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Family Conversations About Stressful Life Experiences, Genevieve Lee Davis
Family Conversations About Stressful Life Experiences, Genevieve Lee Davis
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The present study was designed to investigate whether family conversations moderated the relation between stressful life experiences in childhood and negative emotion-related outcomes in young adulthood. Undergraduate students (N = 99, mean age = 19.6 years, 77% females) were administered a semi-structured interview about their childhood stressful life experiences and use of family conversations in response to those experiences. They also completed questionnaires about their current levels of depression, eating-related difficulties, self-harm behaviors, and aggression. It was found that talking with one's parent moderated the relation between number of stressful life experiences and history of self-harm behaviors. Additionally, the participants' …
Lost On Purpose, Matthew Mccain Martin
Lost On Purpose, Matthew Mccain Martin
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In nine linked nonfiction essays and eight codas, the author seeks to understand the meaning of being lost and the importance of not knowing in an era of instantaneous and ubiquitous information. Through extensive interviews, research, and memoir, the author seeks out those who choose to live lost in order to understand his own penchant for escape. Framed by the mystery of antique maps, these essays find the author in several different locations, from Tasmania to Siberia to Utah. In each, the author meets and spends time with an ambassador of each place before finally attempting to become lost himself.
The Monuments Of Amenmesse And Seti Ii: A Historical Inquiry, Roy Winston Hopper
The Monuments Of Amenmesse And Seti Ii: A Historical Inquiry, Roy Winston Hopper
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Many historical issues surround the late Nineteenth Dynasty after the reign of Merneptah, and one of them is the reigns reigns of Amenmesse and Seti II. These two kings ruled over a period in which both Amenmesse and Seti Ii were competing kings with evidence suggesting that Amenmesse founded a rival kingship during the reign of Seti II and managed to control ancient Nubia and Upper Egypt for at least four years. This dissertation seeks to examine the known monuments and monumental inscriptions belonging to Amenmesse and Seti II in order to answer historical, archaeological, genealogical, and epigraphic questions pertaining …
Comparing Administration Of Nutrition Support With Prescribed Dose, Lara Kelley Griffith
Comparing Administration Of Nutrition Support With Prescribed Dose, Lara Kelley Griffith
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Objective: To evaluate if pediatric bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients receive the prescribed dose of nutrition support (NS).Design: Data was obtained from electronic and paper charts at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Amount of NS received was compared to the amount prescribed. Subjects: Data was collected on 32 patients, for a total of 63 incidences of hospital stays in which nutrition support was administered.Results: Mean percentage of nutrition prescription met and percentage of total estimated energy needs met were 69% and 72%, respectively. Allogenic BMT patients received significantly more of their nutrition prescription (92%) compared to autologous BMT patients (54%), …
Examination Of Locus Of Control, Health Locus Of Control And Their Key Predictors In Urban Vs. Rural Populations, Mark T. Zimmerman
Examination Of Locus Of Control, Health Locus Of Control And Their Key Predictors In Urban Vs. Rural Populations, Mark T. Zimmerman
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The purpose of this study was to utilize a quantitative survey methodology, which explored the characteristicsof locus of control and health locus of control between a rural Tennessee population and an urban Tennessee population using scores from Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (LOC) and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (HLOC). The results of this study help bridge the gap in the limited studies available that use LOC and HLOC to explore the differences between the two populations. Demographic information on the survey (age, gender, race, annual household income, size of household, level of education, spirituality) and the …
Sensitivity To Consonantal Context In Reading English Vowels: The Case Of Arabic Learners, Ruth Elizabeth Stein
Sensitivity To Consonantal Context In Reading English Vowels: The Case Of Arabic Learners, Ruth Elizabeth Stein
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Both experimental and anecdotal evidence document the difficulty Arabic learners of English demonstrate when learning to read and write in English. The complex phoneme-grapheme mapping rules for English may explain this difficulty in part, but the question remains why Arabic learners in particular have difficulty decoding English. This dissertation attempts to pinpoint what specific sub-word processes may contribute to this observed difficulty Arabic learners of English commonly experience. Vowel processing is an appropriate place to begin given the inconsistency of the grapheme-phoneme mapping rules for English vowels. The statisical patterns of the English language itself for the relationship between the …
Individual Differences Related To Strategy Shifting: Who Shifts And Why?, Brent Wesley Morgan
Individual Differences Related To Strategy Shifting: Who Shifts And Why?, Brent Wesley Morgan
