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James Mellor: English Convert and Handcart Pioneer - A Biography
No full textFor many years the descendants of John and James Mellor -- a large family who have made contributions to the cultural and educational activities of their various communities -- have been desirous of preserving for their posterity, and others, a record of the Mellors. Several years ago Amy Mellor Howe initiated the project by compiling and editing the first Mellor History. The foreword in her book wherein she ...hoped that the information and data herein contained may form the nucleus for further research... served as the incentive to continue the project.
It is planned to incorporate the following biography into one of the section of the book The Mellors Through the Years which this author has consented to compile and edit for the family. In this biography will be presented the highlights in the life of James Mellor: his youth and early married life in England, his sharing in the experiences of the ill-fated handcart pioneers, and his coping with the problems involved in subduing a primitive frontier in settling the Mormon community of Fayette, Sanpete County, Utah.
This study has been based on excerpts from James Mellor\u27s own diary and on the diaries of other members of his family; on old letters, documents, and other unpublished information; on newspaper clippings; on personal interviews, letters which the author has received, and available community, church, and government records. It is hoped that this evaluation will result in an objective biography of James Mellor that is as accurate as available information permits. Some previously published historical information has been inter-woven with the original diary of James Mellor in order to enhance both the interest and the authenticity of this document.
Grateful appreciation is hereby acknowledged for invaluable assistance rendered by Roy Delbert Mellor, president of the Mellor family organization; his wife, Vivian Margaret Anderson Mellor; and to Martha Wintach Bartholomew, Fayette historian, in the compilation of extensive information and illustrations used in writing this thesis. Likewise, the author wishes to express appreciation to numerous other writers whose statements have been cited in this work, and to Ronald B. Jensen, business instructor at Manti high School, for assisting with the enormous task of typing this information. The author also desires to express sincere thanks to Professor J. Lynn Mortensen, members of her graduate committee at Utah State University, for their invaluable suggestions and professional guidance given in the preparation of this thesis
Sentenced to Hard Labor: Vernacular Transformations in the Late Fourteenth Century.
No full textThis project re-characterizes the development of vernacular readership in late fourteenth century England. It offers a fresh heuristic for recognizing vernacular works that ostensibly limit their potential audiences through the use of recondite, Latinate, and otherwise hermetic discourses while, at the same time, making the labored interpretation performed by those readers the center of its textual purpose. It focuses on two poems, William Langland’s Piers Plowman and John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, as examples of texts that are neither open nor easy—on the contrary, they are deliberately difficult. Through them it examines the relationship between vernacular difficulty, laborious reading, and readerly transformation in the context of late medieval devotional culture. Each chapter pairs one aspect of the text with an external, Latinate discourse in order to explore the ways in which the author adapts and re-calibrates it for the purposes of establishing a new form of vernacular reading. The first non-introductory chapter argues that the use of visual allegory in Langland only makes sense if we understand the poem as a transparent and dismissive gesture towards uses of textual images as tools for meditation and thought. The second chapter shows how Langland turns toward an exegetic mode of reading based in Augustinian hermeneutics, a form that relies on a never-ending and continually productive struggle over interpretation and understanding. Turning to Gower, the third chapter discusses the presentation of alchemy in the poem as an idealized form of interpretive labor that is simultaneously offered as a model for reading and rejected as a physical and textual practice. The final chapter examines the problem of producing accurate and effective language through vernacular confessional discourse in the Confessio. Each transmuted discourse contributes to the “hermeneutic narrative,” or the interpretive path readers generate as they work their way through the texts. The dissertation shows that the historical importance of these poems lies in their open commitment to the construction of this hermeneutic narrative, while their critical usefulness lies in their ability to highlight similar questions in other contemporary texts.PhDEnglish Language & LiteratureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64772/1/sbatkie_1.pd
