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Getting The News: A Signer Among Signs, Mary Cappello

English and Creative Writing Faculty Publications

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Nt 632 Exegesis Of Philippians, James Miller

Syllabi

1. For those with Comprehensive Greek, either the UBS 4 or NA 27 Greek New Testament For those with Concise Greek, a Greek/English interlinear using one of the recommended English translations cited below and a Greek version cited above. 2. A modern translation of the New Testament (NRSV, RSV, TNIV recommended; not acceptable KJV, NKJV or paraphrases such as the NLB or the Message) 3. Stephen Fowl. Philippians. Two Horizons Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. 4. Richard B. Hays. The Moral Vision of the New Testament. San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1996. We will begin reading from HaysÕ book right away. …

Book Notes, Michael A. Rynkiewich, Kenneth J. Collins, Marcella Hoesl, Howard A. Snyder

The Asbury Journal

Matt Tomlinson

In God's Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity

2009 Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press

Reviewed by Michael A. Rynkiewich

S. T. Kimbrough Jr. and Kenneth G. C. Newport, eds.

The Manuscript Journal of the Reverend Charles Wesley, M.A. Vols. 1,2

2008. Nashville: Kingswood Books

John R. Tyson

Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley

2007 Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans

Reviewed by Kenneth J. Collins

Brian Stanley

The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910

Studies in the History of Christian Missions

2009. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans

Reviewed by Marcella Hoesl

Geordan Hanunond …

Ntid Research Bulletin Winter 2009, Ntid Department Of Research And Teacher Education

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

Table of Contents: National Center for Deaf Health Reseach - Notes of Note - New Developments in C-Print

Eulogy For Apollo: Synesthesia And Musicality In Andrei Bely's Petersburg And James Joyce's Ulysses, David Rodriguez

Theses & ETDs

Petersburg and Ulysses are often compared within the Modernist movement as texts which capture the urban landscapes of the early twentieth-century by means of radical experimentation with language. Petersburg examines a specific tumultuous moment in Russian history, October of 1905, and tethers it to a unique brand of synesthetic and musical poetics. The narrative portrays the cosmic and ineffable qualities of the political and social climate, suggesting an apocalyptic transformation taking place within the city. Nietzsche's Apollonian-Dionysian duality of the arts developed in Birth of Tragedy can be usefully applied to understanding the novel's complex imagery and style, which assert …

An Investigation Of Shared Intentionality As Evidenced By Informative Communication In Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes), Maya Nicole Gonczi

Theses & ETDs

Shared intentionality is the ability to share a goal, exhibited by both an ability to understand the mental states of others and the motivation to share attention with them. This skill is currently considered to be what separates humans from other species; however, animal subjects, specifically chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), sampled in this area have only been tested for their ability to comprehend instances of shared intentionality. To test if chimpanzees are capable of producing acts of shared intentionality, 30 subjects were faced with an experimenter who required communicative help in order to find a misplaced object. The only subjects who …

Difficult Hope: An Ethnography Of The Bread And Puppet Theater, Austin Mccann

Theses & ETDs

This is an ethnography of Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theater, based in Glover, Vermont. Bread and Puppet is anomalous: this anti-capitalist "Cheap Art" organization has maintained its distinctive aesthetic and its radical independence for more than four decades. The theater is based on the charismatic authority of Peter Schumann, a German artist concerned with cultural revival in the face of political horror. Schumann's promulgation of the synergy of art and politics has serious implications for the reception and canonization of his work. My thesis interrogates Bread and Puppet's aesthetic, then turns inward to questions of structure. The ways in …

"The Boys I Mean Are Not Refined": The Search For Identity In Contemporary American Novels, Jamie Valentine

Theses & ETDs

Many contemporary novelists explore a complex notion of identity. In these texts, characters create and recreate their identities, responding to the forces of their social world. I examine J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1945), Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer (1996) and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) following their young male protagonists in their search for a sense of identity. This thesis first explores the various strategies and tactics employed by the characters in the process of creating their identity: language, the search for community, sexuality, and violence. The success of each of these …

Language As Prosthesis: The Re-Embodiment Of Four Disabled Authors, Dorothy Dubrule

Theses & ETDs

Within the works of four disabled authors, language reveals itself as a prosthetic sense organ. As prosthesis, language is of the body, participating in an ongoing process of re-embodiment wherein the relationship between the disabled author and the world is affected by his writing. French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty provides a framework for understanding the constitution of a body-subject in its sensuous dialogue with the world. Influenced by the philosophical works of Merleau-Ponty, among others, a group of American writers calling themselves "Language poets" seek to reveal language as our primary mode of perception. While their individual projects deviate from one …

