navigating and interpreting the budding American Revolution.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2278", "words": "7435", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "none", "title": "Back from the Dead: Rediscovering Value in John Okada\u2019s No-No Boy and John Williams\u2019s Stoner", "date": "2018", "keywords": "american; boy; experience; novel; okada; stoner; text; universal; value; way; white; writing", "summary": "However, this does not mean ethnic texts, like No-No Boy, should be read as simply expressions of a universal experience, a term that is purposefully vague so as to act as a \u201cplaceholder\u201d for larger cultural assumptions, because universalizing its experience denies it the ability to speak to power. Appropriating the aesthetic privilege of white texts for ethnic texts should not be used to erase the hyper-specific textual signifiers that make the text ethnic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2279", "words": "7041", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "none", "title": "Is Stephen Dedalus a Vampire? Bodily Breath, Creation, and Art in \u201cProteus\u201d and \u201cAeolus\u201d", "date": "2018", "keywords": "art; artist; bloom; breath; creation; dead; mouth; poem; stephen; ulysses; words", "summary": "How, then, can this theory of stasis be reconciled with Stephen\u2019s apparently very bodily experiences related to his production of art, particularly his moments of respiration/breathing, in the \u201cProteus\u201d episode in Ulysses?1 Is what Stephen produces in \u201cProteus\u201d (and, later, in \u201cAeolus\u201d) really art, and, if so, what does this say about the nature of his vocation as an artist? How can what we glean from Stephen\u2019s artistic efforts illuminate how we read the book and how we understand the nature of the other types of creation in Ulysses, especially Bloom\u2019s advertising efforts?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2281", "words": "5832", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cAnd down now, down\u2026\u201d: the Wildernesses of \u201cBurning Chrome\u201d and Inception", "date": "2018", "keywords": "chrome; cyberspace; dream; gothic; inception; jack; person; wilderness", "summary": "While this previous scholarship has solidly established a connection between Gibson\u2019s works and Inception, and has created precedent for interpreting Inception as a natural evolution of the themes and concerns of Gibson\u2019s works, no substantial scholarship has yet considered how Inception\u2019s sharing of minds and \u201cBurning Chrome\u2019s\u201d shared digital space both function as gothic wildernesses. From the coining of the term \u201ccyberspace,\u201d (Concannon 441) to his contributions to the formation of the \u201ccyberpunk\u201d genre (Adams 164), Gibson\u2019s depiction of cyberspace networks (which appeared in a number of his novels and short stories) have become \u201cSo widespread\u2026 a topic for movies, books, and games that [his] infamous description of it as a \u2018consensual hallucination\u2019 seems to have become reality\u201d (Adams and Warf 141).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2283", "words": "5426", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "The Incredibly Loud and Uncomfortably Close Narrator of Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin", "date": "2018", "keywords": "audience; halpern; narrator; reader; stowe; text; tom; warhol", "summary": "Defining Stowe\u2019s narrator\u2014especially since the narrator is so multi-voiced\u2014seems a logical endeavor for one seeking to detect the narrator\u2019s function and tone, but scholars do not agree on even this elemental step. Christopher Diller, on the other hand, strictly establishes boundaries between author and narrator, calling the narrator always \u201cStowe\u2019s narrator\u201d: \u201cStowe\u2019s narrator does not obscure the plain fact that Ophelia imprisons Topsy\u201d (35).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2284", "words": "6423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "Maxine Hong Kingston\u2019s complex, multi-faceted, and paradoxical postmodernism in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of A Girlhood Among Ghosts.", "date": "2018", "keywords": "chinese; hong; kingston; lyotard; maxine; maxine hong; postmodern; stories; story; warrior; woman", "summary": "Angeline Nies-Berger English When Maxine Hong Kingston\u2019s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of A Girlhood Among Ghosts was published in 1976,1 the novel\u2019s reception was the epitome of controversial: while some critics saw the novel as subversively feminist, swapping a hero for a heroine living her life against the currents of the Chinese patriarchy which thought having girls was a waste resources (\u201cBetter to raise geese than girls\u201d), others, including prominent figures of Asian American literary critique, said about the work that it reinforced Chinese stereotypes and was written purely for the enjoyment of racist Western societies.2 In Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston, it is reported that she said the following of memory and contradicting stories: \u201cI like the difference in seeing [her brothers\u2019 and sisters\u2019 and her points of view] because it could have been either way; one remembered it one way and one the other.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2375", "words": "6201", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "none", "title": "Appropriating Tenement Dublin: Se\u00e1n O\u2019Casey\u2019s Juno and the Paycock on the 1990s Abbey Theatre Stage", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abbey; dublin; ireland; juno; national; o\u2019casey; play; programme; set; tenement; theatre; tiger", "summary": "As income data demonstrate, appalling poverty was still very much a part of Celtic Tiger Ireland. That, unfortunately, is what the Abbey did to him in 1997 and 1998\u2014forced his work to conform to the bourgeois agenda of Celtic Tiger Ireland.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2382", "words": "7821", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "The Mute Aisling: Staging Sociopolitical Shifts through Disability in the Abbey Theatre\u2019s Productions of Translations", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abbey; archive; bradfield; byrne; disability; friel; hutton; ireland; irish; manus; performance; play; production; sarah; stage; theatre; translations; voice", "summary": "Accepting Sarah as a personification of Ireland, therefore, is an opportunity both to examine how her struggles resonate with current events during an adaptation\u2019s production and the shifting representation of disability in popular culture. Ainsworth notes that she envisioned Sarah blossoming as the play progressed, with Byrne \u201cat first used no end consonants and then only gradually [bringing] them in.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2385", "words": "5418", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "none", "title": "Masques and Metamorphosis: The Theatricality of Revenge and How It Shapes Identity", "date": "2019", "keywords": "arya; duke; hieronimo; justice; murder; play; revenge; role; tragedy; vindice", "summary": "Hieronimo feigns madness, awaiting an opportunity to avenge Horatio, which arises from a chance to play another role. The revenger role similarly falls to eleven-year-old Arya Stark, a character who also seeks justice for her murdered family.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2387", "words": "9426", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "'The Truth Lies': The Affordances of Secrets in Caleb Williams", "date": "2019", "keywords": "caleb; falkland; godwin; man; narrative; opinion; public; secret; truth; williams", "summary": "While critics Gary Handwerk and Evan Radcliffe have already demonstrated the ways Godwin\u2019s political system is corrupted through narrative when he sets out to write the novel Caleb Williams a year later, and Ewha Chung has demonstrated truth\u2019s centrality to the novel\u2019s conception of virtue, this essay will shift focus onto the ways that the prejudice of public opinion that attaches to Caleb\u2019s name after he flees Mr. Falkland\u2019s estate complicates the absolute injunction against concealment in the 1793 edition of Political Justice. Revealing the secret, for Caleb, is therefore a way to derive a sense of equality between himself and Falkland, whose superior social status leaves Caleb longing to \u201cintensify\u201d their bond.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2389", "words": "4622", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "none", "title": "Compositional Collaboration: The Benefits of Integrating Black American and African American Vernacular English into Rhetoric and Composition Education", "date": "2019", "keywords": "american; classrooms; educators; english; language; standard; students; vernacular", "summary": "Standard language ideology plagues educators, academics, and rhetors with a narrow and prescriptive lens that has historically silenced individuals coming from marginalized communities. This is, of course, in direct conflict with standard language ideology, which Vershawn Ashanti Young defines as the \u201cbelief that there is one set of dominant language rules that stem from a single dominant discourse (like standard English) that all writers and speakers of English must conform to in order to communicate effectively.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2390", "words": "9129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "Resistance to Reconstruction: Virginia Women\u2019s Resentment in 1862-1870", "date": "2019", "keywords": "alsop wynne; civil; elizabeth; elizabeth maxwell; family; maxwell; maxwell alsop; reconstruction; southern; virginia; war; white; women; wynne", "summary": "Thus Elizabeth encapsulated the resentment many elite, white southern women in Virginia felt when faced with emancipation. She evaluates the role of ladies memorial associations in communicating Lost Cause narratives as well as helping rehabilitate the honor of white southern men who supported the Confederacy.25 Faust\u2019s work serves as part of the foundation for research on elite, white southern women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2391", "words": "6353", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "none", "title": "The Primary Dynamics Governing the Rise and Maintenance of Authoritarian Regimes", "date": "2019", "keywords": "democracy; freedom; new; power; putin; regime; rise; russia; security; self; state", "summary": "Although Kuttner warns that only Democracy can serve as a bulwark against the rise of authoritarian regimes, in several cases it has failed to do so, but the deeper nature of these cases, like that of the Weimar Republic are generally overlooked as relates to the rise of authoritarian states. \u2013 Eric Hoffer, The True Believer The purpose of this paper is to outline and explore the primary dynamics, which have allowed for and still do allow for the rise of authoritarian regimes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2392", "words": "6366", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "none", "title": "Trans Utopianism and the Utopia of Transness in Leslie Feinberg\u2019s Stone Butch Blues", "date": "2019", "keywords": "blues; butch; feinberg; future; gender; jess; queer; stone; time; trans", "summary": "This function of queerness is particularly important to note when considering that the lived experience of so many queer people, including Jess in Stone Butch Blues, has been characterized as being \u201cout of time\u201d or \u201cout of place.\u201d In the first paragraph Jess says, \u201cTonight I walked down streets looking for you in every woman\u2019s face, as I have each night of this lonely exile\u201d (Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues 1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2394", "words": "8080", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "none", "title": "Saint Albert the Great's Revolution: Legitimizing Aristotelian Ethical Thought and Its Integration into a Theory of the Cardinal Virtues", "date": "2019", "keywords": "albert; aristotle; cardinal; cunningham; ethics; great; nicomachean; philip; saint albert; thomas; thought; virtues", "summary": "Saint Albert reasons, though, that, if prudence marks \u201cthe perfection of reason,\u201d reason itself must be distinguished between \u201cthat which acts according to its own object, and that which governs other actions\u201d; thus, prudence, which must be able to perfect itself in acting according to its own object in order to direct other actions, must be \u201cmore perfect than other virtues\u201d in that it \u201ccompletes wisdom by choosing what is beneficial.\u201d54 1 SAINT ALBERT THE GREAT\u2019S REVOLUTION: LEGITIMIZING ARISTOTELIAN ETHICAL THOUGHT AND ITS INTEGRATION INTO A THEORY OF THE CARDINAL VIRTUES John F. Cacchione Theology Introduction Despite a slow but growing interest in the writings of Aristotle in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, Saint Albert the Great\u2019s embrace of Aristotelian thinking significantly increased the depth and the breadth of scholarly interest.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2396", "words": "6184", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Imago Torem: Creation Theory and Ethics in Paradise Lost and Frankenstein", "date": "2019", "keywords": "adam; body; creation; creature; god; milton; paradise; shelley; soul; victor", "summary": "After creating Earth and all its natural glory, God still felt that something was missing, that none of the things he created for this world satisfied his vision: There wanted yet the Master Work, the end Of all yet don; a Creature who not prone And Brute as other Creatures, but endu\u2019d With sanctitie of Reason, might erect His Stature, and upright with Front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heav\u2019n, But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with hear and voice and eyes 15 Directed in Devocion, to adore And worship God Supream, who made him chief Of all his works . . . If we attempt to understand creation from a biblical approach, we must attempt to understand God.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2397", "words": "5950", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "What Future?: Imagining The Child of Color in Response to Lee Edelman\u2019s No Future", "date": "2019", "keywords": "child; children; color; edelman; future; order; queer; state; white", "summary": "To begin the analysis of the difference between the Child and the Child of Color, children of color, particularly black children, are not always afforded the same perceptions about childhood afforded to white children. This essay will attempt to show the various ways in which the Child as articulated by Edelman in No Future and the Child of Color\u2014 an alternate figure specifically representing children of color imagined in response to Edelman\u2019s Child\u2014 function differently in politics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-244", "words": "3835", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "none", "title": "Communication Strategies: Marketing to the 'Majority Minority'", "date": "2004", "keywords": "african; americans; approach; chinese; communication; groups; marketing; markets; percent; puerto", "summary": "Currently, minority ethnic groups coexist in the mainstream population with majority groups. Once communication professionals research targeted ethnic groups, they can select the best strategic approach based on the business/product/service and the audience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-245", "words": "9052", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "none", "title": "Patterns in the Framing: Patience and The Hours of Catherine of Cleves", "date": "2004", "keywords": "book; catherine; christ; figure; frame; framing; god; heaven; hours; illuminations; jonah; man; pearl; plummer; prayer; time", "summary": "\u201cFear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man\u201d (Bible 872). No. 64, Apostles and Prophets Adoring God the Father, is similar to No. 61, except that the arc of heaven frame encompasses the head of a floating God and his banderole, containing the message \u201c\u2019I am alpha and omega, God and man\u2019\u201d (Plummer).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-246", "words": "8446", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "none", "title": "Symphony or Cacophony: How Creation Hears Itself in James Joyce's Ulysses", "date": "2004", "keywords": "auditory; bloom; day; dublin; hear; joyce; language; life; noise; novel; reader; sound; stephen; ulysses; words", "summary": "Ulysses is June 16, 1904 come alive on the page, engaging the senses of sound and sight, piquing the reader\u2019s own senses of taste and touch and smell through the varied voices of the novel\u2019s narration. Language and/ or Sound: Communication on Infinite Levels Vincent Sherry expounds on the place of language and its sound in Joyce\u2019s work.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-247", "words": "4870", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "Same Old Penelope: Feminist Analysis of Molly's Soliloquy in Ulysses", "date": "2004", "keywords": "feminist; joyce; male; molly; society; stephen; thoughts; ulysses; women", "summary": "Patriarchy defines femininity by the ability to titillate, to evoke desire, and Molly subscribes to this definition. Lois Tyson in Critical Theory Today writes that feminist criticism generally examines texts to determine how they \u201creinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women\u201d (81).1 Despite her importance to Ulysses, particularly in the final episode, much of what Joyce reveals about Molly through her thoughts evidence her integration into the same egocentric culture central to The Odyssey.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2476", "words": "2238", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "none", "title": "The thing and the feeling of that thing: The Poetics of William Carlos Williams, Neural Representations of Conceptual Primitives, and Grounded Cognition", "date": "2020", "keywords": "grapes; object; poetry; thing; williams", "summary": "While most explanations of Williams\u2019 work rely on biographical accounts or philosophical theory, recent developments in cognitive neuroscience, namely Martin\u2019s (2016) grounded representations in action, perception, and emotion systems (GRAPES) model for the cognitive representation of object properties and concepts, lends support for Williams successfully recreating the experiences of things linguistically. Although empirical scientific research is seldom used as a lens for literary criticism, the GRAPES model for neural representations of object properties, proposed by Martin (2016), elucidates and ultimately supports Williams\u2019 success in capturing the experience of an object through verse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2477", "words": "4487", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Queering An Icon: The Legend of Zelda and Inclusive Diversity", "date": "2020", "keywords": "character; communities; game; legend; link; male; nintendo; press; queer; university; zelda", "summary": "Gerudo Link and Alternative Masculinity The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild contains a major quest chain that includes Link needing to gain entrance to a village of all female warriors, similar to the Amazons of Greek and Roman myth. Jack Halberstam argues that fictional avatars, regardless of the character\u2019s direct agency in whatever medium they exist in is as such, are the centrally important component in any individual\u2019s experience with a piece of art.iii Link is, and has always been, depicted as a silent protagonist whose agency is given to him by either a prophecy, the player directly, or a combination of the two.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2478", "words": "6601", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "Perceiving Panic: Panic Disorder and Comorbid Medical Conditions", "date": "2020", "keywords": "anxiety; disorder; et al; pain; panic; patients; symptoms", "summary": "Oncology Nursing Forum, 30, 75\u201389. Dinan, T. G., Quigley, E. M. M., Ahmed, S. M. M., Scully, P., O\u2019Brien, S., O\u2019Mahony, L., \u2026 Keeling, P. W. N. (2006). Filho, A. S., Maciel, B. C., Romano, M. M. D., Lascala, T. F., Trzesniak, C., Freitas-Ferrari, M. C., \u2026 Crippa, J. A. S. (2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2479", "words": "7484", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "none", "title": "Mothers, Children, and Servants: Gender, Social Power, and Domestic Service in Trecento and Quattrocento Tuscany", "date": "2020", "keywords": "birth; children; corsini; datini; elite; family; florence; florentine; francesco; giovanni; margherita; nurse; press; renaissance; servants; slave; wet; women", "summary": "Wealthy mothers were 2 able to give their children comfortable lives through their domestic servants, while denying servant women the same proximity to their children. Beyond the guardadonna, who was a paid specialist, Renaissance depictions of birth scenes in art illustrate the presence of servant women in the birthing chamber.