201 research outputs found
Friends of the Greenwood Library Presents Candice Ransom
No full textOn March 21, 2013, children\u27s and young adult author Candice Ransom spoke at Greenwood Library for the spring Friends of the Library event.
Ransom spoke of her work, which includes board books, picture books, easy readers, chapter books, middle grade fiction, “tween” fiction, biographies, and nonfiction. She also spoke of her fascination for abandoned property in Virginia, some of which is featured in our special collection Candice Ransom: Looking for Home
Black parents at predominantly white schools: an exploratory study of race and parent involvement
No full textAn exploratory study was conducted in order to examine the experiences of Black parents with parent involvement at predominantly White schools. Eleven interviews with Black parents were completed and analyzed qualitatively using the grounded theory approach (Corbin & Strauss, 2008) and the case study method (Yin, 2009). Parental involvement has been identified as a factor that influences student academic outcomes from preschool through high school (Henderson & Berla, 1994). Research has found Black families are more likely to be involved at home when compared to White families; however, White families are more likely to be involved at school when compared to Black families (Eccles & Harold, 1996). Since research on African American families has centered on families at racially segregated public schools, there has been little investigation of the experiences of Black families in predominantly White school settings. Given the historical context of the education of Blacks in America and parent concerns with the social and emotional development of their children within school settings, African American families at predominantly White schools may engage in parent involvement practices that do not follow the traditional framework of parent involvement accepted by schools and researched in the literature. This study revealed several themes connected to African American parent involvement at predominantly White schools. These themes were the importance of education, cross-racial tensions, parent self-efficacy, biculturalism and cultural competence. Implications for future research were discussed. Recommendations were made for Black parents, educators, school counseling personnel and school-sponsored parent organizations regarding the improvement of Black parent involvement in activities and programs at predominantly White schools.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical references (p. 89-96)by Candice Rae BurkeIncludes abstrac
Sonja Longolius, Performing Authorship. Strategies of “Becoming an Author” in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle and Jonathan Safran Foer
No full textIn Performing Authorship. Strategies of “Becoming an Author” in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle and Jonathan Safran Foer, Sonja Longolius analyzes how two writers (Auster and Foer) and two performing artists (Calle and Breitz) have not only been producing works but, in the process, have also consciously “become authors” by creating their own authorial personae. In the beginning of her introduction, Longolius quotes a remark taken from one of Auster’s interviews about hi..
Performing future memory: a critical poetics of globalization
No full textMy dissertation contends that poets and performance artists of the Americas have been at the forefront of exploring the psychic and bodily effects of neoliberal globalization. More than just a set of market-driven policies aimed at privatization and deregulation, neoliberalism is a perceptual regime. Invoking globalization experts such as David Harvey, I argue that neoliberal globalization has produced profound changes in the way we experience time and space, and that these changes require new aesthetic forms. In countering the erasure of cultural memory, disruption of local environments, and omnipresent spectacle of commodity fetishism that characterize neoliberalism as a spatiotemporal regime, the poets and performance artists I study—Dionne Brand, Ricardo Dominguez, Coco Fusco, Ana Mendieta, Nancy Morejón, Adrienne Rich, Ed Roberson, Cecilia Vicuña, and Raúl Zurita—engage this transformation of the sensible. Historically framed by two September 11th tragedies, my dissertation opens with the US-backed 1973 coup in Chile—that brutally implemented a neoliberal mode of governing—and closes with the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. The works that constitute my archive explore exile, displacement, alienation and cultural amnesia in order to reenact and revise earlier hemispheric moments of colonization and expropriation. While recalling legacies of slavery, indigenous genocide, and imperialism, the poems and performances I analyze also suggest different futures; at the heart of these formal experiments is a desire for new modes of social being that find their expression in textual and corporeal performances. While the novel remains the privileged genre of literary globalization studies, my project maps the complex ways in which poetry and performance, through multi-sensory techniques and tropes of touch, explore globalization as an embodied experience. As such, a major goal of my project is to traverse the gap between the abstractions of globalization discourse and the localized particulars of corporeal and textual performance. The unique temporal register this critical poetics achieves—in its accessing of repressed histories and geographies to pose new political futures—is what I refer to as ‘future memory.’Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Candice Amic
