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Consecutive Double Letters, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

A list of words that contain three or more sets of double letters in consecutive order.

Constrained Stinky Pinkies, . Anil, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

A stinky pinky is defined in Dave Morice's Dictionary of Wordplay (2001) as a two-word rhyming phrase such as flower power.

Deflationary Language, Roger E. Rondeau

Word Ways

In the following recessionary story, numbers and letters deflate instead of inflate, and any word that has a comparative element is changed to its lower or lesser counterpart.

What's So Key About These 8-Letter Words?, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Can you come up with the particular property that this list of 8-letter words share?

State Name Limericks, Bill Brandt

Word Ways

A collection of limericks using names of states.

(Non)Sense And (In)Sensibility, David Shaw

Word Ways

Adjectives often come in positive/negative pairs, or antonyms, such as well/unwell, correct.incorrect, similar/dissimilar. But there are some notable gaps in this pattern.

Vowel To Vowel Replacements, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Every word has a total of 2 vowels. The 2 vowels are different. They can be anywhere in the word except adjacent to each other. In the word pairs listed, the vowels under consideration are supplemented by like consonants in the same positions in each word.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of readers' responses to previously published articles.

The Norwich Bumstead Divination, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A magic trick explained.

Alphametics, Steven Kahan

Word Ways

A mathematical game.

Day One? Way Done!, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

More transposition puns and spoonerisms, original and otherwise.

The Tea Party, Stephen Bloom, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A magic trick.

Terminal Words, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A terminal word is derived from, in order, the first and last letters of the first word and the first and last letters of the second word of a two word phrase.

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

Word Ways

A regular column of miscellaneous items.

S-Unfriendliness, . Anil

Word Ways

A discussion of the letter S and how it combines with other letters when it is the initial letter of a word.

Putativeness - When Is A Word Not A Word?, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

An essay on what makes a word officially a word using the word Putativeness.

Back Cover And Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

The back cover of this issue including instructions to authors.

A Double Haiku From Homographs, . Anil

Word Ways

A poem in which the title and the poem itself are both haikus.

Cornages (Funny Words 6), . Anil

Word Ways

A collection of original "words."

Homograph Puns, . Anil

Word Ways

A collection of puns composed with homographs.

Review Of Stephen Mitchell, Beowulf, Carol A. Leibiger

Faculty Publications

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Medieval Japanese Zen: Catalyst For Symbol System Formation, Kendall Ann Roper

Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects

Post-modernism asserts that the world as we know it does not exist independently from the symbolic interpretations we formulate about it. This symbolic and ever unfolding interpretation of reality applies to our understanding of science as well as philosophy, to religion as well as art. In striving to describe religious experiences, various cultures have developed complex symbolic languages whose purpose is to reference a culturally understood version of sacred reality as presented through religion. Religions contribute to shaping these cultural perceptions of reality by utilizing symbolic acts, objects, events, qualities, or concepts to express otherwise inexpressible elements of a culture’s …

The Arts And Technology: How Educational Technology Can Bring Humanities Further Into Elementary And Primary School Systems, Coleman D. Alameda

Senior Theses

As the world becomes more inclined to implement technology in nearly every aspect of society, the United States Department of Education must find a way to incorporate new styles of modern and high-tech teaching without pushing out certain subjects from its curriculum. I believe technology can be used to bring the Humanities further into the classroom. In today’s society American education programs are desperately trying to make up for subpar primary school scores in mathematics and science. According to the government accredited international education forum (the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) the United States was found to be below …

A Sam Loyd Puzzle Solution?, Lori Wike

Word Ways

A proposed solution to a puzzle from the February 2016 issue.

The Mad Hatter's Dream, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A word puzzle.

The Counter-Clockwise Way, Scot Morris

Word Ways

An essay.

Wisconsin Words - 1, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

A word puzzle.

Colonialism And Peace And Conflict Studies, Sean Byrne, Mary Anne Clarke, Aziz Rahman

Peace and Conflict Studies

The nature of colonialism is examined in this comparison of British colonial policy in Ireland and Canada toward Indigenous people. The histories and realities of Indigenous peoples’ experiences of colonizing violence are not adequately addressed by the dominant approaches of the democratic peace theory’s universalist neoliberal technocratic values, expectations, and assumptions (see Mac Ginty, 2013). PACS scholars and practitioners need new interpretive frames to make sense of the impact and consequences of colonialism and the intent of genocidal destruction across different colonial contexts in order to understand the deep roots of conflict (economic exploitation, internalization of oppression, racist ideology), and …

Rendering Reliance: Consuming Coloniality In The Global North, Victoria L. Brown

Dissertations

In this dissertation, I offer a theoretical lens for understanding how the Global South is imagined by the Global North. The Global South has become a popular cause that for-profit companies use in order to engage in what Samantha King terms cause-marketing. While individuals in the South are certainly helped by these campaigns, they are harmed through Northern consumers being empowered by private companies encouraging them to adopt a colonizing gaze that subjugates those in the South with adhering to stereotypes. I develop three rhetorical devices that fulfill stereotypes long-held about those who are “other.”

First, I offer the endangered …

Real Goner, Nicholas Cox

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis paper is to tell the story behind, and outline the theoretical and conceptual framework underlying the exhibition, Real Goner. The exhibition combines a number of elements drawn from music and art history, as well as the theoretical writings of Albert Camus, Guy Debord, and Joseph Kosuth. Together, these elements produce a cryptic exhibition that attempts to address the inherent chaos, and apparent meaninglessness of existence; and to see art as a proposition, a performance, and a practice. The exhibition addresses issues of celebrity, the production and consumption of culture, and where that cycle leaves us …