Towards Romantic Syncretism: Liminal and Transitory Women in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Throughout his career, Dante Gabriel Rossetti struggled with a poetic and visual synthesis of the ideal with the sensual, exploring and attempting to resolve the complex paradox of Victorian sexuality, a feat not easily achieved during an era of such fervent morality. Developing his own Romantic Syncretism, Rossetti presents a synthesis of multifaceted symbolism and allegory in his work, combining pagan and Christian themes to create a liminal space in which the divided natures of his female subjects, their object versus subject-hood, are unified. His approach to Christian symbology, via a fleshy and aesthetic representation of the female form, retains a sense of spiritual transcendence, thus defining a mode of access other than faith to the spiritual. This paper focuses on works that present the female subject in a liminal or transitory state, specifically Found, Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee, La Bella Mano, and The Blessed Damozel, examining how Rossetti represents and utilizes the transitional void between the pure and profane. It will be argued that Rossetti is able to erect a bridge between these previously sterilized and distilled halves of the self, the virginal and sexual, in order to reveal their complimentary and mirrored nature. Unfortunately, a large amount of the scholarship surrounding Rossetti’s work fails to identify the ways in which he not only undermines traditional approaches and responses to Christian themes, but also transforms recurrent ideas surrounding spiritual transcendence. The research and analysis included in this essay reexamines both Rossetti’s poetry and paintings to gain a better understanding of his post-enlightenment concern for the disappearing deity, and the division of the body from the soul, revealing the ways in which he unites religious faith with a fleshy sensuality, merging the spirit and body into one indistinguishable framework

Parallel Machin e Tool Development

The work done during this OURE centered on the parallel machining center that is under development by a research group led by Dr. R. Landers. The specific tasks associated with this research involved the design of several parts, documentation of the processes for assembly and operation, procurement of some materials and stock parts, and involvement with experiments with the machine tool. These various aspects are outlined in the following report, with emphasis on the design of components

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Rising from Katrina’s Ashes but Still in Crisis: Public Defense in New Orleans

New Orleans’ nickname “Big Easy” was based on the “anything goes” perception of the city. Feeding this perception was a sense of lawlessness, that New Orleans was a place where the rules changed depending on who you were and who you knew. So when Hurricane Katrina hit the city in August 2005 and tossed everything around—flooding mansions and missions, damaging the Superdome and supermarkets—the storm challenged old perceptions and presented unique challenges. Katrina made at least one thing clear: New Orleans could no longer wait for change, pretend nothing happened, or look back. The city’s survival depended on its ability to move forward. One of the greatest challenges to New Orleans’ ability to move forward was its criminal legal system, especially the public defense system. For decades before Katrina, the public defense system in New Orleans—like others throughout Louisiana—was “plagued by negligent attorneys who provide[d] haphazard and deficient representation.” Orleans Parish Prison, for example, was packed with more than six thousand people, most of whom had no representation once Katrina hit. Fragile and underfunded, the New Orleans public defense system lacked the ability to even try to respond to the crisis of Katrina. All but four staff members were terminated immediately after the storm. Like most social institutions in New Orleans, however, public defense in New Orleans had been targeted for reform multiple times before Katrina, with few positive results

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Creating installations through athletic or “gym” aesthetics, my work embodies a high-intensity atmosphere in which technological, human, and material bodies compete and grate against one another. Collectively the components of my installations strive towards an extension of the self or psyche, reaching beyond a deterioration of materiality to achieve pseudo-stasis through recording technologies. However, video and sound technologies ultimately fail to either fully reanimate or fully neutralize a recorded subject, instead what is produced is an intermediary image simply relocated into a new physical body that is equally subject to deterioration. Yet, in its mechanical form, the recording contains the potential for extension into a space of “potentia”. My practice attempts to articulate via digital, analog and sculptural techniques, a perseverance towards preservation. In consideration of said perseverance, I view the hyper-athletic body as analogous with the recorded image: both engage in the futile attempt to maintain a past and temporary state, and project the living body beyond its inherent deterioration. Displays of endurance, resilience, and anxiety within my work critically visualize the principles of self-discipline, training and reward involved in an athlete’s success and failure

Differences in U.S. Medical School Faculty Job Satisfaction by Gender

Increased demands on academic medical faculty have raised awareness about faculty satisfaction and vitality, in part because of the demonstrated empirical link between job satisfaction and retention. Evidence suggests that faculty are affected by their perceptions of what is valued and rewarded in their work environments, and that supportive environments can foster faculty satisfaction. Given the high costs of faculty turnover, it is imperative to understand the factors that contribute to the retention of faculty. A previous Analysis in Brief (AIB) examined key areas of U.S. medical faculty job satisfaction and the disconnect for some faculty between what they value in the workplace and actual workplace opportunities. In this AIB, the effects of gender are examined to obtain a more nuanced understanding of job satisfaction

Applying Nursing Ethics to Ethical Dilemmas Seen in the Clinical Setting

The problem focused in this thesis is educating both professional and student nurses in how to apply ethical decision-making models to a real-life ethical dilemma which occurred in the clinical setting. Using primary and secondary sources, a real-life case study was created to facilitate critical-thinking regarding the situation to draw conclusions about if the patient in the case study received ethical care by the nurse. By applying two ethical decision-making models (Kant’s Deontology and Utilitarian Consequentialism) to this case study, it was determined that both models concluded that the nurse in the case study acted ethically in the patient care situation.B.S. (Bachelor of Science