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Commerce and conquest in Tennyson's The Princess and Maud
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92).Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.Alfred Lord Tennyson's propensity to contribute with regularity during the first half of his career to feminized, popular "gift books" gives credence to the question of motivation for such frequent contributions. Certainly a poet of his stature would have found such contributions demeaning, and to a certain extent, Tennyson himself confesses that he did indeed find these publications beneath his stature as an author. However, Tennyson was consumed by and fearful of being poor, and found in these publications a means by which to both expose his name and secure income. This willingness to use publications he clearly disapproved of leads to speculation regarding how much financial issues affected the subject matter and themes of his poetry. In The Princess and Maud, for example, debate regarding content and theme has raged since publication. What has led to this constant speculation is the very obscurity inherent within the poems, allowing each to be interpreted to suit the social and political leanings of the reader. The Princess can be read as a feminist poem protesting an unjust patriarchal social and legal system, or it can be interpreted as a confirmation of those systems, satisfying at once both male and female readers. In Maud, published after his appointment as Poet Laureate, Tennyson seems to be very conscious of his Queen's government's policies during the Crimean War, while he himself, in later commentaries, distances himself from any political stance readers might find in the poem. These vacillations point to conflicting themes in each of the poems, and the question becomes, then, why Tennyson would have deliberately, it seems, created such confusion. His preoccupation during much of his career with poverty, and his fears of failure would seem to give motivation to an obscurity in content and theme so that no readers would find offense and all readers would find confirmation of their own convictions regarding the social and political implications of the poetry's content
ENTREVISTA COM PHILIP SMITH, DIRETOR DO L. M. MONTGOMERY INSTITUTE
No full textThis text aims to present an interview with Dr. Philip Smith, professor of Psychology at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) and chair of the L. M. Montgomery Institute (LMMI). The L. M. Montgomery Institute, located in Charlottetown, Canada, provides a dynamic research center focused on the life and work of the Canadian author L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery). Montgomery is best known for her book Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908 by the L. C. Page Company. She also wrote twenty novels, an autobiography, and hundreds of short stories and poems. The LMMI, founded in 1993 by Dr. Elizabeth Epperly, has been dedicated to promoting research into the life, work, and culture of L. M. Montgomery. This interview results from a training program conducted at the University of Prince Edward Island, with funding provided by the CAPES Foundation (Process n.: 88887.838993/2023-00).
Keywords: L. M. Montgomery. L. M. Montgomery Institute. Philip Smith.Este texto tem por objetivo apresentar uma entrevista com Dr. Philip Smith, professor de Psicologia da Universidade da Ilha do Príncipe Eduardo (UPEI) e diretor do L. M. Montgomery Institute (LMMI), instituto localizado em Charlottetown, no Canadá, que se propõe a apoiar pesquisas relacionadas à vida e obra da autora canadense L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery). Montgomery é reconhecida principalmente pela obra Anne of Green Gables, publicada em 1908, pela editora L. C. Page. Contudo, no decorrer de sua vida, escreveu vinte romances, uma autobiografia, bem como centenas de contos e poemas. O Instituto, fundado em 1993 pela professora Dra. Elizabeth Epperly, tem se dedicado à divulgação, pesquisa e elaboração de congressos bienais a respeito da vida, produção literária e cultural de L. M. Montgomery. Esta entrevista é fruto de uma capacitação realizada na Universidade da Ilha do Príncipe Eduardo, no âmbito do Programa CAPES-PRINT, financiada pela CAPES (Processo nº: 88887.838993/2023-00).
