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The theme(s) of the Joseph story: a literary analysis
No full textSince the 1970s the application of narrative analysis to the Joseph Story has enriched
its reading. But those who apply this method to the narrative produce significantly different
results in terms of what its theme is. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the reasons for this
and to articulate as objectively as possible the theme of the Joseph Story.
Chapter One establishes the context of this investigation by evaluating the major
narrative readings of the Joseph Story. It reveals that those who apply narrative
methodologies to the story come to different conclusions about what its theme is. It notes that
the different results could be due to different narrative approaches, the literary context of the
narrative, and the complex nature of the text itself. We choose Humphreys, Longacre, and
Turner as our dialogue partners because they represent different narrative methods of reading
the Joseph Story. The reference terms `narrative criticism' and `theme' are then defined.
Chapter Two argues that the way to overcome the confusion concerning the theme (s)
of the Joseph Story is to use a methodology that addresses the limitations of the literary
approaches applied to the narrative and takes note of the wider literary context of Genesis and
the rich nature of the text. This chapter then proposes a narrative methodology of
`triangulation' that comprises plot analysis, text-linguistics and poetics.
Chapters three, four and five apply this methodology to the entire narrative in Genesis
37-50 via a detailed analysis of Genesis 37,44-45, and 49-50, the beginning, middle and end
of the narrative, respectively. The motifs that emerge from our analysis are family breakdown,
power, providence, blessing, and land. Chapter six concludes that each of these motifs is a key
concern of the Joseph Story but none by itself adequately articulates the story's theme. It is
the ecology of these motifs that enunciates the theme: God's providential work with and
through Jacob's dysfunctional family, preserving it and blessing others
sj-xlsx-1-gsj-10.1177_21925682221110819 – Supplemental Material for Development of a Prediction Model for Significant Adverse Outcome After Spine Surgery
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-xlsx-1-gsj-10.1177_21925682221110819 for Development of a Prediction Model for Significant Adverse Outcome After Spine Surgery by Martin Coia Jadresic and Joseph F. Baker in Global Spine Journal</p
Maida Vale Cottage residence and grounds fronting the Hen and Chicken Bay at Gipps Town [cartographic material] : to be sold by auction on the evening of Wednesday July 21st 1841 by Mr Joseph Simmons /
No full textPlan of allotments at Gipps Town [Five Dock] showing location of yard and fences, hut, boats on the bay and adjoining landholders.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-f768; Ferguson Collection Map F 768
Supporting disabled children and their families in Scotland: A review of policy and research
No full textThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been supporting research about disabled children and their families for a number of years. An earlier Foundations covering the messages from these projects has already been published (1). This Foundations places the messages from that work into the Scottish context. It gives an overview of current policies affecting disabled children and their families in Scotland and draws on research carried out north of the border
Horror Has A Face
No full textThe title of this photographic series refers to the film Apocalypse Now, which was loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Over time, like a bowerbird, I've collected bits and pieces of historical information, quotes and archival images. Set in the late-1800s, the resulting artworks are vignettes of narratives I found. Through the use of detailed costuming and precise set designs, my photographs offer re-enactments of selected incidents.
This series is focused on two central characters: Archibald Meston and Ernest Gribble — and the succeeding narratives ripple out from them. These two protagonists strode onto the historical stage and became central to Queensland's The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897. Archibald Meston became the Southern Protector of Aborigines and Reverend Ernest Gribble was instrumental in running Anglican missions across the state. Meston and Gribble had active roles in shaping the destinies of many Aboriginal lives through their ideologies, experiments and methods of isolation. Rendered herein, featuring a largely Aboriginal cast, are some of my thoughts on Colonial vice and profiteering.