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This thesis investigated the association of cognitive abilities and strategy shifting within a procedural-motor task. College students traced or drew various forms of a figure-8 before completing a battery of cognitive tests. A pilot study identified three distinct strategies for drawing a figure-8, whereas the current study manipulated the figure-8 stimuli to encourage these strategies at various points. Phase 1 had two counterbalanced conditions which instructed participants to trace versus draw a rotated figure-8. Phase 2 gradually morphed a figure-8 such as to encourage the three predominant strategies. Phase 3 was a condition which included stimuli from Phases 1 and …
Empowering Imagined Communities: Social Network Sites In A Chinese English As A Foreign Language Classroom, James Andrew Kelley
Empowering Imagined Communities: Social Network Sites In A Chinese English As A Foreign Language Classroom, James Andrew Kelley
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Little work has yet to explore the potential for the use of social network sites (SNSs) in the English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) classroom, but recent trends in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) research suggest that SNSs may be a powerful context for language learning: offering students access to online communities of practice and /or imagined communities (as interpreted by Norton et al.); increased control of co-constructed/negotiated identities; and opportunities for empowering positions in authentic intercultural exchanges. This dissertation reports on a largely exploratory, empirical study of how the use of an …
Coping And Drinking Motives In A Veteran Sample, Jordan A. Fields
Coping And Drinking Motives In A Veteran Sample, Jordan A. Fields
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PTSD is highly comorbid with alcohol abuse and veterans appear to be a population at high risk for developing these problems. Maladaptive coping behaviors have been linked to the development of PTSD and alcohol abuse. Additionally, understanding more about the way one copes and why they report consuming alcohol may be important to understanding this relationship. This study examined coping style and drinking motives as mediators of PTSD-AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder) problems in 60 Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. PTSD did not predict alcohol consumption variables. The PTSD group scored higher on drinking consequences, and drinking to cope. The …
Effects Of Official Sports Sponsorship On Firm Market Liquidity And Risk, Robert Dale Evans Jr.
Effects Of Official Sports Sponsorship On Firm Market Liquidity And Risk, Robert Dale Evans Jr.
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Although there has been an increased interest in the connection between marketing expenditures and its contribution to strengthening firm financial metrics, there are few studies examining the changes to those firm financial metrics following firm adoption of a specific marketing strategy, in this case, firm adoption of an official sports sponsorship. Investments in official sports sponsorships are decidedly strategic activities that require the utilization of firm financial and human resources in an environment that is external to the firm.As explained by Srivastava, Shervani, and Fahey (1998), market-based assets arise from the commingling of firm resources with entities external to the …
Examining The Complex Nature Of Emotion, Metacognition, And Study-Time In Multimedia Learning, Amber Dawn Chauncey
Examining The Complex Nature Of Emotion, Metacognition, And Study-Time In Multimedia Learning, Amber Dawn Chauncey
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Learning with multimedia is challenging and often requires learners to regulate cognitive, metacognitive, and affective processes in order achieve optimal learning. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effect of induced emotional states on learners’ metacognitive monitoring and control, and learning performance in a self-paced multimedia learning environment. A within-subjects design and a false-biofeedback paradigm were used to induce various emotional states in 50 undergraduate participants while they answered both text-based and inference questions about the human circulatory system. Across 24 trials, participants were presented with accelerated, baseline, and no heart rates (control) and were asked to …
Parental Emotion Invalidation, Emotion Inhibition, And Rumination In Relation To Adolescent Depression, Janelle Victoria Williams
Parental Emotion Invalidation, Emotion Inhibition, And Rumination In Relation To Adolescent Depression, Janelle Victoria Williams
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This study tested a conceptual model which incorporated parental emotion invalidation of sadness, emotion inhibition, and rumination as contributing factors to depressive symptoms in adolescence. Adolescents completed questionnaires measuring their own emotion inhibition, rumination, and depression as well as their perceptions of their parents' invalidating reponses towards their sadness. Parents completed questionnaires measuring their perceptions of their invalidating responses towards their adoelscents' sadness, their perception of their adoelscents' sadness inhibition, and their perception of their adolescents' depressive symptoms. Path analyses were conducted to examine the direct and indirect relations among the four variables. Results showed that emotion inhibition and rumination …
A Phenomenological Study Of High School Students' Perceptions Of English, Richard C. Casey Jr.
A Phenomenological Study Of High School Students' Perceptions Of English, Richard C. Casey Jr.
