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Lingnan University : Calendar 2007-2008, Lingnan University

Lingnan University Calendar

No abstract provided.

The Bloody Truth: A Psychological And Cultural Study Of Menstruation As Lived And Experienced By Women, Carolyn Deforest

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The present research explores the negation and affirmation of menstrual life as found in culture, theory, and the concrete experiences of individual women. A phenomenological and hermeneutical thematic analysis is used throughout. In this study, the aspects of culture analyzed include language, humor, art, television, film, literature, print and television advertising, menstrual education, medicine, and some of the historical influences in the perception of women. Additionally, the formal psychological literature is examined as part of the cultural data, as is the researcher's own observations and cultural experiences.

Overall, this research reveals that the experience of menstrual bleeding has been culturally …

Perceptions And Needs Of Rural Young People In The South-West Of Western Australia : Implications For Pedagogy, Rhonda Oliver, Lynelle Watts, Joan Strikwerda-Brown, David Hodgson, Marilyn Palmer

Research outputs pre 2011

The original purpose of this study was to investigate youth needs, specifically in the south western region (the 'South West') of Western Australia, and then to explore how these needs might be addressed in terms of current curriculum and teaching practices. The following research questions guided our investigation:

- What are the educational and occupational aspirations of young people from the South West of Western Australia?

- What do young people identify as influences on their educational and occupational aspirations and attainment?

As the data collection progressed, it was evident to all those involved that, whilst there were expressed needs, …

First Year Spanish Course Curriculum, Anna Carpenter

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Riding The Wheel: Selling American Women Mobility And Geographic Knowledge, Christina E. Dando

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

The bicycle's “prime” was a mere decade, 1890-1900, but in this brief window, it had a profound impact on American women’s lives. This paper will examine the role of the media in transforming women's relationship to their world, altering how, where and why they moved through the landscape, drawing from work on cartographic culture, actor-network theory and consumption and mass culture. Through popular magazine articles, stories, advertisements, and maps, American women (as well as men) were “informed” of the possibilities the bicycle had to offer, modeling geographic mobility, greater spatial awareness, and the practice of both cartography and landscape. Women …

Ecocritical Perspectives On African Literature : Place, Literary Identity, And The Natural World / Anna K. Smith, Anna K. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Examination Of One District's Identification, Assessment Practices, Preventative Interventions, And Longitudinal Literacy Learning Of At-Risk Readers, Lori J. Lennon

PCOM Psychology Dissertations

The purpose of this longitudinal study was to profile Reading Recovery students in one district to examine: (1) the content and predictability of the district’s early intervention screening assessments and progress monitoring tools, (2) the initial and (3) sustained effectiveness of the Reading Recovery preventative program relative to student achievement in first through third grades (4) rates of identification of educational disabilities and special education placements and (5) common variables in intellectual, process, and achievement characteristics of those students who were slow to respond to reading interventions. Participants consisted of students from fifteen elementary schools, within the years 2000 to …

You’Ve Always Got Time: (Disposable) Coffee Cup Litter As Discursive Regime(S), Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

Quick, convenient cups of coffee from the seemingly infinite number of outlets might fuel a nation(’s workers) but once the liquid has been consmed little can be done with the supposedly disposable paper, fibre or styrofoam cups. Even though the cups cannot be recycled they do not necessarily find their way into the trash – at least not immediately. The coffee’s convenience and the concomitant (alternative) disposal methods of consumers have produced a discourse in litter by virtue of the places and positionings – that is, the practices – through which what I will call “discursive littering” occurs. Once the …

The Impact Of A Media Literacy Education Plan On The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (Fcat) Reading Scores Of 9th And 10th Grade Students, Colleen T. Sheehy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the impact of a media literacy education plan on the reading test scores of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) at an urban high school in Central Florida. A team of 9th and 10th grade teachers created a professional learning community and developed a treatment to enhance language arts instruction with various forms of media. This media literacy education plan included four lessons utilizing media such as television commercials, magazine photographs and the Internet; the lessons were taught during the four months leading to the administration of the 2007 FCAT. Data were gathered from the 2006 and …

Perceived Influence Of The Portrayal Of Women In Beauty And Fashion Magazines On Body Image, Melissa Shrader

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This investigation examines how women perceive that magazines influence the body image of self and others. Seventeen audio-taped in-depth interviews were conducted with college women who read beauty, fashion, and grooming magazines frequently. These interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed and the data developed into topics of importance. The findings indicated that informants perceived other women were influenced more by images of women in the media than they themselves were influenced. However, informants did not advocate behavior changes for others or hold pro-censorship attitudes. Other findings include favorable perceptions of magazines utilizing larger sized fashion models, negative attitudes towards advertising, …

Popular Culture, Legal Films, And Legal Film Critics, James R. Elkins

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Core Curriculum Seminars Signature Iii, Center For Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University

Center for Catholic Studies Faculty Seminars and Core Curriculum Seminars

No abstract provided.

