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Prosodic and Deictic Features as Performance Markers in Southern Baptist Sermons
Get PDFThis paper examines sermons taken from Southern Baptist churches in Virginia to study how the forms of sermons contribute to the message of the sermons. The data for the study comes from publicly posted recordings of sermons on websites of churches registered with the Southern Baptist Convention of Virginia. I took five sermons, transcribed, and analyzed them using methods of discourse analysis. I find that Southern Baptist pastors change their tempo mid-utterance, pause often, change pronouns between themselves and the congregation, and refer to the weekly sermon as a reference point in time. I argue that these discourse features mark the sermon as a linguistic performance for congregants and that they provide rhetorical power to the sermon while highlighting cultural values of the Southern Baptist religious community
Combined Hierarchical Matching: the Regular Case
No full textMatching algorithms are often central sub-routines in many areas of automated reasoning. They are used in areas such as functional programming, rule-based programming, automated theorem proving, and the symbolic analysis of security protocols. Matching is related to unification but provides a somewhat simplified problem. Thus, in some cases, we can obtain a matching algorithm even if the unification problem is undecidable. In this paper we consider a hierarchical approach to constructing matching algorithms. The hierarchical method has been successful for developing unification algorithms for theories defined over a constructor sub-theory. We show how the approach can be extended to matching problems which allows for the development, in a modular way, of hierarchical matching algorithms. Here we focus on regular theories, where both sides of each equational axiom have the same set of variables. We show that the combination of two hierarchical matching algorithms leads to a hierarchical matching algorithm for the union of regular theories sharing only a common constructor sub-theory
Optimization of Adsorption of Methylene Blue Dye on Activated Charcoal
Get PDFMethylene blue and crystal violet are cationic dyes of high intensity that are commonly discharged in wastewater. The colored compounds in wastewater inhibit sunlight penetration in waterways, resulting in the destruction of aquatic ecosystems. Activated carbon offers an attractive option for the efficient removal of dyes from wastewater due its excellent adsorption ability, highly porous structure, and large thermal/chemical stability. This study was conducted in order to investigate the adsorption of methylene blue dye from aqueous solution by various types of activated charcoal using UV-Vis spectroscopy. The effects of temperature and adsorbent quantity were studied to optimize the efficiency of the adsorption process. Crystal violet was an alternate dye used for comparison. Results revealed that a powered activated charcoal with mesh size \u3c80 yielded the greatest adsorption as evidenced by the lowest spectroscopic absorbance. Higher temperature (35 °C vs 20 °C) also yielded greater adsorption. Varying the amount of activated charcoal had minimal effect on the adsorption process. A future study would include illustrating results by Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherms and an exploration of size and structure of the charcoal surface
Beware the Ides of March: A Digital Journal on the Acting Process in Julius Caesar
Get PDFIn January 2022, Theatre major Sterling Barbett was cast in the University of Mary Washington’s workshop production of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. He played the Soothsayer, Claudius, Octavius’ Servant, and Servant to Caesar in the final performances, which took place close to the ides of March (March 10-13). Throughout rehearsals, he conducted research of Ancient Rome and acting processes by renowned Shakespearean actors to better analyze his characters. Personal accounts were documented to foster a sense of belonging: not only in this dystopian version of Rome, but also in a strong ensemble. He writes about self-reflection and the feelings of performance as well. This is all digitized in the form of an accessible blog to preserve its contents and allow for a chronological display of growth
Ch. 5: Discounting Dreams: Depravity, Consumption, and Fashion in the Nineteenth Century Department Store in France
No full textThis chapter appears in the book, In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity. Edited by Jacque Lynn Foltyn and Laura Petican.
Chapter abstract: In the mid-nineteenth century, as industrial production transformed the French economy during the Second Empire, a new retail model in the form of the department store emerged which revolutionised the ways by which clothes were designed, produced, and consumed. This chapter proposes to examine the early history of the world’s first department store, Paris’ Au Bon Marché, as it relates to the evolution of the modern fashion system during this period. My consideration will begin by detailing the primary precursor to the department store in France, the magasin de nouveautés (roughly translated as a dry goods store) which had begun to offer for sale multiple types and large amounts of merchandise in the same location, thus leading to a modern notion of shopping as well as the encouragement of aberrant consumer activity like shoplifting. Next, my chapter will consider the founding and early history of Aristide Boucicaut’s Au Bon Marché, from its establishment in 1852 through its greatest successes in the 1870s. With Au Bon Marché, which directly catered to a middle-class clientele in a newly reconstructed and modernized Paris, Boucicaut developed a new business model that revolutionized the experience of shopping. I will analyze some of the new and innovative business practices that developed in this department store like the free access of the shopper to merchandise, original advertising strategies targeting multiple demographics, the progressive introduction of ready-to-wear clothes, the rapid, often seasonal turnover of stock, and special promotional events (for example, the store’s famous white sales in the 1870s). In these examples, my chapter will demonstrate how this new approach to retailing, in turn, shaped the structure of the production and consumption of modern fashion, instituting a new aesthetics of display that facilitated its mass consumption.https://scholar.umw.edu/modernlanguages_books/1004/thumbnail.jp
Ch. 10: Wasted Opportunity: COVID-19 and Regional Cooperation in South Asia
No full textThis chapter appears in the book, The Covid-19 Crisis in South Asia: Coping with the Pandemic. Edited by Sumit Ganguly and Dinsha Mistree.
