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Low life & high jinks: race, ethnicity, and politics in Edward Harrigan's Mulligan Guard plays, 1879-1883
No full textTo understand the nuances, contradictions, and levels of agency in immigrant and African-American working class communities, this thesis examines the musical theater of Edward Harrigan, an American playwright whose plays were novel for their sympathetic portrayals of working-class Irish immigrants. I analyze three of Harrigan’s popular plays in his Mulligan Guard series, the Mulligan Guard Ball, the Mulligan Guard Nominee, and Cordelia’s Aspirations. Due to Harrigan’s emphasis on realism, the plays offer insight into the complex racial and ethnic negotiations and political machinations of the working class in Gilded Age New York. I contend that they illustrate contestations over shared urban space between the Irish, Germans, and African Americans, where they engage in dialectic relationships that swayed from friendship to animosity, from collaboration to rivalry. The plays also illuminate working-class perspectives of Tammany’s political machine. Juxtaposed against middle-brow representations of the machine in political cartoons by Thomas Nast and Joseph Keppler, Harrigan’s works show the machine as an important avenue of social mobility rather than as a threat to American republicanism. Harrigan’s plays show complexity in interethnic relations while offering subtle critiques of Tammany’s excesses and demonstrate the importance of practical politics over ideology for the working class.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Sean Patrick Boyl
Le financement de l'assurance maladie au Royaume-Uni
No full textBoyle Sean, Le Grand Julian. Le financement de l'assurance maladie au Royaume-Uni. In: Revue d'économie financière, n°34, 1995. Le financement de la santé, sous la direction de Cyrille Piatecki. pp. 281-305
PFI in the NHS did not deliver value for money under Labour. It is unlikely to do so in the future under the Conservatives.
No full texthe use of the private finance initiative (PFI) to fund major capital projects in the NHS has been controversial since its inception in 1992. But the Secretary of State’s recent slamming of Labour’s PFI legacy, amidst a raft of reports criticising the PFI process, has re-ignited the debate. Sean Boyle finds that PFI policies in the Health Service lie on shaky ground and that both Conservatives and Labour are to blame for borrowing money at unsustainably high rates
Sean Rubin: Cook Prize 2025, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor and illustrator Sean Rubin gives an acceptance speech for The Iguanodon’s Horn (Clarion/HarperCollins)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1015/thumbnail.jp
Appropriations of Irish drama by modern Korean nationalist theatre : a focus on the influence of Sean O’Casey in a colonial context
No full textMy thesis explores how a translated author on the periphery of the host culture’s
translated repertoire can be at once subversive and innovative on the colonial scene,
using as an example the case of Sean O’Casey in colonial Korea. It explores the
importation of Irish drama in modern Korean theatre during the colonial period and
examines the appropriations of O’Casey’s plays by a central Korean playwright, Yu
Chi-jin, in creating his own plays. Under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth
century, intellectuals perceived the supreme task for the Korean people to be the
recovery of national sovereignty and independence. The modern Korean theatre
movement which rose among Korean intellectuals and dramatists during the colonial
period was to play a major part in this task. The ultimate goal of this movement was
to establish a modern national theatre promoting Korean culture and educating the
people, thereby recovering national independence. As their modernised dramatic
polysystem was still "young", Korean intellectuals and dramatists who were
involved in the theatre movement had to borrow dramatic models from other
countries. One of the models they chose was Irish playwrights, especially those who
were involved in the Irish dramatic movement. They published or staged the works
of W.B. Yeats, Lord Dunsany [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett], Augusta
Gregory, J.M. Synge, St. J. Ervine, T.C. Murray and Sean O'Casey. Although
O'Casey was considered an important dramatist in the Irish dramatic movement, he
was a playwright on the periphery in the list of translated Irish dramatists in Korea
due to the colonisers’ censorship. However, he remained as a subversive and
innovative playwright on the colonial scene by virtue of being appropriated by Yu
Chi-jin who used O’Casey’s plays as models when creating his own works. In
discussing the subject matter of my thesis, I use Even Zohar’s polysystems theory as
a starting point in looking at ideological issues surrounding translation and extend
the discussion to offer a postcolonial perspective. While most translation in a
colonial context was considered as "an expression of the cultural power of the
colonisers," my thesis shifts the focus to translation as an expression of the cultural
power of the colonised. I explore how the colonised uses another colonised culture to
subvert the colonisers’ power
Interview with Canadian teacher and author Dr. Sean Steel
No full textRozhovor Dr. Zuzany Svobodové s kanadským učitelem a publicistou Dr. Seanem Steelem.Interview with Canadian teacher and author Dr. Sean Steel
Symbolic and semantic fear and avoidance generalisation in humans: An examination of boundary conditions and convergence with trait measures
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis was to investigate whether commonly used personality, anxiety and experiential avoidance trait related measures provide any predictive utility in identifying observed levels of Pavlovian conditioning and the symbolic or semantic generalisation of fear and avoidance. A small number of previous studies had already attempted to correlate empirically observed levels of generalised threat and avoidance responding with scores on a number of trait and experiential avoidance questionnaires but had limited success. However, these studies focused on generalisation along perceptual gradients, while this thesis focused more on ecologically valid symbolic and semantic generalisation.
