End Of Story Research Articles

The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era by David Johnson Lee

<i>The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era</i> by David Johnson Lee

What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski

Reviewed by: What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski Natalie Berglind Swinarski, Claire What Happened to Rachel Riley? Quill Tree, 2023 [352p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780063213098 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780063213111 $11.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 5-8 Anna Hunt has a unique insight into the eighth-grade class at East Middle School, having just moved to Madison, Wisconsin, from Chicago, and she’s confused but intrigued by a story that involves the once-popular student Rachel Riley—a story no one wants to talk about. As Anna takes on a podcast project for her Social Issues class she interviews her peers, steps on many toes, and tracks down the events that led Rachel to burn down a barn in the middle of the night the day before the seventh-grade dance. What starts as curiosity ends with the discovery of a sexual harassment game the boys of East Middle School play on the girls, and now Anna’s stuck figuring out what to do with that knowledge. Anna is likeable and compelling, utilizing humor and quirkiness to get the information she needs and providing a buffer to some of the dark themes of the novel. Her narration is interspersed with her findings: voice recordings, emails, notes passed in class, flyers, and text messages provided to her as evidence. The unraveling mystery of the game itself is compelling as Anna identifies the players as well as the people who are complacent in the harassment and other girls who blame Rachel for ruining their dance. If the administration’s eventual response is a bit too neat, the story ends on a hopeful but bittersweet note as Anna understands the culture that feeds sexual harassment behaviors can’t end overnight. Pair this book with Maybe He Just Likes You (BCCB 10/19) for a much-needed conversation with middle schoolers about the harassment they will likely face at school. Copyright © 2022 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Van Gogh and Myth in A. S. Byatt’s Still Life

ABSTRACT Van Gogh is a character that appears in a verse drama entitled The Yellow Chair, a story within a story, in A. S. Byatt’s Still Life, the second novel of the Frederica Potter Quartet. In this novel, both Van Gogh’s paintings and a major life event – his agon with the French artist Paul Gauguin in Arles – are represented on stage. This paper argues that Van Gogh’s self-mutilation is a mimesis of the various facets of the myth of the sun depicted in his numerous paintings (i.e. the life and death of vegetation in nature, the rising and setting of the sun in the sky, and the division of the white sunlight into both complementary and spectrum colors). The myths of fertility incorporated in Van Gogh’s narrative in the novel epitomize the main character Frederica Potter’s erotic experiences, who, as a Cambridge undergraduate, believes that the body is the ultimate source of all good in the world and that “marriage [is] the end of every good story.” 1

Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies

Abstract This study proposes two collaborative concept mapping-based prewriting strategies to help Chinese EFL learners with a reading-to-write task—reading an unfinished story and then writing its ending. Collaborative concept mapping enables students to visualize the storyline with the help of peer scaffolding. The two proposed strategies used collaborative fill-in-the-blanks concept maps (CFCM) and collaboratively constructed concept maps (CCCM). Classes 1 (N = 48) and 2 (N = 47) participated in the experiment and respectively learned the strategies of CFCM and CCCM. The collected data included students’ concept maps, reading-to-write products, responses to questionnaires on attitudes and motivation, and learning journals, which were analyzed by t tests, path analysis, and qualitative coding. The results indicated that students using CCCM showed more positive attitudes and higher motivation than those using CFCM; however, the two strategies shared similar effectiveness in developing students’ reading-to-write abilities. Students found the proposed strategies effective in helping them write the story ending.

Platelet Inhibition in Sickle Cell Disease: The End of a Long Story

Platelet Inhibition in Sickle Cell Disease: The End of a Long Story

A Return to the Commons: An Eco-Marxist Reading of Jewett's “The Gray Mills of Farley” and Rebecca Harding Davis’ Life in the Iron Mills

A Return to the Commons: An Eco-Marxist Reading of Jewett's “The Gray Mills of Farley” and Rebecca Harding Davis’ <i>Life in the Iron Mills</i>

C1 - Stronger Together (Original song by Lucy Mount)

