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A World Away: Inside The World of Warcraft
No full textSix investigative articles accompanied by color images that revolve around the social and psychological settings of the popular game World of Warcraft.This collection of articles provides an in-depth look at the many reasons why players start playing, continue to play, and eventually quit playing massively multiplayer online games, with the bulk of the project focusing specifically on Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft. Current and former players describe their varied gaming habits, and scholars shed light on gamers' social and psychological motivations. The use of the digital environment as an escapist means, and the psychological conditioning present throughout the game are explored and accompanied by vivid color images in the six sections presented
Michael Greenberg Speaks at WCSU
No full textAuthor Michael Greenberg speaks to a small group on the afternoon of October 28, 2009 at WestConn
Oral Interview with Mary Birch
No full text28 min.Interview with Mary Birch on her immigration to Texas from Ireland
Oral History with Valquirua Joseph
No full textInterview with Valquiria Joseph about her experience coming to the United States from San Paolo, Brazil
Reconciling Sentimental and Radical Tendencies in the Life and Work of Fanny Fern: Her Influence on Women Newspaper Columnists
No full textFar more than a conventional Victorian woman whose premature widowhood and single-motherhood compelled her to seek employment as a sentimental journalist, Fanny Fern is a both a representative of typical nineteenth-century women's journalism and literature and a literary mentor to later generations of women novelists, poets, and newspaper columnists. While the historical records suggest that duality and contradiction characterized her private life, and the available literature demonstrates a similar dichotomy in her writing – a tension between the sentimentalism prevalent in women's writing of the Victorian era, and the sarcasm and feminism beginning to surface near the nineteenth-century's end – Fern, by utilizing accepted convention as a vehicle for promoting reform, managed to constructively reconcile the obvious contradictions in both her life and literature.Master of Arts (MA)Englis
Oral Interview with Antonio DaMatos
No full text52 min.Interview with Antonio DaMatos, who came to live in America to try to accomplish the American Dream
Oral Interview with John McDonald
No full text26 min.Interview with John McDonald on his immigration from Ireland to New York City
The Effect of Disclosed Personal Information on Impression Formation
No full textThis study measured the effect of disclosed personal information on impression formation. Eight male and
23 female undergraduate students ranging in age from 18 to 41 were randomly assigned to read one of
three descriptions of a hypothetical student who was either healthy, battling cancer, or HIV positive. It was
hypothesized that participants would be less willing to accept the hypothetical student as a friend when a
serious illness was present. Contrary to prediction, no significant difference in self-reported acceptance was
found as a function of the health status of the hypothetical student. These results do not support the behavioral model which explains variation between stigmatized and non stigmatized diseases