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"Jesus Is Not A Foreign God":Christian Music-Making In Burma/Myanmar, Heather Maclachlan

Department of Music Faculty Publications

Christians in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, also known as Myanmar, make up approximately five percent of the national population. The Christian community of Burma includes both Catholics and Protestants, and the Protestants are divided into many denominations. Baptist Christians are predominant among this group, and they provided most of the ethnographic information upon which this article is based. In the article I argue that twenty-first century Baptists in Burma fulfill both aspects of a “twofold legacy” bequeathed to them by Adoniram Judson, the first Baptist missionary to Burma, and that their fulfillment of this legacy is manifest in …

Breaking The Cycle, Mackenzie Sammeth

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

No abstract provided.

1, 2, 3, 4. A New Musical, Natalie A. Pereira

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

No abstract provided.

Unorthodox: Expanding Women's Representation In Tv And Film, Regan Lynch

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Cooperation-Conflict Conundrum: Proceedings Of An Arctic Security Webinar Series, Aldo Chircop

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

The origins of the conference, for which this volume is the published record, go back to the fall of 2019 and the Canadian Pugwash Group’s (CPG’s) annual general meeting. Having just held a major policy conference at the University of Ottawa on “Speeding Towards the Abyss: Contemporary Arms Racing and Global Security,” the CPG was considering what should be the subject of its next policy conference. Arctic security, in all its dimensions, quickly was identified as the theme to pursue. Planning got underway with a view to holding the event in the fall of 2020 and finding suitable partners.

The …

An Actor Auditions, Jessica T. Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

In the fall of 2020, I began one of my most demanding graduate career courses, Audition Techniques. We explored Michael Shurtleff's book, Auditions, to learn about his auditioning techniques. I found early on in this journey that I lacked a consistent approach to auditions. This thesis represents the process of auditioning and will serve as a tool for actors transitioning from the educational theater, seeking to improve confidence in auditioning. In a regional theater audition for the Orlando Shakes, I will evaluate my ability to apply techniques learned in educational theater training, such as Shurtleff's 12 guideposts and ways to …

Performing Belvile: Developing A Transformative Method, Brian Wiegand

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Learning to act is a difficult process, particularly for a young adult who is still discovering the wide variety of human experiences that make up much of dramatic literature. As an actor in training, I have struggled to play characters whose experiences and given circumstances differ from my own. I am not resistant to this idea, I have, however, come to realize that my own personal habits continue to get in the way of making a full transformation into the inner life of the character. As a result, my characters are often similar to one another, even if these characters …

Combating Performance Anxiety: Reflections Of A Personal Anti-Anxiety Plan For Onstage And Filmed Media, Megan Friend

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

As a performer, I am still challenged with thoughts of anxiety, fear, and premeditated responses. This anxiety often prevents me from exploring choices in the rehearsal room and impedes my character's given circumstances during a performance. It has become imperative for me to explore a new way to approach a role psychologically, emotionally, and physically. I hope to eliminate the persistent problem that occurs in my process; the common gap between mind and body that prevents me from creating a dynamic, holistic performance. This document will examine two vital stages of the development and application of my new process. As …

Concert Recording 2021-11-17, Lauren Nicole Clare, Lenora Green-Turner, Jonathan Stinson, Helen Becqué

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Die tote Stadt. Tanzlied des Pierrot / Erich Korngold -- [05:23]. Let us garlands bring. Come away, come away, death ; Who is Sylvia? ; Fear no more the heat o' the sun / Gerald Finzi -- [16:20]. Finding Neverland. Neverland / Gary Barlow ; Eliot Kennedy -- [19:47]. Cosi fan tutte. Come Scoglio / W. A. Mozart -- [25:22]. Daybreak in Alabama / Ricky Ian Gordan -- [29:12]. Let America be America again / Ethan Godfrey -- [33:59]. Nightsongs. Creole girl / Leslie H. Adams -- [36:48]. Poéme de Max Jacob. III. La petite servant / Francis Poulenc …

Concert Recording 2021-11-16, Eric Troiano, Tyler Trickey, Bailey Ross, Quintin Roper, Crystal Espinosa, Haley Evans, Gabriel Garcia, Andrew Swerts, Markell Cox, Dylan Matheny, Sallie Hendrix, Max Morrow, Dylan Engholm, Nathan Alexander, Erin Newberry, Ryan Miller, Eric Aguilar, Catherine Ryan, Bumblebee Saxophone Quartet, Kopi Saxophone Quartet, Sunaru Saxophone Quartet, Rose Saxophone Quartet, Castalia Saxophone Quartet, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Saxophone Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