Before I studied midwifery, I was doing a music degree in performance. I find music to be my greatest therapy, and a way to express myself. I have written a song which to me, explores the key values and philosophy of midwifery care. It portrays the experience and morals of midwives, women and a career in midwifery. The first part of the song is written from the midwives’ perspective. It is the last few moments of birth, and reveals the pure joy of being a midwife, helping women and being by their side through this miraculous experience. The chorus is created around values of strength, equality and standing together in unison- woman, midwife, and her healthcare team. It also explores the support offered by the midwife, the resilience that they have, the strength that they can share, the love that they pour into their profession all for the women they work alongside. This part of the song encapsulates the true essence of a woman centred care philosophy. I wrote the second part of the song from the woman’s perspective to portray the first few moments with her new baby, the sense of accomplishment, overpowering feeling of love, and gratitude for her midwife. I know that not all birth stories end like this, however it is something that as midwives we strive for, the best outcomes for mothers and babies. The structure of my song, from the different perspectives and being connected through the chorus represents the bond and equality between women and midwives. I also wanted to explore the concept of “professional friend”, as I believe that midwives are more than health care professionals to the women. To provide the best care, we need to dig a little deeper than the medical conditions or the alert sticker. Some of the best results stem from the best care, continuity of care, and making women feel comfortable and safe.

Transforming the Female Body: Gender Dialectics in Early Buddhism

Scholars have long debated the woman question in Buddhism, in terms of the social spaces and gendered attitudes revealed by texts and traditions. In the opinion of some, Buddhism in its essence does not discriminate between male and female forms. It is the cultural baggage of the practitioners that has led to discriminatory behaviour based on the body. But others have questioned this understanding as being too simplistic and essentializing. The discourse around gender has multiple layers and contexts corresponding to developments (both philosophical and sectarian) within Buddhism. This article attempts to look at the evolution of this discourse from Early Buddhism to the early stages of Mahāyāna Buddhism and, subsequently, within Mahāyā na Buddhism. To do so, this article utilizes Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtras, and Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, juxtaposing them to analyse the evolution of the gender discourse in the philosophical world as well as in the narrative world. This study reveals that while Mahāyāna Buddhism philosophically stands upon the concept of Śūnyatā, that is, emptiness, which extends to include the illusory nature of the human body, the narrative literature carries reservations about the female body. Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra employs a narrative device of ‘sex transformation’ as part of the show of the enlightened state of the female practitioner. Despite the claims made by all these practitioners about the emptiness of the body, all these stories end with female practitioners acquiring a male body and immediately receiving their Buddhahood. This study reveals a more complex picture of conversations and interactions between Early Buddhism and Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Promoting body positivity through stories: How protagonist body size and esteem influence readers’ self-concepts

Through two experiments (N = 497), we documented how distinct portrayals of women in stories can impact readers’ engagement in social comparisons and influence important aspects of their self-concepts. Specifically, this research investigated the effects of character body size (thin vs. large), body esteem (low vs. high), and story ending valence (sad vs. happy) with two distinct storylines. Results indicated that high (vs. low) body esteem characters are not only rated more aspirational, but also led readers with greater self-discrepancy to report lower state body image, suggesting upward social comparison processes are at play. Further, results indicated that reading about characters with large (vs. thin) bodies can positively affect readers’ body image; however, this positive effect may be explained by downward social comparison. Findings highlight the complexities of body appearance and confidence. Strategies for effectively promoting body positivity via text-based interventions are discussed.

DISORIENTASI KEKUATAN WANITA PADA CERPEN LESUNG PIPIT KARYA EKA KURNIAWAN: KRITIK FEMINISME

In society, women often get a share in the domestic field, such as kitchen work, taking care of children, and so on. The position of placing women indicates that women have power under men. In addition, women are also often the target of objectification and subordination by men. As a medium of expression and expression, literature is often a place to criticize all phenomena that occur in society. One of the literary works that shows another strength of a woman is a short story entitled Lesung Pipit by Eka Kurniawan. In this short story, there is a disorientation of power in a woman named Lesung Pipit. In this story, Lesung Pipit is positioned as a woman who obeys the patriarchal culture reflected by her father. However, at the end of the short story it is told that Lesung Pipit took an action to defend his rights as a woman. This story is interesting to study using a feminist critique approach. This is because the short story raises the issue of women and their sexual power. Keywords: disorientasi, kekuatan, wanita, Lesung Pipit.

Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba Edited by BasmaGhalayini. Manchester, U.K: Comma Press, 2019.

Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba Edited by BasmaGhalayini. Manchester, U.K: Comma Press, 2019.

