‘The face of evil’ : gothic biofiction and figures of enduring terror in a post-9/11 world

In this article, I show that the Gothic’s preoccupation with appearances is a rhetorical and narrative device that can be traced throughout the immediate post-9/11 period and the military campaigns that followed in both non-fiction and fiction texts. Through my analysis of two works of fiction by Martin Amis and Judith Thompson, I argue that physical appearance was employed as a marker of evil intent in order to obscure the political and territorial intentions of the Bush Administration and the American military in Afghanistan and Iraq. Further, I contend that the persistent effect of two “faces of evil” is evident through the ongoing American preoccupation with the appearance and capacity of the Other to inflict terror, which becomes an unconscious act of self-recognition.peer-reviewe

Upholding the Promise: Supporting Veterans and Military Personnel in the Next Four Years

After more than a decade of war, several years of constrained national budgets and a changing veteran population, the second Obama administration must confront how best to uphold its promises to the nation's men and women who serve or have served in uniform.In this report, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Phillip Carter urges the Obama Administration to develop an inclusive, strategic policy approach that serves veterans and military personnel as well as they have served the nation. He calls upon the administration to tackle urgent issues such as military and veteran suicide, while working over the long term to prevent the civilian "sea of goodwill" toward veterans from turning into an ocean of apathy as current wars wind down, and public attention turns away from the men and women who have fought those wars

1984 Yearbook

1984 Yearbook of Morehead State University.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/morehead_state_yearbooks/1057/thumbnail.jp

1979 Yearbook

1979 Yearbook of Morehead State University.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/morehead_state_yearbooks/1044/thumbnail.jp

Dickens and Eliot: A Tale of Two Feminists

It has been (and will continue to be) argued that authors always portray characters of their own sex in a more complete way. It is because of this, and well-known facts about the time period during which he wrote, that Charles Dickens is rarely considered a feminist writer. George Eliot, who wrote in nearly the same time period, is often lauded as an exemplary feminist writer. But through his characterization of Miss Havisham and Estella in Great Expectations, Dickens shows himself to be more than equal to Eliot in that field of writing. Her own Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on The Floss has often been cited as an example of a feminist character, but under closer scrutiny appears only to conform to social norms of the time period, albeit in a noble manner. She is not a fully developed personality. Miss Havisham and Estella may be the more despicable, and distinctly less likeable characters, but they are also unquestionably more fully rounded, and therefore more capable of truly being called feminist characters

Ilium 1977

The 1977 yearbook of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.https://pillars.taylor.edu/yearbooks/1037/thumbnail.jp

Enhancing the Well-Being of America's Veterans and Their Families: A Call to Action for a National Veterans Policy

This meeting was convened by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Social Work Policy Institute (SWPI) in collaboration with supporting partner, the University of Southern California School of Social Work (USC) and its Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families. This symposium was convened on June 12-13, 2013 as a catalyst for improving both policies and practices, and to explore the feasibility of promoting a national veterans policy. The more than 50 participants represented national organizations, government agencies, community service providers, foundations and universities. The participants had expertise in health, behavioral health and human service delivery systems and a large number of the participants were veterans, family members of veterans, or both.The symposium participants' diverse perspectives and experiences in agencies, organizations and universities helped to stimulate thinking about the policies that support our nation's veterans, and to look at how we can leverage what we already have, identify what changes are needed, and suggest how we can best balance federal, state and community roles, responsibilities and resources to enhance the well-being of our nation's veterans and their families

New York to Hollywood: Advertising, Narrative Formats, and Changing Televisual Space in the 1950\u27s

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Social Studies of Bard Colleg