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Review Of: Born Amish: Life Before The Ex-Communication—Ann Stoltzfus Taylor, Amy Schlabach Jan 2025

Review Of: Born Amish: Life Before The Ex-Communication—Ann Stoltzfus Taylor, Amy Schlabach

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

The account begins on the night of the author’s birth. Ann Stoltzfus Taylor was the first child born to her parents, Gid and Lizzie Stoltzfus, a well-known Amish couple living near Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Stoltzfus Taylor gives us a brief history of the home she grew up in, as well as introducing us to her family. Various aunts, uncles, and grandparents are described, along with memories associated with each person. She writes about her great-grandfather, nicknamed “Wild Gid,” who apparently was not a model Amishman. The chapter ends with a few stories of tragedies and stories of fun and bonding with …


Review Of: A Road Less Travelled; Going Back To My Roots; And Traveling Solo But Never Alone—Christopher Petrovich, Robert Alexander, Danny Kohlar, Darrell Yoder Jan 2025

Review Of: A Road Less Travelled; Going Back To My Roots; And Traveling Solo But Never Alone—Christopher Petrovich, Robert Alexander, Danny Kohlar, Darrell Yoder

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

People that are interested in joining the Amish or Mennonites are often referred to as “seekers.” And such they are, though in a sense we are all seekers, looking for that better country. It is a mistake to think that all seekers are the same, for their personalities, motivations, and “position on the road” are all different. [First paragraph.]


The Nameless Enemy: How Do You Solve A Problem Like “Mairon”?, Cameron Bourquein Jan 2025

The Nameless Enemy: How Do You Solve A Problem Like “Mairon”?, Cameron Bourquein

Journal of Tolkien Research

This paper analyzes Sauron’s “original” name, “Mairon,” in its various contexts (textual, temporal, and linguistic) and then applies it to a reading of the character in order to produce a “capsule characterization” or “minimyth” for the Lord of the Rings himself. The name “Mairon” appears only in a note to a single entry in a list of Eldarin roots, not published until 2007 in the journal Parma Eldalamberon. This niche location suggests one of the many ways in which this name is marginal: typographically, linguistically, narratively, and historically (as in the Secondary World). The name appears to have been …


The Songs Of The Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien And The Overlapping Realms Of Their Imaginations (2024), Edited By Łukasz Neubauer And Guglielmo Spirito, G. Connor Salter Jan 2025

The Songs Of The Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien And The Overlapping Realms Of Their Imaginations (2024), Edited By Łukasz Neubauer And Guglielmo Spirito, G. Connor Salter

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review, by G. Connor Salter, of The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their Imaginations (2024), edited by Łukasz Neubauer and Guglielmo Spirito


‘Keeping It Real’ Goes Wrong: Deconstruction Of Masculinity In The Work Of Jay-Z And Kendrick Lamar, Leo Mcmahon Jan 2025

‘Keeping It Real’ Goes Wrong: Deconstruction Of Masculinity In The Work Of Jay-Z And Kendrick Lamar, Leo Mcmahon

Theses and Dissertations

Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar use their latest albums, 4:44 and Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers, to address the wake of damage their behaviors have caused. On a personal level each artist apologizes to their wife for infidelities, but along the way they deconstruct performances of masculinity that have dominated popular hip-hop music since the late 1980's. Highlighting the pressure the music industry puts on hip-hop artists to perform a hyper-sexual, hyper-violent masculinity, I argue that the artists join the genre of African-American autobiography to reveal the inauthentic performances of 'realness' in hip-hop. Posturing as representatives of African-American men, …


Chaucer’S Complaint To His Purse And Authority In The World, Paul A. Olson Jan 2025

Chaucer’S Complaint To His Purse And Authority In The World, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Chaucer’s Complaint to His Purse concerns more than the poet’s financial need under the new Lancastrian administration. It speaks to the limits of Henry IV’s royal authority and, through irony, to the limitations of Chaucer’s purse’s power. Underlining royal limits, Chaucer petitions the king as one who holds office through election and line but not con-quest, which is Henry’s position on his office as well. In speaking iron-ically of the purse’s authority, the poet addresses the gold that the mon-arch might grant him as if it constituted a human or divine patron, but he does so in a hierarchy of …


Gen Z Sexual And Gender Fluidity In Us Scripted Television, Traci B. Abbott Jan 2025

Gen Z Sexual And Gender Fluidity In Us Scripted Television, Traci B. Abbott

English and Media Studies Faculty Publications

This essay addresses the rise in sexual and gender-fluid characters in scripted US television targeting the Gen Z audience (born 1997–2012), based on their moniker as the “queerest” generation, with over 20% of younger US and international respondents identifying as LGBTQ in polls, the majority as sexually fluid (bi/pansexual) or non-binary (genderfluid/genderqueer). By analyzing six series (2019–2023) marketed as “authentically” Gen Z, I argue this shift invests in Gen Z’s “hip” attitude towards such fluidity the same way Caldwell argues that 1990’s diversification of the televisual audience produced a “programming agenda…that cultivates and rewards distinction in ethnic, racial, and class …


Parnassus 2025: Hephaestic Voices Jan 2025

Parnassus 2025: Hephaestic Voices

Parnassus

No abstract provided.


