Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Enuma Elish: Ideological Warfare Between Judah and Babylon

This thesis discusses two ancient cosmologies: Genesis 1: 1-2:3 and Enuma Elish. It details the culture in which each was written by discovering the possible time periods from which each cosmology came. This thesis also seeks to understand why each narrative was written and what the author was propagating to its respective audience. Finally, the present thesis contrasts similarities and differences between the two cosmologies and explains motivations for the similarities and. differences. Both cosmologies were conceived of and written down to encourage its respective audience to believe in the religions patron deity. This thesis maintains that the author of Genesis . 1: 1-2:3 was engaging in an ideological war with the culture that produced Enuma Elish. In an ·attempt to understand this war, the reader will become enlightened to the cultural identity of each cosmology by investigating their similarities and differences. This will be done by studying about Genesis 1: 1-2:3 in chapter two. The JEDP theory will be detailed as well as the circumstances surrounding the writing of the Genesis 1 cosmology. It will th1en discuss important elements of the translated passage. Chapter three examines Enuma Elish. The chapter will include the circumstances surrounding the findings of the text, and possible time periods of Enuma Elish\u27s authorship will be discussed. There will be a summary of the text followed by a discussion of the text as well as a comment on the evolution of the gods. The fourth chapter studies the similarities and differences between Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Enuma Elish. The similarities observed will demonstrate the related cultures of ancient Babylon and Judah. The distinctions between the two make evident the uniqueness of each religion and culture. This thesis will end with a conclusion based upon the important findings of each cosmology

Refiguring Milton in Virginia Woolf\u27s A Room of One\u27s Own

Since 1979 feminist scholars have misread key images in Virginia Woolf\u27s \u27A Room of One\u27s Own\u27. They delineated the extended essay as a groundbreaking feminist polemic that advocates abolishing the literary patriarchy, expressing distain for John Milton as chief offender. Through rhetorical analysis and close readings of passages, there seems advocacy for change in patriarchial education and for opening of the literary canon to women

Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Enuma Elish: Ideological Warfare Between Judah and Babylon

This thesis discusses two ancient cosmologies: Genesis 1: 1-2:3 and Enuma Elish. It details the culture in which each was written by discovering the possible time periods from which each cosmology came. This thesis also seeks to understand why each narrative was written and what the author was propagating to its respective audience. Finally, the present thesis contrasts similarities and differences between the two cosmologies and explains motivations for the similarities and. differences. Both cosmologies were conceived of and written down to encourage its respective audience to believe in the religions patron deity. This thesis maintains that the author of Genesis . 1: 1-2:3 was engaging in an ideological war with the culture that produced Enuma Elish. In an ·attempt to understand this war, the reader will become enlightened to the cultural identity of each cosmology by investigating their similarities and differences. This will be done by studying about Genesis 1: 1-2:3 in chapter two. The JEDP theory will be detailed as well as the circumstances surrounding the writing of the Genesis 1 cosmology. It will th1en discuss important elements of the translated passage. Chapter three examines Enuma Elish. The chapter will include the circumstances surrounding the findings of the text, and possible time periods of Enuma Elish\u27s authorship will be discussed. There will be a summary of the text followed by a discussion of the text as well as a comment on the evolution of the gods. The fourth chapter studies the similarities and differences between Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Enuma Elish. The similarities observed will demonstrate the related cultures of ancient Babylon and Judah. The distinctions between the two make evident the uniqueness of each religion and culture. This thesis will end with a conclusion based upon the important findings of each cosmology

Repeated supra-maximal sprint cycling with and without sodium bicarbonate supplementation induces endothelial microparticle release

