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Themes of Social Justice in the Choral Music of Jake Runestad
No full textWith his thought-provoking and socially relevant music, American composer Jake Runestad has quickly become one of the most performed choral composers of the 21st century. Although music and social justice have been tied together for centuries, there is a new movement bringing social justice to American choral music in a noticeably increased manor, and Jake Runestad is a leading composer in this movement. In this paper, I provide a detailed analysis into the social justice themes employed by Runestad, interviews with him and several well-respected American choral directors programming and commissioning his music, as well as compositional devices employed within his compositions. The purpose of this study is to show Jake Runestad's place as an American choral composer by offering a historical overview of the social justice themes in American music and Western choral music separately. I will then narrow the scope to Jake Runestad, who since 2013 has been using his choral music to bring awareness to human inequalities within the United States today
Jim Hightower - America\u27s #1 Populist
No full textMiddle-Class Warfare and the New Populist Revolution
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought to Be—consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. Believing that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, Hightower has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.
A native Texan who was twice elected Texas agriculture commissioner, Hightower now broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried on more than 150 commercial and public stations, as well as on the web and on Radio for Peace International. Each month, 135,000 subscribers read his political newsletter The Hightower Lowdown, which has won both the Alternative Press Award and Independent Press Association Award.
Hightower is a New York Times bestselling author whose seven books include Thieves in High Places: They\u27ve Stolen Our Country and It\u27s Time to Take It Back; If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates; and There\u27s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos. His newspaper column is distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate. And despite all that writing, the populist road warrior still finds time to deliver more than 100 speeches a year to all kinds of groups.
Political columnist Molly Ivins said it best: If Will Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, Jim Hightower would be that rambunctious child—mad as hell, with a sense of humor.
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Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle examines the history of community banking in Freedom, Oklahoma through interviews conducted by the author in support of the Oklahoma History Center's Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma exhibit. Michael J. Hightower explores the growth of industry and banking in Oklahoma's smallest city
A Feminist Response to Low Levels of Self – Esteem in Adolescent Girls
No full text1 broadsideThis piece addresses of the nationally low levels of self-esteem in adolescent girls. Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory is used as a foundation in the discussion of self-esteem and identity development in girls. The media, peers, parents and schools are the four primary reasons for low self-esteem. Statistics and studies illustrate the urgent need for intervention. The author argues that the teaching of feminist values leads to an increase in self-esteem in girls’ ages twelve to fifteen. This age bracket correlates with Erikson’s fifth stage of identity development: identity versus identity confusion.Kalamazoo College. Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Hightower Symposium, 2009
Weaver-Hightower Gives Summer Commencement Address
No full textUniversity of North Dakota Associate Professor of English Rebecca Weaver-Hightower will give the main address at UND’s Summer Commencement Friday, August 5, beginning at 3 p.m., in the Chester Fritz Auditorium. About 435 students are eligible to graduate when UND President Robert O. Kelley presides over his fourth summer commencement ceremony. UND annually graduates more than 2,700 students in ceremonies in May, August and December.
Live broadcast and recordings: The ceremony will be broadcast live on Grand Forks Cable Channel 3 and rebroadcast on the same channel Aug. 9-12 at 12:30 a.m., noon and 8 p.m.
UND also provides a live video stream of commencement to allow family and friends to participate in commencement, even if they cannot attend in person. This feed is provided in Adobe Flash Video format, so users may need to download the Free Flash Player.
The stream will begin broadcasting about 2:30 p.m. (CDT) on Friday, August 5. The ceremony begins at 3 p.m.
DVDs of the ceremony are available at the UND Bookstore. To purchase a copy, contact the bookstore at 701-777-4980.
If users have trouble seeing the video, they should contact UND tech support and chat with a representative, or call 701-777-6305.
If users are unable to view the commencement ceremony live, an archived video will be available by Tuesday, August 9.
