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Rick Seaman Lecture Series: Jonathan Beukelman
No full textJonathan Beukelman, Senior Vice President & UBS Financial Services, Beukelman Group, CO, shares about his time at Taylor and what he wished he would have learned for the Rick Seaman Lecture Series.
Rick Seaman was a business professor and coach of women’s tennis. He died suddenly on Sunday, December 13, 1998 while playing basketball in the Odle Gymnasium. For more information see the 1999 Ilium, and Winter 1999 edition of Taylor Magazine
Letter from Jonathan Amory to Alden Partridge, approximately 1821-1823
No full textA writer tentatively identified as Jonathan Amory asks Alden Partridge to dinner on Sunday the 27th; letter is undated and addressed to Partridge at Mr. Earl's, Hanover Street (possibly a location in Boston, Massachusetts); may have been written between 1821 and 1823.Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error
Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout
No full textRegular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal. We use the repeal of the laws restricting Sunday retail activity ("Blue laws") to measure the effects of church-going on political participation. The repeal of Blue Laws caused a 5 percent decrease in church attendance. We measure the effect of Blue Laws' repeal on political participation and find that following the repeal turnout falls by approximately 1 percentage point. This turnout decline, which is statistically significant and fairly robust across model specifications, is consistent with the large effect of church attendance on turnout reported in the literature, and suggests that church attendance may have significant causal influence on voter turnout.
The Church vs the Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition?
No full textRecently economists have begun to consider the causes and consequences of religious participation. An unanswered question in this literature is the effect upon individuals of changes in the opportunity cost of religious participation. In this paper we identify a policy-driven change in the opportunity cost of religious participation based on state laws that prohibit retail activity on Sunday, known as %u201Cblue laws.%u201D Many states have repealed these laws in recent years, raising the opportunity cost of religious participation. We construct a model which predicts, under fairly general conditions, that allowing retail activity on Sundays will lower attendance levels but may increase or decrease religious donations. We then use a variety of datasets to show that when a state repeals its blue laws religious attendance falls, and that church donations and spending fall as well. These results do not seem to be driven by declines in religiosity prior to the law change, nor do we see comparable declines in membership or giving to nonreligious organizations after a state repeals its laws. We then assess the effects of changes in these laws on drinking and drug use behavior in the NLSY. We find that repealing blue laws leads to an increase in drinking and drug use, and that this increase is found only among the initially religious individuals who were affected by the blue laws. The effect is economically significant; for example, the gap in heavy drinking between religious and non religious individuals falls by about half after the laws are repealed.
Faculty Concert: Jonathan Bisesi, percussion, November 3, 2002
No full textThis is the concert program of the Faculty Concert: Jonathan Bisesi, percussion performance on Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 7:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were "Links" and "Links No. 2" by Stuart S. Smith, "Just Seven" for Drum by Herbert Brün, "What the Snare Drum Tells Me" by Allen Otte, "She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket" by Kevin Volans, "Patchwork" by Alan Sentman, and "2 X 2" by Theodore Antoniou. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund
How they propose to take education into the future
No full textEducation is widely seen as the cornerstone of a successful society. In South Africa it has been plagued with problems. Here's what the main parties propose to do. Test what they say against the assessments of Professor Jonathan Jansen
Fulghum, Pirates Tame Mountain Lions, 6-4, On Sunday
No full textFulghum, Pirates Tame Mountain Lions, 6-4, On Sunday. Junior lefthander Jonathan Fulghum hurled 3 2/3 innings of hitless relief and redshirt freshman Chris Zittrouer cleared the bases with a go-ahead three-RBI double in the bottom of the seventh inning as Armstrong Atlantic State claimed a 6-4 come-from-behind victory over Concord on Sunday afternoon at Pirate Field in 2010 Savannah Invitational action
Paranoia and irony in the Anglophone dectective narrative and the novels of Umberto Eco
No full textThe thesis provides a reading of Umberto Eco's three novels, The Name of the
Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before, that, while it
acknowledges the importance of the Italian literary tradition in which they stand, also
seeks to explain why their author appeals so frequently to literary models outside
Italy, and in particular the Anglo-American detective genre.
Chapter One explains Eco's relationship to the development of Italian literature
through his lifetime. It is noted that Eco is beginning, both in his semiotics and his
fiction, from a position where post-structuralism has been extensively explored by
neo-avant-gardew riters. Eco positions himself alongsides uchw riters as Italo Calvino
and Jorge Luis Borges, who wish to explore the ludic possibilities of working within
structures, while all the time acknowledging the epistemological limitations of so
doing. Eco's chosen structure, more often than not, is the highly defined genre of
the detective story.
From here, the following chapters engage in close readings of the three novels,
with particular emphasis on The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum,
demonstrating that they explore problems of interpretation central to the detective
narrative. In doing this, they display an intimate knowledge of generic developments
within the detective tradition, and of the philosophical and aesthetic uses made of the
genre by other writers. The embedding of intertextual references to other detective
narratives within Eco's novels is an important factor, as they come together to form
a narrative of epistemological inquiry that itself follows Eco's philosophical progress
through the years. In short, the novels, inter alia, map a systematic inquiry into the
possibility of systematic inquiry. They reserve the space to engage in such an ironic
and self-referential project precisely through their fictionality
Confirmation Class, Palm Sunday, April 15, 1962
No full textThe Golden Anniversary Confirmation Class, assembled in the chancel of St. Luke\u27s Lutheran Church, with Pastor Stephen M. Tuhy, on Palm Sunday, April 15, 1962. Boys (left to right): Charles Chuck) Best, William (Billy) Mikler, Glenn Knowles, Harley Cox, Timothy Colbert, Arden Arndt, Charlie Beasley, Andy Mikler, Charles Pula, Jonathan Lukas. Girls: Kathleen Rook, Lue Ann Murphy, Sandra Mikler, Lynn Eustice, Joyc.e Bellhorn; Scan from church publication: Fifty Years of Grace and Mercy 1912-1962.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-images/1307/thumbnail.jp
Response to the Second Steve Biko Colloquim (SBC)
No full textThis speech was delivered Sunday 11th September 2005 at the Parktonian Hotel, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.Prof Jonathan Jansen honors the remembrance of one who had a profound influence on his life - Steve Bantu Biko
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