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English 4650 Oral Histories
No full textTranscript of an interview with Emily White, a professor of writing, regarding the City of Denton Fracking Referendum. Professor White briefly defines fracking, explains hydraulic fracturing's effects on the environment, and recites her "Ten Reasons to Ban Fracking"
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English 4650 Oral Histories
No full textAudio interview with Emily White, a professor of writing, regarding the City of Denton Fracking Referendum. Professor White briefly defines fracking, explains hydraulic fracturing's effects on the environment, and recites her "Ten Reasons to Ban Fracking"
Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
No full textBibliography: leaves 216-226.This dissertation is an investigation of the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is considerable evidence of these mystical avenues in both her poetry and in Wuthering Heights which have been explored. It is shown how Emily Brontë's mysticism is a direct result of personal experiences which augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her works, such as the cynicism of her own intellect in accepting the visionary experiences as authentic and periods of suffering when her faith is tested. These tensions have been considered within the context of her mystical encounters and philosophy. The remaining four chapters deal with the philosophy of Emily Brontë per se. Her beliefs in respect of heaven and hell, mercy and justice, power and survival, and pantheism are considered in depth. It is argued that she is an unorthodox thinker who does not believe in an eternal hell and that she has drawn inspiration for this idea from Frederick Maurice and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is also shown how issues of power have been of interest to her from a young age and how this needs to be integrated within her philosophy. To the writer power needs to be tempered by compassion if it is to be of use to society or the individual. Her pantheistic spirit is also investigated and related to the mystical ideas
Metalanguage in Emily Dickinso's poems
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoDevido à sua complexidade e às suas tremendas implicações nas relações humanas, a linguagem sempre apresentou-se como um tema bastante intrigante para os poéticos e teóricos. Não há unanimidade, porém, quanto à sua eficiência na comunicação. Isso faz-se notar de forma particularmente clara quando as chamadas ciências exatas abandonam a comunicação verbal e saem em busca de um código próprio. A linguagem perde, então, o seu status do veículo da verdade. Esta dissertação é uma tentativa de análise de alguns poemas de Emily Dickinson sobre a linguagem e sua importância na vida humana. Nestes poemas, a poeta joga com o paradoxo força/ineficiência das palavras, bem como a significação do silêncio comparado com o vazio presente na linguagem. No capítulo introdutório, eu apresento alguns críticos da poesia de Emily Dickinson. Grande parte desta crítica contribui muito para a análise e a compreensão dos poemas. No próximo capítulo, eu faço uma breve leitura de alguns textos teóricos de Saussure, Wittgenstein e George Steiner sobre a linguagem. O terceiro capítulo contém a análise dos poemas, o que é seguido pela conclusão da dissertação como um todo. De modo geral, eu tento ler os poemas detalhadamente, trilhando as idéias paradóxicas de Dickinson sobre a linguagem, como algo ineficiente, mas necessário
Emily White
No full textEmily White, a library staff member, is pictured with a male student worker.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/6468/thumbnail.jp
Emily White
No full textEmily White, a library staff member, is pictured sitting at a desk while reading a book.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/3118/thumbnail.jp
Emily White, Betty Rice
No full textEmily White and Betty Rice, both members of the MSU library staff, are shown talking to an unidentified man in the library.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/4842/thumbnail.jp
The workshop as the work: white anti-racism organising in 1960s, 70s, and 80s US social movements
No full textThis thesis explores the rise of anti-racism workshops developed by white activists in various United States social movements from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. The shifting ideology of the black freedom movement in the late 1960s, from integration to Black Power, transformed white activists‘ place within racial justice struggles. While recent scholarship has begun to turn its attention towards whites‘ ongoing racial justice activities, one of the most radical and widespread of these efforts is consistently overlooked: anti-racism workshops. Increasingly prevalent from the late 1960s through to the diversity-trainings explosion of the 1990s, this thesis demonstrates that these workshops had their roots in the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation movements. White activists from these movements led these workshops in order to examine white racial domination and privilege within both leftist social movements and larger US society.
Analysing case studies from the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation/rights movements, this thesis explores the foundational assumptions of anti-racism workshops. It seeks to explain how and why these efforts sought to frame race and racism as issues of knowledge and consciousness and why such efforts constituted radical praxis. It is argued that early anti-racism workshops were pedagogical projects that sought to confront the racial ignorance that structured the lives of whites in the US, including progressives and their liberation movements. This thesis draws attention to the efficacy and power of these workshops in terms of their epistemological effects, in the transformations they brought about in whites‘ understanding, or awareness, of racial realities
Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap
No full textThis paper investigates the question of whether teachers treat children differentially on the basis of factors other than observed ability, and whether this differential treatment in turn translates into differences in student outcomes. I suggest that teachers may use a child's name as a signal of unobserved parental contributions to that child's education, and expect less from children with names that "sound" like they were given by uneducated parents. These names, empirically, are given most frequently by Blacks, but they are also given by White and Hispanic parents as well. I utilize a detailed dataset from a large Florida school district to directly test the hypothesis that teachers and school administrators expect less on average of children with names associated with low socio-economic status, and these diminished expectations in turn lead to reduced student cognitive performance. Comparing pairs of siblings, I find that teachers tend to treat children differently depending on their names, and that these same patterns apparently translate into large differences in test scores.
Figures Don't Lie: Spatial Humanities and Technology as Critical Thinking Tools
No full textThis presentation demonstrates the potential use of spatial humanities as both a critical thinking exercise and a computational tool in digital humanities pedagogy. “Figures Don’t Lie” presents a map of the United States that labels each state as a foreign nation according to the correlation between the GDPs of each state and their assigned countries. The map may spark classroom discussions about a range of humanities topics. Revealing the map’s underlying data shows how facts can be spun and helps students understand how the “facts” presented in the media may not be what they appear.Presented at Rutgers University's "Digital Humanities Showcase: New Methods and New Media" on January 29, 2014 (New Brunswick, N.J.)
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