Help Those Who Are Trying to Overcome a Loss During Holidays

I lost my cousin to a tragic suicide death 23 years ago and my heart has never forgotten the pain that I felt following this loss

Letter from John Muir to Julia Moores, [1902 Jan ?].

[First draft of letter, in note-book #59] (31)[Jan.. `02].[Mrs,]Julia Moores,1960 N. Pa. St., [Indianapolis, Ind.]Dear Mrs. M[oores]:It is a most blessed comforting thing that all through the dark in which lovely Janet has been painfully groping her way these ten years the blessed child has never lost the power of loving, never lost sight of her friends. How glad I am that she has not forgotten me, and that my book gives her pleasure, perhaps even you don\u27t quite know. It was hard to write, yet I would gladly have written it even for her sake alone.You ask about my home. We are all well. The two girls are as good as they can be, both grown up, strong and happy. Wanda, whom Janet knows, is at the State University. Helen is my constant companion. I wish you knew them. I\u27m sure you would love them. Remember me [to] Charles and Merrill. Tell Janet every day that I love her, and pray she soon may come back into fullness of light. God sustain and comfort you, dear friend,Yours ever,J. M.0289

Letter from John Muir to Julia Moores, [1902 Jan ?].

[First draft of letter, in note-book #59] (31)[Jan.. `02].[Mrs,]Julia Moores,1960 N. Pa. St., [Indianapolis, Ind.]Dear Mrs. M[oores]:It is a most blessed comforting thing that all through the dark in which lovely Janet has been painfully groping her way these ten years the blessed child has never lost the power of loving, never lost sight of her friends. How glad I am that she has not forgotten me, and that my book gives her pleasure, perhaps even you don\u27t quite know. It was hard to write, yet I would gladly have written it even for her sake alone.You ask about my home. We are all well. The two girls are as good as they can be, both grown up, strong and happy. Wanda, whom Janet knows, is at the State University. Helen is my constant companion. I wish you knew them. I\u27m sure you would love them. Remember me [to] Charles and Merrill. Tell Janet every day that I love her, and pray she soon may come back into fullness of light. God sustain and comfort you, dear friend,Yours ever,J. M.0289

Traces: Embodied Ephemera From Here To There

This thesis work explores contemporary queer dance making through the concept of ephemera - what is left after performances end. Taking heavy inspiration from José Esteban Muñoz\u27s Cruising Utopia: the then and there of queer futurity, the research situates one young queer dance maker’s own past, present, and future choreographies as a site for the extraction of queer embodied experience. The textual and written research culminates in a gallery installation which houses a series of vignettes that act as preserved documents of these queer performance histories. The live performance calls the alive, dancing body into the conversation of the ephemeral. The piece of contemporary and contemporary ballet dancing serves as a reminder of what may be lost but never forgotten inside of this work

SIT Graduate Institute: Moving SIT Towards a Model of Inclusive Excellence in Diversity

The Inclusive Excellence Model has been used by college diversity offices all across the United States to help streamline diversity policy and foster a more inclusive collegial environment for students, staff, and faculty. It is now time for SIT Graduate Institute to benefit from this model. SIT has a long and rich history of diversity and inclusion work. However, much of that history has been lost or stored away in long-forgotten archives. Also, much of this memory has never been analyzed in a way that increases institutional wisdom. This study takes on the challenge of analyzing SIT’s institutional memory on diversity using the four core elements of the Inclusive Excellence Model with the purpose of creating a solid institutional narrative that helps guide SIT towards stronger inclusive practices. The evidence in this study makes a strong case for the utilization of the Inclusive Excellence Model in institutions of higher learning

Why I Read

I have left behind the world of reality many times by way of another’s writing. Yet, more memorable for me is not that which I have left behind and temporarily lost, but that which I have found and kept amidst the pages of the precious books I have read: Pieces of myself I had forgotten and pieces of myself I would like to change and grow. Janna Sallade is a Senior Health Sciences major at JMU. She will be attending Vanderbilt Nurse Practitioner school in the fall. She is a member of JMU\u27s premier female a capella group, Notoriety. She also enjoys reading, traveling, green things, Africa, playing the piano, and distance running. She is so thankful for her wonderful family and friends who never cease to delight and entertain her. She reports that what is most important (and definitely most exciting) about her life is that it has been forever changed because of her savior, Jesus Christ

