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The Campaign Against Smoking Opium, Diana L. Ahmad

History and Political Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

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Cultural Imposition Or Cross-Cultural Communication: An Auto-Ethnographic Exploration Of Christian Missionary Rhetorics, Marian Draffin

Honors Theses

This project is a tropological and visual exploration of the rhetorics of Christian missionary culture written in an auto-ethnographic mode. The texts explored include a sample of recruitment brochures produced by mission's organizations, recorded accounts of those who were affected by missions, either as a missionary or as a member of the respondent culture, and journals and photographic images from my own short term missionary work. This exploration is driven by my curiosity about the power dynamics of Christian missionary work: Is the work of a Christian missionary culture a type of cultural imposition and domination? Can Christian missionary work …

Poiesis And Art-Making: A Way Of Letting-Be, Derek H. Whitehead Ph.D.

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This article is both philosophical and practical in its intent. It endeavors to bring into focus an idea with an Ancient Greek lineage, poiesis, and determine whether it may revitalize our thinking about the 'making' of art. The art-making considered in this paper will concentrate exclusively on Western art and its historical and contemporary manifestations. I suggest that poiesis - that which "pro-duces or leads (a thing) into being'" - may enable practitioners in the varying art forms, and aestheticians who reflect upon them, to come to a deeper sense of how artworks work: that they realize themselves inter-dependently …

Recent Publications

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Between Battlefield And Play: Art And Aesthetics In Visual Culture, Renée Van De Vall

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Mona Hatoum's video installation Corps étranger is an example of an artwork that critically comments on particular aspects of contemporary visual culture, such as the colonization of the body's interior by medical image technologies. It has indeed been interpreted in those terms by several authors from within the new academic field of Visual Culture. Here it is argued that the critical cultural impact of the installation might be more fully described when one grants art a relative autonomy within the cultural field and, moreover, draws on concepts from more traditional academic disciplines and approaches, such as aesthetics and phenomenology. Art …

Melancholy As An Aesthetic Emotion, Emily Brady, Arto Haapala

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In this article, we want to show the relevance and importance of melancholy as an aesthetic emotion. Melancholy often plays a role in our encounters with art works, and it is also present in some of our aesthetic responses to the natural environment. Melancholy invites aesthetic considerations to come into play not only in well-defined aesthetic contexts but also in everyday situations that give reason for melancholy to arise. But the complexity of melancholy, the fact that it is fascinating in itself, suggests the further thought that it may be considered as an aesthetic emotion per se. To this end, …

An Exchange On Disinterestedness, Ronald Hepburn

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The idea of aesthetic disinterestedness has been a central concept in aesthetics since the late eighteenth century. This exchange offers a contemporary reconsideration of disinterestedness from different sides of the question.

Multiple Inheritance And Film Identity: A Reply To Dilworth, Aaron Smuts

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

I argue that Dilworth has not shown the type / token theory of film identity to be non-viable, since there is no reason to think that a single object cannot be a token of two types. Even if we assume a single inheritance view of types, Dilworth's argument runs into other problems. Dilworth does not provide any convincing argument for why intentions are necessary for identifying film and why production history alone will not suffice for identifying hardly conceivable forgeries. Intention is not necessary for distinguishing between fakes and the real thing, nor is it necessary to differentiate between two …

Ariadne Revisited, John Dilworth

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

My article, "Ariadne at the Movies," provided a detailed, double film counter-example to the claim that films are types. Here I defend my views against various criticisms provided by Aaron Smuts. The defense includes some necessary clarification of the Ariadne article's broader theoretical structure and background, as well as some additional anti-type arguments to further withstand his criticisms.

Two Monsters In Search Of A Concept, Robert Yanal

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

What is a monster? At least three concepts have been proposed: Aristotle thinks a monster to be a "mistake of purpose" in nature; Noël Carroll thinks a monster to be a scientifically impossible being that arouses disgust and fear; Cynthia Freeland thinks a monster to be an evil being. Thus a two-headed calf is an Aristotelian monster; a werewolf a monster on Carroll's definition; and Norman Bates of Hitchcock's Psycho a monster on Freeland's concept. These have no interesting overlaps. My project is to discuss Norman Bates and Mark Lewis (of Michael Powell's Peeping Tom). Bates and Lewis are monsters, …

Hundred Dresses (1944) By Eleanor Estes, Peter Shea

Chapter Books

Wanda Petronski was a poor Polish girl who lived with her father and brother. She had only one dress to wear to school but told the other girls in her class that she had a hundred dresses at home. Disbelieving her, those girls teased Wanda continually, until she and her family eventually moved out of town. When the class learned that Wanda had won an art award in absentia, they regretted their teasing and sent her a letter of apology, which resulted in an intriguing gesture of reconciliation. Moral development involves the moral imagination, which requires thinking oneself into the …

