13 Ekim 2012 Cumartesi
What's wrong with the Celtics?
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Everybody blames it on their health and lack of Kevin Garnett. Admittedly, any team without K.G. would tend to slump significantly. But as a life long Celtics fan, I feel the problem goes much deeper than that. I think the main underlying issue that the average John Q. public is missing (and Doc Rivers) is the role of Rajon Rondo. He's averaged 10.6 points per game during their championship year in 08' and last year he improved his average to 11.9 points per game. This year he has pushed it up to 14.0 points per game. On any given night, I see him drop 20 points. While I am all for an individual improving his stats...at what expense does it come to the rest of the team as a whole? Last year, they didn't even make the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, granted it's midway, they're slumping and losing to scrub teams. The more points he scores the less he is involving his team mates. When they don't score, they lose interest in rebounding, hustling, the little things. Just a thought, but if he'd give up the ball a little more like in the past, perhaps they would keep their interest level up and stop losing leads and such. What do you all think! No haters! Actual sports fans answers only...be mature!
"I'm a raven."
To contact us Click HERE
I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom, which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten's works in the soundtrack. Movie nerds will recognize the theme from his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra as the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar, which was adapted (quite effectively, for solo violin) for a key scene in The Lesser Adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The amateur production of Britten's Noye's Fludde, staged in a local church and replete with children dressed as animals, is, like the Khaki Scouts, its own kind of child-adult collusion in overenthusiasm. Suzy is a failed raven just as Sam is a failed Khaki Scout, failed on social grounds rather than out of incompetence. It is a "play" that is taken utterly seriously, especially by the grown-ups (like the one who demotes Suzy from her raven role). Play taken too seriously, or serious enterprises (like child care) rendered all too game-like (as when the best scout of all, Scoutmaster Ward, manages to lose first Sam, then the rest of the troop), continually threaten happiness. The only possible resistance is yet another system, an alternative game, a union between Sam's wilderness skills and Suzy's fantasy world, the game of their private Moonrise Kingdom.
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
 |
| "I'm a raven." |
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
12 Ekim 2012 Cuma
"I'm a raven."
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I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom, which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten's works in the soundtrack. Movie nerds will recognize the theme from his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra as the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar, which was adapted (quite effectively, for solo violin) for a key scene in The Lesser Adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The amateur production of Britten's Noye's Fludde, staged in a local church and replete with children dressed as animals, is, like the Khaki Scouts, its own kind of child-adult collusion in overenthusiasm. Suzy is a failed raven just as Sam is a failed Khaki Scout, failed on social grounds rather than out of incompetence. It is a "play" that is taken utterly seriously, especially by the grown-ups (like the one who demotes Suzy from her raven role). Play taken too seriously, or serious enterprises (like child care) rendered all too game-like (as when the best scout of all, Scoutmaster Ward, manages to lose first Sam, then the rest of the troop), continually threaten happiness. The only possible resistance is yet another system, an alternative game, a union between Sam's wilderness skills and Suzy's fantasy world, the game of their private Moonrise Kingdom.
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
|
| "I'm a raven." |
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
What's wrong with the Celtics?
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Everybody blames it on their health and lack of Kevin Garnett. Admittedly, any team without K.G. would tend to slump significantly. But as a life long Celtics fan, I feel the problem goes much deeper than that. I think the main underlying issue that the average John Q. public is missing (and Doc Rivers) is the role of Rajon Rondo. He's averaged 10.6 points per game during their championship year in 08' and last year he improved his average to 11.9 points per game. This year he has pushed it up to 14.0 points per game. On any given night, I see him drop 20 points. While I am all for an individual improving his stats...at what expense does it come to the rest of the team as a whole? Last year, they didn't even make the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, granted it's midway, they're slumping and losing to scrub teams. The more points he scores the less he is involving his team mates. When they don't score, they lose interest in rebounding, hustling, the little things. Just a thought, but if he'd give up the ball a little more like in the past, perhaps they would keep their interest level up and stop losing leads and such. What do you all think! No haters! Actual sports fans answers only...be mature!
11 Ekim 2012 Perşembe
What's wrong with the Celtics?
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Everybody blames it on their health and lack of Kevin Garnett. Admittedly, any team without K.G. would tend to slump significantly. But as a life long Celtics fan, I feel the problem goes much deeper than that. I think the main underlying issue that the average John Q. public is missing (and Doc Rivers) is the role of Rajon Rondo. He's averaged 10.6 points per game during their championship year in 08' and last year he improved his average to 11.9 points per game. This year he has pushed it up to 14.0 points per game. On any given night, I see him drop 20 points. While I am all for an individual improving his stats...at what expense does it come to the rest of the team as a whole? Last year, they didn't even make the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, granted it's midway, they're slumping and losing to scrub teams. The more points he scores the less he is involving his team mates. When they don't score, they lose interest in rebounding, hustling, the little things. Just a thought, but if he'd give up the ball a little more like in the past, perhaps they would keep their interest level up and stop losing leads and such. What do you all think! No haters! Actual sports fans answers only...be mature!
"I'm a raven."
To contact us Click HERE
I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom, which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten's works in the soundtrack. Movie nerds will recognize the theme from his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra as the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar, which was adapted (quite effectively, for solo violin) for a key scene in The Lesser Adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The amateur production of Britten's Noye's Fludde, staged in a local church and replete with children dressed as animals, is, like the Khaki Scouts, its own kind of child-adult collusion in overenthusiasm. Suzy is a failed raven just as Sam is a failed Khaki Scout, failed on social grounds rather than out of incompetence. It is a "play" that is taken utterly seriously, especially by the grown-ups (like the one who demotes Suzy from her raven role). Play taken too seriously, or serious enterprises (like child care) rendered all too game-like (as when the best scout of all, Scoutmaster Ward, manages to lose first Sam, then the rest of the troop), continually threaten happiness. The only possible resistance is yet another system, an alternative game, a union between Sam's wilderness skills and Suzy's fantasy world, the game of their private Moonrise Kingdom.
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
|
| "I'm a raven." |
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
10 Ekim 2012 Çarşamba
What's wrong with the Celtics?
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Everybody blames it on their health and lack of Kevin Garnett. Admittedly, any team without K.G. would tend to slump significantly. But as a life long Celtics fan, I feel the problem goes much deeper than that. I think the main underlying issue that the average John Q. public is missing (and Doc Rivers) is the role of Rajon Rondo. He's averaged 10.6 points per game during their championship year in 08' and last year he improved his average to 11.9 points per game. This year he has pushed it up to 14.0 points per game. On any given night, I see him drop 20 points. While I am all for an individual improving his stats...at what expense does it come to the rest of the team as a whole? Last year, they didn't even make the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, granted it's midway, they're slumping and losing to scrub teams. The more points he scores the less he is involving his team mates. When they don't score, they lose interest in rebounding, hustling, the little things. Just a thought, but if he'd give up the ball a little more like in the past, perhaps they would keep their interest level up and stop losing leads and such. What do you all think! No haters! Actual sports fans answers only...be mature!
"I'm a raven."
