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Worship 201: Giving Witness To The Urgent, Eric L. Mathis, Paul Ryan

Symposium on Worship Archive

A critical task of 21st century worship leadership is to name pressing issues, and give confident witness to the reality of God’s presence in sometimes difficult circumstances. In this seminar, we will identify pressing issues in local and global worshiping communities. Then we will engage past and present worshiping communities as case studies to identify their approach to urgent issues. Finally we will imagine how these communities might teach us about giving confident witness to those issues that are urgent in our time and place.

Evaluation Of A Community-Based Positive Youth Development Program For Adolescents With Greater Psychosocial Needs: Views Of The Program Participants, Daniel T. L. Shek, Cecilia M. S. Ma, Moon Y. M. Law, Zoe Zhao

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

The present study attempted to investigate the perceptions of Chinese secondary school students with greater psychosocial needs of the Tier 2 Program in the community-based phase of P.A.T.H.S. Project in Hong Kong (n=4245). Using a subjective outcome evaluation tool (Form C), the results revealed that a great majority of the students held positive attitudes toward the program, implementers and the effectiveness of the program. Also, the three domains of the program (“program quality”, “implementer quality” and “program effectiveness”) were significantly associated with each other. In line with previous findings, both program content and program implementer quality were significant predictors of …

Evaluation Of A Community-Based Positive Youth Development Program In Hong Kong: Views Of Program Implementers, Daniel T. L. Shek, Cecilia M. S. Ma, Xiaoqin Zhu

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Using a subjective outcome evaluation method, the current study investigated program implementers’ perceptions of the Tier 1 Program of the community-based P.A.T.H.S. Project in Hong Kong. After completion of the program, 599 program implementers completed a valid and reliable scale (i.e. Form B) to give their ratings on program content, their own performance, and perceived program effectiveness. As expected, most program implementers perceived the program in a favorable way by giving very positive ratings on the three aspects measured in Form B. Grade differences on the ratings were observed, with implementers teaching the senior curriculum held more positive views on …

Subjective Outcome Evaluation Of The Community-Based P.A.T.H.S. Project: Views Of Program Implementers, Daniel T. L. Shek, Janet T. Y. Leung, Cecilia M. S. Ma, Jing Wu

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

The present study adopted subjective outcome evaluation to examine program effectiveness from the views of implementers (N=375) who implemented the community-based Tier 2 Program of the Project P.A.T.H.S. in Hong Kong. The results revealed that most of the program implementers were satisfied with the program content, their own performance, and program benefits. In agreement with previous studies, the satisfaction ratings of both program content and implementer performance positively predicted perceived program benefits. Regarding the influences of different program delivery approaches, programs with the “interest-enhancement” (INT) element received a more positive evaluation from implementers than did the programs without that element. …

Gender Dynamics In Sanctified Storefront Churches: A Study Of The Roles And Challenges Of Female Pastors In Mississippi County, Arkansas, Gloria Robinson Boyd

Student Theses and Dissertations

Sanctified churches in Mississippi County, consistent with others throughout the South, trace their origin back to slavery where African men and women secretly gathered and, through their efforts, evolved the invisible institution comprised of blended European and African beliefs and practices. As this entity expanded, so did the need for additional organizations that supported socio-economic and educational development of the race. Hence, from the invisible church emerged African American denominations with some meeting in homes or abandoned commercial properties starting a trend of what is now considered Sanctified storefront churches. Over time, areas like Mississippi County, Arkansas have experienced an …

Late To The Party: How The Gubernatorial Campaign Of 1990 Shaped Arkansas’S Belated Political Realignment, Revis Lay Edmonds

Student Theses and Dissertations

In Arkansas’s long path toward joining its neighbors in the South in the political realignment of the post-Civil Rights era, it can appear to the casual observer that the state was locked in a process in which its politics and its culture were engaged in a longstanding tug-of-war. This conflict could have explained why Arkansas was so late to embrace “New South Republicanism” in comparison to its neighbors. However, to assert that the Populist versus New Right comparison explains this slow transition would be more akin to a theory or even talking points advanced by ratings-driven national news commentators. Arkansas’s …

Place, Memory, And The Civil War: Historic Memory And The Mechanisms Of Interpretation At Civil War Sites In Arkansas, Walter Wright Porter

Student Theses and Dissertations

Public understanding of the Civil War is a product of various sources that sometimes offer competing interpretations of the conflict and its meaning. Among these sources are Civil War sites that can offer connections to the past through the tangible element of place. Questions arise regarding the nature of the interpretation offered and the mechanisms historic sites use to relate their narrative to the public. Porter examines the issue through a study of six Civil War-related sites in Arkansas, assessing the scope and presentation of each site’s story. The initial part of the study examines the nature of historic memory …

In A Consolidated World Of Alternative Facts Do You Experience The Dilemma Of Values?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.

