3,143 research outputs found
High Romantic Argument: Essays for M.H. Abrams
No full textPart 1. Visions of Wordsworth: "The poetics of prophecy" by Geoffrey Hartman (Yale University); "As with the silence of the thought" by Jonathan Wordsworth (Exeter College, Oxford)-- Part 2. The achievement of M.H. Abrams: "History as metaphor: Or, Is M.H. Abrams a mirror, or a lamb, or a fountain, or ...?" by Wayne C. Booth (University of Chicago); "Coleridgean criticism of the work of M.H. Abrams" by Thomas McFarland (Princeton University); "The genie in the lamp: M.H. Abrams and the motives of literary history" by Lawrence Lipking (Northwestern University); "The mirror stage" by Jonathan Culler (Cornell University); "A Reply" by M.H. Abrams (Cornell University); "A Bibliography of M.H. Abrams" by Stuart A. Ende (California Institute of Technology)
A Conversation with Jonathan Culler
No full textDuring his 38 years on the Cornell faculty, Jonathan Culler (successor to M. H. Abrams as Class of 1916 Professor of English) has served as academic administrator as well as teacher and scholar, first as Director of the Society for the Humanities and subsequently as Chair of the English Department, Chair of the Comparative Literature Department, and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His undergraduate teaching has included Freshman Humanities seminars, as well as large lecture courses treating literary texts as more than self-reflective explorations of the act of creating novels and poems. Much of his teaching at all levels has involved his scholarly interest in critical theory, which he has pursued since his pre-Cornell days at Cambridge and Oxford, where he also engaged in a form of academic administration quite different from what he has found at Cornell and other American universities.1_g15jcd0
Operation Dewey Canyon: Search and Destroy in the Age of Abrams
No full textThe United States Marine Corps praises Operation Dewey Canyon, which occurred from 22
January-18 March 1969, as one of their most successful operations during the Vietnam War. This
paper examines the planning of Operation Dewey Canyon and provides a narrative of the action
with emphasis on the use of supporting arms. I use Operation Dewey Canyon as a case study to
comment on historiographical debates about strategy during the Vietnam War. Some historians,
most notably Lewis Sorley, have argued ���a better war��� after the Tet Offensive. Sorley argues
that General Creighton Abrams shifted American strategy from search-and-destroy operations to
pacification-centric operations with limited use of firepower. This study of Operation Dewey
Canyon lends support to the arguments of Gregory Daddis and Andrew Birtle who maintain that
this shift never occurred. I also argue that Operation Dewey Canyon was not as tactically
innovative or successful as claimed by the Marine Corps and historians such as Allan R. Millett.
In order to conduct this study, I examine After-Action reports at the battalion and regimental
level, interviews with officers, the artillery report for Dewey Canyon, and command
chronologies. These sources suggest a continuity of tactics and use of firepower (artillery and
Close Air Support) between the strategies of General William C. Westmoreland and Abrams,
reinforcing Daddis and Birtle���s assertion that the shift in strategy never occurred
Planning for transit system reliability using productive performance and risk assessment
No full textUrban transit system performance may be quantified and assessed using transit capacity and productive capacity for planning, design and operational management. Bunker (4) defines important productive performance measures of an individual transit service and transit line. Transit work (p-km) captures transit task performed over distance. Transit productiveness (p-km/h) captures transit work performed over time. This paper applies productive performance with risk assessment to quantify transit system reliability. Theory is developed to monetize transit segment reliability risk on the basis of demonstration Annual Reliability Event rates by transit facility type, segment productiveness, and unit-event severity. A comparative example of peak hour performance of a transit sub-system containing bus-on-street, busway, and rail components in Brisbane, Australia demonstrates through practical application the importance of valuing reliability. Comparison reveals the highest risk segments to be long, highly productive on street bus segments followed by busway (BRT) segments and then rail segments. A transit reliability risk reduction treatment example demonstrates that benefits can be significant and should be incorporated into project evaluation in addition to those of regular travel time savings, reduced emissions and safety improvements. Reliability can be used to identify high risk components of the transit system and draw comparisons between modes both in planning and operations settings, and value improvement scenarios in a project evaluation setting. The methodology can also be applied to inform daily transit system operational management