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text|Let Your divinity shine on my intellect by giving it divine knowledge,|and on my will by imparting to it the divine love|and on my memory with the divine possession of glory – Prayer of St. John of the Cross|St. John of the Cross was a member of the Carmelite Order, priest and proclaimed "Mystical" Doctor of the Church. Born in Spain in 1542, he is also known in Spain as one of the most recognized authors of spiritual writings. Two of his best known poems are his Spiritual Canticle and The Dark Night also known as the Dark Night of the Soul. Partnering with St. Teresa of Avila, during this time of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, he was influential in reforming the Carmelite Order becoming known as the Discalced Carmelites following a stricter and more contemplative rule. This is significant as it resulted in conflict and division in the Order which led to his imprisonment. While imprisoned in a very small cell and mostly in the dark, John began to write his Spiritual Canticle. No doubt, the trials he endured while living his life, influenced the writing of The Dark Night describing the steps of growing to spiritual maturity. His prayer, to let the divine light shine on his intellect, desiring divine knowledge authored his life. It was the source of authoring more life through his writings and by the witness of his life responding the voice of God.|What is it to "author life?" The Latin origin of the word "author," auctor, from augere, means to increase, originate, or promote. To author is to go to the origins, the source, the point of beginning. St. John of the Cross, through his deep contemplative life and prayer tapped into the Origins of Life, the Creator, God, who increases and expands as Love. That Love of God expanded came to us as Jesus. John was divinely inspired tapping into the well-spring of the Creators love to live Jesus.|I can imagine the words of our Psalm today, teach me your ways, O Lord, was constant on the lips of St. John.|Your ways, O Lord, make known to me;|Teach me your paths,|Guide me in your truth and teach me,|For you are God my savior.|So, too, we find the words of Balaam who gave voice to his oracle, the Spirit. The utterance of one who hears what God says and knows what the Most High knows of one who sees what the Almighty sees…Divine inspiration, the Origin of Life, gives Balaam the authority, the power to proclaim the will of God. Balaam foretells, A star shall advance from Jacob, and a staff shall rise from Israel. Jesus, THE AUTHORITY, will walk the earth. Of one who sees what the Almighty sees, enraptured, and with eyes unveiled, I see him, though not now; I behold him, though not near…|Jesus continues to be challenged in the Gospel with the question, by what authority are you doing, these things? In time they will know that Jesus is the Author of Life. He is AUTHORITY. In him, through him and with him we live and have our being. His Spirit is alive and active within each one of us. Jesus empowers us to proclaim his presence, his word and together in mutuality be co-authors in the on-going creation of our world.|A star shall advance from Jacob. Perhaps this Advent Season is a reminder that a star may be sleeping within uswaiting to rise and shine to proclaim God is with US in our world at this time.|Let Your divinity shine on my intellect by giving it divine knowledge,|and on my will by imparting to it the divine love|and on my memory with the divine possession of glory – Prayer of St. John of the Cros
Visual short-term memory always requires general attention
No full textData from "Visual short-term memory always requires general attention" by C. Morey and M. Bieler, published in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2013. The analyses enclosed support a talk given by C. Morey at the meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology in Paphos, Cyprus, September 2015. For open-access author final version, see C. Morey's institutional website: http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/people/candice-morey
Publisher link: http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13423-012-0313-
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text|With today's readings, I invite you to read them not only once, but twice or maybe three times!|Slowly! These readings take us deep into Christ with the gift of the Spirit given to us.|No one knows what pertains to God, but the Spirit of God…the Spirit that was given to us so that we might understand the things freely given to us by God. So what has God freely given to you, or to me? God gives us God's Spirit, with Christ through the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus.|Our Gospel from Luke leads me to think that Jesus is offering us a way to know what is of God, or not. It is the Spirit that dwells within him that gives him the authority to cast out demons, give life and bring healing. For, Jesus, the Christ in union with the totality of God IS the AUTHOR OF LIFE! Jesus is being true to himself.|We too are born, created to be true to ourselves. Both as individuals and collectively as humanity our call is to live true to the Spirit of God who dwells within us. To live with the mind of Christ having been created in the image of God. God's work of art! It is here our own authority is grounded.|St. Ignatius of Loyola gives us a way through the discernment of spirits to help us know when we are being faithful to our own truth, and when we stray or need to make choices for life.