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how’s a good way to use a digital camera through a telescope?
i’m not talking about SLR cameras, just a normal digital camera. and if possible without buying any extra attachments. just a way to make it stable.
using a newtonian telescope btw.
I’ve taken pictures of the Moon by holding a point and shoot digital camera to the eyepiece. Autofocus, autoexposure. I’d have much preferred to set my own exposure. Out of 120 shots, maybe 5 passable shots came out, and one best one.
http://www.uitti.net/stephen/astro/fullmoon.shtml
These days, i have this Rube Goldberg contraption that positions the camera on the eyepiece. It actually clamps onto the eyepiece. So the eyepiece has to be firmly clamped into the focuser. And more images come out, but i still take several. The contraption bounces around alot after you touch, for example, to click the shutter button. So i use the 10 second delay feature on the camera.
http://www.telescope.com/control/product/~category_id=photo_accessories/~pcategory=astro-imaging/~product_id=05228
My new camera has manual exposure, up to 8 seconds.
I’ve taken shots of the Sun (solar filter), Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Comet Hale Bopp (web cam on a spotting scope), and Polaris with Polaris B (Polaris doesn’t move much, so non-tracking isn’t that much of an issue – though the magnification required to split them made it difficult). Without tracking, you’re always going to be limited somehow.
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”A matter of perception”: Rhetoric, embodiment, and the visual practices of anatomy laboratory education. $49.99 This dissertation is an ethnography and rhetorical study of the visual and embodied practices that constitute anatomy education, particularly investigating how contemporary laboratory anatomy incorporates and is facilitated through visual representations of the body. Through fieldnotes, interviews, and the textual analysis of material from two large-enrollment courses (one for undergraduates and the other for medical and dental students), T. Kenny Fountain explores how the body (both the cadaveric and living body) is represented, how these representations inscribe the body as both a human subject and a scientific object, and how one uses these representations to teach and learn anatomy.;Drawing from the work of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and James Gibson, Fountain explains how anatomical knowledge operates as a discourse system that is materialized in and on the body, made flesh by way of embodied practices of viewing and touching that render human remains as specimen data. These practices of dissection, demonstration, and observation involve the formation of what Bourdieu terms habitus (or dispositional tendencies that structure one’s thoughts, perceptions, and bodily practices) and constitute the body as a perceptual lens for interpreting the texts of the lab. These visual texts—ranging from drawings, atlas illustrations, radiographs, microscopy, and actual cadavers—make possible an anatomical vision that mutually articulates knowledge and bodies, encouraging participates to read the physical human body as an instantiation of anatomical discourse. Students, TAs, and instructors make use of these texts, and what Gibson terms their “affordances,” in a dialectical process of hypothetic-confirmation, of self assessment and persuasion, in which participants conflate the physical body with the anatomical body. Anatomical education, then, operates as a form of socialization that makes possible a coherent yet non-totalizing visual and |
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”A matter of perception”: Rhetoric, embodiment, and the visual practices of anatomy laboratory education. $49.99 This dissertation is an ethnography and rhetorical study of the visual and embodied practices that constitute anatomy education, particularly investigating how contemporary laboratory anatomy incorporates and is facilitated through visual representations of the body. Through fieldnotes, interviews, and the textual analysis of material from two large-enrollment courses (one for undergraduates and the other for medical and dental students), T. Kenny Fountain explores how the body (both the cadaveric and living body) is represented, how these representations inscribe the body as both a human subject and a scientific object, and how one uses these representations to teach and learn anatomy.;Drawing from the work of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and James Gibson, Fountain explains how anatomical knowledge operates as a discourse system that is materialized in and on the body, made flesh by way of embodied practices of viewing and touching that render human remains as specimen data. These practices of dissection, demonstration, and observation involve the formation of what Bourdieu terms habitus (or dispositional tendencies that structure one’s thoughts, perceptions, and bodily practices) and constitute the body as a perceptual lens for interpreting the texts of the lab. These visual texts—ranging from drawings, atlas illustrations, radiographs, microscopy, and actual cadavers—make possible an anatomical vision that mutually articulates knowledge and bodies, encouraging participates to read the physical human body as an instantiation of anatomical discourse. Students, TAs, and instructors make use of these texts, and what Gibson terms their “affordances,” in a dialectical process of hypothetic-confirmation, of self assessment and persuasion, in which participants conflate the physical body with the anatomical body. Anatomical education, then, operates as a form of socialization that makes possible a coherent yet non-totalizing visual and |
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”A mighty fortress” far from Lake Wobegon: The music of Minnesota’s newest Lutherans. $49.99 While participation in religion is most often perceived to be a conscious choice made without direct connections to race or ethnicity on the part of an individual, it is also apparent that religion never functions outside of both its ethno-cultural context and its ethno-cultural history, and for a large proportion of Lutheran history, this context has been overwhelmingly European and European-American. However, Christianity has become increasingly global within the last century: Latin Americans, Africans, and Asians breathe new life into a once-European and North American theological tradition. Minnesota, considered the most significant hub of Lutheranism, has concurrently become more global. From 1990–2000, the number of foreign-born residents increased by 130 percent.1 Moreover, the way people migrate has changed considerably. While European immigration in the 1900s was long, hard, and permanent, advances in travel and communication technology have made migration a more fluid journey allowing for increased communication between old world(s) and new. This situation raises a number of questions regarding depictions of Minnesota as a haven for Scandinavian, homogeneous, and inflexible Lutherans.;Worship music presents a salient religious medium capable of enabling a vivid redefinition of Minnesotan Lutheranism. How do Cambodians, who have no musical ensemble that remotely resembles a choir in their homeland, create Lutheran worship music in the Twin Cities? Why have Sudanese Lutherans, whose main source of musical inspiration is the reception of songs in dreams, stopped receiving songs in their dreams upon their arrival in the US? As a church’s most audible display of faith and most contested realm of worship, the negotiations involved in the creation of Lutheran worship music illuminate the issues at the heart of the Lutheran church today.;1Bruce Katz, “Census 2000: Key Trends and Implications for Cities,” Brookings Institution, Center for Urban and Metropolitan |
