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The Popular Culture Studies Journal
THE POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 6 NUMBER 1 2018 Editor NORMA JONES Liquid Flicks Media, Inc./IXMachine Managing Editor JULIA LARGENT McPherson College Assistant Editor GARRET L. CASTLEBERRY Mid-America Christian University Copy Editor Kevin Calcamp Queens University of Charlotte Reviews Editor MALYNNDA JOHNSON Indiana State University Assistant Reviews Editor JESSICA BENHAM University of Pittsburgh Please visit the PCSJ at: http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture- studies-journal/ The Popular Culture Studies Journal is the official journal of the Midwest Popular and American Culture Association. Copyright © 2018 Midwest Popular and American Culture Association. All rights reserved. MPCA/ACA, 421 W. Huron St Unit 1304, Chicago, IL 60654 Cover credit: Cover Artwork: “Wrestling” by Brent Jones © 2018 Courtesy of https://openclipart.org EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD ANTHONY ADAH FALON DEIMLER Minnesota State University, Moorhead University of Wisconsin-Madison JESSICA AUSTIN HANNAH DODD Anglia Ruskin University The Ohio State University AARON BARLOW ASHLEY M. DONNELLY New York City College of Technology (CUNY) Ball State University Faculty Editor, Academe, the magazine of the AAUP JOSEF BENSON LEIGH H. EDWARDS University of Wisconsin Parkside Florida State University PAUL BOOTH VICTOR EVANS DePaul University Seattle University GARY BURNS JUSTIN GARCIA Northern Illinois University Millersville University KELLI S. BURNS ALEXANDRA GARNER University of South Florida Bowling Green State University ANNE M. CANAVAN MATTHEW HALE Salt Lake Community College Indiana University, Bloomington ERIN MAE CLARK NICOLE HAMMOND Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota University of California, Santa Cruz BRIAN COGAN ART HERBIG Molloy College Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne JARED JOHNSON ANDREW F. HERRMANN Thiel College East Tennessee State University JESSE KAVADLO MATTHEW NICOSIA Maryville University of St. -
Battle and Self-Sacrifice in a Bengali Warrior's Epic
Western Washington University Western CEDAR Liberal Studies Humanities 2008 Battle nda Self-Sacrifice in a Bengali Warrior’s Epic: Lausen’s Quest to be a Raja in Dharma Maṅgal, Chapter Six of Rites of Spring by Ralph Nicholas David Curley Western Washington University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/liberalstudies_facpubs Part of the Near Eastern Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Curley, David, "Battle nda Self-Sacrifice in a Bengali Warrior’s Epic: Lausen’s Quest to be a Raja in Dharma Maṅgal, Chapter Six of Rites of Spring by Ralph Nicholas" (2008). Liberal Studies. 7. https://cedar.wwu.edu/liberalstudies_facpubs/7 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Humanities at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Liberal Studies by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 6. Battle and Self-Sacrifice in a Bengali Warrior’s Epic: Lausen’s Quest to be a Raja in Dharma Ma2gal* INTRODUCTION Plots and Themes harma Ma2gal are long, narrative Bengali poems that explain and justify the worship of Lord Dharma as the D eternal, formless, and supreme god. Surviving texts were written between the mid-seventeenth and the mid-eighteenth centuries. By examining the plots of Dharma Ma2gal, I hope to describe features of a precolonial Bengali warriors” culture. I argue that Dharma Ma2gal texts describe the career of a hero and raja, and that their narratives seem to be designed both to inculcate a version of warrior culture in Bengal, and to contain it by requiring self-sacrifice in both battle and “truth ordeals.” Dharma Ma2gal *I thank Ralph W. -
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An Italian Sacrifice to the COVID-19 Epidemic
EDITORIAL | | INFECTIOUS DISEASE An Italian sacrifice to the COVID-19 epidemic Stefano Nava1, Roberto Tonelli2,3 and Enrico M. Clini 3 Affiliations: 1University Hospital of Bologna S. Orsola-Malpighi, Respiratory Diseases and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Dept of Medical Sciences DIMES, University of Bologna Alma Mater, Bologna, Italy. 2Clinical and Experimental Medicine PhD Program, University of Modena Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. 