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How the Built Environment Contributes to the Adolescent Obesity Epidemic: A Multifaceted Approach
No full textThe public health status of the United States is in a critical state. Rates of overweight and obese children are on the rise in nearly every community in the nation, and obesity is quickly becoming a global problem as well. While there are many biological, cultural, and psychological factors that play into the rising rates, social factors as a cause of decreasing health are often overlooked. The “built environment,” or each community’s living, working, and eating spaces, plays a large role in determining the actions taken by individuals in a community. In this study, the built environments of two socioeconomically different neighborhoods in Nashville, Tennessee, are analyzed. The resulting data is compared to Tennessee state health census reports to posit that a decreased quality of food and physical activity related built environments parallels a rise in chronic health problems
Charles L. Campbell and Johan H. Cilliers, Preaching Fools: The Gospel as Rhetoric of Folly
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"El aura de la voz": Problemas y nuevas perspectivas en torno a la oralidad y la escritura
No full textRed and Blue Triangles in a Gray Place: Spain and the Holocaust in Stories, Letters, and Photographs
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Authenticating Identity: The Quest for Personal Validation through Authenticity in Music
No full text“Music City, U.S.A.” celebrates many cultures and music, but often Nashville is identified with singing cowboys with southern drawls. Some are quick to call this country-western image “inauthentic,” pointing out that middle Tennessee’s forested hills were never home to cattle ranches or Gene Autry. Indeed, the labels of “authentic” or “inauthentic” have become widely used in contemporary society to denote whether a thing is essentially true or untrue. In his evaluation of the 1960s music “myth” in which folk music was deemed authentic and pop music inauthentic, sociologist Simon Frith argues that the central issue was less about the music itself and more about the communication of a person’s identity through that music. An examination of the concept of authenticity as it has evolved through history and presented itself in recent scholarship and a survey of Nashville residents and college students reveal that the quest for authenticity in tourism and consumerism is closely linked to the construction of identity. While the concept of authenticity is demonstrably problematic, it retains its power because it provides a framework against which individuals can define themselves in an increasingly global world. The quest for authenticity in music, then, becomes a quest for truth about oneself for which there is no objective answer. Authenticity is fundamentally a question of perspective. Who can say whether Nashville is authentic or not? All that can be said is simply that Nashville is
La oralidad en la poesía española contemporánea: entre voces y silencio, una Vía hacia el Otro
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Learning to Picture God from Those Who Cannot See
No full textAs preachers seek to address the visual character of our culture by including components the congregation must physically see in the sermon, the church's way of describing God is almost exclusively visual, and this emphasis on physically seeing God, or having physical sight as the frame of reference by which we experience God, contributes to the "fragmentation" of people who are blind - and, by implication, all people who live with disabilities - from the church, the faith, and from God, since they are not able to "picture" God as the church does when it gathers to worship. Craig A. Satterlee, a homiletician who is legally blind, proposes six ways preachers and congregations can learn to picture God from people who cannot see and bring that perspective to the sermon. Satterlee's suggestions are (1) ask people who cannot see how they "picture" God; (2) name people who cannot see as models of faith; (3) reimagine Scripture; (3) choose language carefully; (5) preach to all our senses; and (6) make the visual aspects of preaching auxiliary rather than essential
