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New-England or A Briefe Enarration of the Ayre, Earth, Water, Fish and Fowles of That Country. With a Description of the Natures, Orders, Habits, and Religion of the Natives; in Latine and English Verse
Get PDFThis text, a Latin poem in dactylic hexameter with an accompanying English translation in heroic verse stands as the earliest surviving work of poetry about New England and the second oldest poem whose origins can be traced directly to the British American colonies. Only two copies of the original 1625 edition are known to survive; one is held at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the other is housed at the British Museum. The Latin portion comprises 309 lines and praises the geographic features, flora and fauna of New England, and spends a majority of its verses describing the Native Americans with awe and curiosity. The English version contains 366 lines, frequently uses obscure terminology, and departs too drastically from the original to be of any assistance for discerning the Latin.
The author is William Morrell, (ca. 1590-after 1626) who received his Bachelors of Arts from Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1615. On May 23 and 24, 1619 Morrell was ordained as a deacon and priest respectively at Peterborough. Several years later in 1623, after receiving a commission by the ecclesiastical court to oversee and administer any churches which were already or might be instituted in the new colonies, Morrell accompanied English navy Captain Robert Gorges to New England, who was tasked with assisting the establishment of the short-lived Wessagusset Colony in present-day Weymouth. The colony was abandoned in the spring of 1624 due to financial difficulties and tensions with the Natives. Robert Gorges served as Governor-General of New England between 1623 and 1624. Gorges returned to England in 1624, but Morrell remained behind in Plymouth for one year to learn more about New England. These two poems are the fruits of his observations. They were published in 1625 in London by John Dawson. These writings make it clear that Morrell was an able classical scholar. He frequently peppers his English with Latin maxims reminiscent of Virgil and Apuleius and he employs numerous references to classical mythological figures and events
Sotto Voce: Language and Resistance in George Eliot's 'Felix Holt, the Radical' and Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Sylvia's Lovers'
Get PDFThis essay examines George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical (1866) and Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers (1863) as 'novels of resistance', pointing out connections between the works in the way they challenge the gender, class and cultural biases of established language, and in the way both novels use a focus on sound and silence to highlight parallels between sexual and socio-political marginalisation. The two novels' explorations of these issues anticipate insights of twentieth-century feminist linguistic theory, and the opposition they evince to the forces of cultural homogenisation Eliot and Gaskell saw at work in their society is equally radical
Preventing future mass atrocities in Indonesia: Implementing the responsibility to protect within a culture of impunity
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No full textCCC's student literary magazine containing poetry, short stories, essays, dramas, graphic short stories, and artwork created by Bingham, Amy; Burns, Ryan; Coots, Stephanie; French, Glenna; Fritsch, Jon; Hannan-Mandel, Marie; Horton, Mills; Hulett, Elizabeth; Hy, Joe; Jernigan, Andrew; MacBlaine, Lauren; Morrell, Erin; Mould, Kyle; Simpson, Brett; Wead, Stacy.Archived web conten
Lead concentration in Peromyscus SPP. at a superfund site, Muncie, Indiana : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
No full textI compared lead contamination in two deer mice (Peromyscus spp.) populations in Muncie, IN, Memorial Drive dumpsite (MDDS) and Miller Wildlife Area (MWA). Twelve deer mice were captured (5 at MDDS and 7 at MWA) and their organs were harvested for lead analysis. A Mann-Whitney U Test was run on the obtained lead concentrations and a P-value of 0.3709 was obtained. Lead concentrations in the deer mice at the two sites were not statistically different from each other (P > 0.05). This could be due to decreased lead uptake from soil to vegetation to deer mice at MDDS and also immigration of uncontaminated deer mice at MDDS. However, there could be a difference in Pb levels at the two sites, but the sample sizes were too small and had high variation. A more in-depth research study should be completed to obtain more accurate results.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
Debunking 'Chindia': Chinese and Indian strategic interests, foreign policy and the myth of the 'mutual rise'
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Struggling With : Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest Since 1877. By Wilson J. Warren. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 185. 19.95, paper.
No full textThis fascinating little book recounts a century of labor struggles at the John Morrell and Company meatpacking plant in Ottumwa, a small city in south-central Iowa and the author s hometown. The book is based on a series of articles that appeared in the Annals of Iowa. Iowa s Pride in the title refers to a trademark once used by Morrell.
A follow-up study of the graduates of Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia for the years 1945-1947, 1954
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