318 research outputs found
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Couples Who Collaborate: Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
No full textFor author Andrea Davis Pinkney and her husband, author/illustrator Brian Pinkney, creating books for children is truly a family affair. The couple has collaborated on more than fifty titles, ranging from board books like Watch Me Dance (Red Wagon Books, 1997), to their many picture-book collaborations, like Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride (Hyperion, 2009) and Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Little, Brown, 2010), to longer nonfiction titles such as Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Disney-Hyperion, 2012)
Status of the European green crab, Carcinus maenas, (aka 5-spine crab) in Oregon estuaries, report for 2022
No full textSylvia Behrens Yamada (Integrative Biology, Oregon State University), Cameron Royer (Integrative Biology, Oregon State University), Shon Schooler (South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve), Rebecca Flitcroft (Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis Forestry Sciences Lab), Mitch Vance (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife), Andrea Randall, Jennifer Fisher (NOAA Fisheries - NWFSC Hatfield Marine Science Center) ; report prepared for: Stephen H. Phillips (Program Manager, Aquatic Nuisance Species Project), Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 17, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-19).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Denouncement, engagement and dialect: the Sicilian mystery novels of Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri
No full textThe genre of the mystery novel offers an ideal medium to analyze social injustice. The guise of criminal investigations allows for an examination of deviant behavior across diverse social strata and its causes and effects upon modern society. In theory, institutional justice in Italy extends equal rights and treatment to all citizens, irrespective of social standing or political affiliation. However, an analysis of criminal activity and the manner in which it is investigated and prosecuted reveals that this principle does not always hold true. These crimes--each a labyrinth of social and political connections, the daunting task of exposing those responsible and bringing them to justice within the framework of the legal system--constitute the plot of the Sicilian mystery novel.
Despite the valiant and occasionally successful efforts of an investigator to solve these crimes, it is impossible to prosecute the guilty parties within the framework of the legal system. This break of the Sicilian mystery novel with the tradition of the genre prompted Italo Calvino to comment on "…the impossibility of the mystery novel within a Sicilian context" (Calvino, Foreword. To Each his Own). These mystery novels raise the question: What are the social phenomena unique to a Sicilian context that prevent institutionalized justice from being administered and what are the historical reasons responsible for such phenomena?
When read as reflections of modern Sicilian society and the complex social problems that beleaguer it, the mystery novels of Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri act as powerful tools of social denouncement. Through these novels their authors denounce the obscure web of connections and corruption that plagues not only Sicily but the Italian mainland as well. These mysteries reflect a society that is increasingly socially engaged, and they hint at the evolution of a collective moral consciousness in Sicily since Sciascia first published The Day of the Owl in 1961.
This dissertation examines the innovative stylistic and thematic elements that make Sciascia and Camilleri’s literary contributions unique while reflecting the socially unjust cultural reality in which they were raised.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-160)by Jennifer Hol
Una diáspora Embera entre primitivo, oro vivo y chaquiras : análisis sintáctico pragmático de la lengua Embera para potenciar su competencia comunicativa intercultural en procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje de lengua nativa en contextos urbanos : un estudio de caso
