Pub Date : 2015-11-01DOI: 10.18357/AR.BURGART.612015
Taryn Burgar
leur impact sur les croyances collectives face a l’histoire devient une vraie necessite. Marie Antoinette est une personnalite historique qui nous captive encore, plus de 200 ans apres son deces. Le debat au sujet de son innocence ou sa culpabilite comme reine de France reste encore present et pertinent dans le domaine historique et dans la culture populaire ; l’intersection entre ces deux perspectives devrait etre etudiee de plus pres. Ce projet de recherche examine huit films qui representent egalement les films francophones et anglophones. Il demontre que les films se rapprochent de la pensee actuelle des historiens voulant que Marie Antoinette fut plutot une victime des circonstances, mais que plusieurs mythes au sujet de sa vie privee persistent dans les films : la societe occidentale n’est toujours pas prete a relâcher sa critique d’elle. Des variations culturelles sont pourtant apparentes dans plusieurs films. Les films anglophones se delectent de l’aspect visuel de Versailles et insistent plus sur l’innocence de la reine, tandis que les films francophones ont tendance a se concentrer sur l’aspect historique et ne se distancient pas entierement de l’idee de sa culpabilite.
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Pub Date : 2015-11-01DOI: 10.18357/AR.WEISGERBERJ.612015
J. Weisgerber
This exploratory study investigated the role of dynamic assessment (DA) in improving the oral proficiency skills of English-as-an-additional-language learners. It focused specifically on speaking test scores and the use of language learner strategies, with the goal of providing empirical evidence as well as pedagogical recommendations. Seven participants were administered a section of the IELTSTM Speaking test in both dynamic and standardized formats. Each test was followed by a think-aloud protocol in order to ascertain participants’ thoughts and strategic behaviours during the testing process. In terms of test scores, results showed no holistic differences, but did show differences in fluency, grammatical range, and lexical resource scores. Scores for grammatical range and lexical resource were higher in DA, while scores for fluency were higher in standardized assessment. An analysis of the participants’ strategic behaviours also showed a greater use of cognitive and metacognitive strategy use in DA. These results point to DA’s potential to facilitate the development of grammatical and lexical abilities as well as to foster the use of language learner strategies within the sample.
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Pub Date : 2015-11-01DOI: 10.18357/AR.KONNELLYA.612015
Alexah Konnelly
Twitter is increasingly recognized for having transformative potential for group advocacy. It also acts as a forum for spreading awareness and information on social justice (or activist) movements, as well as for dialogue between users on a given social justice subject. This study examines what motivates the use of hashtags in the activist context, and how this usage connects to broader discourses and ideologies. Drawing on a corpus of two prolific activist hashtags – #YesAllWomen and #HeForShe – I employ a range of methodologies and frameworks to tease apart issues of use, affiliation, and context. I operationalize Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), an analytical approach concerned with linguistic choices and how language is structured to achieve socio-cultural meanings, to analyze the engagement, meanings, and functions manifest in the dataset. The quantitative results are interpreted within the framework of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. I argue that hashtags are both linguistic and social facilitative devices, employed by users to assert their collective identity and political affiliation.
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Pub Date : 2015-11-01DOI: 10.18357/AR.BAHANS.612015
S. Bahan
As of 2011, those who identify as non-religious represented a portion of Canada’s population 2.5 times larger than the combined total of those reporting as Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Sikh, and Hindu, with no indication that the rate of growth for this population is subsiding. Despite this growing population, religiously unaffiliated spiritual millennials are going undetected in the academic literature, and there is confusion between contemporary understandings of spirituality and religiousness for both researchers and millennials. Researchers seeking to understand the spiritual lives of millennials have typically assessed the growth of this movement by the number of individuals who identify as “spiritual but not religious,” a phrase which emerged alongside the 1960s New Age movement to describe the so-called ‘spiritual seekers.’ This paper seeks to identify some of the sources of millennial spirituality, such as culture shifts during the 1960s and 70s and the secularization of the Canadian public education system, and to define a new form of spirituality unique to millennials. Alternative approaches to studying this group are proposed, and it is suggested that the phrase “spiritual but not religious” is no longer sufficient for understanding the spirituality of religiously unaffiliated individuals.
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Pub Date : 2015-11-01DOI: 10.18357/AR.FADERB.612015
Brynn Fader
Cet article etudie les references implicites et explicites au Petit Prince qui figurent dans Paul a un travail d’ete de Michel Rabagliati. La difference entre le comportement des enfants et celui des adultes autour d’eux qui suscite le decouragement, de meme que les themes de la transformation grâce a l’amitie et du sens des responsabilites, sont traites en des termes provenant du texte de Saint-Exupery. Les references au theme d’un adolescent qui mature a travers la vie permettent au public de Rabagliati de se retrouver dans sa bande dessinee, car les experiences de Paul resonnent avec celles des lecteurs.
