92 research outputs found
The spirit of Marlowe: creating an ethics on the English Renaissance stage
No full textThe Spirit of Marlowe examines the ethics produced through performance in the plays of Christopher Marlowe. It contends that Marlowe’s contribution to the “Golden Age” of the English Renaissance lies in the ethics created on his stage—it is an ethics indebted to and conversant with those prominent in early modern England, but it is markedly “alien” to it; as I will elaborate throughout this dissertation, it has noticeable affinities with the philosophies of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. A Marlovian Ethics refuses the moralistic strictures of those contemporary ethics that prescribe modes of living; rather, in Spinozist-like fashion, value is attributed a posteriori to the affects that are produced by actions and interactions between bodies. From Dido to the Duke of Guise, Marlowe’s characters seek an ethics of abundance and excess: to become more than, or better than, oneself seems to be the foundational premise of their ethics. The objective of always becoming more than, or better than, one’s current self is indicative of the significance of how the idea of creation, of creativity, undergirds a Marlovian Ethics. As I will demonstrate in my readings of his plays, a Marlovian Ethics is established through various modes of creation: transformation; appropriation, or imitation; destruction, in Deleuzian terms of territorialization/deterritorialization; pleasure, conceptually akin to Deleuzian desire; and critique. Marlowe’s understanding of the theater as an apparatus conducive to the construction of an ethics entails a similar understanding of the creative potential of bodies and of spaces: actions build, they create—and create through destruction as well—performance. There is a momentum that characterizes his plays that demonstrates this sense of constant creation—the “ceaseless movement”—of characters and their surroundings, of plot and emotion. In sum, there are three central objectives of this dissertation: 1) to articulate the ethics immanent within Marlowe’s plays, thereby 2) depicting how Marlowe is philosophically aligned with the “bastards” of philosophy, from Lucretius to Deleuze; and finally 3) to evaluate Marlowe’s plays in order to reveal their value as a “minor literature” alongside the academic industry of Shakespeare.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Marcie Bianc
Differentiated instruction meeting the educational needs of all students in your classroom
No full textPublisher's description: Drawing upon her extensive experience and numerous national presentations, author Marcie Nordlund shares her ideas, creativity, and proven methods of differentiated instruction to help teachers reach each student. Divided into 10 chapters, this book deals with topics ranging from general methods of differentiating instruction to specific methods for students with attention deficit/hyperactivity, learning disabilities, above average intelligence, cognitive impairments, autism, behavioral challenges, and those who are at-risk. The contents of this book have been shared with over 8,000 teachers throughout the United States who have tried the methods and offered feedback
Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East
No full textMarcie J. Patton is a contributing author, Constraints to Privatization in Turkey , pp. 106-122.
Book description: International specialists take stock of the problems and prospects for privatization of state-run economies and other liberalization efforts throughout the Middle East and North Africa. -- Publisher description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/politics-books/1021/thumbnail.jp
Politics & Society in the Contemporary Middle East
No full textMarcie Patton is a contributing author, Turkey, Pp. 425-459.
Book Description: Eight thematic chapters introduce the subject and explore the region-wide dynamics of governments and oppositions, international politics, political economy, civil society, religion and politics, identity politics, and gender and family issues. These themes are then systematically explored with regard to Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and the UAE. The result is an insightful overview and analysis that both provides a wealth of information and encourages comparative, critical thinking by students at all levels. – Publisher description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/politics-books/1006/thumbnail.jp
Child and Caregiver Perspectives of a Combined Brain Stimulation and Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy Trial
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
Novel interventions pairing noninvasive brain stimulation and rehabilitation are emerging for children with stroke. Feedback from pediatric clinical trial participants and caregivers is reviewed to guide future investigations and translation of novel interventions.
