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Decorating the Performative Body in Tender Is the Night
Get PDFIn Tender Is the Night (1934), Fitzgerald uses clothing and fashion to heighten the sense of time period as well as to enhance the ways in which the world, on both sides of the Atlantic, was changing. However, changes on the surface frequently do not reveal a change in underlying motivations for dress. In Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald uses clothing in symbolic ways that allow characters to perform roles to achieve their goals. Through the ways bodies are shaped in the novel, Fitzgerald reveals that clothing, shopping, and perfectly bronzed skin have the power to make great economic statements about oneself. Additionally, clothing in Tender Is the Night demonstrates ways in which traditional gender roles and stereotypes were changing during the modernist era. Though many things had changed during the 1920s, characters continued to use their bodies as blank tablets upon which to write, enacting powerful and purposeful performances that always have rhetorical ends. Fitzgerald’s use of clothing in Tender Is the Night reflects the way that clothing, particularly for those abroad, had the power to demonstrate societal changes in gender roles as well as social class
A “Defect of Justice”: Congregationalism, the Calvinist Problem, and the Unitarian Solution in Sylvester Judd\u27s Margaret
Get PDFThis article contributes to a small body of criticism concerning Sylvester Judd’s 1845 novel Margaret. Largely described as a “Transcendentalist” novel that critiques the Calvinist theology prevalent in late-eighteenth-early-nineteenth century New England village society, I argue for an interpretation of the novel that is concerned the interaction between Calvinism and the Congregationalist model of social and religious organization over time. Rather than just exposing the negative social ramifications Calvinist doctrines like total depravity can have on New England society, I assert that the novel exposes the limitations in Puritan Congregationalist ideals espoused by early figures such as John Winthrop through the example of Livingston. The new Unitarian-congregationalist model Livingston adopts in discarding Calvinism suggests Judd’s resolute faith in Winthrop’s original Congregationalist mission. Judd does not imagine a radical Utopia, but instead offers a more pragmatic reform that is fundamentally Unitarian in its emphasis on humanity\u27s essential goodness and limitless capacity for moral improvement
Feasibility of Geothermal Energy Piles in New Orleans Alluvial Soils
Get PDFGeothermal energy piles offer the benefits of modifying existing construction practices to reduce costs associated with heating and cooling. A major obstacle today in effective utilization of these systems is a general lack of site-specific data on the thermal properties of subsoils. To maximize the potential efficiency of these systems, engineers require an understanding of the potential impact of this technology on existing foundation design methodology as well as a means for quantifying potential heat transfer through soil by determination of the soil’s thermal conductivity. This study examines the feasibility of energy piles with a focus on alluvial soils found in the New Orleans and Lower Mississippi River valley areas by evaluating available empirical means for estimating thermal conductivity coupled with a field and laboratory investigation. These values for thermal conductivity were then compared with values in other studies performed on the efficiency of systems in other cooling dominated climates
Wetland to Wasteland, Plantation to Plant: The Visual Legacy of Plantations in the South Louisiana Landscape of Environmental Justice
No full textThe Southeast Louisiana landscape sits at the intersection of a number of environmental and humanitarian crises. Violence against man and land endemic to the Plantation Era development of the Lower Mississippi laid the foundation for modern issues of coastal land loss, habitat destruction, pollution, environmental racism, and displacement. Land-use patterns of the Plantation economy made the region optimal for petrochemical processing, turning wetland to wasteland, and plantation to plant. The exhibit Climates of Inequality: Standing Up On River Road uses photography, cinematography, 360-video, and soundscapes to explore the dialogic relationship between fragile natural spaces in southern Louisiana and the historically disenfranchised communities affected by the growth of the petrochemical industry. Tracing the development of the visuals for the exhibit from the lead photographer’s perspective, this paper argues that place-based storytelling and public history research are as vital to the legislative and concrete advancement of environmental justice agendas as scientific research
PhishPrint: A Novel Framework for Scalable Evaluation of Web Security Crawlers and Mining of Unknown Cloaking Vectors
Get PDFWe built a novel scalable, low-cost, and generic platform named PhishPrint to enable the evaluation of Web Security Crawlers (WSCs) against previously unknown cloaking weaknesses. PhishPrint completely avoids the use of any simulated phishing sites and blocklisting measurements. We used PhishPrint to evaluate an unprecedented number of WSCs (23) including highly ubiquitous services such as Google Safe Browsing and Microsoft Outlook e-mail scanners. Our 70-day study found several unknown cloaking weaknesses with which we constructed 5 effective cloaking attack vectors (including 4 novel ones). In particular, it was shown that the entire WSC ecosystem is extremely vulnerable to a novel browser fingerprinting-based cloaking attack. We confirmed the practical impact of our findings by deploying 20 evasive phishing web pages that embedded the 5 cloaking vectors. 18 of the pages managed to survive indefinitely despite aggressive self-reporting of the pages to all WSCs. We confirmed the specificity of these attack vectors with 1150 volunteers as well as 400K web users. We also discuss countermeasures that all WSCs should take up in terms of both their crawler infrastructure as well as reporting infrastructure. We have relayed the found cloaking weaknesses to the 23 WSCs through an elaborate vulnerability disclosure process that resulted in some remedial actions as well as multiple vulnerability rewards
