98 research outputs found
Telerehabilitation and Virtual Gaming in a School-Based Setting for At-Risk Youth
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
This case study explored the efficacy of telerehabilitation in a private school–based setting for two at-risk youths. Both children improved overall performance within their environments. Timocco software was a successful method of telerehabilitation in the at-risk school environment.
Primary Author and Speaker: Varleisha Gibbs
Additional Authors and Speakers: Sara Benham
Contributing Authors: Jennifer Abraham, Julie Mathew</jats:p
Sara Against Ezra: A Critical Reading Within the Biblical Canon of the Second Temple
No full textEl autor realiza una lectura de la Biblia adoptando una perspectiva narratológica. Se acerca al ciclo de Abraham y Sara (Gn 11,26–25,18) para leerlo en contraste con otros textos del canon bíblico de la época del segundo Templo. El autor afirma que la complejidad de los personajes, sus caracterizaciones moralmente ambiguas y la intrazabilidad de la semilla de Abraham ponen en cuestión ideas estrechas sobre la identidad cultural y narrativa de Israel.In this paper, the author faces the Biblical narrative of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar with narratological tools. He reads these texts (Gn 11,26–25,18) in the context of the Second Temple canon. The author believes that the complexity of all characters, their moral ambiguity and the intraceability of Abraham’s seed question some rigid ideas about the cultural and narrative identity of Israel
La presencia del mundo griego en el Testamento de Abraham
No full textThis paper attempts to analyze the presence of the Greek world in the Testament of Abraham, a pseudepigraphic text composed between the second century BC and the second century AD. The author was most probably an anonymous Jew born in Egypt. The work was transmitted in two recensions, A and B. Its main characters are found in the Hebrew Bible: Abraham, Sarah and their son Isaac, and the archangel Gabriel. The work presents apocalyptic elements, features from Orphism, and the unmistakable hallmark of Homer’s description of the vision of the world in the 10th chapter of recension A. El artículo se propone analizar la presencia del mundo griego en el Testamento de Abraham, un texto pseudoepigráfico, compuesto entre los siglos II a.C y II d.C. cuyo autor, anónimo, fue probablemente un judío egipcio. La obra fue transmitida en dos recensiones A y B. Los principales personajes provienen de la Biblia hebrea: Abraham, Sara, su hijo Isaac, y el arcángel Gabriel. La obra presenta elementos apocalípticos, rasgos provenientes del orfismo y el inconfundible sello de Homero en la descripción de la visión del mundo en el capítulo 10 de la recensión A. 
Una aproximación crítica al ciclo de Abraham en la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea
No full textThe Bible has been a source of inspiration for many types of artistic expressions, and its impact on different places and times is the subject of discipline, Cultural Biblical Studies. From this point of view, this article analyzes the retelling of the Abraham Cycle in the novel Sara from Sergio Ramírez (2015) through the construction of the characters, the role of the narrator and the use of intertextuality. In the novel, Sara is a woman of action, who criticizes the status quo and demands spaces of freedom. The past tense of the biblical narrative and the present tense of the autor are combined to offer a new interpretation based on a contemporary mentality that questions divinity and emphasizes the predominance of reason and feminism. Through the narrator, the author questions the reader and creates an intriguing text between tradition and innovation. From the point of view of a woman, Ramirez recreates, transforms, and invents the biblical texts, showing that the Bible is still an active creator of culture.La Biblia ha sido fuente de inspiración en todo tipo de manifestaciones artísticas. Su impacto en cada época y lugar es el objeto de la disciplina de los Estudios bíblicos culturales. Desde esta perspectiva, en este artículo se aborda la reescritura del ciclo de Abraham en la novela Sara de Sergio Ramírez (2015), prestando especial atención a la construcción de los personajes, al papel del narrador y al empleo de la intertextualidad. Sara es presentada como una mujer de acción, que critica el poder y reclama espacios de libertad. El pasado de los relatos bíblicos y el presente del autor se conjugan en esta obra para dar paso a una interpretación construida desde concepciones propias de una mentalidad contemporánea como el cuestionamiento de la divinidad, el predominio de la razón o el feminismo. A través del narrador, el autor interpela al lector construyendo un texto sugerente, a caballo entre la tradición y la innovación. Desde la mirada de una mujer Ramírez recrea, transforma e inventa los relatos bíblicos, mostrando la vigencia de la Biblia como generadora de cultura
“To Make Myself for a Person”: The Bildungsroman in Modern Jewish-American Literature
