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Graduate Recital: Leo Wang, Tenor; Jean Lee, Piano; March 26, 2021, Leo Wang, Jean Lee

School of Music Programs

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March 26, 2021
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The Tipping Point: A Faith Perspective, Osaro Airen, Lakia M. Scott, Gwendolyn C. Webb, Norvella P. Carter, Patricia Larke, General C. Johnson

The Journal of Faith, Education, and Community

The Journal of Faith Education, and Community’s (JFEC) Special Issue entitled, "The Tipping Point: A Faith Perspective," features articles written from a first-person point of view and faith perspective. The articles focus on the authors’ feelings, emotions, and/or experiences surrounding critical and impactful diversity-related events (i.e. the horrific death of George Floyd, protests for equity and the eradication of hate, etc.).

The Work Is Within: My Buddhist Faith As I Reckon With Police Shootings & Racial Unrest, Vicki Mokuria

The Journal of Faith, Education, and Community

Based on the author’s life story in which her husband was shot and killed by police officers in front of her and their two young children, she provides a first-person narrative of her experience, linking the ways her Buddhist faith and practice have sustained her over the years. She recounts snippets of her privileged childhood growing up Jewish in the South before meeting and marrying her Ethiopian husband and beginning a family with him, along with beginning their Buddhist practice. Specific aspects of Buddhist philosophy are incorporated in this piece to provide insights into a Buddhist lens on our current …

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The Communicator

The English Speaking Circary of the Order of Prémontré

Close Encounters: Mass Incarceration Tactics, Kevin L. Jones

The Journal of Faith, Education, and Community

As a Black man living in America, my Christian faith walk began at an early age. Growing up in a suburban environment, I had several encounters with law enforcement that shaped my belief system. These encounters were and still are a stark reminder that Black boys and men are under attack. Policing negatively impacts Black boys and men when compared to other races of people. I realized that I was in their cross hairs and I was almost consumed by the criminal justice system on many occasions. Through the lens of Critical Race Theory, this work focused on the centrality …

Melding Critical Literacy And Christianity: A Three-Layered Response To The Murder Of George Floyd, Elena M. Venegas

The Journal of Faith, Education, and Community

In this critical autoethnography, I share my three-layered response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department in May of 2020. This three-layered response stems from my situated identities (Gee, 1999) as a mother, Christian, and academic. I was not only appalled by the dehumanization of George Floyd by public servants but also by the responses of self-professed Christians to his murder as well as the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests. Such responses, I argue, are rooted in Christian nationalism (Davis & Perry, 2020) and the White supremacy that has long plagued the American …

An Open Letter To My White Christian Friend, Norvella Carter

The Journal of Faith, Education, and Community

Abstract

As human beings, our world revolves around relationships. As Christians, we are charged to have positive relationships that can grow into friendships. The importance of friendships is infused throughout scripture, because they allow us to bring others to Christ, encourage and uplift the soul and bear each other’s burdens. Without deep discussions, relationships cannot grow. As an African American, when I consider my friendships, I am finding an emotional need to share my feelings more deeply with White friends, who sincerely want to know the truth about my views on important social ills, particularly racism. Given the state of …

I Can't Breathe: But The Holy Spirit Can, As I Advocate For African American Boys And Men, Gwendolyn C. Webb

The Journal of Faith, Education, and Community

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Bad Grades, Making Bank, And Hating Piano: The Divergent Trajectories Of Two Creative Writers’ Semiotic Becomings, Jon Udelson

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This article challenges lore-based conceptions of creative writers’ becomings by showing how creative writers establish their literate and disciplinary identities not only through modes of learning characterized by curricular-based advancement in their field, but also through complex social and material negotiations with communities, institutions, and engagements outside of the disciplinary domain of creative writing. Drawing primarily from case study interview data, this article argues for a theoretical and empirical approach to studying creative writers’ “semiotic becomings” in order to further inform creative writing studies research, creative writing pedagogy, and the disciplinary benefits of validating creative writers’ extra-literate and extra-disciplinary experiences.

