This study explores the profound influence of the South on the poetry of Robert Penn Warren and creates an oral interpretation lecture-recital script illustrating this influences. The study shows Warren's poetry to be worthy of consideration. The study also defines oral interpretation, lecture recital, and poet-centered programs. Included with a biographical sketch of Warren is a chronological listing of works and events in his life. There are discussions of several poems which illustrate the influence of the Southern landscape and several which show the influence of the Southern people. The forty-five minute lecture-recital script is included as an appendix,

This dissertation centres on the classification of artists’ books based on the qualities they possess as works of art as well as the intimate engagement required by the reader in order to experience such works in their entirety. Among the qualities investigated are intimacy through the use of novelty devices, haptics, text, narrative and concrete systems, space, and shape. These qualities are exemplified through works by Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen and Cheryl Penn. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2013.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Sílvia Rodrigues Carneiro - 2014.pdf: 891610 bytes, checksum: 824d9529c7c304ace845c53d998e1101 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-29 / The finishing cattle in feedlots has increased in recent years and the feeding of animals is responsible for 60-70% of the costs in this system. Cattle tend to select their food, even when this is provided in the form of a total mixed ration. This selective behavior has shown changes in milk production, but has been little studied in cattle. Thus, this study was designed to identify selection by particle size by cattle and a possible influence on performance and carcass beef cattle. We used 18 Nellore bulls, with 21 months old and average weight of 334 kg, confined for 127 days to reach slaughter weight of 500 kg and minimum subcutaneous fat thickness of 4 mm. The diet was corn silage and concentrate in the ratio of 40:60 dry matter basis. The diet was weighed and made up the evaluation of particle size by the method of sieves of the Penn State Particle Size Separator, every four hours for 24 hours. From these results, the animals were grouped according to the habit of selection by particle size using cluster analysis into two stages: the Ward method to define the number of cluster; and kmeans clustering method to classify animals into groups by Euclidean distance, where k = 3, these being the three groups evaluated: Group 3 showed a preference for long (> 19 mm) and medium particles (<19 mm> 8 mm), Group 1 showed no preference for distinction as the size of particles throughout the day, but the proportion of fine particles (<1.18 mm - bottom of sieve) decreased after 24h and Group 2 presented similarity throughout the day, with the Group 1 or Group 3. There was no significant effect between groups for any carcass traits (carcass yield, percentage industrial cuts, Loin Area, fat thickness and percentage of fat in carcass). On feedlot performance, there were no differences in time spent on food, idling or rumination, as well as the dry matter and NDF intake. However, weight gain and attributes of efficiency (conversion and feed efficiency) showed significant effects at P <0.07 between groups with statistical difference of P <0.007 for feed efficiency and P <0.0109 for feed conversion between Groups 1 and 3 when compared alone. It was concluded that selection by particle sizes does not imply changes in the performance of feedlot cattle diets with 40% forage and fed twice a day. / A terminação de bovinos em confinamentos vem crescendo nos últimos anos e a alimentação dos animais é responsável por 60 a 70% dos custos nesse sistema. Bovinos tendem a selecionar sua alimentação, mesmo quando essa é fornecida na forma de ração total misturada. Esse comportamento seletivo tem mostrado alterações na produção de leite, mas tem sido pouco estudado em gado de corte. Assim, esse estudo foi elaborado visando identificar a seleção por tamanho de partículas no cocho e uma possível influência no desempenho e carcaça de bovinos de corte. Utilizou-se 18 animais inteiros, da raça Nelore, com idade média de 21 meses e peso médio inicial de 334 kg, confinados por 127 dias até atingirem peso de abate acima de 500 kg e espessura de gordura mínima de 4 mm. Tiveram como alimento silagem de milho e concentrado na proporção de 40:60. A dieta dos animais foi pesada e fez-se a avaliação do tamanho de partículas pelo método das peneiras da Penn State Forage Particle Separator, a cada quatro horas durante 24h. A partir destes resultados, os animais foram agrupados de acordo com o hábito de seleção por tamanho de partículas utilizando a análise de Cluster em dois estágios: método de Ward para definir o número de cluster; e método de k-médias para classificar os animais dentro dos grupos por meio da distância Euclidiana, em que k = 3, sendo esses os três Grupos avaliados: o Grupo 3 apresentou preferência por partículas longas (> 19 mm) e médias (< 19 mm > 8 mm), o Grupo 1 não apresentou distinção quanto a preferência por tamanho de partículas ao longo do dia, porém a proporção de partículas finas (< 1,18 mm - fundo de peneira) diminuiu após as 24h e o Grupo 2 apresentou semelhança ao longo do dia, hora com o Grupo 1, hora com o Grupo 3. A partir da formação dos Grupos, os dados de desempenho e carcaça foram comparados por teste de médias. Não houve efeito significativo entre os Grupos para quaisquer características de carcaça (rendimento, percentagem dos cortes dianteiro, ponta de agulha e traseiro, AOL, espessura de gordura e proporção de gordura). No desempenho em confinamento, não houve diferenças nos tempos gastos com alimentação, ócio ou ruminação, assim como no consumo de matéria seca e de FDN. Entretanto, o ganho de peso e atributos de eficiência (conversão e eficiência alimentar) apresentaram efeito significativo a P<0,07 entre os três grupos e com diferença estatística de P<0,007 para eficiência alimenta e P<0,0109 para conversão alimentar entre os Grupos 1 e 3, quando comparados isoladamente. Concluiu-se que a seleção no cocho por diferentes tamanhos de partículas não implica em alterações no desempenho de bovinos confinados em dietas com 40 % de volumoso e alimentados duas vezes ao dia.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Robert Hampel, School of Education. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1981. / "May 1981." Includes bibliographical references.

On the eve of the Second World War, high school English teacher Leon Ormond writes about a minor skirmish he has with a history teacher over the pedagogical usefulness of wit. After telling her about his book, Laugh and Learn: The Art of Teaching with Humor, she tells him, “Only morons laugh.” Ormond goes on to describe her as one who exhibits “a countenance curiously reminiscent of an ancient Greek tragic mask”—she was “an exemplary member of the Cult of Pedagogic Pallbearers.” Although educators, historically, have often frowned upon humor, humorous writing—especially satirical writing—helps students understand the fundamentals of rhetoric and composition in a way that is both engaging and intellectually demanding. While often misunderstood within the larger culture, and perhaps equally underused in academic culture, satiric writing can be a creative and critical heuristic for the learning and practice of various rhetorical principles in the introductory composition classroom, an alternate discourse that can teach fundamental communication concepts while challenging mainstream thinking. Chapter one explores various historical, theoretical, and pedagogical concerns about the use of humor. Chapter two outlines a positive case for the inclusion of satiric writing in college composition. Chapter three describes my own efforts at teaching satire in four introductory composition classes at Western Kentucky University. An appendix examines the difficult relationship between the satiric genre and the once dominant school of literary criticism known as New Criticism, focusing on New Critic Robert Penn Warren’s work with seventeenth-century satirist, John Marston.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-340). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.