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Something in the Way She Moves: Bodily Motion as Innovation in Bernhardt’s Hamlet
Get PDFSarah Bernhardt’s audiences often described feeling thrilled by the star performer, and they relished the ways in which her agency exceeded their own. She developed a style of setting her entire body in motion, often in arresting, unusual ways. Using Sharon Marcus’s concept of “exteriority effects”-mobility, framing, tempo control, and hyperextension-this article analyzes Bernhardt’s stage movement in her most famous cross-gender role, Hamlet. It seeks to prove that the most revolutionary aspect of her performance was, ironically, not its cross gender aspect, but rather its virtuosic physical interpretation of the Prince as a determined man of action, which profoundly challenged the prevailing Romantic interpretations
Their Eyes Were Watching a Goddess: Zora Neale Hurston\u27s Vodou Subtext
Get PDFWritten in Haiti but set in Florida, Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God makes rich use of Haitian religious traditions to empower African American women. Vodou, the religion of the slaves, was both a religious act and a political one in Haiti. African slaves continued to find power in the evocation of their gods to defy the colonial powers. Hurston taps into the subverted powers of the Vodou pantheon and rituals to speak to her American audience, linking the physical rebellions of the earthly world with the spiritual world. One voice of Hurston\u27s double narrative speaks to those who are unaware of Vodou imagery, and one for those who are. Several scholars have noted Janie’s connection to the Haitian goddess of love, Erzulie. This paper seeks to expand the scope of the Vodou connections to retell the story on a mythological level. This layered reading resolves many of the curiosities in the text and, through the power of the Cosmic Zora’s words, evokes not a Vodou curse, but rather a healing cure for America’s racial wounds
Greek Life : Greek-letter Student Societies in the United States Higher Education System on the Local and National Scale
Get PDFThis diploma thesis takes a look at what researchers sometimes label as a phenomenon that is exclusive to the United States of America, i.e. Greek life (DeSantis 6). The aim is to explain to the reader what Greek life or a Greek life organization is and what its features are besides being student groups that name themselves with Greek letters. There is much more to be elaborated about these groups. The two core elements of this paper are the explanation of the Greek life phenomenon on a US nationwide basis and the comparison of the information obtained about Greek life on a national basis to how this system operates and takes form on a local scale. The site for comparison on the local scale will be the University of New Orleans, located in Louisiana. For this paper, research has been conducted at the University of New Orleans in order to obtain information on how the Greek life system is to be described and evaluated at that institution. Comparing Greek life on the national and local scale has the benefit of providing the opportunity to take a detailed look at how aspects of a national phenomenon are put into practice on the local scale. Authentic source materials, firsthand experience, interviews and on-site research serve as the basis for this diploma thesis
The Collaborators Draw the Circle
Get PDFThe mystical appeal of a circle reverberates throughout the practice of theatre: from the story circles of our ancestors echoing through the caves and across the ancient savannahs to the modern-day arena palaces that allow playwrights, directors, actors, producers, designers, craftspeople, and, ultimately audiences, to engage and embrace our retold truths, we face each other in circles. This writing references academic instruction and professional experiences in live theatre, documenting various appearances of the circle metaphor as the rehearsal core drives through the production process. It is an endorsement of the circle’s power to the initial table read and beyond: this focus highlights the production core, that combination of director, stage manager and actor that circles the playwright’s initial spark, and, through the daily rehearsal process, stimulates the concentric circles of the producing staff, designers, and, ultimately, the audience
Social Power of Jazz Festivals
Get PDFJazz festivals occur in all parts of the world, small cities and metropolises, urban and rural landscapes, stadiums, churches, streets, and abandoned factories. Being a part of the entertainment industry, they have the potential to impact social change. Jazz festivals help us reconsider notions of identity and community, and their communal experience has the potential to undermine dominant social norms. The industry of jazz festivals is based on Black music and has a history of positive and negative social outcomes. Evaluating festivals through the symbolic meaning of music provides an optic into how festivals marginalize and exploit African American cultural contributions. The ethical approach of producing the festivals is meant to alter practice toward recognition of its role in pursuing social justice