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The purpose of the study was to explore high school English students' perspectives regarding the value associated with English and literature classes. The primary questions addressed in this study were focused on perceptions and atttitudes toward literature and real world value. The participants in this study were 15 high school seniors from a rural, public school and 15 high school seniors from an urban, private school. A phenonmenological study was designed to gather information on the following related questions:a)How does teaching style affect the perceptions that students have towards their English class?b)Do students see any real world value or application …
The Voices Of Four Principals: An Exploration Of The Four Dimensions Of Leadership As Used By Middle School Leaders In Transforming Low Performing Schools Into Schools That Meet And/Or Exceed Local, State, And National Standards, Tanisha Lashan Hunter-Heaston
The Voices Of Four Principals: An Exploration Of The Four Dimensions Of Leadership As Used By Middle School Leaders In Transforming Low Performing Schools Into Schools That Meet And/Or Exceed Local, State, And National Standards, Tanisha Lashan Hunter-Heaston
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For more than 50 years, education professionals have pondered over the phenomenon of failing schools. Despite years of educational reform efforts, America remains a Nation at Risk (1983). Towards the turn of the 21st century, America was well into it's third attempt to remedy one of its' major maladies, scholastic insufficiency. In the midst of schools failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), decreasing graduation rates, and increasing teacher turn-over rates, stands the school leader. No Child Left Behind (NCLB)mandates, Race to the Top dollars, and other numerous policies attempt to provide incentives for regions and leaders who change failing …
A Cognitive Model Of College Choice And The Influence Of Visual-Verbal Redundancy In Student Recruitment Messages, Tracy Rutledge
A Cognitive Model Of College Choice And The Influence Of Visual-Verbal Redundancy In Student Recruitment Messages, Tracy Rutledge
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Two studies investigated a cognitive model of college choice and the effect of visual-verbal redundancy in student recruitment messages on the decision factors. The proposed model integrated the college choice model (Hossler & Gallagher, 1987) with the effortful decision-making and enactment model (Bagozzi, Dholakia, & Basuroy, 2003) and contained 14 latent variables: goal feasibility, positive anticipated emotions, negative anticipated emotions, decision process importance, decision process effort investment, decision process confidence, subjective norm, attitude, perceived behavioral control, goal desire, goal intention, behavioral desire, behavioral intention, and plan enactment. The model was tested on self-report data from students in three high schools …
Effect Of Professional Development On Inclusive Practices In A West Tennessee School District, Millicent Achieng' Mackonya
Effect Of Professional Development On Inclusive Practices In A West Tennessee School District, Millicent Achieng' Mackonya
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Introduction of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has placed demands on school districts and teachers. Teachers have always been required to improve students’ academic achievement at all costs. To meet the demands of NCLB of improving education achievement for children with disabilities, school districts have introduced inclusive settings in their educational systems, thus, the need for professional development. The participants in this study were special education and a few general education teachers from a West Tennessee School District.All the participants were female. The purpose of this study was to find out if the teachers had gained knowledge on effective inclusive …
Statistical Analysis Of The Seismic Vulnerability Of Mid-South Building Structures, Andrew Kary Mehdi Assadollahi
Statistical Analysis Of The Seismic Vulnerability Of Mid-South Building Structures, Andrew Kary Mehdi Assadollahi
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A study of buildings in Shelby County, Tennessee and Tipton County, Tennessee was conducted using a sidewalk survey procedure developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), known as a Rapid Visual Survey (RVS). Its purpose is to identify buildings that are potentially at risk to a seismic event. A database of these buildings was generated from the data gathered in the RVS procedure. A loss estimation program developed by FEMA, known as HAZUS-MH MR3, was used to perform a more detailed analysis on the structures utilizing user defined ground motion maps. A rank of the structures was developed based …
An Exploratory Study Into The Impact Of Work Design On The Self-Efficacy Of Workers With Low Literacy Skills, Michael Kenneth Holt
An Exploratory Study Into The Impact Of Work Design On The Self-Efficacy Of Workers With Low Literacy Skills, Michael Kenneth Holt
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As trends in the labor market indicate growing worker shortages, the problem of incorporating workers with low literacy skills into the workplace becomes more important. There are significant numbers of low literate workers in the labor market who pose hard dollar costs on business and society due to literacy related mistakes.Organizations have been moving toward more participative work designs in efforts to attract and maintain satisfied and motivated workforces. There are significant skill sets required to become successful team members. Many of these skills are outlined in management literature, but one glaring oversight is dealing with the issue of low …