La Pastorela

La Pastorela

The Witch in the Closet: Disney's Frozen as Adaptation and Its Potential for Queer and Feminist Readings

The Witch in the Closet: Disney's <i>Frozen</i> as Adaptation and Its Potential for Queer and Feminist Readings

Acts of love and philosophy: In conversation with Irenosen Okojie

An interview with leading British fiction-writer Irenosen Okojie, transcribed and edited following a Zoom conversation with Lucy Dawes Durneen in December 2021 in Cambridge. It also includes questions from creative writing students. Okojie discusses her own practice as short story writer, including the choice of titles and short story endings, and issues of representation facing Black writers, especially in relation to female characters. She also discusses her non-fiction as a method of dealing with trauma and feelings of vulnerability.

Queer disorientation in The Optimist’s Daughter

This essay investigates the embedding of queerness into the visual/spatial/temporal aesthetics and quotidian objects in Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter (1972), under the overarching theme of ‘disorientation’. The novel revolves around the return of the childless middle‐aged widow Laurel McKelva to her provincial home town, Mount Salus, for her father’s funeral. After multiple agitated encounters with a myriad of small‐town characters, Laurel grapples with her complicated family history and comes to a changed understanding of herself and the world. Filtered through Laurel’s intensely disorienting point of view, the story ends with the collapse and disintegration of her once persistent heteronormative vision. Disorientation in this novel is often subjective, internal and static, rather than being invoked by fantastical spatial settings. Through strenuous close reading, I show how the slipping‐away of elusive everyday objects—such as misarranged furniture, disused utensils and forgotten family heirlooms—imbricates queer traces into the texture of the narrative by evoking minoritarian sexual and temporal existences. While my conceptual framework is based on Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology, I eclectically reference theorists ranging from Lee Edelman and Kathryn Bond Stockton to Judith Butler. My central claim postulates disorientation as Welty’s queer politics to critique and renegotiate boundaries of heteronormativity.

PENGUATAN KARAKTER LEADERSHIP BERBASIS KEARIFAN LOKAL DALAM BUKU CERITA SUKU PENUNGGANG LAYANG-LAYANG KARYA TERE LIYE

Moral degradation as a form of weak character is not new among society. More and more cases are occurring due to the fading of karaker values. Character planting should be done as early as possible in order for the nation's successor to be a superior successor. Basically setiaap idividu have character and carry it, it's just necessary strengthening to strengthen it. The purpose of this research is to examine the strengthening of leadership character or leadership based on local wisdom contained in Tere Liye's children's storybook entitled Suku Penunggang Layang-Layang published by Gramedia. This type of research is a library research or research ustaka. Where data is obtained from a number of reading sources and references. The results of this research show that the strengthening of leadership character or leadership based on local wisdom is shown by tetukong or the main character of the story must face conflict between himself and his ability to ride a kite. Anxiety and pressure is what makes Tetukong finally dare to make a decision. Until finally Tetukong was determined to dare to ride a kite and with his belief he was finally able to ride the kite. And finally the story ends with Tetukong being the leader of the kite rider to the fire site.Keyword: strengthening character, leadership, based on local wisdom

In It Together

In It Together

Recommitting to Marriage on Kate Chopin’s ‘A Respectable Woman’: A Systemic Functional Description

A story implies meaning because it is delivered by language. The plot is told by language and the characters in the story are also described by language. The language expresses clauses that can be interpreted. Kate Chopi’s ‘A Respectable Woman’ is a story about a married couple that ends unclear. This story have carried meaning through its ideology. It must be revealed to conclude the story ending. Since this story is not an easy story, Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) was applied to help the writer exploring the linguistic features. SFG could identify evidences of the story’s meaning. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, the writer presented the description of the Systemic Functional Grammar to present linguistic features and interpret the ideology which is recommitting to marriage.

Self-Regulated Strategy Development for Writing: Case Study of a Female With Autism Spectrum Disorder

An 11-year-old U.S. fifth grader with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) participated in a writing intervention using the self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) approach for story writing. The child summarized stories adapted from the Read Works® website using POW (Pick my idea, Organize my notes, and Write and say more) and WWW, What = 2, How = 2 (W = Who are the characters?, W = When does the story happen?, W = Where does the story happen?, What = 2, What happens first?, What happens next?, How = 2, How does the story end? and How do the characters feel?). Based on correct word sequence (CWS) calculations, the participant increased CWS from pre-test to post-test, and the total number of words she wrote also increased. This case study aims to provide speech-language pathologists with a guide for implementing the SRSD approach with their students with ASD and to inform future research.

Accountability Committee Tracks APA’s Progress on Structural Racism

Accountability Committee Tracks APA’s Progress on Structural Racism