Abstract
This paper is a look into the life and Studies of ULCA professor Eric Avila: firstly, his upbringing and scholarship at UCLA, secondly, the major themes in his work and publications (Chicano history, Urban Space, Los Angeles History, American History). Keeping with the themes is a brief analysis of what his themes mean and how they function into a modern American Consciousness. Lastly are a list of Eric Avila's publications.

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Eric Avila Biography Eric Avila, Associate Professor of Chicano Studies, has had a profound impact on his students and his academic interests: 20th Century U.S. History (specifically, the history of Los Angeles); urban and cultural history; popular and mass culture, architecture, race, ethnicity and Chicano Studies. Professor of Eric Avila received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1997, he has taught Chicano Studies and History at U.C.L.A. and was promoted to associate professor in 2004. His best known works include

Tags:chicano studies, landscape, avila

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This paper is a historical song review that compares the lyrics of Joan Osborne song, "St. Teresa", to the actual events in the life of St. Teresa, the 16th century Spanish nun. The author looks at the lyrics, the historical context, the artist, and the works of the saint herself.

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"The song St. Teresa by Joan Osborne on her 1995 album, Relish, is rather vague at a glance. The song begins in a street corner describing a woman and her child and moves into a mystical theme involving Saint Teresa. Osborne sings begins in first person, but shifts between what seems to be several characters in the song. St. Teresa, according to the songwriter herself, is actually about the women she saw from her window selling drugs on the corner through the night, their young children in tow. This scene was marked by a striking contrast between the innocence and purity of the children and the little crime, Osborne 17. Osborne's vision of the absolute beauty and devastating abomination of mankind was liken to that of the saints' visions from God, especially that of Saint Teresa of Avila . Osborne takes on the voice of the saint, the sinner, and the omnipotent observer in the lyrics of St. Teresa."

Tags:catholic, christian, lyrics, music, religion, spain, inquisition, nun, mystic

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This paper analyzes the various stages of life in Gross's biography through a humanistic and theological perspective of the life of Saint Teresa of Avila. The paper shows how with her life of suffering as a young woman in the nunnery, Gross is able to detail how she was able to remain 'human', even with such a devoted spiritual communion with God.

Tags:gender, avila, sexuality

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This paper looks at the ways in which both "Popular Culture in The Age of White Flight" by Eric Avila, and "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos" by Rodolfo Acuna consider the years after World War II. By first looking at the issue of racism in the post war years, then at the politicalization of the underclass, both in Los Angeles, and the Chicano peoples, this paper hopes to highlight the differences between considering culture through a wide lens, such as Avila's work, or though a narrow lens, such as Acuna's book. By looking at each of these subjects, the paper considers whether there is any advantage to analyzing culture through either of these lenses alone, or whether a wider strategy may be needed in order to combine all of the sources of information in order to reach a community.

Outline:
Introduction and Thesis
Racism in the Post War Years
Politicalization of the Underclass
Wide Lens, Long range Lens
Conclusion

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"Acuna's book is, without doubt, one of the most important studies of a nation, and Avila's is also an essential study of a community within a larger nation. Both of the subjects of these books reflect wider issues, particularly of racism and politics, which are clear issues within these works. Acuna's work may also be read as a much more academic work than Avila's - the latter being more like a sociological paperback than a close study. This is shown through slightly confrontational language which Acuna uses: "Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Suburbs" (Avila, 2004), which is less academic than that of Acuna "The Mexican American within the Civil Rights Movement" (Acuna, 2000). One may see here the challenging way in which Avila presents his information is in direct contrast to the Acuna's expression. "

Tags:culture, racism, politics, nation, community

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In this religious study of 'The Interior Castle' by Teresa of Avila, one can realize the seven "mansions" of prayer that the Carmelite Prioress of the 16th century depicts in prayer. By analyzing the architectural symbolism that Teresa implies within the seven rooms within her Christian castle, the basis for prayer can be elucidated in stages or levels. In essence, the objective of this study is to define these seven mansions of prayer that arise with 'The Interior Castle' by Teresa of Avila.

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"... the soul is the messenger for the body, the spirit becomes the new identity in Heaven that becomes truly one with Christ in Teresa's Interior Castle. As a result of this marriage death is no longer an issue of fear and the spirit can rest within Heaven. This is the ultimate unity of prayer and meditation that allows the soul to leave the Earth and unite with the soul in God inner sanctum."

Tags:teresa, seven, christ

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This paper examines the subject of Renaissance women, making use of the literary works of Christine de Pizan and St Teresa de Avila. In this article, the writer discusses that the notion of the fashioning of a feminine self in keeping with the Renaissance ways of thought, may be found in the wroks of de Pizan and de Avila.

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"The thesis that the Renaissance developed a new sense of history, resulting in significant changes in writing about past and present lives, assumes particular meaning in application to the roles of biography and autobiography in the works of Christine de Pizan and St. Teresa de Avila. This essay will argue, with respect to the celebratory presentation of female identity in the past and present in the works of de Pizan and de Avila, that their works share a Renaissance preoccupation with the fashioning of a feminine self that may be distinguished from the sexist construction of femininity by other writers of the late medieval and early modern periods."

