16 research outputs found
Rickie Wright Interview
No full textRickie Wright (Class of 1977) was interviewed by Nia Kamau in the Oral History Studio at Fondren Library at Southern Methodist University on October 17, 2019. Ms. Wright was born in Dallas, Texas and spent her early childhood in the city. She proudly recollected the African-American community that she grew up with in South Dallas and what is now known as Uptown Dallas. Ms. Wright was raised by her father and grandparents, so she normally lived with them during the week and her father on the weekends. She described the integration of the city's public schools, which she experienced as a child and teenager, and which motivated her to excel in her studies. Ms. Wright wanted to attain a university education and applied to various institutions like Harvard, Southern Methodist University, and Howard. Ultimately, she decided to pursue her studies at SMU because she wanted to help her family as a number of them developed chronic illnesses. During her time at SMU, Ms. Wright became involved in prominent groups like the Black League of African American Students (BLAACS). Ms. Wright led and helped establish the first black women’s sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, one of her proudest moments. She appreciated the opportunity to meet and hear prominent leaders like Angela Davis, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan at the school. Today, Ms. Wright takes pride in her two children, who acquired university degrees, and heads a non-profit which provides resources to students in their academic endeavors
Food and Faith: A Two-Year Study on theImpact of Service-Learning and Community Engagement Practices in a General Education Religion Course
No full textIdentifying pedagogies that promote critical thinking, ethical leadership, and collaboration is essential to prepare students for a complex world and to achieve institutional goals. Service-Learning and Community Engagement (SLCE) is a vital pedagogy that integrates academic inquiry with real-world application to promote civic learning outcomes, enhancing student success, employability, institutional and departmental appeal, and knowledge democratization, while supporting underserved students (COPIL, 2021; Wright & Wall-Bassett, 2023). SLCE pedagogy offers a powerful way to demonstrate the real-world relevance of religious studies, aligning program goals with civic learning outcomes and underscoring the discipline’s role in cultivating engaged, informed citizens (Wright et al., 2018). This two-year study assessed the impact of SLCE pedagogy in a religion General Education course, Food and Faith. This study reveals significant gains in civic engagement, civic skill efficacy, civic responsibility, and 21st-century competencies—all of which align closely with the civic and ethical goals of religion programs. Notably, 68.8% of students expressed interest in further SLCE courses, and 61.8% found it more beneficial than other university courses. These findings underscore the potential of SLCE pedagogy in religion to generate transformative social impact and reinvigorate liberal arts education, particularly when supported by institutional backing
Award-Winning Historian, Author to Speak Oct. 11 at Women\u27s Center
No full textOXFORD, Miss. - Rickie Solinger, independent scholar and award-winning historian, discusses Nine Ways of Looking at a Poor Woman Monday (Oct. 11) at the University of Mississippi
A Thematic study of E.M. Forster's the longest journey
No full textThe Analysis on "A Study of Theme in Forster's The Longest Journey" deals with the journey of the protagonist's life Rickie Elliot. The Story develops on the characters of Rickie, related to the other supporting characters. It also includes places places, events and experiences that deals with the life of Rickie Elliot. The author of The Longest Journey mostly describes the main character as an unstable figure facing the facts of his life. The discussion of the thesis is the focused on the journey experienced by Rickie to meet his self realization at the end of the journey. The discussion concentrates on to development of the character from his childhood to adulthood. It describes the conflicts and struggles of the protagonist to realize and try to accept facts about his parents, his talent, his ambition, his friendship and his marriage. Those facts bring the protagonist to find himself fully, the lone of failure is also significant in the journey of Rickie. The thesis analyzes by using the approach of the theory of theme, the idea or general truth about life that a piece of fiction reveals. The analysis gives the portrait of a young man who is idealistic, but then feels despair and disappointed because he fails to meet his idealism. Its expected that the study will be helpful for those who want to know about Forster's work as well as the description of the main character
Neurobiological metric of cortical delay discounting differentiates risk for self- and other-directed violence among trauma-exposed individuals.