No full textEl presente trabajo investigativo tiene como objetivo establecer los elementos sintácticopragmáticos de la lengua embera chamí utilizados por una familia embera con el ánimo de fortalecer la competencia comunicativa intercultural en procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje de lengua nativa en contextos urbanos. Se parte de la comunidad embera chamí como una comunidad vulnerabilizada a raíz de distintos factores: el desplazamiento, la migración, el hacinamiento en la ciudad, la imposición de prácticas culturales ajenas, una reiterativa pérdida de prácticas socioculturales embera, el detrimento lingüístico y la capitalización de formas de vida tradicional. A lo largo de la investigación, estos factores se conciben como elementos transversales que guían la reflexión del proyecto formulado. El marco conceptual propuesto incorporó dos enfoques teóricos: de un lado, el enfoque comunicativo, y del otro, el enfoque de educación y perspectiva intercultural, basado en la simetría cultural. La interlocución de ambos enfoques busca la proyección hacia una propuesta educativa basada en la interculturalidad crítica y la comprensión de la competencia comunicativa intercultural. Como aproximaciones preliminares, se evidenció una construcción del ser embera en la ciudad y las implicaciones socioculturales que esto conlleva desde el valor de la lengua. Las consideraciones finales suscitadas en esta investigación apuntan posibles pautas hacia la proyección de una pedagogía y educación intercultural que fortalezca procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje en lengua nativa, inmersa en un contexto urbano. Resulta imprescindible apelar a la construcción sociocultural del embera como actor social que responde a unas necesidades particulares dentro del aula de clase.The purpose of this research paper is to establish the syntactic-pragmatic elements of the ember chamí language used by an embera family with the aim of strengthening their intercultural communicative competence regarding native language teaching and learning processes within in urban contexts. To begin with, the embera chamí is a community that has become vulnerable in the city due to various factors: displacement, migration, overcrowding in the city, the imposition of alien cultural practices; along with a repetitive loss of sociocultural embera aspects, the linguistic detriment and the capitalization of traditional ways of life. Throughout the research those factors are conceived as transversal components that direct this project research reflection. The proposed conceptual framework is founded on two main theoretical approaches. On the one hand, the Communicative Approach proposed by Dell Hymes regarding two categories of analysis: Syntactic and pragmatic competences. On the other hand, the educational approach and intercultural perspective were incorporated; as well as the cultural symmetry concept suggested by Walsh. Hand in hand with the model proposed by Chen and Starosta, we directed the research towards a cultural sensitivity, understood from the intercultural communicative competence. As preliminary conclusions, there is a construction of the embera being in the city was evidenced and the sociocultural implications that this entail from the language value. The final considerations raised in this research point to the projection of a pedagogy and intercultural education that strengthen teaching and learning processes in the native language, immersed in an urban context. Therefore, the need for a proper linguistic and appropriate cultural education for the embera chami community is questioned, and where the socio-cultural construction of the embera is appealed as a social actor that responds to specific needs within the classroom
El intelectual "sentipensante" : un análisis de la participación de los intelectuales en la creación de las Zonas de Reserva Campesina (1998-2003)
No full text"Este estudio se centra en la participación de dos intelectuales que, desde el saber académico y político, proponen y hablan de (por) lo campesino en el país. La experiencia de participación será la creación de la figura de las Zonas de Reserva Campesina (ZRC), es específicamente el Proyecto Piloto de Zonas de Reserva Campesina, financiado por el Banco Mundial y ejecutado durante el periodo de 1998 a 2003, en el que participaron el antropólogo Darío Fajardo y el sociólogo Alfredo Molano. Las preguntas que orientaron este estudio fueron ¿qué posibilitó y qué implico la participación de los intelectuales en la creación de la figura de las ZRC? ¿Cuál ha sido la relación entre estos intelectuales y los campesinos? ¿Qué relaciones académicas -afinidades de conceptuales o político- posibilitan una práctica intelectual comprometida?"--Tomado del Formato de Documento de Grado."This study focuses on the participation of two intellectuals who, from the academic and political knowledge, propose and talk about (for) the peasant in the country. The experience of participation will be the creation of the figure of the Peasant Reserve Zones (ZRC), specifically the Peasant Reserve Zones Pilot Project, financed by the World Bank and executed during the period from 1998 to 2003, in which the anthropologist Darío Fajardo and the sociologist Alfredo Molano."--Tomado del Formato de Documento de Grado.Magíster en Estudios CulturalesMaestrí
El intelectual "sentipensante" : un análisis de la participación de los intelectuales en la creación de las Zonas de Reserva Campesina (1998-2003)