The Best Board Books Of The Year [2025 Edition], Bank Street College Of Education. Children's Book Committee Jan 2025

The Best Board Books Of The Year [2025 Edition], Bank Street College Of Education. Children's Book Committee

The Center for Children's Literature

Please enjoy our annotated list of the very best board books for ages zero to four that were published in 2023 and 2024.


The Place Where Souls Rest: Tolkien, Immortality, And Neurodivergence In Frieren: Beyond Journey’S End, Andrew Mayer Jan 2025

The Place Where Souls Rest: Tolkien, Immortality, And Neurodivergence In Frieren: Beyond Journey’S End, Andrew Mayer

4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien

No abstract provided.


The Makings Of A Nation: Nobility And Tyranny In Tolkien’S Legendarium, Sean Swiatek Jan 2025

The Makings Of A Nation: Nobility And Tyranny In Tolkien’S Legendarium, Sean Swiatek

4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien

No abstract provided.


Tolkien And Hume's Problem Of Evil, Ethan Thomas Jan 2025

Tolkien And Hume's Problem Of Evil, Ethan Thomas

4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien

No abstract provided.


The Power Of Pets: Navigating Infancy, Early Development, And Eventual Loss/ Exploring The Mutual Human-Animal Bond Through Children’S Board And Picture Books With Critical Anthropomorphism, Mary Teresa Woodcock Jan 2025

The Power Of Pets: Navigating Infancy, Early Development, And Eventual Loss/ Exploring The Mutual Human-Animal Bond Through Children’S Board And Picture Books With Critical Anthropomorphism, Mary Teresa Woodcock

Children's Book Writing and Illustrating (MFA) Theses

Pets are powerful elements of picture books. Alongside our animal companions, we navigate infancy, early childhood and adulthood, and better understand our relationships and life itself. Critical anthropomorphism allows us to represent our relationship to our animal companions ethically in the written and illustrated text. This paper acknowledges an array of primary and scholarly texts about animals and their roles in human experience as a foundation for my three book projects “A Colorful Night for Cat,” “Grandma, Sam, and Me,” and “Tired Old Socks.” I work to portray animal companions authentically, showing how both humans and animal companions benefit from …


Ethereal, Nickolas Strohm Jan 2025

Ethereal, Nickolas Strohm

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Creation Myth, Sarah Lee Jan 2025

Creation Myth, Sarah Lee

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Betty Should Have Shot Those Birds, Sarah Lee Jan 2025

Betty Should Have Shot Those Birds, Sarah Lee

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Art Along The Pages, Lily A. Soto Jan 2025

Art Along The Pages, Lily A. Soto

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Cruel Fate, Pieper Gabbard Jan 2025

Cruel Fate, Pieper Gabbard

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Civil Blood, Civil Hands, Jessica Conatser Jan 2025

Civil Blood, Civil Hands, Jessica Conatser

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Half A Pillow Gone Cold, Jessica Conatser Jan 2025

Half A Pillow Gone Cold, Jessica Conatser

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Reading Secondhand Books Makes Me Sad, Mikaela Westlund Jan 2025

Reading Secondhand Books Makes Me Sad, Mikaela Westlund

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My Day Is Rain / My Life The Sun / Shining On My Face, Mikaela Westlund Jan 2025

My Day Is Rain / My Life The Sun / Shining On My Face, Mikaela Westlund

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Something About A Rat, I. Slaven Jan 2025

Something About A Rat, I. Slaven

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Backwater, Alexia Rardin Jan 2025

Backwater, Alexia Rardin

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You Think, Carrie Mckinney Jan 2025

You Think, Carrie Mckinney

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Hair Of The Dog, Mahal Wright Jan 2025

Hair Of The Dog, Mahal Wright

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Ember Awakening, Alexia Rardin Jan 2025

Ember Awakening, Alexia Rardin

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Rosehips, Mahal Wright Jan 2025

Rosehips, Mahal Wright

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Put Down, Mahal Wright Jan 2025

Put Down, Mahal Wright

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Ganymede, Tyler Westerfield Jan 2025

Ganymede, Tyler Westerfield

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