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”A mighty fortress” far from Lake Wobegon: The music of Minnesota’s newest Lutherans. $49.99 While participation in religion is most often perceived to be a conscious choice made without direct connections to race or ethnicity on the part of an individual, it is also apparent that religion never functions outside of both its ethno-cultural context and its ethno-cultural history, and for a large proportion of Lutheran history, this context has been overwhelmingly European and European-American. However, Christianity has become increasingly global within the last century: Latin Americans, Africans, and Asians breathe new life into a once-European and North American theological tradition. Minnesota, considered the most significant hub of Lutheranism, has concurrently become more global. From 1990–2000, the number of foreign-born residents increased by 130 percent.1 Moreover, the way people migrate has changed considerably. While European immigration in the 1900s was long, hard, and permanent, advances in travel and communication technology have made migration a more fluid journey allowing for increased communication between old world(s) and new. This situation raises a number of questions regarding depictions of Minnesota as a haven for Scandinavian, homogeneous, and inflexible Lutherans.;Worship music presents a salient religious medium capable of enabling a vivid redefinition of Minnesotan Lutheranism. How do Cambodians, who have no musical ensemble that remotely resembles a choir in their homeland, create Lutheran worship music in the Twin Cities? Why have Sudanese Lutherans, whose main source of musical inspiration is the reception of songs in dreams, stopped receiving songs in their dreams upon their arrival in the US? As a church’s most audible display of faith and most contested realm of worship, the negotiations involved in the creation of Lutheran worship music illuminate the issues at the heart of the Lutheran church today.;1Bruce Katz, “Census 2000: Key Trends and Implications for Cities,” Brookings Institution, Center for Urban and Metropolitan |
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”And that is where we start”: Focal stances and a person’s capacity to name God as Trinity. $49.99 Starting with the assertion that God who is relationship invites humanity to share this relationship, the dissertation pursues that which signals humanity’s gifted capacity to take part. It finds an investment into the heart of Christian faith visible as individual theologians articulate the meaningfulness of the doctrine of Trinity, and argues that these investments – which it names “focal stances” – come about because of the way God honors individual integrity. Ultimately, focal stances take shape as persons bring encounter with divine mystery into expression both through the power of naming and by living the new life the encounter enables.;This argument arises from a constructive analysis of the trinitarian theologies of Elizabeth Johnson and Rowan Williams, an analysis which demonstrates that focal stances are in operation as both speak about Trinity. The analysis shows how the exercise of “becoming understanding,” by traversing through appropriation, explanation and assessment, and attestation, produces in the theologian a focal stance which serves as a normative guide as one articulates the meaningfulness of the doctrine.;Further support for the argument is drawn from the exercise of interpreting Sacred Scripture, finding in this field descriptions of “becoming understanding” which seek to honor the integrity of text and interpreter. The dissertation takes up Hugh of St Victor, Raymond Brown, David Williams, and Sandra Schneiders, in order to show how persons are charged to name and appropriate the scriptures, all the while in deference to the world of the text given over to human understanding. There is a similarity between the boundaries faith navigates when it responds to Trinity, and the boundaries attendant to respecting Sacred Scripture as both a human construction and the word of God.;As the proper response to God’s invitation into relationship includes developing a focal stance, the project concludes that the discipline of theology should retrieve the |
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”And that is where we start”: Focal stances and a person’s capacity to name God as Trinity. $49.99 Starting with the assertion that God who is relationship invites humanity to share this relationship, the dissertation pursues that which signals humanity’s gifted capacity to take part. It finds an investment into the heart of Christian faith visible as individual theologians articulate the meaningfulness of the doctrine of Trinity, and argues that these investments – which it names “focal stances” – come about because of the way God honors individual integrity. Ultimately, focal stances take shape as persons bring encounter with divine mystery into expression both through the power of naming and by living the new life the encounter enables.;This argument arises from a constructive analysis of the trinitarian theologies of Elizabeth Johnson and Rowan Williams, an analysis which demonstrates that focal stances are in operation as both speak about Trinity. The analysis shows how the exercise of “becoming understanding,” by traversing through appropriation, explanation and assessment, and attestation, produces in the theologian a focal stance which serves as a normative guide as one articulates the meaningfulness of the doctrine.;Further support for the argument is drawn from the exercise of interpreting Sacred Scripture, finding in this field descriptions of “becoming understanding” which seek to honor the integrity of text and interpreter. The dissertation takes up Hugh of St Victor, Raymond Brown, David Williams, and Sandra Schneiders, in order to show how persons are charged to name and appropriate the scriptures, all the while in deference to the world of the text given over to human understanding. There is a similarity between the boundaries faith navigates when it responds to Trinity, and the boundaries attendant to respecting Sacred Scripture as both a human construction and the word of God.;As the proper response to God’s invitation into relationship includes developing a focal stance, the project concludes that the discipline of theology should retrieve the |
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”Becoming artistic”: Race, gender & the nature-culture relationship in new media art. $49.99 Scholars have argued that we are currently seeing new tendencies in the social that are effects of the expansion and intensification of information, biological, digital, and nanotechnologies in advanced capitalist societies. In response to this expansion, scholars claim the increasing importance of affect and affectivity, the tendency toward the “mattering” of information, the new role of complicity in societies of control, and that attention is being given to non-organic life such that the stark opposition between it and organic life are modulated and we are pressured to redefine life and the human. Further, these tendencies require new understandings of ethics, politics and subjectivities.;Taken together, these changes are illustrated and exemplified in new media and contemporary art, specifically in the work of Tana Hargest, Daniela Rossell, and Natalie Jeremijenko. In taking up these artworks as cultural objects, I suggest that as material aspects of the social world, the art objects themselves exist as changes in sociality as well as exemplifying broader social change. In the field of cultural studies, there has been an increasing interest in using the work of Gilles Deleuze to theorize social relations, and to draw on his writings as a way to use aesthetics to address the relations of art and sociality. Following Deleuze and writings by scholars of his work, this dissertation frames the new ethics, politics and subjectivities that are exemplified in the artwork as “ethico-politics” and “new formations of subjectivity.” |
