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The Reflection Of The Wastelands Of Waiting For Godot And Endgame In Electronic Media, Anya M. Cronin

Theses and Dissertations

The Reflection of the Wastelands of Waiting for Godot and Endgame in Electronic Media is a study of the wasteland settings of Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and the Internet according to the method of play analysis established by Bruce McConachie in American Theatre in the Culture of the Cold War: Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947- 1962. Chapter One establishes my justification, methodology, structure, and survey of literature. Chapters Two-Four explore isolation and language, magic, and death in regard to Godot, Endgame, and the Internet, respectively. Chapter Four also briefly concludes the work. This thesis invites …

Three Wittgensteins: Interpreting The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Thomas J. Brommage Jr.

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

There are historically three main trends in understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus. The first is the interpretation offered by the Vienna Circle. They read Wittgenstein as arguing that neither metaphysical nor normative propositions have any cognitive meaning, and thus are to be considered nonsense. This interpretation understands Wittgenstein as setting the limits of sense, and prescribing that nothing of substantive philosophical importance lies beyond that line. The second way of reading the Tractatus, which has became popular since the 1950s, is the interpretation which most currently accept as the early Wittgenstein's view; for this reason I refer to it …

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, August 3, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2008

No abstract provided.

Volume 6, Liberty University

Liberty Business Review

No abstract provided.

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: August 2008, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - August 2008.

Access Transformed: Building A Primary Care Workforce For The 21st Century, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

Though access to primary care protects health and cuts costs, this report shows there aren't enough primary care doctors and nurses at health centers to meet the need, with some areas having almost none – a situation that cannot be solved just by expanding health insurance coverage. The report indicates the availability of a primary care workforce depends on where you live, and primary care clinicians are not locating in areas that need them most, especially low-income communities. The study includes state-level projections of growing patient needs expected to stretch the health care system in years ahead. It was conducted …

Reply To Joseph Ellin's Of All Professions, Prostitution Is The Oldest (Except Possibly For Teaching), Michael Davis

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

No abstract provided.

En Route To The Eldorado Of Europe, Pierre Veau

Spiritan Magazine

No abstract provided.

Who Are You, Class Of 2011, Michelle Rahman

Who Are You Class of...Orientation Speeches

“You thought you found us by internet searches, word of mouth, pre law advisor’s suggestion, visiting us on line or in person, or other means, however I want to remind you that I also travelled 32,678 miles to find, and recruit you to this law school. From across this great country, from California to Massachusetts, big cities and rural towns, you’ve come to us from 26 states, Korea and 2 of you from Canada. Several of you grew up in very rural Virginia, some on farms and some in big cities. More than half of this class is from out …

Nobody (?) Likes A Spoiler, Miri Kim

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

On July 31st, SBS, a major South Korean broadcast network, aired a short clipshowing details of the carefully guarded rehearsals for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics (the video clip has now been removed from all major news and video sites). As the news (and the clip) spread on the web, Chinese and Korean news, portal sites, and users on blogs and message boards expressed, to put it mildly, consternation. On popular Chinese portals like sina.com and 163.com, polls show that a large percentage of the respondents support revoking the offending station’s broadcasting privileges, or investigating who bore …

The Emotional Intelligence And Resilience Of School Leaders: An Investigation Into Leadership Behaviors, Aileen Thompson Bumphus

Dissertations

Recent research suggests that leadership in schools and emotional intelligence are related. Furthermore, resiliency has been researched and found to be linked to successful leadership. As a result of these findings and the researcher's own professional experiences, it is speculated that emotional intelligence, resilience, and school leadership may be highly related factors in how one leads a school. The study of this three-factor relationship has been virtually overlooked in the research on school leadership and might prove useful in the recruitment, identification, development, and retention of effective school leaders.

A study of the emotional intelligence, resilience, and leadership of public …

A Metamorphosis Of Thought: Parent Education Based On Transformative Learning Theory In A Title I-Funded Middle School, Ayanna Lichelle Shivers

Dissertations

Section 1118(e)(2) of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 encouraged public schools to conduct and evaluate parent education programs to assist with closing the achievement gap. In an effort to combat the existing problem, the researcher engaged in a mixed-methods study to address four research questions.

