The authors performed path analysis, followed by a bootstrap procedure, to test the predictions of a model explaining the relationships among students' distal future goals (both extrinsic and ...intrinsic), their adoption of a middle-range subgoal, their perceptions of task instrumentality, and their proximal task-oriented self-regulation strategies. The model was based on
R. B. Miller and S. J. Brickman's (2004)
conceptualization of future-oriented motivation and self-regulation, which draws primarily from social-cognitive and self-determination theories. Participants were 421 college students who completed a questionnaire that included scales measuring the 5 variables of interest. Data supported the model, suggesting that students' distal future goals (intrinsic future goals in particular) may be related to their middle-range college graduation subgoal, to their perceptions of task instrumentality, and to their adoption of proximal task-oriented self-regulation strategies.
Lawrence of Arabia in the Comics Tabachnick, Stephen E
English literature in transition, 1880-1920,
2020, 20200101, Letnik:
63, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
...it shows Lawrence having destroyed one Turkish biplane with a flare gun and destroying a second plane by throwing a knife into its motor. ...the author of this strange and kinky comic fails to ...explain Lawrence's personality development according to any coherent idea or logic, looking instead for every opportunity to graphically portray an invented sexual or sadistic scene however improbable. ...once again, Lawrence's face as represented in this comic is not at all reminiscent of the face of the historical Lawrence. ...the author tries to show how the apparently asexual Lawrence- who in this comic also holds high-minded views about equality between men and women and abhors slavery-becomes progressively less liberal, less virginal, and more sadistic as his role in Arabia deepens. (All the weaponry in this comic, incidentally, seems to be of the World War II or American Civil War but never World War I variety.) Deraa is not mentioned but what follows is obviously an imaginative interpretation of that incident.
Lawrence of Arabia and the Shaws Tabachnick, Stephen E
SHAW Annual: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies,
01/2012, Letnik:
32, Številka:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
We present TeV gamma-ray observations of the Crab Nebula, the standard reference source in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, using data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray ...Observatory. In this analysis we use two independent energy estimation methods that utilize extensive air shower variables such as the core position, shower angle, and shower lateral energy distribution. In contrast, the previously published HAWC energy spectrum roughly estimated the shower energy with only the number of photomultipliers triggered. This new methodology yields a much-improved energy resolution over the previous analysis and extends HAWC's ability to accurately measure gamma-ray energies well beyond 100 TeV. The energy spectrum of the Crab Nebula is well fit to a log-parabola shape with emission up to at least 100 TeV. For the first estimator, a ground parameter that utilizes fits to the lateral distribution function to measure the charge density 40 m from the shower axis, the best-fit values are (TeV cm2 s)−1, , and . For the second estimator, a neural network that uses the charge distribution in annuli around the core and other variables, these values are (TeV cm2 s)−1, , and β = 0.06 0.01 0.02. The first set of uncertainties is statistical; the second set is systematic. Both methods yield compatible results. These measurements are the highest-energy observation of a gamma-ray source to date.
The 2013 graphic novel Watson and Holmes: A Study in Black rewrites Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (1887) as the story of two young Black men solving crimes in modern-day New York City. The ...adaptation challenges traditional Victorian national borders by highlighting the interimperial, white supremacist connections Doyle's works promote between Britain and the United States. Furthermore, it crosses Victorian temporal boundaries by evoking Doyle's racialized theorization of a mind-body hierarchy and the impact of this broader Victorian dogma on contemporary experiences of lived blackness. The formal complexity of comics facilitates Study in Black's restaging and rejection of blackness as abject materiality in the Sherlock Holmes stories and their original illustrations. This self-conscious and densely allusive redrawing of Doyle's novel presses upon readers the burden and insights of Black double consciousness, theorized at the ostensible end of the Victorian period.
Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic novels, and in The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel , Stephen E. Tabachnick takes ...readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore themes of Jewish identity and belief. The creators of Superman (Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster), Batman (Bob Kane and Bill Finger), and the Marvel superheroes (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby), were Jewish, as was the founding editor of Mad magazine (Harvey Kurtzman). They often adapted Jewish folktales (like the Golem) or religious stories (such as the origin of Moses) for their comics, depicting characters wrestling with supernatural people and events. Likewise, some of the most significant graphic novels by Jews or about Jewish subject matter deal with questions of religious belief and Jewish identity. Their characters wrestle with belief—or nonbelief—in God, as well as with their own relationship to the Jews, the historical role of the Jewish people, the politics of Israel, and other issues related to Jewish identity. In The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel , Stephen E. Tabachnick delves into the vivid kaleidoscope of Jewish beliefs and identities, ranging from Orthodox belief to complete atheism, and a spectrum of feelings about identification with other Jews. He explores graphic novels at the highest echelon of the genre by more than thirty artists and writers, among them Harvey Pekar ( American Splendor ), Will Eisner (A Contract with God ), Joann Sfar ( The Rabbi’s Cat ), Miriam Katin ( We Are On Our Own ), Art Spiegelman ( Maus ), J. T. Waldman ( Megillat Esther ), Aline Kominsky Crumb ( Need More Love ), James Sturm ( The Golem’s Mighty Swing ), Leela Corman ( Unterzakhn ), Ari Folman and David Polonsky ( Waltz with Bashir ), David Mairowitz and Robert Crumb’s biography of Kafka, and many more. He also examines the work of a select few non-Jewish artists, such as Robert Crumb and Basil Wolverton, both of whom have created graphic adaptations of parts of the Hebrew Bible. Among the topics he discusses are graphic novel adaptations of the Bible; the Holocaust graphic novel; graphic novels about the Jews in Eastern and Western Europe and Africa, and the American Jewish immigrant experience; graphic novels about the lives of Jewish women; the Israel-centered graphic novel; and the Orthodox graphic novel. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography. No study of Jewish literature and art today can be complete without a survey of the graphic novel, and scholars, students, and graphic novel fans alike will delight in Tabachnick’s guide to this world of thought, sensibility, and artfulness.
Tabachnick examines the similarities and differences between the novels She by Henry Rider Haggard and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. A comparison of the works reveals how a serious artist, ...Conrad, adapted the conventions of popular art to produce a recognized canonical masterpiece and confirms some general conclusions about the nonformulaic versus formulaic use of the Gothic adventure genre. The novels show the differences in its writer's ability, particularly in the form of their narratives. Despite the influence of Haggard's She on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Tabachnick argues that the latter remains by far the greater writer.
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