Pranking and tall tale telling within Florida’s old-time fiddling tradition

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The construction of a unit and workbook of exercises for the slow learner to develop comprehension and increase study skills for use in the teaching of an American history unit on the westward movement in the United States on a sixth grade level.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University N.B.:pages missing: 170, 171, 173 from original cop

Themes and Moral Values of Stories From the Sub-continent Published in Youtube

YouTube, a popular video site in the Internet, publishes children stories which can be used for the teaching of English. Many children stories published in YouTube are based on famous fairy tales like “Goldilock and the Tree Bears,” “The Three Little Pigs,” and “The Frog Prince.” Many other children stories, especially those from the Sub-continent, are based on the less famous tales. Examples of these stories include “The Four Friends,” “The Wise Son,” and “Whispering Palms.” Although these children stories are not well-known, with their clear English pronunciation and English subtitles they offer useful resources for the teaching of English. This paper presents the results of content analysis of a sample of 10 children stories from the latter category, that is children stories from the Sub-continent. The analysis was focussed on the themes and moral values. The results of analysis show that the children stories contain everyday life and animal life themes which are close to children life. The children stories also contain moral values which promote the importance of friendship, respect to other people, and love of natural environment. With examples of themes and moral values as such, the children stories from the Sub-continent are relevant with the mission in the development of character. Thus, when used in the English classroom, the video-based children stories from the Subcontinuent published in YouTube not only provide useful materials for the teaching of English, but they also contribute to the development of students\u27 good character

A Mongolian horsepacking adventure through my paranoid poetics of digital ontology

This is not quite an essay. It is more of a scientific experiment conducted with words. It titrates the paranoid poetics of critique with the narrative practices of social media to precipitate a postcritical theory of digital ontology. The organic compounds used in this titration were extracted from a 16-month mine of ethnography among digitalreal tourists known as Dimecams. This ethnographic mine was full of participant-observations among the “digital” and “real” aggregates of horsepacking adventures in Mongolia. Starting with myths of Mongolian adventures that circulate in the backpacker communities of Asia, this experiment rewires the narrative circuits of exploration to illuminate two distinct iterations of adventure—the “real” and the “digital.” Common sense would have it that digital adventures appearing on social media are “representations” of real adventures from the flesh. The experiments I conducted, however, demonstrated that the digital and the real are actually two separate ontologies in which different types of adventures occur. Real adventures are full of misery and hunger while digital adventures are nothing but epic selfies and unhinged freedom. The radical alterity between these two kinds of adventures necessitated a turn towards ontology. However, in this ontological turn, my experiment spun out of control and crystallized as a fractal. That fractal was later revealed to be a continuously self-referential postcritique of the paranoid poetics of critique. The same fractal was also shown to be the operational procedure which kept the narrative ontology of digital adventures afloat in a self-sustaining world that endlessly retold itself into existence. What emerged at the end of this experiment was a not-quite-ontology composed of not-quite-beings—which, in the not-too-distant future, will detach itself from reality entirely, drifting off into space and forming a new planetAnthropolog

Choosing Book Friends

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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 54 (07) 2001

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Volume 19, Number 1 - October 1936

Volume 19, Number 1 - October 1936. 66 pages including covers and advertisements. Sheen, Rt. Rev. Msgr., Fulton, J., The Dignity of Man Hughes, Edward Riley, Perception--A Poem O\u27Brien, George V., The Kettle--A Short Story Geary, William Denis, Good Intentions--A Poem Healy, Robert C., Corvo, Singer In Solitude Gibbons, Walter F., On The Psychology Of Hosiery Hughes, Edward Riley, First Citizen--A Poem King, Francis J., Present Day Art Geary, William Denis, Moderation--A Poem Graham, John A., One Fleeting Hour--A Short Story Geary, William Denis, Flight--A Poem Plasse, William B., Races Are Fixed! McTige, Joseph, Fair Ireland Hughes, Edward Riley, Prayer--A Poem Hughes, Walter Appleton, The Bore The Merrier Hughes, Edward Riley, Via Crucis--A Poem Flynn, Thomas, Catholics, Child Labor and the Amendment Scowcroft, George T., The Collegiate World Editorials Book Review

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 50 (01) 1996

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