19 research outputs found
Holden Caulfield: A Marginal Player Made by Historical Context
No full textHolden Caulfield, the major character in Jerome David Salinger’s most rewarded novel The Catcher in the Rye, long stood as the innovative and leading figure for such distinctive and revolutionary traits in a character he presented in 1959s’ America literary domain. Salinger media-shy and no interview policies led the public to spread out the idea of the author’s being the whole genius behind the sheer novelty of Holden Caulfield character by making a myth out of the author who turns down any kind of publicity and is finally lionized. This student-friendly hero who denigrate respectability and” phoniness” with his cynical attitude and obscene language, in one way or another, is kept being compared to such huge characters like Huckle Berry Finn whose universal popularity is barely deniable; but the question is that, could at any rate, J.D.Salinger be the sole innovator behind this genuineness? On the other hand, are there any other social and environmental factors, which came to pave the way for any kinds of Holden to be born and well liked? The main purpose of the paper is to answer these questions by a kind of critical theory as New Historicism and survey through the history as a discourse in this method. The results and findings indicate that, apparently, there was a specific social context for the emergence of this novel, with which the author had to interact. By opening up the environmental condition of those days and considering the facts, which affected Holden’s birth and popularity in that era. This essay will point out the fact that criticizing America’s 50s in such aforementioned ambience was inevitably and to some extent predictable.</jats:p
An Observational Study of Preschool Children's Prosocial Interactions During Play
No full textii, 76 p.The author observed the interactions of preschool children at First Care, a fully licensed childcare center that is affiliated and run through First United Methodist Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in order to understand the process in which they learn prosocial behaviors during play. The author focuses on the process, and the influence of the teachers and peers on the child. The author’s observations focus on sharing, turn taking and altruism.First Care, Kalamazoo, Michiga
Traditional knowledge systems and values within planning in order to mitigate the effects of climate change, case of cold desert area in the Himalayas
No full textLadakh is a cold desert region in India, the temperature here can vary from −30 ℃ to 30 ℃, the harsh climate in the region inspired locals to come up with building construction practices which are relevant to the culture and climate of the region, these traditional wisdom can be best witnessed through the art and architecture of the region, the author has tried to document some features of these traditional knowledge, it is an ongoing research and would take a couple of months to completely relate the indigenous practices with the sustainable development goals, but some of them are highlighted in the visual essay. The author had been working in the region for the past five years now primarily as architect and has conducted various research workshops with students, and additionally he has been part of some of the institutes and organization working in the domain of built environment, heritage, ecology, and archeology. The people of Ladakh have a repository of indigenous knowledge and indigenous techniques that can help build the research to inform planning and design processes specially related to the SDG goals. The visual essay will also take help from two architectural projects done by the author. The first project Dolkhar resort was designed as a boutique resort reusing materials, form and spatial layout of the previously built traditional house, while old age home was built after the flash flood of 2015, it is now home to around sixty old age people, the challenge in both the project was to make it habitable all-round the year using traditional methods, and in addition the research benefitted from numerous studies done by scholars, authors, and travelers in the region but none on the importance of these indigenous knowledge syste
The Experience of International Service Learning: Project Vietnam
No full textabstract: International Service Devils (ISD) is a non-profit volunteer program established and run by students at Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus. Since 2013, International Service Devils has volunteered in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and India. This blog, written by Kali Richmond and myself, shares the experience of how we as students are establishing a new volunteer program in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We have described in an entertaining fashion, our entire learning process from the brainstorming and organizing to the results of the trip itself. This includes the struggles that we had to overcome with planning and finances, as well as crediting the people and organizations who helped us along the way to overcome those obstacles. We established 2 volunteer projects as well as completed multiple community analyses for the possibility of starting a school and providing scholarships to deserving children through the Young Dreamer Network. This blog is accompanied by an approximately 15 minute video of footage and photos taken during our time in Vietnam. The video shows both the volunteer aspect as well as some of the cultural experiences that we experienced. The purpose of this documentation is to encourage international service learning as a source of experience and education for University students, and to show plausibility of setting goals similar to ours and being able to achieve them. We hope that our writing can help students get an idea of what it takes to be a leader in international service learning programs, and that our experience can help prove the worth of volunteering abroad. We want to inspire fellow students to travel with the mission to learn from wherever they go and be able to give back to those communities, as this has provided us with immense personal growth and new perspectives on education and culture