No full textThis article was originally published in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. © American Psychological Association, 2023. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000857Self- and other-directed violence (SDV/ODV) contribute to elevated rates of mortality. Early trauma exposure shows robust positive associations with these forms of violence but alone does not distinguish those at heightened risk for later engagement in SDV/ODV. Novel assessment metrics could aid early identification efforts for individuals with vulnerabilities to violence perpetration. This study examined a novel neurobiological measure of impulsive choice for reward as a potential moderator of associations between childhood trauma exposure and lifetime SDV/ODV. A high-risk community sample of 177 adults (89 men; 50.3%) were assessed for childhood trauma exposure, engagement in SDV (e.g., suicide attempts), and ODV (e.g., assault). A cortical delay discounting (C-DD) measure was created using a multivariate additive model of gray matter thickness across both hemispheres, previously found to be positively associated with susceptibility to impulsivity and externalizing disorders. Childhood trauma exposure was positively associated with ODV and SDV; however, these relationships differed as a function of C-DD. Engagement in ODV increased as scores on C-DD increased, and SDV increased as scores on C-DD decreased. Furthermore, moderation revealed biological sex differences, as the association between childhood trauma and SDV depended on C-DD for women but not for men. Findings from the present work demonstrate that risk conferred by childhood trauma exposure to violence varied as a function of a C-DD. Together, these findings point to the utility of neurobiological markers of impulsive decision-making for differentiating risk for violence among individuals with a history of trauma exposure.This research was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award, National Institute of Mental Health grants (1R01MH116228-01A1, 1F31MH120936), and a National Institute on Drug Abuse grant (F31DA053782). These institutes had no role in the study design; collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data; writing the manuscript; or the decision to submit the article for publication. The authors would like to acknowledge the team of research associates and undergraduate students who facilitated the collection of these data. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional guides on the care and use of laboratory animals. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The study procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Human Studies Research at the University of Delaware (Protocol Nos.: 1073423-17 and 1361164-1). The present data were disseminated in poster format that Annual Society for Research in Psychopathology conference in September 2022. No further dissemination of the data has been previously presented. The data that support the findings of this study are available from the author Naomi Sadeh upon reasonable request. This study was not preregistered.Ana E. Sheehan served as lead for conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, investigation, project administration, and writing–original draft and contributed equally to writing–review and editing. Nadia Bounoua contributed equally to formal analysis and funding acquisition and served in a supporting role for conceptualization, project administration, and writing–review and editing. Anna Stumps served in a supporting role for validation, visualization, writing–original draft, and writing–review and editing. Rickie Miglin served in a supporting role for formal analysis, funding acquisition, and writing–review and editing. Wendy Huerta served in a supporting role for visualization and writing–review and editing. Naomi Sadeh served as lead for funding acquisition, resources, and software, contributed equally to conceptualization, and served in a supporting role for investigation, methodology, supervision, writing–original draft, and writing–review and editing. Nadia Bounoua, Rickie Miglin, and Wendy Huerta contributed equally to writing–original draft
Meadow Brook Music Festival 1990
