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Bananas In The Mist: Directing Amazing Adventures Of The Marvelous Monkey King, Diego Villada Jan 2008

Bananas In The Mist: Directing Amazing Adventures Of The Marvelous Monkey King, Diego Villada

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis details -in personal narrative form- the process by which the author directed a production of Elizabeth Wong's Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami, Florida. The following text explains elements of pre-production, presents relevant research associated with the play, describes the production process in detail, and states conclusions drawn by the author about the experience. The work challenged both the ensemble and the director to seek new avenues of expression and theatricality different from those traditionally explored in their respective educational settings.

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How Cultural Factors Hastened The Population Decline Of The Powhatan Indians, Julia Ruth Beckley Jan 2008

How Cultural Factors Hastened The Population Decline Of The Powhatan Indians, Julia Ruth Beckley

Theses and Dissertations

I did not create an abstract for this thesis.

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Images Of The New Jerusalem: Latter Day Saint Faction Interpretations Of Independence, Missouri, By Craig S. Campbell, Benjamin E. Park Jan 2008

Images Of The New Jerusalem: Latter Day Saint Faction Interpretations Of Independence, Missouri, By Craig S. Campbell, Benjamin E. Park

BYU Studies

Images of the New Jerusalem: Latter Day Saint Faction Interpretations of Independence, Missouri, by Craig S. Campbell (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004)

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Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music In World Religions. By Guy L. Beck, Editor, Greg Hansen Jan 2008

Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music In World Religions. By Guy L. Beck, Editor, Greg Hansen

BYU Studies

Guy L. Beck, editor. Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

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A Commitment To Excellence, Meredith Jones-Gray Jan 2008

A Commitment To Excellence, Meredith Jones-Gray

Faculty Publications

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Madaba Plains Project At Jalul, Randall W. Younker, Reem E. Al-Shqour Jan 2008

Madaba Plains Project At Jalul, Randall W. Younker, Reem E. Al-Shqour

Faculty Publications

During the 2008 season, Andrews University conducted ex­cavations at Tall Jalul and initiated excavations at the Islamic Village located immediately south of Tall Jalul and 5km east of Madaba, Jordan.

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Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 12 (2008), Bryn Mawr College Library Jan 2008

Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 12 (2008), Bryn Mawr College Library

Mirabile Dictu: Newsletter of the Bryn Mawr College Libraries

No abstract provided.

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Peter Severinus: From Humours To Chemistry In The Sixteenth Century, Michael T. Walton, Robert M. Fineman Jan 2008

Peter Severinus: From Humours To Chemistry In The Sixteenth Century, Michael T. Walton, Robert M. Fineman

Quidditas

The re-discovery of the works of Mendel and others has added greatly to our understanding of genetics. Such is now the case of Peter Severinus, with the recent recovery (or re-discovery) of his seminal work, Idea Medicinae Philosophicae (1571). Severinus concurred with Paracelsus’s (1493-1541) concept of seeds (little chemical factories) that worked on matter to form living things; but he was also aware of transplantation (grafting and cross-pollination) that changed phenotypes and genotypes in plants. Severinus applied this understanding to hereditary diseases in humans and extended Paracelsian theory. He believed that certain diseases in one’s offspring were caused by a …

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Tracing Shakespeare’S Sea-Change: From The Tempest To The New York Times, Joshua L. Comer Jan 2008

Tracing Shakespeare’S Sea-Change: From The Tempest To The New York Times, Joshua L. Comer

Quidditas

An historical approach to the changing use of a Shakespearean phase, like “sea- change,” offers a case study in the long-standing power and evolving meaning of Shakespeare’s language. While all sea-changes today are not so major as those of which Ariel sang in The Tempest, the rich language of Ariel’s song has acquired a significant place in the history of American journalism.

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James L. Kugel. How To Read The Bible: A Guide To Scripture Then And Now, Eric A. Eliason Jan 2008

James L. Kugel. How To Read The Bible: A Guide To Scripture Then And Now, Eric A. Eliason

BYU Studies

James L. Kugel. How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture Then and Now. New York: The Free Press, 2007

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Front Matter, Byu Studies Jan 2008

Front Matter, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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The Errand Of Angels. Directed By Christian Vuissa, Dennis R. Cutchins Jan 2008

The Errand Of Angels. Directed By Christian Vuissa, Dennis R. Cutchins

BYU Studies

The Errand of Angels. Directed by Christian Vuissa Excel Entertainment and Mirror Films (2008)

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Mormon Media History Timeline, 1827-2007, Sherry Pack Baker Jan 2008

Mormon Media History Timeline, 1827-2007, Sherry Pack Baker

BYU Studies

The widespread use of the media has been an important element in the history and experience of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members. In recognition of this fact, the Mormon Media History Timeline (1827–2007) has now been made available at http:// lib.byu.edu/sites/scholarsarchive/mormon-media-studies for the deliberate purpose of marking a distinct branch of study. Mormon studies has come into its own in recent years as a recognized academic discipline, and while much good work already has been done in Mormon media studies, this area has not as yet been overtly recognized as a discipline unto itself. …