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-248", "words": "7267", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "none", "title": "Female Freedom Fighters", "date": "2004", "keywords": "abolitionist; antislavery; concord; emerson; hawthorne; mary; movement; nathaniel; ralph; slavery; thoreau; waldo; women", "summary": "Emerson viewed many abolitionists in the same way, claiming that they were so consumed with changing society they failed to see the need to change their own hearts and minds first. Ralph Waldo Emerson\u2019s involvement in the abolitionist movement has repeatedly been seen as an enigmatic component of the transcendentalist\u2019s life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2481", "words": "5663", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cSong\u2019s for a New World\u201d: The Revision of Gender and Restructuring of Narrative in M. Butterfly (1988, 1993, and 2017)", "date": "2020", "keywords": "butterfly; david; film; gallimard; gender; hwang; new; play; song; transgender", "summary": "To ignore this correlation is to do a disservice to the text and while I am specifically focusing on the gendered aspects in this essay, I cannot dismiss that M. Butterfly, with its intersections of sexuality and colonialism, and its rewriting of Western mythos about the East perhaps most easily understood through Edward Said\u2019s provocative term Orientalism, has received not only a Tony award, but numerous scholarly studies attempting to situate Asian and Asian American culture and masculinity, to critique the extended misogyny of the play, and to show (in one way or another) not only the play\u2019s brilliant investigation of the slippage of gender identity, but also its potential role as a critique of various cultural forms.v To elaborate on this, I will discuss the adaptation of several scenes at first from the play to the film, then from the 1988 original text to the 2017 revival. What you see onstage is who I really am.xxvii In summation, the revival presents a much more complicated layering of gender identities than the original.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-249", "words": "9052", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "none", "title": "Peel off the Napkin/O my Enemy?Do I Terrify? Sylvia Plath's Investigation of the Consequences of Objectification in Lady Lazarus", "date": "2004", "keywords": "book; catherine; christ; figure; frame; framing; god; heaven; hours; illuminations; jonah; man; pearl; plummer; prayer; time", "summary": "\u201cFear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man\u201d (Bible 872). No. 64, Apostles and Prophets Adoring God the Father, is similar to No. 61, except that the arc of heaven frame encompasses the head of a floating God and his banderole, containing the message \u201c\u2019I am alpha and omega, God and man\u2019\u201d (Plummer).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2493", "words": "7748", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cBurning with the Fire of Martyrdom\u201d: Christian Identity and the Martyrs of C\u00f3rdoba", "date": "2020", "keywords": "christian; c\u00f3rdoba; eulogius; ibid; identity; liverpool; martyrdom; martyrs; muslim; press; university", "summary": "Just as those before and after them, Eulogius and Paul Alvarus used early Christian martyrs as a backdrop for the Martyrs of C\u00f3rdoba and are often found drawing lines back to the first, second, and third centuries in their writings. Sahner suggests that it is possible that Isaac had a sense of disgust with the system he had previously worked for, and that there may have been \u201cpersonal disputes between the martyr and the Umayyad authorities\u201d that existed prior to Perfectus\u2019 execution.29 When Isaac went to the court in June of 851 and told the judge, in Arabic, that \u201cI have found both your prophet and you to be lacking [the zeal of justice],\u201d Isaac was doing so with his own individual motivation and expression of religious identity as a former worker of the Cordovan government and a current monk of Tabanos.30 The largest group of martyrs, with whom I began this paper, and that which Eulogius calls the \u201csix-fold mystery,\u201d was made up of Peter the priest, Walabonsus the deacon, and the four monks Sabinianus, Wistremundus, Habentius, and Hieremia.31 Their martyrdom took place only a few days after the execution of Isaac, and it is likely that the group was motivated by their relations to the monk of Tabanos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2495", "words": "5088", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "Tracing the Missing Letter: Reassembling Nonhuman Agency in Jhumpa Lahiri\u2019s The Namesake", "date": "2020", "keywords": "actors; ashima; ashoke; gogol; jones; lahiri; letter; namesake; reality; social", "summary": "Surely these signifieds can be reversed and still hold true, because \u201chis name\u201d and \u201cyour name\u201d, Nikolai Gogol and Ashoke Gogol, Gogol Ganguli and Ashoke Ganguli, (Nikhil) Gogol Ganguli and Nikolai Gogol all transpose onto each other within the name and person of Gogol Ganguli.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2496", "words": "4768", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "none", "title": "Boys Will Be Boys: Constructions of Toxic Masculinity in Dramatic, Metaphorized, and Real-Life War Spaces", "date": "2020", "keywords": "battlefield; coriolanus; football; hal; like; masculine; masculinity; men; military; nfl; war", "summary": "Coriolanus\u2019 and Hotspur\u2019s experiences parallel those of real-life military soldiers, too, who are trained to kill, as well as, to a lesser extent, that of NFL players, who are tasked with physically and emotionally assaulting the opponent. In his history dramas Coriolanus and 1 Henry IV, Shakespeare explores the connections between martial prowess and the construction of masculinity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2497", "words": "7743", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "none", "title": "A Form of Work We'd Rather Not Do Alone: Chen Chen, Poetics of Relationality, and the Intersubjective Lyric I", "date": "2020", "keywords": "chen; chen chen; glavey; lyric; poem; poetry; portrait; possibilities; rankine; self; subject; work", "summary": "Throughout much of When I Grow Up, the \u201cyou\u201d that Chen addresses is easy to identify and known, to a degree, by the speaker, whether the you is God, as in \u201cTalking to God about Heaven from the Bed of a Heathen\u201d or a significant other, as in \u201cIrreducible Sociality.\u201d Through its reformulation of lyric subjecthood around alternative identities, queer, relational intersubjectivity, and deployment of lyric address, Chen\u2019s When I Grow Up creates a limited yet intersubjective lyric I, moving beyond a universalizing white lyric subject who is \u201coverheard\u201d toward a specific, autobiographical, marginalized lyric subject that expands the poetic space into one that is conversational and collective.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2498", "words": "6758", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "Networks of Foam: Becoming through Relation in Marianne Moore's Shoreline Poems", "date": "2020", "keywords": "bulrush; creatures; fish; human; hyperbolic; manjapra; marianne; moore; ocean; poem; space; speaker", "summary": "While debates still question the extent to which we should consider Marianne Moore a post humanist or environmental activist, what is clear is that Moore\u2019s inquisitive speaker represents a desire for herself and her readers to feel through poetic engagement with the body at the intertidal zone, the inextricable links between the human subject and nonhuman life forms. \u201cNetworks of Foam:\u201d Becoming through Relation in Marianne Moore's Shoreline Poems Caitlyn Dittmeier English Marianne Moore in her poetry collection Observations adopts a speaker who evades a clear subjectivity and positionality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2499", "words": "6582", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "none", "title": "Embodying Space: Performance, Tourism and Difficult History", "date": "2020", "keywords": "american; history; morven; museum; new; north; people; plantation; press; slavery; space; university; visitors; york", "summary": "In presenting a social history, an \u201cexcavated\u201d space, history museums can help visitors find not \u201cthe truth\u201d but many truths, the multifaceted strands of history that encountered each other in a single place.25 Theresa Singleton points out that focusing on one strand of the history of a site or object does not preclude the development of other narratives about the same site; the various people who lived in the place all made a mark and should be included in interpretation.26 In the last few decades, many American historical sites have begun to tell the stories not just of the \u201cgreat men,\u201d but also, as best they can considering the extant evidence, the stories of enslaved people who lived in the same spaces.27 These tourist sites are finding new stories and new ways to tell them,28 as a way of rectifying the \u201csymbolic annihilation\u201d of enslaved people\u2019s material culture.29 Despite the \u201cabsence of material structures,\u201d museums should, says Jorge L. Giovanetti, \u201ctake into account the enslaved\u2026it is a moral imperative to speak out, and represent, the relations of power and socio-racial inequality that ruled in plantation society in order to understand the unequal racial relations in the Americas today. Enslaved people in New York built infrastructure, such as roads; worked on farms; and were bought, sold, and rented as investments.17 In New Jersey, enslaved people worked on farms of various sizes, but also worked as builders, craftsmen, in animal husbandry, and in industry.18 Slavery also thrived in urban areas, as Clifford Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg write, noting dynamics in mid-Atlantic states such as Virginia.19 Because this more varied engagement with slavery prevents the development of a single narrative, it is difficult to create a single image, such as the south\u2019s iconic (and fictional) Tara.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-250", "words": "6983", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "none", "title": "This Old Alley: Memory, Preservation, and Commemoration on Elfreth's Alley*", "date": "2004", "keywords": "alley; archives; association; city; colonial; elfreth; historical; history; homes; museum; philadelphia; preservation; residents; street", "summary": "Her words 14 Urban Archives, \u201cMen and Things;\u201d Urban Archives, \u201cVenerable Elfreth Alley.\u201d 15 Robert E. Stipe, ed., A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation In the Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 7-8; William J. Murtagh, Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation In America (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1997), 38. 16 Urban Archives, \u201cOldest Street In U.S.;\u201d Urban Archives, \u201cElfreth Alley Homes Are Saved,\u201d 19 February 1937. 17 Urban Archives, \u201cVenerable Elfreth Alley;\u201d Urban Archives, \u201cDear Sir;\u201d Urban Archives, \u201cOldest Street In U.S.;\u201d Urban Archives, \u201cResidents of Quaint Old Colonial Street Fight to Keep House,\u201d 26 June 1938; Urban Archives, \u201cElfreth Alley Homes Are Saved.\u201d 18 Urban Archives, \u201cOldest Street In U.S.;\u201d Urban Archives, \u201cMen and Things;\u201d Marion, 30; Urban Archives, \u201cDear Sir;\u201d Urban Archives, \u201cElfreth Alley Homes Are Saved.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2501", "words": "6879", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "none", "title": "Entering the World of the Hat: Artistic Phenomenology in Sondheim and Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George", "date": "2020", "keywords": "art; audience; dot; george; lapine; music; park; phenomenology; sondheim; sunday; world", "summary": "The numbers \u201cColor and Light,\u201d \u201cThe Day Off,\u201d and \u201cSunday\u201d each help connect the audience to the emotional tone of the character.19 \u201cColor and Light\u201d occurs midway through the first act; it portrays George painting in his studio and Dot getting ready for a night out. When the act reaches its finale, George finishes the painting.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-251", "words": "14355", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "I am a Western Man: The Progressive Historian as Midwesterner; the Lives and Works of Turner, Beard, and Becker*", "date": "2004", "keywords": "age; american; beard; becker; carl; century; charles; frontier; historians; historical; history; hofstadter; midwestern; new; new york; novick; nye; past; people; press; progressive; reform; time; turner; university; university press; writing; york", "summary": "In doing so we discern an array of aspects in Progressive history imparted by the late 19th century Midwestern experience. Nash comes the closest to explaining Progressive history as Midwestern, contending that the ideas of Turner and his generation did not develop in an \u201cabstract vacuum, but in the context of the environment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-252", "words": "14309", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Alien Animals and American Angels: The Commodification and Commercialization of the Progressive-Era White Slave", "date": "2004", "keywords": "american; archetype; century; evidence; girls; ibid; nature; new; new york; press; prostitution; public; purity; reformers; slave archetype; slave trade; slave traffic; slavery; states; times; trade; united; white slave; women", "summary": "One reporter on the San Francisco Bulletin stated that \u201cthe public love of the exaggerated and the sensational and its care-free avoidance of facts and cruel truths\u2026is responsible in part for this slavery,\u201d wisely disconnecting the white slave archetype as portrayed in popular culture from the harsh realities (such as alcoholism, drug addiction, venereal disease, poverty, and physical abuse, just to name a few) experienced by prostitutes in the 1910\u2019s.65 Indeed, in creating the archetype the social purists had done their job too well; one correspondent in the New York World claimed that after his wife attended a lecture on white slavery, \u201cshe is\u2026 of the opinion that there is an organization as formidable as the Steel Trust working day and night in the interest of vice,\u201d and that it was a formidable task for him to convince her that more than half the male population of the United States was not engaged in the white slave trade.66 The public was disappointed as well; one letter to the editor of the New York Times disappointedly asked, \u201cAre they the only kind of white slaves we have?\u201d67 However, he further notes that \u201ctales of forced sexual exploitation obscured the larger reality of a prostitute\u2019s life,\u201d and cites both personal statements and statistical studies which indicate that most prostitutes entered the profession on their own accord for various reasons, primarily inter- familial conflict or economic concerns.3 The slippery nature of the evidence precludes the claim that there existed no forced prostitution in America throughout the nineteenth century, but it may be safe to state that there was no organized traffic in white, Anglo-Saxon women, either domestically or foreign born, into the United States, as was claimed by Progressive reformers; therefore, it is likely that the production of social purists existed to primarily emphasize the evils of openly tolerated red-light districts and, perhaps, to explain why there seemed to be so many prostitutes when speeches on public morality resonated with a largely female audience.4 There is additional, tertiary evidence indicating that there existed little traffic in white women for the purposes of prostitution in the latter half of the nineteenth century; in her biting indictment of the sex trade industry in 3 Gilfoyle, Timothy J., City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790- 1920.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-253", "words": "8838", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "A Dancer's Virtue: Human Life in Light of Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence*", "date": "2004", "keywords": "dancer; earth; life; nietzsche; recurrence; virtue; zarathustra", "summary": "With all the references to dance in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, it should come as little surprise that at times Nietzsche presents Zarathustra himself as a dancer\u2014 perhaps most significantly in Part 3\u2019s \u201cThe Other Dancing Song.\u201d \\\\artscistore.vuad.villanova.edu\\kvolpert\\CONCEPT\\CONCEPT2005\\Papers_online\\Dancer's Virtue.prn.pdf 1 A Dancer\u2019s Virtue: Human Life in Light of Nietzsche\u2019s Eternal Recurrence Michael A. Metcalfe Philosophy Villanova University A primary assumption of this paper is that Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s texts\u2014in particular The Birth of Tragedy and Thus Spoke Zarathustra\u2014employ artistic metaphors in order (among other purposes, of course) to demonstrate the human being\u2019s fundamental relationship with life and earth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-254", "words": "8357", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "none", "title": "The U.S. Recognition of Israel: A Bureaucractic Politics Model*", "date": "2004", "keywords": "clifford; department; foreign; harry; israel; palestine; partition; policy; president; state; state department; truman; u.s; united", "summary": "40 Clark Clifford, \u201cThe Unique and Inspiring Leadership of President Truman,\u201d in Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence, ed. \u201cThe Unique and Inspiring Leadership of President Truman,\u201d in Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-255", "words": "6566", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "none", "title": "Scientific Jury Selection: History, Practice, and Controversy*", "date": "2004", "keywords": "attorneys; case; consultants; consulting; effectiveness; jurors; jury; jury selection; kressel; selection; sjs; strier; trial", "summary": "Even though the majority of court cases are not settled by juries, predictions about juries influence decisions to pursue or avoid jury trials (Greene, Chopra, Kovera, Penrod, Rose, Schuller et al., 2002); therefore, the jury system maintains a central importance in American law. A second point against the effectiveness of SJS is that quantitative studies of jury trials have estimated that jury selection accounts for between 5% and 15% of verdict variability; the extra-jury aspects of the tr ial therefore account for the vast majority of verdict variance (85%-95%) (Fulero & Penrod, 1990).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-256", "words": "4205", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "none", "title": "Classifications and Descriptions of Parents who Commit Filicide", "date": "2004", "keywords": "children; filicide; mothers; simpson; stanton; women; wouldes", "summary": "Child murder is not necessarily common, but it is a leading cause of child death in developed countries, and when child murder occurs, the perpetrators are most likely the children\u2019s parents (Marleau, Poulin, Webanck, Roy, & Laporte, 1999; Stanton & Simpson, 2002). Unwanted child filicide occurs when mothers, for reasons such as illegitimacy or uncertain paternity, kill their children through acts of aggression or through neglect; spouse revenge filicide occurs when the parent seeks to \u201cget back\u201d at his or her spouse for some particular reason \u2013 usually revenge for infidelity; in acutely psychotic filicide, the parent kills the child under the influence of a severe mental illness or psychotic episode.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-257", "words": "4475", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "The Awakening of a Giant: Recruiting the Disability Community as a Coalition Partner", "date": "2004", "keywords": "ada; city; coalition; community; disabilities; disability; election; people; philadelphia; policy", "summary": "Today, disability policy focuses on maintaining that the disability community has all of the same opportunities as people without disabilities. \\\\artscistore.vuad.villanova.edu\\kvolpert\\CONCEPT\\CONCEPT2005\\Papers_online\\AWAKENING THE GIANT.prn.pdf The Awakening of a Giant: Recruiting the Disability Community as a Coalition Partner Stephen A. Sheridan, Jr. Public Administration Villanova University Introduction Brewster Thackeray, Vice President and Director of Communications at the National Organization on Disability (NOD), puts it perfectly when he raises the question, \u201cWhat politician can afford to overlook one-fifth of the nation\u2019s voting- aged population?\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-258", "words": "8083", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "none", "title": "Hope of the Kingdom and Hope of the Resurrection: Hope for Whom? Broadening a Liberationist Prespective*", "date": "2004", "keywords": "god; hope; ibid; jesus; kingdom; resurrection; sobrino", "summary": "Edward Schillebeeckx interprets the relationship between Jesus and the Father on the cross differently than Moltmann, which leads him to a slightly different understanding of kingdom and resurrection hope. Yet, Schillebeeckx asserts that resurrection hope is nothing more than \u201chuman longing\u201d and Jesus\u2019 death is \u201csheer failure\u201d if there are not signs of the resurrection within Jesus\u2019 life of preaching the kingdom.36 Jesus\u2019 praxis of the kingdom anticipates his resurrection.37 Hope of the resurrection then is closely associated with and grounded in the hope of the kingdom.