Enriching the Story: Asexuality and Aromanticism in Literature

This paper examines the role of asexual and aromantic coding within Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights and Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse. Both books utilize relationships and sexuality in order to portray arguments within the book. Brontë portrays Catherine and Heathcliff’s relationship as transcending physicality, both as a way to portray them as soulmates but also to foreshadow events. Woolf utilizes Lily’s disinterest in sex and marriage as a way to contrast her to other women in the novel. Both characterizations can be read as asexual, or in Lily’s case also aromantic. This queer reading allows insight into the characters but it also creates a characterization rarely seen in popular media or literature. It challenges social assumptions about sexuality and romance as well as heteronormative readings of literature. It gives the asexual and aromantic community a literary presence but also shows that the lack of representation can be damaging to the understanding and acceptance of asexual and aromantic individuals

Unwritten: The Hidden History of the Holodomor

Between 1930 and 1933, Joseph Stalin unleashed an assault on Ukraine that resulted in the starvation of 5 million people. Their story went untold for decades. The fact that Soviet propaganda was largely successful in suppressing the truth speaks less to its sophistication than to the gullibility and complicity of Westerners. Although there were truth-tellers from Great Britain, the United States, and even Europe who accurately reported on the Ukrainian famine, Stalin understood that such voices could be effectively neutralized. Because the story of the Holodomor remained essentially unwritten, the West did not recognize it as the legitimate offspring of Communist ideology. The oversight allowed space and time for Communist doctrine to proliferate outside the bounds of historical judgment. Western intellectuals espoused and promoted Soviet ideology, granting it a measure of acceptability that would have been precluded by the accurate historical account of Communism as a conveyer of immeasurable injustice and suffering

Evidentiary Privilege: The Development of Federal Common Law Press Privilege

Riley v. City of Chester, 612 F.2d 708 (3d Cir. 1979). “A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” The inability of the British press to publish information unfavorable to the Crown without the incessant threat of being charged with sedition compelled the founding fathers to constitutionally guarantee the American press’ right to gather and disseminate news under the aegis of the first amendment. While newsgathering and publishing enjoy a constitutionally protected position, the Constitution, itself, does not expressly extend this privilege to cover a reporter’s work product. This lacuna has repeatedly given rise to a rather peculiar conflict between a reporter/citizen’s duty to testify and his professional/ethical obligation not to reveal the source of confidentially obtained material. The press has long maintained that the compelled disclosure of these sources would necessarily impair their ability to obtain confidential information in the future and would, thereby, have a chilling effect on both their right and obligation to gather and report news under the first amendment. The federal judiciary, in a number of recent decisions, has attempted to ameliorate the frequency of such clashes between professional and civic duty by expressly delineating the parameters of press privilege. Riley v. City of Chester is the most recent of those decisions

Constructing Sexuality and Fetishizing Women in American History: Debunking Myths in Popular Culture from Pocahontas to the Cold War

This paper features recent teaching and scholarship produced in U.S. Women’s History and Women’s History coursework at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. We discuss using visual culture analysis and intersectionality in the U.S. History and Women’s History classroom to produce scholarship that interrogates the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality at a particular historical moment and examines visual primary sources. We give examples of scholarship produced in coursework using these methods, from studying the Lavender Scare and popular culture’s constructions of Democracy that equated communism with homosexuality to the ways in which middle class social reformers used their class status and white privilege to help prostitutes while also harming them in the early 20th century. We also look at contemporary popular culture constructions of Pocahontas and the ways in which her depictions reinforce white supremacy and distort narratives of Native-America history. The paper engages readers with images and discussion questions about a visual construction of what is considered civilized womanhood. We also examine and question what it means to be American and American ideologies on the right way of being a sexual being

Preliminary Investigation of Coping Styles, Continuous Self-Improvement, & Self Efficacy: Impact on BSN Students

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Bovarysme Beyond Bovary: From the Psyche to the Text

