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E. Ethelbert Miller, 13th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textE. Ethelbert Miller is the director of the Howard University Afro-American Resource Center, and host of a weekly radio program on WDCU-FM. He also is the author of several books, including Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain and Where are the Love Poems for Dictators? Gwendolyn Brooks, poetry consultant to Congress, has called Miller one of the most significant and influential poets of our time
E. Ethelbert Miller, 22nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textE. Ethelbert Miller has been the director of the African-American Resource Center at Howard University since 1974. He is the author of Andromeda (1974), The Land of Smiles and The Land of No Smiles (1974), Migrant Worker (1978), Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain (1982), Where are the Love Poems for Dictators? (1986) and First Light (1994). He is also the editor of Synergy: An Anthology of Washington D. C. Black Poetry (1975), Women Surviving Massacres and Men (1977), and In Search of Color Everywhere (1994), which was awarded the 1994 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. The anthology was also a Book of the Month Club selection. In 1979, the mayor of Washington D. C., proclaimed Sept. 28, 1979, as E. Ethelbert Miller Day. Miller was awarded the Mayor\u27s Art Award for Literature in 1982. He received the Public Humanities Award from the D. C. Humanities Council in 1988. His most recent book of poetry is Whispers, Secrets and Promises (1998)
E. Ethelbert Miller, 16th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textE. Ethelbert Miller Born in New York City, E. Ethelbert Miller serves as the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, a position he has held since 1974. He is the author of six books of poetry: Migrant Worker, Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain, Women Surviving Massacres and Men, Where are the Love Poems for Dictators?, First Light: Selected and New Poems and In Search of Color Everywhere. In addition, Ethelbert Miller is the founder and director of the Ascension Poetry Reading Series, one of the oldest literary series in the Washington area. He is also the host of the popular weekly radio program, Maiden Voyage, on WDCU-FM and a commentator for National Public Radio. Recently a visiting professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he is now a member of the board of directors of Associated Writing Programs
Bibliographics for the 983 eprints in the live archives of E-LIS : trends and status report up to 7th July 2004, based on author-self-archiving metadata
Get PDFThe priority for ideas and philosophy related to "Network Theory" have been traced back and documented by Braun(2004),and credit goes to Karinthy(1929).The IT has empowered to realise it, as the most practical phenomena and it is no more a humour. The OAI (Open Archives Initiatives)and ACIS (Academic Contributor Information System)are progressive in the direction ,which may lead to realise the "Collective Genius" at global level. Focus of present study is on Author-Self-Archiving (A-S-A)Metadata of the 983 Eprints in the Live Archives of the E-LIS (EPrints of Library and Information Science),which were approved till 7th July 2004.The A-S-A Metadata was used for librametric analysis. Self-explanatory bibliographics are illustrated.The highlights include: Conference papers (34%); highest approval, June 2004 (28%); published archives (76%);not refereed (52%); not in public domain (60%); highest self-archiving-author (De Robbio, Antonella).The Nos. of EPrints having single JITA domain specifications were: Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information(27); Information use and sociology of information(80);Users,literacy and reading(13);Libraries as physical collections(30);Publishing and legal issues(57);Management(13);Industry, profession and education(36);Information sources, supports, channels(113) ; Information treatment for information services, Information functions and techniques (101); Technical services libraries, archives and museums(25); Housing technologies(1); Information technology and library technology(92); and Inter-domainery (395) i.e. having specifications of two or more than two JITA classes
Jacob Weisberg, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, a unit of the Washington Post Co. devoted to developing Web-based publications. Weisberg joined Slate as chief political correspondent shortly after its founding in 1996. He succeeded Michael Kinsley to become Slate\u27s second editor from 2002-08, when he handed the job over to David Plotz. Before joining Slate, Weisberg wrote about politics for magazines including the New Republic, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Magazine. His most recent book, The Bush Tragedy, was a New York Times best-seller in 2008. He is co-author, with Robert E. Rubin, of In an Uncertain World (2003)
Fred D\u27Aguiar, 27th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textPoet, novelist and playwright Fred D\u27Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents. He lived in Guyana until he was 12, returning to England in 1972.
He trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, graduating in 1985. His first collection of poetry, Mama Dot (1985), was published to much acclaim and established his reputation as one of the finest British poets of his generation. Along with Airy Hall (1989), it won the Guyanese National Poetry Award in 1989 and was followed by British Subjects (1993). His first novel, The Longest Memory (1994), tells the story of Whitechapel, a slave on an eighteenth-century Virginia plantation and won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. It was adapted for television and televised by Channel 4 in the UK. His long poem \u27Sweet Thames\u27 was broadcast as part of the BBC \u27Worlds on Film\u27 series in 1992, winning the Commission for Racial Equality Race in the Media Award.
