281 research outputs found
From flesh to fiction : the visible and the invisible in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen.
No full textPhDOur ways of thinking modernism and its legacy are imprinted with the pattern of an
opposition, a struggle between two sets of extremes: objective and subjective; form
and feeling; mechanistic and organic; mind and body; knowing and being; self and
world; aesthetic and historical. The three writers whose work I explore in this thesis
challenge prevailing notions of this oppositional discourse. Entering the scene of
modernism late in its history, Elizabeth Bowen, Eudora Welty and Maurice Merleau-
Ponty develop a new kind of vision that makes us rethink the relationships between
perceiver and perceived, between mind, body and world. All three writers undertake a
fundamental reorganisation of the relationships between internal consciousness and
external things through the narration of a perception that is outside the limits of
discrete sensations or causal relationships. Physical things are neither pure objecthood
nor merely external triggers for the ramblings of a solipsistic consciousness, rather
they infringe on a consciousness whose own edges are indistinct. This writing
establishes an interdependent and interlocutory relationship between subject and
world, which become not opposite ends of a perceptual scale, but aspects of a common
flesh. The intimate connection to the world is both comforting and threatening, both
reinforcing subjectivity and de-centring it.
The re-ordering of the connections between self and world leads to a reassessment of
collective identity and historical agency, as well as impacting upon approaches to
modes of representation. In trying to express the pre-linguistic experience of embodied
consciousness, this writing looks to models of mute expression found in visual images.
Exploring how the invisible aspects of experience emerge within the visible realm, the
writing takes on an often hallucinatory or uncanny character. Charting the passage
from being to doing, from perception to creation, from the style of the flesh to the style
of fiction, Merleau-Ponty, Welty and Bowen dissolve received boundaries and
distinctions at every level
The Problem That Isn’t Ours
No full text“The Problem That Isn’t Ours” is a 2015 Newcomb College Institute Senior Symposium lecture delivered and written by author Katy Smith.
The Effect of Food Insecurity Training on Knowledge, Awareness, Screening, and Intervention Practices within Two Pediatric Wards at an Academic Medical Center
No full textBackground and Introduction • Food insecurity is a major driver of preventable disease. Providers can screen to identify patients at risk for food insecurity using a two-question survey tool called “The Hunger Vital Sign”. Screening barriers identified in the literature include lack of provider knowledge, comfort, and capacity for effective intervention. Addressing this provider knowledge gap through training is essential for implementing robust and sustainable clinical food insecurity screening practices. • This study aims to evaluate the effect of food insecurity education on providers’ knowledge and awareness of food insecurity and their likelihood to screen and make referrals for at-risk patients, as well as to encourage healthcare providers to foster a culture of food insecurity screening and intervention in their practices. Objectives 1. To determine providers’ knowledge of food insecurity and awareness of referral practices and resources to help patients experiencing food insecurity. 2. To determine if providers’ participation in formal food insecurity training influences their likelihood of incorporating food insecurity screening into their patient interviews. 3. To determine if providers’ action following a positive screen is affected by participating in food insecurity training
Isolation and Community in Short Story Collections by Z.Z. Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Mary Gaitskill
No full textLooking at short story collections by Z.Z. Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Mary Gaitskill, this work explores the protagonists\u27 development of identity in relation to others. Using relational psychoanalysis as a theoretical base, this thesis probes the tension between involvement in community and maintaining individuality
An Appraisal Analysis of Gossip News Texts Written By Perez Hilton From Perezhilton.com (A Study Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics)
No full textClara Ertyas P. 2011. An Appraisal Analysis of Gossip News Texts Written By Perez Hilton From Perezhilton.com (A Study Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics).English Department, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University.
This research explored the appraisal system in the gossip news text written by Perez Hilton, taken from his website, perezhilton.com. There were eight texts that were analyzed. They were two texts of Katy Perry, two text of Leona Lewis, two text of Miley Cyrus, and two texts of Chris Brown, which were analyzed using Appraisal Theory. Appraisal theory is concerned with attitude, graduation, and engagement. The objectives of this thesis were to find out what appraising items applied in those texts; how they were applied; and why they were applied, including the ideology.
This was a descriptive qualitative research. The technique of taking sample used in this research was total sampling. There were two data in this research, the primary data which was sourced from the eight analyzed texts, and the secondary data which was contained the information of Perez Hilton related to his writings.