To contact us Click HERE
I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom, which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten's works in the soundtrack. Movie nerds will recognize the theme from his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra as the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar, which was adapted (quite effectively, for solo violin) for a key scene in The Lesser Adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The amateur production of Britten's Noye's Fludde, staged in a local church and replete with children dressed as animals, is, like the Khaki Scouts, its own kind of child-adult collusion in overenthusiasm. Suzy is a failed raven just as Sam is a failed Khaki Scout, failed on social grounds rather than out of incompetence. It is a "play" that is taken utterly seriously, especially by the grown-ups (like the one who demotes Suzy from her raven role). Play taken too seriously, or serious enterprises (like child care) rendered all too game-like (as when the best scout of all, Scoutmaster Ward, manages to lose first Sam, then the rest of the troop), continually threaten happiness. The only possible resistance is yet another system, an alternative game, a union between Sam's wilderness skills and Suzy's fantasy world, the game of their private Moonrise Kingdom.
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
|
| "I'm a raven." |
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
9 Ekim 2012 Salı
What's wrong with the Celtics?
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Everybody blames it on their health and lack of Kevin Garnett. Admittedly, any team without K.G. would tend to slump significantly. But as a life long Celtics fan, I feel the problem goes much deeper than that. I think the main underlying issue that the average John Q. public is missing (and Doc Rivers) is the role of Rajon Rondo. He's averaged 10.6 points per game during their championship year in 08' and last year he improved his average to 11.9 points per game. This year he has pushed it up to 14.0 points per game. On any given night, I see him drop 20 points. While I am all for an individual improving his stats...at what expense does it come to the rest of the team as a whole? Last year, they didn't even make the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, granted it's midway, they're slumping and losing to scrub teams. The more points he scores the less he is involving his team mates. When they don't score, they lose interest in rebounding, hustling, the little things. Just a thought, but if he'd give up the ball a little more like in the past, perhaps they would keep their interest level up and stop losing leads and such. What do you all think! No haters! Actual sports fans answers only...be mature!
"I'm a raven."
To contact us Click HERE
I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom, which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten's works in the soundtrack. Movie nerds will recognize the theme from his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra as the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar, which was adapted (quite effectively, for solo violin) for a key scene in The Lesser Adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The amateur production of Britten's Noye's Fludde, staged in a local church and replete with children dressed as animals, is, like the Khaki Scouts, its own kind of child-adult collusion in overenthusiasm. Suzy is a failed raven just as Sam is a failed Khaki Scout, failed on social grounds rather than out of incompetence. It is a "play" that is taken utterly seriously, especially by the grown-ups (like the one who demotes Suzy from her raven role). Play taken too seriously, or serious enterprises (like child care) rendered all too game-like (as when the best scout of all, Scoutmaster Ward, manages to lose first Sam, then the rest of the troop), continually threaten happiness. The only possible resistance is yet another system, an alternative game, a union between Sam's wilderness skills and Suzy's fantasy world, the game of their private Moonrise Kingdom.
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
|
| "I'm a raven." |
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
May 4
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JOURNAL TOPIC:
Think of a person you consider to be a success. What talents, qualities, experiences, knowledge, or dumb luck made this person successful?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Answer following questions on "February" chapter (due tomorrow)
February
15. Explain how Tita’s relationship with Mama Elena is different from her
relationship with Nacha.
16. Explain and discuss the beginning of Tita’s rebellion.
17. Explain the significance of Tita’s bedspread.
18. Why does Pedro decide to marry Rosaura? What is the logic to his decision?
19. What is the significance of the color white?
20. Describe the elaborate banquet Tita prepared for Rosaura’s wedding.
21. How was Mama Elena able to obtain the French silk for Rosaura’s wedding
sheet?
22. Who is the "Chinaman"? How was he able to become a millionaire during the
revolution?
23. What is your reaction to Mama Elena throwing such an elaborate wedding for
Rosaura in the midst of the revolution? What conclusion can be made about
Mama Elena?
24. What causes Nacha’s death?
25. How is Tita’s life similar to Nacha’s?
Think of a person you consider to be a success. What talents, qualities, experiences, knowledge, or dumb luck made this person successful?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Answer following questions on "February" chapter (due tomorrow)
February
15. Explain how Tita’s relationship with Mama Elena is different from her
relationship with Nacha.
16. Explain and discuss the beginning of Tita’s rebellion.
17. Explain the significance of Tita’s bedspread.
18. Why does Pedro decide to marry Rosaura? What is the logic to his decision?
19. What is the significance of the color white?
20. Describe the elaborate banquet Tita prepared for Rosaura’s wedding.
21. How was Mama Elena able to obtain the French silk for Rosaura’s wedding
sheet?
22. Who is the "Chinaman"? How was he able to become a millionaire during the
revolution?
23. What is your reaction to Mama Elena throwing such an elaborate wedding for
Rosaura in the midst of the revolution? What conclusion can be made about
Mama Elena?
24. What causes Nacha’s death?
25. How is Tita’s life similar to Nacha’s?
May 11
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JOURNAL TOPIC:
Two days ago our journal topic was about prejudice (i.e., pre-judging)-- so today let's try an experiment. STEP 1: listen to the song featured in the video below WITHOUT watching the video. Picture the singer and describe him based solely on how he sounds. STEP 2: Watch the video; add detail and/or change your description. How did having more information enable you to accurately describe the singer?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. "April" quiz & discussion
3. Writing with vocabulary: describe a family tradition from your own family, and use at least ten of this week's vocabulary words in the process. Finish for HW.
Two days ago our journal topic was about prejudice (i.e., pre-judging)-- so today let's try an experiment. STEP 1: listen to the song featured in the video below WITHOUT watching the video. Picture the singer and describe him based solely on how he sounds. STEP 2: Watch the video; add detail and/or change your description. How did having more information enable you to accurately describe the singer?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. "April" quiz & discussion
3. Writing with vocabulary: describe a family tradition from your own family, and use at least ten of this week's vocabulary words in the process. Finish for HW.
8 Ekim 2012 Pazartesi
May 12
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JOURNAL TOPIC:
It's been written that, "Scars tell you where you've been, but they shouldn't tell you where you're going." Do you agree? To what extent should past actions/experiences/ traumas guide our choices? Explain.
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Use last night's HW to compare family traditions
*Outward rituals/performance
*Inner messages, expectations & emotions
*Similarities
*Differences
HW: Review "April" quiz and notes for discussion tomorrow (Thurs. 5/12)
It's been written that, "Scars tell you where you've been, but they shouldn't tell you where you're going." Do you agree? To what extent should past actions/experiences/ traumas guide our choices? Explain.
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Use last night's HW to compare family traditions
*Outward rituals/performance
*Inner messages, expectations & emotions
*Similarities
*Differences
HW: Review "April" quiz and notes for discussion tomorrow (Thurs. 5/12)
Spotlight: Academic Search Premier
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The Academic Search Premier database from EBSCO is one of the most well-known and respected research databases. It is a large, multidisciplinary database containing 4,600+ journals in the fields of psychology, education, leadership, business, arts, sciences, and more.
The UI&U Library lists Academic Search Premier as one of our six recommended databases for beginning your research--and with good reason, as a search in this database will find articles on almost any topic. The database also offers numerous ways to refine your search, such as limiting results by date, peer-reviewed status, document type and more. The database toolbar includes options to print, e-mail, view citation, export to RefWorks, and create a direct link.
