345 research outputs found
Chaucer out of bounds: Chaucerian continuations, adaptations, and apocrypha
No full textThis dissertation explores the boundaries that define the “Chaucerian,” a concept that was as much a product of Chaucer’s later editors, adapters, and imitators as it was a product of his contemporaries and predecessors. In exploring the Chaucerian, this dissertation juxtaposes concepts and materials from different historical periods, including Shakespeare, Spenser, Henryson, and 20th- and 21st-century film. This project not only explores the anachronistic connections that led to the creation of the Chaucerian, but also concludes that anachronism is an essential part of what still sustains it. Anachronistic scholarship that approaches texts and authors from beyond the traditional boundaries that separate them—and which separate us from them—is not only essential to our understanding of Chaucer, but essential to our understanding of our relationship to his work and to the past itself.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Darryl William Elliso
Historical Trauma and Healing
No full textDr. Darryl Tonemah also has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and Cultural Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a masters degree in Community Counseling, and three bachelor degrees in Psychology, Sociology and Gerontology. He currently travels to indigenous communities around the world teaching behavioral methods of change, and health and wellness. He has sat on numerous state and national boards addressing disparities in education and health care among the Native community. A singer/songwriter in the purest sense, Tonemah\u27s performances combine the energy of rock, the intelligence of folk and the heart of country, to create a musical niche he calls, Native Americana. As an author, Tonemah has also written a book on Health and Wellness.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/publecture/1010/thumbnail.jp
In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle
No full textOn August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Chicago native Emmett Till was brutally beaten to death for allegedly flirting with a white woman at a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were acquitted of murdering Till and dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River, and later that year, an all-white grand jury chose not to indict the men on kidnapping charges. A few months later, Bryant and Milam admitted to the crime in an interview with the national media. They were never convicted.
Although Till’s body was mutilated, his mother ordered that his casket remain open during the funeral service so that the country could observe the results of racially motivated violence in the Deep South. Media attention focused on the lynching fanned the flames of regional tension and impelled many individuals—including Rosa Parks—to become vocal activists for racial equality.
In this innovative study, Darryl Mace explores media coverage of Till’s murder and provides a close analysis of the regional and racial perspectives that emerged. He investigates the portrayal of the trial in popular and black newspapers in Mississippi and the South, documents posttrial reactions, and examines Till’s memorialization in the press to highlight the media’s role in shaping regional and national opinions. Provocative and compelling, In Remembrance of Emmett Till provides a valuable new perspective on one of the sparks that ignited the civil rights movement.
Darryl Mace is associate professor and chair in the Department of History and Political Science at Cabrini College.
Well-conceived and well-executed. Mace delineates the \u27situational\u27 regionalism that arose during the Emmett Till Coverage, that it was not static, but rather the coverage was a response to people’s views of the place in which they lived and how their locale compared to the rest of the nation. This book provides a textual analysis of the coverage of Emmett Till’s lynching, funeral, trial, post-trial reactions; and memorials of Till found in popular mainstream newspapers and popular black newspapers. -- Deborah F. Atwater, author of The Rhetoric of African American Women
Mace\u27s writing is clear and accessible. He offers interesting and valuable insight into the varied media coverage of Emmett Till’s lynching and what it illustrates about racial attitudes across the country. -- Emilye Crosby, author of A Little Taste of Freedom and editor of Civil Rights History from the Ground Up
Historians have long-agreed with David Halberstam that the lynching of Emmett Till and the trial of his murderers was ‘the first great media event of the civil rights movement.’ Until now, however, no one has made the case as thoroughly and persuasively as Darryl Mace does in this landmark study. His exhaustive analysis of the national and regional newspaper coverage is a model of careful and creative scholarship, and if you want to understand how the Till lynching helped to change our national conversation about race, you would do well to begin here. -- Christopher Metress, editor of The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative
Mace gives readers ample opportunity to understand why Till\u27s violent death wasn\u27t just another senseless murder, why the U.S. was ripe for Civil Rights progress made in the decade after his slaying; and how the press, especially sixty years ago, served its public. -- Terri Schilenmeyer -- Tennessee Tribune
He reminds us just how important the Till murder and trial were for the future of the Freedom Struggle… [Mace] still helps keep this story alive. -- Southern Spaces
[A] much-needed addition to the Till literature[. . . . B]y the time I finished In Remembrance of Emmett Till, I was struck, powerfully so, by the impact of racism rather than regionalism on the writing of Emmett Till’s memory. -- American Historical Reviewhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_african_american_studies/1032/thumbnail.jp
Governing virtual worlds : to what extent is it possible to empower players and preserve their rights in virtual worlds, and what is the best method of doing so?
No full textIn this paper the author considers the possibilities for establishing democratic governance in virtual worlds. He looks at the freedoms currently available to players in “Second Life”, contrasting these to those established in Raph Koster’s “A Declaration of the Rights of Avatars”, and assess whether some restrictions are more necessary in game spaces than social spaces. The author looks at the early implementations of self-governance in online spaces, and consider what lessons can be taken from these, investigating what a contemporary democratic space looks like, in the form of “A Tale in the Desert”, and finally considers how else we may think of giving players more rights in these developing social spaces
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The condor song
No full textnspired by the Sierra Club 1960’s battle with the Walt Disney company over a proposed ski resort in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, former attorney and best selling author, Darryl Nyznyk, brings captivating realism to this riveting new thriller.Sean Donovan lost everything: his wife, kids, job, and license to practice law. Abandoned by his wife, betrayed by a friend, and fired by his firm, it has taken thirteen years for Sean to come back, now barely eking out a living on minor cases while his former firm thrives.When Buck Anderson, renowned environmentalist from Sean’s hometown is murdered, Sean reunites with Buck’s niece at the old man’s funeral. She begs Sean to join the Sierra Club’s case to stop a major ski development by a Disney-type company, the very case on which Buck was working when he was killed. Sean agrees, but learns too late that his former firm represents the opposition with motives more sinister than their client’s ski development.THE CONDOR SONG is an environmental legal thriller set against California’s rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains in which a man lost to the world he thought he knew tries to find redemption in the face of impossible odds.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2014/1011/thumbnail.jp
The condor song
No full textnspired by the Sierra Club 1960’s battle with the Walt Disney company over a proposed ski resort in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, former attorney and best selling author, Darryl Nyznyk, brings captivating realism to this riveting new thriller.Sean Donovan lost everything: his wife, kids, job, and license to practice law. Abandoned by his wife, betrayed by a friend, and fired by his firm, it has taken thirteen years for Sean to come back, now barely eking out a living on minor cases while his former firm thrives.When Buck Anderson, renowned environmentalist from Sean’s hometown is murdered, Sean reunites with Buck’s niece at the old man’s funeral. She begs Sean to join the Sierra Club’s case to stop a major ski development by a Disney-type company, the very case on which Buck was working when he was killed. Sean agrees, but learns too late that his former firm represents the opposition with motives more sinister than their client’s ski development.THE CONDOR SONG is an environmental legal thriller set against California’s rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains in which a man lost to the world he thought he knew tries to find redemption in the face of impossible odds.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2014/1011/thumbnail.jp
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