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Deep boundary current disintegration in Drake Passage
No full textThe fate of a deep boundary current that originates in the Southeast Pacific and flows southward along the continental slope of South America is elucidated. The current transports poorly ventilated water of low salinity (a type of Pacific Deep Water; PDW), into Drake Passage. East of Drake Passage, the boundary current breaks into fresh anticyclonic eddies, nine examples of which were observed in mooring data from December 2009 to March 2012. The observed eddies appear to originate mainly from a topographic separation point close to 60°W, have typical diameters of 20–60 km and accompanying Rossby numbers of 0.1–0.3. These features are likely to be responsible for transporting PDW meridionally across the ACC, explaining the near-homogenization of Circumpolar Deep Water properties downstream of Drake Passage. This mechanism of boundary current breakdown may constitute an important process in the Southern Ocean overturning circulation
W. J. Drake-Brockman
No full text"F2276 RANR W.J. Drake-Brockman Naval Signal Station Darwin 1943 - 1944".F2276 Royal Australian Naval Reserve W.J. Drake-Brockman. Naval Signal Station, Darwin 1943 - 1944
Letter From Reverend J. W. Drake to Eartha White
No full textCorrespondence: Letter Reverend J. W. Drake, Minister of St. John Baptist Church, Miami, Florida, to [Sister] E. M. White, Jacksonville, Florida, soliciting donations. Envelope with handwritten notes included. Date: April 18, 192
A History of Intercollegiate Football at Drake University, From 1893 Through 1954
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An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
No full text115 leavesSummary of Author: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) is a black short story author and novelist whose two volumes of short stories and three novels of purpose depict racial tensions present in the South during the
post-Reconstruction era. He addressed a culture
dominated by the myth of white superiority and black inferiority.
Chesnutt's purpose in his fiction is to present a perspective of racial tensions and social issues confronting Southern whites and blacks that differed from the perspective presented by writers of the plantation tradition fiction.
Rationale: Since black authors from 1853 to the 1890s basically reflected the themes of plantation tradition fiction and thus ignored social and political issues facing blacks in the 1890s, this analysis of Chesnutt's
fiction is made to determine whether he did present a differing perspective of slavery and of white-black issues in the South.
Procedure: This study is based on the reading and analysis of primary sources--The Conjure Woman, The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition, and
The Colonel's Dream--as well as his letters collected by Helen, his daughter. Material from the Charles Chesnutt Collection was also incorporated into this study.
Secondary sources include articles by Chesnutt's contemporaries as well as articles and books by later scholars.
Findinqs: Charles Chesnutt is the first black American author to ask his publishers for the freedom to treat social and racial issues from a black's perspective: issues such as racial intermarriage, the franchise, and convict labor practices. He also explored the ramifications of "passing" into white society and other problems confronting people of mixed-race in the South and in the North. He pleaded for a quickening of conscience and
for moral renewal in the hearts of Southern whites.
Conclusions: Chesnutt projects a sense of optimism for racial acceptance in The House Behind the Cedars and to a lesser degree in The Marrow of Tradition. However, his third novel, The Colonel's Dream reflects his
frustration concerning the absence of meaningful change in the South in 1905. Negative responses by white supremacy groups and apathy on the part of Northern whites are two factors which led to his decline as an
early twentieth-century novelist
Use of Self-Actualization Scales as a Predictor of Academic Success with Underachievers
No full text106 leaves.The problem. Drake University placement officers do not know with any degree of certainty whether or not students selected for the Transitional Services Program can earn a first-semester 2.0 grade point average (CPA), which is a requirement for their admission to the University. The currently used ACT-prediction method (a computation provided by American College Testing Service using the student's high school CPA, ACT or SAT score, and a correction factor for the specific university) does not use scores of Time-Competence or Inner-Directedness scales from the Personal Orientation Inventory
(POI) as indices of academic success. Yet, the implication is that a relationship exists between these variables and academic success or failure.
The problem, then, was to determine whether POI scale pre-test scores could more accurately be used as predictors of first semester CPA's than is the ACT-prediction method. The second problem was to investigate the existence and degree of relationship between the POI major scale post-test scores, compared separately (a standardized measure of selfactualization) and actual CPA (evidence of behavior associated with self-actualization).
