278 research outputs found
2013 Common Book Convocation: Conor Grennan, author of Little Princes: One Man\u27s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal.
No full textLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan’s remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/commonbook/1003/thumbnail.jp
“Hey Skinny, Your Ribs Are Showing”: The Fitness Industry of Charles Atlas and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century United States
No full textAbout the author
Conor Heffernan is a senior of History and Political Science at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Conor has a keen interest in health and fitness and American culture in the 20th century. He hopes to further his studies into the history of physical culture in the future
Thank God for Free Time: A Leisure Examen
No full textHow are you using your free time? Do you have enough of it? Too much? Are you mainly using it to veg out? Or are you devoting time to growing closer to God and other people and promoting the common good? These are some of the questions that animate the scholarly work of our latest AMDG podcast guest, Dr. Conor M. Kelly. An assistant professor of theology at Marquette University, Conor is the author of the recent book “The Fullness of Free Time: A Theological Account of Leisure and Recreation in the Moral Life.
Review of Irish Women Poets Rediscovered, by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie (eds.)
No full textReview of Irish Women Poets Rediscovered, by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie (eds.) (Cork: Cork University Press, 2021), 192 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78205-479-5, €39 (hardback)
The author of this essay wants to acknowledge her participation in the funded Research Project PID2019-109565RB-I00/AEI: "Illness in the Age of Extinction: Anglophone Narratives of Personal and Planetary Degradation (2000-2020)
Conor O'Callaghan and Robert Gray
No full textOne captures Ireland, the other Australia - a unique and lively gathering as two wondrous poets meet. Conor O'Callaghan was born in Newry in 1968 and is the author of three collections of poetry, The History of Rain, Seatown and Fiction. He has been awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. He is also the author of Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War, and lives in Manchester. Winner of all of Australia's top poetry awards, Robert Gray captures an essence of his country in both poetry and memoir: 'No-one has seen this country as sharply, or with as much tenderness, as he has done' - Kevin Hart Recordings of an event held Tuesday 6th October 2009. To download and save this audio file right-click on the 'download' link and use 'save link as'; we suggest changing the filename to something more meaningful at this stage. Just clicking the link will normally play the audio on your computer but may not offer you the facility to save the file
Fortissat Science Alliance podcast: Conor McKinnon and Jade McMorland
No full textConor McKinnon and Jade McMorland were PhD students at the University of Strathclyde working on development of renewable energy. They took part in the Fortissat Science Alliance podcast recordings in July 2021.What is the Fortissat Science Alliance?The Fortissat Science Alliance was a Wellcome Trust & Children In Need "Curiosity" project. This scheme provided informal STEM learning opportunities for young people who attended the community centre Getting Better Together Shotts (GBT Shotts) between 2019 and 2023. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, deliveries had to pivot online so the podcast was founded. These recordings were made via Zoom with warm-up STEM activities sent to every young person in advance, along with a profile page for each researcher, so that they were relaxed and able to ask excellent questions.Link to episode on Spotify.Depending on the broadcast date, podcast deliveries were co-sponsored by Glasgow Science Festival, EXPLORATHON 2021, or EXPLORATHON 2022/23.For the duration of the project, it was supported jointly by Children in Need and the Wellcome Trust. In 2021, EXPLORATHON episodes were supported by the European Commission [grant agreement ID 101036101]. In 2022-23, EXPLORATHON episodes were supported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/X020894/1]. Author contributions to contentConor McKinnon and Jade McMorland were the guests featured on this episode. Rebecca Hay was the youth worker coordinating the young people who conducted the interviews as well as co-editing and broadcasting the recordings. Iain Hamilton co-edited the episodes. Kirsty Ross was the STEM consultant for the project and uploaded completed episodes to Figshare.</p
Conor O'Callaghan and Robert Gray
No full textOne captures Ireland, the other Australia - a unique and lively gathering as two wondrous poets meet. Conor O'Callaghan was born in Newry in 1968 and is the author of three collections of poetry, The History of Rain, Seatown and Fiction. He has been awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. He is also the author of Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War, and lives in Manchester. Winner of all of Australia's top poetry awards, Robert Gray captures an essence of his country in both poetry and memoir: 'No-one has seen this country as sharply, or with as much tenderness, as he has done' - Kevin Hart Recordings of an event held Tuesday 6th October 2009. To download and save this audio file right-click on the 'download' link and use 'save link as'; we suggest changing the filename to something more meaningful at this stage. Just clicking the link will normally play the audio on your computer but may not offer you the facility to save the file
TEXTLINGUSTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SHORT STORY SAND BY CONOR CORDEROY
No full textA text is not a string of sentences or a simple grammatical unity, but rather it is semanticunity. The unity that it has is the unity of meaning in context, a texture that expresses the factthat it relates as a whole to the environment in which it emerged. Text linguistics is an appliedanalysis method based on a theoretical foundation that attempts to reveal the semanticstructures of literary texts by examining them from the surface structure to the deep structure.In the text linguistic analysis of a literary text, title, repetitive words that are keywords,topical sentences, conclusion sentence, inferences from implicit expressions, motifs andthemes are main clues, that is, main surface structure elements, leading to real meaning of thetext. In addition to linguistic context, stylistic features of the writer, non-linguistic context areelements that help identify layers of meaning. In this study, Sand, which is a short storywritten by the British writer Conor Corderoy from an ecocritical perspective, will beexamined in terms of cohesion and coherence, which are basic text linguistic criteria. Thecentral topics of the short story Sand include climate change, personal and familial struggles,and societal responses to environmental challenges. The melting of glaciers and globalwarming, as well as how these events will affect people in the future, are also discussed in thestory. With this analysis, the messages placed by the author in the deep structure will bereached and the action he aims for with his text will be determined.Keywords: Text linguistics, ecocriticism, Sand, Conor Corderoy.</p
The vision of the supernatural in Conor McPherson\'s plays
No full textA presente dissertação examina os diferentes elementos do sobrenatural encontrados em três peças do dramaturgo irlandês Conor McPherson: St Nicholas (1997), The Weir (1997) e The Seafarer (2006). Observa-se que o uso do sobrenatural é recorrente em sua obra, embora ele empregue elementos diferentes em cada uma das peças com o objetivo de retratar as angústias e os problemas existenciais do homem contemporâneo. St Nicholas é uma paródia das histórias de vampiros, em The Weir o autor recorre à tradição oral irlandesa do contador de histórias e em The Seafarer re-escreve a lenda de Fausto.The present dissertation examines different elements of the supernatural found in three plays by the Irish playwright Conor McPherson: St Nicholas (1997), The Weir (1997) and The Seafarer (2006). The supernatural is a recurrent feature in McPhersons work, although he makes use of different elements in each of his plays with the aim of depicting the anxieties and existential problems of contemporary man. St Nicholas is a parody of vampire stories; in The Weir the author resorts to the Irish oral tradition of storytelling; and in The Seafarer he rewrites Fausts legend
Screenwriting:Creative labor and professional practice
No full textScreenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice analyzes the histories, practices, identities and subjects which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters. Author Bridget Conor considers the ways in which contemporary screenwriters navigate and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed. Chapters explore areas including: • Screenwriting histories and myths of the profession • Screenwriting as creative labor • Screenwriters’ working lives • Screenwriting work and the how-to genre • Screenwriting work and inequalities Drawing on historical and critical perspectives of mainstream screenwriting in the USA and UK, as well as valuable interviews with working screenwriters, this book presents a highly original and multi-faceted study of screenwriting as creative labor and professional practice.</p
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