To access the Academic Search Premier database, 1) go to the UI&U Library homepage, 2) click the “Articles & Databases” tab, 3) click the “databases by subject” link, and 4) open the Academic Search Premier database.
The UI&U Library lists Academic Search Premier as one of our six recommended databases for beginning your research--and with good reason, as a search in this database will find articles on almost any topic. The database also offers numerous ways to refine your search, such as limiting results by date, peer-reviewed status, document type and more. The database toolbar includes options to print, e-mail, view citation, export to RefWorks, and create a direct link.
To access the Academic Search Premier database, 1) go to the UI&U Library homepage, 2) click the “Articles & Databases” tab, 3) click the “databases by subject” link, and 4) open the Academic Search Premier database.
Spotlight: Historical New York Times
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The inauguration of a world leader. A breakthrough medical discovery. A declaration of war. The social event of the season. The rock concert of a generation. A technological wonder. A death in the family. The birth of freedom.
For centuries, newspapers have been at the scene capturing not only the facts about momentous occasions, but also the sights and sounds of everyday life. ProQuest Historical Newspapers lets casual explorers and serious researchers alike travel digitally back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to history. -ProQuest Brochure
Issues of the New York Times from 1851-2008 are hosted in UI&U's Historical New York Times database (the latest newspaper issues can be found in other UI&U Library databases). The Historical New York Times database can be accessed from the UI&U Library’s Databases by Subject page (Library Home>Articles & Databases tab>Select "Primary Sources (Newspapers)" from the drop-down box). Once you are in the database, enter keywords in the search box to locate scanned copies of newspaper articles. For help designing your search query, please view these training videos or contact the UI&U Library.
We hope you enjoy using this rich collection of primary resources.
ProQuest. (n.d.). Centuries of Discovery Online: ProQuest Historical Newspapers [Brochure]. Retrieved from http://www.proquest.com/assets/literature/products/databases/HNP.pdf
For centuries, newspapers have been at the scene capturing not only the facts about momentous occasions, but also the sights and sounds of everyday life. ProQuest Historical Newspapers lets casual explorers and serious researchers alike travel digitally back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to history. -ProQuest Brochure
Issues of the New York Times from 1851-2008 are hosted in UI&U's Historical New York Times database (the latest newspaper issues can be found in other UI&U Library databases). The Historical New York Times database can be accessed from the UI&U Library’s Databases by Subject page (Library Home>Articles & Databases tab>Select "Primary Sources (Newspapers)" from the drop-down box). Once you are in the database, enter keywords in the search box to locate scanned copies of newspaper articles. For help designing your search query, please view these training videos or contact the UI&U Library.
We hope you enjoy using this rich collection of primary resources.
ProQuest. (n.d.). Centuries of Discovery Online: ProQuest Historical Newspapers [Brochure]. Retrieved from http://www.proquest.com/assets/literature/products/databases/HNP.pdf
What's wrong with the Celtics?
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Everybody blames it on their health and lack of Kevin Garnett. Admittedly, any team without K.G. would tend to slump significantly. But as a life long Celtics fan, I feel the problem goes much deeper than that. I think the main underlying issue that the average John Q. public is missing (and Doc Rivers) is the role of Rajon Rondo. He's averaged 10.6 points per game during their championship year in 08' and last year he improved his average to 11.9 points per game. This year he has pushed it up to 14.0 points per game. On any given night, I see him drop 20 points. While I am all for an individual improving his stats...at what expense does it come to the rest of the team as a whole? Last year, they didn't even make the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, granted it's midway, they're slumping and losing to scrub teams. The more points he scores the less he is involving his team mates. When they don't score, they lose interest in rebounding, hustling, the little things. Just a thought, but if he'd give up the ball a little more like in the past, perhaps they would keep their interest level up and stop losing leads and such. What do you all think! No haters! Actual sports fans answers only...be mature!
"I'm a raven."
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I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom, which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten's works in the soundtrack. Movie nerds will recognize the theme from his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra as the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar, which was adapted (quite effectively, for solo violin) for a key scene in The Lesser Adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The amateur production of Britten's Noye's Fludde, staged in a local church and replete with children dressed as animals, is, like the Khaki Scouts, its own kind of child-adult collusion in overenthusiasm. Suzy is a failed raven just as Sam is a failed Khaki Scout, failed on social grounds rather than out of incompetence. It is a "play" that is taken utterly seriously, especially by the grown-ups (like the one who demotes Suzy from her raven role). Play taken too seriously, or serious enterprises (like child care) rendered all too game-like (as when the best scout of all, Scoutmaster Ward, manages to lose first Sam, then the rest of the troop), continually threaten happiness. The only possible resistance is yet another system, an alternative game, a union between Sam's wilderness skills and Suzy's fantasy world, the game of their private Moonrise Kingdom.
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
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Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
7 Ekim 2012 Pazar
March Spotlight: Counseling and Therapy in Video
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The UI&U Library’s Counseling and Therapy in Video database contains an extensive collection of video resources, including 403 hours of therapy sessions, lectures, and technique demonstrations. The Counseling and Therapy in Video database can be accessed from the library's Databases by Subject page. Once in the database, you can use the left-hand menu to browse by video type (therapy types, counseling sessions, etc.) or theme (family and relationships, substance abuse, etc.).
Questions?
E-mail: library@myunion.edu
Phone: 888-828-8557, extension 8758
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Journal access on Saturday, March 24
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Access to most library journals will be unavailable for about an hour on Saturday, March 24, starting at 2:00 pm Eastern Time (5:00 pm Pacific Time).
This will affect the search options from the Journals tab on the library home page, "Search for Full Text" links from within various databases, and the Ulrich's Periodical Directory. Access to library databases and e-books, and journal articles accessed through "Full Text" (or "PDF Full Text") links within library databases should not be affected.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
This will affect the search options from the Journals tab on the library home page, "Search for Full Text" links from within various databases, and the Ulrich's Periodical Directory. Access to library databases and e-books, and journal articles accessed through "Full Text" (or "PDF Full Text") links within library databases should not be affected.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
New E-books: Leadership & Public Policy
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Our government, leadership, and public policy collection has expanded, and we're proud to announce the following additions to our catalog.
These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu.
Africana cultures and policy studies: scholarship and the transformation of public policy
American ascendancy: how the United States gained and wielded global dominance
Back to the land: the enduring dream of self-sufficiency in modern America
Black women, cultural images, and social policy
Discursive politics of gender equality: stretching, bending, and policy-making
Economic analysis, moral philosophy, and public policy
Edward Bancroft: scientist, author, spy
Expose of polygamy: a lady’s life among the Mormons
Foul Bodies: cleanliness in early America
From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776
God and race in American politics: a short history
Heroes and cowards: the social face of war
How information matters: networks and public policy innovation
Inequality and public policy in China
Is the good book good enough? Evangelical perspectives on public policy
Made in America: a social history of American culture and character
Making democracy work better: mediating structures, social capital, and the democratic prospect
Nationalism in a global era: the persistence of nations
Neoconservative revolution: Jewish intellectuals and the shaping of public policy
Origin of organized crime in America: the New York City mafia, 1891-1931
Peabody sisters: three women who ignited American romanticism
Poverty, battered women, and work in U. S. public policy
Private abuse of the public interest: market myths and policy muddles
Privatization and market development: global movements in public policy ideas
Public health in the 21st century: volumes 1-3
Public policy theory primer
Salsa, soul, and spirit: Leadership for a multicultural age (2nd edition)
Saving remnant: the radical lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds
Securing American independence: John Jay and the French alliance
Seeking higher ground: the hurricane Katrina crisis, race, and public policy reader
Slavery and public history: the sough stuff of American memory
Taking back our spirits: indigenous literature, public policy, and healing
That man: an insider's portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The campaign continues: how political consultants and campaign tactics affect public policy
Twentieth-Century multiplicity: American thought and culture, 1900-1920
What should we do with the Negro? Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America
Whites of their eyes: the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history
Women in leadership: contextual dynamics and boundaries
Our government, leadership, and public policy collection has expanded, and we're proud to announce the following additions to our catalog.