Primary Author and Speaker: Tonya Rich
Contributing Authors: Chao-Ying Chen, Timothy Feyma, Gregg Meekins, Marcie Ward, Linda E. Krach, Bernadette Gillick</jats:p
Many Streams Make a River: Seattle Dance 1990 to 2015
No full textThe Seattle area’s dance ecosystem developed in critical ways during a 25-year period of growth and change between 1990 and 2015. Professional journalist Marcie Sillman brings more than 40 years as a witness to and chronicler of this change to this article, with a focus on four seminal organizations and the artists that have thrived under their auspices: On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, Spectrum Dance Theater and Pacific Northwest Ballet. The author conducted interviews in 2022 with ten leaders in the dance community about their lived experiences of this time and integrates their viewpoints. New industries and new artistic endeavors attracted tens of thousands of new residents to the Seattle area during this period, adding new energy and perspectives to the local arts scene. It also intensified some of the challenges faced by performing artists, in particular the escalating cost of living and working in the city. Despite the enormous growth the region experienced over this time period, Seattle remained a city of neighborhoods, with porous boundaries between them. The same porousness holds true when talking about Seattle’s many dance companies, artists and schools. Seattle’s thriving dance community can be likened to a number of streams that converge and diverge as they race along. Each stream is unique, but together they form something distinctive, a river that is constantly flowing and carving out new channels as the years pass
Self-concept related to identities and safer-sex cognitions in young adults who have lost a parent to AIDS
No full textIn-person interviews conducted with 40 English-speaking AIDS-bereaved 18-22 year olds and a control group revealed a significant difference in identities. Data were collected from an AIDS-bereaved group through Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and an introductory psychology class at Hunter College, City University of New York. Hierarchical Classes (HICLAS; Ceulemans & Van Mechelen, 2005) data analysis uncovered a significant difference in how the groups elaborate their current and ideal selves and their self-cognitions surrounding protected and unprotected sex with both new and ongoing partners. Chi-square analysis showed significant differences in elaboration levels regarding how the AIDS-bereaved viewed unprotected versus protected sex when evaluated against the comparison sample. The AIDS-bereaved participants were more likely to attach traits connoting shame and guilt to unprotected sex, and have less complex ideas about protected sex; the comparison sample showed more complex identities for protected sex than for unprotected sex. These findings suggest that those who are AIDS-bereaved have less elaborated current and ideal identities and are more likely to attach guilty traits to actions that could transmit HIV-infection compared to a non-bereaved sample
Political Culture and Constitutionalism
No full textMarcie J. Patton is a contributing author, “Constitutionalism and Political Culture in Turkey” pp. 138-158.
Book description: This work is a cross-national examination of the relationship between political culture and constitutionalism in the nation state. Ten countries are studied: Nigeria, Turkey, Egypt, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, India, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. In addition to the editors, the authors are Rotimi Suberu(Nigeria), Marci Patton(Turkey), Nathan J. Brown and Roni Amit(Egypt), William B. Gwyn(Great Britain), John O. Haley(Japan), Sankaran Krishna(India), Howard J. Wiarda(Mexico), and Gregory Mahler(Canada). Questions to be explored include whether constitutions can be imposed from the top or must evolve; whether constitutionalism is only a western concept; and what the relationship is between colonialism and constitutionalism. -- Publisher description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/politics-books/1020/thumbnail.jp
Interpersonal perception among family members : children\u27s knowledge of parental attitudes
No full textThe Family Attitude Survey (FAS), a questionnaire in which 21 hypothetical family conflicts and potential solutions are presented and the solution to each conflict is rated on a 5-point (strongly agree to strongly disagree) scale, was administered to 82 college freshmen (58 females and 24 males) and their parents. Students responded to the FAS from their own perspective, as well as answering in the manner they believed each of their parents would respond. Five sets of FAS responses were obtained from each family in the sample including each family member\u27s own chosen solutions, and the child\u27s predictions of his/her mother\u27s and father\u27s FAS responses. Comparisons between the FAS responses of the various two-person combinations of family members provided information regarding the degree of agreement and disagreement which characterized these families. The difference between the parents\u27 responses and the children\u27s predictions of their responses served as an operational index of the accuracy with which children predicted their parents\u27 attitudes toward family conflict, and also provided a general measure of interpersonal perceptivity. The data were further analyzed in order to determine the effects of the children\u27s sex, ordinal position, and family size on the children\u27s predictive accuracy and on the family members\u27 personal assessments of the parent-child relationship. The results indicated that parents and children did not evidence agreement in their chosen solutions to the FAS conflicts, but instead indicated a significant degree of disagreement. Similarly, children were unable to predict their parents\u27 FAS responses accurately. Female children were found to be more accurate than males in their predictions of their mothers\u27 responses, yet no sex differences were indicated by the analyses of the predictions of fathers\u27 responses. Family size and birth order were not found to contribute significantly to the children’s overall level of predictive accuracy. In contrast to the poor predictive accuracy which was actually observed, parents\u27 and children\u27s estimates of the likelihood of predictive success indicated a belief that the children would be accurate in their predictions. On all estimates of the degree of understanding between parent and child, however, parents indicated greater confidence in the children\u27s perceptivity than the children themselves indicated. While family size was not found to affect subjective estimates of family relationships, the child\u27s sex and ordinal position were found to exert differential influences on parents\u27 and children\u27s beliefs about the nature of their interpersonal ties. Specifically, children\u27s estimates of their similarity to their parents revealed a sex effect, and their judgments of their own predictive abilities were found to vary as a function of their ordinal position. Parents\u27 estimates of their children\u27s predictive abilities and knowledge possessed were affected by their children\u27s ordinal position, with mothers attributing lesser knowledge and predictive capabilities to middle born children, and the degree of knowledge and predictive capacities estimated by fathers being inversely related to the children\u27s ordinal position
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