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Item The impacts of individualism and collectivism on Asian Americans' philanthropic behaviors : a preliminary study(2005-08-15) Kim, Yeo Jung, active 21st century; Lee, Wei-Na, 1957-The study attempts to explain how Asian Americans give and volunteer in comparison to Anglo Americans using the constructs of individualism and collectivism. By comparing 218 Asian Americans and 218 Anglo Americans who are similar in demographic characteristics, the study reports 4 findings. First, Asian Americans were higher in collectivism and lower in individualism than Anglo Americans. Second, Asian Americans tended to give more to the ethnic group than to the rest of the nation. Ethnic specificity in giving increased with collectivism. However, Anglo Americans tended to volunteer more time for the ethnic group than for the rest of the nation. Ethnic specificity in volunteering decreased with collectivism. Finally, there was no significant ethnic difference in terms of whether they preferred personal or organizational philanthropy. Both ethnic groups slightly favored organizational philanthropy over personal philanthropyItem Joel Barna Guest Lecture(1994-02-21) Barna, JoelAudio files are EID restricted. Individuals without an EID should send an email request to apl-aaa@lib.utexas.edu.Item Tearing up the nun : Charlotte Brontë's gothic self-fashioning(2013-05) Sloan, Casey Lauren; MacKay, Carol HanberyThis report explores the ideological motivations behind Charlotte Brontë's inclusion of and alterations to gothic conventions in Villette (1853). By building on an account of the recent critical conversation concerning the conservative Enlightenment force of the gothic, this report seeks to explain the political significance of a specific, nineteenth-century mutation in the genre: Lucy Snowe as an experiment in the bourgeois paradigm. Lucy Snowe's sophisticated consciousness of genre manifests in her minute attention to dress, but the persistence of her personal gothic history means that Villette enacts political tension between individualistic "self-fashioning" and historical determinism as clashing models for the origin of identity.