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Mcconnell, Mickey, Christina Miner

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Mickey is a graduate student at USM studying Social Work and is an Adult Learning Coach at USM. She is 31 years old and is bi-sexual. Mickey grew up in Brunswick, Maine and her mom raised her and her two sisters. She has been in a seven year relationship with her partner David. She came out about 14 years old, however, it was not well received by her mother, and Mickey remained quiet about it for several years until more recently. Her mother has relaxed more about it, is more accepting and wants her to be happy. As a result …

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Bonnets, Braids, And Big Afros: The Politics Of Black Characters’ Hair, Kay Siebler

English Faculty Publications

The representations of a Black woman character’s hair say some- thing about her. The hair of a Black character is never neutral and nuances of hair are noticed by Black woman audience members. In my research interviewing 103 Black women about the representations of Black women in the shows/films they consumed, 12% of the participants discussed the politics of Black women’s hair as a marker of authentic representation. This article analyzes contemporary representations of hair in shows primarily directed/produced by Black women, arguing that representations of Black women’s hair can be empowering to Black women audience members. Hair styles, rituals, …

Hanakatsura: The Works Of Famous Literary Women In Japan, Tei Fujiu (Trans.), Kaho Miyake, Ichiyo Higuchi, Usurai Kitada, Otsuka Kusuo, Paul Royster (Ed.)

Zea E-Books Collection

Originally published in Tokyo in 1903, Hanakatsura (literally “garland of flowers”) features a biographical sketch of the activist and author Kishida Toshiko (Baroness Nakajima) plus four short stories by Japanese women writers of the Meiji era:

Akebonozome: A Cloth Dyed in Rainbow Colors, by Kaho Miyake

Ōtsugomori: The Last Day of the Year, by Ichiyo Higuchi

Onisenbiki: The Thousand Devils, by Usurai Kitada (Mrs. Kajita)

Shinobine, by Otsuka Kusuo

Compiled and translated by Tei Fujiu, four memorable and affecting stories depict women experiencing the frustrations of traditional family roles within an emergent commercial society at the turn of the century. …

Lo, Q, Rheros Iliad Kagoni

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Q Lo is a 45 year old transgender man, the son of two Chinese immigrants who grew up in New York. Q discusses growing up as a queer person of color, how his gender and sexual identity was impacted by the lack of representation he saw around him, how his upbringing in Chinatown influenced his view of the world, and how his immigrant parents influenced his relationship with school, work and creativity. Q talks about attending college, dropping out of college, and his experiences going to MECA in Portland Maine while grappling with the classism and privilege he was experiencing …

Law, Government, And Society In J.R.R. Tolkien’S Works (2022), By José María Miranda Boto, Douglas C. Kane

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review, by Douglas C. Kane, of Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works (2022) by José María Miranda Boto.

Marine, Benn, Andrea Carpenter

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Benn is a 37-year-old trans man living in Maine. He identifies as being pansexual because he feels that he falls in love with personalities regardless of the person’s gender. He grew up with his family in rural southern Maine. He describes feeling that he was different than others from a young age and that, as he describes it, God made a mistake and he was supposed to be a boy. Yet he pushed those feeling under the rug for a long time. He first came out as gay, and much later he came out as trans in his mid-20s, and …

52 Nanotone Symphonies, Anthony Elia

Bridwell Library Research

The 52 Nanotone Symphonies is a work of expanding and contracting nature, which reflects the paradox of size, length, speed, and tone of a work: a symphony is traditionally a massive orchestral work with many interactive parts, while a tone is an elemental form of sound, at the foundational level of music. This work distorts and challenges those categories, allowing for each measure (in 12 + 4 time) to constitute an entire "symphony" of sound in miniature: using a single piano (keyboard or organ) instead of orchestra. Performers are encouraged to play each as slow or fast as they wish. …

Presentation, Delay And Omission In Artistic Messages In The Umayyad Era (A Stylistic Study), Amani Rabie

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Writers in the Umayyad era paid a clear interest in messages, based on the development of this art on the one hand, the rise of writers among the rulers, princes and caliphs on the other hand, and the emergence of bureaucracies and the development of their presence in the Islamic state on the third hand, all of these elements directly contributed to the development of the art of messages. In general, and contributed to the change in its methods, which was linked to the manifestations of workmanship, good writing, and accuracy of expression.