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2586", "words": "7602", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "none", "title": "We Are Not Content: Enviornmental Exploitation against Taiwan's Minority Populations", "date": "2021", "keywords": "chen; chinese; communities; dutch; empire; government; hakka; han; history; ibid; japanese; land; minority; officials; peoples; populations; practices; songs; taiwan; taroko; tribes", "summary": "1 \u201cWe Are Not Content\u201d: Environmental Exploitation against Taiwan\u2019s Minority Populations James Alfano History On a stifling August morning outside Taipei\u2019s Presidential Office Building, newly elected President Tsai ing-wen (\u8521\u82f1\u6587) stood before a group of representatives from each of Taiwan\u2019s 18 recognized indigenous tribes. With just over 500,000 (2%) of Taiwan\u2019s population identifying as a member of a government recognized indigenous tribe (excluding the Hakka minority subgroup4), the need for further examination of past transgressions is critical to understanding the obstacles Taiwanese minority populations face and how progressive environmental movements are tied to indigenous rights and government accountability for past injustices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-259", "words": "8846", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Nestorius and Cyril: 5th Century Christological Division and Recent Progress in Reconciliation", "date": "2004", "keywords": "chalcedon; christ; church; churches; council; cyril; east; faith; god; natures; nestorius; paul; pope", "summary": "Pope John Paul II and Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV, \u201cCommon Christological Declaration Between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East,\u201d November 11, 1994. Nestorius and Cyril: 5th Century Christological Division and Re Nestorius and Cyril: 5th Century Christological Division and Recent Progress in Reconciliation Ben Green Department of Theology and Religious Studies Villanova University I. Introduction The 5th century controversy of Bishop Nestorius of Constantinople and Bishop Cyril of Alexandria centered on the Person of Jesus Christ:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2601", "words": "6233", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "Ecological Conversion as Stigmata of the Heart", "date": "2021", "keywords": "christ; conversion; creation; francis; god; humans; love; pope; stigmata", "summary": "St. Francis echoes the Old and New Testaments, particularly the Psalms and the Gospels, in his references to the power and beauty of light and fire.37 St. Francis wrote the Canticle aware of Christ as part of creation and with the Trinity as \u201cMost High.\u201d38 In Laudato Si, Pope Francis admirably uses the Canticle as a motivating stepping stone for the ecological cause, but he never explicitly mentions the stigmata of St. Francis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2603", "words": "5708", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "A Joke Without a Clear Punchline: Joker as a Supervillain to Linearity", "date": "2021", "keywords": "character; film; fleck; genre; joker; meaning; past; phillips; present; scene; time; violence", "summary": "Violence is a staple of the superhero film genre, but the scenes in Joker could be said to be more intense than those of past films due to the hyperrealism attached to the otherwise fantastical genre, for \u201cGenres lead distinctly double lives, with one foot in the past and the other in the present; they contain the entire abridged 5 history of an aesthetic form while also staking a claim to the form\u2019s contemporary relevance\u201d (Martin 6). Films may allude to time but they are not entirely specific to time, or, \u201cFilm remains isolated amid the network of practices that frame and fashion it, independently perceived as the effect of so many configurations of causes\u201d (Beck 9).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2605", "words": "8661", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "none", "title": "The Authoritarian Roots of Contemporary Populist Movements: Explaining the Rise of the Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland", "date": "2021", "keywords": "afd; crisis; democracy; east; europe; germany; insecurity; parties; party; populism; right; rise; sense; threats", "summary": "In his discussion of the origins of Populism, M\u00fcller briefly touches on, though not necessarily subscribing to, the idea that \u201c\u2026Social Democratic parties have abandoned the task of offering a real alternative to neoliberalism; their convergence on a \u2018Third Way\u2019 reinforced the 12 sense among voters that they were being offered \u2018elections without choice\u2019\u2026\u201d such that electors had little choice in whether neoliberal principles were being applied by most political parties across the board in most modernized democracies (53). Most authors concur that the battles for the party leadership have dragged it further to the right politically and shifted the party\u2019s focus 19 from economic threats to cultural threats in the form of the refugee crisis, upon which the party\u2019s present-day success hinges.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2608", "words": "9080", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "Another Skie: Eve's Eden and Feminine Cosmologies", "date": "2021", "keywords": "adam; cavendish; difference; eden; empress; eve; feminine; gender; god; ibid; milton; paradise; way; woman; world", "summary": "In \u201cSerpentine Eve,\u201d Miller shows how Milton dramatized the querelles des femmes pro- and anti- \u201cfeminist\u201d pamphlet debates by \u201cembed[ding]\u201d pro- and anti-woman arguments in Eve and Adam\u2019s speeches throughout Paradise Lost; this includes reproducing phrases, terms and concepts verbatim as they were playing out in these pamphlets during seventeenth century England. Hayward, More Lessons from a Starfish: Prefixial Flesh and Transspeciated Selves In book 4 of John Milton\u2019s Paradise Lost, Eve recounts her first moments of waking.1", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-261", "words": "5569", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "none", "title": "Macbeth's Likely Suspects*", "date": "2005", "keywords": "act; banquo; duncan; lady; macbeth; man; murderer; play; sisters; witches", "summary": "Macbeth capitalizes on the Murderer's conception of masculinity, acknowledging their misfortune by offering, as an empowering, manly alternative, the potential for liberation from an oppressor. Lending form to the categorical designation of murderer are the First, Second, and Third Murderers, figures of material and psychological utility to Macbeth, and whose presence fulfills the thrice again prophesy of the Weird Sisters, assuring that the charm's wound up, and clinching the tragic series of murders that fulfills Macbeth's fortune (1. 3. 36-37).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2611", "words": "7938", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "The Vexed Position of the Black Secret-Bearer: Concealments and Revelations in Hannah Crafts\u2019 The Bondwoman\u2019s Narrative", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bondwoman; crafts; enslaved; gates; hannah; mrs; narrative; secrecy; secret; slavery; trappe; vincent", "summary": "In one of the text\u2019s most significant moments, when Mrs. Vincent hesitantly reveals to Hannah about how the former has been passing for white and that Mr. Trappe has been blackmailing her using this unearthed information, Hannah tells her, \u201cI implore you to confide in me, to entrust me with this dreadful secret, that knowing I may more deeply sympathize with your woes and wrongs\u201d (44). But before we explore the details of Hannah\u2019s transformation, let us look a little more closely at Mr. Trappe himself.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-262", "words": "6381", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "none", "title": "In the Shadow of Frankenstein's Creature: Harriet Jacobs' Gothic Garret", "date": "2005", "keywords": "body; creature; frankenstein; garret; incidents; jacobs; life; monster; new; self; shelley; slave", "summary": "For Jacobs identity arises from an interior life: \u201cJacobs\u2019 deepest argument is precisely the separation of personhood from the condition of the body rather than its dependence upon that condition. Microsoft Word - Dolan.doc 1 In the Shadow of Frankenstein\u2019s Creature: Harriet Jacobs\u2019 Gothic Garret No\u00ebl Falco Dolan Department of English Villanova University For Mary Shelley and Harriet Jacobs, the paradigm of male authority and its connection with authorship as a primarily masculine act alters their identity as writers, as both hide their real names when publishing, either through anonymity or pseudonym.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2620", "words": "3451", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Predicting Bone-Age Using X-ray Images: Deep Learning", "date": "2021", "keywords": "age; images; mae; model", "summary": "Finally, just as in the first-place model, data augmentation and ensembling on nine models were used to improve model performance [3]. Models, such as a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a transfer learning model, were fit using inputs including gender only, X-ray image only, and both X-ray image and gender.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2621", "words": "4367", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "none", "title": "Des Excuses", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cond\u00e9; french; maryse; mind; people; philcox; text; tituba; translation", "summary": "Des Excuses.docx Des Excuses Partie I: Mefiance Moi, Tituba Sorciere and I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. There are things about Moi, Tituba Sorciere and I Tituba that I may never understand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2622", "words": "6077", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "none", "title": "\u201cAll influence is immoral:\u201d Actor-Network Theory in The Picture of Dorian Gray", "date": "2021", "keywords": "basil; dorian; henry; influence; lord; novel; portrait; soul", "summary": "Protagonist Dorian Gray, a young, handsome, wealthy man, becomes the muse of esteemed artist Basil Hallward, who paints a realistic portrait of Dorian. \u201cThere is no doubt that Dorian Gray is another Faustian character, who through the influence of the flamboyant Lord Henry Wotton, \u2018sells his soul\u2019 for youth, sensations, experience and pleasure \u2026 Dorian is not fully aware of the fact that 4 his desires will eventually come true, where the picture will represent his true soul, and he, the individual, will represent the picture\u201d (Dita, 348).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2626", "words": "7289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "From Brotherhood to Association: Native Alaskan Organizing and Land Claims", "date": "2021", "keywords": "act; afn; alaska; alaska natives; anb; claims; land; native; paul; press; rights; ruddy; times; tundra; university", "summary": "Project Chariot had proposed developing a nuclear testing site on Alaska Native land to create an artificial harbor in Point Hope.64The Tundra Times, written in English. It will also explore how this activism allowed Alaska Natives to avoid the worst effects of Termination, where Native land claims in the United States unilaterally terminated by the Federal Government.4 2 During the twentieth century, Alaska Native groups such as the Alaskan Native Brotherhood (ANB) and the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) advocated for Native land rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2627", "words": "5958", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "none", "title": "The Rediscovery of Carrie Buck: A Historiography of Buck v. Bell and the Injustice Wrought by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "american; bell; buck; carrie; court; eugenics; history; holmes; lombardo; paul; sterilization; supreme", "summary": "1 The Rediscovery of Carrie Buck: A Historiography of Buck v. Bell and the Injustice Wrought by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The offender was a nephew of her adoptive family and to avoid public shame, the family institutionalized Carrie Buck for feeblemindedness and promiscuity at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded.i Nine months later, Buck gave birth to a baby girl, Vivian, and was promptly sterilized against her will under advisement of Colony superintendent Dr. Alfred Priddy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-263", "words": "3994", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "Emily Dickinson and Social Class: Incorporating and Contesting", "date": "2005", "keywords": "cambridge; cisneros; class; dickinson; emily; emily dickinson; mitchell; poems; poet", "summary": "Yet Cisneros\u2019s personal testimony indicates that Dickinson was a role model because of a certain rebel stance: 9 \u2018When I was growing up in Chicago, and going to college in Chicago, and not travelling anywhere except on CTA buses and subway trains but desperately wanting to break loose, I liked to think of my favorite American poet, Emily Dickinson [\u2026.] The combined reification and unsettling is of a piece with a pattern of consonances and fractures in Dickinson oeuvre; for example, Shira Wolosky notes that throughout her work, the \u201cpromise or implication of systematic, tight, even highly ornate correspondences, however, is then stymied [\u2026.] what is experienced is a resistance to just such correspondences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2630", "words": "9411", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "none", "title": "Scenes of Cooperation and Conflict: Competing Interests Between Palestinian Arabs During the British Mandate", "date": "2021", "keywords": "arab; british; class; economy; jewish; mandate; mandate palestine; middle; national; palestine; palestinian; power; press; state; studies; university", "summary": "\u201c\u2018Buy and Promote the National Cause\u2019: Consumption, Class Formation, and Nationalism in Mandate Palestine society.\u201d Nations and Nationalism 14, no.1 (2008): 469-489. Humphrey Bowman, the director of education in Mandate Palestine, promoted this type of education for peasants and encouraged Palestinian peasants to stay on the land instead of moving to cities.54 Khalil Tota, the Palestinian director of the Arab College, concurred and explained how rural education should be agrarian based while education in the towns should be vocational rather than academic.55 Many in the professional class of Palestinian Arabs may have had misgivings about the overall project of the Mandate, but because education was viewed as a liberating process, it was 14 often accessed and controlled by Palestinian Arabs who worked in conjunction with the British to establish a standardized education system.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-264", "words": "6906", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "none", "title": "We don't do Body Counts: A study of the Pentagon and the Controversy of Civilian Casualties in Modern Warfare*", "date": "2005", "keywords": "american; body; casualties; civilian; damage; media; military; new; new york; pentagon; press; public; times; u.s; vietnam; war; york", "summary": "Margot Norris\u2019 research on censorship in the Persian Gulf War argues: The double defeat in Vietnam, military and moral, prompted the new body count practice\u2026Shedding the Vietnam syndrome has always meant achieving a double power: the ability to win an absolute and \u2018clean\u2019 military victory by full use of American technological superiority, and the ability to win an absolute and \u2018clean\u2019 moral victory by full use of the Pentagon\u2019s virtually absolute control over martial necrology.17 One tension that developed within the Pentagon as a result of silence on civilian casualty figures was the conflict between proclamations of hi- tech proficiency against surfacing reports of rising civilian casualties. However, the two-day grace for civilians to evacuate became a four-day standstill, momentum lost to concerns in Baghdad and Washington over civilian casualties and other unknown political considerations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-265", "words": "7363", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Teaching Tolerance through the Lens of the Holocaust: The Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Education Center of South Jersey*", "date": "2005", "keywords": "american; center; community; education; exhibit; goodwin; goodwin holocaust; holocaust; holocaust museum; jewish; jews; museum; new; students", "summary": "Specifically in Holocaust museums, because the event is so difficult to grasp, scholars have argued that \u201crather than communicating new information\u2026the greatest strengths of [these] museums may be in confirming, reinforcing, and extending the existing beliefs of their visitors. One stemmed from the majority of the American public hailing the national museum as a success; therefore, other Holocaust museums could legitimately use it as a model.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-266", "words": "15725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "Struggling with Flesh: Soul/Body Dualism in Porphyry and Augustine*", "date": "2005", "keywords": "augustine; body; dualism; flesh; god; life; marcella; mind; nature; philosophy; plato; plotinus; porphyry; press; soul; women; world", "summary": "As John O\u2019Meara explains in Porphyry\u2019s Philosophy from Oracles in Augustine, Porphyry disagreed with both Plato and Plotinus that souls that had been joined to human bodies should return subsequently to join a bestial body, and he furthermore contended that perfectly purified souls never returned to body, human or Dera Sipe 8 bestial, at all. \u201cBut the other nature, which has being of itself, is all that really exists, which does not come into being or perish: or everything else will pass away, and could not come into being afterwards if this real existence had perished which preserves all other things and especially this All, which is preserved and given its universal order and beauty by soul\u201d (Plotinus IV.7.9.1-5). 17 For Plotinus, \u201cSoul, as the source of life in bodies, is not a body and does not depend on body for its existence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2664", "words": "4291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Covais, Samantha", "title": "\u201cGod\u2019s Own Image Bought and Sold!\u201d: Analyzing the Intersection of Christianity and Slavery in Brown\u2019s Clotel", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bible; brown; christianity; clotel; god; novel; peck; slavery; slaves", "summary": "What ensues after Snyder finishes his lecture is another performance of Christianity, this time manifesting in a call and response similar to Black spirituals that forces the slaves to recite answers to questions avowing that God intended for Blacks to exist as slaves. Some interpretations, such as those of the Ephesians passage, even go as far as to equate slave owners with God himself, a narcissistic take on the tenets of Christianity of an immense magnitude that crosses the border into heresy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2667", "words": "6178", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Rome, Brendan", "title": "Mechanism and Hobbes' Political Physiology of the Commonwealth", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bodies; body; commonwealth; hobbes; human; leviathan; man; sovereign; state", "summary": "Bacon continues, \u201ctherefore separation and dissolution of bodies is\u2026achieved\u2026with auxiliary experiments; and by comparison with other bodies, and the reduction to simple natures and their forms which assemble and unite in the compound.\u201d9 The mechanism underlying Bacon\u2019s epistemology is clarified by his fourth aphorism, which states, \u201call men can do to achieve results is to bring natural bodies together and take them apart; Nature does the rest internally.\u201d6", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2669", "words": "5587", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Ziegler, Nina", "title": "The Desire for the Undesirable: Mimesis and Martial's Eunuch in Epigrams VI.67", "date": "2022", "keywords": "domitian; eunuchs; gender; juvenal; literature; martial; men; power; press; roman; sex; sexuality; stevenson; university; vol", "summary": "Luckily there is more to sex than intercourse and although Roman sources often dismiss other forms of pleasure, we shall consider them under the assumption that our sources are limited to reflecting perspectives of stuffy moralizing Roman men and are not inclusive of Roman sexual practices as a whole.28 Taking into account any sexual limitations of a eunuch, Martial pokes fun at the Gallus Baeticus whose particular proclivity is performing cunnilinctus: \u201cquid cum femineo tibi, Baetice galle, barathreo? Unclear language regarding Roman gender construction leaves behind few clues with which to understand the role of eunuchs in Roman sexual relationships.10 There was certainly an aesthetic to eunuchs, as examples throughout the Epigrammata make fun of women\u2019s attraction to effeminate eunuch softness and beardlessness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-267", "words": "7187", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "A Wittgensteinian Vision of Knowledge", "date": "2005", "keywords": "certainty; clarity; descartes; investigations; knowing; knowledge; life; philosophy; point; wittgenstein", "summary": "To again take the image of the city; it is as if Cartesian knowledge looked beyond the borders of its borough of clarity and became embittered by the persistence of those old crooked streets.17 In this work, he provides a vision of knowledge which entails that clarity, distinctness, and certainty are the necessary attributes which constitute knowing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2676", "words": "7902", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Staherski, Suzanne", "title": "State Violence as White Backlash to the Land Back Movement", "date": "2022", "keywords": "access; backlash; dakota; hills; land; movement; nations; oklahoma; people; pipeline; state; stitt; supremacy; united; white", "summary": "The movement seeks to right wrongs committed against Indigenous people, beginning with restoring sovereignty of Indigenous lands back to the Indigenous groups they belong to. Indigenous activists fight not only for sovereignty over Indigenous lands, but also fight to protect its resources, including clean water and air.