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Deus Ex Machinima: A Rhetorical Analysis Of User-Generated Machinima, Sean Callot May 2009

Deus Ex Machinima: A Rhetorical Analysis Of User-Generated Machinima, Sean Callot

All Theses

Beginning with corporate demonstrations and continuously evolving into today, machinima has become a major expressive art form for the gamer generation. Machinima is the user-centered production of video presentations using pre-rendered animated content, as generated from video games. The term 'machinima' is a combination of 'machine' (from which the video content is derived) and 'cinema' (the ultimate end product). According to Paul Marino and other members of the machinima community, Hugh Hancock, the creator of Machinima.com, first coined the term in 2000. Video productions of this kind have been used in various capacities for the past several years, including instruction …

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Spiritual Not Religious: What The Catholic Church In America Must Do To Become Relevant Again In A New Generation, John P. Campbell May 2009

Spiritual Not Religious: What The Catholic Church In America Must Do To Become Relevant Again In A New Generation, John P. Campbell

Master of Arts in Religious Studies (M.A.R.S. Theses)

As we approach the close of the first decade of this new millennium, some two-thousand plus years after the birth of Christ, we find the religious tendencies of our world changing once again. Many studies have been undertaken to assess the religious mindset of the American population, breaking it down into a variety of demographics and nuances. What has become apparent is that the institutional religions, and in this case, the Catholic Church, is losing their hold on their constituents. The result is not that people are flocking to alternative institutional religions, but to a more nebulous brand of faith …

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Tribute To Dietrich Reinhart, Osb, Dale Launderville Osb May 2009

Tribute To Dietrich Reinhart, Osb, Dale Launderville Osb

Obsculta

No abstract provided.

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John Hazen White School Of Arts & Sciences Newsletter, May 2009, Vol. 14, Issue 3, Mary Barszcz Ed. May 2009

John Hazen White School Of Arts & Sciences Newsletter, May 2009, Vol. 14, Issue 3, Mary Barszcz Ed.

School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter

In 1995, with Gwenn Lavoie as its editor, the first issue of the John Hazen White School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter was published. The newsletter continues to share information about and publicize events sponsored by the School of Arts & Sciences and the accomplishments of that school's faculty. Three issues are published during each academic year by the School of Arts & Sciences Publicity Committee and editor Mary Barszcz.

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A “Man’S Woman”? Contradictory Messages In The Songs Of Female Rappers, 1992-2000, Matthew Oware May 2009

A “Man’S Woman”? Contradictory Messages In The Songs Of Female Rappers, 1992-2000, Matthew Oware

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Employing content analysis of 44 songs taken from the Billboard charts between 1992 and 2000, the authors find that all female rap artists in the sample included the cornerstones of rap in their songs: braggadocio, consumption of alcohol and drugs, and “dissin” of female and male rap competitors. More important, the majority of the artists had themes of female agency and empowerment present in their music. However, the artists also had songs that were antithetical to Patricia Hill Collins’ Black feminism. Indeed, a majority of the songs examined had women who self-objectified, self-exploited, and used derogatory lyrics when referring to …

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Poem No, 101, May 2009, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.) May 2009

Poem No, 101, May 2009, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

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“Who Hath The World In Honde”: Conflicts Of Agency In Three Canterbury Tales, Samantha Anne Streger May 2009

“Who Hath The World In Honde”: Conflicts Of Agency In Three Canterbury Tales, Samantha Anne Streger

English Honors Papers

This thesis examines the subject of conflicting agency in three of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and discusses the ways in which confusions of power shed light on the issues inherent in governing medieval social ideologies. In the Knight’s Tale, conflicting agency between the humans and the gods is evidence of the Knight’s failure to bring order to his tale. Because the Knight is unable to rationally explain the universe by employing the noble ideals of chivalry, honor, and faith in higher power, the confusion of power in the Knight’s Tale highlights the failure of noble pursuits. In the Wife of Bath’s …

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Management Of Grassy Balds Communities In The Roan Highlands, James T. Donaldson, Nora Schubert, L. C. Huff May 2009

Management Of Grassy Balds Communities In The Roan Highlands, James T. Donaldson, Nora Schubert, L. C. Huff

