Prolepsis through Poe\u27s Narrators: The Prophetic Demise of the Obsessive Protagonist

Edgar Allan Poe was a pioneer of psychological fiction. His stories center around characters whose reliability is questionable and who are mentally troubled in some way. Poe crafted stories that invoke terror because their subject is the horror of the mind. While readers of other types of horror fiction can finish a story and step away from the monsters with little to no fear of being followed by them, readers of Poe cannot forget the tales they read so readily because the horror of the mind is ever present. Poe crafted such horrific stories because of the haunted palace of his mind, and death commonly appeared in the haunted palace of his mind because it pervaded his life. This thesis examines four of Edgar Allan Poe\u27s stories - Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell Tale Heart, and The Black Cat - and draws comparisons between how Poe\u27s narrators respond to situations and how Poe responded to situations. Because the narrators and Poe respond to situations similarly, the narrators\u27 demises foreshadowed Poe\u27s own demise

When Coca-Cola Grows Citrus on the Nile, Who Wins? Revisiting the End of the Arab Boycott in Egypt

The Coca-Cola Company was barred from the Egyptian market in 1966 under the Arab boycott of Israel and firms conducting business with Israel. The company responded by mobilizing its influence in the American government to assist in negotiations. It succeeded in inking a deal in 1977, two years before Egypt officially ended its participation in the boycott altogether, whereby Coca-Cola agreed to invest $10 million ($39 million in today’s dollars) in agriculture and factory infrastructure, insured by the U.S. government. However, in secret talks in 1975 with the U.S., Egypt had already agreed to end the boycott (thus allowing Coca-Cola to return) as a part of the peace deal with Israel. When Egypt allowed Coca-Cola to re-enter the country, it was facing a foreign exchange crisis as a part of larger economic woes. In the first decision to ban Coca-Cola and the second allowing it to return, economic circumstances rather than anti-imperialist ideology dictated Egypt’s negotiating position, and it extracted a desperately needed inflow of foreign investment from Coca-Cola in exchange for a right to sell that it had already secretly negotiated away as part of an American-backed peace deal with Israel

Rationalizing nature: attitudes toward land tenure change and the environment in three communities in central Quintana Roo, Mexico

Three studies were done to assess the attitudes of farmers in central Quintana Roo about changes in the land tenure system and toward their tropical forest environment. Three ejidos were selected, to represent the range of types of communities in the area;Recent visions of modernization in Mexico have involved a large amount of privatization, including encouraging privatization of ejido (community-owned) land. The attitudes of residents of three communities towards land privatization and tree planting and care were analyzed. The residents of the two more traditional Maya communities had strong feelings about the importance of maintaining the ejido system of land use and management. The residents of the third, more modern community did not feel the need to hold onto the old system and are trying private land ownership, hoping to gain from increased access to credit and from chances to do long-term planning on their own, titled parcels of land. Residents of all three communities, however, agreed that they would plant more trees and manage them better if they were to have private ownership of the land;The proximity effect, as described by Nowak in the midwestern U.S., is the common tendency for farmers to see resource degradation problems as more serious on neighboring land than on their own land. In this study, the proximity effect in deforestation was tested. The most modern of the three communities had proximity-effect responses most like those found in the U.S., while the traditional Maya communities did not;Attitudes toward the forest and the environment were assessed. Residents of the more modern community expressed more utilitarian and economistic views of the forest, while residents of the two Maya communities saw the forest more frequently as their mother or their source of life. They also have more of a survival orientation that focuses on the present and limits their long-term environmental planning, which may affect forestry efforts;The results of these studies demonstrate that there can be large differences between communities, based on their socio-cultural circumstances, toward privatization of the land and toward the environment

ACE - The Tie That Binds

AAACE Origin and Development - 1913-1967, by Robert A. Jarnagin, commemorated the 50th annual conference of the American Association of Agricultural College Editors, July 12-15, 1966, at the University of Georgia

Life Lived Well: A Narrative Analysis of One Woman‟s Wellness Across the Life Span

The Indivisible Self (Myers & Sweeney, 2004; Myers & Sweeney, 2005a) model of wellness was proposed in the counseling literature to serve as a framework for enhancing wellness across the life span. Numerous researchers conducted a variety of investigations related to this model; however, gaps in the literature still exist. The aim of the current study was to add to the body of existing literature by investigating one woman‟s wellness across the life span utilizing qualitative methods. The senior adult participant provided a narrative of her life in the form of an oral history. This narrative was then analyzed through the lens of the Indivisible Self model of wellness. The result of this analysis was a descriptive picture of wellness for this woman over the course of her life as it relates to the five Second Order factors of the Indivisible Self model. These five Second Order factors are the Creative Self, Coping Self, Social Self, Essential Self, and Physical Self. In addition to this descriptive picture of wellness, several themes were identified that were central to the participant‟s stories. These themes were Activity, Pleasure, Faith, Relationships, and Helping. The relationship between these themes and concepts from the Indivisible Self model are discussed. Implications of the findings and directions for future research are provided

I Will Remember (What I Tried To Forget)

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Life Lived Well: A Description of Wellness across the Lifespan of a Senior Woman

The concept of wellness provides a positive view of life development that can support psychological support and counseling. There is little in the literature about wellness and seniors, especially women. This study describes one senior woman’s wellness across the life span by addressing two research questions: (a) What are the experiences of one woman’s wellness across the life span as analyzed through the lens of the Indivisible Self (Myers & Sweeney, 2004, 2005) model of wellness; and (b) What experiences does one woman describe related to the model’s second order factors: the Creative Self; the Coping Self; the Social Self; the Essential Self; and the Physical Self? We used an oral history method to gather the narrative and analyzed her narrative using the Indivisible Self model of wellness. Findings include a descriptive picture of wellness for this woman as it relates to the Second Order factors of the Indivisible Self model

Ireland, I Hear You Calling

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