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Eucharist And Dragon Fighting As Resistance: Against Commodity Fetishism And Scientism, Jeffery Nicholas

Jeffery Nicholas

This paper examines two practices – the Roman Catholic Practice of Eucharist and the game Dungeons and Dragons – to show how social critique can be mounted from within a practice. It begins by relating Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of tradition to his earlier analysis of ideology and to the notion of ideology in general. The paper then tackles two dominant forms of ideology – Commodity Fetishism and Scientism – and shows how both Eucharist and Dungeons and Dragons promote critical thinking to resist those ideologies. In the process, it denies the Althusserian-Foucauldian analysis of ideology as mere materiality and defends …

Historical Dictionary Of Ethics, Harry Gensler, S.J., Earl Spurgin

Earl W. Spurgin

The Historical Dictionary of Ethics covers a very broad range of ethical topics, including ethical theories, historical periods, historical figures, applied ethics, ethical issues, ethical concepts, non-Western approaches, and related disciplines. Harry J. Gensler and Earl W. Spurgin tackle such issues as abortion, capital punishment, stemcell research, and terrorism while also explaining key theories like utilitarianism, natural law, social contract, and virtue ethics. This reference provides a complete overview of ethics through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries, including bioethics, business ethics, Aristotle, Hobbes, autonomy, confidentiality, Confucius, and psychology.

Keeping Your Classroom C.R.I.S.P.: Unity Of Purpose As An Organizing Principle, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Are you and your millennial students losing your focus in the classroom? Here's a solution that works.

Popes In The Pizza: Analyzing Activity Reports To Create And Sustain A Strategic Plan, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, E,J. Keeley, Ben Forsyth

Hal Blythe

This article presents a practical methodology for creating and sustaining strategic planning, the task analysis. Utilizing our Teaching & Learning Center Strategic Plan as a model, we demonstrate how working with a weekly status report provides a comprehensive listing of detail necessary to analyze and revise the plan. The new methodology is accurate, thorough, on-going, and flexible.

The Writing Community: A New Model For The Creative Writing Classroom, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

After creating a taxonomy of classroom approaches to the teaching of creative writing, the authors discuss a current practice they have employed, the writing community. The authors detail its success, place it within current pedagogical research into small-group and team-based learning, and suggest possible applications to allied fields.

Catalytic Converter: Narrative Act As Narrative Action In Maryse Condé’S Traversée De La Mangrove, Mariah Devereux Herbeck

Mariah E. Devereux Herbeck

No abstract provided.

American Missionaries And Gender Politics In South Asia: Mark Twain's Following The Equator And Harriet Winlsow's Memoir, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

Abstract published in South Asian Review 29.4 (2008): 68.

American Broadsides And Ephemera Series I, 1760-1990, Bill Sleeman

Bill Sleeman

Review of an electronic database of rare broadsides and ephemera from the colonial period through the end of the 19th Century.

Holiday Arts Preview 2008 - The Light Of Dark Days, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

A run-down of some holiday arts events for the 2008 season.

The Arabian Nights - A Sensuous Garden Of Delights, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

A review of Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights, which played at Berkeley Repertory Theater' Thrust Stage from November 13, 2008- January 18, 2009.

Buddha For Beginners, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

Originally published by Writers and Readers in 1998, this is an iconoclastic, illustrated romp through the life of the Buddha both a credible exploration of his life and teachings and an entertaining introduction to the philosophy of Buddhism.

Many Westerners know about the meditation practices of Buddhism, but few understand the Buddha's philosophical teachings. This book puts the teachings (dharma) in their proper context and unravels some of the more dense knots of Buddha's thinking. And it does all this while entertaining the reader with humorous illustrations and pop-culture sensibility. This primer, constructed like a graphic novel, cuts through the …

Tending The Vineyard: Maritime Religion On Martha's Vineyard From 1824-1978, Steven H. Park

Steven H. Park

The first part of this paper will give a brief introduction to maritime missiology, the second section will trace the beginnings of the Boston Seaman’s Friend Society in the nineteenth century and the third will focus on the Vineyard Haven branch of that work well into the twentieth century. Using source material from the American Seamen’s Friend Society - there is a 5,000 document collection of the ASFS papers in the G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport, the Boston Seaman’s Friend Society - whose papers are mostly in the Congregational House on Beacon Hill in Boston, and other secondary …

The Seafarer As The "Worthy Poor", Steven Park

Steven H. Park

The paper examined the transition from elite, secular marine societies to evangelical efforts to reach the working poor seafarer.