Cmn 5005 : Qualitative Research Methods, Communication Studies

Approved Course Proposals

No abstract provided.

'Time In A Bottle': Temporal Discontinuities In Narratives Of Diaspora, Emily Churilla

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

The concepts of home have been, and continue to be, the foundation of much of the contention surrounding all sides of discourse regarding diaspora and immigration - through both viewing the home as threatened and defiled as well as redefining the imagined reality of home. It is the impasse of working around and against the frame of Western temporality and space from within the trope of home that this paper will explore; specifically how narratives of diasporic subjectivity disrupt and threaten normalized constructs of origin and time, history, and identity. Because to only consider the question of "home" leaves a …

Unruly Corporeality: Aids, Immigration And The Imagined Australian Body, Zoë Anderson

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Particular bodies within the Australian nation can be seen to threaten to disrupt and destabilize dominant notions of cultural citizenship. Understood through intricate intersections of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, 'Australianness' - and its correlation to the geographical nation - is constantly monitored. Crucial here is the manner in which boundaries of whiteness, and 'true Australianess', are reconstituted, fuelling avoidance of the ambiguities of national belonging and ensuring the enduring pathologisation of the 'un'Australian. In particular, discursive associations between HIV/AIDS and the 'foreign' as perceived contaminates to the nation operate to reinforce these understandings. Here, the threat of disease both informs, …

Cmn 3270 : Communication And Popular Culture, Communication Studies

Approved Course Proposals

No abstract provided.

Contributors, Jennifer Musial, Emily Van Der Meulen

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Information about contributors to articles in volume 7 issue 1 of Reconstruction.

Punking Yoga: Reconstructing Post/Neo/Colonial Fashion And Movement, Tara Brabazon

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

The branded clothes worn through sporting and fitness activities confirm that any movement, practice or behaviour that seems transgressive of heteronormative masculinity and femininity is also implicated in neo/colonial incorporations and the casualized workforce that is a characteristic of sports clothing manufacture. In an environment washed by the marketing of opposition, resistance is both difficult to define and apply in cultural studies. This paper invokes 'the problem' of resistance while denying the seamless and simple determinations of positive and negative representations. The focus of study is Yogurt Activewear, a company attacking corporatized yoga wear by creating an anti-brand brand. They …

Exile, Identity, And Artistic Creation: An Arts Based Phenomenological Study With Immigrant Women: A Dissertation, Vera Heller

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

This arts based phenomenological study with immigrant women explores the migratory and creative processes from the perspective of the Hero's archetype, viewed by Jung as a template for individuation. Its objective is to gain further insight into the contribution of art therapy to healing the fragmentation of identity inherent in the transition between two - often radically different - cultures.

Talk Among The Dragonflies And Dalmations: An Investigation Of Communicative Competence In A Pre-Kindergarten Classroom: A Dissertation, Lauren Foley Goldberg

Educational Studies Dissertations

A year-long ethnographic study of young children's language was conducted in a pre-kindergarten classroom. The investigation focused on the teachers' direct instruction and the children's emerging communicative competence in the rules and structure of group conversation. The class "Morning Meeting" was recorded once or twice a week for the entire year; a subset of these recordings formed the data set for the analysis. Of particular interest were communication behaviors that emphasized the growth of a sense of membership and community within the group as well as evidence that the children had learned conventions for turn-taking, topic maintenance, and solidarity.

Organizational Adoption Of Web-Enabled Services For Information Dissemination, Pamila Dembla, Prashant Palvia, Lloyd Brooks

Faculty Articles

Although communication, collaboration, and transaction processing are some of the important business functions facilitated by the web, timely dissemination of information is critical for ultimate customer satisfaction and potential profitability. The purpose of this study is to determine the affect that contextual factors such as IS maturity, organizational attributes, and environmental characteristics have on perceived usefulness and adoption of web-enabled services for information dissemination in organizations. The key focus of this article is "organizational adoption" as opposed to individual acceptance for which there have been numerous studies. A research model and eight hypotheses were developed based on past literature. Data …

On The Incorporation Of The Personality Factors Into Crowd Simulation, Sivakumar Jaganathan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Recently, a considerable amount of research has been performed on simulating the collective behavior of pedestrians in the street or people finding their way inside a building or a room. Comprehensive reviews of the state of the art can be found in Schreckenberg and Deo (2002) and Batty, M., DeSyllas, J. and Duxbury, E. (2003). In all these simulation studies, one area that is lacking is accounting for the effects of human personalities on the outcome. As a result, there is a growing emphasis on researching the effects of human personalities and adding the results to the simulations to make …

This Sporting Life: Sports And Body Culture In Modern Japan, William W. Kelly, Atsuo Sugimoto

CEAS Occasional Publication Series

Yale CEAS Occasional Publication Series - Volume 1

Sports in Japan have long been embedded in community life, the educational system, the mass media, the corporate structures, and the nationalist sentiments of modern Japan. For over a century, they have been a crucial intersection of school pedagogy, corporate aims, media constructions, gender relations, and patriotic feelings. The chapters in this book highlight a wide range of sports, and together, they offer a significant window on to the ways that the sporting life animates the institutions of modern Japan.

