1,142 research outputs found
Books & the Arts piece on playwright Tina Howe\u27s Pride\u27s Crossing, which is
No full textBooks & the Arts piece on playwright Tina Howe\u27s Pride\u27s Crossing, which is being presented at the Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor through Feb. 20
Directing a Production of Tina Howe\u27s Painting Churches
No full textThe purpose of this study is to trace the directorial process of producing Tina Howe\u27s Painting Churches and applying the theories of John Kirk and Ralph Bellas in their book, The Art of Directing, to the analysis and production phase. Sponsored by the Theatre and Dance Department, the play was produced as a practical, creative thesis. The thesis is divided into six chapters detailing the different steps in preparing the production with the final chapter being a self-evaluation of the finished work
Tina Howe’s “Bare Hands” plays
No full textУ статті досліджується група п'єс сучасної жінки-драматурга США Тіни Хау, які посідають особливе місце у творчому спадку письменниці. Визначено та схарактеризовано цикл «нетактовних» п'єс. Проаналізовані маловідомі комедії драматургині.The paper studies those plays written by Tina Howe which received no popular acclaim and were nicknamed by their author as “Barehand”. The paper traces the development and dynamics of the texts. The peculiarities of comedies’ structure in this cycle are analyzed
Where Participatory Approaches Meet Pragmatism in Funded (Health) Research: The Challenge of Finding Meaningful Spaces
Full text linkThe term participatory research is now widely used as a way of categorising research that has moved beyond researching "on" to researching "with" participants. This paper draws attention to some confusions that lie behind such categorisation and the potential impact of those confusions on qualitative participatory research in practice. It illuminates some of the negative effects of "fitting in" to spaces devised by other types of research and highlights the importance of forging spaces for presenting participatory research designs that suit a discursive approach and that allow the quality and impact of such research to be recognised. The main contention is that the adoption of a variety of approaches and purposes is part of the strength of participatory research but that to date the paradigm has not been sufficiently articulated. Clarifying the unifying features of the participatory paradigm and shaping appropriate ways for critique could support the embedding of participatory research into research environments, funding schemes and administration in a way that better reflects the nature and purpose of authentic involvement
De-tangling the web: Mother-daughter relationships in the plays of Marsha Norman, Lillian Hellman, Tina Howe, and Ntozake Shange
No full textDe-Tangling the Web: Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Plays of Marsha Norman, Lillian Hellman, Tina Howe, and Ntozake Shange uses psychoanalytical theories to examine the mother/daughter relationships in Norman\u27s \u27night, Mother, Hellman\u27s The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest, Howe\u27s Painting Churches, and Shange\u27s for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf. This study employs the theories of Freud, Chodorow, Lacan, Kristeva, and Irigaray to elucidate the role of language and behavior in the construction of the mother/daughter subjective positions, their relationship, and the concept of the maternal as it is found in these plays. This study concludes that these plays reflect the semiotic (Kristeva\u27s term) in its relationship to the Symbolic order. This study also applies these theories to the bibliographical elements found in these plays and ascertains that these elements provide cohesive substructures for these plays. It further suggests that Norman, Hellman, and Howe deal artistically with their relationship to their mothers in order to come to terms with the Symbolic order in which they, as artists, are problematically enmeshed and that unlike Norman, Hellman, and Howe, Shange does not resist the maternal; instead she celebrates it. In Norman\u27s \u27night, Mother, Lacan\u27s concept of the Imaginary, specifically the imagos, and its position within the Symbolic order are found in certain images and in the language and behavior that accompanies the play\u27s action. The section on Hellman argues that The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest reflect Hellman\u27s unresolved pre-oedipal relationship to her mother. The one play in which the semiotic is overwhelmingly present is Tina Howe\u27s Painting Churches. Colors, sounds, images, and repetitive behaviors are so tightly woven in this play that a tapestry of the semiotic exists. In Shange\u27s for colored girls, the primacy of the African Great Mothers--their creativity, their autonomy, and their strength--governs Shange\u27s for colored girls and her other dramas and poems
TINA-C Deliverable
No full text: This document specifies basic seperations used in the control and management of TINA Network Resource functions. A reusable group of technology independent components is described to perform these functions. The work is part of the TINA-C specification effort and as such an element in the TINA-C architecture. This document is intended to replace the 1994 Connection Management Architecture Baseline. Keywords: Network Resource, Connection Management, Open Distributed Processing, Telecommunication Management Network, Managed Objects, G.803 Functional Architecture. Author(s): Chelo Abarca, Jan Forslow, Takeo Hamada, Stephanie Hogg, Hong Beom Jeon, Dae Seok Kim, Hahn Young Lee, Narayanan Natarajan, Frank Steegmans Editor: Frank Steegmans Type: TINA-C Baseline Document Label: NRA_v3.0_97_02_10 Date: February 10, 1997 File: /u/tinac/96/resources/viewable/nra_v3.0.ps also available via http://www.tinac.com/ Network Resource Architecture Version 3.0 February 10, 1997 NRA_v3.0_97_02_10 Ta..
