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music of trees: the intergenerative tie between primary care and public health

The music of trees: the intergenerative tie between primary care and public healthclose- 2010 - u22Just a Girlu22: The Community-Centered Cult Television Heroine, 1995-2007BookmarkFull text linkFind related documentsAbstractFound in the most recent group of cult heroines on television, community-centered cult heroines share two key characteristics. The first is their youth and the related coming-of-age narratives that result. The second is their emphasis on communal heroic action that challen...

Prosopography

Prosopography (idea) See all of Prosopography, no other writeups in this node. Prosopography From the Greek prospon, character and graphy, writing. Prosopography has been defined as the historical study of individuals as groups and groups as individuals.1 an independent science of social history embracing genealogy, onomastics and demography.2 a study that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or li...

Rabbit Academy review – Easter-timed animation gets its eggs all scrambled

Possessed of a truly eggsecrable subtitle – Mission Eggpossible – this Easter-themed German animation probably supplies just enough frantic hi-jinks to keep small children mildly absorbed over the holidays. But its scatty plot, about a group of master rabbits responsible for distributing Easter eggs and the jealous foxes who wish to supplant them, was seemingly cooked up by someone slipping into a chocolate-induced coma. Its difficulties are evident as Ute von Münchow-Pohl’s film can bar...

Past Performance: Reviving Reenactment

This article appeared in the March 24, 2022 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt, 2022) Reenactment has seen an exciting resurgence in nonfiction cinema in the last decade or so. But for most of the second half of the 20th century, it was viewed with suspicion and marginalized as a practice. The reason, according to documentary scholar Stella Bruz...

Logan's Run (thing) by Dhericean - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Logan's Run (thing) See all of Logan's Run, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Dhericean Thu May 25 2000 at 12:01:29 First there came the book "Logan's Run" (1967) by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It was a very different story from the movie. In the book society was not restricted to domes and Logan was trying to find a mythical person (whose name I cannot remember) and Sanctuary where people over 21 do not...

Karmalink - Andrew Robertson - 17480

"This film bears strange and delightful fruit without affecting its sweetness, its surprise." | Photo: Robert Leitzell/Courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival The machinery upon the red carpet recalls Bacon's triptych, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. I was minded of them having seen Second Version of Triptych 1944 (1988) at the Royal Academy earlier this year. I was minded of them because those paintings appear in Memory: The Origins Of Ali...

The iconic American filmmaker who owns the 'Citizen Kane' Rosebud sledge - Far Out Magazine

Do they mean sled ? Or "sledge"?Credit: RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander KahleThe iconic American filmmaker who owns the 'Citizen Kane' Rosebud sledge          Sat 12th Mar 2022 07.00 GMT          The world of movie memorabilia is one hidden from public sight, reserved for secretive auctions and exclusive deals between rich cinephiles, with classic props from such films as Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Goldfinger garnering furious bidding wars. In addition to Obi Wa...

glass marble meditation (place) by raincomplex - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 glass marble meditation (place) See all of glass marble meditation, no other writeups in this node. (place) by raincomplex Mon Nov 16 2020 at 1:34:26 imagine you are floating freely in space, bodiless. now imagine a sphere around you, a large opaque bubble. this is your mind and body. it's a metaphor. the upper part of the inside surface is covered with sense impressions of your human body and the world: what you can hear and see...

LISA conference (thing) by eBishop - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 LISA conference (thing) See all of LISA conference, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by eBishop Wed Jun 18 2003 at 21:51:26 The LISA conference is the primary System Administration conference held annually by Usenix (the Unix Professional Socity) and its affiliate, SAGE (the System Administrators Guild). It has been held each year since 1987, and the location alternates between the Eastern and Western US. "LISA" stands for...

A Hybrid Academy Awards Ceremony Will Be a Disaster for Genre Film - Gizmodo Australia

The Oscar broadcast has cut eight awards presentations from its live line-up — including craft categories like Production Design, Film Editing, and Sound that have often been where science fiction and fantasy films have found their most success. This news comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which quotes Academy president David Rubin as saying the move is meant "to increase viewer engagement and keep the show vital, kinetic, and relevant." The eight categories that won’t make the broadcas...

Shadhavar | Unicorn Wiki | Fandom

Unicorn Wiki Shadhavar Edit Oryx canens Habitat Asia Minor Primary source Al-Qazwini, Jabir ibn Hayyan More Shādhavār (شادهوار) or āras (آرس) is a unicorn found in the writings of Muslim scholars such as al-Qazwini or al-Damiri. According to al-Qazwini it lives in the furthest regions of Rûm (Rome), which is the name A...