These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu.
Africana cultures and policy studies: scholarship and the transformation of public policy
American ascendancy: how the United States gained and wielded global dominance
Back to the land: the enduring dream of self-sufficiency in modern America
Black women, cultural images, and social policy
Discursive politics of gender equality: stretching, bending, and policy-making
Economic analysis, moral philosophy, and public policy
Edward Bancroft: scientist, author, spy
Expose of polygamy: a lady’s life among the Mormons
Foul Bodies: cleanliness in early America
From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776
God and race in American politics: a short history
Heroes and cowards: the social face of war
How information matters: networks and public policy innovation
Inequality and public policy in China
Is the good book good enough? Evangelical perspectives on public policy
Made in America: a social history of American culture and character
Making democracy work better: mediating structures, social capital, and the democratic prospect
Nationalism in a global era: the persistence of nations
Neoconservative revolution: Jewish intellectuals and the shaping of public policy
Origin of organized crime in America: the New York City mafia, 1891-1931
Peabody sisters: three women who ignited American romanticism
Poverty, battered women, and work in U. S. public policy
Private abuse of the public interest: market myths and policy muddles
Privatization and market development: global movements in public policy ideas
Public health in the 21st century: volumes 1-3
Public policy theory primer
Salsa, soul, and spirit: Leadership for a multicultural age (2nd edition)
Saving remnant: the radical lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds
Securing American independence: John Jay and the French alliance
Seeking higher ground: the hurricane Katrina crisis, race, and public policy reader
Slavery and public history: the sough stuff of American memory
Taking back our spirits: indigenous literature, public policy, and healing
That man: an insider's portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The campaign continues: how political consultants and campaign tactics affect public policy
Twentieth-Century multiplicity: American thought and culture, 1900-1920
What should we do with the Negro? Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America
Whites of their eyes: the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history
Women in leadership: contextual dynamics and boundaries
New E-books: History & Religion
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Our collection has expanded yet again! The following titles are our latest additions in the fields of history and religion. We hope you find them informative and enjoyable.
These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu
History
Before Auschwitz: Irene Nemirovsky and the cultural landscape of inter-war France
Benjamin Franklin and the American revolution
Common law in colonial America, volume 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660
Description of New Netherland
Education of blacks in the south, 1860-1935
Freedom's journey: African-American voices of the Civil War
Lakota ghost dance of 1890
Learning native wisdom: what traditional cultures teach us about subsistence, sustainability, and spirituality
Living the revolution: Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
Mr. Jefferson's lost cause: land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
Mrs. Dred Scott: a life on slavery's frontier
Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom
Song for the horse nation: horses in Native American culture
Specter of Salem: remembering the witch trials in nineteenth century America
Stormy weather: middle class African American marriages between the two world wars
To make our world anew, volume II: a history of African Americans since 1880
What should we do with the Negro? Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America
Whites of their eyes: the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history
Religion
Blackwell companion to the study of religion
Expose of polygamy: a lady’s life among the Mormons
God and race in American politics: a short history
Introducing philosophy of religion
Is the good book good enough? Evangelical perspectives on public policy
Israel in Egypt: the evidence for the authenticity of the Exodus tradition
Learning native wisdom: what traditional cultures teach us about subsistence, sustainability, and spirituality
Of god and gods: Egypt, Israel, and the rise of monotheism
Religion: the basics (2nd edition)
These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu
History
Before Auschwitz: Irene Nemirovsky and the cultural landscape of inter-war France
Benjamin Franklin and the American revolution
Common law in colonial America, volume 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660
Description of New Netherland
Education of blacks in the south, 1860-1935
Freedom's journey: African-American voices of the Civil War
Lakota ghost dance of 1890
Learning native wisdom: what traditional cultures teach us about subsistence, sustainability, and spirituality
Living the revolution: Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
Mr. Jefferson's lost cause: land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
Mrs. Dred Scott: a life on slavery's frontier
Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom
Song for the horse nation: horses in Native American culture
Specter of Salem: remembering the witch trials in nineteenth century America
Stormy weather: middle class African American marriages between the two world wars
To make our world anew, volume II: a history of African Americans since 1880
What should we do with the Negro? Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America
Whites of their eyes: the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history
Religion
Blackwell companion to the study of religion
Expose of polygamy: a lady’s life among the Mormons
God and race in American politics: a short history
Introducing philosophy of religion
Is the good book good enough? Evangelical perspectives on public policy
Israel in Egypt: the evidence for the authenticity of the Exodus tradition
Learning native wisdom: what traditional cultures teach us about subsistence, sustainability, and spirituality
Of god and gods: Egypt, Israel, and the rise of monotheism
Religion: the basics (2nd edition)
April Spotlight: Creative Commons Search
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The Creative Commons search allows you to locate videos, images, and other multimedia resources for use in presentations and online courses. Each resource will have an individual Creative Commons license, which clearly lists usage rights and restrictions (nonprofit, creator attribution, etc.). The Creative Commons search includes popular websites like YouTube, Flickr, Google Images, Europeana, Jamendo, and Wikipedia Commons.
©Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
©Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
6 Ekim 2012 Cumartesi
New E-books: Education, Psychology & General Collections
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We're excited to announce that another round of titles has been added to the ever-expanding UI&U Library catalog! Our most recent additions cover a myriad of topics, including education, psychology, research methods, and performance theory.
These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu.
Education
Classroom instruction that works: research-based strategies for increasing student achievement (2nd edition)
Courageous conversations: state of the African American male
Education of blacks in the south, 1860-1935
Elements of library research: what every student needs to know
Student guide to research in the digital age: how to locate and evaluate information sources
Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom
Theoretical foundations of learning environments (2nd edition)
General
Infant feeding practice: a cross-cultural perspective
Theatre and performance theory: acts of activism: human rights as radical performance
Womanist reader
Psychology
Egan's skilled helper model: developments and applications in counseling
The insanity of alcohol: social problems in Canadian first nations communities
Path of Handsome Lake: a model of recovery for native people
Recovery the native way: a therapist's manual
Social psychological foundations of clinical psychology
Transitions: making sense of life's changes (25th edition)
Youth violence: theory, prevention, and interventions
We're excited to announce that another round of titles has been added to the ever-expanding UI&U Library catalog! Our most recent additions cover a myriad of topics, including education, psychology, research methods, and performance theory.
These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu.
