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The hidden Mickeys of Walt Disney World
\"So what exactly is a Hidden Mickey? Quite simply, it's an artistic representation of Mickey that was intentionally placed amid the architecture and design of the parks and resorts. Oftentimes it's the familiar three-circle shape of his ears and head. Other times it might be a profile of his face or a full-body silhouette. Walt Disney World Guests with keen eyes can tell you that Mickey pops up all over the resort, often in the most unexpected places. With this resortwide scavenger hunt, you'll be guided toward each Hidden Mickey, first with a general hint-if you're up for a challenge-and then with a very specific clue. It's so much search-and-find fun, you might forget about your FastPass reservation for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad!\"--Amazon.com.
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Before Fiction
Fiction has become nearly synonymous with literature itself, as if Homer and Dante and Pynchon were all engaged in the same basic activity. But one difficulty with this view is simply that a literature trafficking in openly invented characters is a quite recent development. Novelists before the nineteenth century ceaselessly asserted that their novels were true stories, and before that, poets routinely took their basic plots and heroes from the past. We have grown accustomed to thinking of the history of literature and the novel as a progression from the ideal to the real. Yet paradoxically, the modern triumph of realism is also the triumph of a literature that has shed all pretense to literalness.Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Noveloffers a new understanding of the early history of the genre in England and France, one in which writers were not slowly discovering a type of fictionality we now take for granted but rather following a distinct set of practices and rationales. Nicholas D. Paige reinterprets Lafayette'sLa Princesse de Clèves, Rousseau'sJulie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, Diderot'sLa Religieuse, and other French texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in light of the period's preoccupation with literal truth. Paige argues that novels like these occupied a place before fiction, a pseudofactual realm that in no way leads to modern realism. The book provides an alternate way of looking at a familiar history, and in its very idiom and methodology charts a new course for how we should study the novel and think about the evolution of cultural forms.
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Simulating fish population responses to elevated CO
Scaling experimentally derived effects of CO₂ on marine fauna to population responses is critical for informing management about potential ecological ramifications of ocean acidification. We used an individual-based model of winter flounder to extrapolate laboratory-derived effects of elevated CO₂ assumed for early life stages of fish to long-term population dynamics. An offspring module with detailed hourly to daily representations of spawning, growth, and mortality that incorporates potential elevated CO₂ effects was linked to an annual time-step parent module. We calibrated the model using a 40 yr Reference simulation (1977–2016) that included gradual warming and then performed ‘Retrospective’ simulations that assumed a suite of elevated CO₂ effects by changing fertilization rate, mortality rate of embryos due to developmental malformations, larval growth rate, and size-at-settlement. ‘Recovery’ simulations that started at low population size were then used to further explore possible interactions between the effects of CO₂ and warming on population productivity. Warming had a major negative effect on the simulated winter flounder population abundance, and reduced larval growth had the largest single impact among the CO₂ effects tested. When a combination of the assumed CO₂ effects was imposed together, average annual recruitment and spawning stock biomass were reduced by half. In the Recovery simulations, inclusion of CO₂ effects amplified the progressive decrease in population productivity with warming. Our analysis is speculative and a first step towards addressing the need for extrapolating from laboratory effects of ocean acidification to broader, ecologically relevant scales.
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Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art
A multifaceted picture of the dynamic concepts of time and temporality is demonstrated in medieval and Renaissance art, as adopted in speculative, ecclesiastical, socio-political, propagandist, moralistic, and poetic contexts. Questions regarding perception of time are investigated through innovative aspects of Renaissance iconography.
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Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture
Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of cosmopolitanism to explore this important aspect of Mexican art, in which visual culture and power relations unite the local and the global, the national and the international, the universal and the particular. She argues that in Mexico, as in other colonized regions, colonization constructed power dynamics and forms of violence that persisted in the independent nation-state. Accordingly, Fernández presents not only the visual qualities of objects, but also the discourses, ideas, desires, and practices that are fundamental to the very existence of visual objects.
Fernández organizes episodes in the history of Mexican art and architecture, ranging from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth century, around the consistent but unacknowledged historical theme of cosmopolitanism, allowing readers to discern relationships among various historical periods and works that are new and yet simultaneously dependent on their predecessors. She uses case studies of art and architecture produced in response to government commissions to demonstrate that established visual forms and meanings in Mexican art reflect and inform desires, expectations, memories, and ways of being in the world-in short, that visual culture and cosmopolitanism are fundamental to processes of subjectification and identity.
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Attachment representations in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia: A projective study through the bird’s nest drawing
Objectives: This study aims to explore the attachment representations of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia through the Bird’s Nest Drawing, a projective technique. It also seeks to compare the findings with those of individuals without a schizophrenia diagnosis to identify potential differences in attachment-related imagery and narrative themes. Methods: A total of 100 participants took part in the study: 50 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and 50 without any psychiatric diagnosis. Each participant was asked to draw a bird’s nest and write a brief narrative about their drawing. Quantitative data were analyzed using chi-square tests. Qualitative analysis was conducted through thematic evaluation of narratives from 15 randomly selected participants from each group. Results: Quantitative analysis showed statistically significant group differences in several aspects of the drawings, including the presence of parent bird and chick/egg, use of appropriately colored figures, frequent use of green, and whether the nest touched a surface. Qualitative analysis revealed that narratives of individuals with schizophrenia included themes of loneliness, mistrust, unmet basic needs, and disconnection from the nest. Conversely, narratives of individuals without schizophrenia reflected familial closeness, caregiving, and emotional security. Conclusions: The results suggest that individuals with schizophrenia project attachment-related difficulties - such as distrust, disconnection, and impaired bonding - more prominently in both their drawings and written narratives. The BND test appears to be a meaningful tool for exploring attachment dynamics at the projective level in clinical populations.
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THE TEMPLE, THE SPIRIT, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE PEOPLE: THEMATIC TRAJECTORIES IN HAGGAI– ZECHARIAH AND EZRA-NEHEMIAH
Spirit, divine presence, prophetic word, temple, rebuilding, Zerubbabel, Joshua, Haggai, Zechariah, postexilic, allusion, wilderness tradition (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) The study of Ezra-Nehemiah has been dominated by two questions. The majority view today is that Ezra-Nehemiah is a single composition that is not part of the Chronicler's work.1 Following paradigmshifting work epitomized in Eskenazi's In an Age of Prose, the focus of study has shifted to the structure and themes of Ezra-Nehemiah.2 However, more attention needs to be given to Ezra-Nehemiah's relationship to the early postexilic prophetic books. Ezra 1:1 reads, \"In the first year of Cyrus, the king of Persia, in order to fulfill YHWH's word from the mouth of Jeremiah, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, the king of Persia, so he issued a proclamation in all his kingdom, and he also [put it] in writing. \"13 This provides a sense of continuity to YHWH's actions from the beginning of the return to the renewal of the building effort under the ministry of Haggai and Zechariah.14 2. May the God who caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who dares to change [this edict] or to destroy this house of God which is in Jerusalem.
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Fleshing out surfaces
Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in terms of the body's substance, of flesh tones and body colour, it became increasingly a matter of skin, skin colour and surfaces. Each chapter is dedicated to a different notion of skin and its colour, from flesh tones via a membrane imbued with nervous energy to hermetic borderline. Looking in particular at works by Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoist and Ingres, the focus is on portraits, as facial skin is a special arena for testing painterly skills and a site where the body and the image become equally expressive.
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