Western Aesthetics in Mexican Tourist Art

By continuing to utilize Western Aesthetics, art from Mexico has been subjugated to a cycle of tourist art, pushing the tastes and interests of an uninformed Westernized consumer for “authentic” art in the market. An interest in art that adheres to a specific cannon leaves little room for art innovation outside the West; when there is no market, there is no room for creativity. My presentation discusses the need for a development of non-Western aesthetics, with Mexican tourist art as an example. It details the ways in which artistic developments can be traced from indigenous art in the Bonampak to contemporary folk art for the tourist markets in the cities. By determining a society’s artistic development and granting validity to these stylistic elements, one can better formulate a set of non-Western aesthetics. Throughout the presentation, I discuss the cycle of artistic evaluation in the tourist market and the flaws that arise from that

The Creative as Enemy of the True: The Meaning of Originality in the Matthew Bender Cases

The scope of copyright protection for case reports and case reporters has been the subject of litigation since the Supreme Court decided its first copyright case, Wheaton v. Peters,[1] in 1834. Prior to the development of electronic technologies, the courts established a fairly consistent set of guidelines on which print publishers could rely. However, the development of electronic research tools raised new questions which the old guidelines did not address. With the founding of Lexis\u27s online research service, and the later development of CD-ROM research products, West Publishing Co., the premier publisher of case reports, found itself in possession of a valuable commodity which previously was of little commercial significance - the page numbers in its print compilations

We Run a Different School Within a School : Educator Perceptions of Guatemala-Maya Students in a North Georgia Public School System

In recent years, the social and political persecution of the Maya population throughout Central America has led to an influx of Maya women and children migrating to the United States. The increased population of immigrant children presents new challenges for the United States, especially in public education. Maya people are rarely distinguished from the Latinx population, subsequently causing their linguistic and cultural needs to go unmet and unacknowledged. This project focuses on the education of Guatemalan-Maya students in a North Georgia public school system, framed through interviews with educators. The educators selected for this study worked almost exclusively with elementary, middle, and high-school age Guatemalan-Maya students. The perspectives of the teachers are presented in combination with the historical, social, and economic positionality of immigration in the New South. The purpose of this project is to understand how the public school system shapes the attitudes and perceptions of public educators towards the education of their students, and how this system ultimately effects identity, acculturation, and academic achievement

Maya Indigeneity in the Public School System: Institutional Barriers between Educators and Students

This essay focuses on the theoretical conclusions drawn from a larger study on the education of Guatemalan-Maya students in a North Georgia public school syste

Hillbilly heroin(e)

As a native to this region and a writer I have spent much of my life attempting to capture a unique aesthetic of what I see through my essays and poetry. The following thesis is a manuscript of nonfiction essays with a critical introduction and conclusion that work together to provide a cohesive narrative centered in the Appalachian region. Through place specific imagery and implementation of regional dialect, and a narrative lens, my collection reveals an aesthetic of the rapidly expanding genre of Appalachian Literature. By exposing the patriarchal structures present in the region and emphasizing issues such as domestic abuse and drug addiction juxtaposed with strong family ties and a deep, tangible pride for my heritage, I attempt to provide a complex view of my home. As the collective narrative of my manuscript unfolds, the reader is introduced to my Papaw and learns that his siblings played a rather tense role in his life and ultimate death. Despite their roles in his death, my mother and I were expected to keep positive ties with the family. By emphasizing the importance of family structures within the region, my essays demonstrate the dichotomy of the undeniable power and culturally inflicted powerlessness of Appalachian women today. In my critical introduction, I provide insight as to how Appalachian women can find their unique voices through education and writing and use those voices to speak their own truths, whether those truths speak to power or speak to uphold the power

Depositional environment, sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir quality of the Tonkawa Sandstone in the western Anadarko Basin, Hemphill, Lipscomb and Roberts Counties, Texas

textThe Anadarko Basin contains some of the most prolific hydrocarbon reserves in all of North America. A recent USGS publication estimated undiscovered resources across the basin to be 495 million barrels of oil (MMBO), 27 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (TCFG), and 410 million barrels of natural gas liquids (MMBNGL). Pennsylvanian age sandstones contribute substantially to total estimated reserves within the basin. The focus of this study is the late Pennsylvanian Tonkawa Sandstone, the lowermost unit of the Douglas Group, Virgilian Series. Through the integration of core analysis, subsurface mapping, petrographic analysis, and porosity and permeability data, this study presents a detailed analysis of the Tonkawa Sandstone across approximately 1,400 mi² (3,630 km²) in the western Anadarko Basin. The Tonkawa Sandstone is comprised of three high-order transgressive-regressive sequences within one larger, lower-order sequence. Sandstone-body distribution varies greatly, depending upon depositional environments and their associated facies. The Tonkawa Sandstone was deposited in deltaic and estuarine environments with a source area to the northeast. The HST-2 interval, the oldest sandstone-rich sequence in the Tonkawa Sandstone, was deposited in a deltaic environment with a mixed wave and tide-dominated energy regime. The younger HST-3 interval was deposited in a tide-dominated deltaic environment. The youngest interval, TST-3, was deposited in a mixed wave and tide-dominated transgressive estuarine environment. The Tonkawa Sandstone is a sublitharenite to litharenite. Widespread quartz overgrowths minimize variation in reservoir quality among facies. However, more proximal facies display better reservoir quality. Detailed characterization of Pennsylvanian formations such as the Tonkawa Sandstone contributes greatly to the understanding of similar formations within the Anadarko Basin, and other foreland and cratonic basins worldwide.Energy and Earth Resource