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”Becoming artistic”: Race, gender & the nature-culture relationship in new media art. $49.99 Scholars have argued that we are currently seeing new tendencies in the social that are effects of the expansion and intensification of information, biological, digital, and nanotechnologies in advanced capitalist societies. In response to this expansion, scholars claim the increasing importance of affect and affectivity, the tendency toward the “mattering” of information, the new role of complicity in societies of control, and that attention is being given to non-organic life such that the stark opposition between it and organic life are modulated and we are pressured to redefine life and the human. Further, these tendencies require new understandings of ethics, politics and subjectivities.;Taken together, these changes are illustrated and exemplified in new media and contemporary art, specifically in the work of Tana Hargest, Daniela Rossell, and Natalie Jeremijenko. In taking up these artworks as cultural objects, I suggest that as material aspects of the social world, the art objects themselves exist as changes in sociality as well as exemplifying broader social change. In the field of cultural studies, there has been an increasing interest in using the work of Gilles Deleuze to theorize social relations, and to draw on his writings as a way to use aesthetics to address the relations of art and sociality. Following Deleuze and writings by scholars of his work, this dissertation frames the new ethics, politics and subjectivities that are exemplified in the artwork as “ethico-politics” and “new formations of subjectivity.” |
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”But ayenste deth may no man rebell:” Death scenes as tools for characterization in Thomas Malory’s ”Morte d’Arthur”. $49.99 A death of some kind occurs on nearly every other page of Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. While Malory does not usually provide details about these deaths, in a few instances he includes a death scene – an extended narration of a character’s final thoughts, words, actions, and possibly even funeral and burial rites. By examining the popular fifteenth-century manual on the art of dying well, the ars moriendi, we can understand medieval attitudes toward death and thus how fifteenth-century readers may have interpreted Malory’s death scenes.;In the Middle Ages, people commonly believed in a “right” and “wrong” way to die. Dying well meant preparing for death’s arrival by putting one’s affairs in order, confessing, receiving absolution, and resisting the deathbed temptations of the devil. The ars moriendi developed in the fifteenth century as a manual to assist the dying in achieving this ideal death.;The Morte d’Arthur includes ideal deaths such as the ones delineated by the ars moriendi, but more often it presents imperfect deaths that distort the elements of the ideal and question popular views on dying. Malory challenges the notion that “to die well is to die willingly” with the character of Elaine of Astolat’s self-destructive excess, and he characterizes Merlin and Gawain as morally corrupt through their failure as bedside attendants. He addresses the implications of murder and explores how even a murderer can achieve redemption if he shows true contrition. Malory ends his book on a hopeful note, much like the ars moriendi, focusing not on the downfall of the chivalric kingdom, but on the promise of a new age after the death of Arthur. |
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”Discoveries are not to be called conquests”: Narrative, empire, and the ambiguity of conquest in Spain’s American empire. $49.99 This dissertation focuses on the intellectual issues that surround the most dramatic form of human encounter: that of imperial conquest. By examining the modes of thought available to conquering societies I examine the way in which specific narrative traditions influence the process of justification and legitimization of expansion.;Based on my analysis of a specific set of narratives created by Spanish in the Americas, a wide variety of published primary resources, and research in Spanish archives, I look into the narrative traditions of a number of societies in history, assess the construction of the reconquista narrative in Spain, and then cross the Atlantic to examine variety of interest groups that emerged across Spain’s American empire and the narratives that were produced to justify those interests.;In successful cases the drama of conquest is normalized through the adoption or construction of legitimizing narratives that tap into prevailing societal self-conceptions or historical relationships. As examples of this I examine a diverse set of societies including China during the Han Dynasty, Sassanid Persia, Turkic states of central and western Asia, and the Ottoman Empire.;I then introduce the case of the Spanish, first in the Iberian Peninsula where their narrative traditions successfully justified and normalized the act of conquest, and then in the Americas. Spain’s American empire, I argue, constituted a situation so novel as to resist any attempt to make sense of it within the prevailing narrative tradition. Spain’s central narratives fell apart in the face of such novelty, leaving narrative chaos and an imperial state unable to control the process of narrative construction. The result was a proliferation of narratives and a heated debate over the Spanish right to rule in their American possessions. This debate only diminished with the repudiation of the notion of conquest in the second half of the sixteenth century.;Through this effort, this dissertation |
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”Discoveries are not to be called conquests”: Narrative, empire, and the ambiguity of conquest in Spain’s American empire. $49.99 This dissertation focuses on the intellectual issues that surround the most dramatic form of human encounter: that of imperial conquest. By examining the modes of thought available to conquering societies I examine the way in which specific narrative traditions influence the process of justification and legitimization of expansion.;Based on my analysis of a specific set of narratives created by Spanish in the Americas, a wide variety of published primary resources, and research in Spanish archives, I look into the narrative traditions of a number of societies in history, assess the construction of the reconquista narrative in Spain, and then cross the Atlantic to examine variety of interest groups that emerged across Spain’s American empire and the narratives that were produced to justify those interests.;In successful cases the drama of conquest is normalized through the adoption or construction of legitimizing narratives that tap into prevailing societal self-conceptions or historical relationships. As examples of this I examine a diverse set of societies including China during the Han Dynasty, Sassanid Persia, Turkic states of central and western Asia, and the Ottoman Empire.;I then introduce the case of the Spanish, first in the Iberian Peninsula where their narrative traditions successfully justified and normalized the act of conquest, and then in the Americas. Spain’s American empire, I argue, constituted a situation so novel as to resist any attempt to make sense of it within the prevailing narrative tradition. Spain’s central narratives fell apart in the face of such novelty, leaving narrative chaos and an imperial state unable to control the process of narrative construction. The result was a proliferation of narratives and a heated debate over the Spanish right to rule in their American possessions. This debate only diminished with the repudiation of the notion of conquest in the second half of the sixteenth century.;Through this effort, this dissertation |