|From experience he knew that some thoughts left him sad while others made him happy, and little by little he came to perceive the different spirits that were moving him; one coming from the devil, the other coming from God (Autobiography, no. 8). This link below will give more information.|Tending to and living a spiritual life heightens our senses to recognize the demons present within ourselves and around us. We recognize the things that lure us from the goodness and love of God. With grace, and belief in the Spirit of God within, we can cast them out. We can choose life, forgiveness, love, choose God.|True, too, evil dwells in our world but we can by living faithful to God's word, overcome it as well. The Psalm for today invites us to pray:|The Lord is faithful to all his words and holy in all his works.|The Lord lifts up all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down.|In another passage from John's Gospel, Jesus' final discourse, Jesus tells us whoever believes in me will do the works that I do. With Faith, and the power of the Spirit within us, we can carry out the words and works of Jesus and overcome the demons and evil in our world.|Let us pray that individually we might be interiorly cleansed from all demons or evil that haunts us, leads us from God, Love, and come to know the power of the Spirit living within.|Let us pray that evil may be banished from our world, and we will come to know the goodness and the love God has for all of humanity, for all of Creation!|Come Spirit of God and renew the face of our earth. AME
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textHave you noticed that there is a phrase used by people when they may have made an error, or just a wee bit of a misunderstanding? It is said in a manner as an apologetic response of self-acknowledgement of fault. Maybe even a humble way to say "I screwed up"! "My bad!" Really! That's not so bad! I learned on-line that Shakespeare use it in Sonnet 112, and most popular use began in the 90's. It is still found in expressions of contemporary music and art.|Reflecting on the first reading today from Corinthians seems to be talking about "really bad" where "my bad" just doesn't cut it! Perhaps, "my really bad" might find a way to lead toward a conversion of heart and behavior. It seems that this scenario is not far from what we are experiencing in our world, at this time, on the news, and in every other form of social commentary on the state of current affairs. We are human persons, human organizations, human institutions, human societies with all our faults and bad behaviors. "Our bad"! However, there seems to be more going on here….|This reading appears to call out asking where is there "holy" or Christ-like leadership to help bring about a just and whole society. "Do you not know the holy ones will judge the world?" Where is the "my good" that will help heal, judge justly, lead compassionately, wisely and with "courageous hope?" A book published in 2011 by author, Leonard Doohan, caught my attention with his title: Courageous Hope, the Call of Leadership. Doohan writes:|"The splendid task of leadership is a vocation to hope. A person without hope is no longer a leader. A great leader is an agent of hope…has a hope-filled vision of humanity. It requires faith, positive thinking, sharing with good people, reflection and contemplation…it implies healing and liberation, bringing out the best in everyone, and moving forward in spite of setbacks."|In our Gospel today we see Jesus, a leader of hope. He is choosing the leadership that will carry on his vision of the Reign of God. Jesus chooses individuals who are not perfect. Yet, He sees their potential, challenges them to heal, and for each, to experience a personal transformation. Their "good" is to be leaders of hope in a struggling world. I believe, this too, is "our good." It is our "holy."|We too were chosen through our baptism, and by living a sacramental life in our world, we are people of hope. Every person has been given gifts to contribute to building up the Reign of God here and now. Our challenge is to be those Christ-like and courageous leaders of hope where one day our universal consciousness of "my bad" might be transformed to "my good."|"Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all." We have a choice how to use our power: To be leaders of hope, healing, compassion and transformation, or death. "I chose you from the world, that you may go and bear fruit that will last, says the Lord." May the fruit we bear, "my good," be for the common good, all good, and for the greater Good and glory of God.|Questions for reflection: How have I been a witness to hope, a healing agent in our world? What gifts do I bring? What in my own life needs healing and transformation
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text|"Whoever receives you, receives me|and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me…"|Praying with the readings from today and the recommended readings for this feast day of St. Bonaventure, the word "relationships" surfaced. The Egyptians and the Israelites, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, prophets, peoples, Jesus, God, and those who thirst.|A question comes to mind, what do we thirst for? Is it to live in the harmony of right relationships? Peace? Love? Joy? Gratitude? What is it to live in right relationship to life? How do we face each day as we greet the dawn and all we will meet, (people, things, creation), along the way?|I am thinking of the First Principle and Foundation of the Ignatian Exercises.|"The goal of our life is to live with God forever.|God, who loves us, gave us life.|Our own response of love allows God's life to flow into us without limit…|Our only desire and our one choice should be this:|I want and choose what better leads|To God's deepening God's life in me."