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The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
No full textContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
Well-known trade mark protection: confusion in EU and Japan
No full textIn this thesis concerning the protection of well-known trade marks against confusion in the European Community Trade Mark (CTM) and Japanese trademark systems, the author critically considers the difficulties in comprehensively defining ‘well-known trade mark’ in the relevant international trade mark instruments. After critical analysis of various definitions of both ‘trade mark’ and ‘well-known trade mark’, she undertakes a comparison of the definitions of the parallel concepts of ‘trade mark of repute’ and ‘syuchi-syohyo’, and also undertakes an assessment as to the extent to which these trade marks are protected against confusion and kondo in the CTM and Japanese systems, respectively. It is concluded that the protection of well- known trade marks against confusion in the CTM and Japan cannot be said to be completely clear, and the author identifies some areas for legal refor
The Gospel on the Margins: The Ideological Function of the Patristic Tradition on the Evangelist Mark
No full textIn spite of the virtually unanimous patristic opinion that the evangelist Mark was the interpreter of Peter, one of the most prestigious apostolic founding figures in Christian memory, the Gospel of Mark was mostly neglected in the patristic period. Not only is the text of Mark the least well represented of the canonical Gospels in terms of the number of patristic citations, commentaries and manuscripts, the explicit comments about the evangelist Mark reveal some ambivalence about its literary or theological value. In my survey of the reception of Mark from Papias of Hierapolis until Clement of Alexandria, I will argue that the reason why the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace the Gospel of Mark was that they perceived the text to be amenable to the Christological beliefs and social praxis of rival Christian factions. The patristic tradition about Mark may have little historical basis, but it had an important ideological function in appropriating the text in the name of an apostolic authority from the margins or periphery
Milestones Mark 50-Year Story
No full textNewspaper Article - 'Milestones Mark 50-Year Story'. The Edmonton Journal, May 29, 1959. Milestones down the 50-year road of the Alberta Women's Institute.AWI CollectionWi Jubilee Anniversary
Milestones Mark
50- Year Story
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SECTION TWO EDMONTON, ALBERTA, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1959
Milestones down the 50- year
road of the Alberta Women's
Institutes indicate the organization
is on a broad highway
after starting down a narrow
path, from past presidents'
reminiscences at the jubilee
convention meeting in Convocation
Hall Thursday evening.
Projects have expanded, horizons
broadened and the organization
has repeatedly sent
representatives to the conventions
of the Associated Country
Women of the World.
The story told Thursday
evening by special speaker,.
Miss Isabel Noble of Wichita,
Kansas, organizer of the WI
in 1909 and president for the
first eight years, was of a nebulous
beginning.
WITHIN 50 TEARS
Fifty years later, Mrs. T. H.
Howes, Millet, completing her
term as president, attended the
ACWW meeting in Ceylon and
the immediate past president,
Mrs. S. Lefsrud, Viking, who
also attended an ACWW conference
in Toronto, referred to
a recent trip she made to Russia.
Between the beginning at
home and the world viewpoint,
the convention relived their
activities in reports of presidents
who served during war
years and depression. The story
took the audience on many adventures
along Alberta's early
highways as the presidents
travelled to unite the scattered
branches of the WI.
Speakers included Mrs. W.
McParlane who read a report
from Mrs. A. G. McGorman,
Penhold. president from 1R49
to 1953. and Airs. M. L. Thompson.
Lethbridge, president from
1941 to 1945.
On behalf of Mrs. Susan D.
Stewart of Peace River, president
from 1937 to 1941, Mrs.
A. H. Rogers was the speaker.
Mrs. J. C. Ferguson, Trochu,
president from 1933 to 1937
also addressed the meeting.
The past presidents paid
tribute to the tremendous accomplishments
of the late Mrs.
E. E. Morton, Vegreville, president
from 1945 to 1949. Mrs.
M. G. Roberts of Hanna was
chairman.
BORROWED CONSTITUTION
Telling of the organization
days of the WI Miss Noble,
the special speaker said, " I
thought constitutions were for
quarrelsome people." recalling
how at first the WI worked on
an adopted constitution from
when she travelled south giving
demonstrations on c a n n i ng
vegetables. In one district the
women arrived, some two on a
horse, some carrying shoes and
S t o c k i n g s . This is a poor
district, she thought, but went
ahead with her talk to a most
indifferent audience. Question
time came and they asked why
ahe spoke in that vein when
they hadn't had a crop in asven
years.
Nor had they the money to
pool together to buy vegetables.
Help? Send us a nurse they
urged, and so rural organization
was begun to supply district
nurses.
Miss Noble's talk was a gay
remembrance of anecdote in
the early days. She also cited
distress cases where the WI
helped as neighbors.
