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Levels Of Selection In A Polymorphic Species, Marisa L. Korody 2013 Indiana State University

Levels Of Selection In A Polymorphic Species, Marisa L. Korody

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Transformational Effects Of Museum Exhibits Upon Their Patrons: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cassandra Caruso-Woolard 2013 Indiana State University

Transformational Effects Of Museum Exhibits Upon Their Patrons: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cassandra Caruso-Woolard

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Shinto And Buddhist Metaphors In Departures, Yoshiko Okuyama 2013 University of Hawaii at Hilo

Shinto And Buddhist Metaphors In Departures, Yoshiko Okuyama

Journal of Religion & Film

Cinematic language is rich in examples of religious metaphors. One Japanese film that contains religious “tropes” (figurative language) is the 2008 human drama, Departures. This paper focuses on the analysis of religious metaphors encoded in select film shots, using semiotics as the theoretical framework for film analysis. The specific metaphors discussed in the paper are the Shinto view of death as defilement and Buddhist practices associated with the metaphor of the journey to the afterlife. The purpose of this paper is to augment the previous reviews of Departures by explicating these religious signs hidden in the film.


Pasolini's Laugh: Joyful Ignorance In The Decameron, Andrea Privitera 2013 Western University

Pasolini's Laugh: Joyful Ignorance In The Decameron, Andrea Privitera

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

In this paper, I discuss Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and its 1971 film adaptation by Pier Paolo Pasolini. To be more precise, I focus on the fifth novella of the sixth day, the one about Giotto and Forese, and its audiovisual re-elaboration, which can be seen as a very brief and at the same time very vivid example of Pasolini’s ideas on society, language and communication.


Wandering About: Analogy, Ambiguity And Humanistic Mathematics, William M. Priestley 2013 Sewanee University of the South

Wandering About: Analogy, Ambiguity And Humanistic Mathematics, William M. Priestley

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This article concerns the relationship between mathematics and language, emphasizing the role of analogy both as an expression of a mathematical property and as a source of productive ambiguity in mathematics. An historical discussion is given of the interplay between the notions of logos, litotes, and limit that has implications for our understanding and teaching of Dedekind cuts and, more generally, for a humanistic notion of the role of mathematics within liberal education.


Lying, Misleading And What Is Said, By Jennifer M. Saul, Melissa MacAulay, Robert Stainton 2013 University of Western Ontario

Lying, Misleading And What Is Said, By Jennifer M. Saul, Melissa Macaulay, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

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Review Of Peter Alward's "Empty Revelations", Jeffrey C. Goodman 2013 James Madison University

Review Of Peter Alward's "Empty Revelations", Jeffrey C. Goodman

Faculty Scholarship

I here review Peter Alward's monograph Empty Revelations


Higher Than The Original Stands The Translation: Translating Heidegger Into Filipino, Remmon E. Barbaza 2013 Ateneo de Manila University

Higher Than The Original Stands The Translation: Translating Heidegger Into Filipino, Remmon E. Barbaza

Philosophy Department Faculty Publications

This paper is a reflection on the author’s experience of translating Martin Heidegger into Filipino. It first addresses the questions of principles underlying the act of translation, such as those of fidelity (to both source and target languages, original author and translator), as well as the role of the translator as an intermediary between the original author and the readers. Then it demonstrates examples of his experience of translating selected key terms and passages in Heidegger—such as sein, stellen, Ereignis, and their cognates—indicating the difficulties as well as the challenges that arise in the work of translation. A notable problem …


Speaking A Word For Nature: Thoreau's Philosophical Saunter, Gary Shapiro 2013 University of Richmond

Speaking A Word For Nature: Thoreau's Philosophical Saunter, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Thoreau's extraordinary essay "Walking" is obviously an encomium on what the author calls "the art of Walking" and an exhortation to readers to understand and practice that art. Yes, but we must realize that he speaks of the art of walking in no "pedestrian" sense (if this expression may be excused). Thoreau not only wants us to think the unthought in ordinary walking but to participate in the essay's performance of an allegory or analogue of the practice that he calls sauntering to the Holy Land; it becomes an itinerary through the fields of language that reveals unsuspected sights and …


When Bird And Fish Fall In Love, Matthew C. Mackey 2012 LSU New Orleans

When Bird And Fish Fall In Love, Matthew C. Mackey

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A work of poetry that offers a new method of poetics. By examining translation as a means of understanding relationships, this work offers a nuanced manner for the writing and experience of poetry. When Bird and Fish Fall in Love is a close examination of language, relationships, translation, and the intimacy of conflation.