[00:00]. Cello Suite No. 4. Prelude / J.S. Bach -- [05:49]. Black Mary / Shelley Washington -- [14:54]. Ali / Alex Mincek -- [20:02]. Premiere Quatour. Andante / Jean Baptiste Singelee -- [26:15]. Variations Saxophoniques / Fernande Decruck -- [36:03]. Mountain Roads. Overture / David Maslanka -- [42:45]. Passaggi. Bugarka / Pepito Ros -- [47:46]. Blueprint / Caroline Shaw ; arranged by Dylan Matheny -- [55:16]. Lo Yisa Goy / Stacy Garrop -- [01:01:30]. First Suite in E-flat. Chaconne / Gustav Holst ; arranged by Christian T. Anderson.

Familismo And Nontraditional Educational Possibilities In Third Space, Kathy Bussert-Webb, Karin A. Lewis

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

The authors explore children's and mothers' perceptions and experiences regarding school and an after-school tutorial agency. The latter serves a South Texas colonia, an unincorporated Southwestern settlement lacking basic services. They asked, “What are participants' perceptions and experiences regarding this agency and school?” Latinx participants, who spoke Spanish as a mother tongue, included 19 children, their eight mothers, two agency staff, and 15 teacher candidates (TCs). TCs were Bussert-Webb's university students who tutored the children and used iPads for multimodal, multilingual experiences. Using Third Space and social justice frameworks and qualitative analysis, these themes emerged: power, engagement, and diversity; participants …

Law, Growth, And The Identity Hurdle: A Theory Of Legal Reform, Martin W. Sybblis

Faculty Articles

This Article offers a new theoretical approach to understanding resistance to legal change in the corporate and commercial context by introducing the sociological concept of "community economic identity" (CEI) into legal scholarship. I argue that community leaders (typically, but not exclusively, from the political, legal, and business spheres) generate public and recognizable identities-e.g., "Coal Country" or "Motor City"-with respect to some commercial activities. These identities influence how law reform is conceived and deployed within jurisdictional boundaries (i.e., country, state, town, region, etc.). CEI complicates the prevailing public choice narrative regarding the influence of special interests in the law reform process. …

(Im)Mutable Race?, Deepa Das Acevedo

Faculty Articles

Courts rarely question the racial identity claims made by parties litigating employment discrimination disputes. But what if this kind of identity claim is itself at the core of a dispute? A recent cluster of “reverse passing” scandals featured individuals—Rachel Dolezal and Jessica Krug among them—who were born white, yet who were revealed to have lived as members of Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color (BIPOC) communities. These incidents suggest that courts will soon have to make determinations of racial identity as a threshold matter in disputes over employment discrimination and contract termination. More specifically, courts will have to decide whether …

Drag Artist Interviews, 2020, Destiny Baxter, Ezra Temko, Adam Loesch

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This public dataset contains transcripts of 8 in-depth semistructured interviews with drag artists. Destiny Baxter conducted these interviews during Spring 2020. This follows up on an available dataset of 22 interviews of drag artists conducted in Spring 2019 by SIUE students, available at https://spark.siue.edu/siue_fac/104/

All 2019 and 2020 interviews used the same instrument.

Examining Factors Of Student Retention In A Middle School Band Program, Tyler Renninger

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

This action research aimed to examine the factors contributing to student retention in a middle school band program through the self-reported perspectives of students. With a critical inquiry framework, it was anticipated that the results would inform potential action by the researcher aimed at increasing student access to music programs. Through an empirical descriptive design using survey technique, the study population included band students at the school where the researcher was teaching at the time of the study. Results of data analysis indicate that students mostly made their decisions independently, while some were influenced by parents and peers. The most …

Milked Dry: A Framing Analysis Of How Mass Media Helped Reframe The Public's Perception Of The Dairy Industry, Sequoia West

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

This thesis investigates three documentaries (Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, The Milk System, and What the Health?) on the topic of the dairy industry and animal agriculture. A thematic analysis was conducted by using Erving Goffman’s Framing Theory to examine how dairy consumption has been framed over the past decade by the media, and how three documentaries contributed to a shift in the public’s perception and an overall decline of the dairy industry. The analysis consists of primary data (three documentaries) and secondary textual data from 45 social media posts culled from Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook. A consistent theme …

Physiological Impacts Of Lampricides On Invasive Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon Marinus) And Non-Target Fishes, Razvan, Adrian Ionescu

