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Title: Music Department Applied Studios Student Recital, Student Recital
Description: Concert program for recital on November 2, 2006. Seungmae Seo, violin; Hannah Yourd, piano; Scott Slinker, violin; Allie Kieffer, piano; Caitlin Monaghan, soprano; Brian Ewing, piano; Chris LeBailly, piano; and Amelia Randich, clarinet.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:4234

Title: Music and Metaphor: Legacies of Representation in Abstract Instrumental Music, Legacies of representation in abstract instrumental music
Description: Understanding why critics’ responses to Beethoven and to Schoenberg were so different lies in recognizing the commonality of the critics’ approaches.
Date Created: 2007
PID: grinnell:114

Title: Musicians in Fiction
Description: Students will read fiction about musicians and listen to the relevant musical works that are mentioned in the literature.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3453

Title: Myth of the Middle Class, Tutorial: The Myth of the Middle Class
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The United States is frequently described as a middle-class society and we hear the description so often that we assume we know what it means. This course will explore the myth of the middle class.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:3454

Title: Narrative and Identity, Tutorial: Narrative and Identity
Description: All human beings tell stories, indeed some researchers argue that a narrative capacity is a critical and unique feature of human cognition. The great political philosopher, Hannah Arendt, claims that we tell stories because we need them to understand the intentions of human actors, and without them we cannot make sense of human speech and action. Stories not only help us to make sense of actions, they also motivate them.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3455

Title: Not the Country of My Heart : Alumni Memories of Grinnell College, Alumni Memories of Grinnell College
Description: Alumni memories of Grinnell College reveal the importance of social spaces and the centrality of the people at Grinnell to creating a sense of place.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:3420

Title: Noyce String Master Class and Concert 2006, Noyce Viola and Chamber Music Master Class 2006, Master Class and Concert, Noyce Violin Master Class 2006
Description: Concert program for recital on November 5, 2006. Alyssa Yokota-Lewis, violin; Scott Slinker, violin; Elizabeth Greenberg, violin; Victor Colussi, violin; Harry Inglis, violin; Sarah Hvidsen, violin; Young Lee, violin; Emily Read, violin; Philippa Hoover, cello; Huiting Liu, flute; Vincent Geels, violin; Maxwell Stephenson, viola; Jun Hee Kim, violin; Emma Meade, violin; Wini Marcel, viola; Ian Bishop, cello; and Meredith Drake, viola.
Date Created: 2006
PID: grinnell:4245

Title: Objectivity, Authority, and Truth: Confirming a Homosexual Identity in Lesbian and Gay Fights for Asylum, Confirming a Homosexual Identity in Lesbian and Gay Fights for Asylum
Description: By not specifically citing sexual minorities in the Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the U.N. relegates to individual states the power to decide how they will treat their lesbian and gay citizens.
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:168

Title: On Ethics and Economics
Description: This paper analyzes the linkages between ethics and economics in the writings of Aristotle, Smith and Sen, and then provides an alternative paradigm for addressing ethical or normative concerns within contemporary economics
Date Created: 2005
PID: grinnell:115