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2679", "words": "6495", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Tare, Alec M", "title": "Thinking Outside The Box : The Potential of Management Training for Reducing Turnover in Warehouse/Distribution Environments", "date": "2022", "keywords": "coaching; employees; et al; firms; journal; line; management; managers; training; turnover; warehouse", "summary": "Examining sources of warehouse employee turnover. A meta-analysis of antecedents and correlates of employee turnover: Update, Moderator Tests, and research implications for the next millennium.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-268", "words": "9207", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "none", "title": "Lament of Ahmad Khani: A Study of the Historical Struggle of the Kurds for an Independent Kurdistan", "date": "2005", "keywords": "government; inc; iran; iraq; kurdish; kurdistan; kurds; new; nov; party; state; turkey; war", "summary": "With Mustafa Kemal Pasha now in control of Turkey, he forced a new peace conference with the Allies that led to the Treaty of Lausanne, which was signed on July 24, 1923.15 These events changed the course of Kurdish independence. Kurdish tribal leaders took advantage of this by increasing their own power through confederations between tribes and raiding rivals and non-ethnic Kurds.31 We also see, because of a weak central government, that the shah was only able to maintain control in the cities, but not in the countryside where rebellions tend to start.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2687", "words": "5154", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "McCarthy, William", "title": "Something to Crow About: Birds with Tools", "date": "2022", "keywords": "birds; crows; food; manufacture; nccs; new; task; tool; use", "summary": "Tool use can be defined by \u201cthe use of an external object as a functional extension of a mouth or beak, hand or claw, which extends the physical influence of the animal in the attainment of an immediate goal (Goodall, 1970; Kamil & Jones, 1973). The evolution of tool use in Homo Sapiens reveals important aspects about the development of higher-order cognition.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-269", "words": "7081", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "REM and Remembering: The Nature of Memory Consolidation and Memory Retrieval*", "date": "2005", "keywords": "brain; consolidation; cortex; hemisphere; memories; memory; rem; retrieval; sleep; term; time", "summary": "The transfer of other memories between hemispheres after being trained unihemispherically on the IAP procedure seems dubious. The approach used by Mayes (1995) to devise a \u201cmemory circuitry,\u201d or anatomical interactions that seem to account for memory consolidation and retrieval, was to look at the effects of lesions to several brain structures with regards to amnesia, or loss of memory.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2691", "words": "4710", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Poteat, Emily", "title": "A firestorm of destruction: A State of the Field on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler\u2019s War on the Eastern Front", "date": "2022", "keywords": "eastern; german; operation barbarossa; solution; stahel; war; wehrmacht", "summary": "Further, the struggle over the control of the panzer division between the Oberkommando des Heeres and Hitler needs to be reevaluated in the scholarship, as this event is typically treated as just another part of a failing strategic plan in Operation Barbarossa.50 By readdressing this hole in the historiography, scholars would gain another dimension to the dispute between Hitler and the OKH, while perhaps developing a deeper narrative to the failure of Operation Barbarossa. \u201cA firestorm of destruction:\u201d A State of the Field on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler\u2019s War on the Eastern Front Emily Alesia Poteat History On June 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa shattered the fa\u00e7ade of a German-Russian alliance when a 3.3 million-strong German invasion force flooded across the Soviet Union\u2019s border.1 Immediately, the German Luftwaffe moved on key targets, raining explosives down on border defenses, bridges, command posts, power stations, and the like.2 With immediate successes, Operation Barbarossa appeared to be moving in the right direction for the Third Reich; however, the military operation was fraught with Hitler\u2019s indecisive and erratic military planning.3 Hitler expected Operation Barbarossa to aid in his attempt to establish Germany as a great world power, and this was to be achieved through his policy of Lebensraum (living space).4 What resulted from this policy of \u201cliving space\u201d was some of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War, and some of the greatest crimes of the war occurring in Hitler\u2019s forces\u2019 movement across the eastern front.5 Furthermore, Operation Barbarossa decisively assured Hitler and the Third Reich\u2019s defeat early in the summer of 1941, and was a decisive turning point in World War II.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2694", "words": "6641", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Rudnesky, Franki Maria", "title": "\u201cFirst it is warm then it gets cold:\u201d Temperature as Metaphor in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Mrs. Dalloway", "date": "2022", "keywords": "artist; clarissa; cold; coldness; connection; joyce; peter; stephen; warmth; woolf", "summary": "In the same way sensory memories reorient Stephen and bring him back to his youth, feeling Sally\u2019s warmth again seems to have the same effect on Clarissa. Unlike in Stephen\u2019s case, Clarissa Dalloway\u2019s coming-of-age from girlhood to middle age and the way her associations with temperature change are not shown to the reader; her younger self is revealed only in flashbacks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2698", "words": "5674", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Stryker, Sarah", "title": "All The Wonders: Phenomenology and Making Julius Caesar Relevant Again ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "address; audience; caesar; contemporary; elizabethan; julius; julius caesar; play; shakespeare; stage; story; theatre", "summary": "I write this paper to encourage contemporary audiences to approach Shakespeare with confidence and to help contemporary theatre makers gain a better understanding of how original performance conventions can bring Julius Caesar to life. I said these words to a fellow theatre-maker when he reluctantly admitted his disinterest in attending a production of Julius Caesar.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-270", "words": "2990", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "Sixto VI como palinoda: Una desintegraci\u00f3n de las categor\u00edas que rigen sobre el ser humano", "date": "2005", "keywords": "como; con; del; esta; este; individuo; las; lector; los; m\u00e1s; obra; para; pasado; por; que; ruiz; ser; sixto; sus; una; vez", "summary": "Finalmente, el uso de la palinodia enfatiza la vulnerabilidad de los \u201chechos ocurridos.\u201d Se incita as\u00ed al mismo lector a practicar el uso de la palinodia y forjar sus propias respuestas.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2701", "words": "5343", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Shea, Ethan", "title": "The Unracing of Whiteness in \"Heart of Darkness\"", "date": "2022", "keywords": "characters; conrad; darkness; heart; marlow; race; text; whiteness", "summary": "Taking Conrad\u2019s white cultural depictions and biographical information into account, how could his whiteness be seen as an overarching symbol? There are ongoing, heated debates among Conrad scholars about whether Conrad himself endorsed these descriptions or used them to critique imperialism, and much of these conversations surround the broader question of whether this text, with all its racism, should continue to be taught, and if so, how?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2703", "words": "5610", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Cali, Deidra", "title": "\u201cOne need not be a Chamber \u2013 to be Haunted \u2013\u201d: Trauma and Terror in Emily Dickinson\u2019s Poetry", "date": "2022", "keywords": "dickinson; emily; father; goblin; life; poems; poetry; scholars; trauma; writing", "summary": "1 Trauma and Terror in Emily Dickinson\u2019s Poetry Deidra Cali English \u201cMy darling, you\u2019ll be the only Dickinson they talk about in 200 years,\u201d Death (portrayed by rapper Wiz Khalifa), prophesizes during a carriage ride with the show\u2019s titular character, the enigmatic poet, portrayed by actress Hailee Steinfeld, Emily Dickinson (\u201cBecause I could not stop\u201d). Dickinson scholar Johanna Winant comments that the show\u2019s \u201cversion of Dickinson is pretty close to [her] Emily Dickinson: the one [she knows] not through her biography but through her poetry\u201d (Winant).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2706", "words": "6786", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Derr, Jess", "title": "\u201cWomen Don\u2019t Buy Suitcases\u201d: Unpacking Liminality and Gender in Mad Men", "date": "2022", "keywords": "don; episode; identity; men; office; peggy; place; roles; space; state; suitcase; turner; women", "summary": "Because Mad Men recognizes the woman\u2019s bathroom as a space for self-fashioning, the show uses the setting for two vital interactions Peggy experiences. This considered then, both Megan and Trudy can be read as conscious of an external world where they will be scrutinized and saddled with responsibilities whereas gloveless Peggy chooses to forgo such considerations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-271", "words": "3602", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Confrontaci\u00f3n De Dos Lados De La Clase Baja De Barcelona Mediante La Estructura Del Triunfo De Francisco Casavella", "date": "2005", "keywords": "as\u00ed; baja; barcelona; barrio; casavella; como; con; del; dos; esta; este; estos; gandhi; inmigraci\u00f3n; las; los; manera; m\u00e1s; obra; palito; para; por; que; sin; sus; una; vida", "summary": "Sin embargo, a lo largo de la novela, se deja determinar que de los espacios, el de los de arriba como el de los de abajo, emana un ambiente opresivo. el de la generaci\u00f3n anterior, que estaba arriba, con un lenguaje m\u00e1s literario y el de la generaci\u00f3n que sigue, la de abajo, con un relato m\u00e1s coloquial.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-272", "words": "8535", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "none", "title": "Constructing a Coherent Christian Sexual Ethic: Towards Discovering the Gift of Homosexuality*", "date": "2005", "keywords": "church; ethic; flourishing; human; love; persons; relationships; self; sex", "summary": "What finally convinced me of the wrongness of the Church\u2019s teachings was not that they were intellectually so confused, but that in the circumstances of my own life \u2013 and of the lives I discovered around me \u2013 they seemed so destructive of the possibilities of human love and self- realization.9 Thus, it was not because the Church\u2019s teaching was illogical that Sullivan found it to be incoherent, but because, in his effort to apply that teaching to his own life, he experienced it as an obstacle to love and genuine self- discovery. If we accept the continuity of human love that these assertions about sanctifying relationships assume, then it seems accurate to hold that it is out of a self-serving love which seeks to gain something from the other that an integrated self-love which enables the other to be develops.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-273", "words": "8846", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "As the Days of Noah: A Critical Examination of the `Sons of God' and the Nephilim in Genesis 6:1-4", "date": "2005", "keywords": "chalcedon; christ; church; churches; council; cyril; east; faith; god; natures; nestorius; paul; pope", "summary": "Pope John Paul II and Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV, \u201cCommon Christological Declaration Between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East,\u201d November 11, 1994. Nestorius and Cyril: 5th Century Christological Division and Re Nestorius and Cyril: 5th Century Christological Division and Recent Progress in Reconciliation Ben Green Department of Theology and Religious Studies Villanova University I. Introduction The 5th century controversy of Bishop Nestorius of Constantinople and Bishop Cyril of Alexandria centered on the Person of Jesus Christ:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-274", "words": "5837", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "none", "title": "Miriam in Numbers 12", "date": "2005", "keywords": "authority; burns; exodus; fischer; lord; miriam; moses; text", "summary": "Naomi Graetz notes that it is important not to minimize the injustice Miriam experiences in the text; Aaron\u2019s lack of physical punishment is important. These two detailed understandings of Miriam\u2019s sisterhood and previous divergent material concerning her role as prophet, leader and leper evidence that a 48 Camp, \u201cOver Her Dead Body,\u201d 3. 49 Camp, \u201cOver Her Dead Body,\u201d 4. 50 Camp, \u201cOver Her Dead Body,\u201d 4. 51 Camp, \u201cOver Her Dead Body,\u201d 5-6. 52 Ita Sheres and Anne Blau, \u201cSister Miriam the Leper,\u201d All the Women Followed Her: A collection of Writings on Miriam the Prophet and the Women of Exodus, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-275", "words": "7046", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "It will grow muddy for want of motion: Interpretations of Fixing the English Language in Gulliver's Travels and Rasselas*", "date": "2006", "keywords": "dictionary; english; gulliver; imlac; johnson; language; swift; terms; tongue; words", "summary": "Language works as a passport to gain acceptance into foreign cultures and both Gulliver and Rasselas come to radically different conclusions concerning language and its significance. Each of these texts includes a protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver in one and Imlac in the other, who often functions as a vehicle through which the author is able to express his beliefs, whether explicit or subtle, on all matters of life, including issues concerning language and its relation to society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2756", "words": "6842", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Wojtal, James", "title": "Legibility and Annotation: Reading Images and Words by Wendy Red Star, Thomas Harriot, and Theodore De Bry", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bry; harriot; images; information; legibility; people; red; red star; refusal; settler; star", "summary": "Furthermore, by locating legibility alongside the intended viewer and Indigenous people\u2019s ability to refuse, to refuse to explain or refuse to engage with the settler gaze, we can see how artists like Red Star reclaim images. Red Star reclaims photos taken of Aps\u00e1alooke leaders by European settlers and annotates them with various types of information.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2759", "words": "10520", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Miner, Elizabeth", "title": "Victory was Survival: An Environmental History of Benedict Arnold's 1775 Expedition Through the Maine Wilderness to Quebec", "date": "2023", "keywords": "army; arnold; benedict arnold; bloomington; darley; expedition; journal; march; men; new; private; quebec; quebec expedition; river; wilderness", "summary": "24 Greenman, Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 14. 25Anonymous, Quebec Journal #3. in Voices From a Wilderness Expedition: The Journals and Men of Benedict Arnold\u2019s Expedition to Quebec in 1775, ed. To portage, a four-man team would work together, carrying the two-hundred pound batteau, often with the craft cutting into their shoulders, while other men carried the supplies.42 Portages were as complex and dangerous as traversing the rivers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-276", "words": "6093", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "More nearly right: Allowing Ambiguity of Female Solidarity in Elizabeth G. Jordan's Tales of the City Room", "date": "2006", "keywords": "dyke; female; herrick; jordan; journalists; miss; mrs; story; van; women", "summary": "Editors therefore primarily hired women as \u2018women journalists\u2019 in order to attract female audiences; they assigned them topics outside of \u2018serious\u2019 reportage, such as society news. Beginning in the 1880s, women journalists began forming press clubs and associations parallel to male-only organizations in order to promote professional prestige and provide camaraderie.13 In 1885, women from around the country formed the National Woman\u2019s Press Association, soon renamed the International Woman\u2019s Press Association.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2768", "words": "8666", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Jaramillo, Ceydy", "title": "Love, Memory, and Resistance: The Respectability Politics of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and the AIDS Social Movement", "date": "2023", "keywords": "aids; gay; group; jones; memorial; movement; names; people; politics; project; quilt; respectability; respectability politics; society", "summary": "Existing literature on the AIDS Memorial Quilt has yet to fully explore this aspect of the Quilt\u2019s approaches and the impact it had on communities that were being disproportionally affected by AIDS, the larger mainstream society, and other gay rights activists and AIDS organizations who were also tackling similar goals. The framing of these organizations of AIDS victims leads mainstream society to further associate AIDS with white gay men, which could be viewed as harmful for the gay community but also as the most effective way to appeal to middle America.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2769", "words": "4350", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Markhoff, Elisa", "title": "Dying for Wisdom: Seneca and Socrates in Dialogue", "date": "2023", "keywords": "death; letter; phaedo; plato; platonism; seneca; socrates; soul", "summary": "In order to do this, Seneca brings together different arguments from a number of philosophic schools, a technique that was common in the genre of consolation, \u201cin the hope that at least one [of these arguments] would prove effective\u201d.25 Seneca openly acknowledges this when he tells Marcia that \u201cdifferent people should be treated in different ways: some are guided by reason, some require to be confronted with famous names\u201d (2.1). Microsoft Word - Dying_for_Wisdom 1 Dying for Wisdom: Seneca and Socrates in Dialogue Elisa Markhoff Classical Studies And let us adduce an argument of Plato \u2013 for what harm is there in using other people\u2019s ideas where they coincide with ours?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-277", "words": "6890", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "Not for Sale: Liberation and Commodified Identity in Ellison's Invisible Man", "date": "2006", "keywords": "african; black; brotherhood; ellison; hale; identity; lynching; man; narrator; new; norton; rinehart; white", "summary": "Finding such cues as clothing and speech no longer reliable as indicators of racial differences, white identity experienced a major crisis. This \u201ccontradiction between market incentives and the desire to encode white racial supremacy\u201d ensured that the battle for white supremacy would not end on train cars (133): \u201cThe problem for the white southern elite ... was how to reconstruct a powerful and collective definition of whiteness within this new semi- public commercial sphere, which depended ... for its profitability upon both white and black buyers\u201d (137).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2770", "words": "5942", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Wynn, Eva", "title": "The Ties That Bind: Personal Feelings in Giovanni's Room", "date": "2023", "keywords": "butler; david; feelings; giovanni; individual; literature; smith", "summary": "There are multiple moments throughout the novel that show that this is also true of other personal feelings besides grief. In \u201cViolence, Mourning, Politics,\u201d the second chapter of their book Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, Judith Butler claims that it is through personal feelings such as grief that we come to know how connected to each other we truly are.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2772", "words": "4002", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Morgan, Kelly", "title": "Let's Get Real: The Value of Realistic Job Previews in Recruitment Strategy", "date": "2023", "keywords": "job; organization; previews; recruitment; rjps; self; turnover", "summary": "Realistic job previews (RJPs) are relevant to organizational strategy as it relates to recruitment, specifically in job retention, job turnover, and job satisfaction. There are several modalities of realistic job previews that an organization may present during the recruitment process.