本文研究了Michel Rabagliati的《Paul a un travail d’ete》中对小王子的隐式和显式引用。儿童和他们周围的成年人之间的行为差异是令人沮丧的，以及通过友谊和责任感进行转变的主题，都是用圣埃克苏佩里文本中的术语来处理的。对青少年在生活中成熟的主题的引用让Rabagliati的读者在他的漫画中找到了自己，因为保罗的经历与读者产生了共鸣。
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Pub Date : 2015-11-01DOI: 10.18357/AR.STANLEYR.612015
R. Stanley
Population aging is placing extensive pressure on home care programs to provide the necessary services for complex care clients to remain in their homes and avoid institutionalization or hospitalization. Finding innovative and cost-effective ways of meeting the healthcare needs of older adults and the healthcare workers who support them is becoming a pressingly urgent issue. Assistive in-home technologies, such as tools for fall prevention and medication management, have been demonstrated to positively impact health outcomes and the quality of life of autonomous older adults living in the community. This literature review identifies supportive technologies that may improve the home care of complex older adults while reducing caregiver stress through a comprehensive examination of current literature in the field of “gerontechnology.” Past research has demonstrated the adoption of technology for home care support is beneficial in retaining older adult independence while reducing the risk of falls, medication errors, and caregiver stress. The findings of this review highlight how technologies are currently being integrated into home care and how the healthcare system can better include these technologies for home care support in the care of community-dwelling older adults.
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Pub Date : 2015-11-01DOI: 10.18357/AR.LALLOUZR.612015
R. Lallouz
This research investigates how a minority of female secondary school students in a Writing 12 class resisted internalization of gender stories by rewriting and subverting those same stories through the process of journaling. Journal material collected from five female students was analyzed using qualitative narrative analysis of quotes that demonstrate rewritten gender stories. The research examines how female students positioned the self as the storyteller, and by doing so, adopted an active role in reconstructing their narrative identities to include traits of strength and resilience. Journal material collected from three male students—the only consenting male students—revealed an absence of these students directly addressing the concept of gender through writing. The research suggests that for these male students, simply engaging in the project of journaling was a form of resistance against gender stories idealizing an noncompliant, less emotionally active male student and writer.
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Pub Date : 2015-11-01DOI: 10.18357/AR.WOODJ.612015
J. Wood
Whitebark pine, a high alpine tree species, is limited up to 55N despite uncolonized suitable habitat that exists in Northern British Columbia. It is unclear what limits its northward distribution. Whitebark pine is dependent upon a bird species, Clark’s nutcracker, for its seed dispersal, therefore, the bird’s limitations must be examined. As optimal seed caching sites are located in recently burned sites, this paper hypothesizes that the fire regime in northern forests is not conducive for the creation of these sites. Assisted migration projects must focus more attention to long-term regeneration by addressing the needs of Clark’s nutcracker.
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Pub Date : 2014-10-31DOI: 10.18357/AR.BECKERA.512014
A. Becker
Many layers of knowledge are embedded within Indigenous-language place names, including, but not limited to, the physical appearance of the environment, resource procurement, cultural identity, history and place-based stories. In the face of the increasingly prevalent reality that Elders are passing away and taking with them a wealth of knowledge, it is crucial that Indigenous place names and the stories associated with them are documented and passed to younger generations. The Stz’uminus Storied Places Project aims to mobilize place-based knowledge about Stz’uminus traditional territory through a community-based research process, where youth meet with Elders and film their place-based stories, as well as a video-embedded digital map. The interactive digital map, with its ability to embed layers of multi-media, attempts to document and communicate an integrated representation Indigenous perspectives of named places.
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Pub Date : 2014-10-31DOI: 10.18357/AR.TURNERM.512014
M. Turner
This paper recognizes the high rate of Aboriginal youth suicide in Canada and the need for an intervention strategy. According to statistics, the high rate of suicide cannot be applied to all Aboriginal communities. There are areas where youth suicide is nonexistent, thus a blanket assumption, such as all Aboriginal youth are at an elevated risk, only perpetuates stigmatization. The biomedical focus of mainstream health care and colonial perspective of other services often fail to acknowledge the determinants behind youth suicide within Aboriginal communities. The literature reveals that healthy communities, with low rates of youth suicide, share a common identity, practice cultural continuity and are self-determining. In order to facilitate healthy environments for Aboriginal youth, Canadians must go beyond thinking of health in terms of treating symptoms. We must instead examine and address the historical and contemporary constructions of racism and cultural genocide and work toward developing public policy promoting culturally safe processes.
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