UA19/16/1 2022 WKU Football Media Guide

WKU football media guide for 2022

Landscapes as Narrative Commentary in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West

This study argues that in Blood Meridian (1985) McCarthy creates landscape scenes that function as narrative commentary on the Glanton gang’s Indian-fighting, on America’s pursuit of Manifest Destiny, and on humanity’s innate aptitude for violence. The article surveys the biographical evidence for McCarthy’s interest in the visual arts, then inventories the language of art in Blood Meridian and explores the novel’s allusions to specific artworks. It culminates in readings of several scenes in which the narrator interprets the landscape before him in moments of sober contemplation. Each of these scenes bears a title reminiscent of painted landscapes, such as “Under the Animas peaks” or “Night scene with moon, blossoms, judge.” Each comprises a static composition that slows the violent action and also functions as a prose poem, rich in allusiveness. Evoking in the reader the perceptual and interpretive modes of a pensive viewer of a painted landscape, these scenes invite us to apply techniques drawn from art criticism to comprehend them as the narrator’s sober meditations on the Glanton gang’s violent enterprise

UA19/16/1 WKU Football Media Guide

WKU football media guide for 2021

Where the guns come from: The gun industry and gun commerce.

Under federal law, it is illegal for youth under age 18 to purchase rifles or shotguns, and for those under age 21 to purchase handguns. However, fatality and injury statistics clearly show that guns are finding their way into young people's hands. Many of these youth obtain guns through illegal gun markets.This article focuses on how guns in the United States are manufactured, marketed, and sold. The article shows how the legal and illegal gun markets are intimately connected and make guns easily accessible to youth."Although the domestic gun manufacturing industry is relatively small and has experienced declining sales in recent years, it has significant political clout and a large market for its products, and has engaged in aggressive marketing to youth."Lax oversight of licensed firearms dealers, combined with little or no regulation of private sales between gun owners, mean that guns can quickly move from the legal gun market into the illegal market, where they can be acquired by young people.Certain guns, especially inexpensive, poorly made small handguns, are particularly attractive to criminals and youth. The author observes that several policy innovations -- including increased regulation of licensed firearms dealers, intensified screening of prospective buyers, regulation of private sales, gun licensing and registration, and bans on some types of weapons -- hold promise for decreasing the flow of guns into the hands of youth.[Note: The photo on page 68 is not longer available and deleted from the online publication.

Minor League baseball in the Sunbelt : the historical geography of the Southern League of Professional Baseball Clubs

The Southern League of Professional Baseball Clubs has been in existence since 1964. Although a history of the league has been recently completed, there has yet to be a study about the changes in the league\u27s geographical structure. Over the last thirty years, twenty-one different cities have been home to Southern League ballclubs. This thesis proposes to examine the historical geography of the league from its promotion to Double-A status in 1964 through the 1999 season while examining the relationship between the location of the ballparks, both past and present. The study will focus on the historical trends of franchise shifts to larger cities within the South and will focus on shifting of the ballpark locations to suburban sites or sites with excellent freeway access. Since its inception in 1964, this latest incarnation of the Southern League has migrated from small Southern cities to some of the largest metropoli the South has to offer. In addition, the sites of Southern League ballparks have gradually shifted from locations near their downtowns to suburban sites with easier automobile access. This move to the suburbs is not a strike against the great history of baseball, but a response to the changing geography of the Southern city, both in population distribution and economic dominance. The move to the suburbs mirrors the movement of retail, corporate and other entertainment establishments that have been part of the suburban landscape for decades

A Model, Integrated Language Arts and U.S. History Curriculum Developed in Alignment with the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements

The purpose of this project was to develop a model, integrated Language Arts and U.S. History curriculum at Foothills Middle School, Wenatchee, Washington, in alignment with the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALR\u27s). To accomplish this purpose, current research and literature was reviewed. Additionally, related information from selected sources was obtained and analyzed

0703: Rosanna A. Blake Collection, 1818-2000

This collection consists of manuscript and other paper items collected by Rosanna A. Blake. Included are letters, diaries, correspondence, unit rosters, Confederate imprint forms and currency, 1860-1865. Also included are 3D items including firearms, edged weapons, tin soldiers, original Civil War art work, the Volck shield, and Southern periodicals relating to the Civil War. Notably, the collection includes 3 original Robert E. Lee letters, 1 Jefferson Davis letter, and 2 general orders dictated by Lee. The O\u27Brien sub-collection contains Civil War pamphlets and booklets, over 300 monographs and books, photos, CDV\u27s, original Civil War art work, the Volck shield, ambrotypes and tintypes, one original Robert E. Lee letter, original Civil War sketches and etchings, and other 3D items. Most materials are Confederate related. To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Rosanna Blake Collection, 1818-2000 here

Harding Magazine Fall 2005 (vol. 13, no. 3)

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university