468 research outputs found
Bringing Holly from the Bongs
No full textChristmas 1965: The children of Goostrey Primary School in Cheshire are preparing to perform a special nativity play in the stable of the Crown Inn. Holly from the Bongs has been written especially for them by the famous children’s writer Alan Garner (The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, The Owl Service) who lives locally and worked with them to help create the play.
Christmas 2015: The grown-ups who originally performed in the play return to the Crown Inn, 50 years on, to reflect on this unique theatrical experience with Alan Garner – who still regards Holly from the Bongs as his most technically perfect piece of writing.
Leslie Pimlott who played the Doctor in the original production, recalls with other cast members the story of how this customised nativity play was created by Alan Garner. The author spent many afternoons walking the children round the village’s boundaries, fields and The Bongs, the wooded area behind the school to explore the history and living heritage of Goostrey. Leslie celebrates the excitement of taking part in the original production and its memorable first performance half a century ago.
Part nativity play/part mummer’s play Holly from the Bongs is a customised piece of theatre written for the voices of the individual children of Goostrey School in 1965. A stylistic lesson in English writing from the middle ages to the 1960’s that has a very special place in the hearts of the original cast and the village of Goostrey.
Producer: Andy Cartwright
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Soundscape Productions.
First broadcast in December 2015
The Mysterious Bert Cartwright: The Story Behind The Mysterious Norman Raeben & Its Author
No full textThis research article studies Bert Cartwright and the story behind his influential article, The Mysterious Norman Raeben. The piece draws attention to Cartwright\u27s underappreciated work as a civil rights advocate. It also shares new revelations from Cartwright\u27s research files held in the Cartwright Collection at Bowling Green State University
Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher
No full textBelieving deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a person\u27s life, Peter Cartwright was a man who held fast to his principles, resulting in a life of itinerant preaching and thirty years of political quarrels with Abraham Lincoln. Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit-riding preachers. Robert Bray tells the full story of the long relationship between Cartwright and Lincoln, including their political campaigns against each other, their social antagonisms, and their radical disagreements on the Christian religion, as well as their shared views on slavery and the central fact of their being self-made. In addition, the biography examines in close detail Cartwright\u27s instrumental role in Methodism\u27s bitter divorce of 1844, in which the southern conferences seceded in a remarkable prefigurement of the United States a decade later. Finally, Peter Cartwright attempts to place the man in his appropriate national context: as a potent man of words on the frontier, a self-authorizing legend in his own time, and, surprisingly, an enduring western literary figure. Robert Bray is R. Forrest Colwell Professor of American Literature in the English department at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is the author of Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois. Content Provided by Syndetics.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/bookshelf/1043/thumbnail.jp
The Shape of Things That Came
No full textHG Wells' future history novel looks back from the year 2106. Halfway through the novel's time span, Sean Street explores what the author got almost right - or terribly wrong.
In 1933, Wells published a novel which purported to be a history of the years 1929 to 2105, received from the future in dreams. He called his book The Shape of Things to Come, a phrase that has since become a part of the English language. Now, 84 years into the time scale of this prophetic book and with 88 more to go to complete the story - poet and professor of radio Sean Street goes back to the text and explores what Wells got right, what he got wrong - and what may be yet to come.
From predicting another world war to a utopian world government, he navigates a journey through Wells' future past using audio archives and contemporary news bulletins, with expert help from Christopher Frayling, Andy Sawyer and Orson Wells.
Reader: Jenny Lane
Producer: Andy Cartwright
A Soundscape production for BBC Radio 4
Perspectives of estrangement : England and Englishness in the novels of Justin Cartwright
No full textThesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores how Justin Cartwright’s perspective on Englishness, as a South Africanborn
writer living and writing in England, is played out in his novels. Four of Cartwright’s
novels with English settings are analysed: In Every Face I Meet (1995), The Promise of
Happiness (2004), To Heaven by Water (2009) and Other People’s Money (2011).
