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Memo from Captain Alvin Sessions, July 27, 1942
No full textA memo from Captain Alvin Sessions, Rail Transportation Officer, to the commanding officer. The memo gives a brief description of how train ticket sales will change to increase security.The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942
The theology of revelation and the epistemology of Christian belief : the compatibility and complementarity of the theological epistemologies of Karl Barth and Alvin Plantinga
No full textThis study brings Christian theology and Christian analytic philosophy into dialogue through an examination of the compatibility and complementarity of Karl Barth’s theology of revelation, and Alvin Plantinga’s epistemology of Christian belief. The first two chapters are aimed at elucidating the central features of Karl Barth’s theology of revelation and clarifying his attitude toward the place of philosophy in theology. We establish that, for Barth, human knowledge of God is objective, personal, cognitive knowing, enabled by the Spirit’s transforming gift of participation in revelation. We dispel the notion that Barth is hostile to philosophy per se and chart the boundaries he gives for its interface with theology.
In chapters 3 and 4, we focus on Alvin Plantinga’s Christian epistemology of warranted belief, and its relationship to Barth’s theology of revelation. A general alignment emerges in their shared inductive approach and agreed rejection of the necessity and sufficiency of human arguments for warranted Christian belief. Their contributions are complementary, with Barth providing what Plantinga lacks in theological depth, and Plantinga providing what Barth lacks in philosophical clarity and defense. Despite their general compatibility, two areas of significant potential incompatibility are flagged for closer analysis in the final two chapters.
In chapter 5, we consider their views on natural theology. We extend our thesis of complementarity with respect to negative apologetics, and argue for a harmonizing interpretation of their views with respect to a potential positive contribution from natural theology. The final chapter addresses the role of faith and the constitution of a genuine human knowledge of God. We conclude that Barth and Plantinga do not disagree about the personal and propositional character of revelation, but may disagree about the possibility of a generically theistic de re knowledge of God independent of the Spirit’s gift of faith
Jere Nash Interview with Alvin Bronstein
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with lawyer Alvin Bronstein in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Bronstein served as Chief Staff Counsel for the Lawyers\u27 Constitutional Defense Committee from 1964 to 1968, litigating civil rights cases in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. Topics covered include the Lawyers\u27 Constitutional Defense Committee; other civil rights lawyers in the South during the 1960s; judges, public officials, and civil rights activists in Mississippi; and the reapportionment of the Mississippi Legislature
Beauty and the Beast
No full textBeauty and the Beast is a musical, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and a book by Linda Woolverton. Adapted from Walt Disney Pictures\u27 animated film Beauty and the Beast – which in turn had been based on the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast by French author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Beauty and the Beast tells the story of an unkind prince who has been magically transformed into an unsightly creature as punishment for his selfish ways. To revert into his true human form, the Beast must learn to love a bright, beautiful young lady who he has imprisoned in his enchanted castle and earn her love in return before it is too late.https://archives.alvincollege.edu/productions_1983-1984/1000/thumbnail.jp
Mousetrap
No full textThe Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The play opened in London\u27s West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic. The longest-running West End show, it also has by far the longest run of any play in the world, with its 29,500th performance having taken place as of February 2024.
A whodunit, the play has a twist ending which the audience are traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre. There are eight members of the cast, and by 2012 more than 400 actors had played the roles. Richard Attenborough was the original Detective Sergeant Trotter, and his wife, Sheila Sim, the first Mollie Ralston – owner of Monkswell Manor guesthouse. However, since then few of the cast have been headliners, with Stephen Moss in The Guardian writing that the play and its author are the stars .https://archives.alvincollege.edu/productions_1982-1983/1002/thumbnail.jp
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
No full textA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.
Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254–184 BC), specifically Curculio, Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. The plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, cases of mistaken identity (frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another), and satirical comments on social class. The title derives from a line often used by vaudeville comedians to begin a story: A funny thing happened on the way to the theater .
