The preface to this collection of poems, "Memory and The Myth of Lost Truth," explores the physical and metaphysical roles memory plays within poetry. It examines the melancholy frequently birthed from a particular kind poetic self-inquiry, or, more specifically, the feelings associated with recognizing the self's inability to re-inhabit the emotional experience of past events, and how poetry can redeem, via engaging our symbolic intuition, the faultiness of remembered history. Dawn in the Empty House is a collection of poems about the implications of human relationships, self-deception, and memory as a tool for self-discovery.

This document examines the works by Sir Harrison Birtwistle that feature the trumpet as a solo instrument, with extra emphasis placed on The Silk House Tattoo. This document also features a performance guide for the trumpet parts of The Silk House Tattoo. Pedagogical methods for learning the most challenging passages are evaluated, and daily exercises based on the specific demands of each excerpt are offered.

In one of the worst political scandals of the 1990s, a large number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote checks on nonexistent balances in what has become known as the House bank scandal. Agency theory tells us that the most entrenched members of the House should be more likely to consume excessive perquisites in the form of writing more bad checks. In this paper, we employ a Tobit model to test whether more entrenched members of the House engaged in excessive writing of bad checks. Our results support the agency-theoretic interpretation and confirm that entrenched members were more likely to write a greater number of bad checks.

This book is a beginning. It begins to explore three conditions. First is the idea of the boundary - not simply the boundary as something that fixes limits, but as something that defines the spatial qualities of architecture. For example, a space that has four opaque walls, a dark floor and a heavy ceiling will feel like a closed cell. But what if the ceiling doesn't quite complete the boundary of the box, and instead it pulls away from the walls to let in traces of daylight. The light trickles down horizontal bands of green stone and reflects in a plane of water that is the floor. The light indicates the space beyond the boundary. This room has the quiet, meditative feeling of an ancient cave. It still feels closed, but the slight change in the boundary creates an experience more stimulating to the memory of the senses than the closed cell of the original box.Second is the idea of the core - the core as the life, the center, more importantly, the core as the foundation. It is of a different nature than the parts that envelop it; it is lasting. Think of driving down a long country road on a bright summer day. The surrounding fields are overgrown and lush green. Wooden barn structures inhabit these fields, some in use, some no longer used, but beautiful just the same as the sunlight gleams through the spaces in the weathered wooden boards. From a distance, a tall figure rises from a hillside. It appears at first to be one of the many silo structures of the old farms. The stack pointing to the sky is surrounded by low stone walls. It is the chimney that rises from a hearth. It is central to what was once home. It remains standing, a sight reaching across time to speak of home as a shelter, as a place for family, and hearth as a place to gather.Second is the idea of the core - the core as the life, the center, more importantly, the core as the foundation. It is of a different nature than the parts that envelop it; it is lasting. Think of driving down a long country road on a bright summer day. The surrounding fields are overgrown and lush green. Wooden barn structures inhabit these fields, some in use, some no longer used, but beautiful just the same as the sunlight gleams through the spaces in the weathered wooden boards. From a distance, a tall figure rises from a hillside. It appears at first to be one of the many silo structures of the old farms. The stack pointing to the sky is surrounded by low stone walls. It is the chimney that rises from a hearth. It is central to what was once home. It remains standing, a sight reaching across time to speak of home as a shelter, as a place for family, and hearth as a place to gather.The ideas of the boundary, the core and the light of a place are where this project begins. / Master of Architecture

Although household archaeology has been around for a number of years now, it has been slow to truly catch on as a way to learn something about the people of ancient Israel as a whole. Many archaeologists historically were only interested in the monumental architecture like: “palatial and storage complexes, cultic complexes, cemeteries, and fortification systems” (Hardin 2011:12). Archaeologists have realized that studying the basic housing and activity areas of the people that inhabit cities and the outlying areas lead them to have a greater understanding of what is really happening on a day-to-day basis. Understanding what is happening in a small family’s daily life provides information about how the society as a whole might be working. While household archaeology can be studied anywhere by essentially the same methods that will be used in this thesis, my focus will be on the Iron Age II of the southern Levant.

I have placed 6 houses alongside a country road in Värmland. By building new I have wanted to investigate the production of certain spatial moments; moments I have discerned from the presence of places, as the road passes them through this peripheral area. Their differences aside each house derives from a found sense of hospitality, as well a proud mentality of showing the very best of sides to a visitor. Programmatically the houses portray one tale each - about an encounter and that of being a host and invite a guest inside. That being said the host could very well be the house in itself. I have asked myself: what if a visitor passed by, what would take place? - And what would the building express in waiting for that to happen?

House Bill 38 will allocate up to $13 million per year in state sales tax revenue to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) beginning in Fiscal Year 2001. To plan for this major budget enhancement, the VDGIF asked us (in cooperation with Responsive Management and Dr. Brett Wright) to identify the agency programs and functions that VDGIF employees gave high priority to for the allocation of additional resources, and to compare these priorities with those of the agency's external constituents. We also evaluated how internal and external stakeholders rated agency performance in its programs. Of all VDGIF functions, employees felt most strongly that more resources should be allocated to enhancing public awareness of VDGIF and to providing general wildlife-related education and information to Virginia citizens. Among constituent groups, employees placed higher priority for additional resources on educating and informing children and youth than they did on allocating additional resources to educate urban/suburban constituents, women and minorities. Employees assigned high priority for additional resources to capital improvement needs and to land acquisition-related issues. Activities that improved the agency's ability to provide hunting opportunities such as enforcing laws that protect habitat, encouraging private landowners to open their lands for hunting and managing game animals also received high priority for additional resources. Although employees felt that nearly all agency programs needed additional resources, their assessment of agency performance varied widely. Programs in which agency performance was relatively poor, such as acquisition of additional land and water for wildlife conservation, educating and informing citizens, and providing education and outreach to schools, have greater need for additional resources than programs in which agency performance was quite good (e.g., hunter education and enforcement programs). Virginia citizens felt law enforcement and providing safety education for boating and hunting were VDGIF's most important functions. Both citizens and employees placed greater importance on the existence value of wildlife than they did on its recreational value. Virginia citizens placed significantly less importance on providing hunting opportunities than did VDGIF employees and substantially more on providing wildlife viewing opportunities than did agency personnel. This study also revealed substantial latent interest in fish and wildlife-oriented recreation among Virginians who currently do not participate and that all forms of wildlife-related recreation in Virginia have substantial growth potential. / Master of Science

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This thesis is a proposed house located at Smithfield, a property that has been in the Smith family for over two centuries. Located in Russell County, Virginia, the land has a rich history, and the design of the house addresses the historical significance of the site. The house reflects both the past and the present. While the house is rooted in early regional building traditions, the proposed house is modern in the use of materials and details. The final design reflects the historical context of the site and region while incorporating modern concepts of how we live today. / Master of Architecture / This thesis is a proposed house located at Smithfield, a property that has been in my family for over two centuries. It is based on the regional architecture of Southwest Virginia and our family's history and ties to the land. While the house is rooted in early regional building traditions, the proposed house is modern in the use of materials and details. Like what has come and gone before us, the house is not meant to stand forever, but become a living memory to our family.