Procedure. In the fall of 1973, 102 students were enrolled in the Transitional Services Program (TSP), a special-help program provided for students whose high school grades, ACT or SAT scores and/or class rank or a combination of these, prevents their admission to Drake. The TSP provides and requires participation in both a speed reading and study skills course, English I, other courses to total 10 hours or more, and regular individual counseling. At the end of the first semester, the student must have earned a 2.0 GPA to gain admission to the University.
The sample consisted of 102 students currently enrolled in the TSP. Data were compiled from three sources--POI pre- and post-tests (given at the beginning and at the end of the semester), the ACT-predicted GPA (computed prior to the beginning of the semester), and the actual GPA (computed at the end of the semester). Pearson Product-Moment correlations were calculated for the total group and for each sex between:
1. ACT-predicted CPA and actual GPA.
2. Pre-test scores on each major- and sub-scale of the POI and actual GPA.
3. Post-test scores on each major scale of the POI and actual GPA. Comparison was then made between the magnitude of the error of prediction using POI scale pre-test scores, the ACT prediction method error of prediction, and the standard deviation of the actual GPA's to determine which was the smallest, and thus, was the best predictor.
Findings. Compared to the ACT-method, neither of the POI major scales was a better predictor of first semester GPA. One correlation reached significance (p < .05) for males (Synergy, r=.26955) and one for females (Self-Regard, r= -.33354). For males, the ACT-predicted GPA had the higher correlation with actual GPA (r=.45170). For females, the subscale, Self-Regard, was a better predictor than was the ACT prediction method, which did not reach a significant level (r=.09415)·
Conclusions. The Self-Regard sub-scale could be tried as a potentially better predictor for TSP females. The POI major scales are without value for predictive purposes in the TSP. No claim can be made that self-actualization as measured by the POI is related to GPA. No given set of variables can be used for prediction for both sexes. Though the ACT prediction method had the highest correlation with GPA, a high level of confidence in it as a predictor can not be justified. Thus a continued search using different variables is indicated
Drake Passage summary report: Cruises on RRS "James Clark Ross", 1993-2000. Drake Passage repeat hydrography: WOCE Southern Repeat Section 1b - Elephant Island to Burdwood Bank.
No full textThis report documents five early cruises in the Drake Passage annual repeat series conducted by Southampton Oceanography Centre in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey. The series began under the auspices of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment as southern repeat section SR1b with a SeaSoar (towed undulating profiler) occupation in 1992. We document cruises from 1993 (JR0a), 1994 (JR0b), 1996 (JR16), 1997 (JR27) and 2000 (JR47). The cruises were all hydrographic CTD sections across Drake Passage between Burdwood Bank and Elephant Island, comprising 30 stations. One cruise (JR27) was occupied at higher resolution with 52 stations; also additional chemical measurements were made. On two cruises (JR16 and JR27), a lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) was introduced to provide full-depth water velocity profiles. Other measurements (vessel-mounted ADCP, sample salinity, navigation, expendable athythermographs, etc.) are described in context
Utilization Of Projected Materials In Science And Social Science Classes In Iowa High Schools
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Confederate Amnesty Oath, J.W. Drake, 1865
No full textJ. W. Drake swore an oath to be loyal to the U.S. Constitution and all laws passed during the “Existing rebellion” in 1865. He lived in Washington County, Arkansas.The Western District Court was an entity that processed former Confederates back into loyal U.S. citizens. The court was executing a presidential proclamation issued on May 29, 1865.1
Amnesty Oath under Presidents Proclamation of May 29, 1865
I, J. W. Drake of Washington County and State of Arkansas
do Solemnly Swear in the presence of Almighty God that I will hence
forth Faithfully Support protect and defend the Constitution of the
United States and the Union of the States thereunder and that I will
in like manner abide by and faithfully Support all laws and
proclamations which have been made during the Existing rebellion
with reference to the Emancipation of Slaves so help me God
J. W. Drake
Sworn to and Subscribed before me the 20th day
of October A.D. 1865
Samuel F. Cooper Clerk of the Dist Court
U.S. West Dist of Ark.
By R. F. Naylor Dep Cler
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