“I Don’T Mean To Be Defiant Or Anything…”: Instructional Films For Girls, 1945-1960, Jill Anderson

Jill E. Anderson

No abstract provided.

Yisd Honor Choir, Elisa Fraser Wilson

Elisa Fraser Wilson

Dr. WIlson was the featured clinician for the annual Ysleta Independent School District's Honor Choir. For two days, Dr. Wilson rehearsed the ensemble, comprised of the top singers in the YISD, working on ensemble skills and technique in preparation for the final concert, which she conducted.

Culturalización Y Segregación, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.

Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities And Self-Determinations, Leila Farsakh, Elora Chowdhury, Rajini Srikanth

Leila Farsakh

No abstract provided.

On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, And The American Landscape, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

Jared Farmer explains in the opening sentence of this book that he has written "the creation story of a landmark". More specifically, he has written about the manner in which Mt. Timpanogos, a peak that is neither the highest in the Wasatch Range nor the most historically prominent landmark in the Utah Valley, became such a beloved monument in contemporary Utah. This task requires a great deal of effort and insight, for Mt. Timpanogos's rise to prominence depended on a complicated series of events that are closely tied to the ways in which Mormons in particular and Americans in general …

Tuberculosis, Music, And Diagnostic Pathology In 1840s France, David Kasunic

David Kasunic

No abstract provided.

Keeping Your Classroom C.R.I.S.P.: Unity Of Purpose As An Organizing Principle, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Are you and your millennial students losing your focus in the classroom? Here's a solution that works.

Sourwood: An Apiforestation Story, Tammy Horn

Tammy Horn

No abstract provided.

Tansi's Radio Parenthesis, Servanne Woodward

Servanne Woodward

No abstract provided.

Faith, Doubt, And Deception: Nabokov’S Translations Of Slovo O Polku Igoreve, Julia Chadaga

Julia Bekman Chadaga

No abstract provided.

Christmas Oratorio In C Haydn-Mezzo Soloist, Orit A. Eylon

Orit A Eylon

Mezzo Soloist

The Exquisite Corpse: Disarticulations Of The Artificial Female, Allison De Fren

Allison De Fren

No abstract provided.

Buffalo Hunt International Trade And The Virtual Extinction Of The North American Bison, M. Scott Taylor

M. Scott Taylor

In the 16th century, North America contained 25-30 million buffalo; by the late 19th century less than 100 remained. While removing the buffalo east of the Mississippi took settlers two centuries, the remaining 10 to 15 million buffalo on the Great Plains were killed in a punctuated slaughter in a little over 10 years. I employ theory, data from international trade statistics, and first person accounts to argue that the slaughter on the plains was initiated by a foreign-made innovation and fueled by a foreign demand for industrial leather. Ironically, the ultimate cause of this sad chapter in American environmental …

International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

"Terrorism" is a term that cannot be given a stable defintion. Or rather, it can, but to do so forstalls any attempt to examine the major feature of its relation to television in the contemporary world. As the central public arena for organising ways of picturing and talking about social and political life, TV plays a pivotal role in the contest between competing defintions, accounts and explanations of terrorism. Which term is used in any particular context is inextricably tied to judgemements about the legitimacy of the action in question and of the political system against which it is directed. …

French Theory, By François Cussett, Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

No abstract provided.

The Era Of Greed Is Over, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

Why has socialism got such a bad rap in the US? Just check who controls the flow of information, writes Michael I. Niman

Liberdade, Ética E Direito, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Further than Ethics concieved as mere obedience, Republican Ethics expresses the idea of duty for freedom and Liberty. After Law concieved as only duty and imperative norms from power to the subjects, there is the possibility of a fraternal law, in new patterns. This article explores several ways in a new ethics and a new law paradigms, after the objective Roman Law and the subjective modern Law.