The various scenes address themes of daily life, control, addiction, assimilation, fear, survival and strength of character. Until 1897, opium use in Queensland was both widespread and legal. Major and minor narrative threads are plotted throughout, repeatedly using props such as a wooden box and a kangaroo skin. In one photograph, Meston settles in a bush camp where his gun is “shown” in order to exercise control. This scene is permeated by wafts of arrogance — as pervasive as smoke from the campfire. My research has revealed that Meston was a man of contradictions. Significant Colonial attitudinal changes occurred within his lifetime and he progressed from potshot killer to Protector of Aborigines.No Full Tex
REMARKS ON THE ISLE OF SABLE
No full textGeneral description of the navigation considerations around Sable Island to accompany the Isle of Sable map. The remarks are as follows: "On the days of the new and full moon it is high water along the south shore of the island at half an hour after eight o'clock, and it flows till half an hour past ten o'clock on the north side, and till near eleven o'clock in the pond. Common spring tides rise seven feet perpendicular, and neap tides four. The flood sets in from the south south-west at the rate of half a mile an hour; but it alters its course, and increases its velocity, near the ends of the island. At half flood it streams north, and south at half ebb, with great swiftness across the north-east and north-west bars, therefore dangerous to approach without a commanding breeze. The north-east bar runs out east-north-east about four leagues from the eastern extremity of the island, all of which is very shoal, having in few places more than two, three or four fathoms water; whence it continues east and east by south, deepening gradually to twelve, fifteen and eighteen fathoms of water, at the distance of eight or ten leagues, and shapeth to the south and south-east, sloping gently to sixty and seventy fathoms of water. To the northward and eastward it is very steep, and in a run of three miles the water will deepen to one hundred and thirty fathoms. Abreast the body of the isle the soundings are more gradual. The shoal ground of the north-west bar shapes to the westward, and deepens gradually to seventy fathoms of water, at the distance of twenty or twenty-five leagues from the isle, and winds easterly and southerly until it meets the soundings of the north-east bar. The quality of the bottom in general is very fine sand, with a few small transparent stones; to the northward, and close to the north-east bar, the sand is mixed with many black specks; but near the north-west bar the sand has a greenish colour. The north-east bar breaks in bad weather at the distance of eight and ten leagues from the island; but, in moderate weather, a ship may cross it at five leagues distance with great safety in no less than eight and nine fathoms of water; and, if the weather is clear, the island may be seen thence distinctly from a boat. The north-west bar breaks in bad weather at seven, and sometimes eight, miles from the island; but when the sea is smooth, ships may cross it within the distance of four miles in seven fathoms of water.* Along the north and south sides of the island are many spits of sand extending nearly parallel, and within a mile from the shore. Vessels may anchor on the north-side of the island between these spits, and not be liable to be drove off by southerly winds. On the south-side it is boldest off the body of the island, having ten and twelve fathoms of water within a mile from the shore; but towards the bar it is more shoal and dangerous to approach for the currents, which are uncertain, being in a great degree influenced by the winds which have preceded. The surf beats continually on the shore; and, in calm weather, is heard several leagues off. Landing on this island with boats is practicable on the north side, after a continuance of good weather only. The whole island is composed of fine white sand, much coarser than any of the soundings about it, and intermixed with small transparent stones. Its face is very broken, and hove up in little hills, knobs and cliffs, wildly heaped together, within which are hollows and ponds of fresh water, the skirts of which about with cramberries the whole year, and with blueberries, juniper, &c. in their season, as also with ducks, snipes, and other birds. This sandy island affords a great plenty of beach grass, wild pease, and other herbages, for the support of horses, cows, hogs, &c. which are running wild upon it. It grows no trees, but abundance of wreck and drift wood may be picked up along the shore for fuel. Strong northerly winds shift the spits of sand, and often even choak up the entrance of the pond, which usually opens again by the next southern blast. In this ponds are prodigious numbers of seals, and some flat fish, eels, &c. and on the south-west side lies a bed of remarkably large muscles and clambs. The south shoreis between the cliffs, so low that sea breaks quite over in many places when the wind blows on the island. The Ram’s Head is the highest hill on this island; it has a steep cliff on the north west, and falls gently to the south east. The Naked Sand Hills are one hundred and forty-six feet of perpendicular height above the level of high-water mark, and always appear very white. Mount Knight is in the shape of a pyramid, situated in a hollow