Interview with Jonathan Darling, author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022)
No full textThis conversation between Jonathan Darling and Sarah M. Hughes focuses on Darling’s recently published book Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022). Based on research conducted over the course of six years, Systems of Suffering examines the emergence, development, and implications of the dispersal system in the UK. This market-based system of asylum governance is a process that distributes asylum seekers to predominantly urban areas and, Darling argues, represents a form of “distributed violence that is cumulative and incapacitating, and governs through the exhaustion of its critics and subjects” (p. 3). As the conversation unfolds, Darling talks about the implications of the rapidly shifting legal and policy landscape in the UK for the asylum dispersal and the challenges but, he suggests, political urgency of continuing to research it
Jonathan Edwards a life
No full text"Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century." "In this biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George M. Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in which Edwards was reared - a frontier civilization at the center of a conflict between Native Americans, French Catholics, and English Protestants. Drawing on newly available sources, Marsden demonstrates how these cultural and religious battles shaped Edwards' life and thought. Marsden reveals Edwards as a complex thinker and human being who struggled to reconcile his Puritan heritage with the secular, modern world emerging out of the Enlightenment. In this, Edwards' life anticipated the deep contradictions of our American culture."--BOOK JACKET
Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War’s Final Campaign in North Carolina
No full textIn Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War’s Final Campaign in North Carolina, author Earnest A. Dollar focuses...on the war\u27s impact on the soldiers and on the civilians caught between the two armies in a fresh look at...the war\u27s most significant remaining theater after Appomattox writes reviewer Jonathan M. Atkin
Role of plasma temperature and residence time in stagnation plasma synthesis of c-BN nanopowders
No full textThe synthesis of cubic boron nitride (c-BN) nanoparticles is examined experimentally by introducing borane ammonia precursor into a thermal plasma oriented in a stagnation point geometry, where nanoparticles are formed in the flow field upon reaching a cold substrate. The quasi-one dimensional flow field allows for correlating the plasma temperature and residence time to the final particle phase, morphology, size, and purity. Constant temperature and residence time cases are studied to assess the parameter’s affect on the resulting particle characteristics. The as-synthesized nanoparticles are characterized by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and x-ray diffraction (XRD). Cubic structured particles are synthesized at plasma temperatures of 3000-8000K and precursor decomposition times ≥0.030s. The highest purity samples are produced at a plasma temperature and residence time of 6500K and 0.075s, respectively. Samples with lower c-BN content are observed with higher percentages of hexagonal and amorphous phases. The particle morphology shifts from spherical agglomerates to faceted shapes as c-BN purity increases. Also, particle size undergoes an increase in nominal size. The resulting phase and purity is proposed to be governed by growth mechanisms that result in high-energy particle-particle interactions where the energy transferred is sufficient for atomic re-alignment into a denser phase.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jonathan M Doyl
High-mix, low-volume lean manufacturing implementation and lot size optimization at an aerospace OEM
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2003.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-103).by Jonathan M. Rheaume.S.M
Generosity Across the Income and Wealth Distributions
No full textPoliticalEconomy|PublicFinanceDespite widespread interest, there is little systematic evidence on the relationship between income, wealth, and charitable giving. Although the media suggests that the well-off are stingy, the misuse of data, incomplete controls, inappropriate empirical specifications and a lack of accounting for the influence of outliers make these claims questionable. In this paper, PERC��������s Mary Julia and George R. Jordan, Jr. Professor of Public Policy Jonathan Meer and co-author Benjamin A. Priday use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide descriptive statistics on this relationship. The authors find that, irrespective of specification, donative behavior increases with greater resources
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