The musical\u27s original 1962 Broadway run won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Author (Musical). A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the stage musical, Zero Mostel.https://archives.alvincollege.edu/productions_1982-1983/1001/thumbnail.jp
REKONSTRUKSI EPISTEMOLOGI AGAMA DALAM PEMIKIRAN ALVIN PLANTINGA
No full textABSTRAK
REKONSTRUKSI EPISTEMOLOGI AGAMA DALAM
PEMIKIRAN ALVIN PLANTINGA
Oleh : Yoan Sabili Amra
Penelitian ini berorientasi kepada analisis yang membedah
suatu komponen khusus terhadap pemikiran epistemologi Alvin
Plantinga dengan dasar yang disebutnya sebagai epistemologi
Warrant (jaminan), sehingga dalam bangunan pemikiran
epistemologi Plantinga, akan berkolaborasi terhadap struktur
bangunan epistemologi agama Alvin Plantinga, dengan
demikian terbentuklah sebuah pemikiran secara eksplisit
terhadap epistemologi Agama, maka penulis menguraikan
secara koherensi bagaimana latar belakang muncul nya
rangkaian pemikiran epistemologi Alvin Plantinga, kemudian
dalam konteks dari pemikiran agama Plantinga akan menjadi
landasan rekonstruksi lebih lanjut mengenai bagaimana sisi
relevansi ini bermuara terhadap kajian epistemologi
kontemporer dan juga keislaman, sehingga penelitian ini
berakar dari pembedahan secara struktur dalam
mengaplikasikan pemikiran Plantinga kedalam sebuah variabel
epistemologi yang berbasis keyakinan, terlebih khusus
tercantum rangkaian kritik tajam dari formula awal atas
pendirian pemikiran Alvin Plantinga dalam epistemologi,
maupun epistemologi Agama.
Metode yang digunakan dalam keberlangsungan penelitian
ini penulis menggunakan teknik pengumpulan data dari berupa
karya-karya primer dari Alvin Plantinga maupun karya
sekunder dari buku-buku yang membahas pemikiran Alvin
Plantinga, pada teknik penggunaan data, penulis menggunakan
sistem menganalisa dan membaca secara eksplisit dalam
pengolahan data di dalam karya-karya buku yang dibutuhkan.
Sehingga uraian hasil yang telah di telisik oleh penulis dalam
mengkaji penelitian ini akan membuahkan hasil dan kesimpulan
yang baik, khususnya analisis data yang digunakan oleh peneliti
diantaranya yaitu, metode interpretasi, hermeneutika, dan
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induktif. Adapun metode penelitian secara umum yang tersaji
dalam penelitian ini, penulis menggunakan metode kualitatif
dan kajian pustaka.
Hasil dari penelitian ini telah menunjukan bahwa dalam
komponen pemikiran epistemologi agama Plantinga, Alvin
Plantinga memiliki basis pemikiran epistemologi agama nya
yaitu: Epistemologi reformed, teori Fungsi yang tepat, dan
model Aquinas/Calvin, dan diantara epistemologi agama Alvin
Plantinga telah berpangkal terhadap sistem susunan keyakinan
yang bersifat teologis, yang memiliki pijakan terhadap entitas
keyakinan pada kepercayaan teistik. Sehingga rekonstruksi dan
relevansi yang memadai dari epistemologi agama Plantinga
telah menunjukan bahwa susunan dari tiga rangkaian
epistemologi agama Plantinga mengimplikasi terhadap
penawaran atas epistemologi kontemporer yang sebelumnya
juga di kritik oleh Plantinga, dengan demikian hasil dari
rangkaian itu menunjukan bahwa sisi relevansi itu rekonstruksi
terhadap beberapa keyakinan yang berbasis teistik, khususnya
Islam. Maka dalam hal ini penulis menunjukan bahwa gagasan
epistemologi keagamaan Alvin Plantinga telah menjadi fondasi
yang kredibel terhadap sebuah keyakinan keagamaan.
Kunci: Alvin Plantinga, Epistemologi, Agama.
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ABSTRACT
This research is oriented towards an analysis that dissects
a specific component of Alvin Plantinga's epistemological
thinking on the basis of what he calls Warrant epistemology, so
that in the building of Plantinga's epistemological thinking, it
will elaborate on the structure of Alvin Plantinga's religious
epistemology, thus forming an explicit thought on the
epistemology of Religion, so the author describes coherently
how the background of the emergence of Alvin Plantinga's
series of epistemological thoughts, then in the context of
Plantinga's religious thought will be the basis for further
reconstruction regarding how this relevance side leads to
contemporary epistemological studies and also Islam, so that
this research is rooted in structural dissection in applying
Plantinga's thoughts into an epistemological variable based on
faith, especially including a series of sharp criticisms of the
initial formula for Alvin Plantinga's thinking in epistemology,
as well as the epistemology of Religion.