The Use of the Number Three in Fairy and Folk Tales | Storyteller.net

Storyteller.net Connecting Stories, Storytellers and Audience for Great Storytelling. Two Plus One is Greater than Three: The Presence of the Number 3 in Fairytales and Folklore Posted on December 29, 2017 by Storyteller.net (1+2) By: K. Sean Buvala As storytelling has moved from its perceived position of folk art to more mainstream recognition, the inevitable attempts to classify, catalog and define it b...

Dwale - A Medieval Sleeping Drug in the Seventeenth-Century

Dwale was still known about in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. By Dr. Elizabeth K. HunterWellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research FellowQueen Mary University of London As part of my research into early modern sleep disorders, I have been examining the wide variety of sleep remedies available in England at the time.  Browsing through the manuscript receipt collections at the Wellcome Library in London, I came across one with...

Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did | Charles Dickens | The Guardian

Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did | Charles Dickens | The Guardian Skip to main contentSkip to navigation The Guardian - Back to homeContribute Sign in​News​Opinion​Sport​Culture​LifestyleShow More​Education​Schools​Teachers​Universities​StudentsCharles DickensForget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did The writer’s archaic shorthand has baffled experts for over a century. So the...

The cult of Black and white Cinematic Symbolism (Part 27)...

The cult of Black and white Cinematic Symbolism (Part 27)…How Louisiana’s "Dads On Duty" are dismissing myths of the absentee Black father, superstitions surrounding "triple sixes", debunking "The Batman", and what the movies "Swan Song", "A Journal for Jordan", and the 'Pixar' flick "Soul" ALL have in common."The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to get along with white people since white people have been...

Sundance Dispatch 2: Whose Gaze?

This article appeared in the January 27, 2022 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes, 2022) Brainwashed, a new documentary from California Institute of the Arts professor and filmmaker Nina Menkes (Queen of Diamonds) that premiered at Sundance last weekend, aims to make American cinema a more hospitable place for women who conceive, ...

Five Act Structure: Definition, Origin, Examples, and Whether You Should Use It In Your Writing

Five Act Structure: Definition, Origin, Examples, and Whether You Should Use It In Your Writing by Joe Bunting | 3 Comments Five act structure is a method of structuring a story that has existed for centuries. But does it work? And more importantly, will it work for your story? In this article, we will learn the definition of the five act structure, explore its origins, look at popular examples, and talk about whether it’s actually useful as a story struc...

The filmmaker’s presence in French contemporary autofiction: from filmeur/filmeuse to acteur/actrice: New Review of Film and Television Studies: Vol 0, No 0

The filmmaker’s presence in French contemporary autofiction ABSTRACTAutofiction as realised in cinematic practice adds a figure of identification to the literary author-narrator-character: that of actor/actress. The filmmaker, playing him/herself, employs innovative strategies in audiovisual narration to generate this autofictional identity. This article analyses these strategies as seen in French cinema, on which literary autofiction has a determining influence. My analysis of this...

All That Glisters Is Not Gold: Copper and Value in Precolonial Africa

Clip source: %28PDF%29%20All%20That%20Glisters%20Is%20Not%20Gold%3A%20Copper%20and%20Value%20in%20Precolonial%20Africa%20%7C%20David%20Yoon%20-%20Academia.edu All That Glisters Is Not Gold: Copper and Value in Precolonial AfricaANS Magazine, 2020 David Yoon Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.Find new research papers in:PhysicsChemistryBiologyHealth SciencesEcologyEarth SciencesCognitive ScienceMathematicsComputer Science

Soknopaiou Nesos – The Crocodile Cult Temple - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Considering the role of El-Fayyum Oasis,what intertextuality is there to explore between the crocodile cult, the crocodile cult temple, and the rest of the Soknapaiou Nesos mythology, in Paulo Cuehlo's The Alchemist ? -zas Jan 2022 Soknopaiou Nesos – The Crocodile Cult Temple - HeritageDaily - Archaeology NewsSourceURL: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/01/soknopaiou-nesos-the-crocodile-cult-temple/142466 Soknopaiou Nesos – The Crocodile Cult TempleSoknopaiou Nesos, also called Dimeh es-S...

hawse - as HAL

hawse (n.) From etymonline: "part of a ship's bow containing the hawse-holes," late 15c., from Old English or Old Norse hals "part of a ship's prow," literally "neck," from Proto-Germanic *h(w)alsaz, the general Germanic word (source also of Gothic, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German hals), cognate with Latin collum (see collar (n.)), from PIE root from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell." Respelled with -aw- 16c.

Screwball Comedy - history

The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history. Twentieth Century A common misconception about 1930s Hollywood cinema is that escapism was the trend du jour. The ubiquity of genres like historical melodramas and musicals indicates that rationale may be true to an extent, but even the most fantastic films were grounded in some semblance of social realism. And how could they not be? With ...