Vespers

Words Beneath Our Feet When walking amongst an old abandoned building taken over by nature, on a land you are unfamiliar with, do you ever wonder what had happened there? If there were secrets held, deaths or tortured souls that once walked on the very ground you are standing on? This is how I feel about the lands of the South. I believe that trees hundreds of years old and the dirt beneath our feet hold the stories. They can hold the residual emotions that once swept the places at hand and…

pushed to provide large amounts of data and information to accrediting bodies and governing boards. This push for continuous evaluation and improvement has increased the need for new ways to measure student learning and development (Kuh, Pace, and Vesper, 1997). Institutions have turned to student surveys as a convenient avenue for assessing outcomes that would be impractical or difficult to measure with existing tools (Astin, 1993). Astin (1993) also notes that survey data can assess a greater…

Christian liturgy is a pattern for worship used by a Christian congregation or denomination on a regular basis while Theology is the critical study of concepts of God and of the nature of religious ideas. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He was born in Eisenach into a great musical family and moved to Leipzig in 1723. He is extremely known for his German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmony, motivic development, use of rhythm, forms,…

Pine. “Lumberjacks Electrified as Japan Strikes U.S.” December 9, 1941 President Roosevelt war message heard is heard in a special assembly for the students can hear what is happening in the country. News of the attack reached the campus on Sunday afternoon as the student body tried to understand what was unfolding. Classes were dismissed on Monday, December 8, 1941, for students to hear President Roosevelt’s speech to Congress about the attack. Dr. T.J. Tormey spoke after the speech ended…

In the article “A Generational Approach to Understanding Students” authors Michael D. Coomes and Robert DeBard give us insight on different theories and frameworks studied to understand the Millennial generation and the relationship between generational succession. The frameworks included in this article help us understand the relationship between people of different age groups present on campus and how they function. The authors believe a generational perspective is important to understand the…

In 1798 a well-known poet named Samuel Taylor Coleridge published his poem The Rime of The Ancient Mariner. The poem was contained in a poem collage by Coleridge and William Wordsworth called the Lyrical Ballads. Coleridge is known for the Romantic influence in his writings: “Coleridge achieved wonder by the frank violation of natural laws, impressing upon readers a sense of occult powers and unknown modes of being” (“The Romantic Period: Topics.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature).…

During the classical period in Xian, China; Paris, France and Timbuktu, a great deal of importance was placed on education. One of the first universities was in China and the purpose of said university was to prepare young men to become officials and bureaucrats. Institutions of advanced learning in Timbuktu were called Madrasas, but teachers would also teach out of their homes as well. Paris also had a large university, which students attended to become teachers themselves. Students in these…

Prologue: One does not know the name of the author since the document is a simple record of a trial that occurred in the mid-14th Century. We can guess who the writer of this court record by looking who the prominent scribes for the criminal court of the Parlement of Paris in the fourteenth century were. Being the scribe of a court trial is not really relevant to who the author is though. Just copying down precedents does not quite give a voice to the document. The record describes the…

All of the great works of philosophy from Socrates to Martin Buber have utilized the tool of dialogue as a method of explaining their teachings. Philosophical dialogue is primarily a conversation between two people on the topic of a particular philosophy, generally the dialogue is between a younger inexperienced but inquisitive person and an older wiser master who in some cases is the founder of the philosophy being discussed. Many times the conversation is based on the questions posed by the…

Purpose of the Study There are numerous studies that have focused on the African American male and to their development and persistence from a quantitative standpoint. A few qualitative studies have used Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a theory. African American Male Theory (AAMT) is a relatively new theory that has been identified and would be an additional piece of work to add to the study. Even though CRT and AAMT are similar, there has not been much investigation related to using AAMT…