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Psalm For My Father, Dixie L. Partridge Jan 2008

Psalm For My Father, Dixie L. Partridge

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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The Rich Man, Lazarus, And Doctrine & Covenants 104:18, Steven C. Harper Jan 2008

The Rich Man, Lazarus, And Doctrine & Covenants 104:18, Steven C. Harper

BYU Studies

Doctrine and Covenants (a scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) 104:13-18 explains the law of consecration by alluding to the New Testament story of Lazarus the beggar. The connection between the latter-day revelation and the New Testament parable is made more obvious by the use of the Latin word "dives" in the Kirtland Revelation Book. When the revelation was published, "dives" was changed to "the wicked." Dives is the Latin word for "rich" that appears in the Latin Vulgate Bible, but during the Middle Ages, the word became a proper name for the rich man in …

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Reviews Jan 2008

Reviews

The Bridge

Peeling the Onion is the intriguing name of the memoirs written by the celebrated German author, Gunter Grass, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. His memoirs cover the twenty-year period from the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 until the publication of his best selling book, The Tin Drum, in 1959. In other words, the book begins in Danzig, where he was born and lived with his parents and sister, and it also ends in Danzig, where the novel, The Tin Drum, takes place.

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Back Cover Jan 2008

Back Cover

The Bridge

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Editorial Statement Jan 2008

Editorial Statement

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

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The Bridge Volume 31 Number 2 Jan 2008

The Bridge Volume 31 Number 2

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

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Negotiating Reality With Anekdoty: Soviet Vs. Post-Soviet Humor Lore, Daniela S. Hristova Jan 2008

Negotiating Reality With Anekdoty: Soviet Vs. Post-Soviet Humor Lore, Daniela S. Hristova

Russian Language Journal

As a genre, anekdoty have been among the most popular oral narratives in the Soviet as well as post-Soviet era.2 Similar to other folkloric and literary genres, the post-Soviet social and linguistic liberalization has had an impact on Russian humor lore, but to a much lesser degree than it might seem on the surface. Since effective humor narratives impart laughter by way of reacting to significant sociopolitical phenomena, the changed economic and ideological reality in post- Soviet Russia fostered paradigmatic classes of anekdoty that feature new protagonists. The question, however, is whether what made a Soviet anekdot funny differs from …

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Эволюция Русской Языковой Картины Мира И Культура Речи, Алексей Шмелёв Jan 2008

Эволюция Русской Языковой Картины Мира И Культура Речи, Алексей Шмелёв

Russian Language Journal

Среди самых разных слоев современного российского общества широко распространено мнение, согласно которому за последние два десятилетия русская речь подвергается серьезным изменениям. Когда обсуждают языковые изменения последнего времени, чаще всего говорят об изменениях речевого этикета, о том, что жаргонные и просторечные слова стали а ктивно и спользоваться в с редствах м ассовой и нформации и в публичной речи политических деятелей, о постепенном снятии табу на скверноматерную брань, о наплыве иноязычных заимствований. В связи с явлениями такого рода журналисты часто бьют тревогу по поводу «порчи языка». Лингвисты, как правило, обыкновенно занимают более взвешенную позицию и, соглашаясь с т ем, ч то н …

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Introduction To Volume 58 Jan 2008

Introduction To Volume 58

Russian Language Journal

It was the Russian linguist, Grigorii Vinokur, who first introduced the term “kul’tura iazyka” or “language culture” to Russian in his writings on the changes taking place in the Russian language in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution (Kul’tura iazyka [Moscow 1929]). Loosely defined as language production at all ranges of the discursive spectrum, the term provided Vinokur with a useful heuristic for writing about language in flux in a manner that took into account not just the high-end linguistic production of belles-lettres, but also the everyday language use (and abuse) of more mundane, but equally influential sources – including …

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«Ручкой Скрип-Скрип, Клавиатуркой Тюк-Тюк, Головёнкой Дум-Дум». О Влиянии Современных Письменных И Коммуникационных Технологий На Русскую Поэзию, Энрика Шмидт Jan 2008

«Ручкой Скрип-Скрип, Клавиатуркой Тюк-Тюк, Головёнкой Дум-Дум». О Влиянии Современных Письменных И Коммуникационных Технологий На Русскую Поэзию, Энрика Шмидт

Russian Language Journal

«Что специфически нового внес Интернет в литературу?» – спрашивает поэт Александр Левин (б.д.) в рамках дискуссий, посвященных существованию некоей предполагаемой «сетературы». И сам сразу же дает отрицательный ответ, исключая возможность такого влияния и тем более специфически сетевой эстетики: «Способ написания остался прежним: ручкой скрип-скрип, клавиатуркой тюк-тюк, головёнкой дум- дум» (там же). При этом весьма симптоматично, что процесс написания, который по мнению автора не влияет на литературное творчество, им самым описывается как раз посредством ономатопоэтических характеристик, непосредственно вызывающих ощущение материальности письма (скрип ручки на бумаге, стук пальцев на клавиатуре).

