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My name is Daniel Martin,
No full textvoiceand Ralph E. Roberts for
Mary Celestia Parler
Transcribed by James Ward Lee
Collected by James Ward Lee Sung by Albert Harrison
Hindsville, Arkansas
Bohannon Community
August 7, 1958
and Ralph E. Roberts
Reel 244, Item 7
Daniel Martin
My name is Daniel Martin,
I was born in Arkansas;
I left my aged parents,
I left my loving wife;
I was forced to go to Rolla,
It was all to save my life.
I joined in Phelp's regiment,
I'm not ashamed to tell.
The colonel and the officers,
All treated us very well;
They dearly loved the union,
They loved their boys too;
And for to make us happy,
They tried what they could do.
We met them at Cross Hollow,
And there we had a fight.
We killed old Ben McCollough,
Likewise old McIntosh;
We shot old Sterling through the arm,
We sent them in a rush;
There was a young leiutenant,
Whose name was Charlie Moss;
And on a bed of sickness,
Charlie was always nigh.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
No full textFrom before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned—and renounced—as one of the United States’ most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation’s liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson’s political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letters and the detached sage of individualism. In the 1990s, scholars rediscovered Emerson’s antislavery writings and began reviving his legacy as a political activist. A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson is the first collection to evaluate Emerson’s political thought in light of his recently rediscovered political activism.
What were Emerson’s politics? A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson authoritatively answers this question with seminal essays by some of the most prominent thinkers ever to write about Emerson—Stanley Cavell, George Kateb, Judith N. Shklar, and Wilson Carey McWilliams—as well as many of today’s leading Emerson scholars. With an introduction that effectively destroys the “pernicious myth about Emerson’s apolitical individualism” by editors Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk, this volume reassesses Emerson’s famous theory of self-reliance in light of his antislavery politics, demonstrates the importance of transcendentalism to his politics, and explores the enduring significance of his thought for liberal democracy.
Including a substantial bibliography of work on Emerson’s politics over the last century, A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson is an indispensable resource for students of Emerson, American literature, and American political thought, as well as for those who wrestle with the fundamental challenges of democracy and liberalism.
Alan M. Levine, associate professor of political theory at American University, is the author of Sensual Philosophy: Toleration, Skepticism, and Montaigne’s Politics of the Self.
Daniel S. Malachuk, associate professor of English at Western Illinois University, is the author of Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism.
This volume will quickly become indispensible for anyone writing about Emerson as a political thinker. -- Alex Zakaras, author of Mass Democracy: Mill, Emerson, and the Burdens of Citizenship
An important and timely corrective to the political inheritance of Emerson’s thinking—especially to the long-standing ‘pernicious myth’ of Emerson’s apolitical individualism. This collection demonstrates how Emerson is, and always has been, essential to our understanding and theorizing of American politics. -- David LaRocca, author of On Emerson and editor of Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes
A pathbreaking set of essays on the politics of Emerson. . . . Highly recommended. -- Choice
Makes a compelling case for reassessing Emerson\u27s political thought. -- Colloquyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1072/thumbnail.jp
The Book of Daniel and manticism: a critical assessment of the view that the Book of Daniel derives from a mantic tradition
No full textThis dissertation examines the consensus view that is based on Hans-Peter
Müller's 1969 and 1972 articles: Daniel was a mantic wise man in the Mesopotamian
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court, and this was the self-understanding or aspiration of the maskilim of Dan 11:33, 35,
12:3, 10, who wrote the book. Chapter 1 reviews the arguments that make the mantic connection and Chapter 2 concludes that a direct connection with the Danes of Aqht, Ezek, and Jub, and with the angel in 1 Enoch should be rejected. There is evidence that the
tradition of a priest in Ezra 8: 2 and Neh 10: 7, and found also in the superscription to
the Old Greek of Bel, and 4 Ezra 12:10-11, and suggested the name.
Chapter 3 concludes that the portrayal of the court diviners in Dan 1-6 is wholly
negative and includes both the diviners, and the essence of the professions, i. e., the
ability to interpret a divine revelation. The critique is conveyed through the story line,
explicit criticisms, irony, and humour. Chapter 4 concludes that Daniel, the interpreter
of dreams and the writing on the wall, is distinguished from every other character and role. In the final form of Dan, Daniel as the divinely assisted each time he interprets, just as when he receives help from an interpreting angel in Dan 7-12.