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2774", "words": "4193", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Villanueva, James Matthew", "title": "\u201cThis is How I Fight\u201d: The Evolution of Masculinity within Contemporary Depictions of Asian American Men", "date": "2023", "keywords": "american; asian; dog; evelyn; film; men; movies; waymond", "summary": "In Andrew Kung\u2019s \u201cDesexualization of Asian American Men,\u201d he explains: Asian American men, however, have never fit this mold While the rise of Kung Fu and Jackie Chan often depicted these fanciful \u201creal men\u201d contrasted with the desexualization of many AAPI men, neither were accurate depictions of identity or culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2775", "words": "4233", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Riekstins, Adam", "title": "The Aesthetics of Phrenology: Re-examining the Lost Paragraph in Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s \u201cThe Murders in the Rue Morgue\u201d", "date": "2024", "keywords": "dupin; murders; narrator; original; paragraph; phrenology; poe; rue", "summary": "Microsoft Word - Riekstins ENG.docx The Aesthetics of Phrenology in Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s \u201cThe Murders in the Rue Morgue\u201d: Re-Examining the Lost Paragraph Adam Riekstins English When Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s \u201cThe Murders in the Rue Morgue\u201d was initially published in 1841, Poe was an avid believer and pseudo-practitioner of phrenology. In 1840, George Combe undertook a two-year tour across the United States, mirroring Spurzheim's impact by delivering widely attended lectures and engaging with influential figures, thus further contributing to the rise of phrenology's popularity.i The first historical evidence of Poe\u2019s interaction with phrenology occurred in 1836 when he reviewed Mrs. L. Miles\u2019 Phrenology and the Moral Influence of Phrenology: Arranged for General Study, and the Purpose of Education, From the First Published Works of Gall and Spurzheim, to the Latest Discoveries of the Present Period in the March edition of Southern Literary Messenger.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2777", "words": "6657", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Juarez, Teya", "title": "Is This Thing On?: Staging Gender, Sexuality, and Race via Metatheatricality", "date": "2023", "keywords": "audience; hedwig; men; normative; performance; queer; theatre; white", "summary": "These performances require the audience to fulfill a different role than what the presumably largely straight, cis, white audience is expecting. The normative audience now gets a taste, albeit a small taste, of how the queer and BIPOC audience feels when they enter other spaces in the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-278", "words": "7683", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "none", "title": "The Paxton Boys and the Pamphlet Frenzy: Politics, Religion, and Social Structure in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania*", "date": "2006", "keywords": "assembly; backcountry; boys; events; frontier; indians; new; paxton; pennsylvania; philadelphia; politics; presbyterians; quakers; war", "summary": "Like the backcountry inhabitants of other colonial regions, Pennsylvania backcountry settlers felt neglected and alienated; they distrusted the motives of the urban elite; and felt powerless to improve their situation because they were unequally represented. Historically, the Pennsylvania Assembly and the Quaker \u201cparty\u201d had squabbled perennially with the Proprietor over the administration of the colony.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2780", "words": "7521", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Noland, Andrew", "title": "Aesthetics as State Security: International Law, Art Repatriation, and Ontological Security", "date": "2023", "keywords": "art; cambridge; history; international; law; politics; power; press; property; repatriation; security; self; states; steele; university; university press", "summary": "Brown (2021) posits that the development of international cultural property law is maintained by a \u201cself-serving legal system\u201d whose role is to protect the holders of plundered art rather than provide a vehicle for wronged parties to seek restitution.xxv Because international law requires state compliance in both enforcement and passage of legislation, there are substantial domestic interests which might prevent the return of cultural property to their homelands. Because the necessary requirement for participating in international law was possessing state power, positivists actively excluded and subordinated indigenous colonized peoples.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2782", "words": "4726", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Diacogiannis, Doria", "title": "Gen Z on the Horizon: The Importance of Strategic Change Within the Organization", "date": "2023", "keywords": "employees; gen; gen z; organization; performance; schroth; values; work", "summary": "According to Chillakuri (2020), Gen Z employees generally seek fair treatment, learning and development opportunities, and immediate feedback; and per Schroth (2019), Gen Z is characterized by a lack of work experience in their teenage years, which may lead to an idealistic perception of work experiences. However, given that Gen Z employees are the future of the workforce, such organizational change will inherently serve to benefit the organization, as Gen Z would ultimately become more attracted to serve an organization that values them as individuals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2786", "words": "5844", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Cochran, Brendan T.", "title": "\u201cThe Man That I Praise\u201d: Generational Transformation of the Postcolonial Masculine Ideal in Cathleen ni Houlihan, At the Hawk\u2019s Well, and On Baile\u2019s Strand", "date": "2023", "keywords": "cuchulain; gender; gregory; ireland; irish; man; masculine; masculinity; movement; valente; yeats", "summary": "Through the course of these plays, the subtext then emerges that the elder generations of Irish political action were likewise led astray. The popular British ideas around Irish masculinity at the turn of the twentieth century were typical of the relationship between colonizers and native peoples.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2787", "words": "9351", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Morbeck, Gabriel", "title": "The Root of Empire: Botany, British Imperialism, & Early American Encounters with Ginseng, 1738-1784", "date": "2023", "keywords": "american; bartram; british; century; china; chinese; collinson; eighteenth; empire; ginseng; john; peter; plant; root; trade; university; world", "summary": "Your proprietor was so kind to send Mee a Considerable [parcel] & I have Trusted a [particular] Friend with it to Carry to China, to see how they approve of it and to find what price it bears \u2014 but my friend is under promise not to Discover that it is American for if they know that, they are so fancifull it may not be as good as their own \u2014 11 It would be a few decades before botanists developed a distinction between the two species of panax, but Collinson was already cognizant of the risks that flooding Chinese markets with American ginseng posed. Eighteenth-century botanists frequently assumed that every plant could be mass cultivated under the right conditions, and ginseng was no exception.53 Gathering had already been fueling significant export of American ginseng to China, but beginning in the 1740s, the botanists of the Royal Society began to shift their attention towards attempts to cultivate ginseng in their English gardens.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-279", "words": "8805", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "none", "title": "Greetings from Jim Crow, New Jersey: Contesting the Meaning and Abandonment of Reconstruction in the Public and Commercial Spaces of Asbury Park, 1880-1890*", "date": "2006", "keywords": "asbury; asbury park; black; bradley; jersey; journal; july; new; new york; park; press; public; shore; times; university; white; york times", "summary": "See also, Asbury Park Library, \u201cJames A. Bradley and Asbury Park: A Biography and History,\u201d Pamphlet at the Asbury Park Library, Published under the Auspices of the Bradley Memorial Committee, 1921. Asbury Park Library, \u201cJames A. Bradley and Asbury Park: A Biography and History,\u201d Pamphlet at Asbury Park Library, published under the Auspices of The Bradley Memorial Committee, 1921.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-280", "words": "6623", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "John Dickinson: The Cautious Patriot", "date": "2006", "keywords": "american; britain; colonies; colonists; dickinson; great; independence; john; parliament; rights", "summary": "The Cautious Patriot Elizabeth Crowley History In 1776, rebel agitator John Adams called John Dickinson a \u201cpiddling Genius\u201d who gave \u201ca silly Cast to our whole Doings\u201d at the Second Continental Congress.1 He also claimed Dickinson \u201csuffered by the Timidity of . . . According to Flower, while Dickinson may have begun his career as a radical, he ended as a conservative in 1776.31 Other historians, such as John Ferling, have borrowed Flower\u2019s theme and have also portrayed John Dickinson as a \u201cconservative revolutionary.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-281", "words": "6703", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "none", "title": "Vampirism and Blood Identity: An Analysis of Social Constructions And Anxieties", "date": "2006", "keywords": "blood; british; clare; dracula; harker; identity; irene; race; stoker; vampire; white", "summary": "that lust and hyper-sexuality link with barbarism, marking foreign women as clearly divergent from the righteousness and chasteness associated with white British women. At the same time, their total divergence from British women and his virtuous, proper fianc\u00e9 creates a profound uneasiness within Harker.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-282", "words": "9627", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "none", "title": "New Views of the Election of the President: How Direct Choice of Electors by State Legislators Could Affect Presidential Elections and the Presidency", "date": "2006", "keywords": "choice; district; election; election method; electoral; electors; framers; legislatures; method; people; president; state; state legislatures", "summary": "Under the proposed form of district method herein proposed, however, gerrymandering for this purpose would be impractical or impossible because legislators from state legislative districts included in one or more Congressional Districts would participate in choosing those Districts\u2019 Electors. This Paper will analyze why the Framers allowed state legislatures the latitude to directly choose Presidential Electors, why this approach was ultimately abandoned in favor of popular election of Electors in every state, the potential benefits of returning to direct legislative choice of Electors, and the corresponding effect this method might have on the process of nominating candidates, electing Presidents, and the Presidency itself.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-283", "words": "8034", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "none", "title": "Shifting Sands: Continuity and Change in Russian-Saudi Relations*", "date": "2006", "keywords": "arabia; gas; iran; israel; new; oil; policy; relations; russia; saudi; saudi arabia; soviet; ussr; vol; world", "summary": "Of the many changes in Russian foreign policy since the latter half of the Soviet era, Russia\u2019s policy toward Saudi Arabia is Shifting Sands: Continuity and Change in Russian-Saudi Relations Christopher Diehl Political Science Of the many changes that Russian foreign policy has undergone since the end of the Brezhnev era, the evolution of Russia\u2019s policy toward Saudi Arabia is particularly striking. Russian foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia is now motivated by economic interests and to a lesser extent, national security concerns.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-284", "words": "9793", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "none", "title": "Forgiveness in the Polis: Seeking Reconciliation In Post-Apartheid South Africa*", "date": "2006", "keywords": "africa; amnesty; apartheid; commission; forgiveness; human; justice; new; press; reconciliation; south; south africa; trc; truth; tutu; victims", "summary": "As of 2 June 2006, according to an article in the South African Mail & Guardian newspaper, most survivors called to give evidence during TRC hearings had received a single reparations payment of about US$4,000. Forgiveness in the Polis: Seeking Reconciliation Forgiveness in the Polis: Seeking Reconciliation In Post-Apartheid South Africa William H. LeMaire Theology Operating from 1995 to 1998, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa stands as one of the most unusual and hopeful social phenomena in one of the most violent periods in history.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-285", "words": "6096", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "Sometimes the Center is the Wrong Place to Be: An Examination of Isaiah 66:17*", "date": "2006", "keywords": "blenkinsopp; deity; ezekiel; garden; god; ibid; isaiah; marz\u0113ah; ritual; trito; worship", "summary": "Given that garden cults seemed to be plentiful, perhaps it is a mistake to try to whittle their characterization down to one specific deity; likely, many gods were worshipped in this manner, and it might be impossible to determine the particular from the generic in Isaiah 65:3 and Isaiah 66:17. Blenkinsopp grants that Isaiah 66:17 might be contextually isolated from its surrounding verses, but has enough in common with Isaiah 65:3-7 to admit the same source.7 Of these five verses, Isaiah 65:3-4 are the most important for my study: 3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and offering incense on bricks; 4who sit inside tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine\u2019s flesh, with broth of abominable things in their vessels\u2026 Immediately, we notice the thematic similarities of illicit cultic practices taking place in a garden and of the consumption of proscribed foods.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-286", "words": "6302", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Salvation in a False Direction: How Domestic Materiality in two Literary Case Studies Reconfigures the Victorian Family", "date": "2007", "keywords": "dickens; engels; exchange; family; man; margaret; market; marx; materiality; nancy; sikes; women", "summary": "When the members of the family leave the self-contained unit and enter the production-based society, the individuals suffer commodification and, as a result, the relations amongst family member are abnormally altered. Little by little, the plea to reinstate a masculine provider (a role that Engels ascribes to the false sovereignty of private interest) is replaced with the desire for natural affection amongst family members and, as women assert their materiality in the market, the family achieves their \u201csalvation in a false direction\u201d (Engels 156).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-287", "words": "5630", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "73", "author": "none", "title": "Not What We Ought to Say: Male Anxiety and the Power of Female Speech in Shakespeare's King Lear and Richard III", "date": "2007", "keywords": "goneril; lear; male; power; richard; scene; speech; words", "summary": "Specific concerns of gendered speech\u2014female speeches of power and the efforts of male speech to undermine such power\u2014are brought about by the texts of the plays themselves. In this, Goneril anticipates the efforts that male speech will apply in attempts to efface female speech.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-288", "words": "5017", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "none", "title": "Outland as Motherland: Maternity and Homosexuality in Willa Cather's The Professor's House*", "date": "2007", "keywords": "cather; house; maternal; mother; outland; peter; professor; tom", "summary": "Lying on his death-bed couch within the maternally symbolic attic room, St. Peter falls \u201cout of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family,\u201d releasing himself \u201cfrom consciousness\u201d and returning to mother \u201cEarth,\u201d the \u201croot of the matter\u201d and source of \u201cthe original, unmodified Godfrey St. Peter\u201d (239). In any case, the coalescence of maternity and homosexuality in The Professor\u2019s House certainly encourages a conception of St. Peter\u2019s lost intimacy with Tom Outland as a failed attempt to reconfigure mother-son 7 See The Reproduction of Mothering, 79. 9 Peter Nagy unity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-289", "words": "10296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "none", "title": "Visceral History: Interpreting Independence National Historical Park*", "date": "2007", "keywords": "american; bell; civil; history; independence; inhp; interpretation; memory; national; national park; new; park; plan; press; public; religion", "summary": "The glorifying and civil religious properties of the site pertaining to park interpretation between 1976 and 2006 are self-evident. However, INHP\u2019s movement in this direction must, unlike in the case of civil religion, be accompanied by a sense of self-reflection and understanding of previous tendencies in park interpretation: a movement beyond visceral history.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-290", "words": "8487", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "Jimmy Carter's Human Rights Policy and Iran: a Re-Examination, 1976-79", "date": "2007", "keywords": "administration; american; carter; cold; foreign; human; iran; iranian; policy; rights; rights policy; shah; u.s; war", "summary": "Because Carter appeared to defer to the foreign policies of previous Cold War presidents, the issues of human rights and an American foreign policy infused with morals appeared to be little more than shrewd political rhetoric. Consequently, the issue of human rights would become the wildcard of Carter\u2019s term in office.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-291", "words": "4785", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "none", "title": "Rebels with a Cause: Revolutionary Syndicalism, Anarchism, and Socialism in fin-de-si\u00e8cle France*", "date": "2007", "keywords": "anarchists; france; general; labor; movement; new; society; strikes; syndicalists; unions; workers", "summary": "5 Kenneth H. Tucker, French revolutionary syndicalism and the public sphere (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 4. 2 Rebels With a Cause Anarchists were some of the first to see this dichotomy in French history, recognizing that the rhetoric of freedom and equality seldom materialized into concrete economic change for the lower classes. Pelloutier\u2019s description of anarchism as \u201cthe art of cultivating oneself and of sufficiently cultivating others so that [people] can govern and enjoy themselves,\u201d is an idea that still resonates.32 For the historian, the flexibility of French revolutionary syndicalism between ideas of the individual and community, the state and anarchy, and morality and efficiency, complicate and enrich our view of the Belle \u00c9poque.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-292", "words": "7969", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "none", "title": "Roanoke: The Past through the Present", "date": "2007", "keywords": "america; colonists; colony; english; hariot; ibid; indians; karen; new; new york; quinn; roanoke; virginia; white; york", "summary": "Whatever human elements of the Indians that Hariot may have failed to capture in writing, John White caught in his paintings and sketches. For almost a year, Hariot, in conjunction with artist John White, took detailed assessments and notes about the natural resources, plants, minerals, and people of the New World.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-293", "words": "5710", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "World Bank Lending: A Catholic Social Teaching Perspective*", "date": "2007", "keywords": "bank; capital; countries; cst; development; globalization; latin; lending; world; world bank", "summary": "Taken at face value, the premise of World Bank loans, particularly through the IBRD, look very promising in its endeavor to \u201c[reduce] global poverty\u2026 and improve\u2026 living standards\u201d (About Us 2007). Eastern Europe\u2019s poverty grew ten-fold in the years after the fall of communism as World Bank policies acted to \u201cease\u201d the transition to capitalism (Stiglitz 39).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2930", "words": "7097", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Gregory, Sarah", "title": "In a Mirror Clearly: Narrative-Based Interventional and Restorative Possibilities in There There", "date": "2024", "keywords": "characters; face; identity; indian; mirror; novel; orange; orvil; people; stories", "summary": "\u201cInauthentic novels,\u201d like There There by Tommy Orange, are absolutely vital for the reconstruction, visibility, expression, and future of Indigenous American identity. Orange portrays a wide range of experiences with Native American identity: those who have access to representation, those who do not, those facing centuries-old trauma, and those who feel disconnected from their heritage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-294", "words": "8890", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "none", "title": "The Value of Social Capital to the Future of Iraq*", "date": "2007", "keywords": "allawi; army; capital; coin; contractors; counterinsurgency; dec; donald; food; government; groups; iraq; iraqis; military; people; reconstruction; security; society; value", "summary": "Donald Caldwell The Value of Social Capital to the Future of Iraq1 Donald Caldwell Political Science This is a critical, yet hopeful, survey of the value of social capital to understanding the prevailing conditions in Iraq. The abundance of failures and paucity of progress in promoting a peaceful, stable, and democratic Iraq can be directly attributed to the lack of social capital between United States reconstruction representatives, the U.S. military and Iraqi civilians.