between two steep cliffs. Mount Luttrell is a remarkable hummock on the top of a large swelling in the land. Gratia Hill is a knob at the top of a cliff, the height of which is one hundred and twenty-six feet perpendicular above high-water mark. The Vale of Misery is also remarkable; as is Smith’s Flagstaff, a large hill, with a regular ascent in every way. From the offing, the south side of the island appears like a long ridge of sandy cliffs lessening towards the west end, which is very low. The Nova Scotia Banks extend nearly seventy leagues in a westerly direction from the Isle of Sable: They are from twenty to twenty-five leagues wide, and their inner edges are from fourteen to eighteen leagues off shore. They are intersected by narrow winding channels (the bottom of which is mud) running north-west and south-east: Between these banks and the shore are several small inner banks with deep water and muddy bottom. The water deepens regularly from the Isle of Sable to the distance of twenty-two leagues, in fifty fathoms, fine gravel; thence proceeding westward, the gravel becomes coarser. At the distance of twenty-three leagues, and south from Prospect Harbour you have from thirty to thirty-five fathoms of water, large stones; and continuing westward to the western extremity of the banks, the soundings are rocky and shoal to eighteen and fifteen fathoms, Cape Sable bearing north by west, distance fifteen leagues. The south-west extremity of Bank Quero lies twenty-six miles east-north-east half north from the east end of the Isle of Sable. This bank extends E by N thirty-five leagues, and is near eight leagues in width; its shoalest part is about five leagues from its eastern extremity in fifteen and eighteen fathoms of water, slimy sand and clambs; from whence it deepens regularly every way to to sixty and seventy fathoms of water towards the edges of the bank. The bank is steep to, and from its soundings on the north side you fall immediately in ninety or one hundred of water black mud, and in one hundred and twenty fathoms on the south side.
* I have described these bars such as I found them; but as they are composed of shifting sands, repeated storms, and the violence of the sea, may in a course of years considerably alter their form or extent.
A portrayal of Joseph in Genesis : the problematic nature of his claims to knowing God's intentions.
No full textThe ambiguity of Joseph's image is due mainly to readers' different (or even contradictory) evaluations of his actions. This thesis attempts to provide a portrayal of this character by scrutinising his speeches in order to expose the problematic nature of his claims to knowing God's intentions. Judah is forced by Joseph's test to choose slavery for the sake of his father's survival (44.33-34); the ironic reversal of his role as a victimiser to becoming a victim of his rationale to sell Joseph in order to save him (37.26-27) is unmistakable. Unwittingly, Joseph mistakes the rationale for a divine principle to explain his suffering and dreams of domination and subordination for the same purpose of survival (45.5-11). To complicate the matter further, his repeated pronouncements of the God-sent famine (45.25,28,32) portray God as the source of destruction and deliverance, the same role Judah played in his betrayal. His final declaration of divine good overriding human evil (50.20), intended to draw a radical distinction between God's intentions and those of his brothers, would make it harder for him to explain the remarkable similarity between God's actions and those of Judah. However, he is unaware of the anomaly his speeches yield due to his ignorance of Judah's excuse. This double blindness calls into doubt any certainty about the coalescence of perspectives of Joseph and the narrator. It is also Joseph's assertion of domination over Egypt (45.8-9) instead of over his brothers that exposes its link with his subsequent policy of enslavement of a whole nation (47.13-26). However benevolent his measures are, his ambiguous behaviour clearly derives from his belief in his right to subjugate others in order to save them. It is undoubtedly an ironic and tragic ending that the protagonist would repeat the enslavement (which he has suffered, abhorred and condemned as evil) on such a grand scale
Columbia demands her children!
No full textAn impassioned attack on Abraham Lincoln and the human toll of the Union war effort. Columbia, wearing a liberty cap and a skirt made of an American flag, demands, "Mr. Lincoln, give me back my 500,000 sons!!!" At the right, Lincoln, unfazed, sits at a writing desk, his leg thrown over the chair back. A proclamation calling for "500 Thous. More Troops," signed by him, lies at his feet. He replies, "Well the fact is--by the way that reminds me of a Story!!!" The artist refers to the false report published by the "New York World" that Lincoln joked on the battlefield of Antietam. (See "The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's Votes," no. 1864-30.)Signed: J.E. Baker del. (Joseph E. Baker).Title appears as it is written on the item.Weitenkampf, p. 140.Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1864-34
Forecasting the demand for frozen potatoes
No full textBulletin no. 755 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Agriculture Experiment Station, 1993-11-01. Author(s): Gao, Yanqing; Guenthner, Joseph F
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