WI CREED
' " sHeToIcTof how the creed of
the WI now repeated the world
over, was given first to her by
a neighbor in Daysland, her
Alberta home, before she moved
to Wichita. " I have heard
t h a t creed repeated in Britain
and in Asia," she said.
During her term as president.
1933 to 1937 there were hard
times and poverty, Mrs. J. C.
Ferguson of Trochu reminded.
She recalled how the WI helped
supply layettes for mothers
in need, and referred to a visit
from Lady Tweedsmuir when a
WI library for shipping packages
of books to rural homes
was inaugurated.
Mrs. Rogers' message from
Mrs. Stewart of Peace River
was a lively account of how the
graduate of Glasgow University
came as a bride to Peace River,
and took up WI work. She
served as AWI president from
1937 to 1941. Later her war effort
was to work ih Ottawa
censoring German mail. Offered
the presidency of the Federated
WI of Canada she refused
" because it was not Alberta's
turn."
WAR SERVICE
Mrs. Thompson recalled the
work of the WI during the
war years; service for the Red
Cross, making ditty bags for
th « merchant marine; how they
cancelled a convention and
bought bonds with the money
saved; how they saved a dollar
each in Christmas money, and
sent $ 1,000 to sister Wis in
bombed areas in Britain.
RUSSIA, PIONEERING
Mrs. Lefsrud's description of
the ACWW meeting in Toronto
turned then to her personal
trip to Russia which she saw,
she said, as a pioneer country
with the people looking ahead.
Moscow she said was a fascinating
metropolis. She urged that
the four freedoms in the covenant
of the ACWW, freedom
from want, freedom of thought,
speech and expression be remembered
in judging Russia.
Milestones In her presidency
included taking up the cause of
Alberta's Indians.
Speaking on behalf of Mrs.
W. McGorman, Red Deer, Mrs.
W. McFarlane referred to establishing
a scholarship in
music in memory of the late
Mrs. H. J. Montgomery, president
from 1929 to 1933, and of
obtaining sponsors for handicrafts.
Mrs. McGorman was a
delegate to the ACWW conference
in Copenhagen, Denmark
during her presidency.
During the evening Miss
Jeanette MacDonall, winner of
the first Montgomery scholarship,
sang several selections.
Gifts were presented by Mrs.
Howes to Mrs. A. H. Rogers
and to Miss MacDonall. Mrs.
Howes also presented a life
membership pin to Mrs. Per-,
guson, Trochu.
The meeting concluded with
roll call of branches and a coffee
party at which the AWI
cut and served their anniversary
cake.
NEW OFFICERS IN AWI — The concluding
day, Friday, of the Alberta Women's
Institutes' four- day convention brought elections
at the morning sessions at Convocation
Hall. Mrs. W. R. Ford, Coutts, Alberta, pictured
at centre, was elected preside
M. G. Roberts, Drumheller, left, w
vice- president and Mrs. John Rich
Deer, secretary. — Photo by Goe
Incomprehension or resistance? : the Markan disciples and the narrative logic of Mark 4:1—8:30
No full textThe characterization of the Markan disciples has been and continues to be the object of much scholarly reflection and speculation. For many, the Markan author’s presentation of Jesus’ disciples holds a key, if not the key, to unlocking the purpose and function of the gospel as a whole. Commentators differ as to whether the Markan disciples ultimately serve a pedagogical or polemical function, yet they are generally agreed that the disciples in Mark come off rather badly, especially when compared to their literary counterparts in Matthew, Luke, and John.
This narrative-critical study considers the characterization of the Markan disciples within the Sea Crossing movement (Mark 4:1–8:30). While commentators have, on the whole, interpreted the disciples’ negative characterization in this movement in terms of lack of faith and/or incomprehension, neither of these, nor a combination of the two, fully accounts for the severity of language leveled against the disciples by the narrator (6:52) and Jesus (8:17–18). Taking as its starting point an argument by Jeffrey B. Gibson (1986) that the harshness of Jesus’ rebuke in Mark 8:14–21 is occasioned not by the disciples’ lack of faith or incomprehension but by their active resistance to his Gentile mission, this investigation uncovers additional examples of the disciples’ resistance to Gentile mission, offering a better account of their negative portrayal within the Sea Crossing movement and helping explain many of their other failures.
In short, this study argues that in Mark 4:1–8:26, the disciples are characterized as resistant to Jesus’ Gentile mission and to their participation in that mission, the chief consequence being that they are rendered incapable of recognizing Jesus’ vocational identity as Israel’s Messiah (Thesis A). This leads to a secondary thesis, namely, that in Mark 8:27–30, Peter’s recognition of Jesus’ messianic identity indicates that the disciples have finally come to accept Jesus’ Gentile mission and their participation in it (Thesis B).
“Chapter One: Introduction” offers a selective review of scholarly treatments of the Markan disciples, which shows that few scholars attribute resistance, let alone purposeful resistance, to the disciples.