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”First movers in every useful undertaking”: Formal voluntary associations in Philadelphia, 1725–1775. $49.99 “First Movers in Every Useful Undertaking: Formal Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725–1775,” analyzes in detail the role of voluntary associations in the social, civic, and economic operations and constructions of urban life and governance in Philadelphia. Philadelphians founded over sixty organizations in the colonial period, including libraries, fire companies, a hospital, the first non-sectarian college, scientific societies, and a host of sociable and ethnic clubs. This dissertation draws on organizational Minutes and papers, newspapers and pamphlets, private correspondence and journals to examine the context and impact of these diverse groups.;Clubs and associations played a crucial role in the development of Philadelphia’s civil society. When government abdicated responsibility for such crucial tasks as fire protection or defense of the city in wartime, Philadelphians formed their own organizations. The breadth and activity of civic voluntary associations forces a reconsideration of political process and participation in the colonial period beyond electoral politics. Philadelphians assumed to themselves control and responsibility for a myriad of civic activities, expanding their participation in and direction of community affairs. In this way voluntary associations expanded political process, but simultaneously closed it down as private organizations did not answer to any constituency but their own members. Philadelphians who disagreed with their activities had no way of stopping them.;Associations performed vital work in the local economy, distributing charity, patronizing taverns, purchasing goods and services, and particularly by acting as major lenders of capital. Altogether Philadelphia organizations infused over £43,000 into the economy in the 25 years before the Revolution through loans that ranged from no more than a few pounds to thousands. This avenue of capital was crucial to the men who borrowed it and reveal an unstudied aspect of |
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”First movers in every useful undertaking”: Formal voluntary associations in Philadelphia, 1725–1775. $49.99 “First Movers in Every Useful Undertaking: Formal Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725–1775,” analyzes in detail the role of voluntary associations in the social, civic, and economic operations and constructions of urban life and governance in Philadelphia. Philadelphians founded over sixty organizations in the colonial period, including libraries, fire companies, a hospital, the first non-sectarian college, scientific societies, and a host of sociable and ethnic clubs. This dissertation draws on organizational Minutes and papers, newspapers and pamphlets, private correspondence and journals to examine the context and impact of these diverse groups.;Clubs and associations played a crucial role in the development of Philadelphia’s civil society. When government abdicated responsibility for such crucial tasks as fire protection or defense of the city in wartime, Philadelphians formed their own organizations. The breadth and activity of civic voluntary associations forces a reconsideration of political process and participation in the colonial period beyond electoral politics. Philadelphians assumed to themselves control and responsibility for a myriad of civic activities, expanding their participation in and direction of community affairs. In this way voluntary associations expanded political process, but simultaneously closed it down as private organizations did not answer to any constituency but their own members. Philadelphians who disagreed with their activities had no way of stopping them.;Associations performed vital work in the local economy, distributing charity, patronizing taverns, purchasing goods and services, and particularly by acting as major lenders of capital. Altogether Philadelphia organizations infused over £43,000 into the economy in the 25 years before the Revolution through loans that ranged from no more than a few pounds to thousands. This avenue of capital was crucial to the men who borrowed it and reveal an unstudied aspect of |
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”History is bunk”: Historical memories at Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village. $49.99 In 1929, Henry Ford opened Greenfield Village, his outdoor history museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Fourteen years earlier, Ford announced that written history was bunk. The museum was designed to reshape the historical project by celebrating farmers and inventors in lieu of military heroes and politicians. Included among the structures were Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory, Noah Webster’s home, and Ford’s Quadricycle shop. Ford used architecture and material culture to connect American progress to self-made manhood, middle-class domesticity, and the inventive spirit. Despite signs that the struggling automotive industry is responsible for Michigan’s economic decline, the site is popular—since 1976 over one million visitors have attended each year. This project examines this phenomenon, which exemplifies how publics often fail to link past and present in the same way that scholars do. The Village’s largely unexplored archives documenting its internal history are mined, along with primary and secondary sources on the histories of public history and the Detroit metropolitan-area. Chapter one studies the site’s construction and audiences during Ford’s presidency arguing that the populist public images of Ford and Edison mediated encounters with the Village. Chapter two links the site to the racial politics of the Detroit metro-area, which marked the Village as an alternative public space for whites. Chapter three draws on visitor surveys, to show how patrons’ worldviews were shaped by the politics of populist-conservativism. Chapter four explains how the appointment of an academic as president ensured the addition of progressive historical narratives, but the site’s location in Dearborn impeded efforts to draw a larger African American audience. In the mid-1990s, the fifth chapter contends, administrators successfully sought new patrons by blending progressive history and entertainment. This project argues that the Village is popular because it articulates both |
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”History is bunk”: Historical memories at Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village. $49.99 In 1929, Henry Ford opened Greenfield Village, his outdoor history museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Fourteen years earlier, Ford announced that written history was bunk. The museum was designed to reshape the historical project by celebrating farmers and inventors in lieu of military heroes and politicians. Included among the structures were Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory, Noah Webster’s home, and Ford’s Quadricycle shop. Ford used architecture and material culture to connect American progress to self-made manhood, middle-class domesticity, and the inventive spirit. Despite signs that the struggling automotive industry is responsible for Michigan’s economic decline, the site is popular—since 1976 over one million visitors have attended each year. This project examines this phenomenon, which exemplifies how publics often fail to link past and present in the same way that scholars do. The Village’s largely unexplored archives documenting its internal history are mined, along with primary and secondary sources on the histories of public history and the Detroit metropolitan-area. Chapter one studies the site’s construction and audiences during Ford’s presidency arguing that the populist public images of Ford and Edison mediated encounters with the Village. Chapter two links the site to the racial politics of the Detroit metro-area, which marked the Village as an alternative public space for whites. Chapter three draws on visitor surveys, to show how patrons’ worldviews were shaped by the politics of populist-conservativism. Chapter four explains how the appointment of an academic as president ensured the addition of progressive historical narratives, but the site’s location in Dearborn impeded efforts to draw a larger African American audience. In the mid-1990s, the fifth chapter contends, administrators successfully sought new patrons by blending progressive history and entertainment. This project argues that the Village is popular because it articulates both |
