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“To a World Without Winden”: Unraveling the Threads of Narrative Complexity in Hybrid Time-Travel Television
No full textIn recent years, a new era of complex television (TV) has grown around time-travel storytelling. Creators have experimented with combinations of distinct genres such as crime, thriller, romance, science fiction, fantasy, drama, and others to create more nuanced and generically hybrid time-travel stories. When a hybrid time-travel show’s story and discourse are both conveyed in an atemporal manner, the viewers must maintain active engagement in the watching and comprehension of events and their significance. One of the most intricate and complicated hybrid time-travel TV shows available to date—and the focus of this thesis research—is Netflix’s first German original series, Dark (2017-2020). Dark’s creators, Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, incorporate a multitude of confusing storytelling techniques and devices to invite mystery, suspense, and questions that keep the viewers interested and wanting to know more. These worldbuilding techniques create a centripetal force that lures the viewers in as they learn how to watch the show, follow the clues, and comprehend connections across multiple nonlinear chronologies. This thesis explores the incorporation mythology in hybrid time-travel storytelling and considers its objective function and subjective value within Dark. As the viewer learns how to watch Dark, this engagement leads to a greater awareness of contextual knowledge about the complicated story and discourse. Over time, the viewers strengthen their ability to recall previous narrative information and recognize countless plot associations with other moments watched before. Near the end of the series, this comprehension skill allows the viewers to consider the greater implications of how time travel affects the story, its characters, and what value these moments and interactions have for the viewers watching these people navigate within this world
Evaluation of a Vocal Mand Assessment and Vocal Mand Training Procedures: A Systematic Replication
Get PDFNumerous mand training procedures have proven effective in developing mand repertoires in children with developmental disabilities, but selection of treatments is usually arbitrary. Bourret et al. (2004) created and tested a vocal mand assessment to systematically determine an effective mand training procedure, thereby reducing the likelihood of implementing ineffective treatments. However, because a comparison between treatments was not completed, the validity of the assessment requires further investigation. This study sought to replicate and extend the findings of Bourret et al. (2004) by including a comparison between two treatments. Study 1 consisted of a replication of the vocal mand assessment and Study 2 consisted of a comparison of two vocal mand procedures, one suggested from the assessment (shaping) and one arbitrarily selected procedure from the original study (prompting and reinforcement). The participant emitted mands more reliably when the mand training procedure suggested by the assessment (Study 1) was implemented, compared to the randomly selected treatment
Kompendium 42
No full textIn the New York City subway the station names on platform walls are integrated in the walls and \u27set\u27 with tiles and mosaics.
A station can have names in the eldest style — colorful mosaic set in a typeface close to Bookmann. It is an artisan\u27s work with delicate variations, and the small ceramic pins follow the curves of the letters with great care. When the station has been expanded and the platforms prolonged, the new names have got the typography of its time. It might be cut out from standard-tiles (numbers 59 and 42), the typeface here looks like Helvetica. The big, decorative number is accompanied by smaller tiles with the same number. Number 42 is accompanied by older, typographic tiles designed by Squire J. Vickers in a typeface, adapted to the square, that bears resemblance to Copperplate with the characteristic small serifs. The colours are white on blackish blue and the blue background leaks a bit of blue into the white number or letter. A nice detail.
This type of tiles are used in many station names (Court SQ, Nostrand, Hoyt etc.) together with mosaics in a sans serif typeface (14TH and partly visible in Flushing). This typeface is more geometrical but still adapts nicely and variated to size, space and curves, e.g. the lifted TH in 14TH.https://scholarship.rollins.edu/book_arts/1079/thumbnail.jp
Johan Sebastian Bach and his Cello Suites II and V: An Audio and Visual Analysis of Cello Suites II and V
Get PDFJohan Sebastian Bach and his Cello Suites II and V: An Audio and Visual Analysis of Cello Suites II and V. Through research and practice, I have taken an in-depth analysis of Bach\u27s cello suites. I have broken down each suite into individual movements and explored their inner workings
Losing Yourself: Cults, Greeks, and Sociological Theories of Self and Identity
Get PDFThis thesis is theoretical in nature. It is an exploration of sociological theory using cults and greek life as case studies for examining the construction of the self in the context of powerful social groups
Machine Ethics, Ethics for Machines: Context-Based Modeling for Machines Making Ethical Decisions
Get PDFMachine ethics is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that focuses on if – and if so, how – machines can make ethical decisions autonomously. Through a close study of two positions on whether or not machines can be moral agents, this project sheds light on a clash of assumptions that is keeping the field of machine ethics in limbo. After making this clash of assumptions clear, I raise two questions which get at the scope of machine ethics itself: 1) What makes ethical decision-making different from other kinds of decision-making? 2) To what extent can machines engage with ethics and make ethical decisions? I address the first question by arguing that ethics is distinct because it requires the ability to understand and participate in human conventions. I address the second question by arguing that ethics has always been informed by our humanity, but machine ethics is an opportunity to expand our understanding of ethics so that machines can engage with it insofar as they are machines. This project aims to contribute to machine ethics by proposing a major shift in perspective, from a focus on human abilities to a focus on machines and their own radically novel abilities
