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How To Help When It Hurts? Think Systemic, Corey L. Wrenn Ph.D. Oct 2019

How To Help When It Hurts? Think Systemic, Corey L. Wrenn Ph.D.

Corey Lee Wrenn, PhD

To resolve a moral dilemma created by the rescue of carnivorous species from exploitative situations who must rely on the flesh of other vulnerable species to survive, Cheryl Abbate applies the guardianship principle in proposing hunting as a case-by-case means of reducing harm to the rescued animal as well as to those animals who must die to supply food. This article counters that Abbate’s guardianship principle is insufficiently applied given its objectification of deer communities. Tom Regan, alternatively, encouraged guardians to think beyond individual dilemmas and adopt a measure of systemic reconstruction, that being the abolition of speciesist institutions (The …

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From Family Reintegration To Carnivalistic Degradation: Dismantling Soviet Communal Myths In Russian Cinema Of The Mid-1990s, Alexander V. Prokhorov Sep 2019

From Family Reintegration To Carnivalistic Degradation: Dismantling Soviet Communal Myths In Russian Cinema Of The Mid-1990s, Alexander V. Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov

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Revisioning Aleksandrov’S Circus: Seventy Years Of The Great Family, Alexander V. Prokhorov Jul 2019

Revisioning Aleksandrov’S Circus: Seventy Years Of The Great Family, Alexander V. Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov

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Size Matters: The Ideological Functions Of The Length Of Soviet Feature Films And Television Mini-Series In The 1950s And 1960s, Alexander V. Prokhorov Jul 2019

Size Matters: The Ideological Functions Of The Length Of Soviet Feature Films And Television Mini-Series In The 1950s And 1960s, Alexander V. Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov

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Reconfiguring The War And Family Tropes In Thaw-Era Homefront Melodrama, Alexander V. Prokhorov Jul 2019

Reconfiguring The War And Family Tropes In Thaw-Era Homefront Melodrama, Alexander V. Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement is chronological: Volume one covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era; volume two covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each period of film history (Early Russian Cinema, Soviet Silent Cinema, …

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The Diamond Arm. Brilliantovaia Ruka, Alexander V. Prokhorov Jul 2019

The Diamond Arm. Brilliantovaia Ruka, Alexander V. Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement is chronological: Volume one covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era; volume two covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each period of film history (Early Russian Cinema, Soviet Silent Cinema, …

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A Person Is Born: Stalinist Myth Of The Great Family In Film Genres Of The Thaw, Alexander V. Prokhorov Jul 2019

A Person Is Born: Stalinist Myth Of The Great Family In Film Genres Of The Thaw, Alexander V. Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov

Метафоры социального и кровного родства стали в последнее время едва ли не господствующей формой концептуанализации политического, экономического и культурного развития: от "ельцинской Семьи" до "питерского клана", от "Солдатских матерей" до "батяни-комбата", от "солнцевской братвы" до "дедовщины", наконец, от "Моей семьи" до кинодилогии о "Брате". Используя обширный исторический, социологический и культурологический материал, статьи, собранные в этой книге, пытаются объяснить привлекательность родственных связей и семейных уз. В первом томе сборника исследуются идеологические контексты существования семей, способы формирования семейных союзов, а также разнообразные бытовые тактики и половые стратегии семейной жизни. Во второй том вошли статьи, посвященные различным типам семейного воспитания детей, проблемам жизни …

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Cinema Of The Thaw (1953 – 1967), Alexander V. Prokhorov Jul 2019

Cinema Of The Thaw (1953 – 1967), Alexander V. Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement is chronological: Volume one covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era; volume two covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each period of film history (Early Russian Cinema, Soviet Silent Cinema, …

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Lenin’S Guard. Zastava Il’Icha, Alexander V. Prokhorov Jul 2019

Lenin’S Guard. Zastava Il’Icha, Alexander V. Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement is chronological: Volume one covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era; volume two covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each period of film history (Early Russian Cinema, Soviet Silent Cinema, …

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Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives On How The Use Of Toon Comic Books During Guided Reading Influenced Learning By Struggling Readers, Ewa Mcgrail, Alicja Rieger, Gina M. Doepker, Samantha Mcgeorge Apr 2019

Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives On How The Use Of Toon Comic Books During Guided Reading Influenced Learning By Struggling Readers, Ewa Mcgrail, Alicja Rieger, Gina M. Doepker, Samantha Mcgeorge

