This course considers some of the substantial early twentieth-century poetic voices in America. Authors vary, but may include Moore, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, and Pound.
We'll read the major poems by the most important poets in English in the 20th century, emphazinig especially the period between post-WWI disillusionment and early WW II internationalism (ca. 1918-1940). Our special focus this term will be how the concept of "the Image" evolved during this period. The War had undercut beliefs in master-narratives of nationalism and empire, and the language-systems that supported them (religious transcendence, rationalism and formalism). Retrieving energies from the Symbolist movements of the preceding century, early 20th century poets began to rethink how images carry information, and in what ways the visual, visionary, and verbal image can take the place of transcendent beliefs. New theories of linguistics and anthropology helped to advance this interest in the artistic/religious image. So did Freud. So did Charlie Chaplin films.
We'll read poems that pay attention both to this disillusionment and to the compensatory joyous attention to the image: to ideas of the poet-as-language-priest, aesthetic-experience-as-displaced-religious impulse, to poetry as faith, ritual, and form.

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Una colección de textos para el debate

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Una compilación de textos escritos por autoras (latinoamericanas, españolas y latinas) que manifiestan un interés especial por la cuestión medioambiental. Estos textos y las actividades de comprensión y reflexión que los acompañan contribuyen: i) a familiarizarse con varias categorías relevantes del feminismo y del ecofeminismo y ii) a explorar, desde una perspectiva ecofeminista, algunos temas recurrentes en la literatura escrita por mujeres.

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La feminización de la naturaleza y la naturalización de la mujer son referentes comunes en diversas culturas. ¿Cómo se aproximan las mujeres a esta asociación? ¿Cómo hablan del medioambiente y de los goces y las problemáticas que este les trae? En este libro prestamos oído a voces de mujeres que se expresan sobre la cuestión. Presentamos una compilación de textos escritos por autoras (latinoamericanas, españolas y latinas) que manifiestan un interés especial por la cuestión medioambiental.

Este libro ofrece la posibilidad de que los estudiantes se familiaricen con conceptos relevantes en el debate feminista y ecofeminista actual, caso de los cuidados, la ecodependencia, la interdependencia y la explotación de los recursos naturales y sociales. Asimismo, contribuye a revisar, desde una perspectiva ecofeminista, algunos temas recurrentes en la literatura escrita por mujeres, caso de la maternidad, el cuerpo y la sexualidad femenina, la violencia, la justicia y la igualdad.

El libro incluye autoras del canon literario español, latinoamericano y latino, además de un amplio repertorio de nuevas voces. La selección busca visibilizar el discurso público elaborado por las mujeres en un contexto social en que persiste su silenciamiento.

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(Version: 22 Mar 2021)

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A family history of my great-grandmother Barbara (Kraus) Kirmse and her relatives from Franconia, Bavaria.

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Barbara Kraus immigrated to Perry County, Missouri, USA from the Hutschdorf, Bavaria. This book is a summary of the results of family research to learn about Barbara Kraus, and her relatives of Franconia, Bavaria heritage.

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(Version: 7 Dec 2018)

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A biography of William and Martha Margaretha (Cordes) Kirmse and my memories of them as Grandpa and Grandma Kirmse.

Long Description:
A biography of my grandparents William and Margaretha (Cordes) Kirmse and my memories of them as Grandfather and Grandmother Kirmse.

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(Version: 5 Jul 2020)

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A summary of family research to learn about the Scheeßel relatives of my grandmother, Martha Margaretha (Cordes) Kirmse.

Long Description:
My grandmother’s parents, Margaretha Meyer and Heinrich Cordes, immigrated to Perry County, Missouri, USA from the Scheeßel Parish in the district of Rotenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. This book is a summary of the results of family research to learn about my grandmother’s relatives of Scheeßel heritage.

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(Version: 1 Sept 2018)

Short Description:
A summary of family research to learn about the Scheeßel relatives of my grandmother, Martha Margaretha (Cordes) Kirmse.

Long Description:
My grandmother’s parents, Margaretha Meyer and Heinrich Cordes, immigrated to Perry County, Missouri, USA from the Scheeßel Parish in the district of Rotenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. This book detail documentation of family research to learn about my grandmother’s relatives of Scheeßel heritage.

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Short Description:
The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is a Gothic romance novel by English author Ann Radcliffe. The narrative follows Emily St. Aubert, a young woman who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father, supernatural terrors, and machinations of an Italian brigand.

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The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is a Gothic romance novel by English author Ann Radcliffe. The narrative follows Emily St. Aubert, a young woman who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father, supernatural terrors, and machinations of an Italian brigand.

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Included H5P activities: 1

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An Open Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth

Short Description:
Mythoi Koinoi: An Online, Open-Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth provides undergraduate university students with free, easy access to primary source texts and images for Greek and Roman mythology. Mythoi Koinoi means "Mythology for the People" in Ancient Greek, and it is intended to give everyone who engages with it access to the writings and artistic creations of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Long Description:
Mythoi Koinoi: An Online, Open-Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth began with the observation that many of the texts that we study in our Greek and Roman mythology classes have translations that are available online, either in the public domain or under open access copyright, though many of them are archaic, unreadable, and therefore inaccessible to modern students. Accessibility, then, has been the guiding principle for the book. We set out to update these open access translations, providing clear introductions that situate each text according to time, place, and genre, and organizing them into thematic chapters. We have adapted all translations that are more than forty years old for readability, while maintaining the integrity of the text and its faithfulness to the original languages.

