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Author, James Herriot, 1981
No full textThis black and white photograph features a portrait of James Herriot, the author of the book, The Lord God Made Them All . Herriot is pictured sitting on a fence rail with his arms crossed over his chest and wearing a rain jacket and rain boots with a white shirt and tie and gray toned pants. Trees and a field can be seen behind him. A brief description of the photo, the book details, and the photographer, Christopher Knaggs is typed in the white space beneath the photograph.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-wilson-minor-photographs/1170/thumbnail.jp
Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought
No full textElectronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James
provokes her readers to think theologically. I present evidence from the body of
James’s work, including her detective fiction that features the Detective Adam
Dalgliesh, as well as her other novels, autobiography, and non-fiction work. I also
present a brief history of detective fiction. This history provides the reader with a
better understanding of how P.D James is influenced by the detective genre as well as
how she stands apart from the genre’s traditions.
This dissertation relies on an interview that I conducted with P.D. James in
November, 2008. During the interview, I asked James how Christianity has
influenced her detective fiction and her responses greatly contribute to this
dissertation. However, James’s novels should be interpreted and explored in the
manner that they are received by the reader. How the reader receives and responds to
the novels, not only how James writes the novels, is what causes her stories to
provoke theological thinking.
By examining Christian symbolism that is present in setting, character, the
Detective Adam Dalgliesh, and plot, this dissertation seeks to assert that James
contributes to a theological conversation through her popular detective fiction
Gut bacteria and necrotizing enterocolitis: cause or effect?
No full textDevelopment of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is considered to be dependent on the bacterial colonisation of the gut. With little concordance between published data and a recent study failing to detect a common strain in infants with NEC, more questions than answers are arising about our understanding of this complex disease
Are students with disabilities getting quality secondary education in the State of California?
No full textThis study was to gather and report information from California State University (CSU) professors on whether students with disabilities are receiving quality secondary education in the State of California. The author sent out seven open-ended questions to professors who were currently teaching in the Teacher Education and Special Education departments. By using Strauss and Glaser's (1967) four-stage analysis of grounded theory to analyze the professors' responses. The two emergent themes that results indicated were that professors perceived a lower quality of secondary education for students with disabilities were receiving; the second was the lack of education that potential secondary educators were receiving within their perspective programs. The inclusive preparation model (IPM) theory that resulted from the yielded results suggested that professors believed that the current CSU teacher preparation program needed to reform their program to ensure that students with disabilities would receive the quality secondary education
Are students with disabilities getting quality secondary education in the State of California?
No full textThesis (M.A., Education (Curriculum and Instruction))--California State University, Sacramento, 2011This study was to gather and report information from California State University (CSU) professors on whether students with disabilities are receiving quality secondary education in the State of California. The author sent out seven open-ended questions to professors who were currently teaching in the Teacher Education and Special Education departments. By using Strauss and Glaser???s (1967) four-stage analysis of grounded theory to analyze the professors??? responses. The two emergent themes that results indicated were that professors perceived a lower quality of secondary education for students with disabilities were receiving; the second was the lack of education that potential secondary educators were receiving within their perspective programs. The inclusive preparation model (IPM) theory that resulted from the yielded results suggested that professors believed that the current CSU teacher preparation program needed to reform their program to ensure that students with disabilities would receive the quality secondary education.Education (Curriculum and Instruction
Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
No full textThe late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period
for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following
the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Particular Baptists were fortunate in having several strong leaders,
especially the London trio of Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and
Benjamin Keach. Such a small and severely persecuted group as the
Baptists could afford little time for academic pursuits, thus of
necessity most of their theology was practical in nature.
Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was the most outstanding practical
theologian among the English Particular Baptists of the late
seventeenth century. This dissertation is a study of Keach, in
particular his writings on public worship and practical theology.
Although Keach was a prolific author, he has been almost completely
neglected by scholars.
After a biographical sketch of Keach, this study considers his
writings on public worship and practical theology. In the area of
worship, Keach made two outstanding contributions: First, he was the
most vocal apologist for Baptist views on Baptism of his period.
Secondly, and more importantly, his hymn writing and defense of hymn
singing broke new ground, not just for Baptists, but for English
Protestantism, in general. In addition to his contributions in these
areas, he also dealt with the laying on of hands and the sabbath day
worship controversy.
Keach's contributions to practical theology fall into two main
groups: his writings that concern religious education and those that
deal with polity. In addition to these, Keach's vigorous advocacy of
a high Calvinist soteriology are also considered under the rubric of
practical theology. Keach's most important (although not his most
positive) contribution in this area were his soteriological writings.