Three African American Artists And The Black Female Nude In American Art, Chantal D. Drake
Three African American Artists And The Black Female Nude In American Art, Chantal D. Drake
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"Three African American Artists and the Black Female Nude in American Art" examines the black female nude in the works of Eldzier Cortor, Dox Thrash, and Archibald Motley. This study offers insight into the lives of black women in America, highlights the artists' academic training and admiration of European and classical art and explores the black female nude from a perspective rarely discussed in the scholarship on American nudes. I argue that the use of the nude, a classical white figure, as a narrator of the black woman's experience offers a visual opposition of what the nude historically represented and …
Science On The Back Burner? Exlploring Significant Differences In Test Scores, Rhonda Hardin Harrington
Science On The Back Burner? Exlploring Significant Differences In Test Scores, Rhonda Hardin Harrington
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This study was a retrospective study evaluating whether the implementation of Smart Start Legislation had an impact on Stanford Achievement tests and Arkansas state benchmark tests in science, math, and literacy scores for fifth-grade students in Arkansas. Smart Start focuses on strong accountability stressing well defined, high educational standards in math and reading. The purpose of this study was to examine if there was a significant difference in test scores of students affected by public policy mandates requiring a teaching focus on math and literacy. The specific research questions were, Is there a significant difference in math scores pre and …
A Point-Of-Purchase Messaging Program Increases Sales Of Identified Healthy Items In A University Food Court, Sarah Leslie Bursi
A Point-Of-Purchase Messaging Program Increases Sales Of Identified Healthy Items In A University Food Court, Sarah Leslie Bursi
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The obesity epidemic in the United States is effecting the college population. College populations across the country are served by contract foodservice companies that are looking for strategiesto promote the purchasing of healthy menu items. To determine if sales of identified healthy items increased in a University food court, in this study, the Point-of-Purchase(POP) messaging technique was implemented. The sales data for 2 low-calorie,low-fat menu items was collected for 11-weeks. The 11-week time period was subdivided into a 6-week baseline phase, 4-week intervention phase, and 1-week follow-up phase. During the intervention 4-POP interventions were implemented to represent each week of …
Codon Bias Can Only Partially Explain Stop Signal Profile In Bacteria, Somanath Patrudu Pilla
Codon Bias Can Only Partially Explain Stop Signal Profile In Bacteria, Somanath Patrudu Pilla
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The stop signals are nucleotide triplets, TAA, TAG, and TGA found on the first, second, and third reading frames of an open reading frame. The organization of bacterial stop signals may be a result of adaptation of individual species. A detail study of these signals and their relationship with their corresponding dicodons and dipeptides were analyzed in a broad range of bacterial genome. We classified each of these nine stop signals in a broad range of bacterial genomes. Results suggested that some of the stop signals are the result of codon bias due the chromosomal GC content. However, dicodon- and …
Rooted Down, Wesley Garrett Dunning
Rooted Down, Wesley Garrett Dunning
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ABSTRACT Dunning, Wesley Garret. MFA. The University of Memphis. December 2010. Rooted Down. Major Professor: John Bensko.These poems recall a forgotten place—the old Buntyn neighborhood in Memphis and its outlying country, filled with ancient oaks, gospel songs, chattering bluebirds, but also the dilapidated row homes and overgrown grasses of a town nearly dead. It’s the town of my grandparents, here modeled in Nelda and Wyatt, their grandson Clay, old neighbors and friends from Marston Drive, and three generations of family, whose histories have crawled somewhere inside me and made themselves at home. These poems examine the distances between familial relationships. …
Source Parameter Study Based On The April 18, 2008 (5.4 Mw) Mt. Carmel, Illinois Earthquake Sequence, Solomon Taddese Ayele
Source Parameter Study Based On The April 18, 2008 (5.4 Mw) Mt. Carmel, Illinois Earthquake Sequence, Solomon Taddese Ayele
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The April 18, 2008 (5.4 Mw) Mt. Carmel, Illinois earthquake is the largest event in the central United States in the previous 40 years. Approximately 180 aftershocks (0.8 to 4.6) were located using a combination of regional network stations and temporary broadband seismometers deployed in the epicentral area by the University of Memphis and Indiana University. To help constrain earthquake source mechanism, the orientation of faults and the tectonic processes of the area, moment tensor inversion of these aftershocks is performed. i have tested a moment tensor inversion technique using synthetic data in the presence of realistic noise levels and …
