666 research outputs found
Hugh MacPherson Visits Bradenton
No full textScottish author, businessman, and politician, Hugh MacPherson, visits Bradenton. In this image, MacPherson and his wife meet with Bradenton Police Department Chief Harry Wilkison, Councilman Raymond Turner, and Mayor A. Sterling Hall
How appropriate is it to characterise Western universities as institutionally racist?
No full textThe Macpherson Report in 1999 claimed that public organisations, including universities, were characterised by institutional racism. This paper critically examines the concept of institutional racism before using it as a sensitising concept to investigate ethnographically in one university in the UK over a ten-year period. While I was initially sceptical of the analytical utility of the concept of institutional racism, since it seemed to gloss over important conceptual distinctions, the concept ultimately proved revealing in accounting for significant continuities in the approach of universities, including Midshire, to race equality. Throughout the period under discussion, there was a reluctance to identify race equality as a priority and to take corresponding action because of what has been called "the sheer weight of whiteness" (Back 2004, 1). A comparison of Midshire University with Midshire Police reinforced this perception. While it identified contrasts in the occupational cultures of the two organisations, at the same time it pointed to surprising parallels in their approaches to race equality, which stemmed from a taken for granted white norm. Despite this, the concept of institutional racism as defined in the Macpherson report and employed in the Parekhh report fails to capture significant differences between public organisations and changes over time. The author concludes that universities are not appropriately characterised as institutionally racist and are more appropriately conceptualised as pervaded by a white nor
Regions: Dead and buried or hope for resurrection?
No full textTo commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Health Service, Gordon Macpherson has brought together this collection of chapters by distinguished figures in medicine and politics. Each author describes an aspect of the history of the NHS from his or her own perspective, and colours it with personal anecdotes. This collection celebrates the past, examines the present and points the way to the future
Intrinsic or extrinsic population growth in Iron Age northeast Thailand? The evidence from isotopic analysis
No full textHere we present strontium, carbon and oxygen isotope measurements from the tooth enamel of 34 adults from Noen U-Loke, an Iron Age site (c. 300BC–500AD) in the Upper Mun River Valley (UMRV), northeast Thailand. The Mun Valley is rich in archaeological sites from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, with evidence for changes in social complexity, new technologies and population growth. Whether the population growth in the UMRV was intrinsic, as opposed to extrinsically due to immigration, is an unresolved question. Our results suggest low levels of long-distance immigration, with only three (two females, one male) of the thirty-four individuals as probable immigrants from outside the region. We discuss the implications of this result as a contribution to longer-term investigations of population growth, human mobility and fertility during this prehistoric period of substantial societal changes in mainland Southeast Asia
The Highlander
No full textThis thesis explores James Macpherson’s The Highlander (1758) in relation to originality, Scottish identity and historiography. It also situates the Ossianic Collections in the context of Macpherson’s earlier poetical and later historical works. There are three parts to it: a biographical sketch of Macpherson’s early life, the annotated edition of The Highlander, and discursive commentary chapters. By examining The Highlander in detail this thesis questions the emphasis of other Macpherson criticism on the Ossianic Collections, and allows us to see him as a writer who is historically minded, very aware of sources, well versed in established forms of poetry and thoroughly, and positively, British. The Highlander stands out among the corpus of his works not because it can give us insights into the Ossianic Collections, which is its usual function in Macpherson criticism, but because it can help us understand what it is that connects Macpherson’s earlier and later works with the Ossianic Collections: history, Britishness, tradition.