Honorary degree: Also, the family of Kenneth Mellem, a longtime computer industry businessman and friend of the UND College of Business and Public Administration (CoBPA), will accept an honorary Doctorate of Letters on behalf of Ken, who passed away in June of 2010. The bestowing of honorary degrees, though a rarity for a summer commencement event, is a special tradition at UND, reserved for influential private and public figures over the years, including President John F. Kennedy, famed heart surgeon Michael DeBakey, philosopher Mortimer Adler, and basketball legend and UND alum Phil Jackson. Mellem, who lived in Eden Praririe, Minn., and Largo, Fla., earned a bachelor’s degree from CoBPA in 1966 and his master\u27s in 1968. He suggested and participated in the development of several new programs during his association with CoBPA, particularly the executive in residence at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, where he taught a course for each of the last eight years, and the annual Mellem Business Symposium held on the UND campus. Ken served three terms on the CoBPA Advisory Council and was offered emeritus status for his many contributions to the college. Chester Fritz Distinguished Professorship: Also part of this summer’s commencement ceremony, Roxanne Vaughan, professor of biochemistry& molecular biology, officially will be named a UND Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, the University’s highest academic title. Vaughan has been instrumental in building an internationally recognized research program and is known for her collaborative efforts. She is an expert in the biochemistry of the dopamine transporter and its role in drug addiction. Continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1999, Vaughan recently accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR) Molecular Neuropharmacology and Signaling Study Section. The NIH noted her scientific achievements, as well as the quality of her research accomplishments, journal publications and honors. Rebecca Weaver-High Tower: In her research and other scholarly work, Weaver-Hightower focuses on colonial and postcolonial studies; 19th and 20th century British and Irish literature; Australian, Caribbean, South African and Canadian literature. Her research delves into psychoanalytic and psychological criticisms; cultural studies; new historicism; visual media (including book illustrations and film) and landscape and literature as it pertains to island life culture. In 2011, during the school’s prestigious Founders Day ceremony, Weaver-Hightower was presented with the UND Foundation/Thomas J. Clifford Faculty Award for Graduate or Professional Teaching Excellence. She was recognized for her unique way of teaching and responding to students. “It’s not accurate to simply say, ‘Dr. Weaver-Hightower is a phenomenal teacher.’ She is of course, but she does more than simply teach within the confines of the classroom. Dr. Weaver-Hightower is one of those rare teachers who actually works to make her graduate students feel like they are her peers,” wrote student Jody Jensen about her mentor. Weaver-Hightower also is a published author of two books. Her most recent, “Empire Islands: Castaways, and Fantasies of Conquest in Post/Colonial Island Narratives (University of Minnesota Press, May 2007),” argues that European imperialism was enabled by a heroic genre of castaway stories that justified, or at least, made sense of, further expansion and maintenance of European conquests around the world. Weaver-Hightower was born in Rock Hill, S.C., to Jack W. Weaver and her mother, Betty Weaver. She received her bachelor’s in English from Clemson University in 1991 and her master’s in English from Winthrop University in Rock Hill in 1993. In 2002, she received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Kentucky. Her dissertation was the same topic as her eventual book of the same name, “Empire Islands.” She is married to UND Associate Professor of Education Foundation & Research Marcus Weaver-Hightower, another respected scholar and published author on campus. Before coming to UND, Weaver-Hightower was a visiting assistant professor at Michigan State University, and she has held teaching appointments at Queens College, Winthrop University, University of Kentucky and the International House English Language College in Brisbane, Australia. In addition to her books, Weaver-Hightower has written several published essays and essay-length pieces as well as a number of book reviews. She also has been invited to deliver presentations on her research at lectures and conferences around the world
”Illegality” and Bordering Politics surrounding Latinx Migrants: Through a Legal Lens
No full text1 broadside. 48"W x 36"HThis paper argues that “fear" or assumed danger
regarding the Latinx body, is present due to how borders
transfer on to the body, rather than how the border is
embodied further discussed by author Paloma Villegas,
and the ultimate confines of the state's mobility of white
supremacy through law. This also brings about concepts
of who has the right to live a meaningful life, and even
who has the right to simply live.
Then emerges the concept of hope for a borderless
future. Author Mary Romero argued in 2008 that
currently through popular discourse, members of society
have learned to police one another; this system of
policing, if reversed, offers opportunity for change. I n
2020, author Huertas argued that there is power in
viewing the migrant as a political actor, who can act on
behalf of society towards the premise of a borderless
world.Kalamazoo College. Department of Anthropology and Sociology and Human Development and Social Relations (HDSR). Hightower Symposium, 202
The Asian American Community and Internet Social Media
No full text1 broadside. Original designed using Microsoft PowerPoint. 48"W x 36"HThis study focuses on how the East Asian American
community is actively changing, resisting, and
challenging the practices of mainstream media
representation and identity in a complex internet social
media environment and culture. By analyzing the
diversity and spectrum of new Internet social media
production and participation practices by content
creators and users of the Asian American visual virtual
community. This research focuses on YouTube and
blogs, specifically, Wong Fu Productions, ISAtv, and
author and founder Phil Yu's Angry Asian Man blog .
The analysis shows how East Asian American use
internet social media projects to create alternative forms
of racial identity expression that are more inclusive and
participatoryKalamazoo College. Department of Anthropology and Sociology and Human Development and Social Relations (HDSR). Hightower Symposium, 2017
FIGURE 1 in 150 years in the making: first comprehensive list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Virginia, USA
No full textFIGURE 1. Map of Virginia counties and independent cities as of 2018. Author: United States Census Bureau, modified by David Benbennick. No additional changes to this image have been made by the authors. This image is licensed under the public license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported and available at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ commons/1/1b/Map_of_Virginia_Counties_and_Independent_Cities.svgPublished as part of Ivanov, Kaloyan, Hightower, Liberty, Dash, Shawn T. & Keiper, Joe B., 2019, 150 years in the making: first comprehensive list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Virginia, USA, pp. 532-560 in Zootaxa 4554 (2) on page 535, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4554.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/262395
A follow-up study of the occupations of the graduates of the Hooper-Renwick High School, Lawrenceville, Georgia, 1953-1958, 1959
No full textA comparative study of the occupational preferences of single-parented and two-parented individuals, 1987
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