Poets on place: tales and interviews from the road
No full textIncludes index.Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W.T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise with the potential meanings of a seemingly simple concept. This gathering of voices and ideas is illustrated with photo and word portraits from the road and represented with suitable poems. The poets are James Harms, David Citino, Martha Collins, Linda Gregerson, Richard Tillinghast, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Mark Strand, Karen Volkman, Lisa Samuels, Marvin Bell, Michael Dennis Browne, David Allan Evans, David Romtvedt, Sandra Alcosser, Robert Wrigley, Nance Van Winckel, Christopher Howell, Mark Halperin, Jana Harris, Sam Hamill, Barbara Drake, Floyd Skloot, Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, David St. John, Sharon Bryan, Donald Revell, Claudia Keelan, Alberto Rios, Richard Shelton, Jane Miller, William Wenthe, Naomi Shihab Nye, Peter Cooley, Miller Williams, Beth Ann Fennelly, Natasha Trethewey, Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Terrance Hayes, Alan Shapiro, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Henry Taylor, Dave Smith, Nicole Cooley, David Lehman, Lucie Brock-Broido, Michael S. Harper, C.D. Wright, Mark Wunderlich, James Cummins, Frederick Smock, Mark Jarman, Carl Phillips, Scott Cairns, Elizabeth Dodd, Jonathan Holden, Bin Ramke, Kenneth Brewer, and Paisley Rekdal.Wherein We Begin Life on the Road -- James Harms - Morgantown, West Virginia -- Landscape as the Latest Diet (Southern California) / James Harms -- David Citino - Columbus, Ohio -- Through a Glass, Darkly / David Citino -- Martha Collins - Oberlin, Ohio -- Linda Gregerson - Ann Arbor, Michigan -- Richard Tillinghast: Ann Arbor, Michigan -- Wake Me in South Galway / Richard Tillinghast -- Winnie Cooper -- Orlando Ricardo Menes - South Bend, Indiana -- Mark Strand - Chicago, Illinois -- A Morning / Mark Strand -- Karen Volkman - Chicago, Illinois -- Lisa Samuels - Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- Marvin Bell - Iowa City, Iowa -- Port Townsend, Washington, Waterside -- Dust, Corn, and Popcorn People -- Michael Dennis Browne - Minneapolis, Minnesota -- from At the Cabin / Michael Dennis Browne -- David Allan Evans - Brookings, South Dakota -- David Romtvedt - Buffalo, Wyoming -- With Caitlin, Age 8, Building a Qhuinzee for a Winter Night / David Romtvedt -- The West -- Sandra Alcosser - Lolo, Montana -- Mare Frigoris / Sandra Alcosser -- Robert Wrigley - Moscow, Idaho -- Ordinary Magic / Robert Wrigley -- Nance Van Winckel - Liberty Lake, Washington -- Awaiting the Return Ferry / Nance Van Winckel -- Christopher Howell - Spokane, Washington -- Wherein the Author Ruminates on RV Life -- Mark Halperin - Ellensburg, Washington -- Accident / Mark Halperin -- Jana Harris - Sultan, Washington -- Mr. Elija Welch, First Planting / Jana Harris -- Sam Hamill - Port Townsend, Washington -- The Day I Did Winnie Cooper Wrong -- Barbara Drake - Yamhill, Oregon -- from The Man from the Past Visits the Present / Barbara Drake -- Floyd Skloot - Amity, Oregon -- A Warming Trend / Floyd Skloot -- Suddenly in California -- Ralph Angel - South Pasadena, California -- Carol Muske-Dukes - Los Angeles, California -- Twin Cities / Carol Muske-Dukes -- David St. John - Venice, California -- Dijon / David St. John -- Sharon Bryan - San Diego, California -- Death Valley -- Donald Revell & Claudia Keelan - Las Vegas, Nevada -- A Parish in the Bronx / Donald Revell -- Alberto Rios - Chandler, Arizona -- Richard Shelton - Tucson, Arizona -- Local Knowledge / Richard Shelton -- Jane Miller - Tucson, Arizona -- #15 from A Palace of Pearls / Jane Miller -- New Year -- William Wenthe - Lubbock, Texas -- Alien / William Wenthe -- Naomi Shihab Nye - San Antonio, Texas -- Pause / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Peter Cooley - Jefferson, Louisiana -- Miller Williams - Fayetteville, Arkansas -- RV Life 2 -- Beth Ann Fennelly - Oxford, Mississippi -- from The Kudzu Chronicles / Beth Ann Fennelly -- Natasha Trethewey - Decatur, Georgia -- South / Natasha Trethewey -- Denise Duhamel - Hollywood, Florida -- Valentines, Hollywood Beach / Denise Duhamel -- Campbell McGrath - Miami Beach, Florida -- Terrance Hayes - Columbia, South Carolina -- Threshold / Terrance Hayes -- Alan Shapiro - Chapel Hill, North Carolina -- Bower / Alan Shapiro -- Nikki Giovanni - Blacksburg, Virginia -- Charles Wright - Charlottesville, Virginia -- High Country Spring / Charles Wright -- Choosing -- Rita Dove - Charlottesville, Virginia -- The House on Bishop Street / Rita Dove -- Henry Taylor - Bethesda, Maryland -- Harvest / Henry Taylor -- Dave Smith - Baltimore, Maryland -- Gaines Mill Battlefield / Dave Smith -- Nicole Cooley - Glen Ridge, New Jersey -- Unfinished Sketch: Green Sandbox Winter Sky / Nicole Cooley -- David Lehman - New York, New York -- April 9 / David Lehman -- The City So Nice They Named It Twice -- Lucie Brock-Broido - New York, New York -- Michael S. Harper - Providence, Rhode Island -- C. D. Wright - Barrington, Rhode Island -- from The Ozark Odes / C. D. Wright -- Mark Wunderlich - Provincetown, Massachusetts -- Elevation -- James Cummins - Cincinnati, Ohio -- Spring Comes to Hamilton Avenue / James Cummins -- Frederick Smock - Louisville, Kentucky -- Heron / Frederick Smock -- Mark Jarman - Nashville, Tennessee -- Nashville Moon / Mark Jarman -- Carl Phillips - St. Louis, Missouri -- Driveway -- Scott Cairns - Columbia, Missouri -- Mud Trail / Scott Cairns -- Elizabeth Dodd - Manhattan, Kansas -- Sonnet, Almost / Elizabeth Dodd -- Jonathan Holden - Manhattan, Kansas -- Pigs -- Bin Ramke - Denver, Colorado -- Kenneth Brewer - Logan, Utah -- Paisley Rekdal - Salt Lake City, Utah -- Ode / Paisley Rekdal -- Wherein the Author Considers the End -- Gas Gian
Making Confessions: The Confessional Voice Found Among Literary Genres
No full textThis graduate thesis will explore the term confessional and its application to literature. The term confessional varies; confessional writing can take different forms in different genres. In this thesis, works by contemporary authors of personal lyric poetry, memoir, and fiction are discussed and an investigation of confessional writing within their work is undertaken. While not all authors use a direct confessional voice, the overall effect of their writing creates an intimate space between the writer and reader. A sense of self-reflection on the part of the author gives a confessional feel to his or her work.
While the lines of literary conventions separate genres, confessional writing tends to blur those lines by bringing the message of the work to the forefront. A piece of literature said to be of a particular genre is challenged when one discovers a confessional voice, as it weaves itself among genres and changes the face of the genre itself. While the confessional voice may be less pronounced in fiction, when we think we hear it speaking, albeit unconsciously on the part of the writer, the same effect takes place: writer and reader become engaged in a communicative relationship that reveals secrets of the heart.
In exploring personal lyric poetry and memoir of Gregory Orr, personal lyric poetry of Linda Gregerson and Frank Bidart, short stories and essays by Susan Sontag, and finally, the short stories, essays, and letters of Flannery O\u27Connor, confessional writing proves to be ambiguous in meaning and difficult to define; nevertheless, each author uniquely incorporates varying degrees of confessionalism to achieve a sense of intimacy that is not a result of the genre they are working in, but in how they say what they do within the genre they have chosen to write in
Making Confessions: The Confessional Voice Found Among Literary Genres
No full textThis graduate thesis will explore the term "confessional" and its application to literature. The term "confessional" varies; confessional writing can take different forms in different genres. In this thesis, works by contemporary authors of personal lyric poetry, memoir, and fiction are discussed and an investigation of confessional writing within their work is undertaken. While not all authors use a direct confessional voice, the overall effect of their writing creates an intimate space between the writer and reader. A sense of self-reflection on the part of the author gives a confessional feel to his or her work.
While the lines of literary conventions separate genres, confessional writing tends to blur those lines by bringing the message of the work to the forefront. A piece of literature said to be of a particular genre is challenged when one discovers a confessional voice, as it weaves itself among genres and changes the face of the genre itself. While the confessional voice may be less pronounced in fiction, when we think we hear it speaking, albeit unconsciously on the part of the writer, the same effect takes place: writer and reader become engaged in a communicative relationship that reveals secrets of the heart.