The results show that the three kinds of attitudes (affect, jugdment, and appreciation) are applied in the texts, but mostly is judgment. The types of the items are in the forms of word, nominal group and clause. Mostly the attitudes are in the forms of epithet group, attitudinal lexis and mental process clauses. Meanwhile, the engagement is mostly monogloss.
The moslty graduation is force, and the scaling of the graduation is up- scaled. The attitudes are applied through the strong expression, and they are applied in Analytical Exposition genre. Additionally, the texts are written subjectively based on the writer’s aspiration.
The appraising items are applied in the texts because of the ideologies that the writer wants to convey. The ideologies are right antagonist for texts exposing Katy Perry and Leona Lewis; and left antagonist for texts exposing Miley Cyrus and Chris Brown. The ideology shows the writer’s style in writing gossip news text that he supports the artist if he likes and conversely he challenges the artists
who he does not like
Debating Africa : BBC's documentary "Heart & soul - return to Zanzibar"
No full textThis issue of ISJ carried another article in the irregular series "Debating and Documenting Africa", the first one having been published in volume 1, number 2 (June 2008). This issue carries a discussion between Katy Hickman, Senior Producer at BBC World Service Religion and Ethics and Prof. Abdul Sheriff, formerly Professor of History at the University of Dar es Salaam and Director of Zanzibar Museums and the author of forthcoming titles, Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce and Islam and The Early Dhow Culture in the Indian Ocean: From the Periplus to the Portuguese. The context of this debate is BBC Radio’s "Return to Zanzibar" programme in their series, Heart & Soul. Setting the scene is Katy Hickman’s contact with Prof. Sheriff in which she enclosed an early outline of the programme. This is followed by Prof. Sheriff’s response which raises various key issue of relevance to the study of Africa. This is followed by Katy Hickman’s response which explains how the final version was influenced by points raised by Prof. Sheriff. Also included is a later piece by the presenter of the programme, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. While not part of this discussion, the latter is included to provide the presenter’s perspective. All these provide a look behind the scene on debates that take place before programmes are made and bring out the key role that historians, researchers and academicians can, and need to play, in social communications. ISJ’s Editorial Board re-presents this debate to stimulate further discussion
Reclaiming agency in the digital neighborhood: an ethnographic exploration of ethno-religious minority youths' performances of the masculine self
No full textSelf-presentation has been identified as a key practice within digital youth cultures. The scholarship on youths' self-presentation has extensively investigated how young people negotiate affordances in ways that optimally support their transitions into adulthood. However, the scholarship's focus on identity development and technological affordances risks constructing a homogeneous, de-contextualized, and media-centric representation of digital youth cultures. To unveil how self-presentation practices are embedded within a broader socio-cultural context, I conducted a 15-month hybrid ethnographic study with 23 ethno-religious minority young men living in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. The observations illustrate that these young men attempt to reclaim agency over their identity representations by performing "masculine ideals" of the self in response to racialized discourses. Overall, the results underscore the necessity of adopting an intersectional perspective that considers the interplay between self-presentation on social media and the threats and opportunities within youths' (digital) neighborhoods. Social media hold a central place within digital youth cultures as they enable young people to present their identities in creative ways. Ample studies show that youths appreciate the ability to disclose information about themselves through text, pictures, and videos. This scholarship, however, does not sufficiently take into account the socio-cultural context of young people. Consequently, we risk portraying digital youth culture as a monoculture. In this study, I conducted 15 months of hybrid ethnographic fieldwork among 23 ethno-religious minority young men living in Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. More specifically, I took up the role of a volunteer youth worker to gain an understanding of these youths' online and offline everyday lives. The results illustrate that these young men predominantly present themselves in typical "masculine" ways. Taking into account their socio-cultural context, the study found that they engage in these disclosures to challenge racist and discriminatory narratives that represent them either as victims or as perpetrators.The author disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) under grant number G048618N.
