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Most often carved from wood, but historically from clay and metal alloys also, figures can be representations of human beings or spirits.
Yoruba Agere IfaFind out more This wooden sculpture depicts a kneeling mother with a nursing child in her arms. Bongo Grave PostFind out more This is a Bongo grave post with a male figure, which is carved out of a single piece of wood. Mossi NinanaFind out more The figure has scarification on it, in a style that is found in the Mossi society. Moba TchitcheriFind out more This Moba figure in an abstract human form is carved from a single piece of wood. FiguresMost often carved from wood, but
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GENOCIDE: What does it mean to you? Through the efforts of alumnus and Regent Donald R. Morken and colleague Bruce Littman, PLU sponsors annual scholarships in honor of Raphael Lemkin.
than January 31, 2019, for any revisions you choose to make. Submit the final product no later than 4:00 p.m. February 22, 2019. Format the essay in Word and send it electronically to Jeannette Shimko, Administrative Assistant for Social Sciences, at shimkojm@plu.edu. The final submission must include a cover sheet, an abstract and the completed essay. The cover sheet is to include your name, your PLU I.D. #, a current mailing address, email address and telephone number. Format must follow
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Congratulations to this year's essay contest winner, Kiyomi Kishaba, for her contribution Fire.
critique your paper, making constructive suggestions. Your draft will be returned to you no later than January 31, 2019, for any revisions you choose to make. Submit the final product no later than 4:00 p.m. February 22, 2019. Format the essay in Word and send it electronically to Jeannette Shimko, Administrative Assistant for Social Sciences, at shimkojm@plu.edu. The final submission must include a cover sheet, an abstract and the completed essay. The cover sheet is to include your name, your PLU
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the benefits, for you and your students, of utilizing this tool or strategy?“The benefit of incorporating the emWave into coursework is that active student engagement has significantly increased. The emWave provides real time measurement of physiological change, and students receive both verbal and auditory performance cues as immediate feedback sources. The learning experience becomes less abstract and more applicable because students are able to see what is happening in real time, ask questions
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Bob Dylan, odd instruments inspire Reid A swish of the paintbrush or the swirl of oils on canvas, it was the early colors in Clement Reid’s life that shaped his love of music. His mother, Dorothy, was a commercial artist in the 1930s through the…
January 11, 2008 Bob Dylan, odd instruments inspire Reid A swish of the paintbrush or the swirl of oils on canvas, it was the early colors in Clement Reid’s life that shaped his love of music. His mother, Dorothy, was a commercial artist in the 1930s through the 50s, with her work appearing in the New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. Throughout her life, and before she died last summer, she did many abstract paintings, cut glass works and a bit of photography, Reid remembered last week when
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Branding PLU’s Hebrew Idol By Chris Albert In its fourth season, Antonios Finitsis says the show just keeps on growing. This year, Finitsis, assistant professor of religion, worked closely with the Digital Media Center’s Nick Butler to revamp the Hebrew Idol logo. PLU’s Hebrew Idol…
happen because it really is unique to PLU. He isn’t sure if it could happen anywhere else. Actually, he doubts it. “It happened because the way we teach religion,” he said. “We don’t want it to be abstract. We want it to be real in people’s lives.” Without the support of faculty and staff, the video project would never have happened, Finitsis said. And it certainly wouldn’t have become what it is today without the creative ability and passion students bring to the videos, he said. “We have to be
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“I’ve never been here before,” a student told me in June 2014 as my Christian Ethics class walked to the community garden at Trinity Lutheran Church.
difference between charity for the poor and empowering people to overcome poverty, we relate it to the work of a local food bank. When we talk about stewardship of the earth, we don’t just ask abstract questions — are nonhuman animals our neighbors? — we also see what some local Christians are doing to tend their soil. I have always hoped that my students leave a course in Christian ethics less sure than they arrived about what it might mean to “love your neighbor.” Now, I also hope that they leave
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Formal admission to Pacific Lutheran University. Admission to the university does not guarantee admission to the School of Nursing.
cumulative grade point average of 3.0 in nursing prerequisite coursework. A cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Completion of the university math entrance requirement (two years of college preparatory math with average grades of “C” or higher, or one semester of intermediate algebra at the college level with a grade of “C” or higher). Physical health and emotional stability sufficient to meet the demands of nursing and provide safe patient care. Fluency in speaking, reading, and writing
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Turning Numbers Into Words Tyler Ball ’13, left, and PLU Math Professor Tom Edgar conducted research over the summer of 2012 (with Daniel Juda ’13) that’s now published in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Undergraduate Math Research Published in Prestigious Journal By…
paper. Edgar received the grant for the research and recruited Ball and Juda to assist. “He was really working with us,” Ball said. “It wasn’t like he knew all the answers, which I thought was really cool.” The three researched a more specific ordering of natural numbers. The journal abstract reads, in part: “This paper provides an overview of the b-dominance order over the natural numbers, ℵ, using the base b expansion of natural numbers. … Here we discuss many ideas in order theory, including the
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PLU’s BAP Team Puts the ‘Best’ in Best Practices PLU’s winning BAP team, from left: Nicholaus Townsend-Falck, Jessica Reid, Jessica Resop and Courtney Forbis. Takes 1st Place in Regional Competition By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications How’s this for best practices? PLU’s chapter…
Forbis said. “People at PLU have always thought that BAP is only for Accounting students, but it is also for Finance and Information students.” Forbis said the PLU team sent an abstract for the competition at the end of January, and it was accepted in early February for an oral presentation. In Portland, Forbis said, “The team had only eight minutes, with two minutes of Q/A, to explain the project, the project’s outcome and why other chapters can benefit from this.” For the national competition in
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