Guarding The Chapel: The Story Of A Small Community, Kept Faith, And An Ever-Changing River, Leigh Ann Vanscoy
Guarding The Chapel: The Story Of A Small Community, Kept Faith, And An Ever-Changing River, Leigh Ann Vanscoy
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This piece emerged from an article I wrote for The Poughkeepsie Journal, a Gannett daily newspaper in the Mid-Hudson region of New York State. As a summer reporter for the local section I wrote weekly “Dateline” stories that highlighted local and historical places in the area. I chose to write about my own church, St. Nicholas on the Hudson, because of its history and community spirit in the small river town of New Hamburg. Membership and resources were dropping and I hoped that my article would promote interest in the chapel. While researching and interviewing for that news story I …
"The Leprosy Of Unreality": The Capacity Of Suffering To Deform Or Redeem In Dickens's Great Expectations, A Tale Of Two Cities, And Little Dorrit, Kathryne Marie Hoyle-Brown
"The Leprosy Of Unreality": The Capacity Of Suffering To Deform Or Redeem In Dickens's Great Expectations, A Tale Of Two Cities, And Little Dorrit, Kathryne Marie Hoyle-Brown
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This thesis examines the ramifications of suffering in Dickensian transformation. Ideally, suffering should reveal the best aspects of human nature, and this thesis suggests that while it is possible to have pain without heroism, it is impossible to have heroism without pain. Couched within Dickens's discourse on suffering and redemption are both overt and covert messages to his Victorian audience as Dickens urges them to strip away their masks of pretense, "the leprosy of unreality"that enslaves them. Dickens delights in blurring apparently dichotomous boundaries as he paradoxically seeks reality through his fiction. For him, redemption is a discursive structure that …
The Homefront Food Fight: The Conflict Between The American Public And Enemy Prisoners Of War During World War Ii, Kathryn Elizabeth Russell
The Homefront Food Fight: The Conflict Between The American Public And Enemy Prisoners Of War During World War Ii, Kathryn Elizabeth Russell
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Food rationing and shortages on the homefront during World War II led to severe criticism by the American public of the rations given to enemy prisoners of war held in camps in the United States. In response to public and congressional criticism, the War Department reduced rations to enemy prisoners of war. The official exclamation proffered by the War Department for the reduction in rations was the food shortages across the country. However, analysis of the timeline of press reports and congressional investigations, coupled with the military's excessive food procurement activities, belie the assertion by the War Department that the …
Minnie Evans: Art Of The Gatekeeper, Michelle Dawn Williams
Minnie Evans: Art Of The Gatekeeper, Michelle Dawn Williams
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Minnie Evans: Art of the Gatekeeper focuses on African American early to mid-twentieth-century social and cultural issues that were experienced by the self-taught artist Minnie Evans (1892-1987). Evans was the gatekeeper at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North Carolina and is known for having experienced visions and dreams, which she attributed to her deep Christian faith. This study provides an extensive overview of past scholarship and offers previously undocumented oral histories and photographs that were acquired while visiting Airlie Gardens and St. Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington. The subjects discussed include the Airlie Gardens gate, gates to dreams, African …
Allusions And Influences In Joseph Marx's Sechs Klavierstucke, David Brian Ray
Allusions And Influences In Joseph Marx's Sechs Klavierstucke, David Brian Ray
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The late-Romantic Austrian composer Joseph Marx is best known today for his art songs. He did, however, compose chamber music, choral works, large symphonic works, two piano concertos, and six pieces for solo piano. This paper will focus upon Marx's Sechs Klavierstücke, composed in 1915 and published in 1916. Although Marx was an outstanding pianist and employed the piano in most of his art songs, chambermusic and orchestral scores, his onlypublishedworkforsolo pianowas this set of sixcompositions. The six late-Romantic character pieceswithin thiscollectionarerife with allusions to pre-existing piano worksby composers whom Marx admired, such as Bach, Chopin, Brahms, Scriabin, Reger, and …
Not Quite Natural: Stories From The Edges Of Humanity, Patrick Walters
Not Quite Natural: Stories From The Edges Of Humanity, Patrick Walters
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This thesis, entitled “Not Quite Natural: Stories From the Edges of Humanity,” is a collection of creative nonfiction essays. It features stories about people who exist on the fringes of the human experience, from a man who infects himself with hookworms in an effort to cure his severe allergies to a woman who discovers a deaf man who has no language. It also features stories about groups of people on the edges of the human experience, including a community that refuses to leave its town, even though a fire is burning a hundred and fifty feet beneath it and a …