Walt Whitman and the King of Bohemia: The Poet in the Saturday Press

Examines the poems, parodies, homages, reviews, and essays concerning Whitman that were either first published or reprinted in the Saturday Press, totaling no fewer than 46 items--excluding advertisements, and proposes that these pieces serve as a record of how the reading public responded to Whitman\u27s controversial poems as he transitioned visibly into the role of vocational poet and reveal how Henry Clapp, the publisher of the Press, molded Whitman into a factional poet of the North ; concludes by looking at the two Whitman items Clapp published in his second, postwar, run of the Saturday Press

ICANN, Cultural Imperialism, and Democratization of Internet Governance

Internet Governance has largely been managed by the United States government since its burgeoning in the 1990’s. The government has since entrusted and charged internet technical tasks and functions to ICANN. The organization along with the United States government has been the subject of heavy criticism for its inadequate international representation. Many interpret US hegemony over the internet as culturally imperialistic. The following paper explores the some of the advantages and disadvantages to multilateral Internet governance. Firstly, it will evaluate ICANN’s ability to both democratize their internal decision-making and internationalize the web by better serving foreign Internet end-users. Next, the paper examines the attitudes of Americans towards the US relinquishing control to international organizations such as the United Nations. The conclusions address both effectiveness of ICANN as well as what may be hindering the US from surrendering control to foreign governments based on nonpolitical reasons

The Psychophysical Response to Music in Canines

The creation of music is well known to be considered “human nature”, but is it possible that music can influence other species? This study focuses on the psychophysical, or emotional and physical, responses of canines in response to musical stimuli. For support, literature including the basics of ear anatomy and sound processing in both canines and humans, the fundamentals of music creation and expression, the impact of music on human neuroscience and emotional conveyance, as well as past research of the impact of music on canine behavior and expression. To expand on this under-researched field, a voluntary survey was created using “Google Forms” that allowed canine owners to anonymously share their previous findings and experiences upon exposing their canine(s) to musical stimuli. Upon analysis of the 96 received responses, it was found over 70% (70.84%) of canines had observable physical and/or emotional changes when presented with music from a variety of different genres including classical, pop, rock, and heavy metal. Overall, 83.56% of the canines impacted by the musical stimuli showed what can be considered “positive” physical and/or behavioral changes that can be used in settings where canines are presented and susceptible to increased levels of stress and anxiety including animal shelters and veterinary offices

Constructing a \u27good death\u27 : news media framing of the euthanasia debate from 1975 to 1997

Social and legal acceptance of euthanasia—including physician-assisted suicide has picked up considerable momentum in the 20th century. Among the most important chroniclers and shapers of cultural attitudes, beliefs, and values about issues such as euthanasia are the mainstream news media. The purpose of this study is to examine the national, print news media\u27s role in conditioning public knowledge abouteuthanasia and its consequences. To accomplish this task, news framing analysis wasconducted of all Time and Newsweek euthanasia articles published in the roughlytwo-decade period between the two major United States Supreme Court cases thatencase this controversial issue (the 1976 Quinlan case and the Court\u27s 1997 decisionupholding state laws prohibiting physician-assisted suicide). Using a variety of framing strategies advanced by framing theorists, 57 stories were analyzed according to their dominant frames and ideological positions. In order to explore the dynamic between the\u27 news media and social change processes, shifts in framing stages overtime were also charted, and special attention was devoted to assessing some of the factors triggering these changes.Results showed dominant frames to reflect pro-euthanasia views in air but a few of the stories analyzed, a phenomenon that held true throughout the two decades of research. Moreover, journalists represented this highly complex and emotionally laden issue through two basic frames: medicine and law. Given the broad spectrum of topics euthanasia encompasses—including metaphysics, philosophy, ethics, sociology,psychology, and religion—such narrow coverage raises troubling questions. Unliketheir forebears, whose exposure to death was intimate and commonplace, individuals in late 20th-century America know about death primarily through the mass media. Yet news consumers relying on the mainstream news publications in this study for information on euthanasia were offered a meager selection of perspectives and positions from which to assess this critically important issue

Settlement Changes in the Southwest Highlands of Scotland 1700-1960

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Cold War Legacies in Digital Editing

The editorial methods developed during the Cold War professionalized scholarly editing and appealed to new ideas about the relationship between American academics and the government by aligning with the supposedly value-neutral goals and methods of the behavioral sciences, much to the discomfort of many humanists. Some of the implicit assumptions underlying midcentury editorial methods persist in digital editing, and may risk positioning digital editions as marginalized scholarship within the digital era, just as print scholarly editions became widely considered second-rate scholarship in the twentieth century