Education
Classroom instruction that works: research-based strategies for increasing student achievement (2nd edition)
Courageous conversations: state of the African American male
Education of blacks in the south, 1860-1935
Elements of library research: what every student needs to know
Student guide to research in the digital age: how to locate and evaluate information sources
Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom
Theoretical foundations of learning environments (2nd edition)
General
Infant feeding practice: a cross-cultural perspective
Theatre and performance theory: acts of activism: human rights as radical performance
Womanist reader
Psychology
Egan's skilled helper model: developments and applications in counseling
The insanity of alcohol: social problems in Canadian first nations communities
Path of Handsome Lake: a model of recovery for native people
Recovery the native way: a therapist's manual
Social psychological foundations of clinical psychology
Transitions: making sense of life's changes (25th edition)
Youth violence: theory, prevention, and interventions
April Online Workshops
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Brush-up on your research skills and learn how to confidently locate the scholarly resources you need. Register for an online workshop.
Basic Research SkillsTuesday, April 10, 12:05-12:55PM EST/9:05PM-9:55AMThis workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
Advanced Research SkillsTuesday, April 24, 5:20-6:10PM EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PSTThis workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
May Online Workshops Tuesday, May 8: Introduction to the UI&U Library & Website, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST This workshop provides an introduction to the library’s resources and services, followed by a tour of the library website. Recommended for new faculty, staff, and students.
Advanced Research Skills
Tuesday, May 15, 12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Tuesday, May 22: Faculty Collection Development, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST
The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase. This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.
Tuesday, May 29: Basic Research Skills:, 12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
June Online Workshops
Tuesday, June 5: Advanced Research Skills, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Tuesday, June 12: Faculty Collection Development, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase. This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.
Tuesday, June 19: Basic Research Skills, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PSTThis workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
Tuesday, June 26: Advanced Research Skills, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Basic Research SkillsTuesday, April 10, 12:05-12:55PM EST/9:05PM-9:55AMThis workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
Advanced Research SkillsTuesday, April 24, 5:20-6:10PM EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PSTThis workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
May Online Workshops Tuesday, May 8: Introduction to the UI&U Library & Website, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST This workshop provides an introduction to the library’s resources and services, followed by a tour of the library website. Recommended for new faculty, staff, and students.
Advanced Research Skills
Tuesday, May 15, 12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Tuesday, May 22: Faculty Collection Development, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST
The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase. This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.
Tuesday, May 29: Basic Research Skills:, 12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
June Online Workshops
Tuesday, June 5: Advanced Research Skills, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Tuesday, June 12: Faculty Collection Development, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase. This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.
Tuesday, June 19: Basic Research Skills, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PSTThis workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
Tuesday, June 26: Advanced Research Skills, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Celebrate National Library Week
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Please join us in celebrating the UI&U Library and its employees!
National Library Week is an annual celebration of libraries which began in 1958. The American Library Association (ALA) in concert with libraries across the nation have designated this week as time to celebrate the contributions of libraries and their dedicated staff.
Libraries have historically served as our nation’s great equalizers of knowledge, providing access to information; leveling the playing field by making information affordable, available, and accessible to all people.
© 2012 Georgia State University. Picture and text used with permission.
Please join us in celebrating the UI&U Library and its employees! National Library Week is an annual celebration of libraries which began in 1958. The American Library Association (ALA) in concert with libraries across the nation have designated this week as time to celebrate the contributions of libraries and their dedicated staff.
Libraries have historically served as our nation’s great equalizers of knowledge, providing access to information; leveling the playing field by making information affordable, available, and accessible to all people.
© 2012 Georgia State University. Picture and text used with permission.
What's wrong with the Celtics?
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Everybody blames it on their health and lack of Kevin Garnett. Admittedly, any team without K.G. would tend to slump significantly. But as a life long Celtics fan, I feel the problem goes much deeper than that. I think the main underlying issue that the average John Q. public is missing (and Doc Rivers) is the role of Rajon Rondo. He's averaged 10.6 points per game during their championship year in 08' and last year he improved his average to 11.9 points per game. This year he has pushed it up to 14.0 points per game. On any given night, I see him drop 20 points. While I am all for an individual improving his stats...at what expense does it come to the rest of the team as a whole? Last year, they didn't even make the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, granted it's midway, they're slumping and losing to scrub teams. The more points he scores the less he is involving his team mates. When they don't score, they lose interest in rebounding, hustling, the little things. Just a thought, but if he'd give up the ball a little more like in the past, perhaps they would keep their interest level up and stop losing leads and such. What do you all think! No haters! Actual sports fans answers only...be mature!
"I'm a raven."
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I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom, which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten's works in the soundtrack. Movie nerds will recognize the theme from his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra as the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar, which was adapted (quite effectively, for solo violin) for a key scene in The Lesser Adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The amateur production of Britten's Noye's Fludde, staged in a local church and replete with children dressed as animals, is, like the Khaki Scouts, its own kind of child-adult collusion in overenthusiasm. Suzy is a failed raven just as Sam is a failed Khaki Scout, failed on social grounds rather than out of incompetence. It is a "play" that is taken utterly seriously, especially by the grown-ups (like the one who demotes Suzy from her raven role). Play taken too seriously, or serious enterprises (like child care) rendered all too game-like (as when the best scout of all, Scoutmaster Ward, manages to lose first Sam, then the rest of the troop), continually threaten happiness. The only possible resistance is yet another system, an alternative game, a union between Sam's wilderness skills and Suzy's fantasy world, the game of their private Moonrise Kingdom.
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
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| "I'm a raven." |
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
5 Ekim 2012 Cuma
New E-books: Literature
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Spring has finally arrived, and so have several exciting new titles in our literature collection.
These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu
African American writers and classical tradition
Age of Auden: postwar poetry and the American scene
Apostles of modernity: American writers in the age of development
Becoming Dickens: the invention of a novelist
Beyond Douglass: new perspectives on early African-American literature
Brainwashing: the fictions of mind control
Deep distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1809
Disseminal Chaucer: rereading the nun's priest's tale
Emerson: a national icon for a post-national age
English biography in the seventeenth century: a critical survey
Jane Austen and the enlightenment
Moral taste: aesthetics, subjectivity, and social power in the nineteenth-century novel
My business is to create: Blake's infinite writing
Native American literatures: an introduction
New book of the grotesques: contemporary approaches to Sherwood Anderson's early fiction
Our sisters' keepers: nineteenth century benevolence literature by American women
Poem of a life: a biography of Louis Zukofsky
Privacy: concealing the eighteenth century self
Public life of privacy in nineteenth century American literature
Romanticism and the rise of English
Shaped by stories: the ethical power of narratives
Spell of the song: letters, meaning, and English poetry
Tragic conditions in Shakespeare: disinheriting the globe
These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu
African American writers and classical tradition
Age of Auden: postwar poetry and the American scene
Apostles of modernity: American writers in the age of development
Becoming Dickens: the invention of a novelist
Beyond Douglass: new perspectives on early African-American literature
Brainwashing: the fictions of mind control
Deep distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1809
Disseminal Chaucer: rereading the nun's priest's tale
Emerson: a national icon for a post-national age
English biography in the seventeenth century: a critical survey
Jane Austen and the enlightenment
Moral taste: aesthetics, subjectivity, and social power in the nineteenth-century novel
My business is to create: Blake's infinite writing
Native American literatures: an introduction
New book of the grotesques: contemporary approaches to Sherwood Anderson's early fiction
Our sisters' keepers: nineteenth century benevolence literature by American women
Poem of a life: a biography of Louis Zukofsky
Privacy: concealing the eighteenth century self
Public life of privacy in nineteenth century American literature
Romanticism and the rise of English
Shaped by stories: the ethical power of narratives
Spell of the song: letters, meaning, and English poetry
Tragic conditions in Shakespeare: disinheriting the globe
May Online Workshops
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Brush-up on your research skills and learn how to confidently locate the scholarly resources you need. Register for an online workshop.