The method used in the continuation of this research, the
author uses data collection techniques from primary works
from Alvin Plantinga and secondary works from books that
discuss Alvin Plantinga's thoughts, in the data usage technique,
the author uses a system of analyzing and reading explicitly in
processing data in the works of books needed. So that the
description of the results that have been examined by the author
in reviewing this research will produce good results and
conclusions, especially the data analysis used by the researcher
including the interpretation, hermeneutic, and inductive
methods. As for the general research methods presented in this
study, the author uses qualitative methods and literature
reviews.
The results of this study have shown that in the components
of Plantinga's religious epistemology thinking, Alvin Plantinga
has a basis for his religious epistemology thinking, namely:
Reformed epistemology, proper function theory, and the
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Aquinas/Calvin model, and among Alvin Plantinga's religious
epistemology has been based on a theological belief system,
which has a basis for the entity of belief in theistic beliefs. Thus,
the adequate reconstruction and relevance of Plantinga's
epistemology of religion have shown that the arrangement of
the three series of Plantinga's epistemology of religion has
implications for the offer of contemporary epistemology that
was previously criticized by Plantinga, thus the results of the
series show that the relevance side reconstructs several theistic�based beliefs, especially Islam. So in this case the author shows
that Alvin Plantinga's idea of religious epistemology has
become a credible foundation for a religious belief.
Keywords: Alvin Plantinga, Epistemology, Religion
Fast methods for training Gaussian processes
No full textThis submission includes a simplified version of some code we have been developing for fast training of Gaussian processes. We also include a sample data set, which is NOAA tidal data from Woods Hole in the US, downloaded from http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ . The code and data included here were used to produce the numerical results in the following paper: [1] Fast methods for training Gaussian processes, C. J. Moore, A. J. K. Chua, C. P. L. Berry, and J. R. Gair (2016), submitted to RSOS.Moore, Christopher J; Chua, Alvin J K; Berry, Christopher P L; Gair, Jonathan R. (2016). Fast methods for training Gaussian processes, [software]. http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/ds/1343
Approaching the Performance of Experimental Music on the Flute
No full textThis dissertation serves as a commentary to two recitals: a recital of chamber music which took place in July 2014, and a solo recital in June 2015. The first chapter looks at the definition of experimental music and its characteristics through the exploration of writings by composers and performers, considering the selection of repertoire that abides by these ideas, along with a brief look at performance practice. The second chapter serves as a performance commentary to the chamber works Why Patterns? by Morton Feldman and Flutist and Guitarist by Christian Wolff. The third chapter serves as a performance commentary to the works Headlong by Christopher Fox and 947 by Alvin Lucier. Both the second and third chapter examine the composer’s aesthetic concerns, along with recordings and writings around experimental music to inform the performance approach. Finally the conclusion looks at the significance of the experimental performer and how a performer may approach future works
Strategies of colour and lighting design in the cinematography of Christopher Doyle
No full textCinema visual design is a fundamental element of film form and the aesthetics and storytelling aspects of cinematography need thoughtful examination in cinema. This thesis investigates a detailed format aspect of modern cinematography that has been neglected relatively in cinema study. The research aims to highlight the importance of cinematography in narrative storytelling through the case study of Director of Photography Christopher Doyle’s aesthetic practices through the major high-budget feature film Hero (2002), the mid-range-budget feature film In the Mood for Love (2000), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) to the independent low-budget feature films Chungking Express (1994) and Fundamentally Happy (2015). In particular, the merit of this research is its scholarly attention on an individual artist, Christopher Doyle, by examining his role and aesthetics on the role of colour, lighting, and camera in film narratives in determining the overall look of the film. The main findings will show the relationships between colour and space, colour and character motion, colour and mood throughout Christopher Doyle’s consistent visual style and his wide variety of works over the past twenty-five years. The study of these 5 feature films by renowned Directors Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yi Mou, Tan Bee Thiam and Phillip Noyce will also showcase a detailed visual analysis of various narrative styles. Through ethnographic study, the thesis will include visual analysis of Christopher Doyle’s lighting design and cinematography techniques. The research aims to discover the role of colour, lighting and camera in construction of film narrative and the influence of digital colour grading through both visual analysis and ethnographic study. This study is important research to tell the aesthetic practices throughout Christopher Doyle’s work and how technological and artistic factors have defined this unique visual cinematic style.Master of Art
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