a cultural history of an american icon

... Speck, Mark Van Norman, and Adam Wilson) have all been a part of my life I especially thank Janet Davis and Jeff Osborne, Steve Hoelscher and Kristin Nilsson, and Mark and Paula Van Ells and their ... Hillbilly A Cultural History of an American Icon Hillbilly Anthony Harkins 2004 Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata ... Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University; Kate Black and Bill Marshall of the Appalachian Collection and Special Collections at the University of Kentucky; Harry Rice and Gerald Roberts...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 09:23

... created and not an organic part of the film The space opened by awareness of the “image as still” creates distance from narrative and character Rather than seeing this image as the “natural” transformation ... possibilities of the open road, and the appeal of the landscape and associated myths and meanings of the American West The poster addresses an audience with interest in female friendship, female melodrama, ... fantasy of female submissiveness and availability, and an exaggerated version of female potency, perhaps in answer to other fantasies of being dominated The image contains an additional performative...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:58

... point can be made that the Wayang Peranakan’s history serves as both a narrative of cultural adaptation and a mirror of the Peranakan community’s fortunes in Singapore The GSA Wayang Peranakan are ... the 1980s were an ideal time that facilitated the revival of the Wayang Peranakan by the GSA The GSA and its Wayang Peranakan Considering the GSA’s dominance over the Peranakan theatre scene during ... simply as real as what the wayangs make them out to be As a repository of social memory and an encyclopaedia of Peranakan cultural essentials, there is little doubt that the Wayang Peranakan is a...

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 17:34

... Viscontis and the Italian Renaissance The Purpose of the Deck Tarot Imagery 33 35 39 43 45 Chapter 3: An Alternative Explanation of Tarot Symbolism The Magician/Il Bagatella Temporal and Spiritual Power: ... of these dominions, the court is an all-male affair For instance, the A CULTURAL HISTORY OF TAROT courts of decks from Germany and Switzerland are populated by the Kửnig, Obermann and Untermann, ... myth of tarot as the amusement of a mad king and of Gringonneur as the creator of tarot.114 An alternative theory of French derivation for the tarot trumps was propounded by an American scholar of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2016, 09:25

... VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HA NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN THỊ MẾN THE MEANING AND STRUCTURE OF AN AMERICAN SHORT STORY: A SYSTEMIC ... of Halliday’s (1994) An Introduction to Functional Grammar The analysis of the text will proceed from the topic of the chosen text; clauses and clause complex analysis; the transitivity pattern, ... 12 2.2 Clauses and Clause Complex Analysis 132 2.3 The Analysis of the Text in Terms of Transitivity, Mood and Theme…… 12- 28 2.3.1 The Transitivity Pattern of the Text………………...

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2015, 11:55

... again c Manner: - Means: with a strong German accent; by two thousand dollars in bank, a bakery, and a sympathetic heart to; instead of; with a bread knife; of dry bread and water; of Miss Martha's ... communication and analyzes grammar to discover how it is organized to allow speakers and writers to make any exchange meanings Rather than insisting on a clear distinction between grammatical and ... the CLAUSE AS AN EXCHANGE A clause has meaning as an exchange, a transaction between speaker and listener; the Subject is the warranty of the exchange It is the element the speaker makes responsible...

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2015, 11:55

... same file supervised by Prof Dr Hoang Van Van such as: The meaning and Structure of a Biology text: a systemic functional analysis by Ho Thi Mai (2008); The meaning and structure of a fairy tale ... to make any exchange meanings Rather than insisting on a clear distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical forms, the focus is usually on the appropriateness of a form for a particular communicative ... such adjustments are reasonable and satisfactory 1.3 Methods of the Study The study is undertaken with a view to analyzing the meaning and grammar of a short story The descriptive and analytical...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:52

... reprint of the Decada II Blancmange (Spanish: blanco manjar; Italian: bianco mangiare; French: blanche manjer) was 16 hispanis manjar blanco appellatum” (Acosta 1582: 290)9 The Dutch merchant Jan ... Ikeya, Pitra Narendra, Katie Rainwater, and Tan Shao Han At the National Library I have benefited from the help of Kartini Saparudin and I thank her People who love durian also love to talk about ... Company In his Glimpses of life in the Far East he recounts a grand dinnerparty, one of many [he] had the honour to partake”, at the “pillared and verandahed mansion” of a British “merchant and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:54

... 1776 – American Independence declared from Great Britain o Jewish American population reaches 2000 o Francis Salvador is the first Jewish American to die fighting for American freedom o Leading ... Prag Khan is the first Jewish American woman to be elected to the U.S House of Representatives 1927 – Al Jolson stars in Warner Brothers’ The Jazz Singer, a drama of Jewish American assimilation ... wealthy Jewish merchants in Amsterdam, the Dutch West India Company allows Jewish settlers to live in New Netherlands o The new Jewish Americans are granted the rights to trade, travel and stand...

