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Interview with Helen Hirsch Levine, Harriet Davis Austin, Ellen Williams, and Helen Werner Liskov
No full textInterview with Helen Hirsch Levine, Harriet Davis Austin, Ellen Williams, and Helen Werner Liskov on March 23rd, 1985 on the history of the University of Bridgeport
A Restorative Model: Jeremiah's Prophetic Response to Displacement in Washington, D.C.
No full textABSTRACTThis thesis is offers exilic texts as the basis for restoration for communities traumatized by displacement. The scriptural focus for the thesis is Jeremiah 30-33, the Book of Restoration. The purpose of the thesis is to provide tools for inner-city pastors to navigate the opportunities and challenges of displacement caused by gentrification. The thesis is fueled by the contrast between numerous studies that report the benefits of gentrification versus its ills experienced as a pastoral witness of the machinery of displacement in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. In Dr. Ellen Davis’ work on Jeremiah, she shows Jeremiah’s painful growth into his prophetic role. This growth occurs through laments or “protests addressed to God” thus making it possible to “lay claim to realistic hope.” This birth of hope is in the beginning of the book in Jeremiah 1:10, “See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant,” with building and planting as themes for Jeremiah 30-33. Dr. Davis further explicates hope’s placement. Hope finds a concrete place economically through Jeremiah’s land purchase (Chapter 32:6-15) and socially through community building (chapters 30 and 31). Building upon this work, my thesis concludes that Book of Restoration provides a relevant and effective model of restoration for today’s church.
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A mission for medicine : Dr Ellen Farrer and India 1891-1933.
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Dwight Davis and the foundation of the Davis cup in tennis: Just another doubleday myth?
No full textDwight F. Davis is widely credited with having invented, or at least conceived, the original idea for the international tennis competition that bears his name, the Davis Cup. This paper aims to debunk this myth through comprehensive critical analysis of the period preceding Davis's apparent epiphany in 1899. Previous national-team-based competitions are investigated, alongside key figures in American and British/Irish tennis, to demonstrate that numerous others had proposed the idea for an international team-based competition long before Davis and that Davis may have appropriated his idea from others with whom he came into contact. Davis's wealthy background, political ambitions, and model-American image arguably helped smooth the process of his idea being officially accepted by the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, which likely saw in Davis a perfect "frontman" for American tennis at a time when the nation used sporting prowess to promote its identity, particularly in relation to the British, in international sporting competition.Peer reviewedPublished
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Cineplastick: Synthetic Materials in the Films of Mary Ellen Bute, Jim Davis and Jeff Keen
No full textIn this thesis I engage with the work of experimental filmmakers for whom plastic was an indispensable profilmic medium. I trace the development of three careers against the backdrop of the cultural history of synthetic materials, which proliferated in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Chapter One concerns the early films of the American animator Mary Ellen Bute, whose film aesthetics, I argue, extend Élie Faure’s vision of the private nature of cinema spectatorship. My reading of the films is informed by the contemporary—and markedly gendered—connotations of the cellophane and resins that were appearing in the 1930s in packaging, cosmetics, records and cinema architecture. Analogies between illuminated plastics and new scientific paradigms are continued from the first chapter in the second, which examines the films made by the painter and filmmaker Jim Davis over the course of the 1950s. I consider Davis’s relationship with experimental film luminaries like Stan Brakhage, on the one hand, and, on the other, his unlikely participation in Cold War international fairs and exhibitions. Davis’s queer abstractions reflect a mutation in the reputation of plastics in the post-war years; rather than slickly hermetic and privatising, plastic begins to be suggestive of the flesh with which it came increasingly into contact in so many domains of everyday life. In Chapter Three, I discuss British Neo-Surrealist Jeff Keen’s work in two contexts. I read his destructive art practice in connection with the intermedial, countercultural currents of the British 1960s underground, while attending to the transition of the British toy industry’s manufacturing to Hong Kong. Harking back to Salvador Dalí’s fetish for the ‘edible’ beauty of Art Nouveau, Keen’s work uses plastic as a viscously fleshy medium in both his live action and animated films
2019 Alfred S. Palmer Lecture - The Land as Kin: Renewing our Imagination
No full text2019/10/08. The Bible is an essential guide for Christians and Jews, as we seek to develop faithful responses to the ecological crisis that currently defines human existence. Looking at texts from both Testaments, along with contemporary agrarian poetry, Professor Davis will consider how they can awaken and instruct our moral imagination with respect to the world that the biblical writers recognize to be “the work of God’s hands.