Public Promises, Hazy Vision: What Program Learning Outcomes Tell Us About Creative Writing As An Academic Subject, Tanya Perkins, Lisa Marling

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

: Although creative writing entered undergraduate curricula in the 20^th century primarily as a way to teach literature, the range of current programming suggests that original intent has evolved, as has opinion among faculty and writers about the nature of creative writing as a subject and its role within English programs. This study applies content analysis to 271 creative writing program learning outcomes (PLOs) from 51 undergraduate programs across the US in order to identify prevailing patterns and themes related to creative writing as a teaching subject. As measurable (and public) statements of content, PLOs are informative and accessible …

The Mind And The Self: A Preliminary Analysis Of Handbooks Written By Women And Men On How To Write Fiction From 1900-1940, Mitchell R. James

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This article conducts a comparative analysis of books published by women and men on how to write fiction from 1900-1940. The analysis reveals three unique distinctions between men and women writers. First, when women talk about the effect of writers’ minds on the work they produce, they do so in internal and self-reflexive ways, while men tend to encourage writers to reflect on how exterior factors affect authors’ minds and writing processes. Second, in order to become better writers, women encourage writers to focus on themselves as the primary source of their writing, while male writers envision the exterior world …

The Extracurriculum Of Creative Writing, Nancy Reddy

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

So far, the scholarship in the emerging field of Creative Writing Studies has focused primarily on creative writing workshops in colleges and universities. This article argues that Creative Writing Studies should broaden its focus to also include what scholars call the extracurriculum –the writing that people do when it’s not required by school or work, which takes place across a range of community, nonprofit, private, and digital spaces. Qualitative and archival research in the extracurriculum can help us develop a longer and more complex history and a more inclusive pedagogy.

Utilizing Digital Literacy In The Creative Writing Classroom, Sam Meekings

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This paper will examine contemporary approaches to utilizing the pre-existing skills and knowledge of students in order to reconceptualize the process and reception of writing. Using social media platforms in the Creative Writing classroom presents a range of possibilities for experimenting with character, voice, structure, tone and world-building. This paper will share examples and exercises from a range of resources, and discuss ways of using the technical, formal, and cross-platform innovations of online applications to extend lessons beyond the classroom. Consideration will also be given to the problems inherent in using social media platforms for storytelling.

French Fixed Expressions: Language Initiation In Writing Skill Of Lower Intermediate Level For French As Foreign Language Learners, Tri Eko Agustiningrum

Dirassat

Language mastery is based on complex language knowledge and skills. To achieve a high level of proficiency in one language, it is not enough to know many words and know how to apply grammar rules, but it is also important to understand and use specific expressions in that language. The use of expressions allows people to express themselves figuratively more naturally in the target language. Native speakers generally prefer to use expressions rather than producing new lexical combinations. For example, if a native French speaker says "He runs away very quickly", he will tend to use a common phrase such …

Le Langage Et La Mémoire Photogaphiques Dans Le Souss, Farida Bouâchraoui

Dirassat

Creativity and artistic production is liable to introduce any culture into a modern and universal context. Photography is visual language that captures events which tell stories. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The initiative to set up a database of photographs on the Souss region constitutes a documentary photographic work which aims to celebrate and promote the Moroccan cultural heritage by building a photographic memory of the Souss Massa region.

نقد النقد: الموضوع والأهداف والمنهج, اسليمان بحاري

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Title : Criticism of Criticism : Themes, Objectives and Method

During the twentieth century, literary criticism experienced incredible development and fruitful openness onto humanities. Literary theory scholars recovered most of its neglected facets and shortcomings. Concomitantly, literary criticism witnessed a period of turmoil and retreat. Thus, Criticism shift focus onto scrutinizing literature to understand the mechanisms of critical discourse. Ancient Arab criticism was limited to descriptive discourse, which generates questions about texts to deconstruct them. By far, criticism remains a conscious art, which adopts scientific methodology. Thus, criticism of criticism is interdisciplinary, and seeks to formulate new theoretical and methodological …

ظاهرة الإدغام في معلقة امرئ القيس وأثرها في موسيقاها الشعرية, عبد الرؤوف خريوش, زهير إبراهيم

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Title : the effects of Assimilation in Moallaca of Imroulcays on its poetic music