“Chapter Two: The Rhetoric of Repetition” introduces the methodological tools, concepts, and perspectives employed in the study. It includes a section on narrative criticism, which focuses upon the story-as-discoursed and the implied author and reader, and a section on Construction Grammar, a branch of cognitive linguistics founded by Charles Fillmore and further developed by Paul Danove, which focuses upon semantic and narrative frames and case frame analysis.
“Chapter Three: The Sea Crossing Movement, Mark 4:1–8:30” addresses the question of Markan structure and argues that Mark 4:1–8:30 comprises a single, unified, narrative movement, whose action and plot is oriented to the Sea of Galilee and whose most distinctive feature is the network of sea crossings that transport Jesus and his disciples back and forth between Jewish and Gentile geopolitical spaces.
Following William Freedman, “Chapter Four: The Literary Motif” introduces two criteria (frequency and avoidability) for determining objectively what constitutes a literary motif and provides the methodological basis and starting point for the analyses performed in chapters five and six.
“Chapter Five: The Sea Crossing Motif” establishes and then carries out a lengthy narrative analysis of the Sea Crossing motif, which is oriented around Mark’s use of θάλασσα (thalassa) and πλοῖον (ploion), and “Chapter Six: The Loaves Motif” does the same for The Loaves motif, oriented around Mark’s use of ἄρτος (artos).
Finally, “Chapter Seven: The Narrative Logic of the Disciples (In)comprehension” draws together all narrative, linguistic, and exegetical insights of the previous chapters and offers a single coherent reading of the Sea Crossing movement that establishes Theses A and B.
Do disrupt: change the status quo : or become it, a book by Mark Shayler
No full textRecensão crítica à obra de Mark Shaler, "Do disrupt: change the status quo : or become it", 2015“Do Disrupt” is a cute and small self-help book. Most of its ideas aren´t exactly new – the reader probably as heard most of them. However, my guess is that readers would gain from hearing those ideas once more. Plus, the author makes a god job in presenting those ideas in a fresh and beautiful way.
Mark Shayler is an environmental consultant. His main focus is to help develop ideas and implement them. So far this his first book.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Dopaminergic basis of salience dysregulation in psychosis
No full textDisrupted salience processing is proposed as central in linking dysregulated dopamine function with psychotic symptoms. Several strands of evidence are now converging in support of this model. Animal studies show that midbrain dopamine neurons are activated by unexpected salient events. In psychotic patients, neurochemical studies have confirmed subcortical striatal dysregulation of dopaminergic neurotransmission, whereas functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of salience tasks have located alterations in prefrontal and striatal dopaminergic projection fields. At the clinical level, this may account for the altered sense of meaning and significance that predates the onset of psychosis. This review draws these different strands of evidence together in support of an emerging understanding of how dopamine dysregulation may lead to aberrant salience and psychotic symptoms. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd
Asia’s Wicked Environmental Problems
No full textThe developing economies of Asia are confronted by serious environmental problems that threaten to undermine future growth, food security, and regional stability. This study considers four major environmental challenges that policymakers across developing Asia will need to address towards 2030: water management, air pollution, deforestation and land degradation, and climate change. We argue that these challenges, each unique in their own way, all exhibit the characteristics of “wicked problems”. As developed in the planning literature, and now applied much more broadly, wicked problems are dynamic, complex, encompass many issues and stakeholders, and evade straightforward, lasting solutions.asia environmental problems; food security; water management; air pollution; deforestation; land degradation; climate change; wicked problems
Microbial enrichment culture responsible for the complete oxidative biodegradation of 3‑Amino-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (ATO), the reduced daughter product of the insensitive munitions compound 3‑Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO)
No full text3-Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO) is one of the main ingredients of many insensitive munitions, which are being used as replacements for conventional explosives. As its use becomes widespread, more research is needed to assess its environmental fate. Previous studies have shown that NTO is biologically reduced to 3-amino-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (ATO). However, the final degradation products of ATO are still unknown. We have studied the aerobic degradation of ATO by enrichment cultures derived from the soil. After multiple transfers, ATO degradation was monitored in closed bottles through measurements of inorganic carbon and nitrogen species. The results indicate that the members of the enrichment culture utilize ATO as the sole source of carbon and nitrogen. As ATO was mineralized to CO₂, N₂, and NH₄⁺, microbial growth was observed in the culture. Co-substrates addition did not increase the ATO degradation rate. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed that the organisms that enriched using ATO as carbon and nitrogen source were Terrimonas spp., Ramlibacter-related spp., Mesorhizobium spp., Hydrogenophaga spp., Ralstonia spp., Pseudomonas spp., Ectothiorhodospiraceae, and Sphingopyxis. This is the first study to report the complete mineralization of ATO by soil microorganisms, expanding our understanding of natural attenuation and bioremediation of the explosive NTO.Journal ArticleFinal article publishe
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