Abstract
This paper examines how Mu-lan, Jaia Sun Childers, Zhang Xinxin, and other contemporary Chinese female writers, persist with the idea that women cannot achieve a wholeness in the assumption of a role, whether it be that of Chinese soldier, revolutionary warrior, or scorned lover. It looks at how gender roles appear only to limit a woman; only once she has achieved wholeness with her femininity and her strength as a woman, outside of traditional bonds or in a cultural gender-neutral framework, can the Chinese woman truly aspire to autonomy, intellectualism, and love.

From the Paper
"Chinese women writers have found it necessary even in modern times, to reject the social roles that men have imposed upon them. These social roles represent one that is quite different from that which faced Mu-lan. For Chinese women writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, it has become more crucial for them to bring the idea of femininity into focus, as opposed to Mu-lan who had to hide her femininity entirely. Much of this stems from the Chinese Cultural Revolution. At this time, many of the traditional social and moral values changed, and lost their validity. At this time, women writers who produced works which embraced and celebrated femininity were widely criticized for having thought and ideas that ran counter to the revolution."

Tags:mu-lan, jaia, sun, childers, zhang, xinxin

Abstract
This paper explains Mississippi voter demographics and voter turnout statistics. The results of the 2002 presidential election and the 2006 senatorial and house elections are related and candidates and issues for coming elections are discussed. The Republican Party, the paper concludes, has continued to gain strength in Mississippi with Haley Barbour becoming only the second Republican Mississippi governor in more than 130 years.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Median Income; Education
Partisanship: Democrat (Blue State)/Republican (Red State)
Voter Turnout
Last Presidential Election
Last Senate and House Race: 2006 General Election
U.S. Senate
First Congressional District
Second Congressional District
Third Congressional District
Fourth Congressional District
The Candidates
Senate Race
Incumbent Roger Wicker (R) and Ronnie Musgrove (D)
Roger Wicker
Ronnie Musgrove
House Race Choices: MS-1: Incumbent Travis Childers (D) and Greg Davis (R)
Particular Relevant Issues

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"The Democrats in Mississippi recently secured a new conservative member when Travis Childers won a special House election in a district that was long held by Republicans. According to Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi, both Democrats have socially conservative positions on such issues as gun rights and abortion, and campaigned as fiscal conservatives, prompting a member of the conservative Democratic Blue Dog Caucus, to call those efforts a mistake."

Tags:democrat, republican, district, incumbent, childers

Abstract
This paper explores the many issues presented in the film "Slingblade" with an emphasis on violence against women. First, the paper gives a brief plot summary of the film and introduces and describes its major characters. Then, it analyzes the use of violence in the film's plot and how the central character, a mildly retarded adult named Karl Childers, comes to acknowledge violence and its dangers in his world.

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"It is no easy matter at times to distinguish between violence and apparent violence and more especially to fully understand the grounds that justify involvement in breaking a pattern of abuse. This is the situation depicted in Sling Blade where Karl Childers as a mildly retarded man is confronted with a complex moral dilemma. Through his friendship with Frank Wheatley, he eventually achieves moral certainty about the approach to violence. Karl has paid dearly for his misguided actions when he mistakenly assumed that intimate behavior was a situation of sexual violence. With his..."

Tags:violence, perception, solutions

Abstract
This paper looks at the reasons behind Hitler's rise to power through the analysis of three books: M. H. Kater's "The Nazi Party", W. S. Allen's "The Nazi Seizure of Power"m and T. Childers's "The Nazi Voter". It takes the opinions in these books as a starting point and then develops the author's opinion as to why Hitler came to power. It shows how the reasons behind Hitler's and the German's Socialist Party's (NSDAP) rise to power are many and complex, all involving exploitation of the effects of the Depression on the "ordinary people" and the totalitarian rule with which Hitler took over Germany and held Germany throughout World War II.

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"Through Childers' book, The Nazi Voter (another in-depth statistical treatment of NSDAP party membership), we see that pre-1932, Hitler's NSDAP garnered support from a wide cross-section of German society, from all social levels, and from all sectors of the workforce, but particularly small businessmen, who were suffering the effects of the Depression. He highlights the fact that the wide-ranging support did not include people from the working classes (who preferred communism), but did include people from those sectors of society that were against modernization, and also women, who were in agreement with the Nazi-led denunciation of emancipation. He goes on to say that the Nazi's anti-modernist stance was a fundamental rejection of the socio-political implications of modernization, and as such, this was taken to heart by many members of German society who lived in fear of losing their jobs."

Tags:nsdap, socialists, world, war, II, depression

Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts the treatment of the relationship between monarchy and the Church in the books "The Life of Charlemagne" by Einhard and Gregory, Bishop of Tours' "History of the Franks". The two writers describe an interdependent Church and monarchy in which the religious or spiritual intensity of a given ruler was often less significant in shaping Church-State relationships than other matters. The paper shows that both books demonstrate that Church and kings interacted for mutual advantage and because, in the wake of the dissolution of the Roman Empire and throughout the so-called "Dark Ages," the monarchy and the Church emerged as the only two normative institutions in a fragmented social system.

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"Gregory (p. 33) has commented that among the early kings of the Franks, Childeric was "excessively wanton." Though a ruler, this early king was in no sense as religious as his son Clovis, who also experienced conflicts with the Church and despoiled many of the Church's sanctuaries until he became uninvolved in "heathen error" (Gregory, p. 37). Gregory (pp. 40-41) comments that Clovis was introduced to Christianity at the urging of his wife and helped to accept the Church through the agency of Saint Remi, Bishop of Rheims. From that time on, Gregory argues that Clovis became a more successful king and warrior and better able to care for the needs of his people. He built numerous churches and enjoyed the support of the Church, which was anxious to extend its own control and helped Clovis crush the heretics by its aid and extend his kingdom over all the Gauls (Gregory, p. 53)."

Tags:Childeric, Saint, Remi, Childebert, Pepin