Birth and After Birth and Painting Churches: Tina Howe\u27s Examination of Love and Savagery in the American Family
Full text linkPlaywright Tina Howe has been quoted as saying that family life has been over-romanticized; the savagery has not been seen enough in the theatre and in movies . . . (Moore 101). In two of her plays, Birth and After Birth (1973) and Painting Churches (1983), that savagery appears in the form of name-calling, jealousy, apathy, disregard, and physical and mental abuse. A juxtaposition of the similarities in Birth and After Birth and Painting Churches will explain the savagery Howe is examining. The earlier play is written in the surrealistic style of lonesco and Beckett, playwrights who have been a major influence on Howe. The later work is a much more realistic, conventional play. Both center around three-member families (a set of parents and an only child) and take place at a time of significant change. The main focus is Painting Churches and the abuse that lies at the heart of the play. Mags Church (short for Margaret) has come home to help her parents, Fanny and Gardner, pack their things; they are moving from Boston to their summer cottage in Concuit. A promising young artist on the rise, she is also going to paint a portrait of them. But the painting of this portrait will be much more than the creating of a new piece of art for Mags; it will be a very personal and very trying test. Throughout the play, Howe reveals Mags\u27 multifaceted mental and emotional problems and how her mother, while essentially a loving parent, contributed greatly to her daughter\u27s lack of self-esteem and need to mask herself behind her work. She may even be responsible, and this thesis proves that Fanny Church subjected her only child to continuous psychological abuse, creating in her a deep-rooted psychosis. Birth and After Birth, written a decade earlier, examines some of the issues addressed in Painting Churches, and is basically used as backup evidence to help prove my theory
Who says it's still a man's world?: questioning the myth of male privilege in America
No full textWomen in our American society today claim they must continue their fight for equality. Statistics are often cited regarding the wage gap and violent acts against women as proof that women are denied the same rights and protection as males. This paper argues that in many situations men are often denied the same rights and privileges that women have today. This discussion concentrates mainly on family law proceedings as well as criminal court cases and investigations in which men are not given equal consideration. Primacy for women’s issues had its time and place, but now it appears as though the pendulum has swung too far and as a result our society is losing empathy for men.M.A.L.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Tina D. Currad
[[alternative]]An Experimental Research on Digital Circuit Skill Instruction Using TINA and EWB Computer Assisted Courseware
No full text[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to investigate the instruction achievement of computer assisted instruction(CAI) on digital circuit skill instruction, with TINA, EWB and a self-developed multimedia system as skill instruction courseware.
The nonequivalent pretest-posttest design is used to test the effectiveness of two new CAI methods. Electronic Workbench (EWB) is a simulation training system, and Toolkit for Interactive Network Analysis (TINA) is a training system with additional test cards. Both of EWB and TINA systems were developed for digital circuit training. Thirty six students were selected from Taipei Municipal Sung-Shan Vocational Industrial-Agricultural School as experimental objects. They were divided into two groups. The experimental group used TINA system and the comparison group used EWB system for studying digital circuit skill. The achievement of knowledge and skill in both two groups were evaluated through the posttest. The retention test was given to the students three times week after week to check their learning condition.
The results of this research was summaried as the followings;
1.In knowledge studying, there is no significant difference between experimental group and comparison group；but in skill learning，there is significance between these two groups. The achievement of experimental group is higher than the comparison group. Therefore the effectiveness of EWB is no less than that of TINA in knowledge instruction, and the effectiveness of TINA is higher than that of EWB in skill learning.
2. The satisfaction of experimental group is higher than comparison group in courseware and environment design. The students preferred to study skill with both hands and brain.
3. In the retention of knowledge and skill abilities, there is no significant difference between experimental group and comparison group. But the average score of experimental group is higher than that of comparison group. Therefore the retention of learning system with both hands and brain is better than that of a pure simulation learning system on digital circuit skill instruction.
Keywords: computer assisted instruction(CAI), TINA, EWB, digital circuit learning, retention.
LITERARY PORTRAYALS OF THE ELDERLY ARTISTS IN TINA HOWE’S COASTAL DISTURBANCES: FOUR PLAYS
Full text linkConsidering increased average life expectancy, the world-wide demographical crisis and discrimination of the elderly, the article studies strategies of aging and various forms of adaptation to changes in late adulthood in fiction. The goal of the study is examination of representations of the fictional elderly artists in a collection of plays by Tina Howe (1989). The author of the article analyzes the interaction of art and late adulthood in Museum, Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances. Contemplation of art and involvement into artistic
activities help establish positive images of aging in three dramas. Life review fragments, discourse of death drive, discussion of elderly suicide and self-stereotyping are defined as gerontological markers of aging. The plays in question build an ambivalent solidarity-conflict model between aging parents and adult child. The involvement into artistic activities becomes a way to cope with aging in lives of the elderly characters
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