177 research outputs found
Bring the Boys Home
No full textThis content curation project focuses on the musical responses to the Vietnam War by examining songs by John Lennon, Edwin Starr, Freda Payne, Jimi Hendrix. The author provides a brief overview of the political, military and cultural forces at work in the U.S. to provide context for the protest songs analyzed. The song analysis includes examining lyrics and other performance elements. The author concludes with showing parallels to today’s protest music
Examining the female leader in Octavia Butler's dawn and Fledgling, 2011
No full textThis study examines the prototypical female leader as constructed by Octavia Butler in her science fiction novels, Dawn and Fledgling. The premise of the study relates to the protagonists capacity to undergo arduous tasks in extraordinary circumstances so that they can ultimately lead their people into a revolutionized society. Overcoming enormous obstacles, including the rejection of the very people they must lead, proves that both protagonists, Lilith Ilypo, in Dawn, and Shori Matthews, in Fledgling, are the women of the future, created to lead human beings into a brave new world. The study further examines Butlers portrayal of the othemesses that continue to plague societies, despite the societies higher evolution, and concludes that only through continuous compromise will the world become unified. Butler indicates that the onerous task of achieving this ultimate unification lies on the shoulders of women who will serve as, what I term, the futures female Adams
The Relation Between Math Anxiety and Play Behaviors in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children
No full textFrom a young age, children’s math achievement is influenced by individual factors, such as math anxiety. While math anxiety has been linked to math avoidance, few studies have explored this link in young children, particularly in the context of play. Because play-based instruction is commonly used for math in early childhood classrooms, understanding the impact of math anxiety on children’s engagement in math-related play may have important implications for children’s early math learning. The current study examined the role of children’s math anxiety in their persistence and exploration during a math toy play task. We observed wide variability in children’s play behaviors, finding that children’s actions during play did not relate to their math anxiety, but their talk related to math while playing with the toy did. There are also age and gender differences in math anxiety, school experience, and reasoning about the toy play task. These results suggest that math anxiety may influence certain aspects of children’s engagement in math-related play, and that more research is needed to consider links between math anxiety and math avoidance in young children
Rethinking the norm : Judith Butler and the Hollywood teen movie
No full textThe thesis explores the construction of gender in the Hollywood Teen Movie, often perceived as 'the odious norm' of Hollywood cinema with little to warrant serious analysis.[1] Although Timothy Shary's work has done much to promote the genre as an area of academic enquiry, there have been few sustained textual analyses of the Teen Movie.
Through close textual analysis of seven representative case studies, this thesis stages an encounter between Butler's work on gender and the Teen Movie. Butler’s theorisation of performativity denaturalises and deconstructs the assumption of heteronormativity, enabling a detailed analysis of the genre's 'sexual coming-of-age narrative'.[2] Further, the textual analyses complicate and augment aspects of her theories. Following a review of the literature on the Teen Movie, and an examination of Butler's oeuvre, the thesis is divided into three sections. Firstly, the prom is explored as a typical narrative conclusion to the School Film. Secondly, the following chapter analyses star performance and film acting in the youth delinquency film. The final chapter examines the genre’s construction of the past in the "nostalgic" teen movie. The original contribution to knowledge is twofold: the thesis significantly expands existing work on the Teen Movie, and uses the depth and range of specific examples from the case studies to complicate Butler's work. Textual analysis of each film’s
construction of heteronormativity demonstrates that this normative and mainstream genre offers a more complex and critical presentation of heterosexual norms than previously appreciated. The thesis rethinks the norm by demonstrating the complexity
of normative culture, which demonstrates a range of examples that call for a reconsideration of Butler's theorisation of gender norms
I love you to death : the voice of the woman artist : sex, violence, sentimentality
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-117).At a dinner party in Durban after the opening of Come, a 2007 exhibition of Michaelis MFA students, a woman asked me about my work. When I told her it was "the bullets", by way of description (One Hundred Bullets With Your Name On Them), she said something along the lines of "oh, that's so fascinating, I really had thought a man had made them"
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
ALMA and Herschel observations of the prototype dusty and polluted white dwarf G29-38
No full textJF gratefully acknowledges the support of the STFC via an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship. AB acknowledges the support of the ANR-2010 BLAN-0505-01 (EXOZODI). MCW and OP are grateful for the support of the European Union through ERC grant number 279973.ALMA Cycle 0 and Herschel PACS observations are reported for the prototype, nearest, and brightest example of a dusty and polluted white dwarf, G29-38. These long-wavelength programmes attempted to detect an outlying, parent population of bodies at 1–100 au, from which originates the disrupted planetesimal debris that is observed within 0.01 au and which exhibits LIR/L* = 0.039. No associated emission sources were detected in any of the data down to LIR/L* ∼ 10−4, generally ruling out cold dust masses greater than 1024–1025 g for reasonable grain sizes and properties in orbital regions corresponding to evolved versions of both asteroid and Kuiper belt analogues. Overall, these null detections are consistent with models of long-term collisional evolution in planetesimal discs, and the source regions for the disrupted parent bodies at stars like G29-38 may only be salient in exceptional circumstances, such as a recent instability. A larger sample of polluted white dwarfs, targeted with the full ALMA array, has the potential to unambiguously identify the parent source(s) of their planetary debris.Peer reviewe
Thomas Salter's "The Mirrhor of Modestie": an Edition.
No full textIn both the old and the revised Short Title Catalogue 1475-1640, Item 21634, A Mirrhor mete for all Mothers, Matrones, and Maidens, intituled the Mirrhor of Modestie {1579}, is attributed to Thomas Salter. The attribution is based on information provided by the treatise itself--by Salter's epistle to his female readers, which invokes mot of the conventions of authorial humility; by the head-title of the main text, which includes Salter's name; and by the explicit, which reads "Finis . . Thomas Salter.". In fact, Thomas Salter is not the author of this work. What he presents is for the most part a close translation of Gian Michele Bruto's La Institutione di una Fanciulla Nata Nobilmente (Anvers, 1555), an epistolary address to Lord Sylvester Cattaneo on the subject of his daughter's education. The Mirrhor of Modestie is a plagiarism of one of the most conservative of Renaissance humanist treatises on female learning. This edition of Salter's translation introduces a perspective that has been largely neglected by those who have examined attitudes toward women's education in sixteenth-century Engl and . Bruto's judgment, in Salter's words, is that "it is not mete nor conuenient for a Maiden to be taught or trayned vp in learnyng of humaine artes, in whome a vertuous demeanor and honest behauiour, would be a more sightlier ornament" (Cl('r)-Cl('v)). Taking his place among those who mistrust the conjunction of woman and knowledge, Bruto (Salter) warns that the maiden must be kept from philosophy, eloquence, and poetry--from whatever would encourage excessive thinking and speaking or amorous fantasy. Because inquiry leads to an underst and ing of evil, she should be restricted to simple Christian truths and household lore. The edition presented here supersedes that which was published by John Payne Collier in his Illustrations of Old English Literature (1866) and corrects Collier's assertion that Salter wrote within a discrete Puritan tradition. That The Mirrhor is primarily the work of a Catholic humanist suggests need for a revision of the categories by which we traditionally have described Renaissance thought.PhDBritish and Irish literatureUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/159009/1/8224967.pd
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