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Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen, Part IV: Television Films
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/museumvideo/12/thumbnail.jpgPart IV explores the costumes Hepburn wore for her roles in television films.</p
Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden: The United States, the Horn of Africa, and the Demise of Détente
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/new_foreign_relations/18/thumbnail.jpgHow the Cold War came to Africa—and everybody lost
When the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and United States faltered during the administration of Jimmy Carter, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski claimed that “SALT lies buried in the sands of the Ogaden.” How did superpower détente survive Vietnam but stumble in the Horn of Africa? Historian Louise Woodroofe takes Brzezinski’s claim as a starting point to analyze superpower relations during the 1970s, and in so doing she reveals how conflict in East Africa became a critical turning point in the ongoing Cold War battle for supremacy.
Despite representing the era of détente, the 1970s superficially appeared to be one of Soviet successes and American setbacks. As such, the Soviet Union wanted the United States to recognize it as an equal power. However, Washington interpreted détente as a series of agreements and compromises designed to draw Moscow into an international system through which the United States could exercise some control over its rival, particularly in the Third World. These differing interpretations would prove to be the inherent flaw of détente, and nowhere was this better demonstrated than in the conflict in the Horn of Africa in 1974–78.
The Ogaden War between Ethiopia and Somalia involved a web of shifting loyalties, as the United States and Soviet Union alternately supported both sides at different points. Woodroofe explores how the war represented a larger debate over U.S. foreign policy, which led Carter to take a much harder line against the Soviet Union. In a crucial post-Vietnam test of U.S. power, the American foreign policy establishment was unable to move beyond the prism of competition with the Soviet Union.
The conflict and its superpower involvement turned out to be disasters for all involved, and many of the region’s current difficulties trace their historic antecedents to this period. Soviet assistance propped up an Ethiopian regime that terrorized its people, reorganized its agricultural system to disastrous effects in the well-known famines of the 1980s, and kept it one of the poorest countries in the world. Somalia’s defeat in the Ogaden War started its descent into a failed state. Eritrea, which had successfully fought Ethiopia prior to the introduction of Soviet and Cuban assistance, had to endure more than a decade more of repression.</p
Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/facultybooks/19/thumbnail.jpgDrawing on recent findings of cognitive science, Mark Bracher here employs widely taught literary texts - including Achebe\u27s Things Fall Apart, Voltaire\u27s Candide, Camus\u27s "The Guest," and Coetzee\u27s Disgrace - to provide detailed demonstrations of how literary study can be used to develop cosmopolitanism, defined as a commitment to global justice. Cosmopolitanism, Bracher explains, is motivated by compassion for peoples who are distant and different from oneself, and compassion for them is dependent on perceiving their need, their deservingness, and their humanity. These perceptions are often prevented by faulty mindsets, or cognitive schemas, that can be corrected by the pedagogical practices described here.</p
Pretty Pleats
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Whence God? The individual and social origins of ultimate concern
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/asir/vol3/iss1/3/thumbnail.jpgThe problem of the origin of religion is shown to be equivalent to the problem of the origin of the notion of a higher or transcendent power. For the sake of generality, this issue can be characterized as the problem of the origin of ultimate concern for ultimate meaning. Past perspectives have linked the origin of religious processes to evolutionary mechanisms, others to sociological processes, and still others to psychological functions. Each position has interest and sheds a different light on a necessarily complex process. Existing perspectives, however, fail to resolve four critical issues. The paper sketches a new, synthetic perspective which resolves these issues through the integration of critical theological, sociological, psychological, evolutionary, and neurophysiological concepts.</p
A Preliminary Investigation of Job Satisfaction of Compliance Officers at NCAA Division II Institutions
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/9967/8859-thumbnail.jpgIdentifying what job characteristics influence employee satisfaction requires the ability to effectively study the environment that influences the sense of belonging and a fulfillment of social needs. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate aspects of employment that influence job satisfaction of NCAA Division II compliance officers. Job satisfaction was measured by the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), which consisted of nine subscale measures that relate to employee job satisfaction and strongly examines perceptual and attitudinal variables (Spector, 1997). Participants for this study consisted of 206 NCAA Division II compliance officers. Descriptive analysis was conducted to determine to what degree NCAA Division II compliance officers express their job satisfaction. Results suggested that supervision, co-workers, and nature of work were the three highest-ranking measures of job satisfaction. The compliance officers appeared satisfied when given autonomy over their job, played a greater role in organizing the environment of intercollegiate athletics and had productive work relationships with athletic staff.</p
Lightning Safety: How is it conducted at NIAAA Member High Schools?
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/9974/8865-thumbnail.jpgThe purposes of this study were to explore the current scenario of interscholastic athletics in regards to the existence and enforcement of lightning safety policies applied to athletic outdoor activities, and to identify the common practices related to lightning safety currently utilized. The results showed that 87.2% of the respondents (N=804) have lightning safety policies. However, only 90.3% of the respondents who have lightning safety policies actually enforce them. It seems that during practices coaches are most commonly responsible for making the decision to stop/resume activity, and that during games athletic directors are most commonly making the call. However, almost one third of the respondents (N=804) do not have a clear designation as to who makes the decision. A less than desirable percentage of respondents reported frequent use of a lightning detection system, availability of shelters for spectators, and posted lightning policy in facilities. Only 7.8% of the respondents indicated that all athletic coaches and staff receive lightning safety training. The results also showed that more experienced administrators were more likely to have and enforce lightning safety policies, and employ lightning safety best practices. This study provides high school athletic administrators and principals with relevant information that can be used to support their decision to adopt and enforce lightning safety policies for interscholastic athletic activities.</p
The Burr November 2012
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Denmark Vesey’s Revolt: The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/abolitionism/3/thumbnail.jpgNew edition of a classic social history In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execution in U.S. history. At the time of Vesey’s conviction, Charleston was America’s chief slave port and one of its most racially tense cities. Whites were outnumbered by slaves three to one, and they were haunted by memories of the 1791 slave rebellion in Haiti. In Denmark Vesey’s Revolt, John Lofton draws upon primary sources to examine the trial and provide, as Peter Hoffer says in his new introduction, “one of the most sensible and measured” accounts of the subject. This classic book was originally published in 1964 as Insurrection in South Carolina: The Turbulent World of Denmark Vesey, and then reissued by the Kent State University Press in 1983 as Denmark Vesey’s Revolt: The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter.</p
"My greatest help comes from the Lord": Religion and the information behaviors of dementia caregivers
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/acir/2013/Papers/6/thumbnail.jpgHow do religious beliefs, practices and communities affect how caregivers of loved ones with dementia approach information seeking, information use, and information evaluation with respect to their caregiving activities? </p