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Parasitic sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) ingest large quantities of blood from fishes using their oral disc and rasping tongue, most often killing the host. In the early 1900s, sea lamprey invaded the Laurentian Great Lakes, decimating sport, commercial and culturally significant fisheries. Since the early 1960s, chemical control using the lampricides 3- trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) and niclosamide have helped to reduce sea lamprey populations by 90%. Lampricides are applied to larval lamprey nursery streams targeting many generations of lamprey at once. However, there is concern about the potential adverse effects of lampricides on other fishes, particularly vulnerable lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) …

Debilitating Publics: Reading Canlit's Investigations Into Psycho-Affective Pain And Social Change, Rebekah Ludolph

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The reception studies that comprise this dissertation take up contemporary depictions of psycho-affective pain from the field of Canadian literature that are embraced by prominent literary publics as an act of social responsibility. Each study contextualizes the publics that review these texts within the ongoing use of literary culture to justify the settler state’s land claim, nationally reparative reading practices, and trends in the therapeutic use of literature. Tracing the affective reactions documented within each text’s reception, this study finds that narratives that fail to locate the nation as a reparative project are susceptible to interpretive practices that pathologize, rather …

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Executive Actions

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Executive Actions

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Exploring The Role Of Literature In English Second Language Acquisition To Promote Speaking Competencies: A Case Of Public Secondary Schools In Moshi Rural – District., Violet Magessa William

Master of Education

The ever-changing demands of English second language learning have impacted many language scholars to find ways that will best address the teaching of English as a second language. The shifting demands require powerful English language teaching approaches that require interactive; learner-centered techniques that transform knowledge into powerful but adaptive forms that can address the lofty demands of the modern classroom. This study, therefore, aimed at finding intervention on English language acquisition in developing learners' comprehensive speaking skills by utilizing literature as a pedagogical resource, it has driven interest among scholars who pioneer its usefulness for possessing a communicative language approach …

Telementoring For Breast Surgeons Practicing In Remote Areas, Fatima Mubarik, Hania Shahzad, Syeda Sakina Abidi, Sana Zeeshan, Lubna Mushtaque Vohra, Sadaf Khan, Abida Khalil Sattar

Medical College Documents

Telementorship allows an expert surgeon to mentor another surgeon through an advanced procedure from a remote location via 2-way audio-visual communication. The current article was planned to review the existing literature and evaluate the utility of telementorship regarding educating rural surgeons in Pakistan about multidisciplinary breast cancer care. Publications from 2016 to 2020 were searched on PubMed and GoogleScholar and 10 most recent publications were selected. Review of literature revealed that even though telementorship in this context might be comparable to onsite mentorship, multiple concerns need to be addressed before its implementation. These include lack of concrete evidence regarding its …

บทเพลงซิมโฟนิกโพเอ็มสำหรับวงทรอมโบน: หิมพานต์, ฐิตินันท์ เจริญสลุง

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

บทเพลงซิมโฟนิกโพเอ็มสำหรับวงทรอมโบน: หิมพานต์ เป็นงานวิจัยเชิงสร้างสรรค์เพื่อประพันธ์บทเพลงประเภทซิมโฟนิกโพเอ็มสำหรับวงทรอมโบน โดยมีแรงบันดาลใจจากข้อความที่บรรยายถึงป่าหิมพานต์ซึ่งเป็นป่าในวรรณกรรม มีความเชื่อว่าป่าหิมพานต์ตั้งอยู่ในเขตพื้นที่ชมพูทวีป ซึ่งเป็นที่อยู่ของสรรพสัตว์หิมพานต์ที่มีการเวียนว่ายตายเกิด สำหรับบทประพันธ์เพลงสำหรับวงทรอมโบนที่เกี่ยวข้องกับวรรณกรรมไทยที่ประพันธ์โดยนักประพันธ์ชาวไทยยังไม่มีปรากฏให้เห็นอย่างเด่นชัด จึงทำให้ผู้วิจัยสนใจที่จะนำเสนอผลงานสร้างสรรค์ในรูปแบบการประพันธ์เพลง โดยการนำเนื้อความของวรรณกรรมไตรภูมิกถาในช่วงของการบรรยายถึงป่าหิมพานต์มาตีความและสร้างสรรค์ออกมาเป็นบทเพลงซิมโฟนิกโพเอ็มสำหรับวงทรอมโบน: หิมพานต์ ผู้วิจัยได้วิเคราะห์และตีความเนื้อหาหิมพานต์ จนทำให้ได้โครงสร้างและแนวคิดสำหรับบทเพลงซิมโฟนิกโพเอ็มสำหรับวงทรอมโบน โดยสร้างสรรค์เป็นบทประพันธ์ 8 กระบวน ได้แก่ วัฏจักร มนุษย์ ครุฑ วารีกุญชร ฉัททันต์ ไกรสรปักษา เงือก และหิมพานต์ จากการสร้างสรรค์บทประพันธ์ซิมโฟนิกโพเอ็มสำหรับวงทรอมโบน: หิมพานต์ ผู้วิจัยได้ประพันธ์ในลักษณะดนตรีพรรณนาที่มีการแสดงออกถึงเอกลักษณ์เฉพาะของสัตว์หิมพานต์และบรรยากาศภายในป่าหิมพานต์ บทประพันธ์เป็นดนตรีตะวันตกร่วมสมัยซึ่งเกิดจากการใช้เทคนิคการประพันธ์ร่วมสมัยและเทคนิคพิเศษสำหรับทรอมโบน

