I am lonely, but I\u27m comfortable.

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Selected Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composers' Changing Views on Composing for Wind Band

The purpose of this document is to identify factors influencing selected Pulitzer Prize-winning composers in choosing to compose or not for wind band. By interviewing Steven Stucky, Paul Moravec, David Lang, and John Corigliano, the study presents strategies for conductors to engage major award-winning composers to write more works for the wind band genre. Guided by the thoughts of the four Pulitzer Prize-winning conductors, this study suggests how conductors can more effectively attract composers to write for wind bands through forming relationships, better educating them on idiomatic band writing and history, and cultivating new and different audiences

Multiple Dimensions of Stratification in Adolescent Mental Health: A Mediated Moderation Analysis

Utilizing data from the National Comorbidity Survey – Adolescent Supplement and a mediated moderation analysis in structural equation models, this research examines the relationship between socioeconomic status, race, gender, social support, and mental health in the adolescent population. In the United States, the prevalence of mental disorder, particularly social and behavioral disorders, has been steadily increasing in both the adult and adolescent population, with approximately half of all cases of disorder in adults presenting by early adolescence. It has become increasingly clear that socioeconomic position greatly affects an adolescents’ likelihood of experiencing some form of mental illness; however, socioeconomic status is a complex variable that is often measured using education, income, occupation, or a scale, and it is unlikely that each of these measures affect mental health equally. Further, the effects of socioeconomic status are mediated varying forms of social support, such as the adolescents’ family, peer, and school emotional support, which can buffer or exasperate the effects of socioeconomic position. Finally, the relationship between socioeconomic position, social support and mental health is in many ways conditional upon race and gender. This research combines these perspectives to produce a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between social characteristics, social support, and mental health. Findings demonstrate subjective social status was the strongest predictor of mental health, and that social support did mediate the relationship. Which measure of social support mediated the association depended upon the mental health outcome. Findings also demonstrate significant racial/ethnic and gendered differences in the relationship between socioeconomic status and social support which suggests the importance of an intersectionality theoretical and methodological approach

On benevolence and love of others

Hobbes is famous for his insights into the impact of man’s fear, glory and greed on war and peace, not for his views on the bearing of men’s benevolence on the commonwealth. Are Hobbesian people even capable of love of others? In the literature, we find two main answers: one view is that Hobbes ruled out the possibility of disinterested benevolence among men; the other is that Hobbes considered actions driven by genuine benevolence possible but uncommon. After reviewing in broad outlines the two above positions, this chapter seeks to demonstrate the claim that Hobbes did not consider relevant to establish if men are capable of genuine benevolence or not, because he maintained that benevolent men can be as inept as egoists in differentiating apparent and real good for themselves and their loved ones and the effect of misguided altruism on the commonwealth is as damaging as the effect of ill-advised egoism.Postprin

A Silver Screen of Their Own: Representations of Black Women in American Film

This thesis examines the following questions: Where does the Black woman as actress fit into this idea of artistry as survival and power? Acting is considered a craft, an art. But has the Black woman been able to find her own spirituality and beauty in this craft? Has she been empowered in Hollywood's world of film? The film industry is the fantasy world of the white society. White men and to a certain extent white women can be anyone they want to be in movieland and the Black man or woman is their servant. The Black actor and actress are not allowed to live out their fantasy in film. They must relive the reality of oppression on the big screen. The Black woman could not be the rich heiress to a fortune, live in a big house or drive a fancy car. She could not even act human. Like any other objectified person in white dominated society, the Black woman must recreate the roles they were given and make them their own. Methodology includes film research

Charity care: do not-for-profits influence for-profits?

This study further examines whether not-for-profit hospitals exert pressure on for-profit hospitals to provide charity care and whether for-profit hospitals react differently than not-for-profit hospitals to managed care pressures and hospital competition in providing charity care. A two equation model is estimated using 1996 data from California hospitals. The results indicate that in mixed ownership markets, for-profit hospitals provide significantly less charity care as not-for-profit hospitals in the market provide more. Unexpectedly, study for-profit hospitals were not more influenced by price competition than other hospitals with respect to charity care. Having a unique role in providing charity care may justify continuing tax exemption for not-for-profit hospitals and enhance interest in payment and other policies with regard to conversions to ensure that not-for-profit hospitals continue to be represented in market areas