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Ryan, Kelly. The Swan Maiden.
No full textA traditional story told by a student as part of an Arts Smarts storytelling program taught at Holy Cross Elementary school in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Kelly writes, "My story is about a young man who falls in love with a young swan that turns into a maiden.
A March of Complexities: Louisa May Alcott's Conflicted Response to Transcendentalism in Little Women
No full textIn my thesis, "A March of Complexities: Louisa May Alcott's Conflicted Response to Transcendentalism" in "Little Women", I explore Louisa May Alcott's both admiration for and frustration with her father Bronson Alcott's transcendentalism. I provide textual evidence that her response to this transcendentalism exists within her novel, "Little Women". I provide evidence from Louisa May Alcott's journals and letters to show that her public and private response to transcendentalism was consistently conflicted. I also examine Louisa May Alcott's feminism in depth and compare and contrast it with the feminism of Bronson Alcott and show how that comparison and familial tension informs both Louisa May Alcott's response to Bronson Alcott's philosophy and the text of "Little Women".\ud
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In addition to exploring "Little Women", and Louisa May Alcott's journals and letters, I have explored two of her other novels, "Moods", and "Work", and show how these novels, written both before and after "Little Women", show Louisa May Alcott to be a passionate supporter of women's rights. I show how her feminism was ignited by Bronson Alcott and also explore the ways in which Louisa Alcott critiques her father's unknowing adherence to nineteenth-century patriarchy. I examine the time the Alcotts spent in Fruitlands, the vegan spiritual community started by Bronson Alcott and the ways in which that experience informed her experience of transcendentalism and is present in the pages of "Little Women". I also provide the historical context of Bronson Alcott's place in transcendentalism, explore his pedagogy, and take a close look at his major work, Conversations with Children on the Gospels.\ud
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During the course of my "Little Women" scholarship for this thesis I have made discoveries regarding why Louisa May Alcott chose the name of March for the family in "Little Women" that was so much like her own family. I have also discovered why Louisa May Alcott may have chosen to have the characters of Laurie and Amy marry. The two seem to have little in common and the match has puzzled readers throughout the years. I also made a discovery regarding why Louisa Alcott chooses to have Pip the pet bird die due to neglect. This tragedy is incongruous with the way that animals are adored throughout the text. Louisa Alcott's response to Bronson Alcott's transcendentalism inform all of these discoveries about the text of "Little Women".\ud
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Conclusions:\ud
I conclude that Louisa May Alcott was both publicly and privately conflicted in her response to Bronson Alcott's transcendentalism and that that conflict informs the text of "Little Women" with a spirited tension that contributes to the novel's continued relevancy\ud
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Evaluation of aerobic exercise digital video discs (DVDs) for use by nutrition educators:
No full textObesity is disproportionately prevalent among limited-resource audiences, like participants of the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed). Physical activity is an integral component for weight management, but barriers like time constraints and a lack of space and expensive equipment often prevent this target audience from meeting national physical activity recommendations. Aerobic exercise DVDs may help ameliorate these barriers; thus, this investigation's purpose was to assess their viability for use with SNAP-Ed participants both in the classroom and at home. Five nutrition educators evaluated 124 DVDs to assess their: cast members' demographics; levels of intensity and complexity; adherence to safety guidelines and exercise recommendations; and space and equipment needs. The results of this study supported the notion that exercise DVDs may help the target audience overcome physical activity barriers in that 70 (56%) of the DVDs required no equipment, and the space requirements of all of the videos were modest. Existing DVDs may, however, be of questionable appeal for use with SNAP-Ed participants due to a lack of racial diversity, i.e., the majority of the cast members were White, thin, adult women. Several types of DVDs, particularly "Tae Bo" and kickboxing, would likely have limited appeal for this population due to their high levels of intensity. Similarly, several types of DVDs would likely be unsuitable with regard to complexity, with belly dancing and dance aerobics workouts being rated as the most complex. Walking DVDs may be the best option for nutrition educators to recommend. They were characterized by both low intensity and complexity, yet elicited an average percent maximum heart rate for the research team of 69.88+7.37, which was consistent with national guidelines for moderate to vigorous activity. However, future research endeavors are needed to assess their feasibility with this audience.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-107)by Kelly M. Rya
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Parsing Science - Science Writing as Storytelling
No full textWhat matters more in getting cited -- what you say or how you say it? In our first episode we're visited by Ryan Kelly from the University of Washington's School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. Ryan is both an ecologist and a lawyer; and his research concerns the interplay between geography, ecology, and genetics in marine species. In this episode, Ryan tells the unpublished stories behind his article "Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science," which he published in the December 2016 edition of PLoS One — an open access peer-reviewed journal — along with co-authors Annie Hillier and Terrie Klinger
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Review: Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film, by Casey Ryan Kelly
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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