Additionally, while there are thousands of primary source images related to Ancient Greek and Roman mythology available online, they are generally uncontextualized and scattered across multiple platforms, including museum databases, open access media collections, and popular webpages. We collected and organized these images, situating them within their respective chapters and providing necessary context for identification and interpretation.

The anthology contains more than 80 primary source texts from 35 authors, along with hyperlinks to online translations of many more. It has more than 600 high-resolution images of artwork from ancient Greece and Rome. In crafting the book, we have followed best practices for Universal Design for Learning. All images come with captions, descriptions and alternate text, for those that are unable to view them. There are over 500 glossary entries that are accessible either through links within each of the primary texts, or through the glossary section at the back of the book.

The book contains 43 chapters, organized into 7 parts, starting from the myths of creation and destruction, and going through the aftermath of the Trojan War. The sixth chapter focuses specifically on mythology unique to Ancient Rome, and the seventh chapter focuses on the mythology and archaeology of cities and spaces. We have also included mythology from Mesopotamia and the Levant in two chapters, “Aphrodite” and “Flood Myths.” We hope that these chapters will give instructors and students the opportunity to explore some of the ways in which ancient Greek and Roman myth is connected to earlier mythology from ancient West Asia.

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NSCC EDITION

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Communication Skills is designed to guide college students in developing the vital communication skills that are necessary to succeed in the modern workplace. It is written in the reader-friendly style of a professional email between colleagues.

Word Count: 147987

ISBN: 978-0-9699813-5-0

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NSCC COMM 2215

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Adapted for use at NSCC. Communication @ Work is designed to guide college students in developing the vital communication skills that are necessary to succeed in the modern workplace.

Word Count: 40310

ISBN: 978-0-9699813-4-3

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NSCC EDITION

Short Description:
Adapted for use at NSCC. A reference guide for using Pressbooks at NSCC adapted from the BC Campus openly licenced Pressbooks Guide. The Guide does not replicate information provided by the Pressbooks Userguide published by Pressbooks.com. Instead, in parts and chapters laid out to mimic the steps an author might take to create or modify an open textbook in Pressbooks, it redirects readers to pertinent chapters in the Pressbooks Userguide, supplements it with additional information.

Long Description:
A reference guide for using Pressbooks at NSCC adapted from the BC Campus openly licenced Pressbooks Guide.

The Guide does not replicate information provided by the Pressbooks Userguide published by Pressbooks.com. Instead, in parts and chapters laid out to mimic the steps an author might take to create or modify an open textbook in Pressbooks, it redirects readers to pertinent chapters in the Pressbooks Userguide, supplements it with additional information, and includes instructions specific to NSCC.

Each section of this guide begins with a list of topics covered in its chapters. Key terms, specific to Pressbooks and its features, are set in bold and defined in the text body as well as summarized in the Glossary. Links to chapters in other guides and toolkits are also included to complement the Pressbooks material.

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Short Description:
This resource combines some of the best available open access content for introductory courses in business communication and supplements this content with new material on personal and social identity; rhetorical listening; inclusive language; storytelling; and territorial Land Acknowledgements. H5P interactive content, the infusion of real world examples, and an engaging layout make this textbook highly readable for this audience.

Long Description:
The book was created by Linda MacDonald from material from Business Communication for Success [Author removed at request of original publisher]; Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers by Mike Caulfield; Business Presentation Skills by Lucinda Atwood and Christian Westin; Professional Communications by Jordan Smith, Melissa Ashman, eCampusOntario, Brian Dunphy, Andrew Stracuzzi; and APA Style Citation Tutorial by Sarah Adams and Debbie Feisst. This material is supplemented with new material on personal and social identity; rhetorical listening; inclusive language; storytelling; and territorial Land Acknowledgments. The principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion are woven throughout the textbook. Interactive H5P content enhances the student experience.

This version has been adapted at NSCC for Professional Selling courses.

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ISBN: 978-1-990641-65-7

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ISBN: 978-1-942341-49-9

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Return to milneopentextbooks.org to download PDF and other versions of this textNewParaBonczek Evory approaches the act of writing poetry from a practitioner’s perspective and as an act of play. The text provides strategies and detailed practices that nurture and maintain creative states necessary for all stages of writing.

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Bonczek Evory approaches the act of writing poetry from a practitioner’s perspective and as an act of play. The text provides strategies and detailed practices that nurture and maintain creative states necessary for all stages of writing.

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ISBN: 978-1-942341-49-9

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This course addresses the place of contemporary queer identities in French discourse and discusses the new generation of queer authors and their principal concerns. Class discussions and readings will introduce students to the main classical references of queer subcultures, from Proust and Vivien to Hocquenghem and Wittig. Throughout the course, students will examines current debates on post-colonial and globalized queer identities through essays, songs, movies, and novels. Authors covered include Didier Eribon, Anne Garréta, Abdellah Taïa, Anne Scott, and Nina Bouraoui. This class is taught in French.

The Steve-O Stories

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Shortly after his 51st birthday, Steve Andrews was diagnosed with cancer. Stage 4. No One Fights Alone: The Steve-O Stories is the story of Steve's battle against the disease. And, mostly, it is the story of his exceptional character and love of life, family, friends, and God that gave him the strength, courage, and grace to live an amazing life, all the way to the end.

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This course addresses the philosophical question of what a non-violent life entails. It investigates its ethical dimensions and challenges, and considers whether we can derive a comprehensive moral theory from the principle of non-violence. In addition, it discusses the issues of lying, the duty to forgive, non-violent communication, the ethics of our relationship to anger, the possibility of loving enemies, and the ethics of punishment and rehabilitation. Readings are included from primary exponents of non-violence, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, and King.
This course is part of the Experimental Study Group at MIT.