Psalters--England--Illustrations; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--England; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
A Psalter or Book of Psalms is a book of the Hebrew Bible with the text of 150 songs, traditionally believed to have been written by the Hebrew King David. The Psalter was used for both public worship and private prayers and, until Books of Hours...
A woman in a long dress clutches a copy of the McGuffey Reader in the doorway of the McGuffey Log School. Thomas acquired possession of this schoolhouse (similar to the one she had attended as a child) in Big Sandy country, and had it moved to the...
African American men--Mental health; Depression in men; Depression, Mental--Social aspects
Background: In any given year depression affects as many as 121 million people worldwide and 20 percent or 19 million people in the U.S. suffer from at least one episode of depression during their lifetime. In the U.S., depression has a substantial...
Human-animal relationships in literature; Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation; Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Characters--Elizabeth Costello; Animals (Philosophy); Animal rights
For the past four decades, scholarship on the relationship between human and
nonhuman animals has been growing inside the academy and sprouting ontological and
epistemological concerns about the status of the Humanities as an institution....
Tutors and tutoring; English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)
In this dissertation, I present the results of research conducted in the University Writing Center at the University of Louisville during the fall of 2006 and serves as an example of an empirical study blending qualitative and quantitative methods....
Inspired by William Butler Years and his theory that "A poet...never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table…" from "A General Introduction for My Work" this poetic thesis examines everyday occurrences in an often...
Jean Thomas (center) examines a McGuffey Reader with one woman while another rings a school bell outside the McGuffey Log School, Ashland, Kentucky. Thomas acquired possession of this schoolhouse (similar to the one she had attended as a child) in...
Jean Thomas (center) examines a McGuffey Reader with one woman while another rings a school bell outside the McGuffey Log School, Ashland, Kentucky. Thomas acquired possession of this schoolhouse (similar to the one she had attended as a child) in...
Jean Thomas, wearing a calico dress, stands in the doorway of the McGuffey Log School clutching a McGuffey Reader. Thomas acquired possession of this schoolhouse (similar to the one she had attended as a child) in Big Sandy country, and had it...
Rural schools; Women; Log cabins; Books; Costumes--United States
Jean Thomas, wearing a hat and dress, stands in the doorway of the McGuffey Log School clutching a McGuffey Reader. Thomas acquired possession of this schoolhouse (similar to the one she had attended as a child) in Big Sandy country, and had it...
Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress, stands outdoors holding a McGuffey Reader and examining McGuffey's Reading Charts, which have been hung from a tree. Thomas attended a McGuffey School as a child, and later acquired possession of a...
Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress, stands outdoors holding a McGuffey Reader and examining McGuffey's Reading Charts, which have been hung from a tree. Thomas attended a McGuffey School as a child, and later acquired possession of a...
Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress, stands outdoors pointing to Lesson X (10) of McGuffey's Reading Charts, which have been hung from a tree. A copy of the McGuffey Reader leans against the tree, and a school bell sits beside it. Thomas...
Jean Thomas, wearing a long black dress, stands outdoors pointing to Lesson X (10) of McGuffey's Reading Charts, which have been hung from a tree. A copy of the McGuffey Reader leans against the tree, and a school bell sits beside it. Thomas...
Visual learning; Animated films--Japan; Motion pictures in education; Audio-visual education
Our contemporary culture is laden with a glut of visual stimuli: advertising, packaging, television, film, the internet, digital-camera-wireless-web-access-mobile-phones. In a world filled with visually rhetorical media, it is imperative that the...
Portrait of Dr. Carl Louis Perin wearing eyeglasses, dark suit jacket with white bow tie, and multiple medallions pinned to his jacket. Dr. Perin was a palm reader, author of books about the science of palmistry, mind reader, and hypnotist....
News Web sites; Electronic newspapers; Webcasting; Internet radio broadcasting; Internet television
The Internet offers a tremendous opportunity for traditional media to expand and/or enhance news stories. This thesis is an exploration of the convergent journalism practices of three news organizations in a medium-sized market. It employed content...
The role of mothers, the constitution of families, and the power of their stories are the bedrock of my thesis, which is the first 90 pages of a novel entitled Playing House . In it, I hope to investigate the denotation and connotation of the words...
This dissertation explores the physical and biological factors that control zooplankton population growth rates in the Ohio River (USA). I employed both observational studies and a mesocosm experiment to ascertain zooplankton population and...
Sick--Personal narratives; Sick--Psychology; Sick--Biography--History and criticism; Narrative medicine
This dissertation uses a phenomenological and sociological lens to explore how non-fiction illness narratives help us understand how perception of the self is disrupted because of serious illness or injury. Specifically, I use the French...
