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Transforming America : Toni Morrison and classical tradition
No full textThis thesis examines a significant but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's
work: her ambivalent engagement with classical tradition. Analysing all eight
novels. it argues that her allusiveness to the cultural practices of Ancient Greece
and Rome is fundamental to her political project. Illuminating hegemonic
America's consistent recourse to the classical world in the construction of its
identity, I expand on prior scholarship by reading Morrison's own revisionary
classicism as a subversion of dominant US culture. My three-part study
examines the way her deployment of Graeco-Roman tradition destabilizes
mythologies of the American Dream, prevailing narratives of America's
history, and national ideologies of purity. Part I shows that Morrison enlists
tragic conventions to problematize the Dream's central tenets of upward
mobility, progress and freedom. It argues that while her engagement with Greek
choric models effects her refutation of individualism, it is her later novels'
rejection of a wholly catastrophic vision that enables her to avoid reinscribing
the Dream. Part II demonstrates that it is through her classical allusiveness that
Morrison rewrites American history. Her multiply-resonant echoes of the epic,
pastoral and tragic traditions that have consistently informed the dominant
culture's justifications for and representations of its actions enable her
reconfiguration of colonization, of the foundation of the new nation, of slavery
and its aftermath and of the Civil Rights Movement. Part III illuminates how
the author uses the discourse of pollution or miasma to challenge
Enlightenment-derived valorizations of racial purity and to expose the practices
of scapegoating and revenge as flawed means to moral purity. Her interest in
the hegemonic fabrication of classical tradition as itself a pure and purifying
force is matched by her insistence on that tradition's African elements, and thus
on its potent impurity. Her own radical classicism, therefore, is central to the
transformation of America that her novels envision
Affirmative action in Arizona
No full textabstract: The purpose of this brief report is to present a balanced look at current issues surrounding the education reform known as "academic standards." Prepared by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at the request of Greater Phoenix Leadership, the information contained in this report is intended for a business audience. It does not advocate any particular stance or make policy recommendations, but rather presents a platform from which the business community might choose a position. The report is organized around four areas of interest: (1) the national context for academic standards, (2) facts regarding Arizona's standards, (3) the pros and cons of academic standards, and (4) specific issues and positions in the national business community related to academic standards.Includes bibliographical references (p. 4).Copyright by the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University and its Morrison Institute for Public Polic
A system-wide approach for analyzing Japanese wheat import allocation decisions
No full textabstract: This paper develops and implements an import allocation model based on Theil's system-wide approach to demand and tests the assumptions of blockwise dependence and uniform substitutability among different sources and types of wheat imported by Japan.Faculty working paper series (Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management) ; MSABR 98-07Includes bibliographical references (p. 16)
Import demand for disaggregate fresh fruits in Japan
No full textabstract: Using annual Japanese fresh fruit import data from 1971-1997, this study analyzes the import patterns of Japan's seven most popular fresh fruits by implementing and testing a general differential demand system that nests nested four alternative import demand specifications.Faculty working paper series (Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management) ; MSABR 02-03Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-27)
Proposition 301 : promises, progress, and prospects
No full textabstract: The purpose of this brief report is to provide information about the past, present, and future of a very significant education reform program and tax increase, commonly known as Proposition 301. Coverage includes the history leading up to the ballot measure approved by Arizona voters in November 2000, its status approximately one year after it went into effect, and its prospects over a 20-year life span.Includes bibliographical references (p. 6).Copyright by the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University and its Morrison Institute for Public Polic
Alternative dispute resolution development for rural areas : lessons learned
No full textabstract: After twenty years of Ag Mediation’s assistance to the American rural areas, there are a number of key developments which I would like to highlight for the Bureau of Land Management and others interested in mediation and dispute resolution. These include background, law, and efforts by states and federal government to focus on mediation as a way of settling disputes. Finally, I would like to enumerate the lessons we have learned.Faculty working paper (Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management) ; MSABR 00-0
Impact of promotion and advertising on product choice, purchase frequency and purchase quantity
No full textabstract: Marketing research in consumer packaged goods shows that consumers’ brand choices, category choices, and purchase volumes are all affected by different factors and in different ways by pricepromotions
and advertising. Research also suggests that brand-loyalty, purchase rates, and inventory behavior are important determinants of category choice. These findings are likely to be true of apples as well.Faculty working paper series (Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management) ; MSABR 98-01Includes bibliographical references (p. 26-27)
The impact of the Export Enhancement Program on international feed barley markets
No full textabstract: A “hybrid” spatial price equilibrium model is developed to evaluate differences in trade flows and equilibrium prices for feed and malting barley exports from the U.S., Canada, Australia, and European Union, caused by the U.S. Export Enhancement Program. The analysis incorporates the relationships among several policy instruments.Faculty working paper series (Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management) ; MSABR 98-06Includes bibliographical references (p. 17)
Agribusiness trade education tools for the new millennium : linking EU-US university experiences through the "Attacking global barriers" initiative
No full textIn the “Attacking Global Barriers” or “Phoenix Project”, the Royal Agricultural College and Arizona State University East are working together to insure we have an exciting future in the food management area. This abstract outlines the progress of the Phoenix Project and updates IAMA on the Second Congress of the Phoenix Group. The “Attacking Global Barriers” project focuses on educational and academic issues, and impediments to student movement in the academic year 1998/99. It updates earlier reports to IAMA and gives an overview of the first and second congresses with the American and European UniversitiesFaculty working paper series (Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management) ; MSABR 99-0
Academic standards in Arizona
No full textabstract: The purpose of this brief report is to present a balanced look at current issues surrounding the education reform know as "academic standards." The information contained in this report is intended for a business audience. It does not advocate any particular stance or make policy recommendations, but rather presents a platform from which the business community might choose a position. .Includes bibliographical references (p. 5).Copyright by the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University and its Morrison Institute for Public Polic
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