In exploring personal lyric poetry and memoir of Gregory Orr, personal lyric poetry of Linda Gregerson and Frank Bidart, short stories and essays by Susan Sontag, and finally, the short stories, essays, and letters of Flannery O'Connor, confessional writing proves to be ambiguous in meaning and difficult to define; nevertheless, each author uniquely incorporates varying degrees of confessionalism to achieve a sense of intimacy that is not a result of the genre they are working in, but in how they say what they do within the genre they have chosen to write in.SUNY BrockportEnglishMaster of Arts (MA)English Master’s These
The effect of stress & fractures on fluid flow in crystalline rocks, Cumbria, UK
No full textIn 3 volumesAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:DXN062926 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
Autoimmune and autoinflammatory mechanisms in uveitis
No full textThe eye, as currently viewed, is neither immunologically ignorant nor sequestered from the systemic environment. The eye utilises distinct immunoregulatory mechanisms to preserve tissue and cellular function in the face of immune-mediated insult; clinically, inflammation following such an insult is termed uveitis. The intra-ocular inflammation in uveitis may be clinically obvious as a result of infection (e.g. toxoplasma, herpes), but in the main infection, if any, remains covert. We now recognise that healthy tissues including the retina have regulatory mechanisms imparted by control of myeloid cells through receptors (e.g. CD200R) and soluble inhibitory factors (e.g. alpha-MSH), regulation of the blood retinal barrier, and active immune surveillance. Once homoeostasis has been disrupted and inflammation ensues, the mechanisms to regulate inflammation, including T cell apoptosis, generation of Treg cells, and myeloid cell suppression in situ, are less successful. Why inflammation becomes persistent remains unknown, but extrapolating from animal models, possibilities include differential trafficking of T cells from the retina, residency of CD8(+) T cells, and alterations of myeloid cell phenotype and function. Translating lessons learned from animal models to humans has been helped by system biology approaches and informatics, which suggest that diseased animals and people share similar changes in T cell phenotypes and monocyte function to date. Together the data infer a possible cryptic infectious drive in uveitis that unlocks and drives persistent autoimmune responses, or promotes further innate immune responses. Thus there may be many mechanisms in common with those observed in autoinflammatory disorders
Drinking and driving : an exploration of the influence of convicted drink drivers' socially constructed ideas on how they came to offend
No full textThis study explored with a group of male drink drivers how the social constructions they held about themselves as drinkers, drivers or drinking drivers and the personal rules they developed to avoid offending contributed to or hindered their offending. Fifty male convicted drink drive offenders, who had attended a rehabilitation course, subsequently were interviewed on the basis of self-recorded drinking of at least 40+ units of alcohol per week. This study seeks to understand the sense people made of the events leading to their offending. The study did not confirm assumptions that drink drive offenders were all heavy consumers of alcohol, problem drinkers, persistent offenders or drivers who regularly drove when drunk. The majority claimed they had not wanted to offend and that they had actively developed personal rules to avoid drinking above the limit and then driving. The factors that led to the breakdown of these rules were explored. This raised questions about the intentions, expectancies and social constructions that constituted these drivers' desire not to offend. The study tried to discern such social constructions and the part they played in bringing about the offence. The study has shown that the person's understanding of his drinking patterns and styles is critical to not offending, as are some constructions that commonly define 'drinking' and 'driving'. In the absence of accurate information about alcohol or the law, people relied on these social constructions, but limited by their personal feelings. There were too many inaccurate factors in their constructions, understandings and behaviour to avoid offending. Public policy, as one shaper of social constructions, is discussed and some findings for future policy suggested
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The isolation and characterisation of MHC-presented peptides from CML-derived cell-lines, with a focus on post-translational modification
No full textPhosphorylation is a key regulator of protein function and activity, and aberrant kinase activity is implicated in a wide range of malignancies, of which the bcr:abl fusion kinase found in chronic myeloid leukaemia is a classic example. As phosphopeptides are known to be presented by both the MHC class-I and class- II pathways, against which specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses may be generated, study of MHC-presented phosphopeptides may reveal unique cancer antigens with direct links to the neoplastic state. Mild acid cell-surface elution is a rapid and effective method for MHC class-I peptide capture, though complicated by contamination with non-MHC peptides and poor downstream compatibility, especially with IMAC, a popular method for phosphopeptide enrichment. As an alternative to the citrate-phosphate elution buffer, a TMA-formate elution buffer is proposed. This was developed for IMAC compatibility, and osmotically balanced and supplemented to minimise cell lysis, (assessed by several assays) and used with a pH 5.5 prewash to reduce non- MHC peptide contamination. MALDI-MS/MS of MHC class-I peptides from K562- A3 cells found a sequence with high homology to a known cancer antigen as the common peak for both citrate-phosphate and TMA-formate eluted cells