A comparative-quantitative study, using the Middle School Parent Perception Survey, was conducted to determine if there were statistically significant differences in perceptions of parents whose children attended Title I funded and non-Title l-funded schools in the following areas—barriers to parent involvement, their ability to assist their children with schoolwork, and the support …

Identifying Preschool Students In Need Of Early Intervention, Cassie Delso Wells

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate a screening instrument targeting identification of preschool students in need of early intervention in order to determine the screening instrument's predictive validity. This study specifically examined the relationship between student scores on the DIALS and student achievement in reading at the end of first grade. All participants in the study were residing on Alaska's North Slope and the majority were Alaska Natives. The remote geographic location of the North Slope along with the ancient traditions of the Inupiat Eskimos, including the Inupiaq language that is still spoken among the residents of the …

Animal Thoughts On Factory Farms: Michael Leahy, Language And Awareness Of Death, Rebekah Humphreys

Between the Species

The idea that language is necessary for thought and emotion is a dominant one in philosophy. Animals have taken the brunt of this idea, since it is widely held that language is exclusively human. Michael Leahy (1991) makes a case against the moral standing of factory-farmed animals based on such ideas. His approach is Wittgensteinian: understanding is a thought process that requires language, which animals do not possess. But he goes further than this and argues that certain factory farming methods do not cause certain sufferings to the animals used, since animals lack full awareness of their circumstances. In particular …

The Intentionality Of Plover Cognitive States, Chuck Stieg

Between the Species

This paper attempts to clarify and justify the attribution of mental states to animals by focusing on two different conceptions of intentionality: instrumentalist and realist. I use each of these general views to interpret and discuss the behavior and cognitive states of piping plovers in order to provide a substantive way to frame the question of animal minds. I argue that attributing mental states to plovers is warranted for instrumentalists insofar as it is warranted for similar human behavior. For realists about intentionality, the complexity, adaptability and flexibility of the plovers’ behavior, along with its ability to utilize the content …

Peter Singer’S Hegelianism: The Social Context Of Equality, David Rose

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

Colloquy

Word Ways

On the day of the 2008 Summer Solstice, we spent several delightful hours meeting with Martin Gardner at his home in Norman, Oklahoma. The picture shows the editor discussing with Martin the manuscript of his soon to be published book on Word Play. The tentative title is The Collosal Book of Word Play and Sterling Publishing will be handling it.

Beheading, Andy Liu

Word Ways

I was not the only one enchanted by Ray Love's report on the Washington Post Word Contest in Word Ways 41(1) 28-29). Jeff Grant and Jennifer Smith made their contributions in Word Ways 41(2) 109. Here are a few of my own compositions. In the game of Beheading, the answers are words with their first letters to be removed.

Crossword

Word Ways

A crossword puzzle.

Front Cover, Publication Information

Word Ways

Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents

English: Best For(E) Play With Words, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The following talk was presented at the international conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the American Society for Geolinguistics at New York University on April 20 1985.

Obamanastics, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

What is onomastically remarkable about Barack Obama's name? If one sets A=1, B=2, ...Z=26, adds the numerical version (2+1+18+1+3+11+15+2+1+13+1 = 68), and divides by the number of letters (11), one obtains a "density" of 6.2.

Kickshaws, D. Morice

Word Ways

In the opening Kickshaw, Rich Lederer continues displaying a selection of his wordplay poems accompanied by comments on language. It begins with a drawing I made of Rich for a wonderful but sadly short lived magazine for younger people called "Time Machine." Rich wrote a column for it titled "The Wizard of Words," and I illustrated it. Allow me to introduce the Venerable Wizard Himself.

Insiders, Jim Puder

Word Ways

I first became aware of this particular wordplay recreation when I noticed its use in the Nov. 8, 1998 New York Times Crossword puzzle, which was composed by Robert Malinow and entitled "Insiders." Although the concept of insiders may well have been an original one with Malinow, I have since learned that similar devices have, in fact, long been employed in clues used by so-called "cryptic" crosswords.

Three Jog Knight, Harold Jacobs

Word Ways

The rock band Three Dog Night started to become popular in the late 60s. At that time, I created a puzzle to lead into a lesson in one of my math classes which I called the Three Jog Knight. Its purpose was to introduce some ideas about vectors; the puzzle was to show all of the ways in which a knight could be moved from the lower to the upper square in this chessboard in exactly three moves.

A Poem, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

This is an exceprt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).

More Baileyisms, Arthur I. Schulman

Word Ways

Al Shapiro's article in the May issue "Bailey's Hexameters" cited some of Nat. Bailey's definitions in the 1730 folio edition Dictionarium Britannicum. Here are some other Baileyisms that might be of interest to WW readers.

Punk Whiz 4, A. Anil

Word Ways

Pun quiz, continued from May-Nov. '06. Clues are false but credible definitions of the answers, which mean something else. Many contain a direct clue as well as the misleading one, as in cryptic crosswords. Some are charades or homophonic puns, most just double meanings.

A Poem, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

This is an excerpt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).

Variation On A Theme Of Francis, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

In the February, 1970 Word Ways Darryl Francis had an article "A Reconstructable Crossword Puzzle". The 15x15 puzzle had fixed pieces (polyomino style) that could be moved around in the grid to form a second crossword with new definitions. Sometime later he sent to Word Ways a six-solution puzzle of a similar nature. This puzzle has not yet run in print because of space considerations but we hope to use this tour-de-force in the near future.