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”I hope to share my struggles, my successes, and everything in between”: A rhetorical study of health blogs. $49.99 Many patients who are experiencing a serious illness need a way to express their emotions and continue their everyday lives. For some patients, one outlet is through a health blog. Health blogs allow these individuals to share their emotions about their illness through narrative and with a wide audience over the Internet.;The visual and textual elements of health blogs work together to create an identity that is unique to each blogger. As these visual and textual elements combine, one can see the narratives emerge. Through these narratives, the bloggers persuade both themselves and others that they can to some degree) control what is happening to them.;An analysis of these health blog narratives will show how their messages are persuasive. From this analysis, we can argue that using these health blogs for health information is not a viable application. Instead, the audience should understand health blogs as representing specific individuals and their experiences with illness as they try to continue their everyday lives. |
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”I hope to share my struggles, my successes, and everything in between”: A rhetorical study of health blogs. $49.99 Many patients who are experiencing a serious illness need a way to express their emotions and continue their everyday lives. For some patients, one outlet is through a health blog. Health blogs allow these individuals to share their emotions about their illness through narrative and with a wide audience over the Internet.;The visual and textual elements of health blogs work together to create an identity that is unique to each blogger. As these visual and textual elements combine, one can see the narratives emerge. Through these narratives, the bloggers persuade both themselves and others that they can to some degree) control what is happening to them.;An analysis of these health blog narratives will show how their messages are persuasive. From this analysis, we can argue that using these health blogs for health information is not a viable application. Instead, the audience should understand health blogs as representing specific individuals and their experiences with illness as they try to continue their everyday lives. |
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”I’m learning as I go, and I don’t like that”: Urban community college students’ college literacy. $49.99 This study explored the perceptions of students at an urban community college as they prepared for transfer to university. I interviewed four students, Latinas enrolled in teacher education programs, three times each for approximately one hour each. The first interviews were conducted while students were enrolled at Jane Addams College, a pseudonym for an ethnically diverse community college in a large Midwestern city. Follow-up interviews were conducted with the students over the course of one year, in 2006 and 2007. Interviews were conducted in two cases following the students from the community college through transfer to universities, in one case following the student as she continued to study at the community college, and in one case following the student through a period in which she had stopped out of college.;The title of this dissertation is a paraphrase of something a participant said: “There’s a lot that I need to learn…. I’m still, in a way, learning as I go—I don’t like that.” This frustration with learning the rules of the game while the game was in progress was common across the study participants, and their progress was complicated by their struggles to figure out the system as they were trying to navigate it. These students described in substantial depth a phenomenon I named “college literacy.” College literacy encompasses students’ knowledge of the system and their understanding of the consequences of their decisions, including knowing what they need to decide, knowing what the decision options are, and understanding when they need to make decisions to have the optimal experience in college. College literacy is a form of capital, part of the students’ cultural capital.;The students’ college literacy was insufficient when they began studying at community college, whether that happened right after high school, after they left a university, or after they had been away from formal education, and their understanding of college continued to unfold, |
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”I’m learning as I go, and I don’t like that”: Urban community college students’ college literacy. $49.99 This study explored the perceptions of students at an urban community college as they prepared for transfer to university. I interviewed four students, Latinas enrolled in teacher education programs, three times each for approximately one hour each. The first interviews were conducted while students were enrolled at Jane Addams College, a pseudonym for an ethnically diverse community college in a large Midwestern city. Follow-up interviews were conducted with the students over the course of one year, in 2006 and 2007. Interviews were conducted in two cases following the students from the community college through transfer to universities, in one case following the student as she continued to study at the community college, and in one case following the student through a period in which she had stopped out of college.;The title of this dissertation is a paraphrase of something a participant said: “There’s a lot that I need to learn…. I’m still, in a way, learning as I go—I don’t like that.” This frustration with learning the rules of the game while the game was in progress was common across the study participants, and their progress was complicated by their struggles to figure out the system as they were trying to navigate it. These students described in substantial depth a phenomenon I named “college literacy.” College literacy encompasses students’ knowledge of the system and their understanding of the consequences of their decisions, including knowing what they need to decide, knowing what the decision options are, and understanding when they need to make decisions to have the optimal experience in college. College literacy is a form of capital, part of the students’ cultural capital.;The students’ college literacy was insufficient when they began studying at community college, whether that happened right after high school, after they left a university, or after they had been away from formal education, and their understanding of college continued to unfold, |