Fred D\u27Aguiar was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University (1989-90), Visiting Writer at Amherst College, Amherst, MA (1992-4), and was Assistant Professor of English at Bates College, Lewiston, ME (1994-5). His plays include High Life, which was first produced at the Albany Empire in London in 1987, and A Jamaican Airman Foresees His Death, performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1991. He is also the author of the novels Dear Future (1996), set on a fictional Caribbean island, and Feeding the Ghosts (1997), inspired by a visit D\u27Aguiar made to the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool and based on the true story of a slave who survived being thrown overboard with 132 other men, women and children from a slave ship in the Atlantic.
Recent poetry includes Bill of Rights (1998), a long narrative poem about the Jonestown massacre in Guyana in 1979, and a new long narrative poem, Bloodlines, the story of a black slave and her white lover, published in 2000.
Fred D\u27Aguiar is co-director of the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Tech. His fourth novel, Bethany Bettany (2003), is centred on a five-year-old Guyanese girl, Bethany, whose suffering symbolises that of a nation seeking to make itself whole again
Intimate Partner Violence: Criminal Justice Responses to High Lethality Cases
Get PDFThis study examines the relationship between the level of violence suffered by the victim in a domestic violence relationship and the criminal justice responses to that violence, namely arrest, prosecution and the issuance of protective orders. Data was obtained from a nonprofit domestic violence agency in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The data was collected by agency staff from victims seeking assistance. This study found that female victims of domestic violence that suffered higher levels of violence at the hands of their abuser were more likely to be issued a protective order. Female victims who suffered higher levels of violence were not however, more likely to experience the police arrest of the perpetrator, the police requesting an emergency protective order on their behalf, or the prosecutor filing charges. These findings imply the criminal justice responses currently in place are not being utilized to assist those victims that arguably need most help; those experiencing the most severe levels of violence
To Catch a Pirate: Analyzing Processes of Policy Making on Maritime Piracy
Get PDFThere has been a resurgence of political and media interest in maritime piracy, specifically in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia. This is credited to a rise in the number of piracy attacks that have been committed in Somalia\u27s coastal waters. In response to this rise in attacks there has been an increased deployment of military warships from as many as 30 different countries to the region in efforts to combat piracy. Although the problem of piracy has received much attention there has been little attention paid to the structural conditions within Somalia itself, such as the ongoing conflict, lack of basic infrastructure and the humanitarian crisis related to drought and famine. This may contextualize the problem of piracy and contribute to the motivations for piracy and be instrumental to understanding the rise of piracy in the region. This research examines how this militarized policy response has been initiated by analyzing the processes involved in creating, enacting, and enforcing policies on maritime piracy. Using Somalia as a case study, because of the increased interest in the region, an analysis was conducted to determine how the international political community (IPC) has come to identify piracy as a problem, and then create, justify and implement policies to address it. Drawing on an integrated theoretical frame, informed by works of Foucault (1980), Gramsci (1971), Becker (1963), Schur (1971), and McCombs and Shaw (1972), the formation, implementation, and enforcement of these policies were analyzed paying particular attention to the international level (IPC), state level (state interests) and the individual level (US based trials of Somali nationals accused of piracy)
Targeted delivery of Zingiber officinale Roscoe extract-loaded chitosan nanoparticles for inhibition of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli-induced HCT-116 colon cancer
No full textAbstract The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a growing concern, as it significantly contributes to colon cancer initiation and progression. Conventional treatment strategies face challenges such as poor bioavailability and antibiotic resistance, necessitating the development of targeted therapies. This study evaluates the efficacy of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (ginger) extract-loaded chitosan nanoparticles (GELCs) in inhibiting MDR E. coli-induced colon cancer using the HCT-116 cell line. The nanoparticles were synthesized with an average size of 150 ± 5 nm, a zeta potential of + 32.5 mV, and an encapsulation efficiency of 84.3%. Their biological activity was assessed through in vitro and in vivo models, focusing on antimicrobial effects, cytotoxicity, apoptosis induction, and inflammatory modulation. The GELCs exhibited potent antimicrobial activity, reducing MDR E. coli colony-forming units (CFUs) by 83% compared to untreated co-cultures. MTT assay results showed a dose-dependent reduction in HCT-116 cell viability, with an IC₅₀ of 22.8 µg/mL, which was significantly lower than that of free ginger extract (IC₅₀ = 48.6 µg/mL), indicating enhanced efficacy. Flow cytometry analysis confirmed increased apoptosis, with a BAX/BCl-2 ratio of 11.3 in the GELC-treated group compared to 1.0 in the control. ELISA assays further demonstrated a reduction in inflammatory cytokines, with IL-6, TNF-α, and IL-1β levels decreasing by 54%, 61%, and 47%, respectively. These findings highlight the dual antimicrobial and anticancer potential of GELCs, making them a promising candidate for targeted therapy against MDR E. coli-associated colon cancer. This study underscores the advantages of nanoparticle-based delivery systems in enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of natural bioactive compounds
John Stuart Mill\u27s \u27On Liberty\u27
Get PDFOn today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by professor Dale E. Miller to discuss the life and philosophy of the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, whose 1859 essay “On Liberty” is a classic text — maybe the classic text — defending the principles of free expression.
Miller is a professor and associate dean for research and graduate studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of J.S. Mill: Moral, Social, and Political Thought
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