MLAS (Master of Liberal Arts and Science)http://hdl.handle.net/1803/29772024-03-29T07:01:26Z2024-03-29T07:01:26ZSllt - Seven Musings on a Great BookGreen, Roberthttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/55982020-04-22T06:05:49Z2009-12-17T00:00:00ZSllt - Seven Musings on a Great Book
Green, Robert
A pastiche written to explore and enjoy the play of language after James Joyce’s Ulysses. Student research for MLAS 260 36 with Professor Roy Gottfried.
2009-12-17T00:00:00ZAdult Illiteracy in NashvilleGreen, Roberthttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/50432020-04-22T08:01:06Z2011-12-13T00:00:00ZAdult Illiteracy in Nashville
Green, Robert
VU MLAS 340 03: Capstone Workshop; Professor Michael P. Hodges; Issues around Adult Illiteracy in Nashville
2011-12-13T00:00:00Z“Camels, Pandas and Saber-Toothed Cats in Tennessee: Fossil Discoveries Weave a Tale”Moss, Judyhttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/48022020-04-22T07:09:37Z2010-12-15T00:00:00Z“Camels, Pandas and Saber-Toothed Cats in Tennessee: Fossil Discoveries Weave a Tale”
Moss, Judy
MLAS Capstone Course 340-01. Professor: Mark Schoenfield, Chair, Department of English. http://www.tennesseefossilscentral.com/index.html. Amazing Tennessee fossil discoveries including ETSU's Gray, TN dig site unearthed in 2000 that produced new species. Information on Tennessee museums and fossil exhibits is provided, along with educational data regarding the process of aging fossils and financial expenditures related to fossil protection and processing. The research project includes a paper and website.
2010-12-15T00:00:00ZSinging for Strength: Enslaved Africans and Community Building in the Transatlantic Slave TradeMoore, J. Hunterhttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/39412020-04-22T08:07:49Z2009-04-01T00:00:00ZSinging for Strength: Enslaved Africans and Community Building in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Moore, J. Hunter
Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature of daily life and special events. Many people sing, but for enslaved Africans singing may have been a means of survival. Slaves often found themselves surrounded by other slaves with whom they had no prior social relationship. Singing would have enabled them to create an immediate sense of community, mitigating the effects of the severe dislocation they suffered. Singing also helped to preserve a sense of community among slaves once they were settled in the colonies. Contemporary accounts attest to the importance of both singing and community in West Africa, the source for the majority of slaves in the transatlantic trade. Similar evidence exists for African slaves in the British colonies of the Caribbean and North America as well as for their descendants. Finally, a positive view of the creative adaptation or "creolization" of cultural forms by enslaved Africans is compared with earlier analyses that described it as being purely destructive.
Student research for MLAS course. This paper examines singing by enslaved Africans in the Transatlantic slave trade, the importance
of singing to the people of West Africa, and its importance to the descendants of enslaved Africans in the Transatlantic colonies and United States. Written for MLAS 270 33: New Methods,
New Discoveries, and New Interpretations in Slavery Studies with Prof. Jane Landers, Spring 2009. Paper includes a bibliography.
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