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”Just another one of God’s gifts”: Prince, African-American masculinity, and the sonic legacy of the eighties. $49.99 The popular recording artist Prince is known for his ability to fuse musical styles considered mutually exclusive on the basis of race—funk and new-wave, R&B and hard rock. Prince has also made a name for himself by moving between different identities—sexual savant, devout man of god, androgynous sprite—a strategy that fit the 1980s, an era of shifting identity politics. This dissertation expands on previous scholarly work, which has claimed Prince as a quintessentially “post-modern” figure, by showing how his music manifests a history of the struggle for African-American self-representation. As an artist well versed in American pop history and deeply engaged with the black church, Prince was bringing the liberatory strategies of African-American culture to bear even as he de-constructed gender and sexuality. This dissertation takes a fresh approach to the question of music and identity: by analyzing Prince’s music with an ear for particular genre references, I present a snapshot of racial politics, music, and American society during a time period that few scholars have yet addressed. Musical genre is the discursive arena in which popular musicians navigate identity and history, and in each of my chapters I have focused on how Prince manipulates genre references, taking instrumental idioms as the signifiers of genre and identity. My introduction considers Prince’s use of the guitar, a “white” rock instrument; chapter one deals with keyboard synthesizers, and how Prince blended R&B horn idioms with new-wave music; chapter two discusses the relationship between funk drumming and black identity, exploring Prince’s symphonic transformations of the funk and his ambivalence to hip-hop. Chapter three connects Prince’s vocal styles to gospel music and the cosmology of the black church; and chapter four details how Prince re-integrated horns into his music, engaging with jazz and R&B as a way to reclaim black musical history. In its blend of musicology, |
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”Just another one of God’s gifts”: Prince, African-American masculinity, and the sonic legacy of the eighties. $49.99 The popular recording artist Prince is known for his ability to fuse musical styles considered mutually exclusive on the basis of race—funk and new-wave, R&B and hard rock. Prince has also made a name for himself by moving between different identities—sexual savant, devout man of god, androgynous sprite—a strategy that fit the 1980s, an era of shifting identity politics. This dissertation expands on previous scholarly work, which has claimed Prince as a quintessentially “post-modern” figure, by showing how his music manifests a history of the struggle for African-American self-representation. As an artist well versed in American pop history and deeply engaged with the black church, Prince was bringing the liberatory strategies of African-American culture to bear even as he de-constructed gender and sexuality. This dissertation takes a fresh approach to the question of music and identity: by analyzing Prince’s music with an ear for particular genre references, I present a snapshot of racial politics, music, and American society during a time period that few scholars have yet addressed. Musical genre is the discursive arena in which popular musicians navigate identity and history, and in each of my chapters I have focused on how Prince manipulates genre references, taking instrumental idioms as the signifiers of genre and identity. My introduction considers Prince’s use of the guitar, a “white” rock instrument; chapter one deals with keyboard synthesizers, and how Prince blended R&B horn idioms with new-wave music; chapter two discusses the relationship between funk drumming and black identity, exploring Prince’s symphonic transformations of the funk and his ambivalence to hip-hop. Chapter three connects Prince’s vocal styles to gospel music and the cosmology of the black church; and chapter four details how Prince re-integrated horns into his music, engaging with jazz and R&B as a way to reclaim black musical history. In its blend of musicology, |
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”Keep America American”: Great Depression, government intervention, and conservative response in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1920s–1940. $49.99 This study of one rural county in western Pennsylvania during the Great Depression highlights people’s response to government recovery programs. Rural folks in Somerset County experienced the depression before the crash in 1929, and throughout the 1920s, miners and farmers in the area found ways to cope with rising unemployment and declining farm prices. Miners used the strike to fight for better conditions; farmers organized into cooperatives to secure the best prices for their products. Each promulgated a set of values that reflected their vision of America. The 1920s was only a prelude to the economic downturn in the 1930s, when rural folks had to adapt to changes in the way that the government approached the economy. Many residents in Somerset County favored the approaches of Herbert Hoover, who honored their cherished values of thrift, self-help, and minimal government. For similar reasons, they also supported Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot, until he began to implement new taxes and to consolidate power at the state level. To many conservatives and localists, Pinchot resembled Franklin Roosevelt, who entered office promising federal assistance to the needy.;When Roosevelt took office, he implemented programs that often contradicted their cherished values. He passed costly federal direct and work relief programs that ran counter to their belief in private charity, self-help, and local control. His and Governor George Earle’s “new deals” also included farm policy that set limits on production and forced processors to pay a tax and consumers to pay more for food. County residents generally favored the laissez faire, supply and demand model for the economy. Even more troubling to the county’s localists and conservatives was the labor legislation that Roosevelt and Earle approved. The National Labor Relations Act, passed in 1935, and Pennsylvania’s Labor Relations Act, passed two years later, forced companies to recognize unions, and residents believed that |
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”Keep America American”: Great Depression, government intervention, and conservative response in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1920s–1940. $49.99 This study of one rural county in western Pennsylvania during the Great Depression highlights people’s response to government recovery programs. Rural folks in Somerset County experienced the depression before the crash in 1929, and throughout the 1920s, miners and farmers in the area found ways to cope with rising unemployment and declining farm prices. Miners used the strike to fight for better conditions; farmers organized into cooperatives to secure the best prices for their products. Each promulgated a set of values that reflected their vision of America. The 1920s was only a prelude to the economic downturn in the 1930s, when rural folks had to adapt to changes in the way that the government approached the economy. Many residents in Somerset County favored the approaches of Herbert Hoover, who honored their cherished values of thrift, self-help, and minimal government. For similar reasons, they also supported Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot, until he began to implement new taxes and to consolidate power at the state level. To many conservatives and localists, Pinchot resembled Franklin Roosevelt, who entered office promising federal assistance to the needy.;When Roosevelt took office, he implemented programs that often contradicted their cherished values. He passed costly federal direct and work relief programs that ran counter to their belief in private charity, self-help, and local control. His and Governor George Earle’s “new deals” also included farm policy that set limits on production and forced processors to pay a tax and consumers to pay more for food. County residents generally favored the laissez faire, supply and demand model for the economy. Even more troubling to the county’s localists and conservatives was the labor legislation that Roosevelt and Earle approved. The National Labor Relations Act, passed in 1935, and Pennsylvania’s Labor Relations Act, passed two years later, forced companies to recognize unions, and residents believed that |