ETSU Faculty Works

The Highlands of Roan Mountain best exemplify that which is rare and unique within high elevation communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The Roan Highlands are protected through a landscape-level conservation initiative originally established by the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) and the U. S. Forest Service (USFS) in 1974. The Roan massif rises more than 6,000 feet above mean sea level and straddles the border of North Carolina and Tennessee in the Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests, respectively. Among its unique aspects, the Roan supports at least 800 known plant species, 27 rare plant communities, and 33 federally or …

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Apologia For The "Lusus Nature": Subverting Victorian Gender Ideology In Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Laura Springer May 2009

Apologia For The "Lusus Nature": Subverting Victorian Gender Ideology In Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Laura Springer

Honors Capstones

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Exploding Anthropocentrism: Understanding Optical Democracy In Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian, Jeremy Kevin Locke May 2009

Exploding Anthropocentrism: Understanding Optical Democracy In Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian, Jeremy Kevin Locke

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

In this study, I will attempt to synthesize the aesthetic and metaphysical conceptions of optical democracy. While several critics contend that the concept of optical democracy influences all of McCarthy’s novels, I will limit this treatment to Blood Meridian. By focusing one this one text, I will be able to move beyond the definitional treatments of this concept offered by previous critics and demonstrate how optical democracy works to produce meaning in two particular subjects explored in the novel: history and race. I will suggest that McCarthy uses optical democracy as an aesthetic technique, as described by Holloway, to abolish …

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The Water Crisis In Blantyre City And Its Impact On Women: The Cases Of Mabyani And Ntopwa, Malawi, Lucy Chipeta May 2009

The Water Crisis In Blantyre City And Its Impact On Women: The Cases Of Mabyani And Ntopwa, Malawi, Lucy Chipeta

Journal of International Women's Studies

Water crises tend to impact women and men of different ages differently. In most cultures, women of different ages are primarily responsible for the use and management of water resources, sanitation and health at the household level. They are the ones who fetch water, use water for domestic purposes and therefore are affected by the impact of water crises and poor sanitation. The women and girls especially in rural areas walk long distances to fetch water while men rarely participate in such activities. This therefore puts women at a more disadvantaged position when water is scarce or when there are …

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Multicultural Politics And The Paradox Of Being Special: Interrogating Immigrant Women’S Activism And The Voice Of Difference, Jane S. C. Ku May 2009

Multicultural Politics And The Paradox Of Being Special: Interrogating Immigrant Women’S Activism And The Voice Of Difference, Jane S. C. Ku

Journal of International Women's Studies

Interviews with racialized minority immigrant women activist-managers in immigrant service sector in Toronto, Canada demonstrate how women construct their activist identities. An anti-racist post-colonial feminist framework is used to explore their narrative strategies and to show that their activist possibilities are constrained by their identities. Activism is limited to advocating for their ethnic community in multicultural politics that is structured by post-colonial “speaking” configuration that allows “native informants” to represent their communities as culturally alien and to authorize state management of racial and ethnic differences. The interviews also show the complexities of immigrant women’s political agency as they navigate the …

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Female Combatants In The Spanish Civil War: Milicianas On The Front Lines And In The Rearguard, Lisa Lines May 2009

Female Combatants In The Spanish Civil War: Milicianas On The Front Lines And In The Rearguard, Lisa Lines

Journal of International Women's Studies

The history of the military participation of women during the Spanish Civil War has thus far been neglected, underestimated or downplayed by historians. This article aims to redress this imbalance. It examines the actions of the milicianas, and the military roles they played, from the beginning of the war until July 1937 when the majority of women had been removed from combat. Most of the secondary literature attempts to dismiss the military contribution of the milicianas by arguing that women did not participate in combat on equal terms with men. Instead, the literature focuses on the domestic and auxiliary tasks …

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Gender Analysis Of Socio-Cultural Perception Of Moringa Oleifera Amongst Farmers In Southwestern Nigeria, Dixon O. Torimiro, Simsola M. Odeyinka, Victor O. Okorie, Moses A. Akinsuyi May 2009

Gender Analysis Of Socio-Cultural Perception Of Moringa Oleifera Amongst Farmers In Southwestern Nigeria, Dixon O. Torimiro, Simsola M. Odeyinka, Victor O. Okorie, Moses A. Akinsuyi