The Experience of International Service Learning: Project Vietnam
No full textabstract: Abstract: International Service Devils (ISD) is a non-profit volunteer program established and run by students at Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus. Since 2013, International Service Devils has volunteered in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and India. This blog, written by Kali Richmond and myself, shares the experience of how we as students have established a new volunteer program in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We have described in an entertaining fashion, our entire learning process from the brainstorming and organizing, to the results of the trip itself. This includes the struggles that we had to overcome with planning and finances, as well as crediting the people and organizations who helped us along the way to overcome those obstacles. We established 2 volunteer projects as well as completed multiple community analyses for the possibility of starting a school and providing scholarships to deserving children through the Young Dreamer Network. This blog is accompanied by an approximately 15 minute video of footage and photos taken during our time in Vietnam. The video shows both the volunteer aspect as well as some of the cultural experiences that we experienced. The purpose of this documentation is to encourage international service learning as a source of experience and education for University students, and to show plausibility of setting goals similar to ours and being able to achieve them. We hope that our writing can help students get an idea of what it takes to be a leader in international service learning programs, and that our experience can help prove the worth of volunteering abroad. We want to inspire fellow students to travel with the mission to learn from wherever they go and be able to give back to those communities, as this has provided us with immense personal growth and new perspectives on education and culture
Flush and Splash: Regenerative Capacity for Semarang Urban Water Management
No full textThe Flush and Splash project proposes to reconnect the cultural and the natural heritage of the city through the Semarang river watershed. It begins with acknowledging how the Semarang river have been facing continuous landscape degradation despite it being a backbone of the city based on the observation of historical trajectory and site visits. Following the synthesis, the thesis then constructs its foundation by the theory of risk = (hazard x vulnerability) / coping capacity (Cardona. et al., 2012). Hence, the analysis proceed by investigating the variables of the equation which leads to the findings of multiple water related challenges: (1) land subsidence due to uncontrolled groundwater extraction; (2) coastal, pluvial, and fluvial flooding; and (3) low water quality due to poor waste management in the city. These hazards are currently dominating the equation as the coping capacity and the vulnerability of the citizens have not been able to balance the scale. This framework then developed the equation by changing the coping capacity into regenerative capacity, which is the combination of the theories of ecosystem services biomimicry (Zari, 2018) and socio-ecological resilience (Cote & Nightingale, 2012), in order to guide the project in developing water sensitive urban design strategies. A regenerative design means that interventions contain elements which mimic the ecosystem services that they become productive landscapes for the community to be able to sustain themselves in facing possible future hazards. Hence, the proposed strategies would try their best to engage with the local communities through participatory planning. Examples of these interventions are shown in this thesis through the three sub-projects of Purify, Protect, and Provide; which are pioneered by a series of multifunctional bridges along the Semarang River.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Transitional Territorie
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE END USERS’ AND THE INFORMATION EXPERTS’ SEARCHING OF RLST’S DATABASES IN TERMS OF SEARCH TIME, RECALL AND PRECISION RATIOS
No full textIn this study, a comparison is made between the results of the end users’ searching of RLST’s databases and those of the information experts’ searching in terms of search time, recall ratio and precision ratio. The study is primarily tasked with comparing the results retrieved through the three different search methods of direct, indirect and mixed. Five of RLST’s information experts as well as RLST’s direct users constituted the study’s sample population. The research method and the data collection procedure used were semi-experimental method, observation and a questionnaire respectively. To test the hypotheses and to find an answer to the research questions, variance analysis, correlation coefficient as well as f, t and z tests were used at α = 0.05
Aplicación de harinas de quinua y amaranto con frutos desecados: guayaba, naranjilla y tomate de árbol, en recetas de pastelería de autor
Get PDFEste trabajo propone la aplicación de harinas de pseudocereales como el amaranto y la quinua con frutos desecados del Ecuador como la guayaba, naranjilla y tomate de árbol en pastelería de autor.
