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Being Italian American: Performing Ethnicity In Atlanta, Stephen Murray

Anthropology Theses

What does it mean to be Italian American in Atlanta? While Italian Americans have lived in urban concentrations in parts of the United States for over a century, members of this ethnic group have been living in Atlanta only in small numbers and for a few decades. Considering theories of ethnicity and performance, this study investigates aspects of Italian American ethnicity in Atlanta. The thesis provides an ethnographic insight into what it means to be an Italian American in Atlanta.

Spartan Daily, November 17, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 42

Cuba 1952-1958 Entre Votos Y Balas, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

No abstract provided.

Splitting Sexuality And Disability: A Content Analysis And Case Study Of Internet Pornography Featuring A Female Wheelchair User, Laura Carter Overstreet

Sociology Theses

General social stereotypes characterize people with disabilities as asexual, invisible, and stigmatized. Therefore, sexualizing people with disabilities becomes taboo. The goal of this study is to explore how Internet pornography depicts a female wheelchair user. Using qualitative, inductive content analysis and a case study approach, I analyze 24 images from a specific, relevant website for a theme that appears most prevalent in sexuality and disability literature, the sexuality/disability split, wherein individuals’ sexualities are not pictured, felt, or acknowledged in concomitance with their disabilities. My results indicate that a sexuality/disability split does occur to some degree, but that the subject also …

Value Added Services: Publishing Continuum At The University Of Nebraska–Lincoln, Joan Giesecke, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches

During its 3 years of operations, the institutional repository at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has gathered and posted over 19,000 documents, which, together with its hosted ETD collection, make it the country’s 3rd largest IR. Usage records also indicate it is one of the busiest, as well, furnishing almost 120,000 downloads during the most recent month (October 2008).

The IR has also become the cornerstone for a bundle of electronic publishing services developed and provided by the UNL Libraries. Indeed, these services may be seen as the enablers or preconditions of the IR’s successful track record.

To facilitate and accelerate …

Autoethnography As A Never-Ending Story: A Review Of Guyana Diaries: Women’S Lives Across Difference, Laurie L. Charles

The Qualitative Report

The proliferation of autoethnographies offers scholars and writers multiple opportunities to consider the various methods of authorial positioning in qualitative research inquiry. In this article, I review Guyana Diaries: Women's Lives across Difference, by Kimberly D. Nettles, while reflecting my own choices as an autoethnographic author. Autoethnographic writing is presented as a 'never-ending story,' which may have lasting, transformative effects on those who produce it

How Much Risk Is Acceptable?, Anthony Webb, Alicia Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass

Anthony Webb

The brief’s key findings are: The financial crisis suggests the need for a new universal tier of retirement saving to supplement Social Security and 401(k)s. If the tier were a defined contribution system, asset levels would vary with market returns and payouts with interest rates. Replacement rates would fluctuate as much as 25 percentage points – even if everyone invested in an identical target-date fund. An alternative is to guarantee a fixed return, but this return will almost always be lower than that under a target-date fund, and guarantees are not costless.

Family Sources Of Educational Gender Inequality In Rural China: A Critical Assessment, Emily C. Hannum, Peggy A. Kong, Yuping Zhang

Emily C. Hannum

Networking, William Osei-Poku

William Osei-Poku

No abstract provided.

President Obama And Bretton Woods, Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

"On the occasion of this weekend's G-20 meeting in Washington, the global economic crisis seems more entrenched than ever. Calls for the return to a Bretton Woods-like system can be heard around the world. The Washington Post has said that a new Bretton Woods 'could reform the IMF' (October 20). The Times of London has reported Prime Minister Brown's call for a new international financial architecture (November 14). Le Monde has printed favorable coverage for a 'Bretton Woods acte II' (November 14). Before getting caught up in the momentum of 'reform', the incoming administration of President-elect Obama should carefully heed …

Murder Most Foul

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Both the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi died one hundred years ago this week (November 14 and November 15, respectively), and some of our favorite news sites and blogs have been commemorating the anniversaries, made more newsworthy by the recent revelations that Guangxu was (as has long been suspected) poisoned. Here’s a short reading guide for whodunnit (the debate continues) and further reflections:

1. NPR’s Louisa Lim on the latest theories of Guangxu’s death:

“Guangxu died just 22 hours before the 74-year-old Empress Dowager Cixi. Imperial medical records indicated that Guangxu’s death was due to natural causes. But even …

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, November 16, 2008

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, CAN

St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, November 16, 2008

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

Nccaa Championship Results, Cedarville University

Men's Cross Country Statistics

No abstract provided.

