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John Christopher Stevens: a Study of his Presidential Administration at Abilene Christian University Abilene, Texas, 1969-1981
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to examine historically the presidential administration of John Christopher Stevens at Abilene Christian University from 1969 to 1981. During this time the institution grew in enrollment, faculty, facilities, endowment, and quality of educational opportunity. Limited to selected experiences and accomplishments, this dissertation examines Stevens' personal and administrative characteristics through interviews with him and those who worked with him. Materials were also used from Stevens' Presidential Archives in the Callie Faye Milliken Special Collections of the Herman and Margaret Brown Library at Abilene Christian University
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Pre-Feminist Indicators in Margaret Oliphant's Early Responses to the Woman Question
Get PDFMargaret Oliphant's fiction has generated some interest in recent years, but her prose essays have been ignored. Critics contend her essays are unimportant and dismiss Oliphant as a hack writer who had little sympathy with her sex. These charges are untrue, however, because many influences complicated Oliphant's writings on the Woman Question. She suffered recurring financial difficulties and gender discrimination, she lacked formal education, and most of her work was published by Blackwood's, a conservative, male-oriented periodical edited by a close personal friend. Readers who are aware of these influences find Oliphant's earliest three essays about the Woman Question especially provocative because in them Oliphant explored the dichotomy between the perceived and the real lives of women. Oliphant refined her opinions each time she wrote on the Woman Question, and a more coherent, more clearly feminist, perspective emerges in each succeeding article. In "The Laws Concerning Women," despite Oliphant's apparent position, pre-feminist markers suggest that she is tentative about feminist ideas rather than negative towards them. "The Condition of Women" offers even more prefeminist markers, Oliphant's ostensible support of the patriarchal status quo notwithstanding. In "The Great Unrepresented," an article cited by some as proof that Oliphant was against women's suffrage, she argues not against enfranchising women, but against the method proposed for securing the vote. In this article, many pre-feminist markers have become decidedly feminist. Scholars may have overlooked Oliphant's feminism because her rhetorical strategies are more complicated than those of most other Victorian critics and invite her audience to read between the lines. Although her writing sometimes lacks unity and focus, and her prose is often turgid, convoluted, and digressive, she creates elaborate inverse arguments with claims supporting patriarchy but evidence that supports feminism. A rich feminist subtext lies beneath the surface text of Oliphant's essays, demonstrating that her perspective on the Woman Question is far more complex than it initially appears
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The Angel in the House and The Woman in White: The Unfolding and Decoding of a Victorian Stereotype
Get PDFAbstract: Modern readers frequently perceive female characters in Victorian novels as insipid and inane, blaming the static portrayals on the angel in the house stereotype attributed to Coventry Patmore's poem of the same name. The stereotype does not accurately reflect the actual Victorian woman's life, however. Examining how the stereotype evolved and how the middle-class Mid-Victorian woman really lived provides insight into literary devices authors employed either to reinforce the angel ideal or to reconcile the ideal with the real. Wilkie Collins's portrayal of Marian Halcombe in The Woman in White features a dynamic female who has both androgynous characteristics and angel-in-the-house qualities, exemplifying one more paradox in a society riddled with contradictions
THE EFFECTS OF THE PENDL TRAINING ON HIP FLEXIBILITY, BALANCE, BACK STRENGTH AND FUNCTIONAL SIT-TO-STAND POWER IN ADULTS WITH CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN FOLLOWING AN 8-WEEK TRAINING PROGRAM WHEN COMPARED TO A CONTROL GROUP: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
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Core stability training is one of the most common rehabilitation strategies for improving lumbopelvic hip control and the dynamic stability of the lumbar spine in people with low back pain (LBP). A new device called a PENDL, that allows exercise while suspended, may be helpful in improving strength and flexibility in people with CLBP. PURPOSE: To evaluate a PENDL training program in adults with CLBP by quantifying changes in 1) hip flexion/extension flexibility, 2) functional sit-to-stand peak power, 3) isometric/isotonic back strength and 4) balance. METHODS: Participants with CLBP pain intensity equal to or less than 40% in the Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire were randomized into experimental (n = 4) and control (n = 6) groups. Range of motion (ROM) of the hip was assessed using a sit and reach test and the Imire and Barbuto hip extension (ROM-HE) test. Balance was assessed using a BTrackS system and back strength (BS) using a dynamometer (BS-DYN). The core was assessed using a plank (BS-PLNK) and functional sit-to-stand peak power (FSSPP) measured with a Tendo unit. Experimental group participants completed 10 exercises on the PENDL three times per week for 8 weeks. RESULTS: There were significant increases improvements in BS-DYN (p = .018), BS-PLNK (p < .001), FSSPP (p = .04), and ROM-HF (p = .017). Changes in ROM-HE (p = .047) and balance (p = .77) were not significantly different. CONCLUSION: The PENDL may be a viable modality for improving hip flexibility, back strength and functional sit-to-stand power in people with CLBP.Ph.D
Uintah Pep Club at Hotel Vernal
No full textThe Uintah High School Pep Club attended a banquet at the Hotel Vernal for the new members. Sitting front left at the bottom is Chloe Pope. First row, Jerrie Helen Bennett, Sherryl Eaton, Shirley Erickson, Gloria Wardell, Leslie Spendlove and Sue Parkinson. Second row, L to R. Linda Kindt, Vivial Allen, Laurel Searle, Sharon Stevens, Lynne Webb and Raema Coltharp. Third row, Nadene Stringham, Faye Jones, Marsha Fox, Sharon W. Green, Mary Gardiner and Carolyn Goodrich. Fourth row, Sandra McKonkie, Karen Birchell, Pama Rae Campbell, Patty Winkler, Janet Robins. Fifth row, Marilyn Call, Pam Couture, Jan Tate, Uvene Haws, and Eileen Searle. Back row, Ruth Joseph, Chloe Ed Ruppe, and Joyce Udy
Poster 41 Perceived Benefits from Participating in an Underwater Treadmill Training Program
No full text1965 Jay-Cee-An BJC -- Page 50
No full textPhotographs of the BJC Today's Secretaries [club]ROW 1: Julie Schreiner, Cathy Kremer, Cheryl Berge, Marlene Gallagher, Pegi Steinert,
Allegra Perm ann, Phyl11S Berger, Phyllis Buckley, Ingrid Josephson. l<.uW 2: Ioann Keller,
Myrna Lundgren, Mary Landgren, Mary Moyes, Margaret Priddy, Joan Olmsted, Shirley Jordan,
Charlotte Bickler. ROW 3: Colleen Hendrickson, Oddie Bertsch, Shirley Rohrbach, Bonnie
Eichenberger, Sandt a Erickson, Deona Singer, Sheryle Brezden, Judy Price, Nadine Duppong,
Mary Kist, Ileen Hoffman. ROW 4: Sandra Hochhalter, Janice Jensen, Janice Ackerman, Pat
Griff, Margaret Loock, Peggy McGarvey, Sharon Thompson, Hilma Ahl, Evelyn Leno, Linda
Johnson, Joan Marshall.