I would like to express my gratitude to Ralf De Wolf, Mariek Vanden Abeele, and Lieven De Marez for their invaluable guidance and support throughout the research process of this article
Supporting Vermont Families in Packing Healthy Lunches for Children in Childcare
No full textIntroduction. Partnering with Hunger Free Vermont, an organization that works to end hunger and malnutrition across the state, we investigated the nutritional value of the packed meals parents provide for their children in early childcare. The USDA's "My Plate" resource was used as a measure to assess variety, dividing foods into five groups: grains, dairy, vegetables, fruits, and protein. The results will help Hunger Free Vermont design nutrition education materials for childcare centers to provide to the families they serve. Methods. Online surveys were distributed, asking parents to report the foods they recently provided for their children in packed lunches, to rate how 'healthy' they thought those lunches were, and to note any barriers they experience to packing healthy foods. Results. Survey results showed that the average number of sweets packed by parents who had low confidence in their ability to pack healthy meals was significantly higher than the average number packed by parents with high confidence (p < 0.05). Additionally, the total number of cited barriers was significantly higher in parents who had low confidence in their ability to pack healthy meals (p < 0.01). Conclusions. Many parents cited time constraints and ‘picky’ children as barriers to providing healthy meals, with concerns about the expense of healthy items and lack of childcare for shopping or food-prep time following close behind. In the future, education materials that address children’s unhealthy food preferences or further investigations into barriers to providing healthy lunches may facilitate development of resources for Vermont families
Grid Domains for Analysing Software
No full textStatic analysis is the determination of correct though approximate information about the be- haviour of a system, this approach is used to detect and locate programming errors or to certify the absence of such bugs. Abstract interpretation is a static program analysis method that uses abstract domains to provide a convenient but approximate representation of the accumulated in- formation during the evaluation of a program. The focus of this thesis is to investigate numerical abstract domains that capture the distribution or patterns of values the program properties can take. There has already been a considerable amount of research into numerical abstract domains and a wide variety of such domains have been specified each providing a different degree of pre- cision and efficiency. For instance the domain of convex polyhedra is precise but has exponential complexity while the interval or box domain is much less precise but has linear complexity. Note that these domains do not capture the distribution information which is the focus of this thesis.
In the first part of this thesis we introduce the domain of grids. This domain interprets the patterns of distribution of the values that the program properties can take. The complete grid domain can interpret the relationships which hold between variables or properties in a program. There are two representations that form the two components of a double description method similar to that provided for convex polyhedra. This thesis gives algorithms and methods for computing canonical forms, conversion between the descriptions and the main abstract operations needed for software analysis, such as comparison, intersection, join, difference, affine image and pre-image. Also included is a widening operation and we show that all of these operations have polynomial complexity.
In the second part of this thesis we consider the partially reduced product of two numerical domains. The partially reduced product allows a choice of interaction between the component domains ranging from “do nothing” required by the direct product to a total reduction required by the reduced product. We consider the partially reduced product where the components are those of the grid domain with either the convex polyhedra domain or one of its sub-domains, specifi- cally the boxes, bounded difference shapes and octagon domains. The “weakly tight product” is introduced, an operation that ensures each constraint of the polyhedral representation intersects a point of the grid, and the “tight product”, which ensures each constraint of the polyhedral rep- resentation intersects a point of the grid-polyhedron. We provide an algorithm to compute the weakly tight product and show for what circumstances this algorithm achieves stronger results, so that the resulting grid-polyhedron is either a tight or a reduced product. Methods for test- ing if a grid-polyhedron is empty as well as several useful operations on grid-polyhedra are also described
David Peace: Texts and Contexts
No full textDavid Peace is an emerging author who is widely read and taught, and whose novels are increasingly translated into commercial film (The Damned United, March 2009) and television (Channel 4 adaptation of the Red Riding Quartet, March 2009). Dr Katy Shaw's book provides a challenging but accessible critical introduction to his work through a detailed analysis of his writing, as well as the socio-cultural contexts of its production and dissemination. The author explores Peace's attempts to capture the sensibilities of late twentieth century society and contributes to an ongoing debate in the media about Peace's representations. Influenced by critical theory, the text will be the first secondary resource concerning this rising star of contemporary British literature. While UK readers will seek insight into the socio-cultural contexts of England's regions (and in particular his writing on the Yorkshire Ripper and the 1984-5 miners' strike), Peace also has a following in the US where both The Damned United and Red Riding have been released as films. This broad international appeal and readership will be explored and discussed, especially in the context of crime fiction and social engagement. This text is the first critical resource concerning this author and will cover the full body of Peace's writings to date, the debates this work has generated, and the often contentious representations offered by his novels
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