3University Hospital of Modena Policlinico, Respiratory Diseases Unit, Dept of Medical and Surgical Sciences SMECHIMAI, University of Modena Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. Correspondence: Enrico M. Clini, University of Modena, University Hospital of Modena Policlinico, Via del Pozzo 71, Modena, 41141, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] @ERSpublications The report of Italian doctors who died during the COVID-19 outbreak should inform us not to forget https://bit.ly/3cbSbkU Cite this article as: Nava S, Tonelli R, Clini EM. An Italian sacrifice to the COVID-19 epidemic. Eur Respir J 2020; 55: 2001445 [https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01445-2020]. As reported by Newsweek magazine on 4 April 2020 [1], coronavirus has killed over 100 doctors and nurses around the world, nearly half of whom are reported to be in Italy. This report, however, underestimated the size of the problem. To date, 151 doctors and more than 40 nurses have died in Italy from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Overall, infection rates among healthcare workers in Italy and Spain are reported to be 9% and 14%, respectively, while in China [2] and other part of the world this number was lower. There is no clear answer yet as to why Italian doctors have been so badly affected, but several factors may have played a role. -
The Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Honors College
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHREYER HONORS COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FEAR OF WORKING-CLASS AGENCY IN THE VICTORIAN INDUSTRIAL NOVEL ADAM BIVENS SPRING 2018 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a baccalaureate degree in English with honors in English Reviewed and approved* by the following: Elizabeth Womack Assistant Professor of English Thesis Supervisor Paul deGategno Professor of English Honors Adviser * Signatures are on file in the Schreyer Honors College. i ABSTRACT This work examines the Victorian Industrial novel as a genre of literature that reflects the middle-class biases of influential authors like Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, who cater to middle-class readers by simultaneously sympathizing with the poor and admonishing any efforts of the working class to express political agency that challenge the social order. As such, the Victorian Industrial novel routinely depicts trade unionism in a negative light as an ineffective means to secure socioeconomic gains that is often led by charismatic demagogues who manipulate naïve working people to engage in violent practices with the purpose of intimidating workers. The Victorian Industrial novel also acts as an agent of reactionary politics, reinforcing fears of mob violence and the looming threat of revolutionary uprising in England as had occurred throughout Europe in 1848. The novels display a stubborn refusal to link social ills to their material causes, opting instead to endorse temporary and idealist solutions like paternalism, liberal reformism, and marriage between class members as panaceæ for class antagonisms, thereby decontextualizing the root of the problem through the implication that all poor relations between the worker and employer, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, can be attributed to a breakdown in communication and understanding. -
The Oral Poetics of Professional Wrestling, Or Laying the Smackdown on Homer
Oral Tradition, 29/1 (201X): 127-148 The Oral Poetics of Professional Wrestling, or Laying the Smackdown on Homer William Duffy Since its development in the first half of the twentieth century, Milman Parry and Albert Lord’s theory of “composition in performance” has been central to the study of oral poetry (J. M. Foley 1998:ix-x). This theory and others based on it have been used in the analysis of poetic traditions like those of the West African griots, the Viking skalds, and, most famously, the ancient Greek epics.1 However, scholars have rarely applied Parry-Lord theory to material other than oral poetry, with the notable exceptions of musical forms like jazz, African drumming, and freestyle rap.2 Parry and Lord themselves, on the other hand, referred to the works they catalogued as performances, making it possible to use their ideas beyond poetry and music. The usefulness of Parry-Lord theory in studies of different poetic traditions tempted me to view other genres of performance from this perspective. In this paper I offer up one such genre for analysis —professional wrestling—and show that interpreting the tropes of wrestling through the lens of composition in performance provides information that, in return, can help with analysis of materials more commonly addressed by this theory. Before beginning this effort, it will be useful to identify the qualities that a work must possess to be considered a “composition in performance,” in order to see if professional wrestling qualifies. The first, and probably most important and straightforward, criterion is that, as Lord (1960:13) says, “the moment of composition is the performance.” This disqualifies art forms like theater and ballet, works typically planned in advance and containing words and/or actions that must be performed at precise times and following a precise order. -