"Not A Man, But A Miracle": Escape(S) From Heteronormativity In Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy, Kateland Harte

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines Dorothy Sayers's 1936 novel Gaudy Night, her 1938 essay "Are Women Human?," Virginia Woolf's 1928 extended essay A Room of One's Own, and other feminist works. It constitutes a close reading of novelist Harriet Vane's psychological and artistic struggle with the competing claims of work and love in the social context of interwar England. As a woman, Harriet struggles against limiting sex roles derived from still-present patriarchal structures in the social world following the reforms of first-wave feminism. The thesis demonstrates that Harriet's choice of a deliberately separatist, intellectual life at an allfemale college ultimately suppresses her …

Representations Of Women In The Work Of Gustave Flaubert And Leo Tolstoy, Jillian Horowitz

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines works by two recognized masters of Realist fiction, Gustave Flaubert and Leo Tolstoy, in light of contemporary feminist theories. The purpose of this thesis is twofold: to examine both the canonical novels and lesser-known short stories of these Realist writers and to consider a range of feminist approaches to literature. The first chapter reads Flaubert's short story "A Simple Heart" ("Un Coeur Simple") (1877) in conjunction with Gayatri C. Spivak and post-colonial, post-modernist theory. The second chapter examines Leo Tolstoy's novella "Family Happiness" (1859) through the lens of ecofeminism, using Sherry B. Ortner's essay "Is Female to …

Neither Sovereign Nor Subject: The Constitutional People And Their Transformative Authority, Benjamin Brown

Theses & ETDs

Constitutional lawmaking can be understood as the action of a popular sovereign who exists outside of government, but alternatively as the self-transformation of a constitutional polity. Of these two modes of lawmaking, which is most apparent in the constitutional changes of post-Revolutionary America? Despite persistent appeals to sovereign acts, I argue that it is a constitutional people, who, concomitant with the Constitution and speaking through it, make constitutional change. This study examines two instances of politically-driven constitutional transformation. The decisive presidential election of 1896 caused the Supreme Court to consolidate the doctrines that the new President, William McKinley, would rely …

Film-Poetry Synthesis And The Birth Of Experimental Cinema In France, Scott Ross

Theses & ETDs

French poet Guillaume Apollinaire’s 1917 lecture “L’Esprit nouveau et les poètes” announced the beginning of the Parisian poets’ sincere engagement with cinema: in the following decade, the French literary community became increasingly involved in the development of film theory and criticism, and France’s young generation of experimental filmmakers began to consider modern poetry as a potential inspiration for their work. Some theorists and filmmakers even proposed the widely interpreted concept of a cinépoème: a cinematic poem. This thesis examines the presence and influence of French poetry in three such cinépoèmes made in the late 1920s. In Emak-Bakia, Man Ray employs …

Soteriology As A Gift System: Religious Practice Among The First Tibetan Buddhist Nun Scholars, Junmei Georgia Kashnig

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is an ethnography of a small community of Tibetan Buddhist nuns, primarily from ethnically Tibetan Himalayan villages within the nation-state of India, who are among the first group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns to receive a scholastic education. My data is the result of three months of fieldwork involving participant-observation and both formal and informal interviews. I argue that the nuns maintain a position of "soteriological inclusiveness" regarding the status of women, which implies soteriological but not social equality. I employ theory on "the gift" in the modern world to discuss the nuns' religious practice, where "habituation," is a …

Diving Into A Mirror Of Light: A Diachronic Exploration Of Cenotes, Jessica Anne Wheeler

Theses & ETDs

According to Miriam Kahn, space has been “relegated to a static physical backdrop, a kind of stage-setting removed from human action and interaction” (2000: 8). Rather than taking this avenue, I attempt to examine cenotes as specific settings of human action and interaction. This thesis attempts to deconstruct the powerful concepts of place imposed by outsiders and the perspectives of places held by their inhabitants. My thesis examines uses, perceptions, and conceptions of cenotes during the prehispanic period and contemporarily. In order to do this, I synthesize and interpret the material deposits from caves and cenotes dating to the prehispanic …

Relegation, Rejection, And Revolts: The Spatial Isolation Of The French Banlieue, Aaron Phillips

Theses & ETDs

No single word in the English language carries all the connotations of the French “banlieue.” Scholars, politicians, and residents offer dissonant renditions of these neighborhoods that vary from suburb and outskirt to ghetto and slum. This thesis analyzes the construction of the banlieue, both as a physical space and a site of contested meaning. Following the Second Word War, France poured reconstruction funds into public housing. Guided by Le Corbusier's utilitarian, modernist philosophy, the state outfitted hundreds of cités (projects) on the cheap land outside major cities with massive residential high-rises. This originally improved sanitation and quality of life for …

