Eventide

Short story about the death of a century old family business in Los Angeles

Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Feeder Heifer Calves Fed Different Amounts of Concentrates with Urea-Limestone Treated Corn Silage

Two feeding trials, one in 1967-68 and the other in 1968-69, were conducted at the University of Tennessee\u27s Blount Farm to determine the effect of feeding different amounts of concentrates with urea-limestone treated corn silage on the performance and carcass characteristics of feeder heifer calves. A total of 288 animals were involved in the study. Treatments included delaying the feeding of a 6 lb. concentrate supplement for 0 (control), 56, 84, 112, 140 and 168 days during a period of high roughage feeding. Two other treatments involved the feeding of 2 or 4 lb. of concentrate during the entire roughage phase. After the roughage phase all animals were given a full feed of concentrate until they graded high-Good to low-Choice. They were then slaughtered at local packing plants. Daily gains were highest when the heifers were fed 4 or 6 lb. of concentrate during the entire roughage phase. Delaying the feeding of the concentrate supplement for as long as 84 days resulted in gains slightly less in magnitude but not significantly (P \u3e .05) lower than those of the two highest gaining groups of heifers. The amount of feed required per hundred pounds of gain was lowest for the heifers fed 2 or 4 lb. of concentrate. Average daily dry matter consumption decreased with increased delay of concentrate feeding. Dressing percent and percent kidney fat was highest for the heifers fed 4 or 6 lb. of concentrate. Fat thickness, marbling scores, and U.S.D.A. carcass grades were highest for heifers fed 6 lb. of concentrate during the entire roughage phase. The treatments had little or no effect on ribeye area. Final condition grades generally decreased with decreases in total amount of concentrate fed. Feed cost per hundred pounds of gain was lowest for heifers fed 6 lb. of concentrate for the entire roughage phase

The Dakini Project

This dissertation merges creative writing with scholarship using the novel, The Dakini Project, to provide the subject matter to which the criticism applies. It will focus on the source of mystery format as that codified by Edgar Allan Poe that is later taken in hand by his fellows Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (as novelists), authors of the hard-boiled American style, and it will use Chaos theory to assess to idea of catastrophe in terms of emergence rather than disintegration. Though the format comes from American beginnings, the scope of the stories discussed here are tangled around a kind of urban angst that takes place in any number of settings and countries. Crime in these stories is born on the ragged edge of modernity where societies in difficult transitions seem to be struggling with the notion of decency on many levels. The detective in these cases is a rule breaker and a systems expert who is tracking what is known as the butterfly effect, the small and undefined movements that grow and create the huge horrible storms. He is an individual who resolves, brings and rescues others from disorder which is a symptom, cause, and the result of crises, but he is also the disaster maker who will send his fellows whirling away into another kind of lost space. An individual who is himself a creature in disarray, this character is a citizen of the system brought to its knees by crime therefore he is as much a part of the confusion he has been tasked with resolving as any other character in these stories. He will solve the mystery, but his resolution will not be a return to a familiar stability as much as an emergence into the foreign territory of a brand new system which in itself will be recognizable as a platform that will not hold for very long because flux, not stability is the order of existence in these stories

Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight club" as an example of transgressive fiction

Töö peamine eesmärk on vaadelda Chuck Palahniuki teost “Kaklusklubi” kui hälbekirjanduse žanri alla kuuluvat raamatut. Täpsemini uurisin, kuidas “Kaklusklubi” tegelased protesteerivad tarbimise ja tarbimisühiskonna vastu ja kuidas nende tegevusi on kujutatud. Kuna tarbimisühiskonnavastasus on “Kaklusklubis” läbiv teema ja see käivitab kogu sündmusteahela, siis arvan, et just seeläbi on hea vaadelda tegelaste käitumist ja proovida aru saada nende tehtud otsustest. Töö koosneb sissejuhatusest, teoreetilisest ja empiirilisest osast ning kokkuvõttest. Sissejuhatuses kirjeldan uuritava teema olulisust ja annan ülevaate, mis inspireeris kirjanik Chuck Palahniukiut kirjutama teost “Kaklusklubi”. Teoreetilise osaga annan põgusa ülevaate hälbekirjanduse žanrist ja tarbimisühiskonnas arengust Ameerikas. Empiirilises osas analüüsin tarbimisühiskonnavastasust “Kaklusklubis”. Teema analüüsimiseks kasutan ohtralt kirjeldusi raamatus, kuna raamat on kirjutatud in medias res narratiivis ja nii on lugejal teemast lihtsam aru saada, sest kõik on omavahel seotud.http://www.ester.ee/record=b5143715*es

Circuit Rider

An historical novel set at the end of the American Civil War focusing on the week between President Lincoln\u27s assassination and John Wilkes Booth\u27s death. The backdrop of the story is comprised of the historical events and political figures that shaped this period in time in America. The plot is also configured around the fictional histories of three young souls, the spirit of a murdered Chinese immigrant girl, and a brother and sister who\u27s home in the Appalachians was destroyed during the war. All three are escaping the devastating consequences of the war and seeking a new start in the Western states. They become personally entangled in the plot to assassinate the president on the way west. The story focuses on the American underclass, the distinctive experiences of the runaways, the impoverished, immigrants, newly freed slaves and those in the criminal class who were also active participants in shaping the recorded history of the United States and as noteworthy as the heroes and villains Americans know by heart. The novel posits that the small dramas have as powerful an effect on the course of American history as do the renowned conflagrations and disasters that become headline news

An Assessment of Dropout Rates of Former Student Ministry Participants in Self-Identified Evangelical Churches with 500-2000 in Weekly Attendance

Over the last quarter-century, there has been a consistent call to reconceptualization and at times reject the youth ministry task resulting from the universally accepted church dropout statistic post-high school graduation. In 2008, Brandon Shields presented a falsification study that disproved the theory that high school graduates are leaving the church at a rate of 70-90% at Southern Baptist Megachurches. The purpose of this study was to examine the claim that 70-90% of youth ministry graduates are leaving the church by researching 17 self-identified Evangelical churches of 500-2000 in average church attendance. The research design was a quantitative replication study of the Shields (2008) study. The researcher found a significant correlation among emerging adults in the sample population between current levels of church involvement and previous youth ministry commitment. The data revealed an overall retention statistic of 95.4% for the 502 participants in the research study with 74.3% of the participants having a current level of involvement in the moderate to high-level category verifying Shields findings. Emerging adults with previous youth ministry commitment are not leaving the church

Using literature to develop critical thinking skills in upper secondary students

Critical thinking skills are important in the twenty-first century. Access to information is relatively easy nowadays, and therefore students need to be able to approach it critically in order to understand whether the information that they are receiving is either true or false. One way how to develop critical thinking skills in students is to use literary texts in English as a foreign language classes. The aim of this MA thesis is to find out whether literature can be used to develop critical thinking skills in upper secondary students. To do that the author created eight lesson plans based on Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World.https://www.ester.ee/record=b5426861*es