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2946", "words": "6304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Piovezan, Iuri", "title": "\u201cThe Greatest Breakthrough of Anything\u201d: Lyndon Baines Johnson\u2019s Push for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Light of Neustadt and Skowronek", "date": "2024", "keywords": "act; ibid; johnson; lbj; march; neustadt; new; persuasion; president; presidential; rights; selma; voting; voting rights", "summary": "1 In the subsequent analysis section, LBJ's endeavor to secure the Voting Rights Act will be scrutinized through the prism of the aforementioned theories, with due consideration given to pivotal historical events such as the Selma to Montgomery march, which illuminate the milieu within which President Johnson operated. In this analysis section, this paper will begin a discussion of President Johnson through Skowronek\u2019s PPT, pointing out the significance of the time LBJ became a president to his push \u2013 6 and success \u2013 in passing the Voting Rights Act.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2947", "words": "3081", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Matzerath, Paige", "title": "Retaining Generation Z in the Workforce", "date": "2024", "keywords": "employees; generation; work", "summary": "In these findings, the researchers learned that Generation Z employees value intrinsic rewards more than leisure rewards, which might be surprising since both the Millennial generation and Generation Z have a negative stereotype of being lazy and self-centered (Farrell & Phungsoonthron, 2020). Taibah and Ho (2023) wanted to evaluate if flexible work options would provide more time to hone employee skillsets and increase overall knowledge, which would increase access to support and information for Generation Z employees.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-295", "words": "8127", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "none", "title": "Problems of Prosperity: A Comparative Study of the Social Consequences of Economic Growth in Ireland*", "date": "2007", "keywords": "alcohol; consumption; crime; gdp; growth; ibid; ireland; irish; people; prosperity; rates; society; suicide; wealth", "summary": "Following a chain of events initiated by the 1916 Easter Rising, Great Britain granted Ireland home rule in 1921, and in 1948, Ireland declared itself a republic excluding the six counties in Northern Ireland that remained loyal to the British crown. Ellen Meeker Problems of Prosperity: A Comparative Study of the Social Consequences of Economic Growth in Ireland Ellen K. Meeker Political Science Introduction", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2953", "words": "6530", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Portas, Andrew", "title": "So, I Declare It!: Pelican Island, Theodore Roosevelt, and Executive Decision Theory", "date": "2024", "keywords": "american; aou; conservation; dutcher; executive; federal; island; new; order; pelican; power; president; public; roosevelt; theodore", "summary": "The latter belonged to an elite echelon of naturalists retained and relied upon by President Roosevelt. Around 1903, President Roosevelt was particularly inspired by Chapman\u2019s accounts of Pelican Island detailing that \u201cduring no hour of the twenty-four did silence reign,\u201d and that we ought \u201cperhaps take some steps to defend [the bird\u2019s] rights [\u2026] by passing and enforcing proper laws [\u2026]\u201d (Chapman 1901).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2954", "words": "4111", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Tompkins, Anastasiia", "title": "Beyond Entertainment: Exploring the Intricacies of True Crime Fascination", "date": "2024", "keywords": "community; crime; fear; individuals; media; podcast; stories; women", "summary": "Another bias possibly affecting people\u2019s obsession with true crime is presentation of stories as real-life events. However, this is not universally true; gender differences show that women prefer non-fiction morbid stories, while men prefer fictional, which can potentially explain why women are more drawn to true crime (Harrison & Frederick, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2955", "words": "5530", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Hayes, Megan", "title": "I'm Her and I'm Me: Race, Power, and Sexual Violence in Walter Mosley\u2019s Devil in a Blue Dress", "date": "2024", "keywords": "abuse; albright; daphne; devil; easy; mosley; novel; power; violence; whiteness", "summary": "Easy is aware of the way this threat of sexual violence is racialized when he thinks to himself afterwards: I wasn\u2019t afraid; I was angry, angry at the way he humiliated that boy. Examining sexual abuse as a racialized form of power within the context of Devil allows for a more comprehensive understanding of Mosley\u2019s characters and their motivations, particularly those of Daphne and Easy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2956", "words": "7598", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Lopez-Egea I Vives, Angela", "title": "Mary Magdalene: Sexism and Feminism in Scorsese's \"The Last Temptation of Christ\"", "date": "2024", "keywords": "christ; film; jesus; magdalene; mary; mary magdalene; movie; rindge; scorsese; sexuality; temptation; women", "summary": "However, the feminist elements Scorsese and Hershey incorporate in the movie present an unconventional Mary Magdalene that also follows the post-Vatican II tradition, which restores her image found in the Gospels as the \u201capostle of the Apostles.\u201d 17 1 Pamela Thimmes, \u201cMemory and Re-Vision: Mary Magdalene Research since 1975,\u201d Currents in Research 5 (1998): 196\u201397. This temptation was not a sexual temptation; instead, it was a temptation to embrace ordinariness and the invitation to live a domestic life.29 It is a temptation to become human.30 Mary Magdalene is a crucial character in the whole movie and becomes even more central in the last temptation scene.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2957", "words": "5398", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Parker, Jaxon", "title": "Tom\u2019s European Fantasies: Commodifying Authenticity in The Talented Mr. Ripley", "date": "2024", "keywords": "american; authenticity; city; dickie; europe; highsmith; history; new; tom; york", "summary": "Microsoft Word - Parker ENG.docx Tom\u2019s European Fantasies: Commodifying Authenticity in The Talented Mr. Ripley Jaxon Parker English In an early scene of Patricia Highsmith\u2019s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), the story of murder and stolen identity on the Mediterranean coast of Western Europe, Tom Ripley is given a tour of Dickie Greenleaf\u2019s villa in Mongibello, Italy, which, for Tom, \u201cis a pleasant mixture of Italian antique and American bohemian\u201d (49). As Kelley Wagers observes in \u201cTom Ripley, Inc.,\u201d Tom\u2019s reverse immigration from New York Harbor to Europe and his desire for a \u201cclean slate\u201d enacts a particularly American fantasy of effacing one\u2019s roots to invent a new future: \u201cTom founds his American identity not only on a conventionally imagined erasure of his past, but also on the fiction that his is not (yet) an American and must make himself into one\u201d (250).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2958", "words": "5792", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Wynn, Eva", "title": "Individual Success is Not Liberation: A Critique of #GIRLBOSS and Neoliberal Feminisms", "date": "2024", "keywords": "amoruso; feminism; girlboss; individual; success; women; work", "summary": "The main difference between the two ideologies is that while #GIRLBOSS feminism ignores the reproductive and domestic sphere, neoliberal feminism treats reproduction, child rearing, and housekeeping as work a woman can do to appreciate her individual value and achieve success. Like #GIRLBOSS feminism, neoliberal feminism, according to Catherine Rottenberg, \u201cencourages women to labour ceaselessly on themselves in order to produce, maintain and appreciate themselves as human capital\u201d (1079).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-296", "words": "7022", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Will Globalization Bring Economic Prosperity to Continental Sub-Saharan Africa?", "date": "2007", "keywords": "african; bank; botswana; central; countries; december; development; globalization; governance; republic; world; world bank", "summary": "The \u201cbad governance\u201d theory does not specifically account for either colonial legacy or domestic factors endemic to sub-Saharan African countries (i.e. geopolitical/geo-economical considerations and disease). The \u201cPoverty Trap\u201d Diagram 2\u2014Poverty Trap Colonial legacy / geographic limitations Poverty Early chronic bad governance (conflict & embezzlement of aid/loans/resources) Trap Diseases \u201cPoverty trap\u201d scholars argue that the cumulative effects of colonial legacy, geographic limitations, early and chronic bad governance, and crippling diseases left continental sub-Saharan African countries in a predisposed condition which will not allow them to benefit from the forces of economic globalization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2960", "words": "9713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Snyder, Ryan", "title": "Sacralizing the Cold War: The Lived Religion of President Eisenhower's Pastor", "date": "2024", "keywords": "american; box; church; cold; east; edward; eep; eisenhower; elson; god; group; middle; middle east; president; record; religion; war; world", "summary": "For these famous congregants see Elson to Eisenhower, November 23, 1952, Folder 3, Box 1, Record Group 253, Reverend Edward L. R. Elson Papers, 1924-1988, Presbyterian Historical Society Archives, Philadelphia PA (hereafter EEP); Elson to Dulles December 1, 1955, Elson, Edward, 1955, John Foster Dulles Papers, Box 91, Reel 35; Public Policy Papers, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library (hereafter JFDP) Edward Elson, Wide Was His Parish (Wheaton, Ill: Tyndale House Publishers, 1986), 98; William Inboden, Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: 29 Elson to Eisenhower, November 23, 1952, Folder 3, Box 1, Record Group 253, EEP. 30 Edward Elson, Diary 1, January 2, 1953, Folder 12, Box 10, Record Group 253, EEP. 31 Ibid; Elson, Wide Was His Parish, 114.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-2962", "words": "5142", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Fatoki, Oladimeji", "title": "A Report on Pennsylvania Homeschool Policy", "date": "2024", "keywords": "chap; children; education; homeschooling; parents; pennsylvania; policy; public; students; study", "summary": "However, the policy aims to change the behavior of homeschooling parents to ensure that they possess the skills and capacity to facilitate instruction and teach the right content at the right time and to ensure that learning is taking place. The Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania (CHAP) played a significant role in protecting the rights of homeschooling parents in the state.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-297", "words": "5235", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Life in the Kingdom: Meal as Symbol of Jesus' Mission", "date": "2007", "keywords": "dunn; fellowship; god; ibid; jesus; john; kingdom; sanders; table", "summary": "58 Mt 9.11; Mk 2.16; Lk 5.30; Charlesworth, Dead Sea Scrolls and Historical Jesus, 23; Dunn, Jesus Remembered, 600; Sobrino 103-4. 59 Sanders 227. 60 Ibid., 227-229. 61 Ibid., 230-1. 62 Dunn, Jesus Remembered, 529; Dunn, \u201cJesus, Table-Fellowship, and Qumran,\u201d 259-60. 5 Joachim Jeremias, New Testament Theology, Vol. 1: The Proclamation of Jesus (London: SCM, 1971), 115; quoted in Dunn, Jesus Remembered, 601; quoted in James D.G. Dunn, \u201cJesus, Table-Fellowship, and Qumran\u201d In Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 254-5. 6 Gillian Feeley-Harnik, The Lord\u2019s Table: Eucharist and Passover in Early Christianity, Symbol and Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), 10 quoted in John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), 341; Lee Edward Klosinski, The Meals in Mark (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1988), 56-8 quoted in Crossan 341.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-298", "words": "5646", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "none", "title": "The Color of Suffrage: Voter Disenfranchisement, Power Threat Hypotheses and Modern Democracy", "date": "2008", "keywords": "american; black; control; disenfranchisement; felons; justice; prison; rights; states; threat; united; voter; voting", "summary": "33 Additionally, the strength and validity of Power Threat hypotheses persist, as the positive relationship between states\u2019 minority racial composition and the severity of felon disenfranchisement laws adopted is statistically significant. 34 Given the racial composition of our prison population, felon disenfranchisement laws necessarily homogenize the voting public, skew the partisan makeup of our political bodies and influence the construction and design of policy agendas.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-299", "words": "5458", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "none", "title": "The Market Place of The Scarlet Letter: Hawthorne and Hester as Artist Objects", "date": "2008", "keywords": "artist; custom; hawthorne; hester; hester\u2018s; letter; object; prynne; public; scarlet; text", "summary": "Less blatantly but just as tellingly as the literal trade of his name, Hawthorne recognizes his status as artist object in his self introduction within \u2015The Custom House.\u2016 He chooses with this introduction to insert himself into the text as a version of his true self affected by fiction. In \u2015The Custom House,\u2016 Hawthorne laments his precarious quandary as an American artist who is caught between public expectations for the concrete merchandise of his art and private beliefs for the meaning and aesthetics of his art.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-300", "words": "5515", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "none", "title": "Gained Instead: A Study of Power in Robert Browning's \"Porphyria's Lover\"*", "date": "2008", "keywords": "act; lover; poem; porphyria; power; speaker; speaker\u201fs; victorian", "summary": "Pygmalion could have easily been the model for Browning\u201fs speaker, as he also clearly prefers \u201cpure\u201d over \u201cwanton\u201d behavior in women, desires \u201cperfect[ion],\u201d and like Pygmalion, specifically does not speak (Browning 37, Chesler 60). 1 The plot begins with the speaker, a man, being visited at night by his lover, Porphyria, and ends ultimately with him strangling her.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-302", "words": "6043", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "none", "title": "The Tragedy of the Penitentiary: The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons and the Formation of the Eastern State Penitentiary", "date": "2008", "keywords": "committee; minutes; penitentiary; pennsylvania; philadelphia; prison; prison society; reform; society", "summary": "The subject of prison reform in American history spans well over a century and encompasses a variety of ideas and theories. The central idea in their approach to prison reform was simply that every person, regardless of crimes committed, was redeemable.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-303", "words": "12588", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "none", "title": "Urban Violence in Fifth Century Antioch: Riot Culture and Dynamics in Late Antique Mediterranean Cities", "date": "2008", "keywords": "antioch; antiquity; authority; century; century antioch; christian; city; emperor; empire; identity; john; libanius; oration; press; riot; roman; state; theatre; violence", "summary": "In Isabella Sandwell and Huskinson, Janet. (eds.), Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004), 59-85. (eds.), Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004), 13-23; Tasha Vorderstrasse, \u201cThe Romanization and Christianization of the Antiochene Region: The Material Evidence from Three Sites.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-304", "words": "9811", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "Strange Ceremonies: A Euro-American Understanding of the Mysteries of Native American Medicine", "date": "2008", "keywords": "american; ceremonies; diseases; european; ibid; illness; indians; medical; medicine; native; new; people; press; rush; university; york", "summary": "In his travels among the natives living along the Yellow Stone River of the Upper Missouri, Catlin discovered the difficulties of trying to determine the true meaning of Native American medicine. 7 Catlin\u201fs frustrations perfectly illustrate the problem that Euro-Americans had with understanding Native American medicine.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-305", "words": "11338", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Building the Black Zion: The Role of Black Churches in Creating Philadelphia's Free Black Community, 1787-1820*", "date": "2008", "keywords": "african; allen; benezet; black; church; city; community; jones; new; pennsylvania; philadelphia; press; quaker; richard; slavery; slaves; society; university; vol; white; york", "summary": "Rallying around America\u201fs termination of the international slave trade on January 1, 1808, on May 10, 1807 \u201ca numerous and respectable meeting of Africans\u201d occurred to determine what actions Philadelphia\u201fs black community would take to commemorate the occasion. Black Founders To understand the autonomous institutions that breathed solidarity and security into Philadelphia\u201fs free black community would be difficult without briefly examining the early careers of three of Philadelphia\u201fs most influential free black residents: James Forten, Absalom Jones, and Richard Allen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-306", "words": "7833", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "none", "title": "Thailand's Unknown War: Malay-Muslim Separatism, Political Opportunities and the Dynamics of Violent Resistance*", "date": "2008", "keywords": "amnesty; bangkok; brn; conflict; government; groups; malay; military; muslim; policies; policy; post; resistance; rights; southern; thai; thailand; violence", "summary": "Muslim resistance in southern Thailand and southern Philippines: Religion, ideology and politics. Dynamics of Malay-Muslim Resistance: Thailand\u2019s Unknown War: Malay-Muslim Separatism, Political Opportunities and the Dynamics of Violent Resistance Dana M. Moss Liberal Studies Abstract This paper analyses the violent conflict between Malay-Muslim separatists and Thai security forces between 1959 and 2008 by examining contemporary developments of the Malay-Muslim separatist movement and corresponding government policies aimed at suppressing Malay resistance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3063", "words": "7357", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Smith, Isaac", "title": "More Than a Peanut Inventor: George Washington Carver and the Natural Enviornment", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bois; carver; education; george; iowa; letter; negro; peanut; school; southern; state; tuskegee; washington; washington carver; white; words; years", "summary": "1 More Than a Peanut Inventor: George Washington Carver and the Natural Environment Isaac Smith History Young George in Nature George Washington Carver was born in a modest \u201clittle one-roomed log shanty\u201d on a Missouri plantation near the close of the Civil War.1 Carver\u2019s exact birth date is unknown, but according to Carver, he was around \u201ctwo weeks old when the war closed,\u201d likely placing his birth in the spring of 1865.2 Carver\u2019s mother, Mary, was the property of Moses Carver, an eccentric bearded German who purchased her as a teenager to labor on his homestead enterprise. George Washington Carver: In His Own Words (University of Missouri Press, 1987), 23.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3066", "words": "4769", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Macedo Piovezan, Iuri", "title": "Unveiling Patriarchy: Brazilian Gender Dynamics Through the Lens of the Bolsonaro-Maria do Rosario Incident", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bolsonaro; brazil; gender; ibid; machismo; march; maria; patriarchy; que; rosario; women", "summary": "In 2003, Liana Friedenbach and Felipe Caffee, both teenagers, were murdered by an underaged person.29 In Brazil, one cannot be tried as an adult if one is below the age of eighteen, and the debate surrounding Jair Bolsonaro and Maria do Rosario was whether this should change to sixteen.30 Bolsonaro believed that it should, and 40 Guilherme Mazui, and Paloma Rodrigues, \u201cEm discurso, Bolsonaro defende ditadores militares e deputados dos atos antidemocraticos,\u201d G1, March 31, 2022, https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2022/03/31/em-discurso-no- planalto-bolsonaro-defende-ditadores-militares-e-deputado-reu-por-atos-antidemocraticos.ghtml.