Cartwright’s position as a self-conscious observer of English life is revealed as eliciting a
nuanced critique of Englishness. It is argued that Cartwright adopts something of an
anthropological approach towards his English subjects, and that this troubles the traditional
gaze of the Western anthropologist upon the “other”. At the same time, his protagonists are
represented with humane sympathy, though this is often tempered with irony. Drawing on
Paul Gilroy’s ideas about race and multiculture in England and Robert J.C. Young’s The Idea
of English Ethnicity, this thesis discusses Cartwright’s presentation of Englishness as both
potentially inclusive and exclusive. Cartwright also sets England against America, and more
significantly, against Africa. Cartwright’s portrayal of Africa is shown to reveal his somewhat
ambivalent attitude towards his birthplace. Throughout the thesis, Cartwright’s novels are
discussed with an awareness of the influence that the social philosopher Isaiah Berlin has had
on the author, particularly with regard to his critique of idealism and his espousal of value
pluralism and liberal humanism. Yet it is also suggested that Cartwright’s liberal humanism
may be intertwined with his complex and ambivalent attitude towards Africa. Moreover, the
ironic tone and postmodern, metafictional elements of these novels perform Cartwright’s
belief in value pluralism in interesting ways. The relationship between literature, art and
national fictions is furthermore discussed, in conversation with Benedict Anderson’s ideas
about nationalism. This thesis provides a close-reading of the works of this under-researched
author and examines the complexity of his “estranged” position towards Englishness.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis verken hoe Justin Cartwright, Suid-Afrikaans gebore skrywer woonagtig in
Engeland, se die siening van Engelsheid (Englishness) in sy romans weerspieël word. Vier
van Cartwright se romans met ‘n Engelse agtergrond word ontleed: In Every Face I Meet
(1995), The Promise of Happiness (2004), To Heaven by Water (2009) en Other People’s
Money (2011). Dit word onthul hoe Cartwright se posisie as self-bewuste waarnemer van
Engelse lewe hom staat te stel om ‘n genuanseerde critique van Engelsheid te lewer. Daar
word aangevoer dat Cartwright ‘n ietwat antropologiese benadering tot sy Engelse
onderwerpe inneem en dat dit die tradisionele siening van die Westerse antropoloog van die
“ander” ondergrawe. Terselfdertyd bied hy sy protagoniste met menslike erbarming aan,
hoewel dit dikwels met ironie getemper word. Deur gebruik te maak van Paul Gilroy se
opvattings oor ras en multikultuur in Engeland en Robert J.C. Young se The Idea of English
Ethnicity, bespreek hierdie tesis hoe Cartwright Engelsheid voorstel as sowel potensieel
inklusief as eksklusief. Cartwright stel ook Engeland teenoor Amerika, en meer
belangwekkend, ook teenoor Afrika. Daar word aangetoon dat Cartwright se uitbeelding van
Afrika sy nogal ambivalente houding teenoor sy geboorteplek verraai. Regdeur die tesis word
Cartwright se romans bespreek met in agneming van die invloed van die sosiale filosoof
Isaiah Berlin op die skrywer, veral ten op sigte van sy critique van idealisme en sy omhelsing
van waardepluralisme en liberale humanisme. Tog word daar ook gesuggereer dat Cartwright
se liberale humanisme verweef mag wees met sy verwikklede en ambivalente houding ten
opsigte van Afrika. Daarbenewens is die ironiese toon en postmoderne, metafiktiewe element
van hierdie romans op interessante maniere ‘n bevestiging van Cartwright se onderskrywing
van waardepluralisme. Vervolgens word die verhouding tussen literatuur, kuns en nasionale
fiksies bespreek in samehang met Benedict Anderson se idees oor nasionalisme. Hierde tesis
bied ‘n noukeurige ondersoek van die werke van hierdie onderverkende skrywer en ondersoek
die kompleksiteit van sy “vervreemde” houding teenoor Engelsheid.Master
Karyotype and age in acute myeloid leukemia. Are they linked?
No full textA novel hierarchical cytogenetic classification for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has been developed. Patients with successful cytogenetics and a diagnosis of AML were categorized into four mutually exclusive karyotype groups: normal, translocation, deletion and trisomy. Patients with more than one chromosomal abnormality were classified using the hierarchy: established translocation>established deletion>established trisomy>non-established translocation>non-established deletion>non-established trisomy. A total of 593 AML patients from a large population-based case-control study of acute leukemia were classified according to their diagnostic karyotype. The four karyotype groups showed different age distributions. Overall the frequency of patients increased with age as did the frequency of patients with a deletion, trisomy or normal karyotype. Although the increase of patients with age was much sharper for patients with a deletion. In contrast, the distribution of patients with a translocation was roughly constant with age. We concluded that there was a link between karyotype and the age of the patient at diagnosis. Furthermore, two karyotype groups, translocations and deletions, may define disease entities with different etiologies. This novel cytogenetic classification will allow other studies to examine whether AML cases with very different types of chromosomal abnormality have the same etiology
Plenary - Roundtable Discussion: On The Move With Queer Labor: LGBT Organizing at Unionized Workplaces
No full textRoundtable Discussion: On The Move With Queer Labor: LGBT Organizing at Unionized Workplaces Chair: Miriam Frank, author of Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America Donna Cartwright, retired co-President, Pride at Work, AFL-CIO Anne Balay, author of Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers Dolly Martinez, Pride at Work activist and campaign manager for Retail Action Projec
Spectraalanalyse van getijden en hun voorspelling volgens Munk en Cartwright