Macpherson’s poetical works are united by a desire to translate Scotland’s factual past into sentimental British poetry. In the Ossianic Collections he does so without particular faithfulness to his sources, but in The Highlander he converts historical sources directly into neo-classic verse. This is where Macpherson’s originality lies: his ability to adapt history. In different styles and genres, and based on different sources, Macpherson’s works are early examples of Scotland’s great literary achievement: historical fiction. Instead of accusing him of forgery or trying to trace his knowledge of Gaelic ballads, this thesis presents Macpherson as a genuine historian who happened to write in a variety of genres
The Chow Motives of Relative Fulton-Macpherson Space
No full textSuppose that is a complex nonsingular projective variety and is a smooth divisor. Compactifications of configuration spaces of distinct and non-distinct points in away from were constructed by the author and B. Kim in "A generalization of Fulton-MacPherson configuration spaces" by using the method of wonderful compactification. In this paper, we give explicit presentations of Chow motives and Chow groups of these configuration spaces
Talk, narrative, and social interaction in a Cape Breton general store
No full textA portrait of a rural community and the attitudes and values held by the people of this community is documented through this study of talk, narrative and social interaction. The focus of this thesis is MacPherson's general store, located in Margaree Valley, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The contents include the history of the store and its merchants, the physical environment, and the socializing patterns which occur within it. The purpose of this study is to document the tradition of storytelling in Margaree Valley, to describe the context in which the storytelling takes place and to highlight the patterns of social behaviour associated with the art of communication. -- As a native of the community and a member of the MacPherson family, the author provides an insider's perspective on talk, narrative and socializing patterns in Margaree Valley. Fieldwork was conducted from January to April, 1982. During this time period, the author was involved in participant-observation fieldwork in the general store. Additional field notes were collected in 1978 and from May 1982 until June 1985. A total of seventeen formal interviews were also conducted. -- The documented research indicates that the tradition of storytelling in Margaree Valley is changing but not dying. Narrative performances, once more common, have given way to more subtle narratives which are now imbedded in the routine daily conversations. MacPherson's general store is the focal point in the community from which one can observe patterns of socialization. It is an integral component of everyday socialization for members of Margaree Valley. As this environment has changed, so have the patterns of sociability. Observations indicate that storytelling is both versatile and flexible. It continues to adapt and adjust to changes in the environment in order to survive. The significance of the store's role to the community, and its relation to the author, have enabled her to present an intimate ethnographic study of socializing patterns in this Cape Breton community. The contents are pertinent to anyone interested in the history of general stores, the function of general stores in a rural environment or the socializing patterns that have evolved within this setting.Bibliography: leaves 284-296
The poetical works of James Macpherson, esq., with the life of the author.
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Feature article on the author\u27s search for romance on America Online, a computer
No full textFeature article on the author\u27s search for romance on America Online, a computer online service. The author, a gay man, started his investigation on AOL romances by deciding to try and meet three men in the Portland area. He says that plenty of gay men in Greater Portland use AOL to meet other men. Details
Polybaric melting of a single mantle source during the Neogene Siverek phase of the Karacada? Volcanic Complex, SE Turkey
No full textSiverek plateau basalts represent the Neogene activity of the Karacada? Volcanic Complex in southeast Turkey and can be divided into two groups based on incompatible element concentrations. Group 1 is largely basaltic, containing some alkali basalts, while Group 2 consists of alkali basalts, trachybasalts and tephrites. The lavas display a range in major element concentrations that are consistent with restricted amounts of differentiation in the crust. Melts from both groups have experienced variable, small amounts of interaction with crustal rocks, which is responsible for most of the isotopic heterogeneity and caused significant Ba-enrichment. Neither fractional crystallisation nor crustal contamination can account for the differences in trace element enrichment observed between the two groups. Group 1 is derived mainly from the spinel lherzolite field by > 1% partial melting. Group 2 lavas were derived from very similar mantle but by smaller degrees of melting and contain a larger relative contribution from garnet-lherzolite. The Siverek plateau lavas are indistinguishable from contemporaneous magmatism in the Karasu Valley of southern Turkey and in northernmost Syria. Together, these plateau basalt fields represent mantle upwelling and melting beneath the thinned and/or weakened Arabian Plate as it migrated northwards during the Neogene. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.107Y025Taner Ekici acknowledges financial support from TUBITAK (Project No. 107Y025 ) to conduct fieldwork and analytical work. Mehmet Ülkü of MTA Diyarbakır supported fieldwork in SE Turkey. Discussion with Gillian Foulger was valuable in refining a number of concepts discussed. Kurt Knesel and an anonymous reviewer provided very constructive and helpful reviews. Colin Macpherson is grateful to Durham University for a period of research leave. Appendix AEkici, T.; Department of Geological Engineering, University of Cumhuriyet, 58140, Sivas, Turkey; email: [email protected]
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