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Elizabeth: produced by Alison Owen, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan and directed by Shekhar Kapur. (Gramercy Pictures, 1998, 124 minutes)
Get PDF"More clearly than the other Tudors," AG. Dickens wrote of Elizabeth and her subjects, "she perceived their hunger for romance without expense," (<em>The English Rifonnation</em>, London, 1964). In much the same way, director Shekhar Kapur perceives his audience\u27s hunger for historical romance without the rigor of historical complexity. Written by Michael Hurst, the movie Elizabeth begins with a brief overview of the last three years of the reign of Mary I and Philip II, and covers primarily the first five years of the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Kapur and Hearst pull episodes from various periods of Elizabeth\u27s reign and compress them into the first five years. Other facts are wholly altered or expanded upon. In the end, this allows an unfortunately over simple story of Elizabeth developing from youthful naivete to mature authority and regal ability
Earl Warren\u27s Last Civics Lesson: Powell V. McCormack
Get PDFThe legal opinions of Earl Warren were not such as to see the development of a well-grounded constitutional theory clearly established over the course of a judicial career. Typically, they present the basic facts of a case, usually within an ethical, rather than a legal, framework.1 Warren\u27s last opinion delivered on the Court, Powell v. McCormack,2 can in that sense be viewed as an archetype opinion
Stephen Austin: Empresario of Texas. By Gregg Cantrell. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 493. $29.95.)
Get PDFGregg Cantrell, professor of history at Hardin-Simmoms University, has written an intriguing and intelligent biography of the "\u27Father of Texas", Stephen Fuller Austin. This is the first major retelling of Austin\u27s life in over seventy years, and it departs significantly from these earlier works. While previous biographies centered on Austin\u27s career and accomplishments, this book concentrates on his personal life, personality, and character
The Effect of the Martin Koszta Affair on American Foreign Policy
Get PDFSecretary of State William L. Marcy formulated the doctrine of domiciliation in 1853 as a response to the Martin Koszta affair. This doctrine helped form part of American foreign policy throughout the 19th century, and it continues today. A closer look at the Koszta affair shows the source and the need for the doctrine, and of course the primary application
Editor\u27s Note
Get PDFBeing an editor has been something I have never done before, and I worried about how good of a job I could do when I agreed to do this. The Folio is a small journal, relatively unheard of by anyone outside the History Department, but past volumes have been remarkably well-done. Maintaining the quality of the Folio that my predecessors had already established was a daunting task, and I will let you the reader judge on how the final copy turned out.Editing a journal is a learning experience, and I would have been lost had I not been under the tutelage of Dr. Hundley. This issue is the seventh time she has worked with other student editors, and I have had the good fortunes of building off of their efforts. With the advance in technology, the Folio has gone from being published in a way that, as Dr. Hundley mentioned, "Gutenberg would be familiar with," to submitting the essays via the Internet to the publishing company. Dr. Hundley held my hand each step, and because of her, I did not stumble.Before the publishing process could begin, however, it never would have been started without the submissions from the authors. For that, everyone involved in this journal is thankful. The articles were critiqued closely by an editorial board composed of Dr. George Dehner, Dr. James Duram, Dr. Helen Hundley, and Dr. Ariel Loftus. Not only did these four decide which papers would be accepted, they also took time out of their schedules to work with the authors and provide insightful suggestions for improving papers, and I believe that the articles in this volume reflect not only on the authors, but also the editorial board. Those four professors should be lauded in helping make the Fairmount Folio a success.This journal is also proud to publish the papers that were granted awards by the Department of History this year. These papers appear unedited except in format. This year, the Doulas Bendel! Award, given for the best paper in the History 300 undergraduate research and writing course during the last school year, was awarded to Sara DeCaro for her study on Sir Francis Drake\u27s role in the Spanish invasion of England. One of our edited papers also is an award winner. Erin Doom\u27s work on the historiography of the iconoclastic controversy won the John Lowell Rydjord Award for the best undergraduate paper. The Department of History also honors its graduates. Mark P. Schock won the Fiske Hall Graduate Award, given for a paper completed during a lecture course, for his research on Nazis in a Kansas POW camp. Finally, the Fiske Hall Graduate Seminar A ward was presented to Robert J. Clark for his research into Moses Mendelssohn\u27s approach to Jewish integration. This award is earned for a semesterlength research paper as a requirement for a seminar course.In closing, the Department of History, as well as the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, deserves special praise in support of the Fairmount Folio. The faculty and staff went out of their way to assist in this publication, and the college generously funds the project each year.Thank you to all involved for making Volume Seven ofthe Fairmount Folio a reality.Nathan HeimanMay 200
The Democratization of Higher Education: An Historical Overview and Prospects for the Future
Get PDFThe United States system of higher education, including colleges and universities, technical/vocational schools and community colleges, is comprised of over four thousand schools with enrollment of almost sixteen million students. 1 "Prestigious and knowledgeable observers have said that this system is \u27the most advanced in the world,\u27 \u27the envy of the world,\u27 and \u27the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.\u27"2 In addition to the primary mission of preparing students for success in their chosen endeavors, these institutions annually produce research and scientific discovery across a broad range of topics. However, there are a growing number of critics who feel that as the number of students increases, programs at all levels of higher education are reducing quality. This paper will examine the development of higher education including landmark legislation, the impact of that legislation in making a college education more accessible to the masses, and the changing attitudes and expectations of students over time. Finally, it examines the system\u27s prospects for the future which contemporary trends suggest-that a college education has become a commodity rather than an intellectual experience
The March of the Muses: The Development of Higher Education in Athens from Pericles to the Paripatos
Get PDFWestern society has been greatly influenced in numerous ways by ancient Greek society and culture, not the least of which was the Greek educational system. Alexander the Great\u27s conquests relied in many ways upon technology, philosophy, and mathematics taught in Greek institutions of higher learning. How ironic then, that even two centuries prior to Alexander the Great, in the fifth century BC, a clear concept of higher education had yet to be developed. The development in Greek and Hellenistic education from the fifth to the third centuries BC bordered on the miraculous: from having no higher education whatsoever, Greek society developed and built a fairly complex system. This essay will attempt to take a closer look into the development of Greek education itself, focusing on several key movements and characters
A Culturally Competent Approach to Engagement, Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation with LGBT Elders: A Case Example
Get PDFThe following is a case example that highlights some of the substantive issues that may be presented by a Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgender [LGBT] older adult who is receiving mental health services. It offers concrete examples that social work students in field practicum can use during the engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation processes with LGBT elders
Simulation and Interprofessional Education in Social Work Practice
Get PDFInterprofessional Education (IPE) can be defined as two or more professions learning with,from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care (Hutchings, Scammell, &Quinney, 2013, p. 359). A theoretical framework for IPE is explored along with various applications foradvanced generalist social work practice. Finally, an IPE healthcare simulation training with a group ofmaster\u27s level social work students and undergraduate nursing students from Wichita State University isdescribed, with potential implications for practice and education
Civil Forfeiture and the Constitution: Are Individual Rights Really Less Important than the War on Drugs?
Get PDFDemocracy creates an often precarious balance between the needs of the individual and the needs of the whole. To shelter individuals from the passions of the day, the Founding Fathers enumerated certain rights and established constitutional protections. As the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution, the Supreme Court of the United States uses these rights and protections as a tool to weigh the needs of the individual against the needs of the whole. In the last two decades, however, a war on drugs in the United States has been used to justify infringements upon traditional property rights and due process. The antiquated concept of forfeiture has become one of the primary weapons in this drug war and, as such, is often the device by which individual rights are sacrificed