"Bovarysme Beyond Bovary: From the Psyche to the Text," centers on examining the notion of bovarysme as a particular stance on literature, as well as a specific literary technique, and seeks to establish the emergence of a textualized bovarysme in selected works by Gustave Flaubert. Jules de Gaultier's 1902 definition of bovarysme as "le pouvoir départi à l'homme de se concevoir autre qu'il n'est," while useful as a point of departure, focuses largely on the psychology of the fictional character and does not extend the notion's implications further, such as into the realm of literary art. I therefore investigate if Gaultier's definition of bovarysme could apply to writing. Can language also conceive of itself other than what it is?Working from this key question, I organize my study into four chapters that address the textualization of bovarysme. In Chapter One, "Madame Bovary and `La Maladie de la lecture'," I trace the development of bovarysme in relation to the desire to transpose reading onto reality, a transposition that exhibits contaminating effects that posit bovarysme as a "textually transmitted disease" (in the words of Daniel Pennac), as a condition that originates from the fictional realm, but extends also into the real, and influences not just Emma Bovary's comportment, but equally that of future generations of readers.Chapter 2, "Bouvard et Pécuchet: The Caging of the Parrot," examines the mimetic properties of bovarysme as a textualized stance against the infectious power of clichés and idées reçues. Here, I argue that Flaubert's skillful use of italics and quotation marks seem to "quarantine" the linguistic properties of clichés, and yet simultaneously participate in their usage. Through the (mis)reading of linguistic signs, imbued with received ideas or linguistic platitudes, I argue that not only do Bouvard and Pécuchet read--and, especially, misread clichés--but also, readers of Bouvard et Pécuchet often perform a similar function by perceiving clichés and idées reçues merely as cultural references instead of representing as well an aesthetic stance against the forces of bêtise.Chapter 3, entitled "Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues: Writing the Paradox," elaborates the ways in which the Dictionnaire problemetizes the power of words through the suggestiveness of rhetorical figures. I also analyze Flaubert's transformation of the genre of the dictionary into a ludic space in which to examine the self-reflexive properties of language. Additionally, I also aim to demonstrate that the text represents Flaubert's most notable attack against the pervasive idea of bêtise, as he seeks ultimately to expose the fallacy of the notion through its reification in dictionary form. Adding to this argument, I show that Flaubert's attempt to sequester bêtise reveals the author's own struggles with the inability of language to depict reality, producing a linguistic tension between literary and social discourse that may be seen to create a certain impossibility of writing anything original. I conclude the chapter by proposing that this impossibility culminates in the Dictionnaire. One can thus add the form of the dictionary to the list of techniques of quotation marks and italics, as a form that presents the cliché in its most isolated form, almost entirely devoid of contextual references.Chapter 4, "The Posterity of Bovarysme or the Edifice Complex," I investigate the embodiment of bovarysme far beyond the nineteenth century, as it continues to emerge in a series of recent fictional texts that deliberately engage Flaubert as a precursor to honor or to challenge. I argue that contemporary authors such as Christophe Claro, Alain Ferry, Raymond Jean, and Philippe Doumenc contribute to the posterity of bovarysme in that, reversing the gesture of the fictional Emma choosing models from other authors, it is now the real-life authors choosing Emma as model, creating their own texts, variations on the theme of Flaubert's novel. In my view, this more contemporary bovarysme is not specifically on or about Flaubert, but rather "after him," which, both stylistically and chronologically, raises the question: "What is it to write or read after Flaubert?

Emissivity of rocket plume particulates.

The optical properties of motor aluminum oxide are required inputs to current plume signature prediction codes, such as SIRRM. Accurate predictions are possible only if variations in the particle emissivity due to changes in particle size, contamination, and changing temperature, etc. , are known . This investigation demonstrated a simplified method for determination of the emissivity of rocket motor generated alumina. Plume particulate material was collected on tungsten alloy wire during motor firings. A DC circuit was used to resistively heat the material, and the temperature was determined at various points by relating the wire resistivity to circuit current and voltage. An Agema Thermovision infrared (3.5-5 (j.) camera and microscope were used to observe the material during heating, and broad-band emissivity was computed using system software. It was estimated that the emissivity could be measured with an accuracy of ± 3%. Motor alumina was found to have significantly greater emissivity than pure alumina in the temperature range of 500-1200K.http://archive.org/details/emissivityofrock00whisLieutenant, United States NavyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Regional councils and the influence of state laws on regional governance

Regional decision-making, in which multiple local governments seek to address concerns that affect communities across jurisdictional boundaries, has been approached by scholars from two opposing viewpoints. Some argue in favor of consolidated regional or metropolitan government, while others prefer voluntary cooperation or regional governance. The first approach represents structural regionalism, while the latter reflects the potential for functional regionalism. Regional councils are organizations that work to facilitate communication, and at least ostensibly cooperation, between local governments. Approximately 700 such organizations are currently operating in the United States. State statutes related to regional cooperation and regional councils are present in all but six states, and fall into one of two categories---enabling or prescriptive. Enabling legislation allows local governments to form partnerships with others while prescriptive legislation requires jurisdictions within a given state-defined "region" to belong to a particular regional council. This research compiled a list of all active regional councils in the United States, and administered a survey to the executive directors of those organizations to better understand the work they endeavor to conduct. This study also coded the type of state legislation and analyzed the directors' survey responses to determine the influence of the two different types of state laws. Results from logistic and ordinal logistic regression analyses suggest that the type of state legislation is less important than other organizational and community characteristics, such as whether or not the council operates as a metropolitan planning organization, the region's history of working together, and recent population change. Qualitative review of open-ended survey responses provides context, suggesting the inherent weakness of voluntary regional councils, and the importance of support at the state level and strong leadership both within the regional council and within its member jurisdictions