\u3cem\u3eGargantua \u3c/em\u3eand the New Historiography

One major tenet of much modern Rabelais criticism since Screech and Defaux — and even. in certain ways, since Lefranc — is that the Oeuvres cannot fully be appreciated by the present-day reader until he acquires familiarity with matters known to Rabelais and his intended audience. As shown again most recently by Gerard Defaux, there are codes culturels subtending much of the Oeuvres, codes to which Rabelais most definitely was alluding and of which modern readers must therefore be aware if they are to perceive the meanings that Rabelais knew his own readers, familiar with these codes, would derive from his texts

A Literary Form for Love: Yves Navarre\u27s My Friends Are Gone with the Wind

In My Friends Are Gone with the Wind (Ce sont amis que vent emporte, 1991), one of his last and most innovative texts, Yves Navarre (1940-1994), one of the most important contemporary French novelists to deal significantly and regularly with gay themes, returns to his preoccupation with the dangers that the forms inherent in traditional literary narrative pose for the expression of authentic human experience. The narrator, Roch, wants to capture the reality of his love for David, in part to prove to what he sees as a largely hostile heterosexual world that gays are as capable of loving relationships as straights, in part to show those often inhibited straights how to express their love. He realizes that love\u27s excessive nature requires a literary form that throws off the shackles of traditional order and chronology, so he allows memory to erupt within his manuscript as it occurs, unordered by logic. In the process, Roch accepts that he has to let everything in, even David\u27s infidelities, but that by capturing the truth of love, its impulsive nature, he will convey their love in such a powerful way that it will testify convincingly throughout time to their feelings for each other

A Significant Source for the Madeleine and Other Major Episodes in Combray: Proust\u27s Intertextual Use of Pierre Loti\u27s My Brother Yves

The most famous passage in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, and one of the most famous passages in Western literature, is the moment when the narrator sips tea while eating a shell-shaped pastry called a madeleine and suddenly recalls very vividly an apparently long-forgotten scene from his childhood. From this episode Proust developed his theories about involuntary memory and its important role in our emotional welfare. Proust was an avid reader of the French novelist Pierre Loti when he was young. Contemporary accounts show that he was able to recite whole passages from Loti’s work in public from memory. This article demonstrates the extent to which Proust made intertextual use of scenes from Loti’s novel My Brother Yves in constructing the madeleine and other famous passages in Combray, the first section of In Search of Lost Time. It does not attempt to question the originality of Proust’s work. Rather, building on previous studies of intertextuality in Proust, it seeks to show how the author went about creating his work and dialoguing with at least some of his potential contemporary readers

Painting with Words as Painters Paint: Pierre Loti’s Concern with Perspective

Even before he took to creating art with words, French novelist Pierre Loti (1850-1923) was an avid drawer. So much so that, when he did write, he sometimes felt the need to supplement his verbal efforts with visual ones. In one of his autobiographically-based novels, Le Roman d’un enfant (1890), he recounts how, at the age of eight, he and his friend Lucette left absurd and incoherent letters in the street so that they could enjoy the reactions of those who stopped to read them. The narrator..

The Relationship Between Principal Turnover and Student Achievement in Reading/English Language Arts and Math Grades Six Through Eight

This study examined the relationship between principal turnover rate, percentage of minority students, percentage of students with disabilities, and percentage of students who are economically disadvantaged and student achievement in reading/English language arts and math measured by Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on the Georgia Criterion Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). Eighty-six public middle schools (grades 6-8) comprised the sample for the study; all of these schools were located in Region 1 on the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) School Improvement Map. Data was collected from (AYP) reports publicly accessed on the Georgia Department of Education website. CRCT pass percentages were used to determine student achievement in the areas of math and reading/English language arts. Data was collected on the frequency of principal turnover by email and phone calls to all 86 schools. Data were statistically analyzed through multiple regression. The results showed that principal turnover rates are weakly correlated with student achievement in math and reading/English language arts. However, minority rate, students with disabilities rate and economically disadvantaged rate were significant predictors of reading/English language arts achievement. Additionally, minority rate and economically disadvantaged rate were significant predictors of math achievement

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article describes the events and damage of the Geary storm, a series of tornadoes that swept Geary, Oklahoma in 1961. Chrystabel Berrong Poteet describes the Cheyenne legend of this area and posits that the storm effectually ended it

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article discusses the history, growth, and development of the town of Bridgeport on the Canadian River. Chrystobel Berrong Poteet describes the industries that gave birth to its location, the transportation methods used to cross the river, and the businesses established in the area

Implementation of Document Based Question Essays in Regular Education History Classes

The purpose of this study was to investigate what strategies high school teachers are using to teach Document Based Question essays (DBQs) in non-Advanced Placement (AP) history classes. DBQs are essays in which students are given a question and a set of primary and secondary source documents that they must use to support an argument in answering the question. They must write a well-developed five-paragraph essay that includes a thesis statement in the introduction and must analyze the documents, not simply mention them in the essay. In the researcher\u27s experience, many students in non-AP history classes have difficulty with this task; the research literature supports this theory. The study used a cross-sectional survey design; a survey instrument was developed by the researcher for the study. The survey was posted online, and teachers from eight high schools in northern Illinois were emailed an invitation to take the survey. Out of a possible sample of around 100 teachers, there were twenty-seven completed surveys. Almost half of the respondents reported using DBQs three to four times a year, and most used them as a summative assessment with the purpose of developing critical thinking, writing, and document analysis skills. The most successful strategies that teachers reported using were cultivating students\u27 background knowledge before writing, explicit instruction in writing, and having students use graphic organizers before writing. For students who read below grade level, slowing down the process and one-on-one instruction were reported as the most successful strategies. Pre-service training seems to be keeping up with the changes in history assessment: teachers with ten or fewer years of experience were found to be significantly more likely to have learned about primary source document analysis and DBQs than were teachers who had been teaching eleven years or more

Differential PI3Kδ Signaling in CD4+ T-cell Subsets Enables Selective Targeting of T Regulatory Cells to Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy

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Antigen-Specific Antitumor Responses Induced by OX40 Agonist Are Enhanced by the IDO Inhibitor Indoximod

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