Cinema in the Digital Age: A Rebuttal to Lev Manovich

In his book The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich claims the index is an ontological condition of cinema. Manovich asserts digital cinema can never be indexical and therefore has fundamentally altered the very nature of cinema, reducing it to a form of animation. This paper offers a refutation of Manovich’s redefinition of cinema, showing that digital cinema can be indexical, but indexicality is not an ontological condition of cinema

The Use of Slogans in Political Rhetoric

This paper focuses on the use of slogans within political rhetoric. The research focuses on the phrasing of the slogan, the connotation and association of the words used within them, and the motivational quality of slogans. Simply stated, this paper is a look into how and why political slogans are successful. The research is directed away from political slogans that are specifically created and used for campaign purposes and instead looks at the political slogans that are less vote-getting in orientation and have been used to shape public opinion or motivate a public action

Feasting on Fido: Cultural Implications of Eating Dogs at Bridge River

Dogs represent a unique facet of the faunal assemblage at the Bridge River site (EeRl4), a prehistoric aggregated winter housepit village in southern British Columbia’s Middle Fraser Canyon. As part of the Bridge River site investigation of emergent material wealth based status inequality of the hunter-gatherer-fisher economy, the 2008 and 2009 excavation of the village recovered the skeletal remains of domestic dogs within two distinct cache pit features in Housepit 24’s Activity Area 3. The two dogs unearthed from these separate cache pits features show dichotomous roles for man’s best friend; one, possibly as a prized companion, and the other as a food resource. This thesis focuses on the elements recovered from Feature 5 showing visible signs of trauma which include perimortem fractures, carnivore gnaw-marks, and cut-marks. The region’s ethnographic record provides evidence of utilizing domestic dogs as a resource for food, clothing, hunting, packing, and trade. Evidence suggests that the contents of the Feature 5 cache pit resulted from a single event associated with feasting, and would represent a symbolic display of status. The use of dogs as a delicacy in the feasting apparatus is unique to the Bridge River village’s archaeological record compared to the Keatley Creek site, where analyses concluded many of the dogs died of natural causes. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the depositional event that created the canid assemblage in Bridge River’s Housepit 24; its sociocultural significance within the village; and its meaning within the broader context of the Canadian Plateau

Alien Registration- Cail, Pearley G. (Brownville, Piscataquis County)

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Alien Registration- Cail, Etta M. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Participation versus Elimination in Middle School Sport Activities

Middle school students were surveyed to test two assumptions regarding fully participating versus being eliminated from sport activity and how elimination affects the choice ·of sport activity. The results showed that students would rather be participants than non-participants and that the possibility of elimination did not affect their choice of activity for most students

Friends of the Wild Swan v. Ashe

In Friends of the Wild Swan v. Ashe, the District Court of Montana reviews the reasonableness of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s delayed preparation of the Canada lynx recovery plan. Environmental organizations brought the action for declaratory and injunctive relief pursuant to the ESA and the APA. In applying the “TRAC factors” and the “rule of reason,” the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana held that the Service’s twelve-year delay was unreasonable. The court ordered the Service propose a schedule, which the court will set as firm after review

Alien Registration- Cail, Etta M. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Philosophical Examinations of Social Response through Artistic Analysis: Adrian Piper’s Catalysis (1970-1973)

In donning personae and assuming alternate identities, Adrian Piper inserts herself into dynamic investigations of identity, gender, and race. By focusing on shifting identities, Piper initiates dialogue regarding the inherent biases of social constructions. In Catalysis (1970-1973), seven experiments over the course of three years examine shifting extrinsic properties of self, e.g., clothing, personal hygiene, accessories, and the process of going into public spaces in strange guises while behaving as if nothing was out of the norm. Piper’s methodical process of self-examination through Catalysis enables her to investigate the effects of external changes to the physical self on the internal self and on her immediate environment. In one version of Catalysis, Piper soaks her clothing in vinegar, eggs, and cod liver oil for a week, and then wears the fermented clothing during rush hour on a public transit train in Brooklyn. The pungent smell of Piper’s clothing likely repelled her audience or caused them to back away in disgust. Piper’s examination of public responses to her exterior appearance enables a look into such social mores as to what offends and why. In this version of Catalysis, Piper takes on attributes typically associated with being homeless, mentally unstable, or impoverished while placing her audience in the position of responding to such an individual, which her audience would likely perceive as a potential threat or, at the very least, a physical nuisance. The event seems to be less about the specifics of any one actual act and more about donning personae before venturing out nonchalantly. By adding the external changes, Piper enables herself to hide behind the disguise and observe her surroundings. Adrian Piper’s use of disguise in Catalysis allows her to create a wall between her and the audience. The disguise itself draws the audience’s attention to her but the audience does not look beyond the disguise; the audience sees what is on the outside. The mask of Piper’s disguise thus is the perfect means for observation of both the audience and herself. Piper can gauge reactions to her external features and gauge her own reactions to the audience’s responses. Furthermore, in donning the external persona, Piper is able to supersede the racial bias and social bias as an African American female