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Edgar Degas: An Anti-Spectacular Art
No full textEdgar Degas is one of the most highly publicized Impressionist artists, yet few know about his private practice as an artist, notably in the mediums of monotype and in sculpture. For a very long time, Art History has placed Degas’ career into a binary of a public curated collection and a private mysterious practice. It turns out, however, that both public and private elements exist simultaneously within both his exhibited and non-exhibited works. This paper covers his highly-publicized pictures of the opera, the ballet, but also his less publicized prints and sculptural explorations in an utterly new way of considering Degas’ oeuvres. 
A Requiem for Fanny: The Final Creative Efforts of Felix Mendelssohn
No full textFelix Mendelssohn entered a state of intense depression and mourning upon hearing that his sister, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel passed away in her Leipzig home on May 14, 1847, after suffering a stroke. Composition, a key element of the personal and collegial relationship between Hensel and her brother, served as a necessary outlet for his grief, from the time of Hensel’s death until his own passing only six months later. Communication of grief through music developed substantially throughout the nineteenth century, and this notion of suffering within art collocated with the modern labels for the grieving process created by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, show how Mendelssohn experienced the four initial stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression), but died before ever reaching the final (acceptance) stage. While acknowledging ambiguity around Mendelssohn’s intentions for the works, I argue that his final compositions– the String Quartet no 6. In F Minor, and the last two songs from his Sechs Lieder (no. 5, “Auf der Wanderschaft”, and no. 6, “Nachtlied”)–are “requiems for Fanny” that parallel these initial stages of grief
L’autofiction ou l’identité liquid(ée)e chez Werewere Liking
No full textÀ partir d’ Elle sera de jaspe et de corail, La mémoire amputée et L’espionne des ancêtres de Werewere Liking, cet article montre que les figurations liminales et éclatées du Je narrant, caractéristiques de l’autofictionnalisation de la romancière, ordonnance une liquidité (au sens de Zygmunt Bauman) de l’identité individuelle. Cette écriture liquide ou liquidée de l’identité du Sujet engage, par ailleurs, un discours de la crise du sujet féminin et de la faillite du social africain contemporain où l’on est désormais incrédule à l’égard du métarécit patriarcal.À partir d’ Elle sera de jaspe et de corail, La mémoire amputée et L’espionne des ancêtres de Werewere Liking, cet article montre que les figurations liminales et éclatées du Je narrant, caractéristiques de l’autofictionnalisation de la romancière, ordonnance une liquidité (au sens de Zygmunt Bauman) de l’identité individuelle. Cette écriture liquide ou liquidée de l’identité du Sujet engage, par ailleurs, un discours de la crise du sujet féminin et de la faillite du social africain contemporain où l’on est désormais incrédule à l’égard du métarécit patriarcal
Indeterminate Sentences and Section 12 of the Charter
No full textIndeterminate sentences are uniquely reserved for two classes of offenders, dangerous offenders and individuals designated not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder. These sentences effectively keep individuals in constant jeopardy before a Parole or Review Board. This paper reviews the constitutionality of these regulatory schemes under Section 12 of the Charter; its prohibition against “cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.” In this paper, I examine the legislative and jurisprudential development of the regimes, and their impact on individuals given these designations. The paper argues that the regimes result in a gross and systemic violation of the rights of individuals who have been given indeterminate sentences. It finally argues that there is also a moral imperative to reject any indefinite detention that is not subject to judicial review. This paper discusses and seeks to bring attention to the unfair and unconstitutional treatment of two vulnerable groups in our judicial system. Through greater visibility, the author hopes to put pressure on our legal system and the government to review these types of sentences and their true impact on individual rights and freedoms
Evaluation of Functional Cognition in People Experiencing Homelessness: A Scoping Review
No full textThe identified prevalence of cognitive impairment in people experiencing homelessness has placed a focus on the use of measures of cognition to predict functioning and ability to move successfully into housing. Functional cognition is the cognitive ability to perform daily life tasks, incorporating cognitive functioning, performance skills, and patterns. Given the increased research on cognitive status and functional skills within people experiencing homelessness, a scoping review was conducted to synthesize the existing literature and identify how functional cognition is evaluated in this population, and identify implications for homeless and housing services. This scoping review was conducted using the Joanna Briggs Institute protocol. Included studies assessed functional cognition, or assessed a component of cognition and related it to functional performance.
Of 8,848 articles retrieved from the initial search, thirty-seven articles were determined to meet the inclusion criteria for data extraction. Categories for data extraction included functional domain addressed, tools used for assessment of cognition and/or function, and how reported outcomes were interpreted. Narrative analysis identified domains of cognition and function assessed, and relationships between cognition and function domains. Only the functional domain of Activities of Daily Living/Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (ADL/IADL) were found to have a consistent relationship between cognition and performance and primarily when performance-based assessments were used. Challenges with generalizing study findings broadly include: study populations do not reflect demographics of those experiencing homelessness; a variety of assessment tools for cognition and function are utilized; and the broad use of the term function encompasses several different areas of independent living in the community. Several studies identified that even with the presence of decreased cognition, those with the experience of homelessness are able to maintain housing when given individualized and appropriate supports.