The research aimed to reveal the manifestations …

The Image Of Nature And Human In Elia Abu Madi Poetry: The Woman And Homeland As A Model, Mokhled Al-Aied, Abdelhaleem Al-Hrout

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study deals with the image of nature and the human relationship with it in light of the knowledge of the relationship with women and the homeland. The study seeks to analyze the relationship between nature and man, in which the poet's vision was manifested. The study highlighted, through its topics related to women and the homeland, the depth of the connection between the poet and nature. The study confirms the importance of nature in Abu Madi's poetry as an idea that expresses the intellectual and psychological dimensions with which his poems were mixed and expressed. The current study shows …

Aspects Of Cultural Life In The Pre-Islamic Era (Muallaga Antara Ibn Shaddad Model), ٍSamara Al-Athamat

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research aims to study the pre-Islamic text – Muallaga Antara ibn shaddad – An analytical study that shows the cultural aspects of the pre- Islamic era.The research plan required the following details; Introduction, and included the Importance of the research, and the methodology used in the research. Likewise, the tow research requirements; The first requirement: The implications of culture in language and idiom, and the second requirement; The manifestation of cultural life in Muallaga Antara, The conclusion came with the most important finding of the research

Religious Discourse In The Poetry Of Contradictions (Naqa’Id) In The Light Of Sociolinguistics, Huda Alnattar

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study deals with the religious discourse and its impact on the language of the poets of contradictions, according to sociolinguistics, and how these poets were able to express their social and political issues according to the religious perspective, starting from their visions and views emanating from epistemological, ideological, religious and social references that help in the formation of their poetic inspiration and its glow, which is reflected in their poetry.As the speaker is the creator of linguistic performances, and the transmitter of what goes through his mind, he produces through these linguistic performances a spoken or written speech, received …

Mental Modeling Of Linguistics Of Narrative Discourse: A Theoretical Framing Of Language, Asmaa A’Leean, Laith Al-Rawajfeh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Narration in its origin is a way of thinking that begins in the mind of the writer and then moves to the reader through language, and writing is an important topic of cognitive linguistics that deals with tracking mental aspects and mental processes in processing language and employing them creatively, in addition to examining the extent of the reader's ability to understand and decode language codes inside his brain Through the perceptual capabilities that humans enjoy without others.

This study came to provide a theoretical framework for the language of the novel, which is witnessing a remarkable development and rapid …

Topics Of Imaging In Al-Buhturi Poetry, Ali Al-Hauamdeh, Abdelhaleem Al-Hrout

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research dealt with the topics of Imaging in the poetry of al-Buhturi, three topics were chosen: women, nature and animals. There is a relationship between other arts, such as the plastic arts of drawing and sculpture, and the poetry written by Al-Buhturi, where poetic subjects appear in figurative mechanisms that seem like artistic paintings that derive their material from the letter and the word. This study seeks to reveal the manifestations of photography in the three poetic themes according to the descriptive analytical approach. The results of the study showed Al-Buhturi's ability to form images and produce them as …

Linguistic Techniques In Pilgrims: A Study Of The Poetic Movement In Jordan During The Emirate Period, Na’Emah Abuzreeg, Moustafa Al-Haiadreh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The poetic discourses for Emirate stage poets are considered as an intellectual heritage diary, Because they are one of the ancient literary and fluent texts that form,at most, reformatory approach and attempt for changing social, economic and politic life which is built on poetic texts that address the recipient for influential and convincing purposes. Also, these poetic discourses adopt linguistic verbs and rhetorical techniques that guide the recipient's brain, his soul and conscience in an argumentative guidance away from contradict and force.

This paper will give an intensed image for the most important linguistic verbs and rhetorical techniques found in …

Stylistic Applications In Arab Criticism (Stylistic Expressive Model), Rana Al-Marazeeq

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Arab criticism was distinguished by the emergence of a number of critics and writers who had an imprint through their literary works. It studies literary texts, analyzes the styles, and reveals their aesthetic values, by analyzing the linguistic and rhetorical phenomena of the text. Vststlpeh expression studies the emotional and aesthetic features.

This study deals with the topic of stylistic applications in modern Arab criticism, represented by expressive stylistics, by highlighting some important critical books of critics who have emerged with stylistic phenomena (repetition, selection, and displacement).