Ludic Transformations: Game And Play In Julio Cortazar's 62 Modelo Para Armar And Georges Perec's La Vie Mode D'Emploi., Alba Jaramillo

Theses & ETDs

Experimental authors have often used the theme of game and play in literature for stimulating new ways of reading and narrating. The Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar (1914-84) and French author Georges Perec (1936-1982) integrated this notion into their work in order to experiment with different narrative designs and encourage reader participation. The application of this theme to literature often carries a tension between control and freedom that affects the structure of the text as well as how it is interpreted. With reputations as the authors' most complex works, 62 Modelo para Armar and La Vie Mode D'emploi thematize the notions …

Subversion, Refraction And The Do-It-Yourself Proust: Autobiographical Intertexts Of La Recherche, Madison Sharko

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is interested in the way in which experimental autobiographies and semi-autobiographical fictions establish an intertextual relationship with Marcel Proust’s À La Recherche du temps perdu. The primary texts of this thesis each invoke a different Proust to achieve varied goals. Roland Barthes refracts Proust, Proustian iconography, and Proustian style in his post-structural hybrid text Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes, which shifts between the generic tropes of memoir, photo-essay, literary criticism and theory. Russian-born writer Andreï Makine’s semi-autobiographical novel Le Testament français establishes a complex intertextual dialogue with La Recherche in order to interrogate its cultural specificity, exchanging Proust’s …

Was Bedeutet Bio Fur Euch? Exploring Collaborative Research On A Demeter Farm In Germany, Lee Ellen Reed

Theses & ETDs

This thesis explores the developing literature on collaboration by elucidatating the theoretical underpinnings of contemporary collaboration in anthropology and by placing collaboration on a spectrum—ultimately demonstrating the benefits of explicitly collaborative research within anthropology. The case study is ethnographic collaboration conducted on a Demeter-certified, organic farm in Germany in the summer of 2008. Through photograph-centered focus-group conversations, participants (including myself) discussed issues broadly related to organic agriculture in Germany. The thesis itself focuses on two of the prominent themes which developed through the research: the contemporary ambiguity of the term "organic" (or "BIO" as it is called in Germany), and …

Food Literacy All Organic Food Is (Not) Created Equal, Lauren Shulman

Theses & ETDs

The language of certified organic food lacks clarity. As the organic industry has blossomed, so has the myriad of available organic products, yet the term "organic" has remained the label to describe all of these items. Since these items are certified "organic" in accordance with regulated standards, it is assumed that all organic industry participants mean the same thing when using the term "organic." By examining the founding organic ideals and comparing these ideals to the manifestations of certified "organic" practices, this analysis suggests that not all organic foods are produced, processed and distributed equally. The term "organic" has environmental, …

The Homeric Hymn To Hermes And Archaic Iambography, Justin Boner

Theses & ETDs

The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is often marginalized in considerations of the Homeric Hymns and archaic Greek poetry in general on the basis of its anomalous diction and content. This thesis aims to restore some centrality to the hymn by situating it in relation to archaic iambic poetry and the archaic Greek concept of blame more generally. This thesis argues that iambic poetry's verbal invective and obscenity account for much of the hymn's non-epic diction and playful tone. The first chapter provides a reconstruction of iambic poetry and details its poets, conventions, and principal characteristics. The second chapter highlights iambic …

Guide To The Neurobiology Of Dental Analgesics, Amanda Lebofsky

Theses & ETDs

This thesis serves as a comprehensive analysis of the scientific community's understanding of the neurobiology of pain transmission in the orofacial region thus far into the 21st century. Investigation of nociceptive transmission and brain relay mechanisms of the trigeminal brainstem nuclear complex (VBSNC) are expanded upon to provide insights of how the body processes and modulates sensory information in the mouth. Another main focus is placed on the way in which western medicine conducts the assessment and management of pain. This includes a description of various pain models, holistic treatments, and clinical measures used to mask pain transmission. Orofacial disorders …

Synesthesia: An Exploration Of The Behavior, Biology, And Individuality Of Cross-Modal Experiences, Blaine Farmer

Theses & ETDs

Synesthesia is a rare condition where activation of one sensory modality causes inappropriate crossactivation in another sensory modality. For example, hearing a tone (the inducing stimulus) might cause the experience of color (the concurrent perception). This comprehensive review and analysis of the literature on synesthesia incorporates behavioral and biological research to construct a core understanding for future research. Additionally, an online psychophysical study of three females with motion-sound synesthesia was conducted. The results emphasize differences in both the cognition and underlying biology of individuals with synesthesia, and provide direction for subsequent taxonomical investigations.

