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Christina and Me
No full textBestselling Maine author Christina Baker Kline tells the background story of why she chose to write her novel Christina\u27s World which is based on the relationship between Maine artist, Andrew Wyeth and his muse, Christina Olson
Christina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life,
No full textChristina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life, delves into old letters written by Maine writer Ruth Moore in the 1950s. Moore was selling her family\u27s Gotts Island house to Phyllis and Richard Strauss, Gillis\u27s sister and brother-in-law
FIGURE 4 in The masked water snakes of the genus Homalopsis Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822 (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species
No full textFIGURE 4. Box whisker graphs comparing ventral and subcaudal scale count data for Homalopsis by gender. A. Among both males and females the only significant differences in ventral scale counts (p <0.05) are between H. mereljcoxi sp. nov. and the other three species. B. Among both males and females the only significant differences in subcaudal scale counts (p <0.05) are between H. semizonata and H. mereljcoxi sp. nov..Published as part of Murphy, John C., Voris, Harold K., Traub, Joshua & Cumberbatch, Christina, 2012, The masked water snakes of the genus Homalopsis Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822 (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 3208 on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20995
Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti
No full textThis thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its
expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti
experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither
as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close
reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the
consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works
they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to
theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the
nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase
suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with,
religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion
granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the
professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider
phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current
criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and
intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual'
because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away
from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic
belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church
Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their
intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's
fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures
and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age
Leonora Christina
No full textShort presentation of Danish author Leonora Christina and her main work
Homalopsis Kuhl & Hasselt 1822
No full textHomalopsis Kuhl & Hasselt, 1822 Coluber Linnaeus, 1758: 217. Vipera Daudin 1803 a: 220. Homalopsis Kuhl & Hasslet 1822: 101 Pythonia Blyth 1859: 279 Pythonella Theobald 1868: 66 (lapsus for Pythonia fide Williams & Wallach, 1989) Type species. Coluber horridus Daudin, 1803 a (synonym of Coluber buccatus Linnaeus, 1758) by original designation. Content. Five species: Homalopsis buccata, H. hardwickii, H. nigroventralis, H. mereljcoxi sp. nov., and H. semizonata. Diagnosis. Homalopsis can be distinguished from all other Southeast Asian snakes by their keeled and striated scales in 33–49 rows at midbody; crescent-shaped valvular nostrils; lower labials posterior to the eye are horizontally divided; and enlarged plates (frontal and parietals) on the crown. Snakes of the genus Cerberus are the species most likely to be confused with Homalopsis; however, Cerberus have fewer than 30 scales rows at midbody and the frontal and parietals are ‘fragmented’ into small irregular scales. Distribution. Homalopsis ranges from Nepal (based on an anecdotal record, Zug & Mitchell 1995) and probably northeast India, eastward to Indochina and southward into the Malayan peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago as far east as Borneo. One specimen has been reported from Makassar, Sulawesi (Rooji 1917) but De Lang &Vogel (2005) could not validate its presence on the island. Figure 5 shows the distribution of the five species recognized here. Regional works on India and Nepal rarely mention the presence of Homalopsis. Neither Ahmed et al. (2009) nor Whitaker & Captain (2004) mention the species in India and only Schleich & Kastle (2002) report it from Nepal, and their account is based solely upon the Zug & Mitchell (1995) comment.Published as part of Murphy, John C., Voris, Harold K., Traub, Joshua & Cumberbatch, Christina, 2012, The masked water snakes of the genus Homalopsis Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822 (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 3208 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20995
Beyond cost savings: The value of OER and open pedagogy for student learning
No full textThis workshop was delivered by Dr. Christina Hendricks, from the University of British Columbia, for the 2018 Open Education Week Celebration at Mount Royal. The presentation outline approaches to open education - including OER, open pedagogy, and open educational practices
Homalopsis hardwickii Gray 1842
No full textHomalopsis hardwickii Gray, 1842 Fig. 1 b Homalopsis buccata— Günther 1864: 285; Boulenger 1890: 374; 1896: 14; Smith 1943: 390. Wall 1903: 94; Wall 1923: 38; Gyi 1970: 136; Murphy 2007: 193 Type locality. “ India.” Holotype. BMNH 1946.1.7.26.” Distribution. Possibly restricted to northeast India, no known extant population. The holotype of Homalopsis hardwickii is reported to be from India, but the datum is questionable. Two other specimens (BMNH 111.18. 1 b, g) that may be H. hardwickii have the locality of “Bengal” but do not agree well with the holotype and the locality information is followed by a question mark in the BMNH catalog. Thus, this species remains to be re-discovered and its distribution to be determined. Diagnosis. Homalopsis hardwickii has a divided loreal contacting upper labials 1–4; two prefrontal scales; 39 scale rows at midbody reduced to 28 posteriorly; one postocular scale and no presubocular scale; 13 or 14 upper labials; 159 ventrals. Homalopsis buccata has a single loreal contacting upper labials 1–4; one postocular scale plus a postsubocular scale; H. nigroventralis has upper labials 1–3 contacting the loreal; one or two postocular scales plus one postsubocular scale; and a reverse color pattern on the venter (dark olive-gray with white spots). H. semizonata has three prefrontals; one postocular and one postsubocular. The new species, H. mereljcoxi, has a single loreal contacting upper labials 1–4; 40–49 scale rows at midbody, reduced to 30 or more posteriorly; and two postocular scales plus a postsubocular. Redescription of the Holotype. A male, 511 mm SVL, 172 mm tail; dorsal scale rows 41 – 39 – 28; 159 ventrals; 84 subcaudals; 1 / 1 preocular, 1 / 1 postocular, 1 / 1 postsubocular, no subocular; internasal small and divided; 2 / 2 prefrontals; temporal formula 1 / 1; upper labials 14 / 13, first six not horizontally divided; upper labials under orbit 5 / 6; upper labials in contact with loreal 1-4 / 1-4; loreal divided on both sides. It has a typical Homalopsis pattern with alternating dark brown separated by white saddle-like blotches, the light blotches number 44, of which 19 do not extend to the vertebral line. Material examined. “ INDIA ” BMNH 1946.1. 7.26 (type).Published as part of Murphy, John C., Voris, Harold K., Traub, Joshua & Cumberbatch, Christina, 2012, The masked water snakes of the genus Homalopsis Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822 (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 3208 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20995
Book Review on Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes
No full textThis is a brief book review of Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe. Published in April 2023, the text deals with various aspects of Black life, such as memory, trauma, and ongoing racial violence. Being an acclaimed scholar of the Black community, Christina Sharpe shares a surfeit of memories throughout her text, which is why I found this book to be an excellent addition to Black memory studies. The author argues on the functionality of museums and memorials. While many may insist on the necessity of these sites of memory, the author argues that memorial narratives fail to provide ‘reconciliation and healing’. She also asserts how language is usually manipulated by white supremacists, and hence, memory is manipulated as well. Motherhood is also a dominant topic that Sharpe explores in her book
Christina of Markyate – introduction to the “life”
No full textThis article presents information about Christina, saint, eremite and subsequent superior in Markyate, who lived in England in the 12th century. The study aims to elucidate the person of the saint, so little known in Poland. In order to encourage reading of the “Life,” the author, apart from sketching the saint’s biography, discusses the role of women during the Middle Ages as well as refers to an extraordinary friendship between Christina and an abbot from one of the most influential monasteries of the twelfth-century England - Geoffrey of Gorham – who was a cause of damnatio memoriae after his death
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