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No full textDr. John Keller, a Harding student in 1979, snuck over on the day the concrete was poured over the time capsule to carve his initial in the still wet concrete. Here he is pointing out the K he engraved all those years ago.https://scholarworks.harding.edu/timecapsule1979images/1007/thumbnail.jp
Artist Spotlight: B.B. King
No full textAudio documentary titled “Artist Spotlight: B.B. King,” written, produced, and narrated by Dutch Hoggatt for broadcast on KVHU 95.3. The documentary examines the life and music of American blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer B.B. King. King was born Riley B. King in Mississippi in 1925. He died in 2015 at age 89 in Las Vegas. King is considered one of the greatest electric guitarists of the 20th Century and earned the nickname “The King of the Blues.” King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987
Modeling Vibration Stiffness: An Analytical Extension of Hertzian Theory for Angular Contact Bearings with a Thin Viscoelastic Coating
Get PDFThis thesis considers the novel angular contact rolling-element bearings proposed by NASA’s Glenn Research Center, which are coated with a thin solid lubricant that exhibits viscoelastic behavior. Current analytical models for the dynamic stiffness matrix of angular contact bearings, critical for vibration analysis, lack the ability to model the effects of a solid coating, as well as the time dependencies inherent in viscoelastic theory. The author first presents an overview of the stiffness matrix derivation, followed by a treatment of the underlying Hertzian contact theory. An analytical extension of this theory is proposed which accounts for a thin elastic layer within the contact model, used to formulate a stiffness matrix for angular contact bearings with a thin elastic coating. Finally, the elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle is applied to yield the proposed model for the dynamic stiffness matrix in the Laplace or frequency domain for angular contact bearings with a thin viscoelastic coating. The analytical model captures the general case and allows the input of custom bearing parameters and coating relaxation function determined by Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) techniques. The Prony Series relaxation model is briefly discussed as one such function. Predictions of the proposed model can be compared to vibration spectra of physical bearings to assess the model’s validity and potential for commercial application, particularly in aerospace contexts
Little Cricket on the Hearth: The Quiet Feminism of _Little Women_
Get PDFSince the advent of the cult of domesticity, the stakes for female characters in domestic literature have been notoriously high. There was no room for flaws, rebellious decisions, and certainly no room for mistakes—whether of the woman’s own accord, or simply as collateral damage of a male character’s immorality. In this shallowly Calvinist domain, women were never more than one broken guardrail away from social ruin or death. In writing Little Women, Louisa May Alcott breaks these molds through unflinching kindness to her female characters from childhood to adulthood, even unto death. Alcott achieves this quietly feminist feat by allowing women to learn and grow through emotions and mistakes that in a different novel may have been dehumanizing; providing them the agency to choose whether to work inside or outside of the home, with equal dignity given to either choice; and providing female characters the agency to choose their life partners and the ability to enjoy egalitarian marriages. Alcott also provides a female authority figure in religion who is both wise and lovingly maternal; and the humanity for her female characters to live and die as regular people, rather than angels or whores.
Little Women has been studied extensively for how it approaches Protestant domestic values, egalitarianism in marriage, the reality of female anger and anxiety, and its complicated sisterly relationships in the midst of other noted domestic works of the same time period. The novel has been both praised and critiqued for how it handles all of these subjects. This thesis seeks to broaden focus and celebrate Little Women as a revolutionary and positive landmark in the history of the genre and depiction of female characters
Harding Magazine Fall 2024 (vol. 33, no. 2)
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Harding Magazine Spring 2024 (vol. 32, no. 1)
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Holding Fast to Community
No full textThis presentation was a session from the 2024 Bloom Conference held by the Center for Ministry at Harding University