Long poems have always fascinated researchers because they are considered as the backbone of the Arab Diwan. These long poems are classified as Moallacat; that is to say, they stick to the mind and memory of readers for their poetics, musicality and metric . Several collectors such as Hammad labled them “Essamout”; as a result , many scholars such as IBn Alkalbi and Ibn Abd Rabbo extensively analyzed and studied these long poems. It is worth mentioning that these long poems still raise controversy as to …

السخرية الأدبية / بحث في الأشكال والحدود, نوال بن صالح

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Title : Literary satire/research into forms and boundaries

Artistic production is not exempt from competition. Arts compete with each other to attract more spectators and audiences. Cynicism generates controversy in the Arab-Islamic culture and in the rest of the world as it plays a role in scandalizing oppression. It commonly employs caricature to convey messages in a comic style that appeals to people. Parody which uses exaggerated imitation of characters to effectively persuade onlookers from all walks of life to adopt an attitude or hold another.

الأسس الخلافية لتأويل مشكل شعر المعري بين البطليوسي وابن العربي, البشير التهالي

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Title : The controversial foundations for interpreting the problem of al-Maari's poetry between Batalyawsi and Ibn al-Arabi

The poetry of Abu Al-Alaa Al-Maari is distinguished for its interactive and argumentative context. In addition, it is rich in interpretative capabilities. In addition, Al-Maari’s poetry has a brilliant interpretive potential that establishes the literary rule. Accordingly, it aims at analyzing the foundations of dispute between Abd Allāh Ibn Muḥammad al-Baṭalyawsī and Abu Bakr Ibn al-Arabi who were famous for interpreting poetic discourse. As far as Abu Al-'Ala al-Ma'ari is concerned; the reality of his poetry resides in an …

إشكالية تشغيل المنهج في النقد العربي المعاصر, فؤاد زرواق

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Title : The problematic of the implementing methodology in contemporary Arab criticism

Methodology was originally devised to evaluate and study literary work, it is indeed a tool which the critic approaches the literary text. Arab critics are fascinated by everything that has come to with the same logic. Consequently, the text is merely a means to apply methodology and not the opposite.Arab critics were entitled to search for methods to analyze and evaluate their artistic productions but it was in vain. Therefore; they adopted western critical methodology that ultimate fails to capture the beauty and creativity of the Arab creative …

التمثيل الصوتي للجعل الصرفي في بعض اللغات الأفرسية, عبد المجيد الزهير

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Title : Phonological representation of morpheme realization in some Afro-asian languages

In this article, we will study the phonological representations of many Afro-Asian languages and present the hypothesis of the phonemic origin to analyze morphological realization and its development. It is worth mentioning that historical development of phonological systems recognizes different factors, which are not mere hypotheses. Some of these factors are internal and related to the ability of linguistic speakers, while others are external and adhere to the effect of social variables and the consequences of the interaction between languages. To better understand, this phenomenon we propose comparative differential …

روايات أگادير, أحمد التوفيق

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Title : Tales from Agadir

The city of Agadir is situated in strategic area for the Makhzen and the Iberian expansionists alike. The fusion of local cultures with that of the merchants and the colonizers brought about diversity and solidarity of the social fabric. Such affluence and prosperity is invoked in the tales about Agadir as a city of both resistance and integration.

تنامي قوة عمان البحرية ودورها في دفع الأنجليز لإقامة تحالف سياسي وتجاري مع حكام دولة اليعاربة 1650-1700 م, خليل بن عبد الله العجمي

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The growing power of Oman’s navy and the establishment of political and commercial alliances between the British and with the rulers of the first Ya'ariba state (1650-1700 AD)

The presence of the British in the Indian Ocean was important since they tried to break the Portuguese hegemony during the beginning of the 16th century and the beginning of the establishment of economic, commercial and political relations with Oman. This study will deal with the role of closeness in striking deals and agreements with the British. All these tactics led to the growth of the Omani naval power. This article also …

دور الصلحاء في مواجهة مشكل الخوف لدى المجتمع بين الواقع والكرامة: من خلال المجتمع التادلي في القرنين 16 و17 م, لطيفة شراس

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The role of the pious people in facing the problem of fear in society: TadlaSociety as a case study between the 16th and 17th centuries