Seven exploratory computer-based experiments are outlined, six of which provided participants with the opportunity to successfully avoid the US and then subsequently generalise either SCRs, US expectancy ratings or instrumental avoidance responses across symbolically or semantically related nonsense or English words. Experiment 1 sought to address the previous omission of trait anxiety and experiential avoidance measures from the symbolic generalisation literature. The paradigm consisted of three phases; equivalence learning, fear and avoidance learning and finally, probes for generalisation. Results indicated that avoidance behaviour and threat-expectancy readily conditioned and then generalised to symbolically related stimuli. However, trait anxiety and experiential avoidance do not predict symbolic generalization of avoidance.
Experiments 2a and 2b returned to the examination of less complex forms of fear and avoidance by comparing the relationship between trait scores and Pavlovian conditioning rates to that between trait measures and semantic
generalisation rates. Specifically, Experiment 2a employed a Pavlovian conditioning method, with only a single phase of avoidance learning, while Experiment 2b included a generalisation probe phase, using real words and their synonyms as cues. Both experiments successfully demonstrated the ease with which avoidance learning and generalisation occurs, as well as identifying a number of tantalising co-relations between the trait questionnaires and the dependent measures.
Experiment 3, 4, 5 and 6, all used the Boyle et al. (2016) paradigm, comprising of 3 phases; fear conditioning, avoidance conditioning and final probes, with a range of procedural modifications to attempt to identify specific effects. Experiment 3 produced successful conditioning of two cues across all phases. Generalisation between the cues was supported by discriminated differences in avoidance responding and US expectancy, but not for arousal response magnitudes. Similar to the previous experiment, the predictive utility of the questionnaires was more pronounced for the conditioned responses than for generalised ones.
In an attempt to address a number of possible confounds, Experiment 4 replaced the single press low-cost avoidance response from Experiment 3, with a higher physical (20x press) cost response. Overall, regardless of participant’s US avoidance success, rates of attempted avoidance (i.e., ≥ 1 key-presses) to the CS+ and CS- during all phases supported the successful conditioning of safety and threat to the cues, which then was shown to semantically generalise. A participant’s success in regularly cancelling the delivery of the US, was also related to their likelihood of attempting avoidance during probe trials. Questionnaire scores were not significantly correlated with either the observed rates of generalisation or individual success in making an avoidance response.
Experiment 5 sought to examine whether the introduction of a novel unrelated probe stimulus, during the final phase, would result in increased mean magnitudes of SCRs and affect levels of generalisation. The interference provided by the novel probe reduced levels of generalisation and negated a number of previously identified correlations between the trait questionnaires and the dependent measures, when results were directly compared to those from Experiment 3. However, Experiment 5 highlighted that there existed a clearly distinguishable cohort of participants who showed robust and reliable generalisation across all of the dependent measures despite any interference.
Experiment 6 sought to discriminate between ‘generalisers’ and ‘non-generalisers’ by adding additional semantic generalisation cues (i.e., antonyms) during generalisation testing and further examine the interfering effect of additional probe stimuli. It was hoped that this group of persistent generalisers would be more likely to be discriminable from the non-generalisers using the questionnaire. Despite significant differences in the avoidance responses and generalising behaviour of both groups, a comparison of trait scores across the two cohorts revealed no significant differences for any of the trait questionnaires examined.
The overall conclusion of this program of research was that while both the semantic and symbolic generalisation phenomenon have been consistently supported, correlations between anxiety, personality or experiential trait measures and the observed behaviour have resisted identification. From the evidence outlined herein, it is clear that while more and less avoidant cohorts of participants exist, they do not appear to be easily identifiable based on trait test scores
Metrical prominence in hidatsa: an acoustic and phonological analysis
No full textVarious researchers have claimed that Hidatsa is a pitch-accent language or a stress-accent language. Park (2012) claimed that Hidatsa is a pitch-accent language and Boyle et.al (2016) claimed that stress does not correlate with pitch (F0) but rather duration, vowel quality and amplitude are all markers for stress. My main goal in this thesis is to use phonetic instrumentation to determine what phonetic properties (F0, amplitude, and duration) are revealed and if they coincide with accent placement in Hidatsa. My findings show that words in isolation incorporate the phonetic properties (F0, amplitude, and duration) of a pitch accent system. These findings can now be a part of the larger scope in Siouan languages such as Crow, a pitch accent language (C. Golston, personal communication, November, 20, 2016.) and Lakota where F0 is a primary marker for stress along with other phonetic properties (Mirzayan, 2010)
Recall this Book 60: Sean Hill on Bodies in Space and Time
No full textElizabeth is joined by Elizabeth Bradfield, poet, naturalist and professor of poetry at Brandeis, in a conversation with the poet Sean Hill, author of Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (2008) and Dangerous Goods (2014). Sean read his Musica Universalis in Fairbanks, (it appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review) and then, like someone seated in an archive turning over the pages of aged and delicate documents, unfolded his ideas about birds, borders, houses and who was here before me
Sean of the South
No full textRecording of the radio show The North Avenue Lounge broadcast May 6, 2019 on WREK Atlanta, 91.1FMShannon speaks with prolific author, storyteller, blogger, and musician, Sean Dietrich, aka Sean of the South. Sean speaks about growing up as an underestimated kid, his early influencers, how community college change his life, and talks about writing process. In the final segments, Sean reads from his daily blog and we sample his podcast performances
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