Ngày tải lên: 14/04/2016, 18:02

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 13:15

... version of audio-lingualism; the key difference from the audiolingual approach was that the language presentation and practice was situationalised and so was always given social meaning; speaking and ... so-called ‘affective’ factors in language teaching, and UK language teaching was famous for its engaging and ‘fun’ qualities; however, the philosophy of the humanistic approaches was valuable, and since ... the classroom, we can use the ensuing language ‘output’ as data for feedback (or ‘reformulation’); this feedback is one form of language focus, and can take many forms (see Article on language...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 23:20

... intervention was avoided in the name of regulatory forbearance Repealing Glass-Steagall The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 had established a firm separation between commerce and banking in the financial world ... behalf of the finance industry The repeal of GlassSteagall was a monumental piece of deregulation, but in many ways it ratified the status quo of the time.21 Hands-Off Regulation Many argued that ... consolidation in banking was an inevitable evolution and championed it as financial “modernization,” but the changes posed challenges for market regulators Since banking and securities and insurance...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... from Takara Shuzo (Kyoto, Japan), Toyobo (Osaka, Japan), and New England Biolabs (Beverly, MA, USA) All other reagents were of analytical grade from Nacalai Tesque (Kyoto, Japan) and Wako Pure ... each primer (5Â-GGAAT TCCATATGTCCGCACCTTCCACCAGCACCG-3Â and 5Â-GGGAAGCTTTCAGCCAAGCAGCTCTTTCAGG-3Â), 2.5 U LA Taq DNA polymerase, and 115 ng genomic DNA from P putida ATCC12633: preincubation at ... acids tested (Table 1) The enzyme also acted on a- oxohexanoate, phenylpyruvate, a- oxobutyrate, uoropyruvate, a- oxovalerate, a- oxoisocaproate, a- oxo-octanoate, and hydroxypyruvate However, branched-chain...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... YMCA Chapman offered Sunday the position of advance man for his revival circuit As an advance man, Sunday was responsible for traveling to cities and towns days ahead of Chapman, making arrangements ... total of $75,000 was riding on the outcome of the race.12 Sunday had a change of heart after the wagering began and asked Anson to let him out of the arrangement, but Anson refused, and Sunday ... floral arrangements, a seascape, several rural landscapes, a western mountain landscape, and her own interpretation of the well-known painting Pharaoh’s Horses.9 The rural landscapes are particularly...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 06:20

... language remained the language of the Celt; it is called an Aryan language, a language as noble among languages as the Aran is among its hills It is still spoken in Wales, in Brittany, in Ireland, in ... few place-names But languages are far more fleeting than races The loss of its language does not show that a race is dead; it only shows that it is very anxious to change and learn Some languages ... hardiest that could make their home among them The first races that came were short and dark They came in tribes They had tribal marks, the picture of an animal as a rule; and they had a strange fancy...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... the program TABLE 10 National Origins of Current Ph.D Students North American United States Canada Total North American Non-North American China Korea India Other Asian countries Israel and the ... financial aspects of being a Ph.D student Students whose national origin was U.S or Canadian tend to see teaching as a more important motivational factor than research, while non-North American ... Students from China represent the second largest category, with 26.1 percent Canada, Latin and South America, and Australia and Oceania as categories each provide less than percent of the current...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... Mas'sasoit, chief of the Wam-pano'ags, and of Canon'icus, chief of the Narragansetts, and learned their language In 1633 he returned to Salem, and was again made pastor of a church [8] The fate of John ... touched land when they were attacked But Smith brought about an alliance with the Powhatan, and till after his death there was peace Then (1622), under the lead of Opekan'kano, an attack was made along ... them to planters in Haiti, and came home with hides and pearls Such trade for one not a Spaniard was against the law of Spain But Hawkins cared not, arid came again and again When foul weather drove...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... times, the rapid advances of Romanism, the appointment of certain Roman Catholics to high and important offices in the State, and the countenance given to Popery in high places, are circumstances which ... cellar to Thomas Percy, with the adjoining house, and that the wood and coals were the property of that gentleman At this stage of the examination, the lord chamberlain saw a man standing in a ... and that one of the traitors was already in custody The satisfaction of the people was great at the intelligence, that no danger now existed, and that the king and the parliament were safe Fawkes...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... euro cash into circulation 60 Mass media campaign 80 Withdrawing national banknotes and coins 62 Adapting cash dispensers and cashoperated machines 64 Exchanging national banknotes at face value ... to take account of the different preferences of various cash users and the long lead times for printing banknotes and minting coins The date of January 2002 had both advantages and disadvantages ... peak period for banknote use is at the end of the year: circulation is around 10% higher than average because of the Christmas season and the first few days of January are traditionally a sales...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20