No full textAnzia Yezierska\u27s Bread Givers and Abraham Cahan\u27s The Rise of David Levinsky share many similarities: they both feature young Jewish protagonists who immigrate to America in search of the better life they believe America can provide. Though their novels have similar trajectories, each author answers the still relevant question of how immigrants might successfully assimilate into American culture in contrasting lights. Cahan\u27s protagonist, in a superficial sense, achieves the American dream, while Yezierska\u27s Sara achieves a more modest success. However, Sara ultimately navigates the trials of cultural assimilation and identity formation more successfully. Levinsky gains monetary wealth by adapting to American values of independence and class mobility, but Sara achieves the much more valuable goal of a confident identity by tempering her embrace of these traditional American values and not rejecting her cultural origins
'Nicely Boiled and Scraped': Medicine, Radicalism, and the "Useful Body" in a Lloyd Penny Blood
No full textThe publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in waysthat have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloydshaped the modern popular press: Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other ’penny dreadfuls’, which became bestsellers. Lloyd’s publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens’s novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers, such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music
Understanding Issues Affecting Students’ Commitment to Online Discussion Forums in Undergraduate Courses
No full textThis study explored students’ commitment and factors impacting their commitment to the online discussion forums that complement teaching and learning in two undergraduate courses. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative strategies, we collected and analyzed data to address our research questions. The findings indicate that students are committed to online discussion forums in this study, which seemed to be impacted by students’ technological skills and exciting topics. Even so, a few students were not as committed as they would have liked because the platform was new, and they needed time to adapt to the learning platform. That said, our findings reveal that students’ commitment to and engagement in the online discussion forum can be fostered with faculty support, exciting topics, and time to understand the new learning terrain
Undergraduate Nursing Students\u27 Mentoring Experiences in the Clinical Workplace
No full textLearning under the tutelage of mentors is an integral part of the clinical education in the workplace for undergraduate nursing students. Nursing students develop the appropriate professional skills to put theoretical knowledge into practice through the clinical mentoring process which happens at the workplace
Il capitello 'biblico' di Sovana e l'iconografia di Sara e Agar
No full textIl contributo analizza il capitello figurato della cattedrale di Sovana (Toscana) dal punto di vista dei rapporti con lo spazio liturgico. Vengono proposte ipotesi per due raffigurazioni ormai quasi illeggibili, individuando rapporti con l'ambone di Sant'Ambrogio a Milano.The paper aims to analyse the iconography of the 12th-century “biblical capital” in the Cathedral of Sovana (Grosseto). The author identifies the scenes in the most damaged parts of the capital as the episodes of Abel between Adam and Eve, Agar and the Angel, relating them to biblical exegesis, and suggests some iconographic parallels with the pulpit of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan. The unusual depiction of Abraham among Sarah and Agar with their Sons should be considered instead a “Tuscan” solution
The Macroeconomic Performance of Nations: Measurement and Perception
No full textIt is common practice to summarise the economic performance of countries in terms of four dimensions (real growth, inflation, unemployment and the external account), which are visually captured by the magic diamond of the OECD. In this paper we present a synthetic performance measure which merges the four separate indicators into one single statistic. The relative importance of each indicator, representing another macroeconomic objective, may vary across countries and over different subperiods. Therefore we want to construct an indicator which allows unequal weighting of its components, using a data envelopment analysis (DEA)-inspired linear programming model which exhibits ‘benefit of the doubt weighting’. These synthetic macroeconomic performance scores reveal interesting information. They confront measurement with perception. In this paper we use our measure to check empirically whether the strict Maastricht convergence criteria actually have led to a relative economic performance deterioration of the EU-candidates compared to the rest of the world. This viewpoint is often articulated in the theoretical literature. In particular, we investigate the performance of twenty OECD countries, half of which belongs to the EU, in the quinquennial period before and after the Maastricht Treaty.
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