Opening Remarks

Opening remarks from Vincent Rougeau, former Dean of Boston College Law School and current President of College of the Holy Cross

Alice\u27s shadow: childhood and agency in Lewis Carroll\u27s photography, illustrations, and Alice texts

The nineteenth century marks the emergence of a new literary market directed at the entertainment of children. However, a dichotomy exists concerning the image of childhood. Adults tended to idolize childhood in literature to reflect on their own lives ignoring the needs of children to possess an identity of their own. Essentially children are shadows of adults. Examinations of the shadows of childhood—children as shadows of adults, children shadowed by adults, the shadows as identifying children, and the shadows children themselves cast—lead to a discussion of agency over childhood. Lewis Carroll, entering this new literary market with his Alice series, identifies the misconceptions of childhood calling attention to the shadowed truth in his photography, illustrations and literature. This dissertation integrates psychological, cultural, visual and linguistic analysis in an effort to create a lens through which we can expand our understanding of children and literature written for and about children. Specifically, Lewis Carroll’s Alice series serves as an exemplary text on which to base discussions of childhood and the child-literary audience in relation to children as muses for poetry, photographic subjects, illustrated figures, and literary characters. Examining eighteenth- and nineteenth-century education manuals as well as the romantic works of William Blake and William Wordsworth, I trace the various forms of shadows used to discuss childhood. I call on the theories of Perry Nodelman, Lev Vygotsky, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and Sigmund Freud to conclude that Carroll uses these shadows to dispel previous notions of children but also to empower the nineteenth-century child in his photography, illustrations, and Alice books. Furthermore, I extend this lens to discuss images of children in the twentieth and twenty-first century texts of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events series to argue that contemporary literature for children maintains these shadows which cast darkness on harsher realities from which children need to escape

Pilgrim Law: Overcoming False Consciousness through the Witness of London\u27s Economic Migrants

The article discusses the author\u27s view on the works and beliefs of Robert E. Rodes Jr. He considered faith and professional life as the powerful link on Rodes works and cited three points of reflection on the matter which includes on Rodes\u27 concept of Pilgrim Law that has been influential on the author\u27s works, thinking about the relationship between the professional roles of a lawyer and a call to a lived Christian faith. He believed that the Rodes\u27 book Pilgrim Law took a formidable task on extending the principles of the theology of liberation to American jurisprudence and became an important tool in the service of economic deregulation and consumer-oriented capitalism both which have helped on pushing wealth upwards

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Reflections on A Light Unseen

(Excerpt) I am very pleased to have an opportunity to offer some reflections on the manuscript for A Light Unseen by Professors John Breen and Lee Strang. It is an extraordinarily comprehensive look at the history of Catholic law schools in the United States. That aspect of the work alone makes it an important contribution to the scholarship on Catholic higher education in this country, and I am sure it will become an essential resource for scholars and educators across a wide range of fields. Nevertheless, A Light Unseen is much more than a history. It also raises a critical question: What does it mean to be a Catholic law school? It is a query that has generated much controversy in recent decades, particularly in the United States, and it has been answered in different ways across time and place. Professors Breen and Strang determine that past attempts to establish meaningful Catholic identity in American law schools have been wanting, and they propose a thought-provoking solution for the future

Pilgrim Law: Overcoming False Consciousness through the Witness of London\u27s Economic Migrants

The article discusses the author\u27s view on the works and beliefs of Robert E. Rodes Jr. He considered faith and professional life as the powerful link on Rodes works and cited three points of reflection on the matter which includes on Rodes\u27 concept of Pilgrim Law that has been influential on the author\u27s works, thinking about the relationship between the professional roles of a lawyer and a call to a lived Christian faith. He believed that the Rodes\u27 book Pilgrim Law took a formidable task on extending the principles of the theology of liberation to American jurisprudence and became an important tool in the service of economic deregulation and consumer-oriented capitalism both which have helped on pushing wealth upwards

Passive versus active exercise: An examination of affective change

In the examination of affective responses to acute aerobic exercise, researchers have plodded over the appropriate control condition to use in comparison with aerobic exercise, as a true placebo has eluded the field. This has resulted in a variety of conditions constituting “control” in the literature (quiet rest, reading, sitting in a chair on a treadmill, stretching, etc.). One option that holds merit but has yet to be tested is that of passive exercise. As such the purpose of the present study was to examine the psychological and physiological effects of active versus passive exercise. A total of 17 (7 females) participated in both an Active exercise session (they pedaled a cycle ergometer) and a Passive exercise session (the ergometer pedals were moved by a motor while their feet were attached). Enjoyment, heart rate, and perception of exertion were higher in the Active session, but there were no differences in terms of other affective responses (e.g., energy, tension, calmness, state anxiety, valenced affect). The only affective variable that changed differently in the two conditions was Tiredness, which decreased following Active exercise but did not change following Passive exercise. The findings are discussed with respect to placebo and expectancy effects, with directions for future investigation in both able-bodied as well as spinal cord injured individuals

No Bonds but Those Freely Chosen: An Obituary for the Principle of Forced Heirship in American Law

This article explains the history of forced heirship in Louisiana and describes the negative implications of its demise. Section IV outlines how the end of forced heirship reveals the changing values of Louisiana culture and views on the family

Thermal Decomposition Studies of Selected Transition Metal Polysulfide Complexes. II. Effect of Atmosphere on Decomposition

Initial studies involved the thermal decomposition profile of five polysulfide complexes in air up to 550 °C. Since our first report to the Academy in 1990, we have obtained the capability to run samples up to 1500°C under various gases. Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA)of a series of transition metal polysulfide complexes are presented. Compounds analyzed included Cp2TiS5 ,MoS9 2 ,MoOS8 2 , Zn(S x ) 2 , Cd(S x ) 2-, Fe2S122 - and NiS82