Novel Underwater Glider-Based Absolute Oceanic Current
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, VOL. 21, NO. 6, MARCH 15, 2021 8045 Novel Underwater Glider-Based Absolute Oceanic Current Observation Solutions Dalei Song, Zhaohui Chen, Jinhui Fu, Xinning Wang, Weimin Jiang, and Jin Wu , Member, IEEE Abstract—This work indicates two novel ocean current observation methods that based on a glider type mobile plat- form. Glider with current meters are ideal current observation solutions for marine scientists since they have merits of large dynamic area and low power consumption, but their measure- ment accuracy is insufficient now. The proposed 1st solution, single point current meter compensated inversion method (SPCMCIM), is a revolution of the conventionalinverse method by solving the acoustic Doppler to current profiler (AD2CP) induced turbulence problem. It’s a cooperated AD2CP and single point current meter (SPCM) algorithm that compen- sates the contaminated first AD2CP layer data. The physical position of the SPCM is also optimized according to a finite element analysis (FEA) study to minimize the interference generated by the SPCM. The 2nd method is solving the area restriction problems that AD2CP can just apply to non-pure water environment namely single point and inertial measure- ment inversion method (SPIMIM). It utilizes the SPCM as the only current observation source and takes advantages of physical properties of ocean currents. The currents are constitute of stable layers and each of them has a stable velocity, so the glider’s velocity variation can be obtained by reading the SPCM. The velocity variation in the transition process between layers can be acquired by the low cost inertial sensors. Finally, these theoretical studies were verified in an onsite sea trial. -
“Smackdown”: a Textual Analysis of Class, Race and Gender in WWE Televised Professional Wrestling
The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Spring 5-2012 Ideological “Smackdown”: A Textual Analysis of Class, Race and Gender in WWE Televised Professional Wrestling Casey Brandon Hart University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Broadcast and Video Studies Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons Recommended Citation Hart, Casey Brandon, "Ideological “Smackdown”: A Textual Analysis of Class, Race and Gender in WWE Televised Professional Wrestling" (2012). Dissertations. 550. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/550 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi IDEOLOGICAL “SMACKDOWN”: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF CLASS, RACE AND GENDER IN WWE TELEVISED PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING by Casey Brandon Hart Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 2012 ABSTRACT IDEOLOGICAL “SMACKDOWN”: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF CLASS, RACE AND GENDER IN WWE TELEVISED PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING by Casey Brandon Hart May 2012 The focus of this study is an in-depth intertextual examination of how the WWE in 2010 and by extension contemporary professional wrestling in general represents a microcosm of modern cultural ideology. The study examines three major areas in which this occurs. -
Dynamics of Methamphetamine Markets in New York City: Final Technical Report to the National Institute of Justice
The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Dynamics of Methamphetamine Markets in New York City: Final Technical Report to the National Institute of Justice Author: Travis Wendel, Bilal Khan, Kirk Dombrowski, Ric Curtis, Katherine McLean, Evan Misshula, Robert Riggs, David M. Marshall IV Document No.: 236122 Date Received: October 2011 Award Number: 2007-IJ-CX-0110 This report has not been published by the U.S. Department of Justice. To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this Federally- funded grant final report available electronically in addition to traditional paper copies. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. This document is a research report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice. This report has not been published by the Department. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dynamics of Methamphetamine Markets in New York City: Final Technical Report to The National Institute of Justice Travis Wendel Bilal Khan Kirk Dombrowski Ric Curtis Katherine McLean Evan Misshula Robert Riggs David M. Marshall IV John Jay College of Criminal Justice January 2011 This project was supported by Award No. 2007-IJ-CX-0110/NDRI awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. -
Action Within a Relationship: a Phenomenology of Sacrifice