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”Keep going”: African Americans on the road in the era of Jim Crow. $49.99 Americans loved their automobiles. African Americans in particular embraced their automobiles because every aspect of travel in the era of Jim Crow was circumscribed by race and cars allowed them to avoid the segregation of the Jim Crow railroad car and bus. Buying a car also meant participating in consumer capitalism, the essence of American culture. African Americans expressed middle class American values through car ownership and cars helped to alter the way that people behaved toward one and to change deeply entrenched racial etiquette. Along the highways there was a close relationship between race and the organization of space. As black families and business travelers went out on the road, from the 1930s to the 1960s, they discovered a landscape of public establishments where they were unwelcome or even treated with hostility.;To help navigate the hostile roadside environment a variety of guidebooks assisted African Americans as they traveled in a country still in the throes of segregation. These travel guides provided state-by-state listings of public accommodations—hotels and motels, tourist houses, colored YMCAs, restaurants, movie theaters, doctors, barbershops and beauty parlors and various places of entertainment—that welcomed black patronage. The longest lasting and most successful of the African American travel guides was the Negro Motorist’s Green Book, published by Victor and Alma Green in their offices in Harlem. The Green Book appealed to middle class African Americans with its polite and restrained language. Ironically, middle class black travelers believed that travel would promote integration and defeat prejudice, but they were forced to stay in segregated accommodations when they traveled. The Green Book sustained itself for thirty years (1936-1966) by appealing to black middle class travelers and to white liberal supporters. The Standard Oil Corporation sponsored the Green Book and circulated it to their Esso gas station patrons. Travel |
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”Keep going”: African Americans on the road in the era of Jim Crow. $49.99 Americans loved their automobiles. African Americans in particular embraced their automobiles because every aspect of travel in the era of Jim Crow was circumscribed by race and cars allowed them to avoid the segregation of the Jim Crow railroad car and bus. Buying a car also meant participating in consumer capitalism, the essence of American culture. African Americans expressed middle class American values through car ownership and cars helped to alter the way that people behaved toward one and to change deeply entrenched racial etiquette. Along the highways there was a close relationship between race and the organization of space. As black families and business travelers went out on the road, from the 1930s to the 1960s, they discovered a landscape of public establishments where they were unwelcome or even treated with hostility.;To help navigate the hostile roadside environment a variety of guidebooks assisted African Americans as they traveled in a country still in the throes of segregation. These travel guides provided state-by-state listings of public accommodations—hotels and motels, tourist houses, colored YMCAs, restaurants, movie theaters, doctors, barbershops and beauty parlors and various places of entertainment—that welcomed black patronage. The longest lasting and most successful of the African American travel guides was the Negro Motorist’s Green Book, published by Victor and Alma Green in their offices in Harlem. The Green Book appealed to middle class African Americans with its polite and restrained language. Ironically, middle class black travelers believed that travel would promote integration and defeat prejudice, but they were forced to stay in segregated accommodations when they traveled. The Green Book sustained itself for thirty years (1936-1966) by appealing to black middle class travelers and to white liberal supporters. The Standard Oil Corporation sponsored the Green Book and circulated it to their Esso gas station patrons. Travel |
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”No barrier between high and low”: Love, ethics, status and style in the fiction of Ihara Saikaku. $49.99 In 1682 Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693), a leading composer of haikai renga, a linked-verse genre that both appropriates the tropes and devices of Japanese court poetry and ostentatiously flouts its genteel rules of diction, shifted his efforts to fiction and wrote the bestselling Koshoku ichidai otoko (The Life of an Amorous Man), which literary scholars later posited as the founding work of the ukiyozoshi or “floating world fiction” genre, which encompasses the bulk of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Japanese fiction.;The goal of this study is to examine the peculiar mixtures of subject matter, of narrative voices and of styles that make up the texture of Saikaku’s fiction, as well as to explore its relation to a socio-historical context characterized by great de facto social mobility and cultural ferment at odds with the Tokugawa shogunate’s legally imposed system of rigid status categories. To that end I analyze a selection of works that reflects the broad scope of Saikaku’s oeuvre, highlighting commonalities among them while simultaneously striving to capture their diversity. Chief among the traits shared by the texts I analyze are a dialogic quality involving both the mixing of disparate elements mentioned above and the existence within individual texts of competing ethical stances. From this blend of voices emerges a prevailing prosperous- chonin ethos reflecting a bourgeois will to make hierarchy depend on potentially acquirable assets such as money and cultural sophistication, rather than depending on birth, thus replacing a rigid status system with a fluid hierarchy, a sort of meritocracy of the marketplace.;The first chapter examines Budo denraiki (Exemplary Tales of the Way of the Warrior, 1687), a collection of thirty-two samurai vendetta tales. I analyze the manner in which separate currents within Way of the Warrior reflect a blend of gratitude for the peace and prosperity brought by the Tokugawa regime, resentment at the limits placed on |
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”Smooth” inference for clustered survival data. $49.99 Regression analysis of censored clustered-correlated time-to-event data is of interest in family studies, litter-matched tumorigenesis studies, and other settings where the survival times may be thought of as arising in groups or “clusters, ” and the correlation among survival times in each cluster must be taken into account. A natural way to address such dependence is through incorporation of subject-specific random effects. In the first part of this dissertation, we propose an accelerated failure time (AFT) model for such data that involves normally-distributed, mean zero random effects and a within-cluster “error” term that is assumed to have distribution with a density satisfying mild “smoothness” conditions. We approximate the smooth density by the “seminonparametric” (SNP) representation of Gallant and Nychka (1987), which admits a “parametric” form for the density depending on a known “kernel” density and a tuning parameter that determines the degree of flexibility for capturing the true density. This representation facilitates likelihood-based inference on the regression parameter, random effects variance components, and the density, which we implement by a Monte Carlo expectation-maximization (MCEM) algorithm; and we choose the tuning parameter and “kernel” using standard information criteria. Moreover, arbitrary censoring patterns may be accommodated straightforwardly. We illustrate the approach via simulations and by applications to data from Diabetic Retinopathy Study (DRS, Diabetic Retinopathy Study Research Group, 1981), from a litter-matched tumorigenesis study (Mantel, Bohidar, and Ciminera, 1977), and from western Kenya parasitaemia study (McElroy et al., 1997).;The second part of this dissertation focuses on estimation of a bivariate survival function. In many situations, such as twin studies, matched pair studies, and studies of organ such as the eyes and kidneys, correlated, bivariate failure times are recorded. Based on a sample of possibly |