Although well within the bounds of orthodoxy, some of the tendencies
in Keach's soteriology were taken up by the following generation of
Baptist leaders and developed into a stultifying hyper-Calvinism that
handicapped Baptist evangelism and missions.
In the conclusion, Keach's contributions to a theory of practical
theology are considered
From the Roman Republic to the American Revolution: readings of Cicero in the political thought of James Wilson
No full textAs a classical scholar and prominent founding father, James Wilson was at once statesman, judge, and political thinker, who read Cicero as an example worthy of emulation and as a philosopher whose theory could be applied to his own age. Classical reception studies have focused on questions of liberty, civic virtue, and constitutionalism in the American founding, and historians have also noted Wilson’s importance in American history and thought. Wilson’s direct engagement with Cicero’s works, however, and their significance in the formulation of his own philosophy has been long overlooked. My thesis argues that Wilson’s viewpoint was largely based on his readings of Cicero and can only be properly understood within this context. In the first two chapters of my thesis I demonstrate that Wilson not only possessed a wide-ranging knowledge of the classics in general, but also that he borrowed from Cicero’s writings and directly engaged with the texts themselves. Building upon this foundation, chapters three and four examine Cicero’s perspective on popular sovereignty and civic virtue, situate Wilson’s interpretations within contemporary discussions of Roman politics, and analyse the main ways in which he adapts Cicero’s arguments to his own era. Wilson retains a broader faith in the common people than seen in Cicero’s opinions, and he abstracts from Cicero a doctrine of sovereignty as an indivisible principle that is absent in the text; nevertheless, Cicero’s conception of a legitimate state and his insistence on the role of the people provided the foundation for Wilson’s thought and ultimately for his legitimization of the American Revolution. At the same time, like Cicero, Wilson views the stability of the state as resting in the personal virtue of the individual. While his enlightenment philosophy imparts optimism to his conception of the good citizen, his definition of virtue closely follows that of Cicero. As the final chapter of my thesis concludes, their individual interpretations of these theories of popular consent and virtue were instrumental in forming Cicero’s and Wilson’s justifications of civil disobedience
Using Mixed Incentives to Document Xi’an Guanzhong
No full textThis paper describes our use of mixed incentives and the citizen science portal LanguageARC to prepare, collect and quality control a large corpus of object namings for the purpose of providing speech data to document the under-represented Guanzhong dialect of Chinese spoken in the Shaanxi province in the environs of Xi’an.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Multimedia Computin
A Study of characterization and representation in James Joyce's a portrait of the artist as a young man and John barth's lost, in the funhouse
No full textDissetação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoAnálise da caracterização e da representação do artista nos romances A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man de James Joyce e Lost in the Funhouse de John Barth. A análise destes romances quanto às diferenças existentes no modo de representação do artista, faz com que eles possam ser lidos, respectivamente, como representantes das narrativas modernista e pós-modernista
Common greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia L.) as a model for understanding fungal community organization in the phyllosphere
No full textFungi asymptomatically infect all terrestrial vegetation, but the structure and assembly of these fungal communities are poorly understood. Smilax rotundifolia, a common woody vine of the northeastern United States, was used as a model to study endophytic (internal colonizing) and epiphytic (surface colonizing) fungal communities, from the perspectives of niche-based influences, spatial variation, and evolutionary relationships. Wild greenbrier plants were sampled in New Jersey (USA) in late winter at a single site, and again in mid-summer, in a multi-site, multi-tissue, sampling effort. Fungal communities of the plant surface and interior were made up of mostly different species. Correlative relationships were found between some fungal species' abundances, but none were seen between species that were strongly restricted to the surface and those strongly restricted to the interior. The summer, multi-site study, revealed that the strongest factor determining fungal community composition was surface vs. interior habitat, followed by tissue/organ type, and lastly general geographic location. The effect of season was also studied by comparing the single-site winter dataset against the data from the same site sampled in summer. Season had a major influence on some fungal species but not others, similar to influence of tissue type. Also, in a very novel finding, it was found that certain endophytes showed statistically different abundances, depending on the distance from the stem base at which a sample was taken. The optimum height differed for different fungal species. At the scale of a single stand of plants, it was found that epiphytic, but not endophytic, samples showed a significant correlation between spatial proximity and fungal community similarity. Finally, the phylogenetic relationships were studied between congeneric fungal species that were common on the plant. Two-gene phylogenies were constructed using Smilax-derived isolates, along with downloaded sequences of well-defined species in the same genera. These congeneric species were found to be only distantly related (i.e., they were widely separated within the known phylogenies of their genus). The final chapter is a literature review, bringing insight from the present dissertation research to identify important unanswered questions. Evidence for the role of plant secondary metabolites on endophytic fungi is discussed.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Christopher B. Zambel
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