2016-2017 Performance Forum - January 26, 2017, Nicole Marie P. Cortero, Yasa Poletaeva, Darren Matias, Scott Davis, Sohyun Park, Jiaxian Li

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 37, January 26, 2017, Grand Valley State University

Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Exile Vol. Xvii No. 2, Julie Lockwood, J. Barmeier, Alice Merrill, Cary Anne Spear, Pete Porteous, Curtis Hutchens, Yasue Aoki, Holly Battles, Keith Mcwalter

Exile

POETRY

Grammer lesson by Julie Lockwood 5

Hunter by J. Barmeier 10

(rare) by Alice Merrill 13

November Leaf by J. Barmeier 13

In retrospect by Julie Lockwood 14

Weaving by Alice Merrill 16

SPETSE by Cary Anne Spear 17

View From A Garret To Infinity J. Barmeier 18

Morning after Reflection by J. Barmeier 19

A MINOR CHANGE AT DENISON U.? by Pete Porteous 30

Snowflak by J. Barmeier 32

LOVING by Curtis Hutchens 34

IRISH CONVERSATION by Cary Anne Spear 36

On This Planet by yasue aoki 39

FICTION

Visiting Before The Mirror by Holly Battles 8-9, 31 …

South-South: Too Political?, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Artl@s Bulletin

When it comes to researching South-South relationships, a powerful political imperative underpins studies of such relationships—an imperative that seems to always point northwards in one way or another. This imperative sometimes leads to the application of pre-existing theories to studies of circulation between different parts of the world and of the roles of the individuals driving these circulations. When, regardless of the situation in question, we must always identify a dominator and a dominated party, a predator and a victim, a colonizer and a colonial subject, we risk developing a historical picture that is incomplete or distorted. Promoting studies …

Exile Vol. Xvii No. 1, Heather Johnson, John Benes, Keith Mcwalter, Holly Battles, Paul Holbrook, Julie Lockwood, Rufus Hurst, Alice Merrill, Debby Snyder, Timothy Cope, Michael Daugherty, Austin Hartman, R. Crozier, Fred Hoppe, M.J. Wallace, Tina Ostergard, Cary Soearm

Exile

FICTION

The Backyard Burial by Heather Johnson 9-11

French Persuasion by John Benes 18-22

In His Time by Keith Mcwalter 27-37

Time Ticking Off, Not Stopping by Holly Battles 39-40

ARTWORK

by Roxy Sisson 13

by Bill Lutz 16

by Carol Belfatto 17

by Ned Bittinger 23

by Gail Lutsch 41

by Diane Ulmer 43

PHOTOGRAPHY

by Tim Heth 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 15, 22, 38, 40, 44

by Rip Odell 15

by Maggie Hernandez 26, 42

POETRY

For G. S. & A. B. T. by Paul Holbrook 2

Picture Writer by Julie Lockwood 6

Youth by Rufus …

Exile Vol. Xvi No. 2, Paul A. Dimitruk, Keith Mcwalter, Nancy Gutierrez, Barbara Mackey, Susan Hallock, Sherry Stodola, Darby Williams, Bruce Kidd, Wandi Solez, John Gillespie, John Loveland, John Whitt, Fred Walton

Exile

PREFACE 3

ESSAY

Observations At The Gap by Paul A. Dimitruk 4

Those Who Choose Words By Keith McWalter 5-6

On Victoria's England by Paul A. Dimitruk 7-8

"Facts Are The Enemy of Truth" by Nancy Gutierrez

FICTION

Harmon by Barbara Mackey 22-25

Pilgrimage by Keith McWalter 35-44

ARTWORK

by Wandi Solez: 6, 15, 23, 27

by Ken Wernz 10

by Stephen Swift 11

by Laura M. Hyslop 12

by Skip Staudt 19

by W. A. Hoffman 25

by Mary Ann Kowaski 34

by Jo Ann Orgo 40

PHOTOGRAPHY

by Roger Block 16

by Tim Heath- all other

POETRY

My …

Exile Vol. Xvi No. 1, Robert R. Bowie, John Anderson, Keith Mcwalter, John Whitt, Linda Notzelman, John Benes, Lauren Shakely, M.S. Wallace, W.K. Mayo, Louise Tate, Tim Cope, Bill Whitmore, Whitney Carman, Paul Bennett

