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Presidents Day, Onu Institute For Civics And Public Policy, Kennedy Aikey, Hailey Trimpey, Caleb Clayton

Critical Questions

Across American History, many outstanding individuals have held the title of President of the United States. It is a distinction only a select few can claim, but some stand out as truly remarkable leaders. George Washington served valiantly as General of the Colonial Army in the founding of our country, later becoming our nation’s first president–casting the mold of what America’s premier leader should look like for his successors. Abraham Lincoln led our country through the Civil War, rejoined the Confederacy to the Union, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and exemplified how even when all seems lost, we the people are …

Voice Of The Villains: The Attraction Of And Response To Villain Retellings (Part 1), Lydia Jayaputra

Student Work

"Every story needs characters to root for and characters to root against."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­movie villains and their appeal from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/the-attraction-of-and-response-to-villain-retellings-part-1/

Middle East Lessons For America, Will Gunzelman

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentation provides the talking points from a discussion on the Middle East, Russian “Siege and Starve” tactics, and the need to recognize agriculture as a U.S. national security issue. Presented to the Cattleman’s Association on February 21, 2022; two days prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Author, Will Gunzelman, retired from U.S. Army Special Forces (“Green Berets”) after 27 years of service and numerous combat deployments.

Keywords: Middle East, Russia, Ukraine, Agriculture, National Security, National Defense, Foreign Policy, Political Science, Farming, Ranching, Great Power Competition (GPC), Warfare, Economics, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan , NATO, Food Shortage

Take Care, Nicole Wetzel

Honors Theses

Day-to-day life is full of habits and routines set in place to maintain our health, each completed without a second thought. Though seemingly tedious, every action toward cleanliness is meaningful time we invest in ourselves. They are crucial to our wellbeing, deserving of our careful attention, not mindless execution. When closely examined, a strange tension is found between the end-goal of hygiene and the disgusting remnants of the steps taken to get there; the former cannot be achieved without confronting the latter. This relationship reveals the true value of these often-overlooked routines. Through intentional observation of the actions themselves and …

The Book Of Poetry And Diplomacy : Who Is The Barbarian?, Wai-Yee Li

How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast

This episode discusses how a “barbarian” chief gains diplomatic advantages by reciting an ode now included in Shijing. The recitation both asserts and effaces differences between “Chinese” and “barbarian” states. It seeks to redefine the past and argues for equality and amity between Jin and the Rong.

Recital: Convocation, February 21, 2022, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

February 21, 2022
Tuesday Morning
11:00 a.m.

Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Writing Knowledge (Re)Circulation Across Genres, Adam Phillips

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation proposes that the field of Writing Studies (WS) as well as writing program administrators (WPAs) should integrate quantitative methods into curricular assessment in order to improve pedagogical practices within their curricula. Through the use of the theoretical framework of assemblage theory, a theory that has been underutilized within WS, and the lens of linguistic, cultural, and substantive (LCS) language patterns, this study attempts to identify and understand student writing knowledge circulation and recirculation within one local curriculum. As well, with the incorporation of technological tools such as RAND-Lex, WPAs and WS researchers can identify granular patterns within student …

My Life...So Far, Ahmed Hefny

Audiovisual Projects

A brief documentation of my daily life, at least for now.

The Quarantine Routine, Farah El Ghamrawy

Audiovisual Projects

In this track i will be taking you through my everyday quarantine routine. Basically i will be sharing with you how my day goes ever since the pandemic started

Hearing Faith: Music As Theology In The Spanish Empire, Carolina Sacristán Ramírez

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

A book review is presented for Andrew Cashner, Hearing Faith: Music as Theology in the Spanish Empire. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 194. (Leiden: Brill, 2020).

Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses In The Himalayan Foothills, Nadia Chana

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

A book review is presented for Kirin Narayan, Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Sermon And Song: A Musically Integrative Homiletic, Catherine E. Williams

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

For centuries the interdisciplinary dyad of sermon and song has been in the toolkit of effective preachers. Yet scholarship on conjoined preaching and singing has been relatively sparse, despite the abundance of strong biblical, historical, and cultural warrants for its effectiveness as a means of proclamation. Seminary students have been known to graduate without ever seeing the synergistic combination of sermon and song in a preaching syllabus. With the help of musical analogue Theme and Variations, this essay illustrates a variety of ways this preaching method works for musical and “non-musical” users alike. It highlights the spiritual and cultural value …

The Dance Of Ādi Śakti: The Goddess In The Songs Of Bharati And Nazrul, Achintya Prahlad

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

C Subramania Bharati (1882-1921) and Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) were significant poet-songwriters of the Indian freedom struggle. Their works explore a wide range of themes – political, philosophical, romantic and devotional. Both poets were educated in rāga music, which is prominent in many of their songs. Bharati wrote in Tamil, while Nazrul wrote in Bangla. It is highly unlikely that they read or were influenced by each other’s works. However, one finds several similarities in their poetry, especially the importance given to the goddess Ādi Śakti in her various forms, Kālī in particular. The goddess plays a major role in …

Bodies Of Silence, Floods Of Nectar: Ritual Music In Contemporary Brahmanical Tantric Temples Of Kerala, Paolo Pacciolla

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

The Tantric concept of sound (nāda) as universal life-force has seen worldwide diffusion over the last few decades but such a fame does not reflect academic interest in the impact of Tantra on music. Indeed, while a number of essays have been written to demonstrate the contribution of Tantrism to the evolution of Indian religions and culture, its contribution to music has been left largely unexplored.

