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Marie Élisabeth Aimée Lucas-Robiquet (1858-1959): interior depictions of Maghrebi weavers -- Interior representations of Maghrebi women -- Describing the Maghrebi exterior: women Orientalists' depictions of life and landscape -- Modernism in the works of French women Orientalists.

"The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James's soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR's All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents who wrestle with raising children while pursuing a career, she has never been cavalier about these decisions. The bargain she has always made with herself is this: this time I'll get on the plane, and next year I'll find a way to be there for the mom stuff. Well, James and Alexander are now seventeen and fifteen, and a realization has overtaken Mary Louise: her older son will be leaving soon for college. There used to be years to make good on her promises; now, there are months, weeks, minutes. And with the devastating death of her beloved father as well as a surprising turn in her marriage, Mary Louise is facing act three of her life head-on. Mary Louise is coming to grips with the reality every parent faces. Childhood has a definite expiration date. You have only so many years with your kids before they leave your house to build their own lives. It's what every parent is supposed to want, what they raise their children to do. But it is bittersweet. Mary Louise is also dealing with the realities of having aging parents, and that marriages change. This pivotal time brings with it the enormous questions of what you did right and what you did wrong. This chronicle of her eldest child's final year at home, of losing her father, as well as other curve balls thrown at her, is not a definitive answer-not for herself and certainly not for any other parent. But her questions, her issues, will resonate with every parent. And, yes, especially with mothers, who are judged more harshly by society and, more important, judge themselves more harshly. What would she do if she had to decide all over again? Mary Louise's thoughts as she faces the coming year will speak to anyone who has ever cared about a child, a parent or a spouse. It. Goes. So. Fast. is honest, funny, poignant, revelatory, and immensely relatable"--

Department Head: Bruce A. Ronda. ; 2010 Spring. ; Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-91). ; The following thesis investigates the most dominant rhetorical strategies used by President Obama in his health care reform proposals, and the resistance which has manifested in their wake by three public non-profit organizations. Due to the complexity and divisiveness of such efforts, this project strives to understand the rhetorical nature of health care reform policy and its resistance by answering the following questions: What kinds of rhetorical strategies are President Obama and these organizations using to establish a position in the current debate surrounding U.S. health care reform and policy? More specifically, how are people within organizations, such as Conservatives for Patients' Rights and Patients United Now, using language to formulate resistance to current health care reform as proposed under the Obama administration in the U.S.? What can be understood by examining the use of these rhetorical strategies through specific theoretical lenses such as affective theories of politics and emotions and cognition and metaphor? Based on my analyses of three speeches and three websites, I conclude that both President Obama and the three public groups are using a rhetoric of crisis to establish and frame their rhetorical positions on health care. Further, I argue that this tool of crisis works to increasingly destabilize the possibility of a larger public debate or conversation on this issue which impacts the lives of everyone.