Today's Secretaries Indicate Growth
ROW 1: Candy Wilkins, Diane Wainio, Sylvia Shaw, Judy Siems, Jeanette Kurth, Mary
Knudson, Barbara Schulz, Lyl a Sayler, Mary Byrd, Sandra Grekoff, Cheryl Poffenberger, Marie
Mosset. ROW 2: Elaine Steffen, Judy Bornhoeft, Sharon Atkinson, Correne Opp, Sandra Pfeifer,
Judy Zuern, Beverly Schrempt, Olrve Norman, Gloria Colberg, Eunice Johnson, Mable Schwede,
ROW 3: Jane Edinger, Norine Lyngstad, Angela Schramm, Marlys Brenneise, Carol Ecklund,
Barbara Willert, Nancy Gustafson, Inez Hermunstad, Beverly Kubler, Carol Mehl, Janice Eback,
Barbara Younker. ROW 4: Teresa Reguena, Loretta Nelson, Ilene Hildre, LaVerne Roth, Lynn
Stevens, Mary Lawrence, BevaJean Sabot, Leona Kinsella, Leatrice Keddie, Annette Gratz,
Carol Morast, Gron a Mehlhoff, Janet Youness, Wynnette Price.
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The modernist angel: Art at the Limits of the Human in D. H. Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a figure that might provisionally be called the *modemist
angel'. Focusing on modernist literature, and more particularly on the work of D. H.
Lawrence, H. D. and Mina Loy, it aims to isolate from the many angels found in all periods
and all types of art a historically specific and intellectually coherent paradigm: an angel of
and for its modernist times. A figure of precisely this type could be said to exist in the
form of Walter Benjamin's 'angel of history'. Critics who address the question of the
modern angel in texts by Franz Kafka and Rainer Maria Rilke often do so in conjunction
with the problem posed by the angel of history. Beginning with a chapter on Benjamin,
this thesis nevertheless follows a different trajectory. Over five chapters, it explores a
modernist landscape formed not only by Lawrence, H. D. and Loy, but also by European
and American writers such as A. R. Orage, Allen Upward, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens,
Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the
angel that emerges from this investigation might, in some respects, be said to anticipate
Benjamin's later version, this figure is also very different, standing for a project that is
distinctively, and recognisably, modernist in nature. He/she (the sex of the modernist
angel is often open to question) represents an attempt to reconcile the divine
responsibilities of the artist with the material and gendered conditions of being,
specifically of being human, in the modem world. This thesis looks again at the clash of
intellectual paradigms in the early-twentieth century - notably, the confrontation of the
Romantic view of art as a superhuman or sacred undertaking with the psychoanalytical or
evolutionary idea that all human endeavour is underpinned by sub-human motives - and
suggests the angel as a new and instructive figure through which to think the perilous
limits between the human and the divine in modernist literature
Figure 19. A, C, E in The axial biomechanics of Trigonosaurus pricei (Neosauropoda: Titanosauria) and the importance of the cervical-dorsal region to sauropod high-browser feeding strategy
No full textFigure 19. A, C, E, Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Barosaurus, respectively, with horizontalized neck [according to Stevens and Parrish 2005a (A, C) and Lovelace, 2007 (E), in light grey]. B, D, F, Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Barosaurus, respectively, with a more upward-facing neck, in dark grey (according to the authors). In F, the Cv13 vertebra is a simple line art representation. No scale.Vidal, L. S., Bergqvist, L. P., Candeiro, C. R. A., Bandeira, K. L. N., Tavares, S., Brusatte, S. L., & Pereira, P. V. L. G. C. (2024). Figure 19. A, C, E in The axial biomechanics of Trigonosaurus pricei (Neosauropoda: Titanosauria) and the importance of the cervical-dorsal region to sauropod high-browser feeding strategy. In Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Vol. 201, Number 3, pp. 1–33). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1383596
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