|It seems to me that it can be very confusing listening to the words of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel when in fact it comes down to one thing, and that is living in loving relationships to the point of loving one's enemies. In following Christ, this may mean differing opinions with those closest to us. It may mean "picking up one's cross". But LOVE makes all things possible as it is the way to deepen God's life in each of us. Love is God's life in each of us. Paul's letter to the Ephesians (feast day readings) desires this clearly in his beautiful prayer:|"I kneel before the Father,|from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named|that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory|to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self,|and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith,|that you, rooted and grounded in love,|may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones|what is the breath and length and height and depth,|and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge|so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."|St. Bonaventure, (1217-1274), was a medieval theologian and served as Minister General of the Franciscan Order. He is revered among the masters of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition. As author of several spiritual books on Franciscan Spirituality, he wrote the two biographies of St. Francis of Assisi, the Major Life and Minor Life, Journey of Mind into God and the Tree of Life to mention a few. Through his writings, he presented the way a person as a creature ought to love and contemplate God through Christ after the example of St. Francis of Assisi. St. Francis lived his relationship with Christ Crucified as experienced in living in right relationship with all of creation. He received Christ in all encounters. He was a living prayer of great reverence for all of life, this world, and the universe. Bonaventure recorded that all creation exists as a sacramental sign of the presence of God.|I just recently completed my annual retreat on Lake Winnebago in Oshkosh, WI. One day while sitting by the lake, the sun glistened beautifully upon the surface of the water. I smiled and laughed to myself as I thought "God's Bling"! It was as if the lake was a surface of reflecting diamonds. God all dressed up in Beauty. God is Beauty! God's name is BEAUTY. In the words of praise to Christ, by St. Francis: You are BEAUTY, Lord!|The following excerpt is from the book, Simply Bonaventure by Illia Delio:|"Bonaventure offers a profound system of thought that can help redefine the boundaries of what it means to be human and Christian. It is, indeed, a search and a journey that begins with desire and prayer and spirals through the complexities of our life, as we seek to find God at the center of our existence. Bonaventure reassures us that on this journey, God is not only with us but in us, leading us in light despite the sense of ever-present darkness. To recognize God within us is to let go in freedom—of clinging to that which is not God—and embrace in love that which is God even in the midst of suffering humanity. In the end…we can only yield to this Mystery of God within us in love. Then and only then do we see the face of God and live, for to yield in love is to return to the point from which we began. And in this return, we discover the truth of who we are created to be and the truth of the world in all its beauty."|Let us reflect on your relationship with Christ, Jesus, and pray slowly Paul's prayer so that we "may be filled with the fullness of God." |Then we can be aware of the next person or thing we encounter. Christ…Jesus, are you there?|How do we reverence and live in awe of life and the universe?|Let us not forget: "Whoever receives you, receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me…
Seamless Academic Progression in Nursing Education: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
No full textAbout the Author Candice D. Overholser, EdD, RN, is a visiting assistant professor at Brooks College of Health School of Nursing, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. This article is a component of her doctoral dissertation at the Tanner Health System School of Nursing, University of West Georgia. The author is the recipient of the National League for Nursing/Southern Nursing Research Society Doctoral Research Award in 2020. She acknowledges with thanks her dissertation chair, Dr. Laura Caramanica, and committee members Drs. Susan Welch and Connie Barbour. AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate programs throughout the United States for seamless academic progression from associate degree nursing (ADN) to baccalaureate degree nursing programs (BSN). BACKGROUND: Seamless academic progression has been shown to have a positive effect on increasing the proportion of BSN nurses. Goals to increase the number of BSN-prepared nurses have not been met. METHOD: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted to assess how nurse administrators of ADN programs move toward seamless academic progression for students. RESULTS: Three themes that described the current state of seamless progression emerged from the data: a) ongoing communication between program leaders, students, and stakeholders; b) development of pathways that enable seamless academic progression; and c) stakeholder influence on academic progression. CONCLUSION: Administrators who participated in this study shared that their progression programs were in the early developmental stages
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