Chapter 5 demonstrates that the portrayal of Daniel as the divinely assisted
interpreter makes sense of the reinterpretation of old prophecies against the Assyrians
as prophecies against Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Hab 2:2-4 and Isa 52-53 were also
understood as predictions about the maskilim themselves. Comparisons are then made
with the Teacher of Righteousness, the writers of the Hodayot, and with three Essenes
portrayed by Josephus. These too were portrayed as divinely assisted interpreters
Privatization of natural monopoly public enterprises : the regulation issue
No full textMany developing countries are considering the privatization of public enterprise natural monopolies. Such as monopolies in charge of electricity, natural gas, waterand sewer, and telephone service. The author tries to answer two questions: (i) how great would the efficiency losses be, if any, if a public natural monopoly were privatized and allowed to function as an unregulated entity? and (ii) how much could performance be expected to improve if the privatized natural monopoly operated as a regular firm? The author argues that the deadweight losses from monopoly pricing by unregulated privatized natural monopolies are likely to be modest and may well be outweighed by improvements in technical efficiency. He also argues that regulation is not costless and may well foster static and dynamic efficiency losses greater than the deadweight monopoly losses it is intended to prevent. Also, the reduction of allocative inefficiency is only one of several objectives of regulation. If the case for regulation on efficiency is weak, then much greater attention must be paid to how these other objectives can best be achieved. Historically, achieving distributional equity has been an important objective of regulation. We have very little systematic knowledge about the actual distributional consequences of privatization and deregulation, so more research is needed.Administrative&Regulatory Law,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access
Re-constructing Black manhood: An exploration of Black masculine performance in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Daniel Black’s Perfect Peace, and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout
No full textContemporarily, black narratives directly engage debates about racialized manhood in American society, but they also respond to earlier literary depictions of black manhood by writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin. The effects the aforementioned literary giants had on literature can still be felt today. With their novels, they each broke ground with their depiction of the black male. By signifying on their literary antecedents, contemporary writers are attempting the same by illustrating how black manhood has been defined and redefined within a broader black literary tradition. Addressing the constellation of issues plaguing black males and their notions of identity, it is the aim of this project to elucidate how contemporary black male writers attempt to define and redefine literary representations of black masculine identities in a contemporary moment. Employing Junot Diaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Daniel Black’s Perfect Peace, and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout this dissertation offers a more elastic paradigm for black masculinity and manhood through the perspective of their black male characters
A translation and commentary on Claudius Marius Victor's Alethia 3.1-326
No full textOf all the Biblical epics that survive from antiquity, Claudius Marius Victor’s Alethia, a poem based on Genesis and written in Gaul in the fifth century, is one of the more obscure and difficult. The poem was never part of the medieval curriculum and has attracted little interest until recently. This dissertation focuses on Alethia 3.1-326. In this part of the Alethia, Victor describes life after the Flood. After Noah’s death, the poet inserts a long, extrabiblical digression on the gradual corruption of knowledge, the development of mantic and magic arts, and (with the exception of the Jews), mankind’s descent into idolatry. There follows God’s punishment at Babel and, finally, the Jews’ embrace of idolatry.
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the poem, Chapter 2 marshals the meager biographical evidence of the Alethia’s author; Chapter 3 treats the manuscript and printed editions of the Alethia; Chapter 4 is an excursus on the complicated history of the 16th century editions of Jean de Gagny and Guillaume Morel and includes an analysis of Gagny’s rewriting of the text; and Chapter 5 describes Victor’s poetic style.
Chapter 6 presents the Latin text and apparatus of Alethia 3.1-326. It is based on P.F. Hovingh’s Corpus Christianorum Series Latina edition of 1960. I have only lightly revised it. An English translation of Alethia, 3.1-326 follows. Chapter 7 is a commentary on textual, philological, and exegetical matters.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2017-08-01The student, Daniel Abosso, accepted the attached license on 2015-04-23 at 02:36.The student, Daniel Abosso, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-04-23 at 02:45.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-04-27 at 16:35.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8005 on 2015-09-29 at 15:04:57Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-29T21:02:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Is the debt crisis history? Recent private capital inflows to developing countries
No full textThe outlook for economic development for an important group of middle-income countries has again been buoyed by substantial private capital inflows in the 1990s. As in the 1970s, this development has been met with cautious optimism. It is generally accepted that these countries need resource transfers from the rest of the world to support capital formation and growth. It is also generally accepted that these private capital flows make the allocation of resources more efficient. But there is concern that a rapid reversal of market sentiment could impose considerable adjustment costs on these same economies. The authors try to quantify what many consider to be the main reasons debtor countries have access to capital markets again: (a) Domestic policy reform in the debtor countries. (b) Debt and debt service reduction, usually associated with Brady Plan restructuring. (c) Changes in the external market, such as changes in interest rates in industrial countries. They argue that a useful barometer for access to new loans is the market value of existing sovereign debt. It follows that a quantitative analysis of the factors that caused the market value of sovereign debts to rise rapidly after 1989 would also improve understanding of the forces behind the renewed access to international capital. Empirical historical evidence suggests that fiscal reform, privatization, and debt reduction are useful in explaining relative improvements in the standing of debtor countries in international credit markets. Debtor countries with strong reform programs, in other words, are better prepared to withstand deterioration in the external environment. But the reduction in dollar interest rates since 1989 appears to be the chief factor in the debtor countries'renewed access to international loans. The authors estimate the effect of increases in dollar interest rates and conclude that the typical debtor country remains vulnerable to increases in interest rates that are well within the range of recent experience.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Strategic Debt Management,Financial Intermediation
'A little easy and modern for the times' : a documentary of productions of Ben Jonson's plays by major professional theatre companies in England, 1977-2000
No full textThis thesis is a collation and discussion of productions of Ben Jonson's plays in
England between 1977 and 2000. It focuses on mainstream theatre productions.
