Revising the Lessons of the Masters

Themes of authentication and displacement explored by Henry James in The Portrait of a Lady, a novel later refigured by W. Somerset Maugham in his The Razor’s Edge, have been adapted by V.S. Naipaul in Half a Life. The novels combine to produce an intertextual discourse concerning the post-colonial product of England’s imperialistic appetite that dominated much of the world over the past three centuries. The tangled links between the three books, and particularly Naipaul’s examination of the imbricated layers of self-authentication and imperialism that inform James and Maugham, are the focus of my study

Staying Together: The Journey of Healing after Infidelity

Relationships are an important aspect of a fulfilling life. They can bring joy and pleasure or pain and devastation. One of the most detrimental issues within the context of committed relationships is infidelity, and subsequently it is one of the most prevalent issues seen in therapy. Although it is a common presenting problem in couples therapy, research on the treatment and healing of infidelity is limited. A majority of the literature is focused on the clinician’s point of view rather than the couples’ perspective. The purpose of this study is to present the results of a qualitative study of eight public weblogs in which individuals and couples described their experience with healing from infidelity. Utilizing grounded theory procedures, the researchers are seeking to identify factors outlined by the bloggers that contributed to their healing experienc

The Process of Promotion

This is not really an honors thesis but a formal write-up of our group honors project. The process we used to complete this project is called Human Centered Design. It is a formula that uses principles of design thinking and human empathy to produce solutions to grand challenges that keep people at the forefront of the mind. It is a technique that embraces failure, questions often, is comfortable with change, and has a bias toward action. According to the IDEO’s Design Kit website, the three basic methods of the human centered design process are Inspiration, Ideation, and Implementation (“Methods�). We worked through this process during our time in the Honors courses to solve the problem of the struggling arts community in Greenville. We began by conducting copious numbers of interviews on our topic. We found, in short, that there are artists in Greenville who want to practice their craft and that there is an interest in the community in both the performing and visual arts but there is a disconnect between these two groups. Therefore, our core mission is to connect artists with audiences for the purpose of enriching the arts scene in Greenville. We wanted to become promoters of the arts. Our original core mission was to connect the arts community on campus with the greater Greenville arts community. We later broadened our mission to allow for broader impact. We did a prototyping event and each time a version of our project failed, we pivoted to a new iteration of our product. Each time we did so, we were sure to re-center to our core mission to make sure that the people we were trying to help were continually in mind as we reshaped our plan. The idea is to have bias toward action, doing and evaluating the results

Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargo

This article builds upon a poster previously presented at the 2017 Kraemer Copyright Conference. The poster is included here as a supplementary file.In the last round of author-sharing policy revisions, Elsevier created a labyrinthine title-by-title embargo structure requiring embargoes from 12 to 48 months for authors sharing via institutional repository (IR), while permitting immediate sharing via an author’s personal website or blog. At the same time, all prepublication versions are to bear a Creative Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) license. At the time this policy was announced, it was criticized by many in the scholarly communication community as overly complicated and restrictive. However, this CC licensing requirement creates an avenue for subverting an embargo in the IR to achieve quicker and wider open distribution of the author’s accepted manuscript (AAM). To wit, authors may post an appropriately licensed copy on their personal site or blog, at which point the author’s host institution may deposit without an embargo in the IR, not through the license granted in the publication agreement, but through the CC license on the author’s version, which the sharing policy mandates. This article outlines the background and rationale of the issue and discusses the benefits, workflows, and remaining questions

Process of Promotion

It isn't really a thesis, it is a group write up. The process we used to complete this project is called Human Centered Design. It is a formula that uses principles of design thinking and human empathy to produce solutions to grand challenges that keep people at the forefront of the mind. It is a technique that embraces failure, questions often, is comfortable with change, and has a bias toward action. According to the IDEO’s Design Kit website, the three basic methods of the human centered design process are Inspiration, Ideation, and Implementation (“Methods�). We worked through this process during our time in the Honors courses to solve the problem of the struggling arts community in Greenville. We began by conducting copious numbers of interviews on our topic. We found, in short, that there are artists in Greenville who want to practice their craft and that there is an interest in the community in both the performing and visual arts but there is a disconnect between these two groups. Therefore, our core mission is to connect artists with audiences for the purpose of enriching the arts scene in Greenville. We wanted to become promoters of the arts. Our original core mission was to connect the arts community on campus with the greater Greenville arts community. We later broadened our mission to allow for broader impact. We did a prototyping event and each time a version of our project failed, we pivoted to a new iteration of our product. Each time we did so, we were sure to re-center to our core mission to make sure that the people we were trying to help were continually in mind as we reshaped our plan. The idea is to have bias toward action, doing and evaluating the results

Culture, humanism and intellect: Cardinal Bessarion as patron of the arts

To date many scholars seem to have agreed that Cardinal Bessarion was a physical and spiritual exile from Constantinople who sought to preserve his national culture in the alien environment of fifteenth-century Rome. In this thesis I am seeking to re-open the debate about Bessarion's role and aspirations in western Europe as expressed through the mechanism of his cultural projects. I argue that, in his guise as a Roman cardinal, he endeavoured to establish a western identity for himself that furthered his political goals. Though he never rejected his Byzantine roots, the messages he seems to have conveyed through artistic and literary patronage suggest that he was working towards some sort of assimilation into his Italian environment. By examining key projects that the cardinal patronised I identify strong western characteristics in terms of style and message. His major fresco commission for his burial chapel in SS Apostoli, Rome was executed by Antoniazzo Romano, a local Roman artist, using stylistic and iconographic H vocabularies that were. current in quattrocento Italy. Bessarion then commissioned an icon from the same artist rather than from a Greek icon painter. In the literary sphere we can also recognise an effort to establish a library in the tradition of his Italian peers. And he even dabbled in the western technological advances in printing, becoming one of the first contemporary authors to have his work printed. This thesis seeks to re-focus a spotlight on Bessarion as an immigrant who was not compelled to leave his native land but who chose to relocate. It is proposed here that the cardinal's cultural projects reflected his efforts to integrate and to succeed in his adopted surroundings