Los pseudocereales ancestrales se incluyen en este trabajo con el afán de fomentar el consumo local de la quinua y amaranto en preparaciones innovadoras de pastelería permitiendo incrementar las formas de empleo de éstos considerados alimentos patrimoniales; además de aprovechar el alto contenido proteico que proveen, complementando con las características organolépticas de los frutos desecados ecuatorianos, los mismos que aportan con vitaminas importantes para el sistema inmunológico del ser humano.
El trabajo inicia con una investigación bibliográfica para conocer los productos que intervendrán en preparaciones posteriores lo que facilitará lograr los objetivos planteados para el desarrollo del tema, además de determinar las técnicas convenientes con las que se propone trabajar en pastelería de autor y finalmente una evaluación de las recetas obtenidas.This work offers the application of pseudocereal flours such as amaranth and quinoa with dried fruits from Ecuador such as guava, naranjilla and tree tomatoes in the author 's pastry.
The ancestral pseudocereals are included in this work with the goal of promoting the local consumption of quinoa and amaranth in innovative preparations of pastry, making it possible to increase the different ways of use of these pseudocereals which are considered patrimonial foods; in addition to being beneficial because they provide high protein, they also complement with the organoleptic characteristics of dried Ecuadorian fruits, which contribute with important vitamins for the human's immune system.
The work begins with a bibliographical research to know the products that will intervene in later preparations which will facilitate the achievement of the goals set for the development of this work, besides will determine the suitable techniques which will be used in the author's pastry and finally an evaluation of the recipes obtained.Licenciada en Gastronomía y Servicio de Alimentos y BebidasCuenc
Mesozoic–Tertiary exhumation history of the Altai Mountains, northern Xinjiang, China: New constraints from apatite fission track data
Get PDFThis study uses apatite fission track (FT) analysis to constrain the exhumation history of bedrock samples collected from the Altai Mountains in northern Xinjiang, China. Samples were collected as transects across the main structures related to Palaeozoic crustal accretion events. FT results and modeling identify three stages in sample cooling history spanning the Mesozoic and Tertiary. Stage one records rapid cooling to the low temperature part of the fission track partial annealing zone circa 70 ± 10 °C. Stage two, records a period of relative stability with little if any cooling taking place between 75 and 25–20 Ma suggesting the Altai region had been reduced to an area of low relief. Support for this can be found in the adjacent Junngar Basin that received little if any sediment during this interval. Final stage cooling took place in the Miocene at an accelerated rate bringing the sampled rocks to the Earth's surface. This last stage, linked to the far field effects of the Himalayan collision, most likely generated the surface uplift and relief that define the present-day Altai Mountains
Choreopoems: Augmenting Textuality with Movement
Get PDFIn 1975, Ntozake Shange debuted For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf establishing a new intermedia genre: the choreopoem. A choreopoem is a unique approach to storytelling that departs from Western poetry by incorporating emphases on movement and nonverbal communication, using embodied emotion to connect with audiences. Shanges innovation is continued through the work of Jessica Care Moore (poet) and Aku Kadogo (choreographer, Spelman College) who has developed a techno-choreopoem entitled Salt City. The work celebrates Black culture in Detroit: the African-American presence in the city [and] techno-music that was pioneered by African-American men straight out of the Detroit Metropolitan Area (McFadden and Kadogo 2017). Kadogo was a founding member of the cast of Shanges For Colored Girls and has worked in the genre for forty years. This presentation analyzes the realization of ideas and text as embodied cognition through a digital case-study of Kadogos performance practice. Using annotated audiovisual recordings, movements are tracked through 3D video motion analysis (VMA) and correlated with performance texts and commentary from the authors, performers and audience. Keywords: Dance; Digital Humanities; Ethnomusicology; Language Interpretation and Translation; Performance Studies; Poetry