The Relationship Of Spiritual Disciplines On Commitment Keeping In The Post-Camping Experience, Brian Thomas Rainwater

ATS Dissertations

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Leadership Behaviors And Personal Transitions That Occur In The Lives Of Pastors Who Have Led Churches Through Significant Growth, Andre J. Snodgrass

ATS Dissertations

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Increasing The Holistic Small Group Factor Of Evangelical United Methodist Church, Racine, Wisconsin, Through A Strategic Adult Sunday School Program, Creighton William Kaye

ATS Dissertations

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Assessment Of Marital Satisfaction In The Church Of God In Izhevsk, Russian, Ilya Anatolyevich Okhotnikov

ATS Dissertations

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Factors Leading Visionary Entrepreneurial Laity To Start New Ministries, Andrew J. Cooney

ATS Dissertations

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An Equipping Model Applied To Valley Chapel Free Methodist Church, Todd Wayne Daningburg

ATS Dissertations

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The Impact Of Sabbaticals On Burnout Precusors And Tenure Among Nazarene Clergy In The United States, James Phillip Fuller

ATS Dissertations

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Revisioning Baptist Missional Identity: Edgar Young Mullins' Theology Of "Soul Competency" And Contemporary Christian Mission, Stephen Gregory Smith

ATS Dissertations

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Die Schlacht Am Red Fork: Die Vernichtung Von Dull Knifes Dorf, Albert Winkler, Dietmar Kuegler Trans.

Books

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Hands, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

In this ethnographic short story, the author shows end-of-life communication between grandfather, father, and (grand)daughter.

Gvsu Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog, 2003-2004, Grand Valley State University

Course Catalogs, 1963 - Current

Grand Valley State University 2003-2004 undergraduate and/or graduate course catalog published annually to provide students with information and guidance for enrollment.

Love, Marriage, And Motherhood: Changing Expectations Of Women In Late Ottomanistanbul, Pelin Basci

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study examines the early work of famous novelist Halide Edip Adıvar against the background of public discussions on women and gender in late-Ottoman society. Gender relations and women's issues constituted a fertile ground for the debate about social transformation. Edip and her feminist peers wrote about passionate love, companionship in marriage, the significance of motherhood, and women's legal rights in their works. This reflects women's vision of new gender relations and provides evidence for their contributions to the forging of Turkish modernity prior to the founding of the Turkish Republic. It also illustrates the hybrid nature of culture, which …

2003 - 85th Annual Bible Lectureship, "Welcoming The Reign Of God: Messages On The Kingdom From Matthew's Gospel", Abilene Christian University, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

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An Army Of One... With Dependents: A History Of The Army Family, Stacey Lynne Brown

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

Family members have accompanied the army for the entire 227-year history of the organization. This thesis outlines the formation of the army family and its continuation through times of peace and war. It establishes the army family as a community based on the existence of three elements: geographic location, social interaction, and common ties. The results of the research for this paper establish a common experience among the members of the army family that exists throughout history and is a vital part of the success and continuation of the community.

Islam, Democracy And Civil Society, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

What is the relationship between Islam, democracy, and civil society? This is thequestion which supplies the topic of this essay, Its purpose, more particularly, is to explore theplace of Islam in the modern world-a world which contemporary writers increasingly try tounderstand by invoking the notions of democracy and civil society. But the occasion for thisexploitation has a more precise origin still. The issue of the place of Islam in the modernworld is raised, more often than not, by writers and commentators for whom Islam is, aboveall, a danger, in geo-political terms, it is a danger to the West; in world-historical …

Concert Recording 2003-04-10, Merrick Vaile, Edelaine Engdahl, John Land, Chance Bonaparte, Zach Edwards, Parker Denson, James Rector, Melanie Drummond, Dixie Stone, Michael Silvey, Mark Burnett

Concert Recordings & Programs

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Menuet du printemps / Ludwig van Beethoven / Fantazia / Orlando Gibbons -- Minuet and Trio / Josef Haydn -- What shal we do with a drunken sailor / traditional -- Dance for two alike saxophones / Walter Hartley -- Concertpiece. Lebhaft -- Paul Hindemith -- Shepherds of Provence, opus 43. Pastorale Provencale / Eugene Bozza -- Wachet auf / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Serenade for saxophones. Manchega / Walter Hartley -- Pour le piano. Sarabande / Claude Debussy

Concert Recording 2003-02-21, University Of Arkansas Fayetteville. Schola Cantorum, Graeme Langager

Concert Recordings & Programs

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Early Greek Lyric Poetry: The Cry Of The Self, Gemino Abad

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

It was the ancient Greeks who in lyric poetry were the first really to discover what we know today and take for granted as the self. It is difficult for us now to imagine how that discovery must have felt like a great revelation.

Iliad And Odyssey: Areté And Timé, Gemino Abad

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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