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3068", "words": "6724", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Kennedy, Nicholas", "title": "Lunch and Learn: Testing the Theory of Change", "date": "2025", "keywords": "conestoga; high; learn; lunch; resources; school; students; teachers; time", "summary": "While this study was done with elementary school students, it can be extrapolated that an extended period for lunch would have similar effects for high school students. The committee visited four different high schools with Lunch and Learn, conducted focus groups, and administered a survey to Conestoga students, parents, and staff before finalizing the new schedule.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-307", "words": "4408", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "none", "title": "Converging Evidence for Reality Monitoring Deficits as a Critical Component in Understanding Schizophrenia Symptomatology*", "date": "2008", "keywords": "deficit; memory; monitoring; reality; reality monitoring; schizophrenia; source", "summary": "Furthermore, these unaffected family members with reality monitoring deficits show a level of impairment intermediate between those diagnosed with the disorder and healthy individuals without a family history of schizophrenia (Brunelin et al., 2007). Converging Evidence for Reality Monitoring Deficits as a Critical Component in Understanding Schizophrenia Symptomatology and Etiology Converging Evidence for Reality Monitoring Deficits as a Critical Component in Understanding Schizophrenia Symptomatology and Etiology Brian A.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-308", "words": "7311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "none", "title": "Genetic Factors are More Predictive of Adult Drinking Behavior than Early Exposure to Alcohol in Mice Genetically Selected for Alcohol Preference", "date": "2008", "keywords": "alcohol; day; drinking; exposure; hap2; injection; lap2; mice; preference; saline; stress", "summary": "These findings would suggest that early initiation of alcohol drinking may increase subsequent drinking following exposure to a stressor in adulthood. The present study was designed to test these relations in a mouse model by examining whether alcohol exposure during adolescence versus adulthood would increase alcohol consumption following exposure to stress as adults, and whether this effect was dependent on a family history of high or low alcohol preference.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3088", "words": "3089", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Gade, Padmasree", "title": "The Psychology Behind Password Choices: A System Dynamics Approach to Enhancing Security Hygiene", "date": "2025", "keywords": "approach; choices; dynamics; password; security; system; users", "summary": "However, despite the significant advancements in password management tools and increased awareness of best practices, weak passwords and credential reuse remain prevalent vulnerabilities in cybersecurity. The challenge of balancing password security and user convenience has been a longstanding issue in cybersecurity research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3089", "words": "6357", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Kirillova, Nika", "title": "Leading Against the Odds: Women\u2019s Leadership Challenges and Strategies in the Nonprofit Sector", "date": "2025", "keywords": "barriers; challenges; gender; leadership; nonprofits; participants; professional; roles; strategies; women", "summary": "Strategies to Overcome Leadership Barriers Women in nonprofit leadership roles employ a range of strategies to navigate the systemic and organizational challenges they face. This gap underscores the need for empirical research that captures the personal and professional realities faced by women in nonprofit leadership roles.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-309", "words": "4955", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "none", "title": "Board-Staff Relationships in Small Nonprofits", "date": "2008", "keywords": "board; executive; members; model; nonprofits; organizations; practices; staff", "summary": "Small nonprofit boards deal with this vulnerability by requiring board approval of even modest amounts \u2014 in the case of one organization the executive could not spend more than 200 dollars on his own volition. Boardsource, an influential organization that produces books and trainings for nonprofit boards, follows this model.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3091", "words": "8681", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Cholowinski, Jenna", "title": "Three Augustinian Clerics Die: Navigating a Campus's Experience During a Global Pandemic", "date": "2025", "keywords": "augustinian; campus; cases; college; death; dorgan; epidemic; influenza; journal; klunk; middleton; october; seminary; starr; students; university; villanova", "summary": "In addition, this period at Villanova College experienced a consistent growth in the number of students, as historian David Contosta wrote that these numbers \u201cwent from 38 in the fall of 1898, to 76 in 3 1905, to 132 in 1914\u2026 by 1914 the college enrollment was more than twice that of the [boys preparatory] academy (132 to 56).\u201d10 By 1918, Villanova\u2019s campus included a seminary, a preparatory academy for boys, and a college for lay people. On September 15, 1918, there was a recorded 185 enrolled students into the Villanova unit of the SATC.14 With new developments like the SATC, Villanova College was prepared to operate as a patriotic institution eager to have another great academic year.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3092", "words": "4725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Hathcock, Emily", "title": "Parasocial Relationship Strength and the Need for Social Well-Being as a Function of Gender Identification", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cisgender; individuals; media; nonbinary; online; participants; relationships; support; tnb; transgender", "summary": "To measure offline social support participants completed the 12- item Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MPSS) (Zimet et al., 1988; \u03b1=.88). One such benefit includes the ability to temporarily satisfy social needs when positive connections are not readily available (Giles, 2002).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3093", "words": "6151", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Haughton, Brian", "title": "Memorandum Mori: How the Budapest Memorandum Failed to Protect Ukraine", "date": "2025", "keywords": "budapest; budapest memorandum; memorandum; nuclear; russia; states; ukraine; ukrainian; united; united states; weapons", "summary": "The signatories of the Budapest Memorandum agreed to specific borders for Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, and Russia had blatantly violated that part of the agreement. During the early hours of February 27, in a direct violation of Article 2 of the Budapest Memorandum, Russian troops without insignia (a violation of the Geneva Convention) appeared in Crimea amidst the chaos in mainland Ukraine, and took military control of the regional capital 13 building in Simferopol.xxix That day Russian protestors were brought to Sevastopol (a city that is a separate administration from the rest of Crimea) to prepare for a sham referendum.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3097", "words": "6979", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Keith, Guinevere", "title": "The Catholic Church should Host an Interfaith Synod on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", "date": "2025", "keywords": "catholic; church; conflict; dialogue; discernment; holy; interfaith; israel; jewish; land; palestine; synod; theology; world", "summary": "Both Zionism and Palestinian liberation theology meet the spiritual-liberative needs of the people they represent, but these approaches do not engage one another well because they conceptualize the spirituality of land ownership differently. By 1937, Arab Palestinians had effectively leveraged their participation in the oil trade to influence Great Britain towards capping Jewish immigration into the Mandate of Palestine (Gilbert 147).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3099", "words": "5662", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Hughes, Sydney", "title": "\u201cUndone With Terror\u201d: Aeschylus\u2019 Suppliants as Agents of Binary Terror", "date": "2025", "keywords": "aeschylus; audience; binary; danaids; greek; play; production; suppliants; women", "summary": "The Danaids, portrayed as refugees from Egypt in the original text, inherently challenged the Greek/barbarian binary, a construct that Athenian audiences would have associated with cultural and racial superiority, and justified their exclusion from the Athenian democratic framework.22 Casting women of color reinforces the historical dynamic in the text while confronting contemporary audiences with a legacy of colonialism and racial discrimination. Gender performance in ancient Greek theatre already blurred the lines of gender representation through its practice of male actors portraying female characters.24 In a contemporary production, an emphasis on the original text\u2019s references to gendered violence could have the same effect on contemporary audiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-310", "words": "4870", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "none", "title": "Nobler Before God: Virginity and the Pelagian Controversy", "date": "2008", "keywords": "augustine; demetrias; excellence; god; noble; pelagius; press; roman; virginity; widowhood", "summary": "Characterization of the Virgin Demetrias by Augustine and Pelagius: Nobler Before God: Virginity and the Pelagian Controversy Daniel J. Minch, Jr. Theology The consecration of Demetrias as a virgin in 413 CE stands out as a minor yet wholly significant skirmish in the Pelagian controversy. While Jerome and Pelagius offer letters of instruction in the interest of preserving her virginity and virtue, Augustine addresses his letter to Juliana and Proba rather than to Demetrias herself.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3101", "words": "5676", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Reagan, Julia", "title": "\u201cYou Can Never Work Facts as You Would Fixed Quantities\u201d: Political Economy\u2019s Failures in Thomas Malthus and Mary Barton", "date": "2025", "keywords": "barton; class; economy; gaskell; job; malthus; mary; novel; poor; population; society", "summary": "Given that her father wrote a series called \u201cThe Political Economy\u201d in Blackwood\u2019s magazine and Gaskell herself regularly read periodicals that published articles on political economy, it is reasonable to conclude that Gaskell was at least superficially familiar with contemporary political economy, and more likely than not, with Malthus in particular (Niles). As Ryan Walter, a historian of political economy, points out, \u201cMalthus devoted an entire chapter to the defence of theory in every edition of the Essay except the first \u2026 The cumulative message was this: theory was inevitable, but its role was not to usher in a new millennium but to point out the modest prospects for improvement that actually existed\u201d (63).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-3103", "words": "5394", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Roldan, Nicole", "title": "Policy Analysis of the \u201cPerformance-based Funding Model for State-related Institutions\u201d Within Governor Shapiro\u2019s \u201cBlueprint for Higher Education\u201d in Pennsylvania", "date": "2025", "keywords": "education; funding; governor; institutions; model; pennsylvania; performance; shapiro; state; university", "summary": "State higher education performance funding: Data, outcomes, and policy implications. The effect of higher education performance funding on graduation rates.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-311", "words": "4745", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "The Evolution of the Computerized Database", "date": "2002", "keywords": "data; database; model; network; object; oracle; record; relational; technology", "summary": "Object relational databases do not even follow this standard, as object-relational databases do not attempt to map objects to relations.\u00a0 Today we find database systems running on DBMSs that adhere to either the network or hierarchical database models in legacy systems.\u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-312", "words": "5619", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "62", "author": "none", "title": "Ideas Shoot Bullets: How the RICO Act Became a Potent Weapon in the War Against Organized Crime", "date": "2002", "keywords": "act; blakey; crime; criminal; fbi; law; mafia; mob; new; organized; rico; wallance", "summary": "Jeffrey Grell, a nationally known civil and defense attorney specializing in RICO cases, said there are four additional ways someone can violate RICO: RICO Cases \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There have been hundreds of RICO arrests and convictions since Blakey completed his training seminar.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-313", "words": "2281", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "45", "author": "none", "title": "Reform in Mathematics Education: Rethinking the Curriculum", "date": "2002", "keywords": "mathematics; reform; school; students", "summary": "Similarly, Everyday Mathematics students in the first two or three years of school implementation scored 2.5 points better than their counterparts, whereas Everyday Mathematics students in their fourth year of school implementation scored 5.7 points better\u201d (2001, p. 383).\u00a0 This one-year qualitative study inquiring into the responses of low achieving students in reform-based mathematics classrooms indicated that in all five math classrooms there were only three occasions out of 34 observations when low achievers volunteered answers during class discussions, verbalizing only one-word answers or remaining silent while their partners spoke.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-314", "words": "4050", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "42", "author": "none", "title": "Analysis of Research Regarding Adolescent Generalized Anxiety Disorder", "date": "2002", "keywords": "adolescent; anxiety; children; disorder; kendall; worry", "summary": "Generalized anxiety disorder and cognitive-behavioral therapy The literature and current research on the treatment of anxiety disorders with adolescents is growing.\u00a0 An example of internalization disorders are anxiety disorders.\u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-315", "words": "4730", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "64", "author": "none", "title": "That I May See and Tell: Sight, Light and Story and Paradise Lost Book III", "date": "2002", "keywords": "book; god; milton; narrator; paradise; poem; satan; sight", "summary": "The narrator\u2019s eyes turn upward, and we suddenly find ourselves looking upon the One who sees all: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now had th\u2019 Almighty Father from above, From the pure Empyrean where he sits High Thron\u2019d above all highth, bent down his eye, His own works and their works at once to view \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (3.56-59) While God does bend down his eye, the narrator does not disclose the precise location of these divine organs of sight.\u00a0 Able to control his line of sight, God bends down his eye to the objects below, while Satan find his eyes pulled this way and that by the random transmission of images by the objects themselves.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-316", "words": "5320", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Absence, Desire, and Love in John Donne and Roland Barthes", "date": "2002", "keywords": "absence; barthes; beloved; desire; donne; kristeva; love; poem; speaker", "summary": "Language, operating with the same logic as a bodily drive, can then be seen as a desirous exchange motivated by an absence which is never obtained\u2014only sought through endlessly deferred signs\u2014which Donne dramatizes and Barthes theorizes. As in the enlarged frozen moments Barthes offers up for further examination in A Lover\u2019s Discourse, Donne poetically strikes a series of poses which constitute his fictional speaker\u2019s identity in relation to a series of revisions of an elusive beloved. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-317", "words": "7613", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "47", "author": "none", "title": "History, Theology, and Interpretation: The Ephrata Cloister, a Case Study in Public History", "date": "2002", "keywords": "bach; beissel; cloister; community; ephrata; ephrata cloister; historical; history; interpretation; life; museum; pennsylvania; press; public; site", "summary": "Fringe religious groups, such as the Pietists and Anabaptists, began to leave the Continent in search of religious freedom.[9]\u00a0 Georg Conrad Beissel, the founder of the Ephrata Cloister, immigrated to Pennsylvania as a result of this turmoil on the Continent.\u00a0 Bach, Jeffrey A.\u00a0 \u201cVoices of the Turtledoves:\u00a0 The Mystical Language of the Ephrata Cloister.\u201d", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-318", "words": "9081", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "52", "author": "none", "title": "Philosophical Dimensions of Feminist Social Change", "date": "2002", "keywords": "beauvoir; change; difference; feminist; ibid; irigaray; language; liberation; masculine; new; oppression; philosophy; sex; women; york", "summary": "Concerning sexual difference, Beauvoir explicitly acknowledges the difference between women and men in both reproduction and sexuality: There will always be certain differences between man and woman; her eroticism, and therefore her sexual world, have a special form of their own and therefore cannot fail to engender a sensuality, a sensitivity, of a special nature.[16]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 In contrast to Beauvoir\u2019s understanding of a hierarchically defined dualism between woman and man, Irigaray maintains that women and men are both represented by only one sex: the male.\u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-319", "words": "3857", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "67", "author": "none", "title": "The Political Compass of the Executive Director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation", "date": "2002", "keywords": "alaska; apfc; corporation; fund; oil; people; state", "summary": "In In Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.\u00a0 In Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.\u00a0", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-320", "words": "6161", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Party Development and Institutional Influences in Russia: Electoral Systems and the Presidency ", "date": "2002", "keywords": "election; electoral; mcfaul; moser; parties; party; power; russia; system", "summary": "The office of President has undermined the creation of parties, and the weakness of Russian parties has meant that the expected effects of electoral engineering have not manifested. It will also outline the functions of political parties in order to stress their importance for democracy.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "concept-321", "words": "4237", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "none", "title": "Controlling Images of African women: The Hottentot Venus, Alek Wek & the Thought of Stuart Hall", "date": "2009", "keywords": "african; hall; hottentot; images; venus; wek; women", "summary": "Introduction: The Emergence of Controlling Images Controlling Images of African women: The Hottentot Venus, Alek Wek & the Thought of Stuart Hall Elisa Foster Communication The Emergence of Controlling Images In her essay, \u201cMammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images,\u201d Patricia Hill Collins (1999) presents several stereotypical personas of the African American woman. I intend to expand Collins\u2019 idea of controlling images to include African women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-322", "words": "3035", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "none", "title": "Time for Conversations, Room for Reform: The importance of theory, history, and philosophy in teacher education programs", "date": "2009", "keywords": "duncan; education; hirsch; programs; students; teachers", "summary": "\u00a0 Time for Conversations, Room for Reform: The importance of theory, history, and philosophy in teacher education programs Karen Zaino Education \u201cI am urging every teacher education program today to make better outcomes for students the overarching mission that propels all their efforts.\u201d --Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, 2009 At first blush, Secretary Duncan\u2019s call to strengthen teacher education programs appears irrefutable; what can be wrong with better outcomes for students? At the same time, Duncan\u2019s plea implies that \u201cbetter outcomes\u201d are not the current \u201coverarching mission\u201d of teacher education programs \u2013 that student learning and achievement are not the impetus behind hundreds of schools of education across the country (Duncan).