Tags:women, renaissance, self

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The paper summarizes three articles on the topic of the human papilloma virus (HPV): "Quadrivalent HPV Recombinant Vaccine (Gardasil) for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer" by Angie L. Goeser, "The Effect of Prophylactic Human Papillomavirus L1 Virus-Like-Particle Vaccine on Risk of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia Grade 2, Grade 3, and Adenocarcinoma in Situ: A Combined Analysis of four Randomized Clinical Trials" by S. Kjaer M. Lehtinen G. Perez and L. Villa and "Efficacy of a Quadrivalent Prophylactic Human Papillomavirus L1 Virus-Like-Particle Vaccine Against High-Grade Vulval and Vaginal Lesions: A Combined Analysis of Three Randomised Clinical Trials" by Mauricio Hernandez-Avila and Elmar A. Joura, Sepp Leodolter and Cosette M. Wheeler. The paper
discusses the articles' tremendous implications for health care and community health education. The paper then explains that cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer and resulting cancer death in women worldwide. The paper explains further that since the yearly Pap smear given to women cannot detect certain types of cancerous cells or lesions, the need for this type of vaccine to prevent HPV-related diseases is sorely needed.

Outline:
Three Literature Reviews:
Article One
Article Two
Article Three
Implications for Health Care and Community Health Education Based on the Studies' Conclusions

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"Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) has been "identified at a higher rate in the tissue of women diagnosed with cervical cancer than among nonaffected controls (citing Salmeron et al, 2003; Balmes, Ritz, & Tager, 2005, p. 245). The disease can cause pathologies including, but not limited to, pain during intercourse, chronic pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy, genital warts, and penile, anal, cervical, and vulvar carcinoma (Immerman & Mackey, 1997, p. 443; Lytwyn & Sellors, 1997, p. 113). The disease is believed to be sexually transmitted and is the "second most common cause of cancer and cancer death in women worldwide, with 80% of cases occurring in the developing world...95% of cancers of the uterine cervix are caused by certain types of human papillomaviruses" (citing Franco 1994; Lytwyn & Sellors, 1997, p. 113). Although Papanicolaou (Pap) tests have led to the decrease in mortality rates caused by cervical cancer, approximately 230,000 women per year die from the disease worldwide (Kjaer, Lehtinen, Perez, & Villa, et al, 2007, p. 1861)"

Tags:vaccine, sexual, transmission, disease, cervical, cancer, women, Pap, smear

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This paper provides a short summary of four different sources of religious thinking: "The Book of Common Prayer"; Martin Luther's "Christian Liberty"; "The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself"; and the Protestant Reformation book, "Schleitheim Confession". The paper also compares these texts.

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"He believed in the universal priesthood of man in that every man should have equal access to the Christian religion. Luther believed that man was free from sin through his devotion to God and bound to serve his neighbor through the fact that every man is the son of God and must be loved. This differs significantly from "The Book of Common Prayer" in that sin is treated as something that can be completely absolved from man through faith in God."

Tags:God, Brotherly, Union, Jesus

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The paper examines the works of several classicists to determine their viewpoints on the philosophical issues of "Who is Man?" and "What is Man's highest calling?". The paper shows the theories of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola in his "Oration on the Dignity of Man", of Petrarch through his poetry, of Saint Augustine in his "Confessions", of Teresa of Avila through her works, and of Shakespeare's "King Lear", who, although a fictional character, expresses the idea of royal power.

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"Saint Augustine in his Confessions asks if being in the world a man can obtain a higher plane of spiritual existence. He uses his own life as an example of his journey to God. Certainly Saint Augustine would agree with the writings of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Augustine lived a baser life for a long time until he came to his own version of spiritual truth. He explored various philosophical thought including skepticism before he embraced the faith of his mother Monica. He didn't come into Catholicism easily but only after the deep internal thought and meditation that Giovanni Pico della Mirandola offers as the way to the higher spiritual plane."

Tags:Divine, Interior, Castle, Jesus, Christ

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The paper explores several texts including "The Confessions" by Augustine, "The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila" by Herself, Petrarch's poetry, and Shakespeare's drama "King Lear" and shows that all of these are products of societies in which the dominant religious ethos was Christian rather than pagan. The paper shows that although all the texts share this similar historical feature, fundamentally opposing views of the self (the distinction between outer and inner life) are articulated through the theological texts in contrast with the works of lyric and dramatic poetry.

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"This Christian point of view, of the importance of the interior over the exterior, seems to at first be born out in Shakespeare's "King Lear." In the first scene, the king of the title is witnessed undervaluing the contribution of his youngest daughter Cordelia, whom honestly tells him how much she loves him, unlike his superficial and cruel daughters Gonoril and Reagan. "King Lear" is set in pre-Christian times yet was written in a Christian era. This might seem to validate the idea that pagan times valued the exterior, while Christianity values the interior. Yet everyone around and outside of Lear sees through his daughters, except the man himself, even at the very beginning. The king of France marries Cordelia without a dowry. Similarly, in the subplot of Gloucester, the man is unable to understand the treachery of his bastard son until he has rejected his true son. "

Tags:selfhood, Pico, della, Mirandola, Cordelia, Laura