Radiate

A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Morehead State University in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in English by Sean L Corbin in April of 2014

Freebird at Eleven

A project thesis submitted to the faculty of Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Department of English at Morehead State University Sean L. Corbin in May of 2011

Hat and Man

Rapid life changes can lead to a certain amount of cognitive confusion if not full dissonance. Events take on new meaning. Images stand for new ideas. Through prose poetry, surrealism, deadpan humor, and word play, this thesis gives the sudden advent of fatherhood, domestication, intellectual exhaustion, and shifts in mental and physical health new shapes

Everything but the Smell: The Ethics of the “Connective Turn” in Argentinian Memory Activism

This chapter interrogates what is lost and what is gained in [the] turn toward cyberspace as a new venue for interacting with a traumatic past. It will first examine the discussions and debates that took place in Argentina as former detention centres were converted into sites of memory, using the debate about the recovery of Escuela Mecánica de la Armada [ESMA] (the Navy School of Mechanics) as an illustrative example. Then, it will compare the features of some of actual memory sites in Buenos Aires with the interactive documentary features on the website, specifically focusing on the narrative logic and guided visits of the physical sites, taking the Casino de Oficiales [Officers’ Quarters] of the former ESMA as its central case study. Lastly, it will discuss these similarities and differences in dialogue with the issues raised in the ESMA debate over the conversion of such historical places into memory sites in order to highlight and analyse the ethical questions posed by this new horizon of technologically enhanced memory activism in Argentina

THE PAROL EVIDENCE RULE

When two parties have made a contract and have expressed it in a writing to which they have both assented as the complete and accurate integration of that contract, evidence, whether parol or otherwise, of antecedent understandings and negotiations will not be admitted for the purpose of varying or contradicting the writing. This is in substance what is called the parol evidence rule, a rule that does not deserve to be called a rule of evidence of any kind, and a rule that is as truly applicable to written evidence as to parol evidence. The use of such a name for this rule has had unfortunate consequences, principally by distracting attention from the real issues that are involved. These issues may be any one or more of the following: (1) have the parties made a contract? (2) Is that contract void or voidable because of illegality, fraud, mistake, or any other reason? (3) Did the parties assent to a particular writing as the complete and accurate integration of that contract

The Two Factors of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale: Method Effects, Gender Differences, and a Novel Factor Structure

This item is only available electronically.The Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (version 11; BIS-11) is a widely used self-report scale of impulsivity. However, many studies have failed to support the three-factor model proposed by the authors of the scale and have instead found a two-factor model in which forward- and reverse-scored items load on separate factors. The two factors have been interpreted as substantive constructs and adopted as alternative scoring schemes in many studies. The present study investigated the factor structure of the BIS-11 and BIS-Brief (an eight-item short form of the BIS-11) in a sample of 232 adults. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the BIS-Brief resulted in a novel two-factor model with a good fit, and this fit was notably improved when the analysis was conducted for women only. A second EFA included BIS-Brief items that were rephrased using linguistic negation and scored in the opposite direction. These items loaded alongside their original counterparts, indicating that the novel factor model is substantive and unrelated to item scoring direction. However, the addition of six simulated careless respondents to the sample resulted in the emergence of a two-factor model reflecting item scoring direction. These results suggest that the BIS-Brief is best described by a novel two-factor model, but this model only applies to women, and it is easily compromised by a small number of careless respondents. Therefore, it is recommended that future research use only the total score of the BIS-Brief.Thesis (B.PsychSc(Hons)) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 202

To Professor George Jarvis Thompson

Steeped in the great traditions of the Common Law, Professor Thompson\u27s influence has left an indelible mark on the professional careers of decades of Cornell lawyers, all of whom have received the full benefit of his open-mindedness in the broad exposition of the Law of Contracts and the principles of Business Regulation, and, above all else, his understanding and philosophy of Law