Exile

DRAMA

God's Pocket by Robert R. Bowie, Jr. 5-12

FICTION

The Wagon by John Anderson 18-19

An Infinity of Mirrors by Keith McWalter 23-25

Commitment by John Whitt 28-29

It began not long ago... by Linda Notzelman 32-33

Jaundiced Evening by John Benes 35-39

POETRY

Paralysis Outline by Lauren Shakely 13

A Woman Reads Camus by Lauren Shakely 14

don't sell my rings by Lauren Shakely 14

Drift by John Whitt 17

Haiku by M. S. Wallace 19

To Begin W. K. Mayo 19

Dark is Right by Louise Tate 20

I am waiting by Louise Tate 21

My mother …

Exile Vol. Xv No. 1, John Anderson, Larry Faso, Tracy Macnab, Phil Cockerille, Keith Mcwalter, Lauren Shakely, Bob Martin, Jeffrey R. Smith, P.F. Galbraith, Cem Kozlu, Dick Devine

Exile

POETRY

Haiku by John Anderson 2

It's the looking in the mirror by Larry Faso 3

There is a voice in me by Larry Faso 15

We fight along time by Tracy Mac Nab 8

During the night by Tracy Mac Nab 8

Illusion by Phil Cockerille 10

Mexico City '59 by Keith McWalter 12

Summer Correspondence II by Lauren Shakely 13

America Sings to Herself and Doesn't Hear by Lauren Shakely 15

eatin crawdads by Bob Martin 14

G. [unattributed*] 16

Finis Coronant Opus [unattributed*] 17

The Droplet Sea by Jeffrey R. Smith 17

The surrounding dismal forest by …

For Duty, Honor, And Family: Color Bearers In The Civil War, Savannah A. Labbe

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

In doing research for a previous post, I learned about the stand of the Sixteenth Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg. What struck me most about their sacrifice was the fact that before they were captured they made sure to tear up their colors and distribute the pieces among the men. They did this in order to ensure that the Confederates wouldn’t be able to capture their colors, an act that would have disgraced the Sixteenth Maine and detracted from their valiant sacrifice. In addition, this allowed the men to keep a piece of their flag, to be reminded of …

A Conceptual Change Of Style In The Officially Complied Catalogue Of Novelists From The Eastern Han Dynasty To The Northern Song Dynasty, Hailong Lv

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

From the Eastern Han dynasty to the Northern Song dynasty, the official amendment of "novelists" had changed its style from "little narration involved" to "valuation of narration" This change of the concept of style was first initiated by Liu Zhiji was established by Ouyang Xiu. Their views were mainly seen in Shitong: Zashu and A Xintangshu. The former had had a great influence on the latter, especially in terms of how to assess the status of fiction, how to explain the nature of a novel as well as how to make additions and deletions to the works collected in Novelists, …

A Study Of The Origin Of "The Feng Brothers" Poetics From Home Influence And Discipleship, Yafeng Li, Youliang Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Feng brothers of Haiyu are important figures of the Yushan School of poets, and have been regarded as the backbone of those who opposed of the retro-poetics in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. But few people have discovered the relationship between the Feng brothers and the retro school. This is not conducive to understanding their true poetics, and not conducive to clarifying the actual trajectory of poetry evolution from the Ming to the Qing. And this affects the correct understanding and evaluation of the status and the role of the Yushan School of poets. A comparative analyses …

Difference And Nexus Between Yijing And Chanjing: A Brief Discussion And Response To Yang Chu, Zuzhao Gu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The nexus between poetry and Chan is a hard issue in literary history. The paper outlines the formation of the theory of yijing, the ideo-mood-imagery, or the poetically evoked realm so as to tell that yijing is an original Chinese aesthetic category and it cannot be distorted by alien culture. The article, drawing on Sutra Spoken of Southern Buddhism, proceeds to show that chanjing, or the zen-induced realm, is characterized by the absence of images and emotions and aesthetic purposes, thus highlighting the basic difference of Yijing and Chanjing. The above argumentation aims to clarify various kinds of misunderstandings about …

Tsu Faculty Research Database-Jan 2017, David Owerbach

Office of Research Institutional Research and Scholarship

Research interests and selected publications from 230 Texas Southern University faculty have been updated in Jan 2017. Faculty from Public Affairs, the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences, the Law School and the School of Communications are included.

1884 - The Public Domain, Its History With Statistics, Public Land Commission, Thomas Donaldson

US Government Treaties and Reports

A report prepared by Thomas Donaldson, member of the Public Land Commission and the Committee on Codification. It deals with the origin, growth and disposition of the public domain, tracing the several systems from their origin, and giving full statistics of operations under and results of the several acts for sale and disposition of the public lands up through December 31, 1883. The book includes revisions and addenda to the original June 30, 1880, report.

