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Southern Adventist University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
Southern Adventist University\u27s undergraduate catalog for the academic year 2023-2024.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/undergrad_catalog/1123/thumbnail.jp
Southern Adventist University Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2023
Southern Adventist University\u27s undergraduate catalog for the academic year 2022-2023.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/undergrad_catalog/1121/thumbnail.jp
Le goût d'Orval: constructing the taste of Orval beer through narratives
This study explores the construction of taste through narratives, using Orval beer as a
case study. Often found on lists of the best or most unique beers in the world, Orval is a bottle
conditioned, dry-hopped strong Belgian ale with Brettanomyces yeast, creating an orange-hue
beer topped with a large volume of white foam. It is both easy to drink and complex in flavour.
Made in southeastern Belgium within the walls of a Trappist Abbey, Orval is closely associated
with the country of Belgium, a pilgrimage site for beer lovers because of its unique and diverse
beer culture. In 2016 âBeer Culture in Belgiumâ was inscribed on UNESCOâs Representative
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Orval beer also carries the Authentic Trappist
Product label, ensuring that this product is brewed under the supervision of Trappist monks or
nuns, within the Abbey walls, and is non-profit. Additionally, the beer has a unique, distinctive
taste. This dissertation explores narratives that tell of all these aspects. The first section,
Narrating Belgium, examines how social and economic histories build Belgium as a beer nation,
and how conversion narratives of Belgian beer enthusiasts support this theory. The Narrating
Trappist section examines how the Legend of Orval and the history of Orval Abbey create a
sense of place for Orval beer and how the Authentic Trappist Product label helps construct its
terroir. The last section, Narrating Taste, focuses on narratives of taste as shared in online
reviews of Orval beer. I first conduct lexical and network analysis of reviews on Untappd,
RateBeer, and BeerAdvocate before focusing specifically on themes found in BeerAdvocate
reviews. Through ethnographic and textual research, this dissertation introduces a folkloristic
approach to taste and argues that both contextual and sensory elements are essential in building
taste through narratives
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Sonic heritage: listening to the past
History is so often told through objects, images and photographs, but the potential of sounds to reveal place and space is often neglected. Our research project âSonic Palimpsestâ1 explores the potential of sound to evoke impressions and new understandings of the past, to embrace the sonic as a tool to understand what was, in a way that can complement and add to our predominant visual understandings. Our work includes the expansion of the Oral History archives held at Chatham Dockyard to include womenâs voices and experiences, and the creation of sonic works to engage the public with their heritage. Our research highlights the social and cultural value of oral history and field recordings in the transmission of knowledge to both researchers and the public. Together these recordings document how buildings and spaces within the dockyard were used and experienced by those who worked there. We can begin to understand the social and cultural roles of these buildings within the community, both past and present
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Origin Story: Educators, the Code, and the Making of the Silver Age of Comics, 1940-1971
My dissertation interrogates the role played by teachers, professors, researchers, administrators, and librarians in comics activism in the years before the establishment of the Comics Code Authority. Teachers occupied a unique space: public servants in one sense, subject matter experts in another. At the same time, they were not impervious to the mediaâs treatment of the anti-comics crusade, nor were they immune to the sway of religion, politics, and race in the conversation. Using teachersâ professional journals and local newspapers, I find that educators existed on both sides of the debate as drivers of the actionâsometimes as actors, but also as proxies and participants.
In addition, as arbiters of kidsâ free time, keepers of literacy, imparters of citizenship, developers of good taste, and specialists in the behavior and needs of students, teachers had a special vantage point from which to observe the effects of comics on young readers. Theirs was a valuable position, and it was coopted by any number of factions jockeying for influence. Probing the records of the comic book industryâs regulatory body, I determined that educators were targets of the industryâs campaign to legitimate the genre.
