2000-2016 Oakland Journal
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The Oakland Journal is designed to highlight the creative energies of the Oakland University community. It publishes articles representative of professional areas, creative writing, book reviews, reports, interviews, and round-table discussions written in an informative and intellectually stimulating format.
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Item The Role of the Economist in Environmental Issues: Uses and Abuses Of Benefit Cost Analysis(Oakland University, 5-01-01) Roddy, Juliette K.; Folland, Sherman T.Benefit cost analysis is used in both economic fields focusing on the environment: natural resource economics and environmental economics.Item Editor's Notes(Oakland University, 7-01-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Folland, Sherman T.Oakland Journal Issue 12 editorial notesItem A Century of Dickinson Scholarship: Reflections of an Encyclopedist(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Eberwein, Jane Donahue; Brieger, GottfriedComments on editing an encyclopedia of more than a century’s worth of scholarship since Poems by Emily Dickinson first appeared in 1890, four years after the poet’s death.Item Historical and Cultural Preservation of Resources In Oakland County(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Stamps, Richard B.; Brieger, GottfriedThe Oakland County Historical and Cultural Resources Inventory Map displays the key archaeological, architectural and historical sites that can be found in Oakland County, Michigan.Item Cultural Influences on End-of-Life Decision Making(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Jackson, Frances C.; Schim, Stephanie; Duffy, Sonia; Brieger, GottfriedAdvice on end-of-life decision-making is largely influenced by the culture of the recipient of care, the culture of the provider of care, and the culture of the institution where the care is being received.Item Is This Art? Do You Appreciate It?(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Goody, Dick; Brieger, GottfriedThoughts on the appreciation of modern art, and a review of a video by Phillip Singer titled "Museum Security Guards as Art Connoisseurs".Item On the Value of Excess(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Liboff, Abraham R.; Brieger, GottfriedThe effects of efficiency studies on architecture, politics, and society.Item Thoughts on the American Dream and Its Future(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Maines, David R.; Brieger, GottfriedThe American Dream is an “ideograph”—a master symbol that fuses ideology and rhetoric and that, in the hands of authorities, mobilizes collective action, sentiment, and motive.Item Item Item Contributors(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Brieger, GottfriedOakland Journal Issue 1 contributors listItem The Vital Role of Nitric Oxide(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Malinski, Tadeusz; Brieger, GottfriedThe role of nitric oxide in cardiovascular, nervous, and immune systems, and the pathology of nitric oxide release.Item The Oakland University Chronicles(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Tomboulian, Paul; Tomboulian, Alice; Brieger, GottfriedThe Oakland University Chronicles are a set of oral histories about the beginnings of Oakland University. The Chronicles focus mainly on the years 1957–1963, before the graduation of the first class.Item The Moral Career of a New Religious Movement(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Shepherd, Gordon; Shepherd, Gary; Brieger, GottfriedThe Family’s emphasis on the Bible and its attempt to reinstate such early Christian practices as “sharing all things in common” and full-time dedication to evangelize the world for Jesus “without purse or script,” taking “no thought for the morrow,” are sectarian Christian themes. At the same time, its radical sexual teachings and practices, its origins in the prophetic claims of David Berg, and its continuing dependency on direct revelatory guidance from Jesus (as well as Dad’s departed spirit) clearly mark The Family as a new religious “cult movement” in the sociological sense.Item Item Louis Betts, Portrait Painter of High Society: The Meadow Brook Hall Portraits of Alfred G. Wilson, Matilda R. Wilson, Danny and Frances Dodge, and John F. Dodge(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Morgante, Karen A,; Brieger, GottfriedThe artist Louis Betts was commissioned to paint the portraits of Matilda and Alfred Wilson, John Dodge, and Frances and Danny Dodge for Meadow Brook Hall.Item A Reply to Professor Liboff(Oakland University, 2000-04-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Brieger, GottfriedA reply to Abraham Liboff's article "On the Value of Excess".Item Reconciliation in South Africa: Mandela’s Legacy(2000-10-01) Khapoya, Vincent B.; Brieger, GottfriedExperiences and observations in post-apartheid South Africa from a member of the United Nations Observer Mission, one of 64 Americans chosen by the State Department and the United Nations to observe the historic elections in which, for the first time, South Africans of all races were permitted to vote.Item Book Review: Edmund Morris, Dutch(Oakland University, 2000-10-01) Appleton, Sheldon; Brieger, GottfriedBook review of a biography of Ronald Reagan.Item A Model for Student Experiential Learning(Oakland University, 2000-10-01) Scott, Chaunda L.; Brieger, GottfriedExperiential learning, in the form of service-learning, is one of the best ways to teach for the development of the whole person.