Bgsu Graduate College 2007-2008 Catalog, Bowling Green State University

Course Catalogs

Bowling Green State University graduate catalog for 2007-2008.

El Motivo En La Ciencia Literaria: Del Formalismo Ruso Al Estructuralismo Genético, Miguel Ángel Zamorano

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El presente artículo expone cómo dos estructuralismos divergentes se aproximan al hecho literario: Formalismo Ruso y Círculo Lingüístico de Praga con una orientación lingüística y Estructuralismo Genético, con una orientación marxista. El primero creando en la lengua literaria y en el paradigma de la literariedad sus bases epistémicas, y el segundo promoviendo la explicación de la obra mediante la comprensión del entorno cultural en el que nace, ligando lo que los primeros habían concebido netamente en campos separados.

This article presents two divergent structuralisms approaching the literary event: Russian Formalism and the Linguistic Circle of Prague with a linguistic orientation …

Aproximación A Las Estrategias Creativas En Así Que Pasen Cinco Años: Tiempo Absoluto Y Subconsciente, Mariam Budia

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este artículo la autora examina la obra de Federico García Lorca Así que pasen cinco años, desde unos presupuestos metodológicos basados en las estrategias creativas «tiempo absoluto» y «subconsciente» en relación con las ciencias imperantes en la época: la Teoría de la relatividad y el psicoanálisis

Abstract

In this article the author examines Federico García Lorca's work Así que pasen cinco años from a methodological approach based on creative strategies «absolute time» and «subconscious» in connection with the prevailing sciences in that time: Theory of Relativity and Psychoanalysis.

"Locus Del Ser": Numeración Y Precisión Formal En Las Obras De Samuel Beckett, Robert Scanlan, Diego Santos Sánchez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En el presente trabajo se presenta el modelo de análisis del «locus del ser»; ejemplificado a través del comentario de Rough for Theatre Il, dicho modelo establece una clara distinción entre lo que es un personaje y lo que es un locus del ser, instancia que distingue las obras de teatro de las literarias. Se propone una lectura atenta al texto que recupere todas estas conciencias desplazadas, sin las cuales la puesta en escena no alcanza la plenitud prevista por el autor.

This paper presents the «locus of being» model for dramaturgical analysis, a method that establishes a distinction …

La Guerra Como Motivo Y La Estrategia Ceremonial En Guernica, De Fernando Arrabal, Diego Santos Sánchez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En el artículo se emplea la Teoría de Motivos y Estrategias, herramienta del GIAE, para realizar un análisis formal y temático de Guernica, obra de Fernando Arrabal sobre el bombardeo al que se vio sometida la ciudad homónima. Entendida como un lenguaje basado en la repetición, la ilogicidad y el carácter colectivo, la ceremonia se muestra como la estrategia adecuada para vehicular la conciencia alienada del autor respecto a la guerra .

In this article the Theory of Motives and Strategies serves to explore the formal and thematic spheres of Guernica, a play about the bombardment of the …

Introducción A Los Motivos De José María Rodríguez Méndez En Flor De Otoño, Jorge Herreros

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El presente artículo analiza la obra de José María Rodríguez Méndez, Flor de Otoño, desde unos presupuestos metodológicos basados en la Teoría de motivos y estrategias. El estudio expone los «motivos» que llevan a un autor, situado tradicionalmente dentro de la generación realista del teatro de los años sesenta, a plantearse en esta obra una «estrategia escénica» más cercana al teatro de ruptura y con un lenguaje escénico distante de los cánones

de la estética realista.

This article is an analysis ofJosé Maria Rodríguez Méndez's work Autumn Flower, from a methodological approach based on the Theory of …

Triple Salto Mortal Con Pirueta: Acrobacia Escénica En Clave De «Alta Comedia», Berta Muñoz Cáliz

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Análisis de la obra Triple salto mortal con pirueta, de Jesús Campos García, en relación con la alta comedia. La confrontación de los distintos elementos de esta obra - espacio escénico, tiempo, estructura dramática, etc. - con sus correspondientes en dicho género, pone de manifiesto que estamos ante una deconstrucción del mismo. La estrategia comunicativa del autor ha consistido en utilizar los mecanismos de este género, del que tradicionalmente se ha servido un sector de la sociedad para reafirmar su visión del mundo, para .cuestionar precisamente esta visión del mundo. El resultado es una obra en la que la …