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Communication faculty publish paper exploring the rhetoric of food Posted by: Todd / March 16, 2015 March 16, 2015 Amy Young and Justin Eckstein published two pieces in the February 2015 edition of Communication & Critical/Cultural studies, one of the top journals in the communication field, and the articles are quite tasty. The duo has put together a special forum on rhetoric and food. The first paper entitled “Rhetoric & Foodways” outlines the potential for a rhetorical examination of food
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Meet Dr. Marnie Ritchie, Assistant Professor of Communication! Posted by: Todd / January 10, 2020 January 10, 2020 Meet the Communications department’s most recent faculty member, Dr. Marnie Ritchie. Dr. Ritchie joined PLU in 2018 and has taught a variety of communications classes since then, from introductory communications to courses covering complex topics like gender and ethics. Dr. Ritchie’s other interests for her own research and writing include rhetorical studies, war, and surveillance
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university's curriculum caters to those eclectic interests. Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory“Who Beyoncé is for?” is not usually a question that you ask when you’re bopping your head to “Single Ladies,” or “Partition,” or any of the other hundreds of hit songs that have made Beyoncé a worldwide music icon. But it is just one of the questions students will tackle in the Women’s and Gender Studies course titled “Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory.” “The general premise of the course is to think about Beyoncé
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across the U.S. and beyond create drone parks specifically for the recreational use of drones, and as drones become an increasingly popular gift idea, evoking the rhetorical framing of “drones as toys.” On the other hand, its use in the military and intelligence communities for both ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and targeted strikes engenders a number of responses ranging from enthusiasm to outrage to ethical unease in both the military community and the general public. However
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etymologies, such as the Greek roots of “scholar.” Ciardi also wrote memorable poetry, mining the ancient power of words to show that some things human never change. For instance, these lines from his “Credibility,” Who could believe an ant in theory? a giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what’s possible could reason half the jungle out of being. I speak of love, and something more, to say we are the thing that proves itself not against reason, but impossibly true, and therefore to teach reason
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Saturday, March 21 at 3pm. “I would argue, we seem irrelevant because we are lousy at talking about what it is we do, what it is we study, and why it matters,” Young says. Young researched this phenomenon in part of her new book, Prophets, Gurus & Pundits: Rhetorical Styles & Public Engagement (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014) where she describes the following. Until the early part of the 20th century experts, or “public intellectuals,” could translate expertise for audiences outside of their
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, for which psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel prize in economics. It proposes that people aren’t always trying to maximize benefits, but are paying attention to a benchmark. In this case, the benchmark is par. “Do golfers pay attention to par? Yes, they sit in it,” Reiman said. This is in contrast to neoclassical economic theory that says that people are always trying to better their situation given the constraints they face. The Economics of Golf was split into two sections in order
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tools; and scientific writing/presentations. Students attend a weekly research seminar series by Columbia, CCNY and ASRC faculty, and present results at a daylong symposium at the end of the program. Summer 2020 research areas available: Synthesis, Characterization, and Theory of Molecular Cluster Materials | Synthesis, Characterization, and Theory of 2D Materials and Heterostructures | Nanoscale Optics | Nanoelectronics | Nano/Bio Systems Summer 2020 program dates: June 1, 2020 – August 1, 2020
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marriage for those in Stuen Hall’s Diversity, Justice & Sustainability RLC. “I think one of the benefits is the courses relate to the communities,” said Jeremy Knapp, a first-year resident of DJS RLC. “The Stuen courses I had available were Democratic Citizenship, Rhetorical Listening and Banned Books. I got a course that’s related to what I care about because I picked a hall that’s related to what I care about.” Hezekiah Goodwin '17 But the primary goal of linked courses is to promote an educational
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National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Each year, the committee recognizes authors of a qualitative journal article or book chapter published during the previous year which, in the estimation of the members of the committee, makes the most significant contribution to the area of family theory, methods, and/or research that comes from qualitative tradition. The award is named for Anslem Strauss, whose life work was to develop and practice qualitative methodologies. The NCFR is the nation’s premier
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