In every age and place there are noble people whose only concern is the public interest and the advancement of the social, economic and political milieu. In the various historical stages of Morocco, there were men of mysticism, Sufism and righteousness and left their touch. Some of them are still engraved in the collective memory of Moroccans and became an infernal and spiritual symbol. This article sheds light on one of the Moroccan societies, especially …

الجوائح والسلطة والدين في المغرب زمان الوطاسيين: جوانب من تاريخ المغرب العميق, عبد الله استيتو

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Pandemics, power and religion in Morocco: Al Wattaseenera as a case study

The history of Morocco had several aspects that were characterized by instability on one hand and their realization on the other. The ruling of Al-Wattaseen is seen as a symbol of the spread of diseases and epidemics that negatively affected public life and the living condition in Morocco. The miserable situation that preceded it after the successive years of drought had repercussions on public life which made some elites, sheikhs, and powerful people take that into their advantage to gain more power or strengthen their influence. The article …

علاقة السلطة المركزية بالجنوب المغربي خلال القرنين19 و 20 م: حالة مجال أسا 1830-1934 م, سويلام بوغدا

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The relationship between the central authority with southern Morocco during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: ASSA as a case study between 1830 and 1934

Morocco has witnessed dangerous and obvious transformations in the relationship between the tribes and the Moroccan regime or the so-called “Makhzen”. These relations were also influenced by the continuous existence of the foreign occupation regimes (France and Portugal). These changes affect the vision of the local leaders since the occupation made tribalism lose all its components and itsinheritance. As a result, nervousness, nomadism, and raiding lost its power. This article attempts to deal with the topic …

الصوفية العرفانية الأندلسية بين ارتدادات الغنوص عند النخب الصوفية وإسلام العوام في حاضرة تلمسان, محمد الناصر صديقي

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Andalusia’s Sufism Between the apostasy of gnosis among the Sufi elites and the Islam of the lay people in Tlemcen

Sufism allows the practitioners to discover the mysterious secrets about the world and the universe through introspection and the perception of hidden things. It opens a window that allows one to see the origin of the world, for example, the hierarchy of divine powers and what is hidden from the essence of man. Gnosticism as a doctrine is based on a person's knowledge of himself and the deep voice within through an understanding of inner insight. This article attempts to …

الأعراف (إزرفان) وتدبير العنف بين القبائل في مغرب ما قبل الاستعمار: حالة قبائل أيت عطا, محماد لطيف, حميد تيتاو

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The customs (Irfan)and the management of inter-tribal violence in pre-colonial Moroccoera:The case of the Ait Atta tribes

Anthropologists have divided societies into two parts: peaceful and violent ones. The peaceful society or primitive devises rules on tight and precise laws that impose order and stability to prevent chaos and war internally and externally. On the other hand, the violent society bases its decisions on personal rules, blood, and kinship but customary laws try to prevent deterrence and repression. This study seeks to analyze different aspects of these laws and customs in the way violence was managed between tribes in pre-colonial …

الخطاب الديني وحرية المعتقد بالمغرب الإسلامي خلال العصر الوسيط, أحمد الصديقي

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The Religious discourse and freedom of belief in the Islamic West during the medieval era.

Religious discourse and freedom of belief are two important topics for their role in addressing fundamental issues such as relations between people for the sake ofspreading tolerance and coexistence values. Researchers focus more on scrutinizingthe cultural and social aspects of the Western world in order to understand it and try to approach the historical experiences of Islam from the perspective of Maliki jurisprudence. The religious minorities groups and communities who are considered as a basis of the present study should be integrated in all aspects …

Le Découpage Administratif Au Service Du Control Politique Sous Le Protectorat : Le Cas D’Agadir Et Inezgane, Lahoucine Bouyaakoubi

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In this paper, we will retrace the evolution of two Moroccan cities Agadir and Inzegane under the French protectorate from (1912-1956). This articles bases its findings on the colonial archives left by the French colonizer in the Center for Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nantes (CADN) and the Historical Archives of the Ministry of Defense (AHD) at the Château de Vincennes (Paris region).We will also try to analyze how did the colonizer utilized administrative division to serve the interest of colonial domination over these aforementioned cities? Obviously, administrative division was used for political purposes to elongate …