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”Smooth” inference for clustered survival data. $49.99 Regression analysis of censored clustered-correlated time-to-event data is of interest in family studies, litter-matched tumorigenesis studies, and other settings where the survival times may be thought of as arising in groups or “clusters, ” and the correlation among survival times in each cluster must be taken into account. A natural way to address such dependence is through incorporation of subject-specific random effects. In the first part of this dissertation, we propose an accelerated failure time (AFT) model for such data that involves normally-distributed, mean zero random effects and a within-cluster “error” term that is assumed to have distribution with a density satisfying mild “smoothness” conditions. We approximate the smooth density by the “seminonparametric” (SNP) representation of Gallant and Nychka (1987), which admits a “parametric” form for the density depending on a known “kernel” density and a tuning parameter that determines the degree of flexibility for capturing the true density. This representation facilitates likelihood-based inference on the regression parameter, random effects variance components, and the density, which we implement by a Monte Carlo expectation-maximization (MCEM) algorithm; and we choose the tuning parameter and “kernel” using standard information criteria. Moreover, arbitrary censoring patterns may be accommodated straightforwardly. We illustrate the approach via simulations and by applications to data from Diabetic Retinopathy Study (DRS, Diabetic Retinopathy Study Research Group, 1981), from a litter-matched tumorigenesis study (Mantel, Bohidar, and Ciminera, 1977), and from western Kenya parasitaemia study (McElroy et al., 1997).;The second part of this dissertation focuses on estimation of a bivariate survival function. In many situations, such as twin studies, matched pair studies, and studies of organ such as the eyes and kidneys, correlated, bivariate failure times are recorded. Based on a sample of possibly |
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”Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall”: The parabolic narrative of free will in ”Paradise Lost”. $49.99 “‘Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall’: The Parabolic Narrative of Free Will in Paradise Lost” demonstrates how reading Milton’s Paradise Lost as a parable offers new insight into the lessons of the poem. A parable is a narrative with a moral lesson; it teaches its lesson by using familiar topics in unexpected comparisons that draw readers into the text. Reading Milton’s poem in light of this definition offers new ways to discern the themes and figurative language in Milton’s poem. Specifically, seeing Milton’s poem through the lens of the parable of the Prodigal Son helps readers to better understand the tensions and relationships between the characters and God. This dissertation reveals how looking at Milton’s characters and their roles in a new way–as complementary parts of a parabolic narrative–enables us to better understand how the characters function in Paradise Lost . By examining the characters as parabolic figures, we see how they help readers perceive themselves in relation to a broader, universal experience as humans and how they teach readers the logic of free will. Seeing God’s actions from the divergent experiences and perspectives of the main characters brings new understanding of Milton’s message of the nature of God’s grace and free will. When read as a parable, the poem transforms readers’ knowledge of free will from an abstract theological conception to an experience of personal grace. My dissertation explores how Paradise Lost is a parabolic poem that depicts divine and human relationships in order to demonstrate to readers the logic in the radical idea that doing God’s will enables freedom. It demonstrates how considering Paradise Lost as a parable helps readers to recognize their position in the world, to experience the depths of Christianity, and to gain knowledge of themselves and their relationships with God. |
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”Syncretisms” for wind quintet and percussion: A study in combining organizational principles from Southeast Asia with Western stylistic elements. $49.99 Syncretisms is an original composition scored for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and marimba (2-mallet minimum, 4 recommended) with an optional percussion part requiring glockenspiel and chimes, and has an approximate duration of 6 min. 45. sec. The composition combines modern western tuning, timbre, and harmonic language with organizational principles identified in music from Southeast Asia (including music from cultures found in Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia).;The accompanying paper describes each of these organizational principles, drawing on the work of scholars who have performed fieldwork, and describes the way in which each principle was employed in Syncretisms. The conclusion speculates on a method for comparing musical organizational systems cross-culturally. |
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”The Saturday”: Popular narrative, identity, and cultural imaginary in literary journals of early republican Shanghai. $49.99 This dissertation presents a systematic study of The Saturday (Libailiu, 1914–1916, 1921–1923) as a combination of both literary creation and cultural production in 20 th century Shanghai, by analyzing popular narrative in The Saturday, its readership, and its culture. The Saturday was one of the most successful and best-selling popular literary journals in Shanghai in the 1910′s and 1920′s. Released on Saturday mornings, it was China’s first weekly commercial magazine, promoting reading fiction to be consumed during weekend leisure time. The Saturday provides a unique and compelling case study of the intricate process of production, dissemination, and consumption of literature, and of popular media’s participation in the construction of cultural meaning. Focusing on The Saturday and the less-studied Saturday group, I attempt to demonstrate the instrumental role played by popular magazines in the configuration of urban modernity, cultural identity, and literary public sphere in early Republican Shanghai.;The popular narrative and cultural imaginary in The Saturday articulated the quest for modernization, one that emphasized sentiment, everyday experience, a middle-class way of life, economic wealth, moral and social responsibilities, strengthening of the nation, and reinvention of cultural tradition. I explore how ideas and images of modernity were integrated, moderated, and disseminated through popular print media in Republican China. In this process the Saturday group played a multi-functional role of editors, writers, publishers, translators, and readers, and served as a kind of mediator between elite intellectuals and common people, high ideals and cultural practice, and cultural producers and consumers. My reading of The Saturday stories also suggests that popular magazines and the new practice of reading and writing provided a basis to construct a cultural identity among its urban audience. Channeling the cultural expression of social values and |