Under normal homeostatic conditions, the endothelium releases microparticles (MP), which are known to increase under stressful conditions and in disease states. CD105 (endoglin) and CD106 (vascular cell adhesion molecule-1) are expressed on the surface of endothelial cells and increased expression in response to stress may be observed. A randomised-controlled double-blinded study aimed to examine the use of endothelial microparticles as a marker for the state of one’s endothelium, as well as whether maintaining acid-base homeostasis affects the release of these MP. This study tested seven healthy male volunteers, who completed a strenuous cycling protocol, with venous blood analysed for CD105+ and CD106+ MP by flow cytometry at regular intervals. Prior to each trial participants consumed either 0.3 g·kg-1 body mass of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3), or 0.045 g·kg-1 body mass of sodium chloride (NaCl). A significant rise in endothelial CD105+MP and CD106+MP (p < 0.05) was observed at 90 minutes post exercise. A significant trend was shown for these MP to return to resting levels 180 minutes post exercise in both groups. No significance was found between experimental groups, suggesting that maintaining acid-base variables closer to basal levels has little effect upon the endothelial stress response for this particular exercise mode. In conclusion, strenuous exercise is accompanied by MP release and the endothelium is able to rapidly recover in healthy individuals, whilst maintaining acid-base homeostasis does not attenuate the MP release from the endothelium after exercise

Implications of a pre-exercise alkalosis-mediated attenuation of HSP72 on its response to a subsequent bout of exercise

The aim of this study was to investigate if a pre-exercise alkalosis-mediated attenuation of HSP72 had any effect on the response of the same stress protein after a subsequent exercise. Seven physically active males [25.0 ± 6.5 years, 182.1 ± 6.0 cm, 74.0 ± 8.3 kg, peak aerobic power (PPO) 316 ± 46 W] performed a repeated sprint exercise (EXB1) following a dose of 0.3 g kg⁻¹ body mass of sodium bicarbonate (BICARB), or a placebo of 0.045 g kg⁻¹ body mass of sodium chloride (PLAC). Participants then completed a 90-min intermittent cycling protocol (EXB2). Monocyte expressed HSP72 was significantly attenuated after EXB1 in BICARB compared to PLAC, however, there was no difference in the HSP72 response to the subsequent EXB2 between conditions. Furthermore there was no difference between conditions for measures of oxidative stress (protein carbonyl and HSP32). These findings confirm the sensitivity of the HSP72 response to exercise-induced changes in acid–base status in vivo, but suggest that the attenuated response has little effect upon subsequent stress in the same day

Implications of a Pre-Exercise Alkalosis Mediated Attenuation of HSP72 on its Response to a Subsequent Bout of Exercise

The aim of this study was to investigate if a pre-exercise alkalosis mediated attenuation of HSP72 had any effect on the response of the same stress protein after a subsequent exercise. Seven physically active males (25.0 ± 6.5 years, 182.1 ± 6.0 cm, 74.0 ± 8.3 kg, peak aerobic power (PPO) 316 ± 46 W) performed a repeated sprint exercise (EXB1) following a dose of 0.3 g kg-1 body mass of sodium bicarbonate (BICARB), or a placebo of 0.045 g kg-1 body mass of sodium chloride (PLAC). Participants then completed a 90-min intermittent cycling protocol (EXB2). Monocyte expressed HSP72 was significantly attenuated after EXB1 in BICARB compared to PLAC, however there was no difference in the HSP72 response to the subsequent EXB2 between conditions. Furthermore there was no difference between conditions for measures of oxidative stress (protein carbonyl and HSP32). These findings confirm the sensitivity of the HSP72 response to exercise induced changes in acid-base status in vivo, but suggest that the attenuated response has little effect upon subsequent stress in the same day

Handmade memories : The robustness of the gestural misinformaton effect in children's eyewitness interviews

This is an Accepted Manuscript. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-015-0210-z.An interviewer’s gestures can convey misleading information and subsequently cause inaccuracies in the reporting of an event by both adults and children. We investigated the robustness of the gestural misinformation effect, examining the extent to which an interviewer’s gestures mislead children under conditions that would normally buffer them against verbal suggestibility (strength of memory trace, age, and verbal ability). Children (a younger sample aged 2–4 years, n = 30; and an older sample aged 7–9 years, n = 26) were exposed to a videotaped event and questioned immediately, having been allocated randomly to either an accurate gesture condition (gestures consistent with observed events, e.g., “What was the lady wearing?” plus a ‘hat’ gesture) or a misleading gesture condition (“What was the lady wearing?” plus a ‘gloves’ gesture). Children were susceptible to the gestural misinformation effect even when questioned immediately after witnessing the event, regardless of age and verbal ability. These findings reveal new insights into the robustness of the gestural misinformation effect in children’s eyewitness interviews.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Investigating the hydration of C3A in the presence of the potentially toxic element chromium–a route to remediation?