What Pandemic?: Physical Memorialization Of The 1918 Pandemic, Carly M. Kauffman

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Throughout history there have been many significant events the people find worth remembering. Some of these events are significant enough that people build structures to honor, commemorate, or memorialize them. However, there are some events that are also significant, yet they seem to warrant little or no memorialization. In the United States' historical narrative, it seems that the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 is forgotten among the chaotic period of World War I and the interwar years. The lack of traditional memorials dedicated to the 1918 Pandemic can be attributed to the lack of acknowledgement of the pandemic in terms of …

Gestures Of Dissent: Self-Fashioning Performance From Southern Women Writers During The Fin De Siécle, Elisa Fuhrken

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project explores Southern women writers during the latter half of the nineteenth-century who asserted and crafted a modernized identity by turning to various modes of transgressive performance and performance spaces. For women of the nineteenth-century, this meant extricating themselves from a domestic, sentimental identity and apprehending a more fluid, dynamic type of being. The modes of performance, such as spectatorship, orality, and gesture, allowed these women to express and articulate an alternative feminine identity while also engaging with an embodied epistemology. This thesis looks at three Southern women writers: Sherwood Bonner’s novel Like Unto Like and her travel letters …

As Close As I Can Get To It, Kathryn Leland Henricks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A collection of poems.

Understanding The Nature Of Non-Profit Incubators With Other Sector Incubators In The Founding Of Social Change Organisations By Social Entrepreneurs, Jesus N. Valero, Marina Saitgalina, Rachel A. Black

School of Public Service Faculty Publications

Incubators have been studied extensively in the private sector, such as those that engage in technological innovation or growing small businesses. The scholarship has not sufficiently explored the efforts of incubators in the nonprofit sector that help create programs supporting, mentoring, and cultivating social entrepreneurs. There are numerous documented cases of nonprofit organizations establishing initiatives that help motivated entrepreneurs achieve social change; but research is lagging in developing a systematic understanding of these effort’s impact, and the factors associated with the success of nonprofit initiatives that support social entrepreneurs. This paper seeks to understand the nature of nonprofit organizations that …

University Libraries Annual Report 2020-2021, Communications Team, Old Dominion University Libraries

Libraries Reports and Documents

Annual Report of the Old Dominion University Libraries for FY 2020-2021. Contents include: Reopening July 2020; Service Through Collaboration and Partnerships; Sustainable Scholarship; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Across Campus; Projects and Programming; ODU Libraries: A Snapshot of Service During 2020-2021.

Caratacus, The Remembered Warrior: The Legacies Of Caratcaus In Roman Histories And The British Victorian Era, Isabella Kearney

Pomona Senior Theses

This study will explore the origins of the historical figure of Caratacus and analyze its reception in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. This work will begin by providing an overview of Caratacus’ context in the first century in Britannia. Then, looking at the reception of Caratacus, the study will chronologically analyze the portrayal of Caratacus in the ancient sources of Tacitus and Cassius Dio. As the first textual evidence of Caratacus, this will provide insights into Caratacus’ history and the origins of Caratacus’ transformation into an icon of Roman and British history. This work will then analyze the receptions of Caratacus …

Grounding Suicide Terrorism In Death Anxiety And Consumer Capitalism, James M. Donovan

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article examines an influential theory on suicide attacker motivations, the Significance Quest Theory, and suggests that this death anxiety approach can be improved by shifting its focus toward the related, but more comprehensive, Terror Management Theory. The theoretical productivity of this realignment is tested by examining the relationship between suicide attacks and one of the variables thought to trigger the underlying anxieties: the local pressures from global consumer capitalism. After describing the relationship between death anxiety and suicide terrorism generally, this article concludes by applying these insights to the ethnographic context of Egypt.