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Item Appropriating the Past: Language, Archaeology, and Ideology in South Asia (2013-04-11)(2013) Hock, Hans Henrich; University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of EnglishItem Byzantium as the New Israel (2011-04-05)(2011) Magdalino, Paul; University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of EnglishItem "Celebrating Women of Courage and Vision": Women's History Month (2001-03)(2001) University of Minnesota Duluth. Women's Resource and Action CenterItem Chaucer's Marriage Group: Marriage, God, and Governance(2013) Schock, WilliamItem Communicating Grammatically: Evaluating a Learner Strategies Website for Spanish Grammar(2009-12-03) Thompson, Jonathan; Witzig, LanceThis website is dedicated to the pursuit of ways to enhance learners’ control of Spanish grammar.Item The Dark Wood and the Medieval World: Dante and the Global Middle Ages (2010-04-14)(2010) Noakes, Susan; University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of EnglishItem Drawing Goal Lines: Stare Decisis and the U.S. Supreme Court(2010-04-21) Hart, Andrew M.Stare decisis, Latin for “to stand by,” is the central principle of common law. Essentially, stare decisis conveys the idea that once the judicial system has decided a point of law, it should adhere to that decision when the facts in subsequent cases are similar. This is why cases set “precedents,” or in other words, why law developed in past decisions is used to decide new ones. Many of the American judicial system’s most famous cases – for example, Brown v. Board of Education – see the Supreme Court reject precedent explicitly and dramatically to overrule past case law. This leads to the common perception that precedent is simply “applied” or “overturned.” My research takes a different view. I examined cases stemming from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits certain kinds of discrimination in employer hiring practices. Since the case law interpreting the new statue was created from a clean slate, I was able to trace the entire development of precedent-setting cases stemming from this law. My research confirms that stare decisis is not a rigid mandate to apply or overturn precedent, but a flexible tool that justices on the Supreme Court use to effect outcomes. Justices have personal ideologies and political goals and must act strategically to further those goals. I examine the development of law arising from Title VII to model this strategic action as a process of laying down a “playing field” of basic concepts and directions in the law in the earliest cases arising from new legislation. Subsequent decisions strategically set and reset the “goal lines” on the “playing field,” a process in which the law often shifts dramatically despite the fact that the principle of stare decisis is not violated.Item Everybody Loves a Clown: An Examination of the Style and Performance of Clown(2010-04-21) Witham, AllisonWithin the U of M Theatre Arts BA program, there exist two main acting tracks: the Margolis method and the Lecoq method. The Ecole Lecoq (Lecoq school) in Paris, originated by Jacques Lecoq, focuses on physically training the actor through a vigorous two year program culminating in the study of clown. It is said that comedy is the most difficult form for an actor to play and that clowning is an art form. Most classic comedians-Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Monty Python, Mr.. Bean-they are all examples of clowns with more modern examples being Jim Carry, Mike Meyers, Stephen Colbert, and Steve Carell. Why then are clowns so stigmatized in our culture? And why is comedy so difficult? I decided to take this question up and enter the laboratory of the theatre arts-the rehearsal studio. I applied for both a slot in the Xperimental Theatre’s 2009-2010 season and a UROP grant to fund my research as co-director and Dramaturg. The show created in the X was the result of much research and research, and ultimately led me to find an immensely greater understanding and appreciation of the form.Item History Repeating: Renaissance Ekphrasis and Andrea Mantegna's Calumny of Apelles(2012-04-16) Emison, Emily RuthItem A Holiday Reading: In Memory of Joseph Maiolo (2015-12-09)(2015) University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of EnglishThe UMD Department of English welcomes you to A Holiday Reading in memory of Joseph Maiolo. Please join us for festive readings by students and faculty featuring a special reading of work by Joseph Maiolo.Item I Was in Italy and I Spoke Italian: Territories of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" (2014-11-20)(2014) Schwetman, John; University of Minnesota Duluth. Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International StudiesItem I will no longer play with thee: Dialogue and Vernacular Authority in the Canterbury Tales (2001-03-23)(2001) University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of EnglishItem In situ analysis of perforin expression in SIV-specific CD8 T cells in tissues from rhesus macaques vaccinated with live-attenuated SIVΔnef and challenged with SIVmac251(2011-04-13) Wagstaff, ReeceHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified as the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the 1980s, and since then it has proliferated into one of the most vexing pandemics of its time, if not all of human history. As of today, there is still no known cure for HIV, although numerous strategies are currently being pursued to confer immunity. Vaccines represent one of those strategies, and are a plausible method for bestowing resistance to HIV and other lentiviruses. Currently, research exists to show that attenuated vaccines created from simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), an HIV analogue present in simians such as the Rhesus Macaque, provide suitable resistance for that disease in the simian model. Being that the SIV genome is sufficiently similar to the HIV genome, there is a good probability that an attenuated vaccine created from HIV could produce comparable immunity in humans, however, the mechanism by which SIV vaccines confer resistance is still not well understood and needs to be studied further if attenuated HIV vaccines are ever to be presented in human clinical trials. My hypothesis is that an early, robust, SIV-specific CD8 T cell response in lymph nodes and in the site of infection is responsible for the protection induced from live-attenuated SIV vaccines. To test this hypothesis I quantified perforin assays in lymphatic tissues of immunized macaques that have been challenged with pathogenic SIV. The assays were created by immunohistochemistry staining techniques, including in-situ tetramer staining, and evaluated via scanning confocal microscopy.Item Inauguration of the Klaus P. Jankofsky Fund (2000-05-10)(2000) University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of EnglishItem The Intentions of Gawain: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight through the lens of Peter Abelard's Theory of Intention(2011-02-21) Alanen, Miriam AItem Interview with Edward Griffin(University of Minnesota, 1994-12-28) Griffin, Edward; Chambers, Clarke A.Clarke A. Chambers interviews Edward Griffin, professor for the departments of English and American Studies.Item Interview with John Wright(University of Minnesota, 1994-08-11) Wright, John; Chambers, Clarke A.Clarke A. Chambers interviews John Wright, professor and chair for the Department of Afro-American Studies.Item Interview with Kate Stanley(University of Minnesota, 1999-07-28) Stanley, Kate; Pflaum, Ann M.Ann Pflaum interviews Kate Stanley, graduate of the University and former editor of the Daily.