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-323", "words": "7721", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "none", "title": "Constructions and Reconstructions: Feminism, Postmodernism, and The Handmaid's Tale*", "date": "2009", "keywords": "body; feminist; gilead; handmaid; novel; offred; offred\u201fs; reading; regime; self; sense; tale", "summary": "The place from which the novel\u201fs narrator, Offred, speaks is one where her sense of self is defined by her culture as residing solely in her female body and its capacity for reproduction, and where her body is located within a system of technological surveillance. My aim is to enter this dialogue by analyzing how the identities of the handmaids in Atwood\u201fs novel are constructed by both technological and natural discourses, and also exploring how Offred responds to these discourses, comparing them to her own thoughts, feelings, and memories\u2014that is, how she is \u201cconstructed\u201d and how she then creates \u201creconstructions\u201d of her experiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-324", "words": "6316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "none", "title": "Gender...Gone Wild: The Sexual Economy of Reality Exploitation", "date": "2009", "keywords": "break; camera; culture; exploitation; female; gender; girls; guys; ibid; male; new; press; spring; women; york", "summary": "18 While manifestations of a collective consciousness are essential to deconstructing the motives for women simultaneously hiking their tops in Girls Gone Wild or a group of men \u2015mooning\u2016 the camera in Guys Gone Wild, Pitcher\u2018s analysis fails to recognize a further consequence of their exploitative dialectic. Girls Gone Wild and its male equivalent are, of course, the products of previously established public discourses pivoting on public sexual performance and heteronormative gender expectations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-325", "words": "7294", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "The Mythic and the Historic in Morrison: A Formalistic Study", "date": "2009", "keywords": "baby; black; characters; history; jadine; milkman; morrison; myth; novel; past; place; self; tar; toni; toni morrison", "summary": "Jadine ruminates on a single Black woman, dressed in yellow, holding 8 Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford (Ardelia after her grandmother who also makes a cameo in her dedication to Tar Baby), married Harold Morrison, published under Toni Morrison saying (why lie?) that her middle name was Anthony. Not only do female characters in Morrison novels seem more finely in-tune with myth, they also act as the Janus faced portal to \u201cbirth\u201d errant Blacks back into commune with their mythic roots.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-326", "words": "3864", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "none", "title": "Paradise Re-Envisioned: William Blake's Milton as the Redemption of Selfhood", "date": "2009", "keywords": "blake; god; john; milton; new; paradise; satan; selfhood", "summary": "Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart,\u201d William Blake undertook this call of poetic duty by rewriting John Milton in Milton: A Poem. Milton, John, Paradise Lost, Apology for Smectymnus, De Doctrina Christiana and The Reason of Church Government from John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-327", "words": "8181", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "none", "title": "Women in Nazi Germany: Victims, Perpetrators, and the Abandonment of a Paradigm*", "date": "2009", "keywords": "bock; experiences; germany; historians; history; ibid; koonz; nazi; nazi germany; new; press; reich; society; victims; war; women", "summary": "29 For Koonz, Nazi women were not passive victims or \u2015small cogs in the majestic wheel\u2016 of Nazi totalitarianism; 30 they were motherly accomplices who retreated into their spheres of domesticity while knowing full well the implications of their silence for those deemed \u2015unfit to live\u2016 by the male Nazi authorities. 34 Despite these strong and important chapters on female resistance, however, Koonz\u2018s work in Mothers in the Fatherland was (and to a great extent still is) perceived by scholars as the counterpoint to Bock\u2018s thesis and a staunch condemnation of Nazi women and especially mothers who helped maintain the semblance of familial normality in the midst of war and genocide.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-328", "words": "8402", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "none", "title": "Turning a Curse into a Blessing: Propaganda and the Emigration of British Single Women", "date": "2009", "keywords": "british; class; colonies; emigration; empire; female; fmces; gender; history; journal; rye; society; women; women\u2018s", "summary": "Many organizations used this rhetoric to encourage British women to seek opportunity in the colonies. Society scrambled to fix the growing number of single women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-329", "words": "10027", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "none", "title": "The Peasant Rusticus: Life near Paris in the Time of Clovis", "date": "2009", "keywords": "bodo; century; church; clovis; empire; franks; gaul; gregory; history; life; new; paris; people; power; press; roman; rusticus; time; tours; town; university", "summary": "Thompson, E.A., \u2015Peasant Revolts in Late Roman Gaul and Spain.\u2016 Past & Present 2 (Nov., 1952) When one looks for economic powers that remained prominent in late fifth century Gaul, one in particular stands out.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-330", "words": "6534", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "none", "title": "Stakhanovites: Examining History through Gender and Propaganda*", "date": "2009", "keywords": "dusya; gender; new; new york; pasha; press; soviet; stakhanovism; stakhanovites; stalin; university; women; workers; york", "summary": "What impact did this government-sanctioned opportunity to enter the economy have on the lives of Soviet women? Soviet women found themselves at a difficult crossroads in the 1930s.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-331", "words": "6245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "none", "title": "The Unique Influence of Christian Democracy on Welfare Policy*", "date": "2009", "keywords": "christian; class; democracy; democratic; institutions; policy; political; state; welfare", "summary": "These fundamental tenets of Christian democratic welfare policy were not compromised by cooperation with social democrats and actually helped to restrain welfare policy by coupling the expansion in the generosity of welfare programs with the maintenance of passive systems of delivery via both male breadwinners and societal institutions. This centrist position both derives from and further enables Christian democratic policies of class compromise like social capitalism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-332", "words": "12327", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "The W\u00f8rd Made Fresh: A Theological Exploration of Stephen Colbert*", "date": "2009", "keywords": "audience; catholic; central; colbert; colbert report; comedy; culture; ehrman; episode; game; god; laughter; new; point; report; sort; stephen; stephen colbert; theology; truth; way", "summary": "The W\u00f8rd Made Fresh: A Theological Exploration of Stephen Colbert Rena Black Theology Comedian Stephen Colbert is one of the most prominent and influential Catholics in America today. Stephen Colbert is a particularly fitting subject for such a project because The Report is already prominent and accessible, but also because Colbert is a clearly self-identified Catholic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-333", "words": "8180", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Eschatological Temporality, Or: 'Bergson and the Reign of Theos'*", "date": "2009", "keywords": "bergson; bergson\u201fs; change; duration; future; life; past; present; temporality; time", "summary": "Time is already presupposed in an experience in order to allow for one to grasp relations such as \u201cat the same time\u201d or \u201csucceeding in time.\u201d The common way one understands time is in terms of motion: the seconds on a clock, 20 Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will, 102.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-553", "words": "8479", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "Kurtz and Modernity: The Epistemological Crisis at the Heart of Darkness", "date": "2010", "keywords": "conrad; darkness; discourse; heart; impression; kurtz; kurtz\u201fs; language; marlow; meaning; reader; saussure", "summary": "You can\u201ft judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man [\u2026] there was nothing on earth to prevent him killing whom he jolly well pleased\u201d (56). Earlier in the text, but chronologically after his conversation with the Russian trader, Marlow recalls that \u201c[Kurtz\u201fs] nerves went wrong and caused him to preside at certain midnight dances ending with unspeakable rites, which \u2014 as far as I reluctantly gather from what I heard at various times \u2014 were offered up to him \u2014 do you understand \u2014 to Mr. Kurtz himself\u201d (49-50).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-554", "words": "4542", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "none", "title": "Wind speed thresholds for Typha cattail seed release and local reduction of wind speed by mixed cattail/Phragmites stands*", "date": "2010", "keywords": "average; height; phragmites; seeds; site; speed; typha; wetland; wind", "summary": "Wind speeds in the field Wind speed at the maximum Phragmites and Typha heights and 0.5 m above the tallest plant did not differ significantly from the average speed measured by the weather station at any site (Fig. 2). Although the sample size of spadices that released seeds was low and, statistically, tension does not appear to be a reliable method of measuring the wind speed at which a spadix will begin to release seeds to the wind or the number of seeds that will be released, I was able to classify three differing degrees of spadix readiness to undergo at least partial seed abscission (the color groups in figures 5 and 6 and in table 3) based number of seeds released and seed release threshold wind speeds.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-555", "words": "4552", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "none", "title": "Embed with the Enemy?: War Correspondence as a Facet of Public Relations", "date": "2010", "keywords": "american; correspondence; coverage; journalism; media; military; news; public; relations; war", "summary": "By the start of World War II, martial and governmental establishments had capitalized on the public relations influence of mediated messaging through the \u201cstrategic management\u201d of war coverage (Knightley, 2004, p. 76). New war journalism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-556", "words": "7713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "none", "title": "Stand you on that?: The Emptiness of Signification in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy*", "date": "2010", "keywords": "balthazar; bel; box; english; hieronimo; horatio; language; lorenzo; oxford; play; print; scene; spanish; tragedy; web; words", "summary": "10 Baines, for one, reads the box as \u2015defin[ing] deception and delusion and [suggesting] the inability to distinguish illusion from reality,\u2016 which she considers emblematic of the theme of Kyd\u2018s play (Baines 1980, 41). If we extend ourselves by force of play. - Jacques Derrida, \u2015Plato\u2018s Pharmacy\u2016", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-557", "words": "4303", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "The Ritual Sacrifice of Women: Misogyny and Art in Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle Vienna*", "date": "2010", "keywords": "century; fin; misogyny; opera; si\u00e8cle; si\u00e8cle vienna; time; vienna; women", "summary": "Some artists were the worst offenders against women. Misogyny and the anti-feminine, both \u201chot topics\u201d in the politics of the period, resulted in women being used as sacrificial victims in artistic works for the stage as well as in visual art.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-558", "words": "7928", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "Seeking a Hoosier Home: Black Migration to Indiana and the Politics of Belonging", "date": "2010", "keywords": "banner; blacks; citizenship; greencastle; hoosier; indiana; men; migration; north; north carolina; perry; republican; south; state; white", "summary": "Yet, in coming to Indiana, North Carolina blacks demonstrated an independence and agency that the pigeon holes of white Southerners or Hoosiers had attempted to deny them. The overall tone of both Perry and the Reverend\u201fs publicity offered blacks liberation and salvation in the Hoosier state and told black North Carolinians to \u201ccome overland to Indiana, like the children of Israel marched out of Egypt.\u201d 35 Residence in Indiana was promoted as an opportunity to take the advantages of citizenship which were denied in North Carolina.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-559", "words": "7682", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "none", "title": "Reading Death and Sacrifice in the Berlin V\u00f6lkischer Beobachter, February 1942 \u2013 March 1943", "date": "2010", "keywords": "berlin; dead; death; german; history; image; letter; life; reich; sacrifice; soldiers; stalingrad; victory; war; work", "summary": "Ehmer narrates the relationship between death and life beginning with individual representations of death in obituaries and ending with the historicization of mass death and the immortalization of ideology. [CONCEPT, Vol. XXXIV (2011)] Reading Death and Sacrifice in the Berlin V\u00f6lkischer Beobachter, February 1942 \u2013 March 1943 Robert Terrell History Introduction On October 9, 1942 the front page of the Berlin V\u00f6lkischer Beobachter, the official paper of the National Socialist German Workers\u201f Party (NSDAP), featured an article about the memory of Horst Wessel.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-561", "words": "7430", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "none", "title": "Clerical Misconduct, Charity, and the Common Good: Saint Augustine's Sermons 355 & 356", "date": "2010", "keywords": "augustine; christ; church; community; god; ibid; life; new; poverty; sermon; valerius", "summary": "\u2013The Rule of Saint Augustine 19 Throughout his life, Augustine valued highly the experience of close friendships, and even flirted with the notion of community life and voluntary poverty before his conversion experience in the summer of 386. 16 Van der Meer, Augustine the Bishop, 3. 17 Saint Augustine, \u201cLetter 21,\u201d 56. (\u00a72) 18 Ibid.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-784", "words": "7668", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "none", "title": "The Role of Religion (or Not) in the Tea Party Movement: Current Debates & The Anti-Federalists*", "date": "2012", "keywords": "anti; april; christian; federalists; government; issues; movement; new; party; religion; republican; tea; tea party; york", "summary": "Rick Perry, another past Republican Presidential hopeful, who in August led by 21 percentage points among Tea Party supporters over Mitt Romney, Bachmann and others, is also known to have strong socially conservative views (Jones, 2011). Mitt Romney, who has also flip-flopped on the abortion issue but is generally known to be moderate in his views on social issues, has at times polled better among Tea Party supporters than \u201cany other GOP presidential candidate\u201d (Jonsson 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-785", "words": "8471", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "none", "title": "Duns Scotus at the Intersection of Christology and Consciousness", "date": "2012", "keywords": "christ; consciousness; divine; human; nature; person; scotus; states; unity; view", "summary": "34 For soteriological reasons, Christ spent most of his earthly existence with the switch turned to human consciousness, but was still fully divine because at any time 29 Morris, \u201cMetaphysics of God Incarnate,\u201d 123. These problems seem most troublesome for a theology that includes a being who is both human and divine \u2014 but there are plenty of other areas of human consciousness currently being mapped, and potential disorders being catalogued, that would need to be accounted for in a plausible description of Christ\u2019s humanness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-786", "words": "7753", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "none", "title": "When Silenced Voices Become Wall-Scale Public Discourse: A Social Constructionist Analysis of Two Philadelphia Murals", "date": "2012", "keywords": "berger; community; conquergood; healing; journey; luckmann; man; mural; process; walls", "summary": "Community murals: The people\u2019s art. Philadelphia murals and the stories they tell.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-787", "words": "6973", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "none", "title": "The Reconstitution of Sisterhood in Augusta Webster's \"A Castaway\"", "date": "2012", "keywords": "brother; eulalie; fallen; family; identity; life; poem; self; sisterhood; victorian; women", "summary": "[CONCEPT, Vol. XXXV (2012)] The Reconstitution of Sisterhood in Augusta Webster\u2019s \u201cA Castaway\u201d Grace Oh English In contrast to so many of the prostitutes that emerge in Victorian literature, Eulalie, the \u201cfallen woman\u201d at the center of Augusta Webster\u2019s 1870 poem \u201cA Castaway,\u201d has been hailed as a woman of remarkable \u201cself-sufficiency\u201d (Mermin 80) who defiantly \u201cclaims her right to self- assessment and self-representation\u201d (Brown 92). In choosing to interpret Eulalie\u2019s devastating critique of society as a sign of her independence from it, critics have neglected to reflect substantively on aspects of the poem that suggest that Eulalie may not be so self-sufficient after all.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-788", "words": "7635", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "none", "title": "Proper for a lady's brush: The Visual Arts in the Work of Louisa May Alcott*", "date": "2012", "keywords": "alcott; amy; art; artists; becky; diana; percy; polly; psyche; turner; women; work", "summary": "Even the \u201cArt (Theme)\u201d entry in The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia deals primarily with the creators of said art, and barely touches upon the individual objects themselves (Eiselein and Phillips 23-24). Spanning both her novels and short stories, her domestic fiction and her lesser known gothic and feminist fictions, art serves as a frequently-recurring motif that allows Alcott to explore ideas about femininity, domesticity, self-sacrifice, mortality, independence, and morality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-789", "words": "4679", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "none", "title": "His blood is infected: Transmission of Disease and Wealth in Dickens's Bleak House*", "date": "2012", "keywords": "chancery; dickens; disease; esther; house; inheritance; reform; smallpox; transmission", "summary": "Schwarzbach again points out that the issue of smallpox \u201cis typical of many that Dickens attacks in Bleak House: a pressing public need goes unremedied through complacency and neglect, resulting in grave social and physical damage to the nation as a whole\u201d (\u201cFever\u201d 24). Michael S. Gurney purports that Dickens was well-read in medical literature and even ahead of his time in recognizing peculiar symptoms \u2013 the character Phil in Bleak House presents with an affliction that many doctors today would diagnose as M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease but that would not be named for several years after Dickens\u2019s description (80-81).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-790", "words": "7780", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "none", "title": "English Aristocratic Women's Take on Health: 1450-1630", "date": "2012", "keywords": "care; english; health; hoby; lady; letters; lisle; margaret; medicine; mildmay; press; stonor; women", "summary": "1 In the years shortly before, during and after the reign of Henry VIII, aristocratic women in England were actively involved in the health of their families, friends, and communities. By looking at surviving letters and other documents written by aristocratic women who lived from the mid-1400s to the mid-1600s, one can examine their medical activities and the extent to which they cared for their families, friends, and communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-791", "words": "6164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "none", "title": "American Eugenics: A History of its Evolution from Public Health Initiative to Scientific Racism, Historical Memory, and Modern Genetics*", "date": "2012", "keywords": "american; california; ethics; eugenics; health; history; human; movement; november; public; society; state; sterilization", "summary": "This paper will chart the evolution of American eugenics from that of a public health initiative to that of scientific racism and considers the historical memory of such trajectory as well as the current state of genetic research and the fall out from America\u2019s eugenic past. 37 Clearly this fundamental premise of Hippocratic Ethics was ignored by American eugenics and in states like North Carolina, with their legal authority over reproductive rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "concept-792", "words": "10825", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "81", "author": "none", "title": "The Entheos Diagnosis", "date": "2012", "keywords": "byron; bysshe; carl; emily; essays; harold; head; life; literature; natasha; new; people; percy; phone; shelley", "summary": "The Fall Carl could argue that the fall never happened. A fly or some other buzzing insect had crawled through a crack in one of the plastic panels, and Carl could make it out as a shadow drowsing between the panel and the light and then back again, its movements languid with coming death.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]