No full text"Este estudio se centra en la participación de dos intelectuales que, desde el saber académico y político, proponen y hablan de (por) lo campesino en el país. La experiencia de participación será la creación de la figura de las Zonas de Reserva Campesina (ZRC), es específicamente el Proyecto Piloto de Zonas de Reserva Campesina, financiado por el Banco Mundial y ejecutado durante el periodo de 1998 a 2003, en el que participaron el antropólogo Darío Fajardo y el sociólogo Alfredo Molano. Las preguntas que orientaron este estudio fueron ¿qué posibilitó y qué implico la participación de los intelectuales en la creación de la figura de las ZRC? ¿Cuál ha sido la relación entre estos intelectuales y los campesinos? ¿Qué relaciones académicas -afinidades de conceptuales o político- posibilitan una práctica intelectual comprometida?"--Tomado del Formato de Documento de Grado."This study focuses on the participation of two intellectuals who, from the academic and political knowledge, propose and talk about (for) the peasant in the country. The experience of participation will be the creation of the figure of the Peasant Reserve Zones (ZRC), specifically the Peasant Reserve Zones Pilot Project, financed by the World Bank and executed during the period from 1998 to 2003, in which the anthropologist Darío Fajardo and the sociologist Alfredo Molano."--Tomado del Formato de Documento de Grado.Magíster en Estudios CulturalesMaestrí
A Smoothing Proxy Service for Variable-Bit-Rate Streaming Video
No full textProvisioning network resources for multimedia streaming is complicated by the bursty, high-bandwidth traffic introduced by compressed video, as well as the variability of the throughput, delay, and loss properties of the Internet, and the lack of end-to-end control by any one service provider. To address these problems, we propose that proxies should perform online smoothing by transmitting frames into the client playback buffer in advance of each burst, to reduce network resource requirements without degradation in video quality. This paper describes the practical systems issues we have encountered in building a smoothing proxy service using off-the-shelf components, in the context of an MPEG-2/RTP streaming testbed. This paper is a submission to the 1999 Global Internet Symposium. The contact author is Jennifer Rexford; AT&T Labs -- Research; 180 Park Avenue, Room A169; Florham Park, NJ 07932. She can be reached via e-mail at [email protected], by phone at 973-360-8728, and by ..
Estrategias pedagógicas para la implementación de la articulación del ciclo inicial y primero
No full textEn el presente estudio, la articulación inicial y primer ciclo, a través del trabajo por proyectos, permite al docente involucrarse en el grado transición y primero del colegio gimnasio latinoamericano, dándole coherencia al programa curricular planeado, permitiendo que la transición de un nivel a otro sea coherente con las características del desarrollo según la edad de cada grupo , empleando metodologías que permitan la acción- participación de los docentes y de los niñas y niñas, cambiando paradigmas del quehacer pedagógico en las docentes, desde la parte lectoescritura y matemática, permitiendo a su vez dar un paso a una transversalidad de las diferentes asignaturas, se tomaron como base varios documentos emanados desde Secretaria de Educación de Bogotá, lo cuales orientan y fundamentan los juicios lanzados en el presente documento, como la propuesta de articulación de grado cero y el primer grado de básica primaria. A través del trabajo por proyectos, se pretende que el conocimiento y aprendizaje de los niños y niñas surja a partir sus gustos e intereses y conocimientos previos, por medios de estrategias metodológicas (aprendizaje significativo).In the present study, the initial articulation and first cycle, through project work, allows the teacher to get involved in the transitional and first grade of the Latin American gymnasium school, giving coherence to the planned curricular program, allowing the transition from one level to another. another is consistent with the characteristics of development according to the age of each group, using methodologies that carry out the action - participation of teachers and girls and boys, changing paradigms of pedagogical work in teachers from the literacy and mathematical part, allowing In turn, take a step towards a transversality of the different subjects, several documents emanating from the Secretary of Education of Bogotá were taken as a basis, which guide and support the judgments launched in this document, such as the proposal for articulation of grade zero and the first grade of elementary school. Through project work, it is intended that the knowledge and learning of children is born from their tastes and interests and previous knowledge, through methodological strategies (meaningful learning)
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