This scoping review indicates inconsistent methods to assess cognition and functional cognition within people experiencing homelessness. Performance-based assessments of ADL/IADL are more likely to identify the impact of cognition on function, while neurocognitive assessments are more beneficial to assess social/community integration. Findings indicate that to support the transition from homelessness to housing and increase the likelihood of housing stability; assessments should focus on identifying strengths and necessary/individualized ongoing supports
Dynamic and automated constructions of plane curves
No full textWe provide constructions of 3 classical curves, using a new approach, based on tools for automated exploration and reasoning, especially for the determination of geometric loci. Dragging and animations are the core features in use. The different ways yield an output based either on numerical computations or on symbolic computations (these use Gröbner bases packages). These curves, which are generally presented as separate cases, appear here in a unifying frame. This work is a new contribution to the study of plane curves and to a working frame aimed at developing the dialog between different kinds of mathematical software
The Impact of Reward and Training on Intrinsic Motivation and Subsequent Task Performance
No full textThe objective of the present study was to facilitate an understanding of the factors, such as tangible rewards, that may undermine intrinsic motivation, or factors, such as practice, that may facilitate feelings of competence. 24 undergraduate students completed a cognitive recall task and a questionnaire measuring self-reported intrinsic motivation Two social-contextual factors of interest were examined: the opportunity for performance-contingent rewards; and a training period which provided the opportunity for practice.A 2 X 2 between-subjects design was employed; half of the total participants were given a training recall task in addition to the testing recall task and half of the total participants were informed of the opportunity to earn a $20 cash reward. There was no significant effect of promised possible reward on perceptions of post-behavioral intrinsic motivation, F(1,20) = .22 , p >.05 or task performance F(1,20) = .01, p > .05. There was no significant effect of training on intrinsic motivation, F(1,20) = 4.01, p>.05; however, there was a significant effect of training on task performance that was in the expected direction F(1,20) = 5.99, p<.05. The limitations of the study with regard to task selection and a limited sample size are discussed
The Effects of Conformity within Gender and Relationships
No full textThe objective of this study was to test whether closeness of relationships is related to conformity in individuals. The focus of this study was gender and the closeness of relationships as related to a variation on the Asch line task. 40 participants were to complete a short trivia survey that was used to obtain data and then was given another completed survey by a hypothetical friend or stranger. Participants were allowed to change their answers after viewing the answers that were hypothetically from a friend or a stranger. The study was a 2X2 ANOVA between-subjects design. The researcher was interested in finding out if the level of relationship altered the participant’s answers. It was hypothesized that those is the stranger group would conform more than those in the close friend group based on Social Comparison Theory (ccc,22). It was also predicted that males would conform less than females. Neither main effect nor the interaction was significant
The Association between Need for Achievement and Religiosity
No full textThe purpose of the present study was to determine whether or not there was an association between achievement motivation and level of religious behaviour and beliefs in a modern secular society. In order to examine this, a two by two factorial study was designed in which participants were identified as having high or low religiosity, and then randomly assigned to a group in which they were primed with either high or low need for achievement (nAch). After this, participants were tested for their level of achievement motivation. No significant effect was found between religiosity and motivation, and there was no interaction between the two independent variables. However, there was a significant effect found for nAch in that participants primed for high nAch had a higher level of achievement motivation, and those primed for low nAch had a lower level of achievement motivation. These results do not support previous correlational research which found an association between religious beliefs and achievement motivation
Modes de connaissance et de devenir : apprendre ensemble dans un cours de cycle supérieur sur l’interdisciplinarité
No full textDeveloping as a scholar is a critical aspect of graduate school. In this article, we use an autoethnographic approach to explore our experiences in a newly redeveloped interdisciplinary graduate course. The course was designed to emphasize interdisciplinary scholarship and to encourage students’ awareness of their own developing epistemological, ontological, and axiological commitments. In this paper, we identify themes that arose from the final class paper, in which the students/researchers reflected on our development as emerging scholars. Through this course we developed an understanding of the value of interdisciplinarity, the cultural embeddedness of knowledge, and our own responsibilities as researchers in relation to social structures of power and marginalization. Our analyses of our experiences suggests that reflections on our own positionality and axiology are important for developing our identities as emerging scholars and that becoming a scholar may be more about the process than an end goal. We conclude with a discussion of how our learning in this course may be relevant for other instructors and emerging scholars. Le développement en tant que chercheur/chercheuse est un aspect essentiel des études supérieures. Dans cet article, nous utilisons une approche auto-ethnographique pour explorer notre expérience dans un cours interdisciplinaire de cycle supérieur nouvellement révisé. Le cours a été conçu pour souligner la recherche interdisciplinaire et pour encourager la sensibilisation des étudiants et des étudiantes à leurs propres engagements épistémologiques, ontologiques et axiologiques. Dans cet article, nous identifions les thèmes qui ont émergé du travail de classe final, dans lequel les étudiants/chercheurs et les étudiantes/chercheuses se sont penchés sur leur développement en tant que nouveaux chercheurs et nouvelles chercheuses. Par le biais de ce cours, nous avons développé une compréhension de la valeur de l’interdisciplinarité, de l’enracinement culturel de la connaissance et de nos propres responsabilités en tant que chercheurs/chercheuses en relation avec les structures sociales du pouvoir et de la marginalisation. L’analyse de nos expériences suggère que les réflexions sur notre propre position et notre propre axiologie sont importantes pour développer nos identités en tant que nouveaux chercheurs et nouvelles chercheuses et que le fait de devenir un chercheur ou une chercheuse est peut-être davantage un processus qu’un objectif final. Nous concluons avec une discussion sur la manière dont notre apprentissage dans ce cours pourrait être pertinent pour d’autres instructeurs/instructrices et pour les nouveaux chercheurs et les nouvelles chercheuses