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    Cheyenne Voices

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    The Cousin Reunion

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    Miraculous Monstrosity: Birth and Female Sexuality in the Illuminated Scivias and Cloisters Apocalypse

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    This paper compares the illuminations in two medieval apocalypses, the Cloisters Apocalypse and Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias, to inspect their similar constructions of female sexuality, motherhood, and monstrosity. It first analyzes the monstrosity of female sexual organs found in Hildegard’s portrayal of the Church and the Mother of the Antichrist. The paper then goes on to consider the uncanny slippage between images of birth and death in the Cloisters’s depiction of John and the Woman of Revelation 12. Ultimately, the paper not only explores the monstrosity of female bodies in apocalyptic manuscripts, but also concludes that medieval women’s circular experience of time and memory corresponds with medieval conceptions of circular apocalyptic time, thereby making women’s bodies an apt metaphorical vehicle for apocalyptic narratives

    College Student Retention Behavior: Testing Persuasion with Social Identity Framed Messages on FAFSA Submission

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    In this study, the experimental trial focused on whether the inclusion of the heuristic cues in email communications to students might affect a larger proportion of the subjects to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) than were observed from a control group. The experiment also evaluated if the inclusion of a heuristic cue within the message affected a subjects likelihood to open the email or click the link provided in the email. The study also considered if gender differences that appear in college student retention and completion outcomes might be present in interactions with email communications. The project failed to discover significant differences from the heuristic cues for FAFSA submissions across three message trials, but significant differences were present in email open and click behaviors, including significant gender differences. The resulting pattern shows message senders and receivers did not follow the same pathway to desired outcomes, even with a clearly defined path. This project affirms that student investment with university email campaigns is not universal and many different heuristic components contribute to a subjects response to a message. Institutions must consider how they communicate with students, including the exploration of multi-modal message distribution, if they want to be sure their messages are heard by the very people they are sending them to, particularly if they want that audience to do as they are told.Keywords: persuasion, email messages, gender differences in higher education, social identity theory, heuristic cues, enrollment management, FAFSA submission, college student retention, college graduatio

    Miraculous Monstrosity: Birth and Female Sexuality in the Illuminated Scivias and Cloisters Apocalypse

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    This paper compares the illuminations in two medieval apocalypses, the Cloisters Apocalypse and Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias, to inspect their similar constructions of female sexuality, motherhood, and monstrosity. It first analyzes the monstrosity of female sexual organs found in Hildegard’s portrayal of the Church and the Mother of the Antichrist. The paper then goes on to consider the uncanny slippage between images of birth and death in the Cloisters’s depiction of John and the Woman of Revelation 12. Ultimately, the paper not only explores the monstrosity of female bodies in apocalyptic manuscripts, but also concludes that medieval women’s circular experience of time and memory corresponds with medieval conceptions of circular apocalyptic time, thereby making women’s bodies an apt metaphorical vehicle for apocalyptic narratives

    An Economic Analysis of the Effect of Commercial Bank Credit on Economic Growth in South Dakota

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    Contemporary economic growth theories generally emphasize the importance of capital accumulation as requirement for growth. Capital accumulation is possible by diversion of a portion of present production from consumption into production of capital goods. If a portion is diverted from consumption, the dollar value of consumption goods available is less than the total income of the factors of production. The consumer is forced to forgo consumption and save part of his income. That portion of income which is saved by the firm may be directly invested because the firm is the investing institution. The savings of the other sectors must be channeled to a firm before they can be invested. A financial intermediary is useful to like the saver with the investor. It would be possible for the transfer of savings to the investor to be accomplished on an individual to individual basis. This is not very practical. A financial structure which makes these transfers has developed and is capable of handling large sums of savings. Savings are transferred not only from individuals to firms but often from on geographical region to another. Commercial banks are but one segment of this financial structure. Providing a medium for the transfer of savings to investors is only one of the functions of commercial banks. It is this function, the extension of credit, made possible because people save money or temporarily hold money in the form of deposits in banks, with which this study is concerned. Commercial banks can lend money, thereby creating new bank deposits, by using the money deposited and the capital accounts of the bank to back the newly created deposits. Banks, acting as a link between savers and investors, are important to economic growth because accumulation is a factor in economic growth. Individual bankers have control over how much will be loaned and for what purposes the loans will be used. The importance of banks as a supplier of credit is evident from the amount of credit they supplied to the agricultural non real estate credit market because these loans are of considerable duration which limits the flexibility of a bank’s credit policy. Banks supplied four per cent of the real estate credit in 1966

    Role of the Language and Operations of Sets in the Elementary Arithmetic Program

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