Journal of International Women's Studies

Moringa oleifera (horseradish tree - English) is a perennial plant, which has been found to possess high economic and cultural values in many countries of the world. This study was carried out to analyse the socio-cultural perception about Moringa oleifera according to farmers’ gender in Southwestern Nigeria. It specifically established the correlates of perception of Moringa oleifera among the farmers; described the socio-demographics of the farmers; examined the gender gaps in the level of awareness and propagation of Moringa oleifera; compared their willingness to adopt innovation on Moringa oleifera and analysed the constraints associated with men’s and women’s propagation …

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Poetry As Survival Of And Resistance To Genocide In Lorna Dee Cervantes’S Drive: The Last Quartet, Edith Vasquez May 2009

Poetry As Survival Of And Resistance To Genocide In Lorna Dee Cervantes’S Drive: The Last Quartet, Edith Vasquez

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article offers a critical retrospective of Lorna Dee Cervantes, the Chicana/Chumash poet as a literary analytical overview of her most recent work collected in the multi-volume poetry collection, Drive: The First Quartet (Wings Press, 2006). It offers an assessment of Cervantes’s impact on the development of Chicana poetry and its articulation of social change, women’s empowerment, critical consciousness, and poetic innovation. Having emerged from performance poetry festivals in her early career, Cervantes went on to develop a signature poetics and to produce a number of canonical poems such as, “Uncle’s First Rabbit,” “Under the Shadow of the Freeway,” “Poem …

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Book Review: Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma, And Empowerment In Post-Transitional Societies, Denise Shupiko May 2009

Book Review: Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma, And Empowerment In Post-Transitional Societies, Denise Shupiko

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma, and Empowerment in Post-Transitional Societies, edited by Dovile Budryte, Lisa M. Vaughn, and Natalya T. Riegg

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Book Review: Gender And Globalization In Asia And The Pacific: Method, Practice, Theory, Susan Dewey May 2009

Book Review: Gender And Globalization In Asia And The Pacific: Method, Practice, Theory, Susan Dewey

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific: Method, Practice, Theory, edited by Kathy E. Ferguson and Monique Mironesco

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Book Review: We Share Walls: Language, Land, And Gender In Berber Morocco, Damla Isik May 2009

Book Review: We Share Walls: Language, Land, And Gender In Berber Morocco, Damla Isik

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco by Katherine E. Hoffman

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Title Page May 2009

Title Page

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

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Editor's Note May 2009

Editor's Note

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

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Verso May 2009

Verso

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

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Greetings From The President May 2009

Greetings From The President

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

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The Cliffs, Stephen Arney May 2009

The Cliffs, Stephen Arney

Bryant Literary Review

Walking along the
Cliffs of Moher

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Orange Poppies, Helen Wickes May 2009

Orange Poppies, Helen Wickes

Bryant Literary Review

They do their best to deceive you,
the satiny sheen of their petals

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Happy, Peter Johnson May 2009

Happy, Peter Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

In spite of persistent rumors, let me assure you I'm happy.

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The Song Of Louise Blue Feather, Zan Bockes May 2009

The Song Of Louise Blue Feather, Zan Bockes

Bryant Literary Review

I played violin in high school.

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Two-Timing The Beekeeper, Timothy Martin May 2009

Two-Timing The Beekeeper, Timothy Martin

Bryant Literary Review

Of all the unwise things you have ever done
(and that counts the time you threw the lit dynamite stick

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Karel And Eva, Michael Pikna May 2009

Karel And Eva, Michael Pikna

Bryant Literary Review

I wake up next to Eva again but I don't remember getting into bed with her or how dad's gun got into my left hand which is crazy I know.

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Young Boy Riding The Wave Of Desire Out Of This Poem, Ken Meisel May 2009

Young Boy Riding The Wave Of Desire Out Of This Poem, Ken Meisel

Bryant Literary Review

The young boy who is about ten years old and sitting on the front step of a burned house and bouncing a small rubber ball on the charred garbage strewn sidewalk

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On A Beach With White Sand, Matt Ross May 2009

On A Beach With White Sand, Matt Ross

Bryant Literary Review

In trillions of years,
Every inch of matter

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