Investigation of the amino acids responsible for isomerase activity in the bilin lyase MpeW from Synechococcus sp. A15-62
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A Numerical and Experimental Study of Lid Driven Square Cavity Flow for Laminar and Turbulent Cases
Get PDFExperimental and numerical studies are performed on steady and unsteady lid-driven cavity flow for laminar flow regime. In the experiments, a PIV and an LDA were employed to measure the global and local velocities, respectively inside a cavity of AR 1.0. The velocity vector plots and streamline plots which represent unsteady circulation patterns are obtained using the PIV. The steady local velocities measured with LDA are then used to calibrate the PIV measurements. The numerical study is performed using a commercial CFD solver. For turbulent flow simulation RANS equations with K-Epsilon closure model were used. From the PIV calibration study, it can be observed that the characteristic of the horizontal velocity profile measured using PIV and predicted by CFD solver agrees with each other however both overestimates the ones given by LDA. In unsteady simulations, the lid acceleration was found to influence the development and movement of circulation centers
CpeT is the Phycoerythrobilin Lyase for Cys-165 on Beta-Phycoerythrin from Fremyella Diplosiphon and the Chaperone-like Protein CpeZ Greatly Improves its Activity.
Get PDFBilin lyases are enzymes which ligate linear tetrapyrrole chromophores to specific cysteine residues on light harvesting proteins present in cyanobacteria and red algae. The lyases responsible for chromophorylating the light harvesting protein phycoerythrin (PE) have not been fully characterized. In this study, we explore the role of CpeT, a putative bilin lyase, in the biosynthesis of PE in the cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon. Recombinant protein studies show that CpeT alone can bind phycoerythrobilin (PEB), but CpeZ, a chaperone-like protein, is needed in order to correctly and efficiently attach PEB to the beta-subunit of PE. MS analyses of the recombinant beta-subunit of PE coexpressed with CpeT and CpeZ show that PEB is attached at Cys-165. Purified phycobilisomes from a cpeT knockout mutant and wild type (WT) samples from F. diplosiphon were analyzed and compared. The cpeT mutant contained much less PE and more phycocyanin than WT cells grown under green light, conditions which should maximize the production of PE. In addition, Northern blot analyses showed that the cpeCDESTR operon mRNAs were upregulated while the cpeBcpeA mRNAs were downregulated in the cpeT mutant strain when compared with WT, suggesting that CpeT may also play a direct or indirect regulatory role in transcription of these operons or their mRNA stability, in addition to its role as a PEB lyase for Cys-165 on beta-PE
Taking Up Space: A Phenomenological Study of the Shared Experiences of Black Women in STEM Graduate Programs at Predominantly White Institutions
Get PDFIn the U.S., marginalized populations are underrepresented in STEM. Specifically, there is a disparity in the number of Black women attaining STEM graduate degrees and entering the STEM workforce. The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to examine the essence of the shared experiences of Black women currently enrolled in STEM graduate programs at predominantly White institutions (PWIs), in order to increase retention of Black women through STEM graduate programs and into careers; as well as to use participant’s experiences to expose any barriers they encountered related to their educational pursuits, and examine how they were able to navigate those barriers. Critical Race Feminism and Social Cognitive Theory were used as the guiding theoretical framework for this study. Due to the fact that Black women are typically marginalized or excluded in STEM, a critical feminist lens was used to ensure their voices were centered as the focal point of this study. While focusing on Black women in graduate programs, this study comprehensively explored the PK-16+ experiences of Black women and found that: 1) Black women in STEM benefit from opportunities to engage in positive undergraduate research experiences; 2) Black women benefit from opportunities to participate extracurricular activities that foster a sense of belonging and community; 3) Black women are often impacted by the quality of interactions with faculty and mentors, as well as the lack faculty and mentors that they share race and gender identities with; 4) and that there is a need for institutions to embrace a transformational change outlook that ensures STEM learning spaces are diverse, welcoming, inclusive, equitable, and supportive of Black women