Tuesday, May 8: Introduction to the UI&U Library & Website
3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST This workshop provides an introduction to the library’s resources and services, followed by a tour of the library website. Recommended for new faculty, staff, and students.
Tuesday, May 15: Advanced Research Skills
12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Tuesday, May 22: Faculty Collection Development
5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST
The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase. This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.
Tuesday, May 29: Basic Research Skills
12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
June Online Workshops
Tuesday, June 5: Advanced Research Skills
5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Tuesday, June 12: Faculty Collection Development
3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase. This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.
Tuesday, June 19: Basic Research Skills
5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PSTThis workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
Tuesday, June 26: Advanced Research Skills
3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Tuesday, May 8: Introduction to the UI&U Library & Website
3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST This workshop provides an introduction to the library’s resources and services, followed by a tour of the library website. Recommended for new faculty, staff, and students.
Tuesday, May 15: Advanced Research Skills
12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Tuesday, May 22: Faculty Collection Development
5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST
The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase. This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.
Tuesday, May 29: Basic Research Skills
12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
June Online Workshops
Tuesday, June 5: Advanced Research Skills
5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
Tuesday, June 12: Faculty Collection Development
3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase. This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.
Tuesday, June 19: Basic Research Skills
5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PSTThis workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.
Tuesday, June 26: Advanced Research Skills
3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.
New: Historical Video Database Trials
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The UI&U Library is currently considering the acquisition of two new video databases: American History in Video and World History in Video. Before we commit to a yearly subscription, we're running an open trial period, and would appreciate your feedback. The trial runs until June 29, 2012. If, after exploring these databases, you feel that they would be valuable additions to our library, please let us know.
American History in Video send feedback
"People who witness notable historic moments, either in real time or on film, remember forever how they felt at the time. Who can forget the shock of seeing the helicopter pushed off the USS Blue Ridge carrier at the Fall of Saigon in 1975, or the thrill of watching Neil Armstrong taking his first step onto the moon’s surface? Now you can experience these and tens of thousands of other historical moments in the same visceral way, with American History in Video."
"As a biographical resource, American History in Video will include hundreds of profiles of great American leaders and personalities. As an encyclopedia of history, it provides footage of seminal historic events. Compare Kennedy’s rhetorical flair with Nixon’s. Examine racial stereotypes as presented in newsreels featuring African Americans prior to 1950. Consider Ed Herlihy’s use of alliteration and other tropes of propaganda in WW2 newsreels. These and thousands of other searches are easy with American History in Video".--Alexander Street Press
World History in Video send feedback
"This online collection of streaming video will give faculty, students, and history lovers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. A rich survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall, World History in Video is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage delivers the sights, sounds, artifacts, and histories from around the world straight to your desktop.
Included in World History in Video are many of the documentaries most frequently used today in university-level classes teaching world history, ancient history, Western civilization, European history, regional history, and documentary film."- Alexander Street Press
American History in Video send feedback
"People who witness notable historic moments, either in real time or on film, remember forever how they felt at the time. Who can forget the shock of seeing the helicopter pushed off the USS Blue Ridge carrier at the Fall of Saigon in 1975, or the thrill of watching Neil Armstrong taking his first step onto the moon’s surface? Now you can experience these and tens of thousands of other historical moments in the same visceral way, with American History in Video."
"As a biographical resource, American History in Video will include hundreds of profiles of great American leaders and personalities. As an encyclopedia of history, it provides footage of seminal historic events. Compare Kennedy’s rhetorical flair with Nixon’s. Examine racial stereotypes as presented in newsreels featuring African Americans prior to 1950. Consider Ed Herlihy’s use of alliteration and other tropes of propaganda in WW2 newsreels. These and thousands of other searches are easy with American History in Video".--Alexander Street Press
World History in Video send feedback
"This online collection of streaming video will give faculty, students, and history lovers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. A rich survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall, World History in Video is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage delivers the sights, sounds, artifacts, and histories from around the world straight to your desktop.
Included in World History in Video are many of the documentaries most frequently used today in university-level classes teaching world history, ancient history, Western civilization, European history, regional history, and documentary film."- Alexander Street Press
July Spotlight: EBSCO eBooks
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The UI&U Library’s newest database is also this month’s spotlight feature: The eBook Academic Subscription Collection. This e-book database contains approximately 70,000 titles from a wide variety of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Ebooks are hosted within the familiar EBSCO interface and can be viewed by an unlimited number of simultaneous users.
The eBook Academic Subscription Collection (EASC) database can be accessed from the Databases by Subject page. In addition, you can search the library’s entire collection of e-books--both EASC and other databases like ebrary--from the catalog (please see the instructional video below).
The library is always looking for ways to expand our e-book collection with high quality, scholarly content and we are excited to now be offering access to this wonderful new database.
The eBook Academic Subscription Collection (EASC) database can be accessed from the Databases by Subject page. In addition, you can search the library’s entire collection of e-books--both EASC and other databases like ebrary--from the catalog (please see the instructional video below).
The library is always looking for ways to expand our e-book collection with high quality, scholarly content and we are excited to now be offering access to this wonderful new database.
What's wrong with the Celtics?
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Everybody blames it on their health and lack of Kevin Garnett. Admittedly, any team without K.G. would tend to slump significantly. But as a life long Celtics fan, I feel the problem goes much deeper than that. I think the main underlying issue that the average John Q. public is missing (and Doc Rivers) is the role of Rajon Rondo. He's averaged 10.6 points per game during their championship year in 08' and last year he improved his average to 11.9 points per game. This year he has pushed it up to 14.0 points per game. On any given night, I see him drop 20 points. While I am all for an individual improving his stats...at what expense does it come to the rest of the team as a whole? Last year, they didn't even make the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, granted it's midway, they're slumping and losing to scrub teams. The more points he scores the less he is involving his team mates. When they don't score, they lose interest in rebounding, hustling, the little things. Just a thought, but if he'd give up the ball a little more like in the past, perhaps they would keep their interest level up and stop losing leads and such. What do you all think! No haters! Actual sports fans answers only...be mature!
4 Ekim 2012 Perşembe
At First Sight: The Shirl Jennings Story
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"Sight is an amazing gift, and one which most of us learn from infancy, starting after birth when our eyes learn to focus. Through infancy, toddler years, and on into school years, our brains are trained to remember objects by how they look. The blind cannot do this. They use tactile sensations to identify and relate to everything.
When Shirl's sight was restored, the visual overload was almost devastating. He had no idea what he was looking at and the task of learning it all was emotionally and mentally challenging, as well as a huge physical burden.