Sacrifice – Action within a Relationship: A Phenomenology of Sacrifice Claudia Mariéle Wulf 1 Introduction A young woman had become entangled in drug culture. Nothing had warned her about the consequences of drug abuse for the rest of her life, nor about the effects it was to have on her parents and younger sister. She had closed her- self off from her family and friends, so her mother had no longer any access to her. Her mother prayed. This, however, was not enough. Slowly but surely, the mother began to change. First, she stopped eating what she most enjoyed. It was a silent offering for her daughter, who failed to understand. Instead, the girl replied: “It doesn’t affect me whether you eat what you like or not!”. Then her mother started copying her daughter’s way of dressing. She roamed the streets in old and shabby shoes, she dyed her hair black like her daughter had done, something which was quite alien to herself. Initially, her daughter just laughed at her. Then she fell silent. She knew what it meant to her mother to be a laugh- ing stock for the people, because of her shoddy appearance. When she fully realized that her mother had made these sacrifices in order to show her how close she was to her, her mother’s love touched her and she returned home. Is this the sort of sacrifice we are talking about here? Does sacrifice mean giving up yourself in order to save somebody else? Does it mean offering your- self as a sacrifice to God? Does God want – or even ask for – such sacrifice? The example shows that in order to be meaningful, a sacrifice has to be related to someone: To God, or to another human being. -
2018/19 Annual Report the Shadow of STIGMA People with Mental Health Challenges Say the Stigma Is Worse Than the Illness
Treatment and Support for children, youth and families. 2018/19 Annual Report The shadow of STIGMA People with mental health challenges say the stigma is worse than the illness. Meet Ken Client talks Stigma When it comes to STIGMA, I think about feelings or misunderstandings that usually come from fear or anger. For instance, anyone who is angry at an addict, or who believes addicts should be treated like criminals or lesser-than, those feelings probably come from fear. And I think that fear comes from a lack of understanding. You have to ask, ‘Why is a person an addict? Why are they willing to sacrifice so much?’ As soon as you’re willing to ask those questions, you’ll begin to understand and break down the stigma toward people who are addicts and who are struggling. And if we want to see all of us grow in terms of quality of life, our quality as people, as individuals, we need to take care of one another – no matter what that looks like. If you see someone suffering, it hurts all of us to simply look down your nose at them. It’s simple. If you want the world to be a better place, if you want to be a better person, try to make things better for people around you. Sometimes that’s as simple as listening to a person and really trying to understand their situation. Anyone who is willing to listen, is already making things better for those who are misunderstood. And it breaks down the fear and the anger. -
Behavior and Energetics of Ospreys Nesting in Northern California
BEHAVIOR AND ENERGETICS OF OSPREYS NESTING IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA by Howard Levenson A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Humboldt State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science December, 1976 BEHAVIOR AND ENERGETICS OF OSPREYS NESTING IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA by Howard Levenson Approved by the Master's Thesis Committee Chairman Approved by the Graduate Dean ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank Drs. James R. Koplin and David W. Kitchen for their friendship, their constant interest in my studies, and for critically reviewing the manuscript. Their enthu- siasm for ecological research provided me an extremely stimulating atmosphere in which to work. Jim Koplin, my major professor, deserves special thanks for directing my research; he deserves additional praise for directing various studies that have increased our understanding of birds of prey in general and of Ospreys in particular. I am most grateful to Dr. William R. Sise for his invaluable criticisms and witticisms of the manuscript. Dr. Roger J. Ledderer, of California State University at Chico, kindly gave me permission to use the facilities of the Eagle Lake Biological Station during my stay at Eagle Lake. My research at Eagle Lake was supported by a grant from the Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund of the American Museum of Natural History (Grant #24464). I am grateful to Steve Berman for showing me the Chinese poem and for drawing the Chinese characters. I also would like to thank Kathy McDonough for drawing the map of the study areas and for