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Tribute To John S. Mbiti, Joseph G. Healey, Mm

The Journal of Social Encounters

We continue to mourn John S. Mbiti, the Kenyan professor, author and theologian who died in Switzerland on 6 October, 2019 at the age of 87. He was one of the founders of our African Proverbs Project and the African Proverbs Working Group. He was one of cornerstones of our African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories Website.

Exploring The Narratives Of Underrepresented Southeast Asian Students In Higher Education, Donna Soukantouy

M.A. in Higher Education Leadership: Action Research Projects

In my study, I examined how underrepresented Southeast Asian (SEA) students, specifically Cambodians, Hmong, and Laotian students, navigate college by exploring their personal narratives. The research question I used to inform my study was how could I represent and better support underrepresented SEA students in the surrounding San Diego, California colleges and universities? I found that the focus groups I facilitated contributed to meaningful engagement. Oftentimes SEA students are never in the same room with other students like themselves. Through interviews, interactive activities, and dialogue, I found that we need to provide spaces, platforms, and workshops for SEA students to …

Evidence For A Typology Of Christ In The Book Of Esther, L. Clayton Fausett

Theses and Dissertations

Initially the Esther text was disputed and discarded by the early Church fathers. More recently in the 20th and 21st centuries Christian scholarship has dramatized, distorted, culturalized, feminized, or even politicized it. Indeed, the book has scarcely been defined as divine or devotional. While it has received condemnation from scholars, theologians like Martin Luther concluded that it would be best eliminated from the canon altogether. This thesis seeks to bring the text of Esther back into consideration for valid Christological interpretation by presenting evidence of a typology of Christ as exhibited in God's plan of salvation. In making such an …

Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Talker-Specific Influences On Distributional Learning For Speech, Nicholas Monto

Doctoral Dissertations

There is no one-to-one mapping between speech acoustics and individual speech sounds. The acoustic cues produced for individual speech sounds show wide variability both within and across talkers. Nonetheless, listeners perceive the speech of familiar and novel talkers with ease. It is theorized that listeners achieve this by maintaining a degree of flexibility in how acoustics are mapped to speech sound categories. Building on previous work demonstrating that listeners are sensitive to individual talker differences in speech production, we test the hypothesis that distributional learning for input statistics is contextually governed by talker identity. Listeners (n = 320) completed two …

Men, Women And Witchcraft: The Feminist Reclamation Of The Witch In The Modern Horror Film, Brian Joseph Hadsell

Theses and Dissertations

The witch as a figure possesses a powerful and enduring legacy in Euro-American culture; she is both a victim of patriarchal persecution and the natural enemy of a deeply-gendered society. Recent horror films that employ the witch, however, have generally done so in the form of reclaimed feminist icon: a violently retributive figure avenging the wrongs done to women both past and present. The purpose of this research is to provide insight about our acutely gendered society and culture in the times during and preceding the #MeToo movement through a semiological analysis of three recent horror films that center on …

Social Reproduction Theory And The Form Of Labor Power, Aaron Jaffe

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) centers the production and reproduction of labor power under capitalism. This power to labor is determined individually, socially, and in relation to the totality of capital. These powers are produced and reproduced in and through social relations that, while capitalist, have tremendously diverse local conditions and histories. SRT provides a framework to think through the oppressive logics shaping the production, reproduction, and potencies of labor powers understood as diversely constituted. It argues that SRT is committed to the diversity of these labor powers over and against conditions that constrain both these powers and their actualizations in …

An Experimental Clil Course For Moroccan Students Preparing For The International Baccalaureate, Amine Bouhzam

MA TESOL Collection

The author of this thesis aims to investigate Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach for seniors (grade 12) in the Moroccan EFL classroom. The field of science has been broken into range of specialisms which influence students’ choices for the international Baccalaureate in which the language of instruction is either French, English or Spanish. Being so, the approach acts as the backbone for the study of certain content through specific language use (Dalton-Puffer: 2007).

The intent of the thesis is to explore the instructor's thorough processes in starting the project, his desires, encounters and difficulties, and the long-term impact …

The History Of Early Modern Medicine In New Spain, El Primero Sueño, And Poet Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, Daniel Hughes

Grand Valley Journal of History

This essay analyzes poetry and other writing by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the context of themes from Greco-Roman antiquity and the historical development of medicine in seventeenth century New Spain, now Mexico. Sor Juana’s El Primero Sueño, a Spanish language poetic silva, exhibits copious references to writers from classical antiquity, including Aristotle and Ovid. Establishing a context steeped in ideas from Greco-Roman antiquity, Sor Juana invokes the medical and philosophical legacy of foundational physician Galen of Pergamon. She also expands upon his ideas into the human anatomical realm, reflecting the increased early modern prominence of …

More Word Ways?, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A reminder that Word Ways is ending and a puzzle.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 53, Issue 3

Word Ways

The front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.

Ciphers And Structures, Alex J. Quiz

Word Ways

A discussion of ciphers and structures as wordplay with examples.

Doubled Letter Sentences, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A collection of sentences in which each word has doubled letters.

Football Wusses, Roger E. Rondeau

Word Ways

An essay comparing football and baseball inspired by George Carlin and Tom Boswell.

Homophonic Couplets, Brian Garrison

Word Ways

A series of couplets ending with homophones.

Matching Transposed Letter Patterns, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The author matches transposals that use the same letter pattern.

For Martin Gardner A Puzzle And Game, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A word puzzle and game using the letters in the name "Martin Gardner."

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

Word Ways

A regular column.

In This Best Of All Possible...Words!, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

An Omnium Gatheram of linguistic humor and miscellanea

More Coincental Self-Similarities, . Anil

Word Ways

These are similar words, some nearly synonyms, which surprisingly are not etymologically related.

Removing The First Letter Or The Last Letter Leaves A Word, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The word under consideration makes another word when either its first or last letter in removed.

Numbers In Words, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

This article was inspired by my 5-year-old grand-daughter who once asked me "Do some words have numbers in them, as well as letters?"

San Diego, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell

Word Ways

A puzzle.

Up On The Downs, Or Down On Your Uppers, David Shaw

Word Ways

An essay on the ways we use the words UP and DOWN.

Transposal Phrases, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

These are 2-word phrases in which the 2 words consist of the same letters. Hence they are transposal phrases.

Wa - Wordaholics Anonymous, Roger E. Rondeau

Word Ways

An essay on how the English language is being butchered and a fictional recovery organization to combat it.

Verbo(C)Ity, Roger E. Rondeau

Word Ways

There are two kinds of cities in this country.

Words Containing Us State Abbreviations, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

A quest to find the smallest set of words that contain all 50 two letter abbreviations for US states and for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the US territories.

Words With Two Different Vowels, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Sentences and 2-word phrases are made from words having the same 2 different vowels, in the same order.

A Puzzle To Honor Dr. Stephen Bloom, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A Puzzle.

The Mathemagical Game Of Martin Gardner, Asif Hossain

Word Ways

A game.