Chapter abstract: This chapter seeks to assess the impact of the pandemic on cooperation within the region. It focuses on the region known as South Asia, consisting of the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The chapter focuses on two aspects of regional cooperation: economic integration among the countries of the region and cooperation on addressing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. It provides a brief history of regional cooperation efforts in South Asia. The chapter highlights the role China played in the region during the pandemic. It argues that the pandemic drove home the fragility of growth and the challenges facing economic cooperation in the region. The chapter highlights the challenges and opportunities associated with regional cooperation in South Asia in general and how these have manifested themselves in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in particular.https://scholar.umw.edu/ps_ia_books/1013/thumbnail.jp
Reception of Classical Material in the Argument of Charles Loyseau\u27s Traité des Ordres et Simples Dignités
Get PDFCharles Loyseau (1564-1627) was a French jurist who wrote during the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIII – the first two kings of the Bourbon dynasty. Throughout his career, Loyseau wrote several argumentative treatises either contesting royal edicts or supporting royal law against popular dissent. His most influential work was his 1610 publication Traité des ordres et simples dignites. In it, he helped establish a French social structure of three distinct orders: the Clergy, the Nobility, and the so-called Third Estate consisting of the rest of the population. This system later became known as the Ancien Régime after the French Revolution overthrew it and erected the First Republic in the 1790s. Loyseau and his treatises clearly contributed to the longevity of a system that created such tension it erupted until the violent French revolution. However, Loyseau did not come up with his theories completely independently. One of the most important categories of evidence he cites is the available Greek and Roman literature on a variety of topics. Citing passages from the philosophies and histories available to him allows him to make universal claims about the nature of social inequality that helped solidify the position of the Ancien Régime for the next two centuries
Haunting Memories and Healing Stories: Grief and Catharsis in Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter and Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
Get PDFIn this senior seminar term paper, I compare Welty’s and Ward’s novels and their depictions of storytelling as a means of catharsis. In both novels, the protagonists struggle with the loss of their loved ones and must cope with their grief. I examine the ways that individual and collective, cultural memories affect the grieving process for the protagonists. In Welty’s novel, Laurel, the protagonist, struggles to release the memories of her late husband and father. In Ward’s, the treatment of Black Americans and their own ancestors haunts the central family and they must shake the ghosts in order to heal as a family. Each protagonist has a moment of catharsis in which they release their grip on memory and begin the healing process. Through literary analysis and supplemental secondary sources, I argue that the act of remembering and sifting through memories is not enough to heal from loss. In fact, it is the act of storytelling, of sharing these memories, that provides true healing. After close reading and careful analysis, I conclude that storytelling can be a true connection between the living and the dead
How We Talk About Archaeology in the Digital Age
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Archaeology is known for the research, study, excavation, and exploration of the past. Often the present advancements at hand are not thought about when it comes to this field of study. This paper aims to shine a light on how the digital era has progressed the ways in which the archaeological field opened up like never before due to the all of the social mediums in which archaeologists can share their research and findings. Theory is explored both new and old on globalization within the field and how everything arrived to where it is now. Questions are researched through content analysis of those theories as well as ongoing digital content from those within archaeology. Community building amongst people within the field through social media has allowed for creative explanation and education to the masses. This research paper aims to highlight all of the ways in which the digital era has brought about archaeology to the world.
Keywords: archaeology, digital, social, communit
The NIL Agreement and Social Media: A Content Analysis
Get PDFThe Name, Image and Likeness Agreement has opened hundreds of doors for college athletics to make money based on their likeness and not their performance on the field. This new agreement levels the playing field for all athletes in college. Through a content analysis this paper will take a look at how the NIL is being discussed in various media channels such as TikTok and how this agreement is affecting the student athlete experience. Not every athlete is striking mega deals, but with this agreement everyone from Junior college to Division 1 has the opportunity to make money through avenues such as social media. While current athletes are the ones profiting, alumni, branding coaches and universities are all jumping in on the issue. As there are many unknowns about the rules of NIL, this paper will bring light to how those in power writing the rules are navigating these gray areas