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No full textThe music is about to start as the magma video on the stone instruments transitions to a deeper red and fades out while percussionist Dan Moore approaches his station. The environment was lit in a dark blue to draw focus to the projections while the musicians could get into place while being noticed as little as possiblehttps://ir.uiowa.edu/lighting_design/1117/thumbnail.jp
Orlando
No full textPaper falls from the sky as Orlando finishes her poem “The Oak Tree”. The floor is lit green to convey the presence of grass as she sits beneath the oak tree. Strings of lightbulbs hang from the air to show the modernization of the world due to the technological advancements that have taken place at that point in history.https://ir.uiowa.edu/lighting_design/1074/thumbnail.jp
MERRILY
No full textIn this image the two characters give simultaneous monologues and the images and experiences they describe can be seen projected behind them, building and abstracting the images as they overlay and become confused in the speech being heard.https://ir.uiowa.edu/media_design/1042/thumbnail.jp
Honor and Shame in the Sagas of the Icelanders: Women\u27s Struggle for Influence
Get PDFThis thesis explores the agency of women in Medieval Iceland through the examination of the Icelandic sagas. The Icelandic sagas are one of the most impressive bodies of literature to emerge from Medieval Europe. The sagas offer a trove of social information and a look into the society of Medieval Iceland. These narratives tell the story of the people of Iceland during the first 160 years of settlement, beginning in AD 870. While their focus is on the struggles of men, the sagas do not ignore women. In Medieval Iceland, women had no judiciary standing and relied on men for safety, status, and property. However, the sagas do not paint a picture of powerless women. The sagas show that women influenced situations by using the strict honor code of Iceland to their advantage. Because of men’s concern with maintaining their honor, a woman could goad a man into action by shaming and threatening his honor and masculinity. Men would then perform acts that the women themselves were not allowed to perform. The purpose of this research is to explain the speech acts and the context of these situations, as well as argue that this behavior actually happened and was a way for Icelandic women to influence situations. This thesis looks at three instances when a woman employed this technique: when she felt humiliated or wronged, when she wanted to further her own interests, or when she wanted to avenge the death of a kinsmen
Showcasing Pathogenic Viruses #4
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Laser #3 - Crochet Tools of the Trade
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Healthcare Perceptions among Patients and Physicians in Kyiv, Ukraine
Get PDFThe objective of this study is to analyze the perceptions and beliefs of Ukrainian patients and physicians regarding access to healthcare within Ukraine. The Ukrainian national healthcare system, like that of many post-Soviet countries, is ostensibly free to all Ukrainian citizens and legally-residing foreigners. That said, it is widely considered inefficient, of poor quality, and corrupt. Healthcare in Ukraine has recently begun to undergo several dramatic changes, including reforms to the nationalized system, and the emergence of a rapidly growing privatized healthcare system. Little research has been done in English language journals regarding the experiences of Ukrainian patients and physicians regarding their healthcare system. Non- academic English language media often cites stereotypes endemic to post-Soviet healthcare systems, such as long-waiting lines and the need to pay bribes, as the primary factors identified by the average citizen of post-Soviet countries. Whether such stereotypes are identified as the defining factors of the healthcare system by those who interact with it is a topic that has yet to be studied. This study consists of a thematic analysis of a collection of interviews with Ukrainian patients and doctors gathered in 2018 in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Interview subjects were selected through a snowball sampling method, with initial subjects consisting of contacts through Taras-Shevchenko University in Kyiv. The thematic analysis indicates that the Ukrainian citizens who interact with their healthcare system identify a broad range of causal factors for why their healthcare needs are rarely met, with distrust in physicians and medical authority most critically assigned blame, and the stereotypes so often ascribed to post-Soviet healthcare systems only mentioned tangentially. Funding to perform this research has been provided by the Stanley Undergraduate Award for International Research and additional funding to perform the thematic analysis was provided by the John and Elsie Mae Ferentz Undergraduate Research Fund
Opportunism & Duty: Gendered Perceptions of Women\u27s Involvement in Crusade Negotiation and Mediation (1147-1254)
Get PDFWomen’s involvement in negotiation and mediation during the Middle Ages has received close scrutiny. However, few scholars have concentrated their investigations on the trends in female-led negotiations during the crusades in the Near East, and the significance of the religious connotations of such leadership in this theatre. There were dramatic societal shifts in the Latin East during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, most significantly in the aftermath of the Battle of Hattin and loss of Jerusalem in 1187. The destruction of much of the Latin East’s crusader states that followed Jerusalem’s fall displaced many individuals, and with a plethora of Christian nobles captured or killed at Hattin, various regions of Outremer were left leaderless. In the power vacuums that formed, numerous women leapt to the forefront of political and military negotiations. The focus of this paper is to highlight women’s roles in crusade negotiations from the Second to the Seventh Crusade, and to examine women-mediators of the late-twelfth century Frankish Levant within this context. This will be done through the consultation of narrative sources (primarily chronicles) from Byzantine, Muslim, Eastern Latin, and western European authors
A Battle in Your Body: The Story of Your Immune System
Get PDFA Battle in Your Body: The Story of Your Immune System is an illustrated children’s book that explores the roles of different immune cells during an infection. The goal was to provide a basic understanding of the synergy required within the immune system and the number of different cells that work together to fight infections. Following printing of the book, I held a reading for a STEM-focused Girl Scout troop. Development of the book was a semester-long process that required gradual expansion of simple drafts and illustrations, as documented by the sequential photos below, and learning how to format and publish using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). I hope to expand the book to discuss other aspects of the immune system and relate the actions of the immune system to a concept of ‘sickness’ that makes more sense to children. I may collaborate with immunologists to explore ways to convey some of this information while remaining factual. Future uses of this book would be in school curriculums, science centers, and even to provide basic information to adults with no immunology background