No full textFred Penner - Pat Metheney - Herbie Hancock - Jack DeJohnette - Dave Holland - Ann Jillian - Marvin Hamlisch - The Song Sisters - Henri Mancini Detroit Symphony Pops - George Benson- Rickie Lee Jones - Lyle Lovett - Milton Nascimento - Bob McGrath of Sesame Street" - Harry Connick, Jr. - The Platters - Little Anthony - The Diamonds - The Dixie Cups- Roger Whittaker - Garrison Keillor Chet Atkins - Odetta & Friends - John McGlinn Meadow Brook Festival Orchestra - "The Other Side or Daytime With the stars of "The Young & The Restless" - Bye Bye Birdie A Musical Comedy - Sharon, Lois & Bram - Jean-Luc Ponty - Harry Belafonte - "New Vaudeville" Fred Garbo The Wright Brothers - Detroit Symphony Pop Erich Kunzel, conductor, Kathleen Brett, Gabrielle Prata ,Benoit Boutet, Lewie Dale Von Schlanbusch - Chubby Checker , The Drifters, Gary U.S. Bonds , The Tokens - Bob Newhart - Linda Arnold & Frank Cappelli - Peter , Paul & Mary - " Big Band Sounds" Don Cornell , The Pied Piper - Basia - Tony Bennett with The Count Basie Orchestra - The Everly Brothers - Johnny Mathis - "Stanta's Summertime Stage" - Englebert Humperdinck - Michael Franks - Lou Rawls - Mannheim Steamroller "The music of Nature: A Concert for Yellowstone" Meadow Brook Festival Orchestra - Laser Light Spectacular! Richard Kapp, conductor Meadow Brook Festival Orchestra - " The Ghost of the Paris Opera" with the Laser Lights Charles Greenwell, conductor Meadow Brook Festival Orchestra - Fats Domino Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Bill Haley's Comet
"The Search for "The One": The Dating, Marriage and Mate Selection Ideals of College-Educated Blacks
No full textWhile the marriage prospects of educated African American women are of particular interest to the media and scholars alike, very rarely do these two groups examine the ways in which African American men understand and perceive marriage. In particular, though they have successfully provided socio-cultural and historically specific examinations of the topic, scholars of African American Studies have not conducted in-depth empirical analyses of African American dating and marriage practices. Simultaneously, social scientists, while providing significant empirical data, have not supported their work with a cultural analysis specific to African American people. In an effort to merge these two areas of scholarship, this dissertation investigated the dating and relationship ideals of college-educated Black men and women. The purpose of this study was to: (1) discover what traits and criteria males and females consider most important in a potential mate, (2) understand the role that the current social and marriage market conditions such as sex ratio, socioeconomic status and education level play in mate selection among college educated Black men and women and (3) develop a culturally specific theory of Black marriage. Through the use of surveys administered online and in face-to-face sessions, this dissertation sought to explore how predictor variables such as age, sex, family economic status and education level influence how 123 college-educated Black males and females ages 18 and over view their dating and marriage prospects and the types of characteristics they assign to the ideal mate. Preliminary findings showed that participants placed a high level of importance on getting married, had positive attitudes toward marriage and were optimistic about their marriage prospects. Additionally, factors such as mate availability, educational attainment and economic ability were of particular importance to participants and play a role in their choices about if, when and who they would marry. Lastly, the author articulated a theory of marriage, the Preliminary Intersectional Factor Theory of Marriage Attitudes and Marital Behavior. Based on the findings, it was argued that the proposed preliminary theory of marriage takes into account the structural, economic and cultural factors that intersect to shape the lives, marital attitudes and marital behavior of Black men and women in America.African American Studie
Jews and gender in British literature 1815-1865.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines the variety of relationships between Jews and gender in early
to mid-nineteenth century British literature, focussing particularly on representations
of and by Jewish women. It reconstructs the social, political and literary context in
which writers produced images and narratives about Jews, and considers to what
extent stereotypes were reproduced, appropriated, or challenged. In particular it
examines the ways in which questions of gender were linked to ideas about religious
or racial difference in the Victorian period.
The study situates literary representations of Jews within the context of
contemporary debates about the participation of the Jews in the life of the modern
state. It also investigates the ways in which these political debates were gendered,
looking in particular at the relationship between the cultural construction of
femininity and English national identity.
It first considers Victorian culture's obsession with Rebecca, the Jewess created in
Walter Scott's influential novel Ivanhoe (1819). It examines Rebecca's refusal to
convert to Christianity in the context of Scott's discussion of racial separatism and
modern national unity.
Evangelical writers like Annie Webb, Amelia Bristow and Mrs Brendlah were
prolific literary producers, and preoccupied with converting Jewish women.