Therefore, amateur and Fringe productions, adaptations and productions by
small-scale theatre companies are not included. It contains previously unreleased
material of interviews with theatre practitioners who have been instrumental in
staging the productions covered.
Whilst scholarship has concentrated on recent productions of
Shakespeares, tudies in Jonsonianp erformanceh ave been neglected.W ith the
recent resurgence in popularity of Jonson's texts in the English theatre repertoire,
it is now pertinent to assessth e methodsu sed to staget he work of this
playwright. This thesis focuses only on the staging of texts presented between the
two dates; this does not cover all of Jonson's texts. Contained in two volumes,
Part One raises issues of performance, whilst in Part Two productions are
considered within chapters on each play. An Afterword (in Volume One)
considers the future of production and the action needed to be taken for future
progression in performance and performance studies. The Appendix (in Volume
One) contains detailed venue information. The thesis is intended as a
documented record of productions, in order to stimulate future research into
Jonsonian performance methods. By examining recent productions the failures
and successeso f the contemporaryt heatre's approacht o Jonsonh ave been noted.
This will contribute to an understanding of how Jonson's texts continue to work
on stage. The title of this thesis comes from Bartholomew Fair, a play that
addressesth e need to assimilatet he presentationo f theatre within contemporary
concerns
Part 5: A Colorful Approach to Knot Theory (or: “How Happy I Could Be With Ether”)
No full textRalph Fox’s p-colorings offer the simplest yet effective invariants of knots. This exposition, based on the 2020 Lewis-Parker Lecture delivered by the author, introduces the method of knot coloring as well as some historical background
‘The Churchillian Paradigm and the “Other British Isles”: An Examination of Second World War Remembrance in Man, Orkney, and Jersey’
No full textThis dissertation studies Second World War ‘sites of memory’ in the islands of Jersey, Orkney and the Isle of Man, to determine if each island celebrates the war’s events as Britain does, or if they have charted their own mnemonic course. It builds on the work of Angus Calder, Malcolm Smith, and Mark Connelly, who have explored how popular conception of the Second World War in Britain has been structured around a certain set of commemorative motifs, most of which centre on Winston Churchill and the events of 1940. The British war narrative is now commonly referred to as the ‘Churchillian paradigm’ or ‘finest-hour myth’, and continues to be the driving force in commemoration and memorialization on the British mainland. The three islands in this study are culturally and historically distinct from Britain, and each has strong notions of its own ‘island identity’. Each also possesses a tangential and divisive domestic experience of war, one which is often minimized in the iconography of the Churchillian paradigm. Jersey was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945, Orkney was home to several thousand Italian POWs who built important infrastructure in the island, and the Isle of Man was home to 14,000 German, Finnish, Japanese, and Italian internees in what one critic has called ‘a bespattered page’ in the nation’s history. By examining ‘sites of memory’— museums, heritage sites, commemorations, celebrations, philately, and use of public space—this dissertation shows that each island simultaneously accepts and rejects elements of the finest-hour myth in their collective memory. Each island displays its unique (though often quite negative) heritage in order to differentiate itself from Britain, while at the same time allowing them, at certain events, to participate in celebration of Britain’s ‘greatest victory’. In this way, islands’ use ‘Britishness’ pragmatically, by basking in traditionally ‘British’ commemorative tropes, while at the same time deepening their own cultural and historical sovereignty
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