Imagination shaped: Old Testament preaching in the Anglican tradition
No full textReviewed Book: Davis, Ellen F. Imagination shaped: Old Testament preaching in the Anglican tradition. Valley Forge, Pa: TPI, 1995
Confirmation Bias and the Open Access Advantage: Some Methodological Suggestions for the Davis Citation Study
No full text: Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. For 1,600 of the 11,000 articles (15%), their authors paid the publisher to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome, confirming previous studies (on both paid and unpaid OA), is a significant OA citation Advantage, but a small one (21%, 4% of it correlated with other article variables such as number of authors, references and pages). The author infers that the size of the OA advantage in this biomedical sample has been shrinking annually from 2004-2007, but the data suggest the opposite. In order to draw valid conclusions from these data, the following five further analyses are necessary: (1) The current analysis is based only on author-choice (paid) OA. Free OA self-archiving needs to be taken into account too, for the same journals and years, rather than being counted as non-OA, as in the current analysis. (2) The proportion of OA articles per journal per year needs to be reported and taken into account. (3) Estimates of journal and article quality and citability in the form of the Journal Impact Factor and the relation between the size of the OA Advantage and journal as well as article “citation-bracket” need to be taken into account. (4) The sample-size for the highest-impact, largest-sample journal analyzed, PNAS, is restricted and is excluded from some of the analyses. An analysis of the full PNAS dataset is needed, for the entire 2004-2007 period. (5) The analysis of the interaction between OA and time, 2004-2007, is based on retrospective data from a June 2008 total cumulative citation count. The analysis needs to be redone taking into account the dates of both the cited articles and the citing articles, otherwise article-age effects and any other real-time effects from 2004-2008 are confounded. Davis proposes that an author self-selection bias for providing OA to higher-quality articles (the Quality Bias, QB) is the primary cause of the observed OA Advantage, but this study does not test or show anything at all about the causal role of QB (or of any of the other potential causal factors, such as Accessibility Advantage, AA, Competitive Advantage, CA, Download Advantage, DA, Early Advantage, EA, and Quality Advantage, QA). The author also suggests that paid OA is not worth the cost, per extra citation. This is probably true, but with OA self-archiving, both the OA and the extra citations are free
Photographs of Joseph F. Smith and the Laie Plantation, Hawaii, 1899
No full textOn January 7, 1899, Joseph F. Smith, then a Counselor to Church President Lorenzo Snow, left Salt Lake City to visit the Church\u27s plantation in Laie, Hawaii. The main purpose for this trip to Hawaii was to benefit the health of President Smith\u27s wife Sarah Ellen Richards Smith, who had just passed through a very severe illness. They were accompanied by two of his daughters, Minerva and Alice. President Smith\u27s loyal friend and former missionary companion Albert W. Davis and Edna Davis, Albert Davis\u27s daughter, were also on the trip. They first went by train to San Francisco and on January 11, 1899, steamed out of [the] Golden Gate on the SS Australia (fig. 1). The Smiths and Davises arrived in Honolulu on January 18.1899, and were guests on the Laie Plantation for the next four weeks
Frances Ellen Colenso, 1849-1887 : her life and times in relation to the Victorian stereotype of the middle class English woman
No full textIncludes bibliographical referencesThe stereotype of the Victorian middle class woman, which generally characterised her as a passive, ornamental, helpless and dependent creature, has been one of the most popular caricatures of the nineteenth century. Recent research into this hitherto largely ignored social class has begun to re-adjust this image. The stereotyped distressed gentlewoman who emigrated to Australia and New Zealand for instance has recently been critically examined, but so far the female emigrant and settler in colonial South Africa has been ignored. It is only since the early 1970s that academic research into feminism began to appear. The influence of the women's liberation movement and of the increasing interest in social history, while stimulating research into Victorian women in England and her colonies, has only penetrated historical research within South Africa in the last decade
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