WAR HORSE

d/Deaf and d/Dumb chronicles my dumb, deaf kid origins on Bayport, Long Island to my life now as a young superhero writer. Portraying the conflicting cultural worlds of hearing and Deaf, it describes my life in an in-between underworld, my identity as it alternates between being oppressed and empowered. These feelings are inescapably and forever the reality of those who live on the margins of our larger society.

This paper deals with time harmony in English narrative and it is concerned with the sequence of tenses and back shifting. It focuses on the syntactic and semantic analysis of time harmony that makes use of linguistic forms and constructions for the temporal interpretations of time relations in the novel (War Horse). Since, texts have actions and events that are sequenced and controlled by time relations, so tense sequence and back shifting affect temporal structure of the texts and writers make use of them in their descriptions of the events and actions. The problem lies in the sequencing and the interpretation of the used forms because such relations need a determination of the beginning of the actions and events with the forward movement and back shifting principle of the time relations. In an attempt to explain time harmony in English, the study gives a syntactic-semantic description of the novel (War Horse), since its texts show the time span, relations and temporal interpretations harmonized for events and actions. The paper aims at investigating the linguistic structures and forms that are used for the time harmony of events and actions in the selected English texts and comparing the occurrence and use of the time harmony rules, temporal relations and interpretations. The study is divided into four sections. The first section is an introductory one; it deals with the problem, the aims, and hypotheses. Section two provides a review of the previous studies on the time relations and interpretations. Section three will be employed to explain the time harmony of the narrative texts. It investigates the items and forms that are used for the temporal interpretations that show the time relations in the selected texts. Section four present the conclusions. Section One 1.1 Introduction Grammarians have been concerned with the sequence of tenses; they studied the succession and agreement of tenses in terms of grammatical rules in related clauses or sentences. This paper focuses on time harmony as a rule and principle for the formulation of the temporal constructions.

Stone Postcard (John Leonard Press: Elwood, 2014), 2014

The article draws attention to the value of objective measurement of both human responses and soundtracks for validating conjectures about the role of film music. Based on empirical research on film music as well as ideas from film theory and cognitive science, the author’s Congruence-Association Model with Working Narrative (CAM-WN) is introduced as a means for organizing ideas about the role of music in film. The application of CAM-WN to the problem of unattended film music is reviewed, and the notion of subjective silence is examined in the context of spectrographic representation of film music. While empirical research with human participants is also encouraged, the complexity of the enterprise is highlighted by a list of questions to consider in advance. Interdisciplinary collaboration is suggested as a means for overcoming the complexity of film-music behavioral research, though it is not a panacea. The Lund University Film Studies Department offers an important example in this direction.

Theatre Journal, 2010

Children and youth with progressive conditions are living longer, and there is increased interest in designing programs that will assist them with "transitioning" to adulthood. Almost none of the transitions research to date, however, has attended to the experiences of disabled boys in "becoming men," nor has there been critical conceptual work problematizing notions of "normal" adulthood or theorizing the complex, diverse, and gendered experiences of transitioning. In this Canadian study, we investigated the intersectionality of gender, disability, and emerging adulthood with 15 young men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Participants created audio diaries and photographs Downloaded from Health 0(0) that were explored in in-depth interviews. Using a Bourdieusian lens and Arthur Frank's notion of the narrative habitus, we examined how participants re/negotiated identities in everyday practices. Our analysis suggested that disability, masculinities, and generational (life stage) identities intersected through "narratives of nondifference," wherein participants worked to establish identities as typical "guys." Within limited fields of school and work, participants distanced themselves from the label of "disabled" and discussed their successes and challenges in terms of normative developmental trajectories. We suggest that the pursuit of "normal" is reproduced and reinforced in health and social programs and closes off other narratives and possibilities.

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New Eastern Europe, 2019

The Kerch Strait incident in November 2018 indicates that the geographic focal point of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict may be currently shifting from the Donets Basin to the Black and Azov Seas. Four factors in particular make further tensions between Moscow and Kyiv, along the shores of the Crimean peninsula and Ukraine’s southeastern mainland coastline probable.