“Reread me backwards”: Deciphering the Past in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day

Set during the midst of the London Blitz, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day revolves around a narrative of espionage, but unlike many novels from the spy genre, it refuses to disclose all of its secrets. Instead, the novel’s dense and complex language, which so effectively expresses the dislocating effects of a city under attack, resists an easy or uncomplicated reading. This article examines the motif of reading within the novel, which manifests when its protagonist, Stella Rodney, learns her lover Robert is a Nazi spy. In her efforts to locate proof of his defection, Stella becomes caught in a recurrent but indeterminable task of rereading past events, a movement which attempts to remember the past but also foregrounds a fundamental inability to ever wholly resolve its enigmas. When Stella fails to read her past for lost clues, she is prevented from viewing the events of her life as a coherent and meaningful narrative. The novel’s difficult language reflects this lack of resolution, refusing to assimilate the events it depicts into a straightforward account. With its wartime setting as a disorienting backdrop, The Heat of the Day undermines the purpose of reading as the discovery of sense and meaning, producing instead only more questions and mysteries

Unpaired Negative Words: the Case of a Missing Antonym

As a language with a turbulent history and almost over billion of speakers, English never ceases to amaze both the native and non-native speakers. Although English has been around for centuries, there always seems to be something intriguing enough to make one wonder and question certain aspects of English. One such aspect is certainly its morphology. A language as rich in word formation processes as English seems not to have yielded a satisfactory solution, or even an explanation, for some thought-provoking English words. One can be disheveled, but never sheveled. One might be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but he is never just whelmed. Someone may be ruthless, but rarely will we hear: “He has got no ruth.” As odd as it may seem, some words tend to appear only in their negative form, leaving the language user in awe of their lost positive pair. Some are rather common, so there is no need to question their forgotten or maybe suppressed, corresponding positive antonyms. Others, on the other hand, are quite rare in their negative form, let alone in their seemingly nonexistent positive form. But, if one chooses to believe the claim that humans evaluate their experiences on a basis of two words at the opposite ends of the spectrum, then the case of a missing antonym might be too valuable to ignore

Unpaired Negative Words: the Case of a Missing Antonym

As a language with a turbulent history and almost over billion of speakers, English never ceases to amaze both the native and non-native speakers. Although English has been around for centuries, there always seems to be something intriguing enough to make one wonder and question certain aspects of English. One such aspect is certainly its morphology. A language as rich in word formation processes as English seems not to have yielded a satisfactory solution, or even an explanation, for some thought-provoking English words. One can be disheveled, but never sheveled. One might be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but he is never just whelmed. Someone may be ruthless, but rarely will we hear: “He has got no ruth.” As odd as it may seem, some words tend to appear only in their negative form, leaving the language user in awe of their lost positive pair. Some are rather common, so there is no need to question their forgotten or maybe suppressed, corresponding positive antonyms. Others, on the other hand, are quite rare in their negative form, let alone in their seemingly nonexistent positive form. But, if one chooses to believe the claim that humans evaluate their experiences on a basis of two words at the opposite ends of the spectrum, then the case of a missing antonym might be too valuable to ignore

Getting Forgotten. Film Critic Elisabeth de Roos and Dutch Culture Before World War II

Elisabeth de Roos (1903-1981) was one of the most intelligent Dutch film critics of her time. From 1925 onwards, she published on French cinema and she contributed regularly to the Filmliga journal. Franse filmkunst [french cinema] was published in 1931. She lost her professional fascination with cinema with the coming of sound. In 1932 she married writer Eddy du Perron. “How could de Roos’s work be so entirely forgotten?” and “How exactly has this process of disappearance and oblivion taken place?” were the leading questions. Elisabeth’s life and reputation can be studied through the biographies and correspondence of her husband and his best friend Menno ter Braak. They were aware of their strategic positions, while de Roos did not care about her position in the literary landscape. Though, her personal relationship to cinema and literature and her search for authorship is very consistent, but De Roos never felt the urge to anthologize or reflect on her own writings. She dedicated herself to du Perron’s work and to raising their son. Financial troubles forced her to write as much as she could for money. Not even those women who were so active in history are granted an ongoing renown