Particularly during the 18'40s and 1850s, evangelical writing provided an important
forum for the construction and consolidation of women's national identity.
Grace Aguilar's writing was an attempt to understand Jewish identity within the
terms of Victorian domestic ideology. In contrast, Celia and Marion Moss, in their
historical romances, offered narratives of female heroism and national liberation,
drawing on the contemporary debate about slavery.
Benjamin Disraeli's construction of a "tough version of Jewish identity was a
response both to the contemporary stereotype of the feminised Jew and to the debate
about Jewish emancipation. It also drew on the virile ideology of the Young England
movement of the 1840s
Christian views of euthanasia: a comparison of Russian and western perspectives
Get PDFThe following research aims at unfolding an authentic Christian attitude to euthanasia by means of a comparative analysis of Christian bioethical thinking and practice in Russia and in the West. It seeks to establish what is euthanasia, whether it is incompatible with Christianity and, if so, what is the alternative. The first chapter explores the meaning of 'euthanasia', comparing and rethinking a number of definitions from the existing multitude. Through the psychological thicket of slogans such as "mercy killing", "personal autonomy" and "death with dignity" the core characteristic of euthanasia - deadly intention - is hardly ever seen. With some notable exceptions with regard to self-defence, just war, or capital punishment, in Christianity intending to kill has always been regarded as a grave sin of breaking the sixth commandment. The second chapter shows how Western Christian bioethics has gone from the ethics of Paul Ramsey to the ethics of Tristram Engelhardt, from balancing between justifying certain forms of intentional killing while condemning others to purifying one's heart and cultivating one's soul in order to prevent the formation of an intention to kill. The third chapter is dedicated to the development of Christian bioethics in Russia. In a country with over a millennium of Orthodox tradition there is an exceptional opportunity for the bioethical framework of Engelhardt to settle in naturally. The fourth chapter presents a number of well-publicized medical situations in Britain where choices between life and death were exercised. The analysis based on the material of the previous chapters shows most of them to be clear cases of euthanasia, while others have a recognizable potential to be described as such. The history and an ongoing story of the modem hospice movement - a living alternative to euthanasia - are the focus of the fifth and last chapter of this dissertation. Its core ability - to live with suffering - sustains the opposition to euthanasia and is essentially a Christian virtue
Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research [electronic resource] : Researching Education and Social Practices /
No full textThis book explores the webs of vulnerability in methodological decision-making that illustrate the deceptive strength of qualitative research. Each chapter will resonate with readers differently as they read themselves into the tensions and tangles of qualitative research when confronted with the challenges of estabilishing methodological frameworks for educational and social enquiry. The authors are postgraduate, early career researchers and supervisors who analyse their methodological encounters with the nimble, fluid, messy and iterative processes of qualitative research. The book flows structurally from positioning the researcher within these processes to the manoeuvring of self across necessarily selective social science disciplines in education, arts and humanities. It rejuvenates the pioneering spirit, the sense of mission and innovativeness of qualitative research. Bobby Harreveld is Professor of Education and Deputy Dean (Research) in the School of Education & the Arts at Central Queensland University, Australia. She works in postgraduate early career researcher education, learning transitions and professional education pathways. She is co-author of Deschooling L’earning: Young Adults and the New Spirit of Capitalism. Mike Danaher is Senior Lecturer of History and Geography at Central Queensland University, Australia. He has published in the fields of environmental and geographical education. He is co-author of Researching Education with Marginalized Communities. Bruce Allen Knight is Professor of Education at Central Queensland University, Australia. He has more than 200 publications and worked on large research projects worth more than AUD5 million from such granting bodies as the Australian Research Council. Celeste Lawson is Lecturer and Head of the Professional Communication Program at Central Queensland