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- The Journey to Manhood in Gaines’s Bloodline
- Racial denigration, animalistic state, maturity, nurturing, self-identity, manhood
- Ernest Gaines collection of five short stories Bloodline, (1968) depicts the effects of racism and its denigrating effects on the lives of the black men .Gaines use of animal imagery furthers the effects of racism on the psychology of the blacks....
- 2011-05-20
- “All Necessary Force”: The Coast Guard And The Sinking of the Rum Runner “I’m Alone”
- Maritime Law, Rum War, Treaty of 1924, Three Mile Limit, Twelve Mile Limit, Tariff Act of 1922, Sigsbee Deep, Territorial Waters
- Passage of the Volstead Act in 1920 expanded the mission of the U.S. Coast Guard. Law enforcement directives required officers to use “all necessary force” should a liquor smuggling vessel refuse the order to stop. On March 22, 1929, the Coast...
- 2011-05-20
- The 1991 Madrid Peace Conference: U.S. Efforts Towards Lasting Peace in the Middle East Between Israel and its Neighbors
- George H.W. Bush, James A. Baker, Yitzhak Shamir, Hafez Al-Assad, Madrid, Peace Conference, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Palestinian, West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, intifada
- Over the years the Madrid Peace Conference has been relegated to paragraphs within history books and the importance of the conference seems to have been all but forgotten. While this may be due to the perceived failure of the talks to produce...
- 2011-05-20
- “Against My Destiny”: Reading an Italian Immigrant‟s Memoir in the Early 20th-century South
- Life narrative, segregation, race, class, gender, New South, doubleness, identity, Italian, immigrant, isolation, Catholicism, sharecropping
- Giuseppe Emilio Rocconi's life narrative, The Story of My Life (1958), represents the hardships of immigration and assimilation through meditations on home, family, and religion. I read his narrative in contrast with white elite narratives that...
- 2011-05-20
- Settlement Analyses of Grade Supported Tanks Constructed with the Use of Prefabricated Wick Drains and an Earth Preload
- Settlement, Consolidation, Geotechnical, Tank Foundations, Wick Drains, Instrumentation
- In the design of tank foundations several design techniques are considered. This study focuses on grade supported tanks constructed under an extensive preload and instrumentation program. Settlement estimation methods were performed and compared to...
- 2011-05-20
- The Effects of Graphing Calculator use on High-School Students' Reasoning in Integral Calculus
- Calculus, Constructivism, Conceptual Understanding, Graphing Calculators, Handheld Graphing Technology, Problem Solving Approaches, Reasoning
- This mixed-method study investigated the impact of graphing calculator use on high school calculus students' reasoning skills through calculus problems when applying to concepts of the definite integral and its applications. The study provides an...
- 2011-05-20
- Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974
- Southern, Urban, Politics, New Orleans, Progressives, Liberals, Mayors, Moon Landrieu, Segregation, 1960 New Orleans School Crisis, 1966 New Orleans City Council, Human Relations Committee, Black Panthers
- This study examines the political career of Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu from his election to the Louisiana legislature in 1960 to the end of his first term as mayor of New Orleans in 1974. Landrieu was a white southern liberal who vigorously...
- 2011-05-20
- Social Context and Muslim Women’s Attitudes Towards Counseling
- Muslim women’s attitudes, counseling, religiosity and religious coping, Imamcounselor liaison, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
- Although there is a recognized need for counseling Muslims and underutilization of mental health services by this population is assumed, research regarding the attitudes of Muslims towards counseling is scarce. This qualitative study explored...
- 2011-05-20
- In Hiding…
- Photography, Night Photography, Contemporary Photography, Exposure, Architectural Photography, Experiential, Street Photography
- The conceptual foundation for my work lies in the idea of “interaction.” I work towards exposing this idea in its more basic and routine form, as well as the broad scope of it. Ranging beyond the common associations made with human to human...
- 2011-05-20