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On The Satirical Counter-Discourse Of Processed Cheese, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke Jan 2008

On The Satirical Counter-Discourse Of Processed Cheese, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

Russian Language Journal

The post-Soviet period presents an illuminating picture of competition taking place between different public discourses for meaning construction and articulation. It has been observed that after an initial period when the public narrative of the nation experienced fragmentation, and, using Pierre Bourdieu’s term, went through a period of heterodoxy during the last decade―roughly corresponding with the presidency of Vladimir Putin―it has displayed the growing characteristics of orthodoxy, with its centrally produced “common sense” meanings and assumptions.

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Использование Церковной Лексики И Отношение К Ней Среди Носителей Современного Русского Языка, Артемий Романов Jan 2008

Использование Церковной Лексики И Отношение К Ней Среди Носителей Современного Русского Языка, Артемий Романов

Russian Language Journal

Церковная лексика в современном русском языке Из всех языковых уровней (фонологический, морфологический, грамматический, синтаксический) именно лексика является наиболее чувствительной к изменениям в политике, экономике и культуре. В годы советской власти использование некоторых лексических элементов русского языка было искусственно приостановлено, часто по сугубо идеологическим причинам. Это особенно затронуло религиозную лексику, сфера употребления которой в русском языке очень существенно сузилась в XX веке. В постсоветский период лексическая система претерпевает очевидную нестабильность, что проявляется в неустойчивости границ между ядром лексической системы и ее периферией. Наблюдается интересная тенденция, связанная с возвращением некоторых историзмов, архаизмов, и в целом устаревших слов обратно в общее словоупотребление. В …

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Disability And “Late Style” In Music, Joseph N. Straus Jan 2008

Disability And “Late Style” In Music, Joseph N. Straus

Publications and Research

“Late style” is a longstanding aesthetic category in all the arts. Late-style music is presumed to have certain internal qualities (such as fragmentation, intimacy, nostalgia, or concision) and to be associated with certain external factors (such as the age of the composer, his or her proximity to and foreknowledge of death, lateness within a historical period, or a sense of authorial belatedness with respect to significant predecessors). Upon closer inspection, it appears that many of these external factors are unreliably correlated with a musical style that might be described as late. Late style is often better correlated with the bodily …

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Representation & Its Limit, Neal Anderson Hebert Jan 2008

Representation & Its Limit, Neal Anderson Hebert

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis is an investigation into traditional accounts of aesthetic representation. Using the work of Noel Carroll as an exemplar of the definition put forward in canonical philosophical accounts of aesthetic representation, I look at how Carroll’s account must work. By examining both the definition in abstract and how this definition is instantiated into existent and hypothetical works of art, it becomes apparent that Carroll’s definition is overly stringent and relies upon a counterintuitive distinction between aesthetic representation and aesthetic expression. This distinction is problematic insofar as the distinction seems to be a largely semantic distinction: the mechanism by which …

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The Gallant Six Hundred: Performing The Light Brigade Into A Heroic Icon, Elizabeth Carrick Cawns Jan 2008

The Gallant Six Hundred: Performing The Light Brigade Into A Heroic Icon, Elizabeth Carrick Cawns

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

History is not so much what actually happened as how we have received and disseminated what happened. This reception and dissemination take place through a variety of media, many of which are not the purview of the traditional historian. It is in the trifles of daily life that we find the patterns of cultural norms – the ethos of the society that is as unnoticed by that society as the air it breathes. Society makes choices that affect the future based on what has been disseminated, rather than on the original event. This is especially true of such military disasters …

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Berg’S Diary. – The Plant Anatomy, Victor Fet Jan 2008

Berg’S Diary. – The Plant Anatomy, Victor Fet

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

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Making It Count: Mentoring As Cultural Currency, Tanya R. Cochran, Beth Godbee Jan 2008

Making It Count: Mentoring As Cultural Currency, Tanya R. Cochran, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

Mentoring relationships, those meaningful and often affective connections that characterize our work with students and colleagues, by their very nature, defy quantification. Even as we use the banking metaphor to describe our “investment” in others, the “return” for our time, and the “credit” we deserve, many of us who value mentoring for its qualitative and interpersonal nature resist putting our work into numeric terms. Yet, in an academic culture that asks us to measure our contributions and quantify our merit, we must prove cultural capital: that we have the currency to back our reputation and contributions. Like business models that …

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