Pollution by hexavalent chromium is a growing, global problem. Its presence in public water systems is often the result of industrial activities, both past and present. In this study, tricalcium aluminate (C3A, Ca(3)Al(2)O(6)) is added to solutions of varying concentrations of potassium chromate (K(2)CrO(4)) and samples of both the solid and liquid are taken at various time intervals to monitor the removal of chromium from the solutions. Solution concentrations of 0.2 M, 0.1 M, 0.02 M, and 0.01 M are used, and the chromium concentration is found to reduce in all cases. For the 0.02 M solution the chromium concentration is reduced from 1040 ppm to 3.1 ppm in 1 week, and the chromium concentration of the 0.01 M solution is reduced from 520 ppm to 0.26 ppm in only one day of reaction with the C3A. The chromium removed from solution is identified in the solid products, which were fully characterised as being a mixture of ettringite (Ca(6)[Al(OH)(6)](2)(CrO(4))(3)·26H(2)O) and monochromate (Ca(4)[Al(OH)(6)](2)CrO(4)·8H(2)O) phases from analysis of Powder X-ray Diffraction and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy data. The work presented here is a proof of concept study to investigate C3A as a potential material for the removal of hexavalent chromium from solution. The results from this study are initial steps towards development of this as a technology for hexavalent chromium remediation

Baby Daddies, Ghosts, and Second Chances: The Figure of the Single Mother in Japanese Literature, 1970s-2010s

Motherhood enjoys an exalted place in Japanese society. No relationship is considered as close or as important as that between mother and child. Yet Japan is currently experiencing a demographic crisis in which relatively few children are being born and the proportion of elderly is on the rise. Increasingly fewer women wish to marry, and many doubt they will become mothers. The stigma against single mothers reduces the chance that a woman will have a child without first marrying. Although little moral stigma accompanies premarital sex, bearing a child outside of wedlock is a source of shame, inciting most women who find themselves unintentionally pregnant to opt for abortion rather than carrying the child to term. The treatment of unwed mothers in fictional narratives, however, has changed over the course of history. Using Jaber F. Gubrium’s assertion that narratives are both shaped by the social phenomena upon which they are based and simultaneously shape those same phenomena, I use close readings of several works of literature and film to explore more deeply the views of single mothers in Japan. My analysis pays special attention to the social context of the works, issues of dependency, control, and victimhood, and the depictions of womanhood and motherhood. In Chapter One, I introduce the current landscape of Japanese demographics and discuss the use of the narrative to understand social conditions. Chapter Two explores two works by Tsushima Yūko from the 1970s to illustrate the introduction of the idea that single motherhood is a potential source of agency and awakening for women who learn that they can live without men. Chapter Three, in a different vein, analyzes single mothers plagued by hauntings in the Japanese horror film Ringu and the 2010 novel Manazuru to understand moments in which the feasibility of single motherhood is again questioned. Finally, Chapter Four gives readings of the 1988 Banana Yoshimoto work Kitchen and the 2001 movie Hasshu! to show the potential happy future for families that do not fall into the unconventional norms of traditional nuclear families. Through my research, I discovered that fictional discourse about the single mother has changed over time, from simple narratives that naively assume that single mothers need only willpower to thrive without husbands, to those that question the vulnerability of women without a partner, and finally to those that offer unconventionality as a way forward. I conclude that the changing discourse of the single mother has the power and potential to change popular opinion regarding real-life single mothers, which may help Japan as it struggles to deal with changing demographics.Bachelor of Art