Barbara Jennings, Shirl's wife, was determined that he could adjust to a life with sight and navigated unchartered waters to teach him everything - colors, alphabet, numerals, household objects, types of buildings and structural materials, trees and shurbs, animals, roads, railroads, airplanes, bridges, tunnels...the list was endless. There was always more for Shirl to learn."- from atfirstsighthebook.com
The story of Barbara Jennings, a graduate of UI&U's M.A. Psych program, and her late husband Shirl may be familiar to some of you, as their life story was given a glossy Hollywood adaptation in 1999 via the film At First Sight, starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino. But as with any life story, perhaps the best narrator is the one who has lived it; in this case, Shirl himself, who, alongside Barbara and Margery Phelps, created At First Sight, the Shirl Jennings Story: The story behind the MGM motion picture, which is now available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Aside from the book, Barbara has preserved her husband's inspiring legacy by posting his gorgeous artwork on the At First Sight website. There is a great deal of beauty in the couple's story and in the work Shirl created, and we hope that you will take the time to experience it for yourself.
When Shirl's sight was restored, the visual overload was almost devastating. He had no idea what he was looking at and the task of learning it all was emotionally and mentally challenging, as well as a huge physical burden.
Barbara Jennings, Shirl's wife, was determined that he could adjust to a life with sight and navigated unchartered waters to teach him everything - colors, alphabet, numerals, household objects, types of buildings and structural materials, trees and shurbs, animals, roads, railroads, airplanes, bridges, tunnels...the list was endless. There was always more for Shirl to learn."- from atfirstsighthebook.com
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| Shirl Jennings creating art, courtesy of Barbara Jennings |
The story of Barbara Jennings, a graduate of UI&U's M.A. Psych program, and her late husband Shirl may be familiar to some of you, as their life story was given a glossy Hollywood adaptation in 1999 via the film At First Sight, starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino. But as with any life story, perhaps the best narrator is the one who has lived it; in this case, Shirl himself, who, alongside Barbara and Margery Phelps, created At First Sight, the Shirl Jennings Story: The story behind the MGM motion picture, which is now available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Aside from the book, Barbara has preserved her husband's inspiring legacy by posting his gorgeous artwork on the At First Sight website. There is a great deal of beauty in the couple's story and in the work Shirl created, and we hope that you will take the time to experience it for yourself.
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| Sun and Rays by Shirl Jennings, courtesy of atfirstsighthebook.com |
New: Ethnic NewsWatch Trial
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Ethnic NewsWatch, described by Proquest as "a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. It may be combined with Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™ which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Together, these resources present an unmatched, comprehensive, full-text collection of more than 2.5 million articles from over 340 publications. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of the resources is the inclusion of unique community publications not found in any other database, as well as top scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies," is currently being considered for acquisition by the UI&U Library, and we'd like your feedback before we commit to a full subscription.
In order to gain user insight and feedback, The UI&U library will be running a trial of Ethnic NewsWatch until August 16, 2012. The trial can be accessed here.
If you feel that this database would be a valuable addition to UI&U's collection, please let us know. We appreciate your feedback and want to provide the best resources available for all of our patrons.
In order to gain user insight and feedback, The UI&U library will be running a trial of Ethnic NewsWatch until August 16, 2012. The trial can be accessed here.
If you feel that this database would be a valuable addition to UI&U's collection, please let us know. We appreciate your feedback and want to provide the best resources available for all of our patrons.
What's wrong with the Celtics?
To contact us Click HERE
Everybody blames it on their health and lack of Kevin Garnett. Admittedly, any team without K.G. would tend to slump significantly. But as a life long Celtics fan, I feel the problem goes much deeper than that. I think the main underlying issue that the average John Q. public is missing (and Doc Rivers) is the role of Rajon Rondo. He's averaged 10.6 points per game during their championship year in 08' and last year he improved his average to 11.9 points per game. This year he has pushed it up to 14.0 points per game. On any given night, I see him drop 20 points. While I am all for an individual improving his stats...at what expense does it come to the rest of the team as a whole? Last year, they didn't even make the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, granted it's midway, they're slumping and losing to scrub teams. The more points he scores the less he is involving his team mates. When they don't score, they lose interest in rebounding, hustling, the little things. Just a thought, but if he'd give up the ball a little more like in the past, perhaps they would keep their interest level up and stop losing leads and such. What do you all think! No haters! Actual sports fans answers only...be mature!
"I'm a raven."
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I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom, which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten's works in the soundtrack. Movie nerds will recognize the theme from his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra as the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar, which was adapted (quite effectively, for solo violin) for a key scene in The Lesser Adaptation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The amateur production of Britten's Noye's Fludde, staged in a local church and replete with children dressed as animals, is, like the Khaki Scouts, its own kind of child-adult collusion in overenthusiasm. Suzy is a failed raven just as Sam is a failed Khaki Scout, failed on social grounds rather than out of incompetence. It is a "play" that is taken utterly seriously, especially by the grown-ups (like the one who demotes Suzy from her raven role). Play taken too seriously, or serious enterprises (like child care) rendered all too game-like (as when the best scout of all, Scoutmaster Ward, manages to lose first Sam, then the rest of the troop), continually threaten happiness. The only possible resistance is yet another system, an alternative game, a union between Sam's wilderness skills and Suzy's fantasy world, the game of their private Moonrise Kingdom.
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
|
| "I'm a raven." |
Thus when all the other social systems of discipline converge, they do so at the church, in the midst of Noye's Fludde, in order to escape the actual flooding outside.
Britten is a serious, even difficult composer who has, when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for its boy choristers. I couldn't help noticing a movement from his Simple Symphony when it appeared in the film—a movement tellingly titled "Playful Pizzicato"—I'd played it as a child, after all. Using childish sounds—"playful" pizzicato (plucked strings), glockenspiels, high-pitched child voices, and at times almost comical bombast (including in the didactic Young Person's Guide)—Britten proffers Middle English texts and challenging harmonies. Thus, within the world of the film, his music marks the oscillations between "too easy" and "too hard" that marks every educational pursuit, every system for cultivating the self.
Anderson's own oeuvre, so often described in the terms of miniatures and toys (and including an animated adaptation of a children's book, Roald Dahl's 1970 Fantastic Mister Fox) aspires to similar comminglings. In Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson focalizes childhood as a site of real difficulty, one whose difficulties are not discontinuous with those of adulthood, and indeed, one whose difficulties are most adult when they reside in the domain of play.
Suzy lugs a suitcase of stolen library books through the wilderness, imaginative resources for building a private universe. Her fictions are bulwarks against the flood.
Manners and the live-tweet
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It's strange to see a conversation happen in your Twitter feed, mainly among people you know, and then watch that conversation get written up at Inside Higher Ed. Such was the recent "Twittergate," ironically so dubbed by Roopika Risam. The question was whether and under what circumstances it is ethical to live-tweet a conference.
I have a hard time taking the question seriously. I tend to sympathize with Eleanor Courtemanche's quip:
If we do any sort of public writing, whether on blogs, in print, or elsewhere, then we have had to make our peace with the partible personhood function of writing. You will be misread, misquoted, taken out of context, and distorted. And that's if you're lucky and are read. How dreary to be somebody!
Conferences are a sort of academic Facebook; they give the illusion of privacy and safety, while you're under a diffuse but constant surveillance. A certain segment of Facebook fans has a horror of Twitter and its public ways, because on Twitter that illusion of privacy is gone. But you know: it was only ever an illusion. Live-tweeting a conference only reveals and makes searchable (and renders amenable to response) the Telephone-relays already pervading our academic life.