This is an applied stylistic study. To contribute to increasing awareness and showing …

Dimensions Of Transcendence In Quranic Discourse: Surat Al-Waqi`Ah As A Model, محمود الزهيري

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This paper aims at discussing the dimensions of the transcendence discourse in Al-Waqi`ah Sura trying to explore its concept, which is a supreme discourse in which there is power and determination that transcends the addressee to the highest levels of eminence and supremacy in thought and truth by way of challenge and excitement. It is the one who addresses the recipient in all its dimensions, such as whether having a response, the answer, or the compatibility with it. It is different from controversy, as the controversy has the tone of argument and debate, while the transcendence does not allow the …

The Degree To Which Secondary School Students In Jordan Possess Digital Citizenship Skills, Dareen Abdelhadi, Youssef Arouri

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The purpose of this study was to identify the degree to which secondary school students in Jordan possess digital citizenship skills and to identify the extent of statistically significant differences attributed to variables: gender, family monthly income, education system. The researcher used the descriptive survey analysis approach to conduct the study; the study tool (A test) was prepared consisting of (52) items and they were classified according to the nine elements of digital citizenship as follows: digital literacy, digital etiquette, digital laws, digital health and wellness, digital access, digital communications, digital security, digital commerce, digital rights and responsibilities. After verifying …

The Opinions Of Abu Obaida In The Book Entitled By (Interpreting The Surrounding Ocean) "Tafseer Al-Bahir Al-Moheet" And The Attitude Of Abu Hayyan Towards That, Abdullah Al-Thnaibat

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aimed at addressing the grammatical opinions of Abu Obaida in the book entitled by "Tafseer Al-bahir Al-Moheet" as well as comparing them with the content of his book (metaphor in Quran) " Majaz Al-Quran" and demonstrating the attitude of Abu Hayyan towards that in his explanation in terms of displaying, analysis and criticism. The theoretical content of the research included information related to both Abu Obaida and Abu Hayyan in terms of culture, knowledge and classification as well as the methodology of each of them in illustrating the issues of syntax and language. The applied material included the …

The Effect Of Using Roundhouse Diagram Strategy In Achievement Of English Language For Tenth Grade Female Students' And Their Attitudes Toward It In Jordan, Siham Al-Mashaqbeh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aimed to identify The Effect of Using Roundhouse Diagram Strategy in Teaching the English language for Tenth Grade Female Students' and their Attitudes Toward it in Jordan. The participants Students were (40) from tenth grade. Female Students' from Umm Al-ma'am Secondary School, and they were distributed in to tow division.

The study was conducted in the second semester of the academic year 2018/2019, with (4) classes per week for each division. The study continued for (4) weeks, The semi-experimental method was used. The sample of the study was divided into two groups, one experimental and the other controlling …

The Reality Of The Application Of Modern Teaching Strategies In University Education At The University Of Amman From The Perspective Of The Members Of The Commission, Maha Khreisat, أسماء عبد المنعم العمري

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The present study aimed to identify the reality of the application of modern teaching strategies in university education at the Amman Private University in Jordan. The study sample consisted of (100) faculty members at Amman Private University in the academic year (2018/2017).The results of the study showed that the reality of the implementation of strategies in university education at the University of Amman was high, and the results showed that there was no effect of the variables of experience and faculty in the in the degree of application of teaching strategies. In light of the results of the study, the …

Quotation And Inclusion In Andalusian Poetry In The Fifth Century Ah, Mohammad Al-Rgebat

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study deals with the phenomena of quotation and inclusion in Andalusian poetry in the fifth century AH, as a form affected by the religious and literary heritage of poets, and the study seeks to reveal the effectiveness of both quotation and inclusion and their role in revealing the poet’s vision, the criterion of beauty and its use within the poetic text , And highlighting the poet's skill in incorporating quote and inclusion in his new text, Using the descriptive analytical method

The Level Of Occupational Stress Among Public School Teachers In Jordan, Khalid Al-Mahasnieh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The current study aimed to identify the level of occupational pressures that secondary school teachers are exposed to in Jerash Directorate of Education, and proposing some solutions to relieve such kind of pressures.

To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical method, both quantitative and qualitative, the study tool was a questionnaire contains (30) paragraphs, and an open question to suggest some possible solutions. The tool was applied to a sample of (274) secondary school teachers in Jerash Directorate of Education.

A set of suggestions were also presented, which it is hoped will work to …

Islamic Education Curriculum On Raising And Caring Of The Gifted In Corona Pandemic, Odeh Bani Ahmed

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study sheds light on the issue of Islamic education curriculum, in educating and caring of the gifted in the current era in Corona pandemic , and the methods and factors of Islamic education which affect in educating and caring of the gifted.