Precedented Yet Unparalleled: How New Is The "New Terrorism" Of The Al Qaeda Network?, Harrison Duke Grandwilliams

Theses & ETDs

On September 11, 2001, politicians and academic experts on terrorism decried the attacks in New York and Washington as unprecedented and unparalleled. The truth is that the Al Qaeda network represents a new organizational form, with unprecedented capacity; however, the organization's goals, ideology and strategy have deep roots in the history of terrorism and radical Islam. This thesis looks at the pre-9/11 literature on terrorism, and its failure to provide coherent insight into the nature of terrorism, or even a generally acceptable definition of terrorism. It goes on to trace the known precedents of Al Qaeda in the history of …

Children’S Insensitivity To Information From The Target Of Agreement: The Case Of Xhosa, Sandile Gxilishe, Mantoa Rose Smouse, Thabisa Xhalisa, Jill De Villiers

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

The paper presents an account of number agreement phenomena arguing that the target of agreement may be bleached of number information. This would explain why English-speaking children have difficulty relying on the target alone as a clue to number, despite producing it correctly. Xhosa has a very rich subject-verb agreement system and pro-drop, and there is theoretical dispute over its properties. An experiment with Xhosa-speaking children revealed that they, too, are unable to use the morpheme on the verb as a cue to subject number. It is argued that this may be further evidence that the morpheme is agreement rather …

Harding Magazine Winter 2009 (Vol. 17, No. 1), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.

Children's Behavioral Traits And Risk Of Injury: Analyses From A Case-Control Study Of Agricultural Households, Kathleen F. Carlson, Susan G. Gerberich, Bruce H. Alexander, Ann S. Masten, Timothy R. Church, John M. Shutske, Andrew D. Ryan, Colleen M. Renier

United States Public Health Resources

Problem: Children on family agricultural operations have high risk of injury. The association between children's behavioral traits and their risk of injury is not well understood. Method: Data from the Regional Rural Injury Study-II were used to assess behavioral risk factors for injury to children ages six to <20 years. A total of 379 injury events (cases) and 1,562 randomly selected controls were identified. Adjusted odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI), calculated using logistic regression, were used to estimate injury risk in reference to behavioral traits. Results: Injury risks were greater for children with high levels of depressive symptoms (OR=1.9, CI=1.0-3.7) and aggression (OR=1.6, CI=0.9-2.7), and low levels of careful/cautious behavior (OR=1.8, CI=1.1-2.9). Children with low levels of self-regulation had reduced risks (OR=0.4, CI=0.2-0.8). Discussion: Results suggest that children's behaviors affect their risk of agricultural injury. Additional research …

Ot 611 Exegesis Of Exodus, Brian D. Russell

Syllabi

John I. Durham. Exodus. WBC. Waco: Word, 1987. Terrence E. Fretheim. Exodus. Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1991. Michael Walzer. Exodus and Revolution T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker. Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity, 2002. Arnold, Bill and John Choi. A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Cambridge University Press. Elliger, K., and W. Rudolph, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1967-77. Holladay, William L. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament Based upon the Lexical Work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner. Grand Rapids, Mich.: …

Effects Of Case-Based Learning On Preservice Secondary Teachers’ Multicultural Attitudes: A Mixed Methods Study, Kathryn Lee, Emily Summers, Rubén Garza

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

As our society changes, so must our teacher education practices. In the past decade, the Southwestern U.S. has been transforming into a majority minority region (U.S. Census Bureau 2005), which must in turn reframe the underpinnings of teacher education in this area of our country. As teacher educators, we have known that many preservice teachers lagged in their preparedness to teach students who are culturally, ethnically, and linguistically different from themselves. Teacher education increasingly is being criticized as having inabilities to instruct teacher candidates in ways that produce greater K-12 student learning; diversity awareness will be a cornerstone if we …

A Dynamic Systems View On Leadership, Talent, And Intelligence, Wolf Kozel

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

A key question concerning leadership is whether leaders are born or made. Research has shown that although genetic temperament may play a role, environment is a large factor (Ceci, 1996). A determinist point-of-view may consider that if something exists, then it can be measured and organizations would be foolish not to use tests to assess talent and leadership. In contrast, however, a dynamic systems view of leadership would contend that the variables that determine leadership are numerous, interacting, with small differences sometimes resulting in great changes.