Gina Doepker

The study presented in this article examines the use of comic books, specifically the TOON comic books during guided reading instruction. The instruction was provided to struggling readers by the Literacy Center at a comprehensive university in southeastern United States. What most pre-service teachers in this study agreed upon was that comic books served as an effective tool for getting their students interested in reading. Reading comic books with tutors as partners in conversation with the struggling readers in this study was also a powerful medium for facilitating students’ literacy skills development, particularly in the areas of reading fluency and …

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Street Life In London: Context And Commentary, Emily Morgan Mar 2019

Street Life In London: Context And Commentary, Emily Morgan

Emily Kathryn Morgan

This book is the first-ever in-depth analysis of the genesis, development and context of Smith and Thomson’s innovative publication. Now regarded as a pioneering photo-text and a foundational work of socially conscious photography – “one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium’s history” (The Photobook: A History) – Street Life in London did not achieve commercial success in its own time. In Street Life in London we see the start, but not the conclusion, of a conversation between text and image in the service of education, reportage and social justice.

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Feed: State Transparency Amidst Informational Surplus, Mark Fenster Dec 2018

Feed: State Transparency Amidst Informational Surplus, Mark Fenster

Mark Fenster

An email arrives, promising inside information about the perfidious forces that secretly rule the nation. A Twitter feed from a prominent insider at an establishment think-tank announces the latest disclosure about the president’s secret role in the Russian conspiracy to manipulate the election that elevated him with the blast of toy cannon. Meanwhile, the President’s tweets serve to annoy, distract, humor, or comfort those who see them, and they above all announce some truth about his presidency. 

Debates about government transparency presume that the state controls an informational spigot, which can be made to allow information to flow or to …

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“Let’S Get Down To Business”: A Handbook Of Heroic Transformation In Mulan, Yun-Oh Park Dec 2018

“Let’S Get Down To Business”: A Handbook Of Heroic Transformation In Mulan, Yun-Oh Park

Scott T. Allison

Walt Disney’s Mulan (1998) tells the heroic story of Fa Mulan, whose unique character is both female and Asian. Mulan, who is kind hearted, brave, and easy to relate to, has since become an international hero that continues to inspire an appreciation for and to highlight Asian culture in the media. The story is based on the legend of Hua Mulan, which was originally told as a poem known as the Ballad of Mulan. Since the legend has been passed down from as far back as the sixth century, thousands of people have recognized Hua Mulan as a hero. Today, …

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Elle Woods, Legally Blonde, And The Hero’S Journey: What, Like, It’S Hard?, Reghan J. Ruf Dec 2018

Elle Woods, Legally Blonde, And The Hero’S Journey: What, Like, It’S Hard?, Reghan J. Ruf

Scott T. Allison

This chapter offers an analysis of the heroism of the character of Elle Woods in the movie 'Legally Blonde'. Elle must overcome judgmental, clique-ish Harvard Law students and the universal expectation that she will never make it through a semester at Harvard, let alone somehow come out on top. The belief that her appearance and her different socialization will cause her to completely fail at Harvard ends up helping her transform motivationally and intellectually in a manner consistent with underdog heroes.

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The Heroic Transformation Of Dexter Morgan, Killer Of Killers, S. S. Diaz Dec 2018

The Heroic Transformation Of Dexter Morgan, Killer Of Killers, S. S. Diaz

Scott T. Allison

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the heroic life and transformation of a prominent television character Dexter Morgan, during seasons one through four of Dexter, a serial killer of killers. This chapter first reviews the hero’s journey as described by Joseph Campbell (1949).

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Harry Potter And The Hero’S Journey: An Analysis Of A Wizard’S Transformation, Andrew J. Graham Dec 2018

Harry Potter And The Hero’S Journey: An Analysis Of A Wizard’S Transformation, Andrew J. Graham

Scott T. Allison

In this chapter, we use the principles of heroism science to explore Harry Potter's role as a hero and how he and society changed as a result of his heroism.

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Sectumsempra: An Analysis Of The Heroic Transformation Of Severus Snape, Jake C. Cardwell Dec 2018

Sectumsempra: An Analysis Of The Heroic Transformation Of Severus Snape, Jake C. Cardwell

Scott T. Allison

This chapter seeks to examine the character Severus Snape and his heroism. I will go about this task by analyzing Snape’s life and legacy, and judging him through several lenses of heroism science. Most importantly, the goal of this discussion is to determine whether or not Snape is truly a “hero.” Whether you love him or hate him, Severus Snape is one of the most recognizable literary characters of the twenty-first century, and his morality and merits are still talked about by fans of the Harry Potter franchise. I will use traditional archetypes and theories of heroism science to determine …

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