I think the earliest blog post on the subject, Tressie McMillan Cottom's, is also the most interesting and nuanced. She addresses the most substantive critiques of live-tweeting: that it participates in the tendency of "openness" to devolve into commodification, and that it violates the speaker's expectations.
Still, the Inside Higher Ed article seems to unintentionally make the case that we have less to fear from Twitter than from journalism. As Alexis Lothian and Mark Sample observe, Twitter was responsible and careful where Inside Higher Ed was not.
I want to add only one thing, which irks me every time a conversation on the etiquette-ethics spectrum comes up. (That etiquette is so often discussed as an ethical imperative is itself, in my opinion, a problem, but a different one.) Inevitably there are calls for "BASIC MANNERS" and "COMMON CIVILITY" and "just don't be RUDE didn't your mama teach you better" and the like. I have no sympathy with the position that live-tweeting is just obviously rude.
There is no such thing as "basic manners." "Polite" (or socially affirming) in one context is rude in another, and vice versa. Or your mama may not have taught you "better." Maybe you had a bad mother; is that supposed to be the point? Why bring people's mothers into it? I like a fast conversation in which the conversants are so excited that they interrupt one another; I interrupt people, they interrupt me. Is this rude? Sometimes. Other times, as a friend once said to me when our interruptive conversation turned meta, "whatever; I'm from New York."
In Gender and Discourse, Deborah Tannen argues that the social meanings of linguistic acts are cultural, contextual, and mutually produced by conversants. Interruption can produce sensations of affirmation; the linguistic gestures of solidarity can be confining as well as affirming. "For example," she writes, "one can talk while another is talking in order to wrest the floor; this can be seen as a move motivated by power. Yet one can also talk along with another in order to show support and agreement; this must be seen as a move motivated by solidarity" (19). Moreover, "the two...are not mutually exclusive" (19).
So what is "basic manners"? If we take seriously the diversity of experience, then it's certainly not a universal baseline about which we get to wag our fingers. We need an academic bestseller on "the dorky art of faux-pas," because I feel that this fact is underappreciated. Academia remains deeply riven with racial and especially class codes that are absolutely inscrutable to, for instance, first-generation academics. ("Didn't your mother...?" "No, my mother has no notion of how to comport oneself at an academic conference, nor is she especially clear on what an academic conference is.") As Lisa Delpit has so powerfully shown, a white teacher's politeness can, to her black child student, be no more than a maddening obfuscation.
I taught Melville recently, so I'm going to leave the last word to Melville:
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Delpit, Lisa. Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. New York: The New Press, 1995. Print.
Tannen, Deborah. Gender and Discourse. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. Print.
I have a hard time taking the question seriously. I tend to sympathize with Eleanor Courtemanche's quip:
For me, #twittergate is ALWAYS that tweets from conferences are TOO BORING (exc. mine, & OK all those from #navsa12)
— Eleanor Courtemanche (@ecourtem) October 1, 2012
If we do any sort of public writing, whether on blogs, in print, or elsewhere, then we have had to make our peace with the partible personhood function of writing. You will be misread, misquoted, taken out of context, and distorted. And that's if you're lucky and are read. How dreary to be somebody!
Conferences are a sort of academic Facebook; they give the illusion of privacy and safety, while you're under a diffuse but constant surveillance. A certain segment of Facebook fans has a horror of Twitter and its public ways, because on Twitter that illusion of privacy is gone. But you know: it was only ever an illusion. Live-tweeting a conference only reveals and makes searchable (and renders amenable to response) the Telephone-relays already pervading our academic life.
I think the earliest blog post on the subject, Tressie McMillan Cottom's, is also the most interesting and nuanced. She addresses the most substantive critiques of live-tweeting: that it participates in the tendency of "openness" to devolve into commodification, and that it violates the speaker's expectations.
Still, the Inside Higher Ed article seems to unintentionally make the case that we have less to fear from Twitter than from journalism. As Alexis Lothian and Mark Sample observe, Twitter was responsible and careful where Inside Higher Ed was not.
I want to add only one thing, which irks me every time a conversation on the etiquette-ethics spectrum comes up. (That etiquette is so often discussed as an ethical imperative is itself, in my opinion, a problem, but a different one.) Inevitably there are calls for "BASIC MANNERS" and "COMMON CIVILITY" and "just don't be RUDE didn't your mama teach you better" and the like. I have no sympathy with the position that live-tweeting is just obviously rude.
There is no such thing as "basic manners." "Polite" (or socially affirming) in one context is rude in another, and vice versa. Or your mama may not have taught you "better." Maybe you had a bad mother; is that supposed to be the point? Why bring people's mothers into it? I like a fast conversation in which the conversants are so excited that they interrupt one another; I interrupt people, they interrupt me. Is this rude? Sometimes. Other times, as a friend once said to me when our interruptive conversation turned meta, "whatever; I'm from New York."
In Gender and Discourse, Deborah Tannen argues that the social meanings of linguistic acts are cultural, contextual, and mutually produced by conversants. Interruption can produce sensations of affirmation; the linguistic gestures of solidarity can be confining as well as affirming. "For example," she writes, "one can talk while another is talking in order to wrest the floor; this can be seen as a move motivated by power. Yet one can also talk along with another in order to show support and agreement; this must be seen as a move motivated by solidarity" (19). Moreover, "the two...are not mutually exclusive" (19).
So what is "basic manners"? If we take seriously the diversity of experience, then it's certainly not a universal baseline about which we get to wag our fingers. We need an academic bestseller on "the dorky art of faux-pas," because I feel that this fact is underappreciated. Academia remains deeply riven with racial and especially class codes that are absolutely inscrutable to, for instance, first-generation academics. ("Didn't your mother...?" "No, my mother has no notion of how to comport oneself at an academic conference, nor is she especially clear on what an academic conference is.") As Lisa Delpit has so powerfully shown, a white teacher's politeness can, to her black child student, be no more than a maddening obfuscation.
I taught Melville recently, so I'm going to leave the last word to Melville:
Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told me a funny story about the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen. It was in Sag Harbor. The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house. Not to seem ignorant about the thing—though in truth he was entirely so, concerning the precise way in which to manage the barrow—Queequeg puts his chest upon it; lashes it fast; and then shoulders the barrow and marches up the wharf. "Why," said I, "Queequeg, you might have known better than that, one would think. Didn't the people laugh?"
Upon this, he told me another story. The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held. Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander—from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain—this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten. Well; when all the wedding guests were assembled at the bride's bamboo cottage, this Captain marches in, and being assigned the post of honor, placed himself over against the punchbowl, and between the High Priest and his majesty the King, Queequeg's father. Grace being said,—for those people have their grace as well as we- though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts—Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates. Seeing himself placed next the Priest, and noting the ceremony, and thinking himself—being Captain of a ship—as having plain precedence over a mere island King, especially in the King's own house—the Captain coolly proceeds to wash his hands in the punch bowl;—taking it I suppose for a huge finger-glass. "Now," said Queequeg, "what you tink now?—Didn't our people laugh?"
—Moby-Dick, Ch. 13
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Delpit, Lisa. Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. New York: The New Press, 1995. Print.
Tannen, Deborah. Gender and Discourse. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. Print.
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