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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: By analyzing the data of the target article – Sillars, Ascan, & Fizpatrick’s study (2005), the present study examined how individual’s perception of understanding, and satisfaction are embedded in a family system as function of conversation orientation and conformity orientation. Results show that multilevel analysis allows us to detect the effect of predictors that correlational analysis did not and provide the overall picture of pattern among families. Overall, the results suggest that conformity orientation explains understanding for both individual level and family level while the effect of communication orientation on understanding is explained better at a family-level. The present study showed that results of ACQ understanding between parent and child showed systematic differences with conformity and communication orientation and these relationships would not be found if multilevel modeling has not built.

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Abstract: What accounts for differences in the corporate governance systems in advanced capitalist economies? Enron and other recent scandals confirm the centrality of politics to any effective explanation: political institutions, parties, interest groups interact to shape the rules and regulations that shape corporate governance patterns.

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Abstract: As the title (borrowed from Cicero’s Second Philippic) indicates, this paper focuses on Cicero and Tacitus’ use of the term pax in discussing eloquence and liberty. In particular, I focus on Cicero’s discussion of the relationship of eloquence to peace and liberty in On Invention and On the Ideal Orator, as well as Tacitus’ discussion of this relationship in the Dialogue on Orators. While Cicero argues that eloquence is productive and symptomatic of peace, Tacitus has the poet Curiatius Maternus argue that eloquence is destructive of peace and symptomatic of discord. Whereas Ciceronian eloquence guides and maintains the free state whose institutions give it room to blossom, Maternus’ eloquence leads to turmoil and license that are incompatible with and eliminated by the peace and stability of the Principate. Tacitus seems, then, to reject through Maternus not only the relevance of oratory to the social and political context of the Principate, but also to reject Cicero’s account of the role of oratory in the foundation and maintenance of peaceful communities.
However, I suggest that Tacitus’ Dialogue on Orators is not so straightforwardly anti-Ciceronian as it seems, and that Tacitus is as aware of the ambiguity of pax as is Cicero in the above passage from the Second Philippic. Through a reading of Cicero and Tacitus, followed by a discussion of their treatments of Sparta and the terms pax and concordia, I suggest that Tacitus is closer to Cicero than he might seem. Rather than read Tacitus as pronouncing the death and irrelevance of oratory, I suggest that Tacitus subtly affirms the connection between oratory and liberty on which Cicero insists, while showing that the peace of the Principate is not only different from the peace envisioned by Cicero, but is actually the absence of politics.

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Abstract: The poetry slam environment is the location of a joining of the political and the personal. In this paper, the author explores the personal and political expression of identity in slam poetry competitions and slam poetry. Issues of identity and performance are explored. The slam location is posited as site of political and personal musing.