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Butler, Emily (SC 1051)
No full textFinding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1051. Paper, “Storm Story,” written by Emily Butler for an English class at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, describing her reaction to a severe storm that occurred while she was on campus 16 April 1998
Interview with Michael Martone
No full textMICHAEL MARTONE grew up in Fort Wayne, IN. He received part of his undergraduate education at Butler University before transferring to Indiana University. He received his MA from Johns Hopkins University and has taught at colleges around the country, including Warren Wilson College, Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University. He currently lives in Tuscaloosa and teaches at the University of Alabama. He has published more than a dozen books, has won two fellowships from the NEA, and won the 1998 Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. Martone was a member of Manuscripts for a few years, and recently announced a writing grant to Butler students who wish to travel around Indiana and write about their experiences. When Martone visited campus in the fall of 2014, he was gracious enough to give an interview to Sarah Coffing and Emily Yoo
Austin Papers: Series II, Part II, 1818-1847
No full textCopy of transcript for a letter from Emily M. Austin Bryan to James Bryan updating James on business matters pertaining to the store and supplies, as well as accusing Butler of selling Bryan a rotten boat
Identifying how Home Advantage Manifests in Butler Basketball Using SFA
No full textButler University’s basketball team has been in the Big East Conference since 2013 and is known for having a distinct home court advantage named ‘Hinkle Magic’ by fans. It is of interest to identify how home court advantage affects a Big East team’s ability to play to its full potential for generating wins and what factors are most accurate in measuring this potential. This project will utilize the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) model to identify a team’s efficiency when playing at home vs. away in order to identify when teams meet their potential and if game location has an effect on this result. The model will compute each team’s maximum attainable wins given the strength of their program and compare this threshold to the team’s actual success during the season. Panel data from the Big East 2013-2014 to 2019-2020 seasons will be used in modeling SFA. Measures such as Likelihood ratio test and pseudo R-squared will be used for model evaluation
General Benjamin Butler Letter Regarding the naming of Newport News, Virginia
No full textDigital images of an original letter written by Former Union Major-General Benjamin Butler in reply to a query by author, Edwin Everett Hale on how Newport News, Virginia had received it's name. both sides of the original letter are included along with a typed transcription of the letter
Speculative Literature in Modern Society: Octavia Butler and the Tragedy of the Commons
No full textWhat leads to peaceful prosperity and what leads to destructive collapse in any society? While it may seem daunting or overwhelming to dissect the success or collapse of a multi-faceted society, there are lenses and tools through which we are able to do so, such as political theory and speculative dystopian fiction. By using lenses to analyze the society in which we live, we are able to recognize the seeds of both prosperity and destruction in our society that may otherwise be overlooked or ignored. The speculative dystopian fiction of Octavia Butler may be considered as building upon the political theory of the tragedy of the commons. Butler provides her American audience an analysis of the root causes of this tragedy, as well as some possible preventative measures or solutions. We are able to read her novel, The Parable of the Sower, as a warning against ignoring current trends in our society which could lead to our tragedy of the commons. Octavia Butler was an American author of speculative dystopian fiction, and was the first science fiction novelist to be awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 1955. She was born in California on June 22, 1947 and died in Washington on January 24, 2006. Butler was well-known for critiquing social hierarchies and inequalities as well as for exploring what forms healthy, sustainable communities. Her first novel in her Parable Series, The Parable of the Sower, introduces Butler’s reader to a broken community in a divided society after an environmental apocalypse. Through her protagonist, Lauren Olamina, Butler shows her reader the flaws and failures in society that lead to the community’s collapse as well as how a community can be rebuilt
The Religious Imagery in Emily Dickinson\u27s Love Poems
No full textThis paper will discuss to what extent Emily Dickinson\u27s heritage, environment, and experience formed her attitudes on religion and love, and will explain how successful she was in translating her intense emotional experience of love into poetry by examining her use of religious imagery
Michel Foucault and Judith Butler: troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work
No full textOne of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later develops this interpretation in line with the progress of her own project. In the main part of the thesis, I present an analysis of Foucault‘s thinking in the period from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to The History of Sexuality volume 1 (1976). This analysis focuses on the aspect of his work which has most influenced Butler‘s thinking: namely the notion of a relationship between knowledge, discourse and power. The other issues in his work which Butler addresses—genealogy, the subject, the body, abnormality, and sexuality—are discussed within this framework. I show how, in the early 1970s, Foucault develops the notion of power-knowledge, and sets out a relationship between power-knowledge and discourse which is overlooked by Butler. I argue that Butler interprets Foucaultian power through the notions of repression and social norms, and ignores the concepts of technology and strategy which form a key part of Foucault‘s thinking. I show how, from The Archaeology of Knowledge on, Foucault develops a socio-historical ontology and a genealogy of the subject, both of which are at variance with Butler‘s interpretation of his thinking
Promoting Public Health in Indiana\u27s Community Pharmacies: What Screening Services are Currently Being Offered?
No full textThe Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences curriculum places high emphasis on public health, in particular, the pharmacist\u27s role, but what is actually going on in Indiana? Which community pharmacies offer public health services? Where can people go to get access to preventative care and disease management? What are the motivators or the obstacles for pharmacies to offer public health services?
By compiling this information and presenting it to students and faculty within Butler\u27s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, new graduates can be more informed on where to refer their patients for public health services and disease management.
To get data for this project, surveys were mailed to over 330 pharmacies across Indiana. The survey asks questions relating to the type of pharmacy (ex. chain, independent, grocery), the setting (ex. urban, rural), what services are offered, what the perceived benefits of offering the services are, as well as what obstacles prevent some services from being offered
Public management : Reinventing Government: a symposium. by Robin Butler
No full texttag=1 data=Public management : Reinventing Government: a symposium. by Robin Butler
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tag=10 data=The author indicates how the major themes of the book [Reinventing Government] can be seen to correspond with many of the recent management initiatives in UK government.
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tag=13 data=CABThe author indicates how the major themes of the book [Reinventing Government] can be seen to correspond with many of the recent management initiatives in UK government
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