No full textBij de analyse en de voorspelling van het getij wordt er van oudsher vanuit gegaan, dat de frequenties van de getijcomponenten bekend zijn. Zij volgen namelijk uit een analyse van de gravitatiepotentiaal. Van iedere component moeten de amplitude en de fase, de getijconstanten, berekend worden uit een waarnemingsreeks. Een veel gebruikte analysemethode is die der kleinste kwadraten. Munk en Cartwright hebben in hun methode de gedachte laten varen, dat voor een analyse de van belang zijnde frequenties van te voren gekozen moeten worden. Zij baseren zich daareentegen op een systeemaanpak door het verloop van de waterspiegel te beschouwen als de som van de responsies (output) van een aantal systemen, die ieder hun eigen ingangssignaal hebben. Op het uitgangssignaal is dan nog storing, ruis, aanwezig in de vorm van meteorologische invloeden. De responsies en de storing tezamen vormen nu het verticale getij. De ingangssignalen worden ontleend aan de gravitatieinvloeden van zon en maan en zijn derhalve als functie van de tijd bekend. Het behulp van de theorie van de spectraalanalyse is het nu mogelijk om uit de gemeten waterspiegel en de bekende ingangssignalen de eigenschappen van ieder systeem afzonderlijk te bepalen. Hierbij gaat het, als het lineaire systemen betreft, om de impulsresponsiefuncties of hun equivalent in het frequentiedomein de frequentieresponsiefuncties. Voorspellingen kunnen nu worden uitgevoerd aangezien de output van het systeem berekend kan worden m.b.v. de bekende ingangssignalen en de nu bekende overdrachtsfuncties.VloeistofmechanicaHydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Os modelos científicos conforme Nancy Cartwright
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2016.Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar os conceitos de modelos científicos defendidos por Nancy Cartwright. Dada a importância da autora na tradição filosófica, optamos por fazer uma exposição inicial abordando as noções de seu programa filosófico necessárias para o entendimento posterior das noções de modelos científicos. Desta forma, abordamos de forma breve seu antirrealismo de teorias, ainda que este antirrealismo esteja implícito em todo o decorrer do presente texto, e em seguida mencionamos o seu realismo de entidades. Cronologicamente, isto ocorre na sua obra How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983). Nesta obra a autora apresenta o conceito de modelos científicos como simulacros da explicação. Este conceito surge em decorrência de seus questionamentos sobre as leis científicas serem caracterizadas como leis verdadeiras e universais. Consequentemente, as leis mentem e as teorias não podem nos fornecer um relato verdadeiro em relação ao mundo. Sendo assim, ao propor os modelos como simulacros, a autora visa também fornecer um modelo da explicação que esteja mais próximo da prática científica que o Modelo Nomológico Dedutivo de Hempel. Em seguida, mencionamos a obra Nature?s Capacities and Their Measurement (1989), para trazer deste escrito o conceito de capacidades que será utilizado na sua obra posterior, The Dappled World (1999). Nesta obra encontramos um conceito mais refinado e sofisticado de modelos como projetos de máquinas nomológicas. É somente nestes modelos que as leis fundamentais são verdadeiras e funcionam apenas em ceteris paribus. Ao final, realizamos uma análise da repercussão das frutíferas e seminais ideias de Cartwright. Indicando os pontos positivos e os pontos carentes de seu programa filosófico.Abstract : This dissertation aims to analyze the concepts of scientific models defended by Nancy Cartwright. Given her importance on the philosophical tradition we chose to make an inicial exposition of the notions of her philosophical program necessary to the further understanding of the notions of scientific models. Thus, we briefly approached her anti-realism of theories, even though this anti-realism is implicit throughout this text, after that we mention her realism of entities. Chronologicaly, this occurs in her book How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983). Where the author introduces the concept of scientific models as simulacra of the explanation. This concept rises from her questioning about the scientific laws being caracterized as true universal laws. Consequently, the laws lie and the theories are not able to provide us a reliable report related to the world. Therefore, by proposing the models as simulacra, the author also aims to provide a closer model of the explanation of scientific practice then the Deductive Nomological Model of Hempel. Afterwards, we mention the book Nature?s Capacities and Their Measurement (1989) in order to extract the concept of capacities which will be used in her posterior work, The Dappled World (1999). Where it is possible to find a more refined and sophisticated concept of models like blueprints of nomological machines. It is only in those models that the fundamental laws are true and work only in ceteris paribus. Finally, we make an analysis of the repercussion of Cartwright?s rich ideas. Indicating the positive aspects as well as the insuficient ones of her philosophical program
Consumer law
No full textThis is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Autumn Semester 2009/10
This module looks at the role of the law in regulating business in the interests of consumers.
Suitable for: Second and final year undergraduates
Professor P.R Cartwright, School of Law
Peter Cartwright has been Professor of Consumer Protection Law at the University of Nottingham since 2004. He previously worked at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he obtained his Ph.D. Peter is the author of several books including Consumer Protection and the Criminal Law (2001) and Banks Consumers and Regulation (2004). The former won one of the Society of Legal Scholars’ prizes for outstanding legal scholarship by a scholar under the age of 40.
Peter is a member of the Financial Services Research Forum and of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Banking Regulation. He spent several years as a member of the UK Department of Trade of Trade and Industry’s Consumer Law Advisory Panel, and as Scientific Director of the European Credit Research Institute, Brussels. Peter has also served as Chair of the Society of Legal Scholars’ Consumer Law Pane
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