The research has concluded that Islamic education has taken a great interest in educating and caring for the talented in all ages and in current era in Corona pandemic, and has developed methods and factors affect the care of the gifted through Quranic verses, noble prophetic hadiths, and the sayings and actions of the Companions.

The Islamic …

Economic Law; A Comparison Between Islamic Sharia And The Jordanian Constitution "Presentation And Budget", Abdullah Al-Zyout, Fadi Aljbour

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study deals with the economic laws in the Jordanian constitution, namely the right of ownership and the right to work on one hand, and the balancing of these rights with Islamic law in order to determine the extent to which the Jordanian constitution approves Islamic law in this regard. The study concluded that most of the articles of the Jordanian constitution came in accordance with Shari'a, with some of the articles that contradicted the Sharia in some of their finer details. The study relied on the descriptive, analytical and comparative approach, and recommended that the articles that did not …

Steven Pinker’S Concept Of Violence: Between Nature And Culture, Malek Al-Tarawneh, Amer Shatara

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This paper shed a light on Harvard thinker and linguist Steven Pinker’s concept of violence. Although In recent years the problem of defining 'violence' has gained a growing number of interest among philosophers, politicians and sociologists, but they rarely define it.even though most of us believes that violence has intensified in recent years, Pinker argues that we are living in an unusually peaceful time. For him it is a matter of data and the way we looks at that data, as Pinker himself state, “If one bases one’s beliefs about the state of the world on what one reads in …

Interpreting The Verse Of Al-Hasher Of The Book Of Fateh Al-Rahman In Interpreting The Qur'an For Mohammad Ibn Qurqamas (882 H): A Study And Investigation, Asem Al-Qatawneh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

In this research I addressed investigating and detecting the verse of Al-Mujadaleh in the book of Fateh Al-Rahman in interpreting the qur'an for Mohammad ibn Abdullah Qurqumas.This study consists of an introduction, two sections, a conclusion as well as appendixes.The introduction included the importance of the subject, the reasons for choosing it, the research plan, and addition to the previous studies. The first section is the study section which included two chapters:

The first chapter addresses the author's biography in terms of his name, his lineage, nickname, birth, life and death, his teachers, his students, his approach, his doctrine, his …

A Descriptive Analytical Study Of Listening Skill In Arabic Textbooks For Speakers Of Other Languages: "The Book In Learning Arabic, And Arabic Between Your Hands" Is A Model, Shaden Al-Salman, عبد الكريم سليم الحداد

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study aimed at describing and analyzing the listening skills in two series of books that teach Arabic for other speakers, are (Al-Kitaab fii Ta’llum al-Arabiyya, Arabic between Your Hands), the study adopted the descriptive analytical approach using the content analysis method, and the analysis card has been prepared Contained (69) listening skills according to the guidelines of American council for teaching foreign languages (ACTFL) divided into five levels, which is: (27) skill novicee level, (14) intermediate-level skills, (12) advanced level skills, (11) skills for the superior level, and (4) skills for the distinguished level, the study showed a set …

The Accidental Effects Of The Error In The Formation Of The Void Contract In The Jordanian Civil Law, Nisreen Rashaideh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study deals with the effect of error in the formation of the contract as it is one of the accidental effects of the invalid contract within the framework of Jordanian civil law, Islamic jurisprudence and Egyptian civil law, in which it was found that the invalid contract does not mean nothingness, but rather that the invalid contract entails accidental effects in certain and exceptional cases as it is A material event and not a legal act, and it is possible to compensate the aggrieved party affected by the invalid contract, especially since the Jordanian legislator has not dealt with …

The Legal Nature Of Armed Conflicts In International Law, Suhayb Alhroot, Adel Althbeitat, Mo’Tasem Alrashdan, Raed Althamer, Ghosenelban Momani

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The nature of armed conflicts has been of great interest, especially when setting the legal rules in public and humanitarian international laws. These rules have framed legal action towards this type of conflicts, which has contributed to unify international efforts in dealing with armed conflicts by putting measures to prevent it. So it was necessary to explain only the necessity of war in armed conflicts and do not expand.

This research has two main topics; It focuses on the nature of armed conflicts in public and humanitarian international laws in the first requirement and explains the case of armed conflicts …