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, and author of contemporary Caribbean literature. Her novel Tentacle was the first Spanish-language book to win the Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers in 2017. Although she experienced viral music success, Indiana has since shifted her focus to her literary career. She has authored three short story collections and five novels, three of which have been translated into English. Her work in science fiction prominently features themes of queerness, culture, and Dominican social issues
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women since it meant they were innocent and subordinate, she instead uses this quality against prescribed gender roles. The choice to cast Mary McKenna-Bruce intentionally aligns the character with an actress who, until recently, was a child star in the popular British children’s show Tracy Beaker Returns (2010-2012) and its spinoff The Dumping Ground (2013-). Don’t be fooled into thinking Disney Channel would air these alongside Raven’s Home (2017-) and reruns of Hannah Montana (2006-2011
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match their gender identity. Academics Some absolutely stellar curricular offerings. Multiple students have said their lives were changed by the transgender literature class taught by Jennifer Smith, Ph.D. Co-Curricular Many different programs and hosted discussions from the PLU Diversity Center, including the formation of PLU’s Diversity Alumni Network. Co-Curricular In 2014, University Congregation became an official Reconciling in Christ church, welcoming the LGBTQ community into its student
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. Among the definitions of cheating included in PLU’s policy on Academic Integrity is “[the use of] information or devices not allowed by the faculty, such as formulas or a computer program or data….” Given the aims and the realities mentioned above, and in light of PLU’s policy on Academic Integrity, the Department of Global & Cultural Studies issues the following guidelines on the use of machine translation for students of language, literature, and culture: The use of machine translation in the
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distinct historical and cultural norms. Similarly, the professors who teach the IHON classes also bring diversity in their disciplines – Randhawa’s two first-year IHON classes, for instance, were taught by experts in historical theology and French Literature. Randhawa loved them both. Others see it that way, too. And the benefit isn’t just in the classroom. “I like having friends who have completely different views and completely different visions of where their life is going to go,” said Nellie Moran
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Olbertz, The Christian Message Versus the American Dream: A Tillichian Analysis of Christian Self-Help Literature Sean Parshall, Using Q to Unlock John: How Q and Other Early Christian Sources Connect to the Gospel of John Katie Schinnell, When Church Became Cheap: A Contextual Study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theology of Grace Religion Erica ‘Aerii’ Smith, Christian Revivalism in the 1960s: A Call to Action Grant Stanaway, Agar, Habermas, and Tillich: on the Eugenic Question and Radical Acceptance
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European, Mughal, Ottoman, and Russian; the development of the world economic system, especially comparing the West with China and Japan; and cultural globalization in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. (4) HIST 107 : Ancient Near East - IT, GE Surveys the history of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean regions, including ancient Sumer, Egypt, Israel, Persia, Greece, and Rome. Major themes include empire building, religion, law, art, and literature. Students learn to investigate historical
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concentration of DNA with acceptable purity but failed to produce true amplification in the qRT-PCR assay until after being ‘cleaned’ with Bioline Sureclean ® DNA Purification kit. Based on the literature, it is probable an inhibitory contaminate originating either with the anticoagulant used at harvest or other innate whole blood polysaccharides caused inhibition of the enzymes used in qRT-PCR amplification. This suggests special attention also needs to be focused on pre-assay protocols to identify
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foreign languages—particularly the “soft” ones such as Spanish and French—while men gravitate to the “hard” languages (German, Russian) and other academic subjects such as science and math. In the larger university setting, most foreign language departments have traditionally been split between (mostly male) tenured and tenure-track faculty members engaged in original research in literature or literary theory, and (mostly female) non-tenured lecturers and teaching assistants responsible for the
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atmosphere PLU offers both new and returning students. Coming back to campus feels like coming home because I have friends and friendly faces that make me feel like a part of the community. Solveig RoervikEnglish Literature, 2018 Among the reasons why I chose PLU, the nature in Washington is close to the top, as is the helpful and responsive team I was in contact with during my application period. What I’ve enjoyed most here at PLU is how small and intimate the campus community is. There is always a
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