The Aesthetic Ideology Of Post-Marxism, Yongkang Fan, Fengjie Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper aims to analyze the philosophical basis, theoretical connotation and theoretical characteristics of the theory of post-Marxist aesthetic ideology. The influential theory about aesthetic ideology in China belongs to the "problematic" of traditional Marxism, but the contemporary Western aesthetic ideology belongs to the 'problematic' of post-Marxism. The former is based on historical materialism, and the latter on cultural materialism and language constructivism. From the perspective of post-Marxism, aesthetic ideology no longer stays at the ‘metaphysical’ linguistic, cultural and symbolic levels; it is integrated with "physical" material systems and social reality and becomes parasitic within the institutions, thus having material …

Ecocriticism And Shakespeare, Until 2016, C. Estok Simon

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Ecocriticism is a fairly new area of investigation that has rapidly and sometimes controversially expanded. Theorizing ecocriticism has at times been met with debate, and traditional areas of literary studies have not always been entirely receptive. Thus, the expansion of ecocritical theory into Shakespearean studies (now a thriving micro industry all its own) warrants serious discussion, both from contextual and theoretical positions. This article will cover three main sections: 1] an introduction to the general field of ecocriticism; 2] the theory and the practice of ecocriticism (including the problems and the promises); and 3] Shakespeare and ecocriticism. The more that …

The Adaptation Of Chuanqi In Fiction Anthologies Of The Ming Dynasty And Its Significance For Stylistics, Minghua Ren

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Among about 200 fiction anthologies published in the Ming Dynasty, there were nearly 70 that included chuanqi. Compilers often rewrote the original text according to their own aesthetic tastes and ideas of fiction. There existed three strategies of rewriting. First, compilers added or deleted verses, which consolidated or undermined the style of chuanqi by working on its form, making verse a variable of the style of fiction. Second, they changed characterization, plot design, narration, etc., and even transformed the style, which reflected compilers' understanding of characterization and the art of narration. Third, they changed the language by making the original …

The Construction Of Literary Theory Of The Individual Chuanqi In The Mid-Tang Dynasty, Junjun Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The individual chuanqi of the Mid-Tang Dynasty established the model for chuanqi's style and its fundamental connotation. In terms of form and narrative pattern, the individual chuanqi of the Mid-Tang Dynasty was different from tales of the miraculous before the Tang Dynasty, early Tang Dynasty chuanqi and historical biographies. The individual chuanqi of the Mid­-Tang Dynasty was intentionally created by literati to showcase their literary talent. In the lifelike and intimate narration, real-to-­life details helped to shape the reality of characters' emotions and story development. In the process of circulation, the writing style of the individual chuanqi became a genre; …

The Italian Renaissance In China, Xin Gao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Italian Renaissance, as an "Other" of Chinese thoughts, has been playing an important role in helping Chinese intellectuals and scholars to reshape their subjective imagination about nations, states, arts, beliefs, values, and individuality. From the outset of Modernization, it provoked several waves of debate among Chinese artists, theorists, historians, intellectuals and scholars, respectively during the early 1930s, 1978-1980, and 2007-2008. Broadly speaking, the Chinese scholarship on the Italian Renaissance has developed in several directions. In terms of research objectives, it ranges from instrumentalist and pragmatic appropriations of Western learning, to more comprehensive, sophisticated socio-historical research and cultural studies. In …

The Paradigm Of "Ego Absent" In Classical Chinese Poem Writing: A Case Study Of Tang Poems, Yuqin Jiang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

It is usually believed that in classical Chinese poem writing, except on the form, there is little emphasis on internal aesthetic rules. Or rather, such rules are invisibly there, but simply defy any expedient attempt at summarization or generalization. Based on a textual examination of Tang poems and on critics' diachronic observations about Tang poetry, the paper contends that in classical Chinese poem writing, there does exist an aesthetic rule which can be termed the paradigm of "ego absent" characterized by the representation of scenery as a metaphorical expression of feelings and emotions. The emergence of the scenery-as-feelings/emotions paradigm in …

World Literature As A Literary Space, Mengze Yao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

"World literature" has multiple meanings such as world literature as a discipline, as a pedagogical practice, or as a theoretical problem. As to the last meaning of the concept, scholars worldwide have emphasized the institution of world literature more than world literature works. This emphasis comes as a result of a rethinking of the world after the 1970s, so that the "institution" here is substantially the institution of the world. However, this "world" should not be taken as the real world, but a unique world of literature, and the essence of this institution is the more complex and more subtle …

A Study Of Acoustic Narrative In A Dream Of Red Mansions, Zhiping Yang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Acoustic narrative is widely used in A Dream of Red Mansions. It greatly enhances the artistic value of the novel and plays an important role in highlighting the novel's multi-significance. The acoustic narrative in A Dream of Red Mansions promotes the development of the plots, strengthens the characterization, and contributes to improving the poetic significance of the novel. Due attention should be given to the acoustic narrative in reading and studying A Dream of Red Mansions.