Risk Characteristics Of Healthcare Workers That Decline Voluntary Influenza Vaccination, Caroline Epler 2012 Indiana State University

Risk Characteristics Of Healthcare Workers That Decline Voluntary Influenza Vaccination, Caroline Epler

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Remote Sensing Of Tanzanian Volcano Oldoinyo Lengai: Verifying Detection Methods Of Flow Activity, Scott Richard Frystak 2012 Indiana State University

Remote Sensing Of Tanzanian Volcano Oldoinyo Lengai: Verifying Detection Methods Of Flow Activity, Scott Richard Frystak

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Race Bias In The Diagnosis Of Schizophrenia, Rose M. Fernandez 2012 Indiana State University

Race Bias In The Diagnosis Of Schizophrenia, Rose M. Fernandez

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Women's Use Of Violence: An Ecological Systems Model, Sara Byczek 2012 Indiana State University

Women's Use Of Violence: An Ecological Systems Model, Sara Byczek

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Disciplinary Permeations: Complicating The "Public" And The "Private" Dualism In Composition And Rhetoric, Erica E. Rogers 2012 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Disciplinary Permeations: Complicating The "Public" And The "Private" Dualism In Composition And Rhetoric, Erica E. Rogers

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

As Composition and Rhetoric rose in disciplinary status and academic legitimacy the discourse practice of negation, the positioning of texts in oppositional binaries that set the “new” over the “old,” the “novel” over the “familiar,” became embedded in academic tradition, seeming to be an inherited part of scholarship instead of an individual’s rhetorical choice and deliberate ethos strategy. Negation, when one idea or set of ideas constructed by another is critiqued, advocated, and/or redeveloped by another scholar, is a discourse practice firmly established in the Rhetorical Tradition as part of Socratic dialogues, reappears in “modern rhetoric”, and remains today as …


Reviving The Surrealist Revolt: A Retracing Of Surrealism’S History And A Reimagining Of Its Future In Translation, Kyle Young 2012 Western Kentucky University

Reviving The Surrealist Revolt: A Retracing Of Surrealism’S History And A Reimagining Of Its Future In Translation, Kyle Young

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Although Surrealist writing has literary merit, Surrealist texts were written as revolutionary tracts meant to undermine the social order. Yet the politically radical aspects of the movement are no longer taken very seriously. At least one contributing factor to the current impotence of Surrealism is the approach taken in the translation of Surrealist texts. Many translators have presented Surrealist texts as they would traditionally present any literary document. However, Walter Benjamin’s writings on translation, in particular his essay “The Task of the Translator,” provide a novel conception of translation, one which can produce linguistically radical texts. I will argue that …


How Digital Media Affects The Nature Of Social Interactions, Johnny Liang 2012 Syracuse University

How Digital Media Affects The Nature Of Social Interactions, Johnny Liang

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for evaluating and understanding the roles of digital media, in particular the mobile phone and the internet, in our interpersonal and societal relationships. Though this paper is essentially grounded in research, drawing from the work of psychologists, cyber anthropologists, philosophers, and professors of communication studies as well as years of personal observations, it should be understood as more of a theoretical rather than research-based primer on the effects of digital media in our everyday lives. While this paper includes various ways digital connections can improve our relationships, it primarily discusses …


The Correspondence Of Attachment Dimensions To Prayer Styles Among Undergraduate Students, Nathaniel Aaron Lamkin 2012 Indiana State University

The Correspondence Of Attachment Dimensions To Prayer Styles Among Undergraduate Students, Nathaniel Aaron Lamkin

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The Parapraxis Of Translation, Roland K. Végső 2012 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

The Parapraxis Of Translation, Roland K. Végső

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Within the context of politics and culture, provides a theoretic framework for the analysis of modern translation. Includes section titles, "The paradoxa of translation," "The pragmatics of translation," and "The truth of translation."


Truly Normative Matters: An Essay On The Value Of Truth, Charles Kamper Floyd III 2012 University of Kentucky

Truly Normative Matters: An Essay On The Value Of Truth, Charles Kamper Floyd Iii

Theses and Dissertations--Philosophy

Is truth valuable? In addressing this question, one must parse it into questions that are more manageable. Is the property of truth only instrumentally valuable, or is it both instrumentally valuable and noninstrumentally valuable? Is the normativity of the concept of truth an intrinsic or extrinsic property of the concept? In addressing the first of these questions, I show that certain arguments are flawed, arguments that purport to show that truth is not valuable in any kind of way. After establishing that it is reasonable to think that the property of truth is valuable, I show how inflationists and deflationists …


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