Palavras-chave: L. M. Montgomery; L. M. Montgomery Institute; Philip Smith
What’s in A Warm-Up? A Preliminary Investigation of How European Dressage Riders and Show Jumpers Warm-Up Their Horses for Training and at Competition
No full textIllustrated Medieval Alexander-Books in French Verse
No full textInternational audienceThe core of this book on the French verse Alexander in France and Italy was written by eminent Alexander specialist David J.A. Ross, who left an incomplete typescript at his death. The baton was taken up by an international team of specialists in medieval literature and art history, Maud Pèrez-Simon, author of Les manuscrits du Roman d’Alexandre en prose, and Alison Stones, author of Manuscripts Illuminated in France: Gothic Manuscripts 1260–1320. In its emphasis on illustration, this book complements the volumes of the Alexander Redivivus series and offers new perspectives on the reception of one of the most popular medieval heroes of history and legend. It forms a sequel to Ross’s collected essays and his Illustrated Medieval Alexander-Books in Germany and the Netherlands, to the work of the editors in the field of medieval manuscripts, and to the first volume in the Manuscripta Illuminata series, on the illustrations of Valerius Maximus in French.639 p., 260 colour ill., 10 b/w tables, 216 x 280 m
Correspondence of missionaries in Shantung Province, China, 1926
No full textCorrespondence and reports from missionaries in Shantung Province, China, 1926: 1) North China Kung Li Hui: Report of the General Secretaries to the Council, May 1926 / H.C. Chang, Robert E. Chandler (3 pages); 2) Notes on Staff Meeting, June 3, 1926 (2 pages); 3) Letter dated 7 June 1926 from Mrs. Lyman V. (Muriel) Cady at Tsinan, China, to Mrs. (Minnie Case) Ellis at Lintsing (2 pages); (4) Letter dated 12 June 1926 from B. J. Scoville in Saratoga, California, to Rev. Emery W. Ellis at Tehchow, China (1 page); (5) Letter dated 15 June 1926 from Minnie Case at Techow to friends (2 pages); (6) Letter dated 21 June 1926 from Robert E. Chandler to Emery W. Ellis, with an undated letter (but summer 1926) from Minnie Case begun on its verso and continued on 2 further leaves (6 pages, 5 scans total); (7) Letter dated 1 July 1926 from Helen Chandler at Pei Tai Ho to Mrs. Ellis (9 pages); (8) Letter dated 7 July 1926 from Maud M. McGwigan at Tsingtao to Miss (Edith) Tallmon and Dr. Susan Tallmon Sargent (4 pages); (9) Letter begun 14 July 1926, continued 15 July upon arrival at Pei Tai Ho, addressed to Dr. Francis, unsigned but perhaps by Emery W. Ellis, as author seems to be from Tehchow; (10) Letter dated 24 July 1926 from Maud M. McGwigan at Tsingtao to Mrs. Sargent, enclosing Dr. Cooke\u27s letter describing the storm in Lintsing; (11) "Order of worship, Sunday, July 25, 1926; (12) Williams-Porter Hospitals, report for 1926, by Lois Pendleton (3 p.), with a note from Minnie Ellis asking recipient to send on to the Sargents; (13) Letter begun 28 September 1926 from Edith (Tallmon) Park at Morgan Hill to her sister Clara Jones (8 pages, photocopied); (14) Last page of a typed letter from Myra L. Sawye
Detecting and quantifying bus operation impedance : the balance between reliability and speed
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: S.M. in Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173).This thesis explores the phenomenon of bus impedance, defined as a slowing down of bus operations for customers. Impedance can stem from an overemphasis on reliability to the detriment of speed in bus operations. Public transport agencies aim at achieving the best balance between speed and reliability in their bus operations because such a balance benefits their customers who want to arrive at their destinations quickly and reliably, and potentially reduces the cost of operations. Impedance can result from misaligned interests of stakeholders, for instance if the agency provides financial incentives only for reliability. Impedance manifests itself through held and/or slow buses aimed at regulating the service but slowing it down as a consequence. A data-driven approach investigates the manifestations and the detection of impedance using the London bus network as a case study.Analyses include the assessment of the impact of changes in contract specification, the comparison between bus and Google API traffic speeds, and the use of holding announcements on the bus network. Taking the trip as the unit of analysis, the dwell, travel, and movement times of trips, among others, contribute to understanding the route behavior and detecting times with possible impedance. Models of the total dwell time per trip using the number of passengers and stops made per trip as explanatory variables are proposed, which can be used to estimate the dwell time theoretically needed based on the passenger activity. Building on these analyses, this thesis proposes two indicators to detect impedance at the trip-level in the form of holding.A decision-support tool intended for the bus operations management teams comprises (1) the correlation between the dwell time and the dwell time allowance and (2) the proportion of trips with a high value of the ratio of the actual dwell time to the theoretically needed dwell time for the trip. This tool is designed to extract information about route performance and could be used to supplement the expertise of the bus management teams in making scheduling and operational decisions.by Maud Sindzingre.S.M. in TransportationS.M.inTransportation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Plannin
