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When Sunflowers Bloomed Red: Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America
No full textReview of: When Sunflowers Bloomed Red: Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America, R. Alton Lee amd Steven Co
The Rural Schools of Madison County: A Vanishing Heritage
No full textReview of: The Rural Schools of Madison County: A Vanishing Heritage, by Ronald Howel
Surficial Geologic Map of the Van Horne 7.5\u27 Quadrangle, Benton County, Iowa
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Women’s creative mentorship anthology : La tutoría creativa de las mujeres: una antología : Il tutoraggio creativo delle donne: un\u27antologia
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The Prevalent Misuse of Fisher’s Partial Eta Squared Formula
Get PDFThe recording of an estimate of effect size is an essential tool for empirical science because it allows for statistical power. In addition, it enables researchers to replicate studies because it assists in choosing subject amounts effectively. A popular measure of effect size is partial eta squared and is often calculated using Fisher\u27s formula. Despite the positive impact that partial eta provides to empirical researchers, it comes with two problems. One is that researchers are misusing this formula because it was initially made for between-subject designs. When measuring the effect size via partial eta squared in a between-subject design, it measures by means of the ratio of variance related to an effect, and that effect added to its associated error variance. It works specifically for between-subjects because the values are independent of any other aspects of the design. However, researchers have been using it for the past decade on repeated measures designs, which do not have independent values. In this thesis, I will examine how often studies report effect size, which measurement used to estimate effect size, and which subject design they apply it to. I analyze various articles from psychological journals in their latest December 2019 edition to see how many researchers continue to use Fisher’s partial eta squared
Ladies at the Loom: Examining Intersections of Gender and Textiles in New Kingdom Egypt
Get PDFIn a society like New Kingdom Dynastic Egypt, where men’s perspectives and spheres of influence dominated the literary and artistic output, insight into women\u27s lives often must come from sources outside of state-sponsored programs. New Kingdom women’s lives centered around the home and included keeping up the house, raising children and the production of clothing and textiles. Women produced these textiles not only for themselves and their families but, in an age before standardized currency, they also produced them as valuable commodities to trade and sell. This led to women not only dominating the trends within Egyptian clothing and textiles throughout the New Kingdom, but also driving the growth of the New Kingdom economy through the valuable product of linen. This project aims to examine women in New Kingdom Egypt and how their societal perception and role intersects with the textile industry, ultimately demonstrating that clothing and textiles give women the power to affect change, demonstrate their skills, and exert control within a socially acceptable space
Tree Thinking : The Rhetoric of Tree Diagrams in Biological Thought
Get PDFTree-like visualizations have played a central role in taxonomic and evolutionary biology for centuries, and the idea of a “tree of life” has been a pervasive notion not only in biology but also in religion, philosophy, and literature for much longer. The tree of life is a central figure in Darwin’s Origin of Species in both verbal and visual forms. As one of the most powerful and pervasive images in biological thought, what conceptual and communicative work has it enabled? How have the visual qualities and elements of the tree form interacted with biological thinking over time? This paper examines the pre-Darwinian history of tree images, the significance of Darwin’s use of such images, and the development of tree diagrams after Darwin. This history shows evidence of four separate traditions of visualization: cosmological, logical-philosophical, genealogical, and materialist. Visual traditions serve as rhetorical contexts that provide enthymematic backing, or what Perelman calls “objects of agreement,” for interpretation of tree diagrams. They produce polysemic warrants for arguments in different fields. The combination of the genealogical tradition with the cosmological and the logical changed the framework for thinking about the natural world and made Darwin’s theory of evolution possible; the later materialist tradition represents the “modernization” of biology as a science
Performing Mystical Union in Mechthild of Magdeburg’s The Flowing Light of the Godhead
No full textThirteenth-century mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg characterizes her revelations not as visions but as greetings, a term she uses to encompass gestures, verbal exchanges, and experiences perceived through multiple senses. Mechthild’s mysticism is thus best understood as a series of scenarios, the embodied nature of which cannot be fully contained by text. Using a performance studies approach, this paper identifies the traces of performance—textual prompts inextricable from their (explicit or implied, real or imagined) completion in physical and vocal acts—that can be found throughout Mechthild’s Flowing Light of the Godhead. How does Mechthild’s use of performance repertoires convey the mystical union as an explicitly embodied experience? How does erotic language performatively link text with physical sensation, drawing attention to the author’s corporeal experience while striving to affect the reader on a sensual level? Finally, what ritual performance might result if her text is taken as a script meant to prompt the reader into recitation
Experiencing Authority: The Wife of Bath\u27s Deaf Ear and the Flawed Exegesis of St. Jerome
No full textAlthough Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is among English literature’s most analyzed characters, scholars have been remarkably uninterested in one of her most unique traits: her deaf ear. Despite the fact that this disability is mentioned more often than any of her other physical characteristics, more even than the regularly discussed gap in her teeth, scholars have rarely spent more than a paragraph addressing the deafness, if they do so at all. This is no doubt due in part to the fact that scholars have assumed a symbolic link between the Wife’s inability to hear and her problematic scriptural exegesis, and they have been far more interested in the latter. As a result, the meaning of the deaf ear has been regularly shoehorned into interpretations of the Wife of Bath’s character that have been established and defended by other means.
The present article attempts to attend to the deaf ear on its own terms. Rather than assuming that the Wife is tragic, comic, or heroic and then fitting the deafness into this reading, my goal is to unpack what the deaf ear might tell us in its own right about the Wife or her contribution to The Canterbury Tales. When the deafness is allowed to step into the spotlight, I believe it shifts focus from the character of the Wife herself to the misogyny of the medieval clerical culture, typified by St. Jerome’s Adversus Jovinianum, that deafened her to scripture both spiritually (by allowing her access to it only through the mediation of misogynistic clergy) and physically (for it is her ex-clerical husband who deafens her with a clerical book as he is trying to educate her by means that are indicative of medieval clerical pedagogy). In other words, the deaf ear speaks to the often debated characterization of the Wife by suggesting that anything we find distasteful or upsetting about her is the fault of her misogynistic clerical teachers