Nccaa Men's All-American Results, Cedarville University

Men's Cross Country Statistics

No abstract provided.

2008 Nccaa Women's Cross Country Championship Results, Cedarville University

Women's Cross Country Statistics

No abstract provided.

Cedarville Vs. Shawnee State, Cedarville University

Volleyball Statistics

No abstract provided.

2008 Nccaa Midwest Regional Tournament, Cedarville University

Women's Soccer Programs

No abstract provided.

Malone Vs. Cedarville, Cedarville University

Women's Basketball Statistics

No abstract provided.

Grace Vs. Cedarville, Cedarville University

Women's Soccer Statistics

No abstract provided.

China Beatniks In Beijing: Ii

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Yong Chen, UCI history professor and China Beat contributor, was one of several of our regular contributors to attend the Beijing Forum, an international meeting of scholars to discuss vital issues facing the world. This year’s theme for the conference was “The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All” (“文明的和谐与共同繁荣”) and aimed at promoting the development of the social sciences and humanities in the Asia-Pacific region.

While in Beijing, Yong Chen gave a talk on “Chinese-Americans and the American Government.” A report about this talk has been posted (in Chinese) by Yong’s former Beijing University classmate, Yang Yusheng, at the …

Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, November 2008, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 103, November 14, 2008

Central Florida Future

Union displays students' works; 50 days and nights of lights; UCF brings holiday cheer to campus; Light up UCF events; Theater breaks 2008 Glass; Christmas project to bring holiday joy; Cornerstone class gives back; New Hope for Kids.

Cambio De Época, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Estos últimos años hemos sido testigos de singulares y vertiginosos cambios que se producen a nivel mundial. El signo de los tiempos es la volatilidad y la transformación. Nada dura el tiempo que duraba antes; la vida se hace líquida, en términos de Bahuman. Las películas de cine duran tan solo el tiempo para que aparezca otra; las computadoras tienen una vida efímera de no mas de tres años, las marcas deportivas caen una tras otra; el alumno que se gradúa se encuentra obsoleto frente al que ingresa; la familia como símbolo de la tradición y estabilidad se hace añicos; …

Watching Our Backs: Community Verification Of Digital Preservation Systems, John Mark Ockerbloom

John Mark Ockerbloom

Librarians and faculty agree that information preservation is one of the essential roles of libraries. Yet, as the information we manage increasingly becomes digital, we have to rely on new methods of preserving this information that have not been fully tested. While developing and auditing for best practices is important, we must also verify that preservation systems actually perform as we hope they will, preferably long before we have to fall back on them.

In this talk, I will show ways in which this verification can be done now, by the community, with reasonable cost and demonstrable efficacy. Specifically, I …

Wright State University Women's Basketball Media Guide 2008-2009, Wright State University Athletics

Athletics Publications

A media guide for Wright State University's 2008-2009 Women's Basketball team. This guide includes photographs, player stats, game results, and records.

2008-2009 Cedarville University Classic, Cedarville University

Women's Basketball Programs

No abstract provided.

Cedarville Vs. Northwestern, Cedarville University

Volleyball Statistics

No abstract provided.

What's Fair Is Fair? Role Of Justice In Family Labor Allocation Decisions, Constance Gager

Department of Family Science and Human Development Scholarship and Creative Works

The theoretical basis on which wives and husbands in the United States evaluate the fairness of the division of household labor is explored. Based on distributive justice theory, separate interviews with wives and husbands are conducted to identify and define the household inputs or contributions that are valued as well as the underlying justice principles that guide household labor allocations. The findings suggest considerable variation in the value placed on household chores and the underlying justice principles used when allocating housework. Gendered expectations also play an important role in these allocations.

Digital Collections Task Force Report, Barbara Lewis, Brian Falato, Richard Bernardy, Pete Reehling, Ilene Frank

Barbara Lewis

Libraries, museums, archives, and similar institutions worldwide are digitizing their physical collections and creating born‐digital resources, all in an effort to make them accessible to people everywhere. The digitization program at the University of South Florida Tampa Library has been active since the mid 1990s. Today it is expected that, as the Library proceeds with its ARL collections initiatives, the demands on this program will increase dramatically.

In order to meet these new demands, changes are necessary to increase the productivity and capacity of the operations and to improve the accessibility and visibility of the collections. These challenges and their …