Reconstructing Ice Sheet Surface Changes in Western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
No full textUnderstanding climate-driven changes in global land-based ice volume is a critical component in our capability to predict how global sea level will rise as a consequence of the current humandriven climate change. At the last glacial maximum (LGM, which peaked around 20 ka), ephemeral ice sheets covered vast regions of the northern hemisphere while both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets were more extensive than at present. As global temperatures rose at the transition into the Holocene, driving the LGM deglaciation, eustatic sea level rose by approximately 125 m. The east Antarctic ice sheet (EAIS) is the largest ice sheet on Earth today, holding an ice volume equivalent to ca. 53 m rise in global sea level. Considering current trends in global climate, specifically rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 levels and global temperature, it is important to improve our understanding of how the EAIS will respond to global warming so that we can make better predictions of future sea level changes to guide community adaptation and planning efforts. Numerical ice sheet models which inform projections of future ice volume changes, and can, therefore, yield projections of sea level rise, rely on empirical data to test their ability to accurately represent former and present ice configurations. However, there is a general lack of data on the paleoglaciology of the EAIS along the western Dronning Maud Land (DML) margin. In order to address this situation, the paleoglaciology of western DML forms the focus of the work presented in this thesis.Together with collaborators within the MAGIC-DML consortium (Mapping, Measuring and Modelling Antarctic Geomorphology and Ice Change in Dronning Maud Land) that provides the funding for this MS project, the author has performed geomorphological mapping across western DML; an area of approximately 200,000 km2 . The results of the mapping presented in this thesis will provide the basis for a detailed glacial reconstruction of the region. The geomorphological mapping was completed almost entirely by remote sensing using very high-resolution (sub-meter in the panchromatic) WordView-2 and WorldView-3 (WV) satellite imagery, combined with ground validation studies during field work. Compared to Landsat products, the improved spatial resolution provided by WV imagery has fundamentally changed the scale and detail at which remote sensing based geomorphological mapping can be completed. The mapping presented here is focused on the glacial geomorphology of mountain summits and flanks that protrude through the ice sheet’s surface (nunataks). In our study area of western DML these nunatak surfaces make up \u3c0.2 % of the total surface area, and the landforms mapped here are generally smaller than can be identified from Landsat products (30 m spatial resolution). The detail achieved in our mapping, across such a vast, remote area that presents numerous obstacles to accessibility highlights the benefits of utilizing the new VHR WV data. As such an evaluation of the WV data, as applied to geomorphological mapping is presented here together with our mapping of the glacial geomorphology of western DML. The results of which provides evidence of ice having overridden sites at all elevations across the entire study area; from the highest elevation inland nunataks that form the coast-parallel escarpment, to low-elevation emerging nunataks close to the coast. Hence from our studies of the glacial geomorphology of this region we can ascertain that, at some point in the glacial history of western DML, ice covered all of the mountain summits that are exposed today, indicating an ice sheet surface lowering of up to 700 m in some places
ELA for M/S: A Guidebook for Beginning Teachers
No full textELA for M/S: A Guidebook for Beginning Teachers (ELA for M/S is an acronym: English and Language Arts for Middle-and-Secondary schools) is designed to enable ENGL 478: Literature for Middle and Secondary Schools and ENGL 480: Internship students to develop competence in their field. The book also prepares ENGL 579: Professional Semester and Follow-up students to transition into professional life. The book\u27s contents includes 13 chapters: 1. Eight Pedagogical Imperatives; 2. Four Theories: Bloom, Gardner, Piaget and UDL; 3. Three Teaching Approaches; 9. Constructing Tests; 10. Writing Templates; 11. Tragedy for non-English Majors; to name a few. ELA for M/S is illustrated with 15 photos I took during The Little Red Schoolhouse Project, when my research assistants were Laura Allgood and Lindsey Lockhart (now Viets) of the Honors College. The Project\u27s western terminus is the Sunny Side School located at The Little House on the Prairie site in Independence, Kansas; the eastern terminus is Avonlea School (where Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables books, taught; Anne Shirley, like Laura Ingalls, teaches in a one-room schoolhouse) on Prince Edward Island off the coast of Canada.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/oer-english/1000/thumbnail.jp
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