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This chapter goes to eleven: This is spinal tap and the blurring of authenticity and fabrication
No full textThis chapter explores the production of This is Spinal Tap (1984)-including the creators’ interactions and immersions in parodied cultures, unorthodox approaches to production, and the actors’ musical abilities-alongside the film’s lasting impact on professional popular music and the role of humor to present, as Christopher Guest stated in a 2004 Guardian article, characters who are “not very good or successful at what they do and yet take themselves enormously seriously.” Additionally, the chapter will explore the continued collaboration between Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer in other musical-comedic collaborations as well as their continued relationship with their Spinal Tap personae, seemingly as a result of both mutual respect for one another as well as decades of legal battles regarding intellectual property
The Expandable Wheel
Get PDFIntended as an offshoot of the engineering project, “The Growing Bike,” this honors engineering design project tackles the conceptual and technical design of a bicycle wheel which adjusts in size according to user preference. The wheel functions via controlled tightening and loosening of a stressed coil which serves as the basis for the rim. This coil is held together by six bendable mounts which are spaced evenly along the circumference. These mounts are shaped in a way to accommodate a standard size bike tire. The rim sections are held in place at mounting points by six interior spokes pinned at symmetrical, equidistant points hexagonally oriented 3 inches from the wheel’s center. The wheel is adjusted by the user manipulating a ratchet mechanism which alters the spokes’ orientation and enlarges or shrinks the diameter. The wheel rim is designed to expand from a 14” to a 22” diameter. This project is purely theoretical at this stage due to fabrication complexity and specificity of the materials required to prototype
The Reinterpretation of Ancient Greek Tragic Heroines as Feminist Icons: Reimagining Antigone & Medea
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The Occupational Therapy Process in Pediatric Oncology
Get PDFAn average of 15,000 individuals under the age of 20 are diagnosed with cancer in the United States each year (Siegel, Miller, & Jemal, 2018). The need for occupational therapy services to optimize quality of life persists in current practices (Baxter, Newman, Longpré, & Polo, 2017). Such practitioners may intervene to help remediate, compensate, or adapt pediatric patients’ abilities to assist them achieve maximum levels of independence. Children progressively learn to become more independent as they grow older in order to function in selfcare tasks, educational responsibilities, and other meaningful occupations; those with a cancer diagnosis may experience physical, social, and cognitive symptoms that could hinder such performances. Studies have found an underutilization of occupational therapy services within cancerrelated care (Baxter et al., 2017). This study sought to understand the occupational therapy process utilized in pediatric oncology. Results indicated a scarcity of occupational therapists and necessary standardized assessments provided in inpatient acute care hospitals. More resources can be found within the outpatient therapy setting for children seeking services after or in between treatment, however, challenges to obtaining this type of care prevail for families due to numerous stressors. Benefits of the study include increasing awareness of pediatric oncology and the role of occupational therapy in the highly specialized area of care
Furry Friend
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E-Town Close-Up
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E-Town Close-Up
No full textStudent exhibitionhttps://jayscholar.etown.edu/etowncloseupsp2019/1004/thumbnail.jp