The word Tantra refers to a pan-Asian religious phenomenon spread over numerous centuries and including a wide number of sects having different and even opposite philosophical and theological approaches which may be …

Liturgy And Musical Inculturation In A Post-Apartheid South African Catholicism, Austin Chinagorom Okigbo

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

There is a developing trend within mainstream South African Churches to incorporate styles of traditional African music and cultural elements in liturgical functions. This is happening in places where such ideas were hitherto unwelcome because mission churches witnessed the denigration of indigenous African cultures by Europeans during the eras of both colonialism and apartheid. Inculturation Theology underscores the current drive for liturgical transformation. It comprises a part of Black Theology in South Africa, which developed as an intellectual framework for liberation during the time of the anti-apartheid struggles. Using the ethnographic study of the cultural mass at Emmanuel Cathedral in …

Saint Jude's, February 20, 2022

Saint Jude's

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Waltham, MA

Saint Jude's Finding Aid

St. Benedict Parish For The Deaf Church Bulletin, February 20, 2022

Saint Benedict Parish for the Deaf Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in San Francisco, CA

Saint Benedict Parish for the Deaf Church Bulletin Finding Aid

St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin, February 20, 2022

Saint Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

Saint Francis Brogia Deaf Center Church Bulletin Finding Aid

2021-2022 Guillermo Figueroa Violin Recital, Guillermo Figueroa

Faculty Recitals

No abstract provided.

Timothy Lee Jones

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Choral Showcase, February 20, 2022, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

February 20, 2022

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

Ashley Frazier, Soprano, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Marian Christine Baker Douglas

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral program for Marian Douglas. Service was held on February 19, 2022

Mosque Library: History, Function And Research Map, Sudana Sudana, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Nur Fahmiyati

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The existence of the mosque is a holy place for Muslims. Apart from being a place of worship, it also functions as a center for Muslim activities in regulating the life of Muslims. Mosques have many functions, one of which is as an educational institution. So that this function can support activities related to the life of the people and run well and optimally, it is necessary to have supporting facilities and infrastructure. One of the supporting facilities and infrastructure for mosques as educational institutions is a library, which will provide reading facilities that can increase knowledge and religious insight …

Eloge De I'Absent, Hassan Wahbi

Dirassat

Raise of the Absent

Behind the meaning stifled by the oblivion of things and events, by the fragmentation of duration, there is the figure and the fatal enigma of self-identity. Each life is first of all a silence, a postponement of the intimate word, the re verse of a voice, a "limbee" presence. Whoever decides to write about oneself knows well that his exercise is the temptation to take in the trap of words this silence, this setback, this limbo, this murmuring obscurity.

De Quelques Problèmes Majeurs De La Parémiologie Moderne, Michel Quitout

Dirassat

Some Major Problems of Modern Paremiology

Before getting to the heart of the matter, let us first make an empirical observation: in Arab societies, the recurrence of proverbial statements both at the level of oral communication and at the level of written texts is a reality that is evident. It imposes itself on it. Proverbs occupy a prominent place in Arab societies. For a very long time, the Arabs have manifested their taste for this type of concise, very expressive and full of teachings speech.

Regards Sur Le Sens Du Temps Et De L'Espace Dans "The Great Gatsby" De F.Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), Rachid El Hamri

Dirassat

Looks into the Sense of Time and Space inThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)

The Great Gatsby has been the subject of several critical studies, but an acevery interesting pact remains somewhat unexplored, namely a semio-approach tick of this masterpiece. In this article, we propose to examine two fundamental elements for grasping the character of the hero: time and space.

L'Autobiographie Entre Deux Traditions, Najib Wasmine

Dirassat

The Autobiography between two Traditions

It is here a contribution to the reflection around the autobiographical practice in Maghrebin literature of the French language, a practice which is placed between two literary and cultural traditions, if not more. The most obvious at least are the French tradition, and more generally Western, the Maghreb tradition, and more generally Arab.

Politics And Creative Writry: Conrad's "Nostromo" And "The Secret Agent" & "Warren's" All The King's Men, Nofal Lotfi

Dirassat

All through this paper, some three core texts are made use of ; namely, Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904) and The Secret Agent (1907), and Robert Warren's All the king's Men(1946). However, the discussion is by no means confined to these three works; a broader outlook is in fact required to cope with thedifferent aspects that relate to are search of this kind.This is perhaps why the present paper will have to go beyond the core texts and attempt to find elsewhere other salient points that can meaningfully add to the main ideas contained in the research.

Notes Sur L'Autobiographie, Abdelkhaleq Jayed

Dirassat

Notes on the Autobiography

I give these notes on the autobiography as they are, without trying to mask their discontinuity with an explicit link, the inconsistency being sometimes, as R. Barthes says, preferable to the order which distorts "E" and rules of the game.Any literary text is closed to be an act, from the double point of view of the writer and the reader, that is to say that it must involve in the author of "overwhelming consequences" (A. Gide) and influence his life by modifying, through an uncompromising analysis, his outlook on himself, at the same timethat his relationship …