University, Australia. Her research interests include policing, police culture, organisational communication and social media in an organisational context. Gillian Busch is Senior Lecturer in Education at Central Queensland University, Australia. Gillian has methodological expertise in qualitative approaches including ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.Editorial; Chapter 1. A Non-binary Methodological Manoeuvre: Expert Quantitative and Novice Qualitative Researcher; Gemma Mann -- Chapter 2. Dipping Qualitative Toes into a Quantitative Worldview, Methodological Manoeuvres in a Multicultural Context; Cynthia Cowling and Celeste Lawson -- Chapter 3. Navigating the Path between Positivism and Interpretivism for Technology Academics Completing Education Research; Michael A. Cowling -- Chapter 4. A Bricoleur Approach to Navigating the Methodological Maze; Reyna Zipf -- Chapter 5. Manoeuvring through the Maze of Methodology: Constructing the Research-ready Embodied RHD Student; Teresa Moore -- Chapter 6. Elements of a Fusionist Ontology: Paradigmatic Choices in Understanding the Reasons for Career Change; Rickie Fisher -- Chapter 7. We Cannot Do this Work without Being Who We Are: Researching and Experiencing Academic Selves; Sarah Loch and Ali Black -- Chapter 8. Show and Tell: A Practice-led Methodological Solution for Researchers in Creative Writing; Leanne Dodd -- Chapter 9. Articulating the Fact behind the Fiction: Narrative Inquiry as a Research Methodology for Historical Novelists; Alison Owens -- Chapter 10. On Manoeuvre: Navigating Practice-led Methodology in a Creative Writing PhD for the First Time; Mike Danaher and Margaret Jamieson -- Chapter 11. Methodological and other Research Strategies to Manoeurve from Single to Multi- and Interdisciplinary Project Partnerships; Donna Lee Briend and Margaret McAllister -- Chapter 12. Contested Concepts: Negotiating Debates about Qualitative ResearchMethods such as Grounded Theory and Autoethnography; Steven Pace -- Chapter 13. Discursive Manoeuvring in the Borderlands of Career Transition: From Trade to Teacher; Bill Blayney and Bobby Harreveld -- Chapter 14. Understanding and Influencing Research with Children; Ali Black and Gillian Busch -- Chapter 15. Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis: A Doctoral Student and Supervisor Story; Gillian Busch and Susan Danby -- Chapter 16. Reimagining Rooms for Constructing Methodologies for Qualitative Research: Distilled Dilemmas, Proposed Principles and Synthesised Strategies in Researching Education and Social Practices Qualitatively; Patrick Alan Danaher. .This book explores the webs of vulnerability in methodological decision-making that illustrate the deceptive strength of qualitative research. Each chapter will resonate with readers differently as they read themselves into the tensions and tangles of qualitative research when confronted with the challenges of estabilishing methodological frameworks for educational and social enquiry. The authors are postgraduate, early career researchers and supervisors who analyse their methodological encounters with the nimble, fluid, messy and iterative processes of qualitative research. The book flows structurally from positioning the researcher within these processes to the manoeuvring of self across necessarily selective social science disciplines in education, arts and humanities. It rejuvenates the pioneering spirit, the sense of mission and innovativeness of qualitative research. Bobby Harreveld is Professor of Education and Deputy Dean (Research) in the School of Education & the Arts at Central Queensland University, Australia. She works in postgraduate early career researcher education, learning transitions and professional education pathways. She is co-author of Deschooling L’earning: Young Adults and the New Spirit of Capitalism. Mike Danaher is Senior Lecturer of History and Geography at Central Queensland University, Australia. He has published in the fields of environmental and geographical education. He is co-author of Researching Education with Marginalized Communities. Bruce Allen Knight is Professor of Education at Central Queensland University, Australia. He has more than 200 publications and worked on large research projects worth more than AUD5 million from such granting bodies as the Australian Research Council. Celeste Lawson is Lecturer and Head of the Professional Communication Program at Central Queensland University, Australia. Her research interests include policing, police culture, organisational communication and social media in an organisational context. Gillian Busch is Senior Lecturer in Education at Central Queensland University, Australia. Gillian has methodological expertise in qualitative approaches including ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