My dissertation also situates universities as key sites of pro-comics activities and expands the actors in the anti-comics campaign to include independent scholars, as well as university faculty, administrators, and students. Peer-reviewed research was used by parties on both sides of the debate. Evaluating this scholarship, I conclude that unaffiliated researchers made consequential contributions to the debate, speaking directly to the public in ways that more traditional researchers could not. Finally, my project establishes the nuance in educatorsâ role in the anti-comics campaign and surveys the ways they were actors, subjects, and instruments in the movement. Utilizing textual analyses of key Silver Age comics, I find that the comic books created in the wake of the anti-comics crusade were direct outgrowths of the anxieties and aspirations of educatorsâa deliberate effort by comic book publishers to gain their endorsement
An Age, Size, and Climate Response Study of Old Growth Shortleaf Pine in the McCurtain County Wilderness Area, Oklahoma
Increment cores were extracted from 483 trees distributed over 21 semi-randomly sampled 0.1-hectare plots on three distinct landscape positions in the McCurtain County Wilderness Area (MCWA), a 57 square kilometer tract of uncut shortleaf pine in southeastern Oklahoma. Forty additional cores were taken off plot from older-appearing trees. All sampled trees were shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) with a diameter at breast height (DBH) of at least 10 cm. Hardwoods were not included in the size and age analyses. The study site chosen for the sampling was made up of four parallel east-west trending ridges near North Linson Creek, making up about 1.3 square kilometers in area. The cores and diameter measurements were used to examine the age, size, basal area, density, and growth rate of the sampled pine stands. All core samples were dated dendrochronologically using the Douglass method of cross dating (Douglass, 1941) and measured for the development of earlywood (EW), latewood (LW), and total ring width (RW) chronologies. The average diameter for all randomly sampled trees at Linson Creek was 31.3 cm at breast height, and the average age was 100.3 years (i.e., the minimum age, based on core sampling at breast height). The size-age correlation was found to be stronger for the pines with a diameter of over 40 cm. A major pulse of shortleaf pine recruitment to breast height was detected from 1920-1940, when a sizable group of sampled trees reached ~1.4 m. Cumulative radial growth curves showed a wide variety of growth rates. When the effect of topographic position was tested, south-facing plots were found to have both the oldest and slowest-growing trees on average, and the youngest and smallest were found on the north-facing plots. Ridgetop plots had both the largest and fastest growing pines. The final chronology for Linson Creek dates from 1743 to 2020, and includes some individual trees cored outside of the randomly sampled plots due to their old appearance. These off-plot samples were not used for the dendroecological analyses, which were based only on the randomly sampled trees. Data from Stahle et al. (1985) were subsequently added to the Linson Creek samples to construct final, fully replicated chronologies of EW, LW, and RW, which extend from 1688 to 2020. The measured EW, LW, and RW chronologies were correlated with gridded instrumental Palmer Drought Severity Indices (PDSI) for the United States from 1895-2005. Results showed a significant positive correlation between latewood width and August PDSI in the same year as ring formation, not just in McCurtain County but also the surrounding states. Earlywood growth, by contrast, was only weakly correlated with June-July PDSI in the summer one year prior to EW formation
The Mother of All Pandemics: The State of Black Death Research in the Era of COVID-19 - Bibliography
The present bibliography was originally prepared for a webinar sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America in May 2020. The present version includes all citations added as of 30 August 2023. The Bibliography covers the Black Death as traditionally defined (the plague pandemic that struck western Eurasia and North Africa between 1346 and 1353) but sets it into new narratives of the early phases (13th through 15th centuries) of the Second Plague Pandemic, which touched major parts of Afro-Eurasia. The Bibliography will continue to be updated as a Google Doc, which can be found at this address: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0D_dwyAwp9xi9sMCW5UvpGfEVH5J2ZA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104263744463668175127&rtpof=true&sd=true
British Anti-Slavery, Trade, and Nascent Colonialism on the Sierra Leone Peninsula, c. 1860 â 1960
This dissertation reveals local responses to, and influences on the nascent British colonialism, imperial policies, and trade networks at Regent, a liberated African village on the Sierra Leone peninsula during the colonial period (circa 1860 to 1960) through the study of written and archaeological data. It explores how Africans liberated from slave ships and barracoons, following the British abolition of the slave trade and therefore of varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds, established new settlements and actively changed or maintained their household spatial practices, socio-economic strategies, as well as material use and discard patterns in this foreign diasporic setting. Fieldwork for this study consisted of two years of archival research in Freetown and archaeological investigations, which included settlement-wide surveys and the horizontal excavations of two house loci at Regent Village known to contain stratified domestic deposits dating to the colonial period. I use these written records and archaeological assemblages to show how these diverse Africans adapted to this foreign diasporic environment focusing on varied house structures and the mundane things they made, bought, used, and discarded. The contextual and comparative analyses of architectural remains and artifact distributions, as well as the presence and absence of certain kinds of artifact classes, facilitate the reconstruction of material culture patterning and household economic differences. Results of the analyses indicate emerging elites in the two excavated house loci, while the settlement-wide survey data reveal that some liberated Africans and their descendants lived in foreign-style houses that were neither European nor local, used many imported materials and retailed them, obtained Western education and went to church, but never became âBritish.â I employ a theoretical framework that connects colonial entanglements, cross-cultural exchange, and identity formation
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Cultivating the world: English country house gardens, 'exotic' plants and elite women collectors, c.1690-1800
Global goods were central to the material culture of eighteenth-century country houses. Across Europe, mahogany furniture, Chinese wallpapers and Indian textiles formed the backdrop to genteel practices of drinking sweetened coffee, tea and chocolate from Chinese porcelain. They tied these houses and their wealthy owners into global systems of supply and the processes of colonialism and empire.
Global Goods and the Country House builds on these narratives, and then challenges them by decentring our perspective. It offers a comparative framework that explores the definition, ownership and meaning of global goods outside the usual context of European imperial powers. What were global goods and what did they mean for wealthy landowners in places at the âperipheryâ of Europe (Sweden and Wallachia), in the British colonies of North America and the Caribbean, or in the extra-colonial context (Japan or Rajasthan)? By addressing these questions, this volume offers fresh insights into the multi-directional flow of goods and cultures that enmeshed the eighteenth-century world. And by placing these goods in their specific material context - from the English country house to the princely palaces of Rajasthan - we gain a better understanding of their use and meaning, and of their role in linking the global and the local
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