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MeritPatch - Family Collaborative Activities
There is no doubt that the modern family is very busy and disrupted by outside influences. Social trends and expectations have caused many families to become disconnected. There is research that points to overuse of technology as one culprit. Other research suggests that lack of spiritualism has negatively affected families. Regardless of the cause, it can be argued that the more disconnect within a family, the more likely it is for family members to experience negative social, emotional and/or health related issues as well as broken relationships. This study seeks to define family interactions and activities that support a healthy family lifestyle for all members and to create a system by which a family can feel a sense of accomplishment and pride through shared interactions. The study will use design thinking methodology to research through advice interviews and iteratively design based on feedback
Permeable borders, possible worlds: history and identity in the novels of Michèle Roberts
Since the publication of her first novel, A Piece of the Night, in 1978, Michele Robertsâ fiction has continually returned to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space. Roberts uses her own experience as a woman of two cultures (English and French), as well as fictionalised histories of other women, to inform narratives in which the borders of history, culture and identity are figured as complex palimpsests. From the quasi-autobiographical narratives in A Piece of the Night and The Visitation (1983), Roberts moved on to rewrite biblical biographies of Mrs Noah (The Book of Mrs Noah, 1987) and Mary Magdalene (The Wild Girl, 1984). In In the Red Kitchen (1990) five female narrators âspeakâ to each other, creating a textual dialogue in which conclusions are not fixed and time never stands still. Flesh and Blood (1994) offers a series of dovetailed narratives and withholds any sense of closure. With reference to feminist work on time and space, this essay examines the extent to which Robertsâ fiction engages with contemporary debates about the fragmentation and reconstruction of feminine identity. White argues that siting such discussion within narrative fiction offers a logical and accessible location for theorizing the (im)possible
The Integral Jan Smuts.
Integral Theory as developed by Ken Wilber and other contemporary Integral scholars acknowledge many antecedent foundational influences, and proto-Integral thinkers. Curiously, the philosopher-statesman Jan Smutsâ theory of Holism is seldom acknowledged, although it has significantly contributed, albeit often implicitly, to the development of Integral Theory. This paper and presentation has two central aims: To point out that Smuts can be counted amongst one of the great Integral thinkers of the 20th Century; that Smutsâ notion of Holism had a significant influence on the development of Integral Theory. This paper and presentation will provide a brief outline of Smutsâ theory of Holism as developed in his book Holism and Evolution and other philosophical essays
Testimony and Narrative on the Supernatural in the Work of Catherine Crowe, the London Dialectical Society and Edward William Cox
This thesis is an exploration of the role of testimony and the production of narrative in supernatural research in the mid to late Victorian period (1848-1879). It focuses on the work of Catherine Crowe and Edward William Cox as two examples of amateur researchers into a discipline dismissed by a rising materialist physiology that had cemented its institutional authority, largely dismissing objective validity of supernatural occurrences. It also examines the role of the Committee of the London Dialectical Societyâs work on Spiritualism as a remarkable example of a new method of investigating Spiritualist phenomena. Crowe as specialist in writing and Cox as a legal expert, sought to use their specialisms of expertise in human behaviour to argue for the experiential validity of supernatural phenomena. This was done by adopting a scientific model but also by a defense of testimony as a reliable form of evidence, especially when put in an accumulative narrative of many similar testimonies. A large part of the thesis is taken with non-fiction with the exception of Crowe where realist methods of investigation and supernatural narratives are incorporated into her fictional work. This is done to show Croweâs method of portraying veridical supernatural phenomena as part of a realist narrative. The 19th century also witnessed the rise of societies and increasingly specialized disciplines of knowledge. This thesis will chart the concurrent rise of this amongst the aforementioned as a unique example of non-spiritualist or skeptic researchers seeking a new method through language and methods. From Crowe one saw the domestic researcher, the Committee showed the rise of a group of researchers and finally with the Psychological Society, an actual society devoted to exploring the phenomena outside of Spiritualist and skeptic discourses. It is a study of testimony as data and how that data became narrative and information
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