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Alumni Spotlight #7: Life After Loss & The Art of Ghostwriting with Angie Ransome-Jones
No full textPodcast produced by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) that features an interview with UNT Alumnus Angie Ransome-Jones, author and ghostwriter for other aspiring writers. Susan and Angie discuss how she channeled the experience of losing her father into a book titled, "Path to Peace: A Guide to Managing Life After Losing a Loved One," and the ways in which the book led to her becoming a ghostwriter. They also discuss her roles in the UNT Black Alumni Network and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women's Dallas chapter
Arthur Ransome, (nejen) autor dětských knih o Vlaštovkách a Amazonkách
No full textThe subject of the bachelor's thesis will be the life and literary work of the English author Arthur Ransome. The work will first focus on a detailed description of the author's life and what led him to write a children's book series, even though he lived a bohemian life and had extraordinary interests in culture and politics. The aim of the thesis is to critically evaluate the contradictory destinies and vicissitudes of the author's life based on biographical and autobiographical sources (Brogan, Chambers, Hyland, Ransome) and try to capture the essence of children's adventure stories in England with a focus on the characteristics of the Lake District) and its cultural heritage. At the end of the work, it compares the critical response and cultural significance of Ransom's stories in the 20th century and the present
"You Tempt me Grievously to a Mythological Essay": J. R. R. Tolkien’s Correspondence with Arthur Ransome
No full text' "You Tempt me Grievously to a Mythological Essay": J. R. R. Tolkien’s Correspondence with Arthur Ransome', edits a letter from Tolkien to Ransome held in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds. On December 13th 1937, the celebrated children’s author Arthur Ransome wrote to J. R. R. Tolkien with a few comments on Tolkien’s newly published book The Hobbit. Tolkien lost no time in replying, and his letter provides one of his earliest comments on his published fiction, and a relatively early explicit commentary on his mythic writing. This article publishes for the first time Tolkien’s response to Ransome in its entirety, and answers some of the questions regarding the chronology of Tolkien’s correspondence which arise. An analysis of the letter reveals that while, as many scholars have shown, the ‘sources’ and ‘inspirations’ of The Hobbit include the likes of Beowulf and the Poetic Edda, already in 1937—and contrary to his own later claims—Tolkien’s principal primary source for fleshing out his prose stories with characters, places, and references to historical events was the vast legendarium he had created himself
Images of Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
No full textFieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Hauwa Usman (Local Project Manager), Alhaji Abubakar Maikudi Aishat (General Field Facilitator). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Project Director and former Director of the African Studies Center), and Eleni Castrol (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These collections on Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]). Required Citation: Kurfi, M. H., Hauwa U., Ngom, F., and Castro, E. (2020). African Ajami Library: Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/41953. For Inquiries: Please Contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Photographs of Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Caribbean Report 12-04-1999
No full text1. Headlines with anchor Debbie Ransome (00:37)2. The European Union Executive Bodies will decide on whether to appeal the ruling against its banana import arrangements issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as the WTO gives the green light favoring limited US trade sanctions against the EU import regime. Caribbean diplomat Edwin Laurent and Dr. Keith Mitchell discuss options for the Caribbean banana industry. Debbie Ransome and Ken Richards report (00:38 - 09: 47)3. A conference on banking organized by the Eastern Caribbean institute of Banking opened in Roseau, Dominica. Financial Consultant and Head of the Center for Economic Development in Barbados calls on the regional banana industry to produce high quality banana and increase production rate or be prepared for the repercussions. Deputy governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Errol Allen calls for diversification in agriculture and banking. Matthias Peltier reports (9: 48 - 12:52)4. The British Home Secretary will mount a series of measures aimed at improving the recruitment of black officers in the British police force. This measure is a result of a report which revealed that black and Asian officers face racism at work and the need to implement a long term strategy to improve race relations in Britain. Emma Joseph reports (12: 53 - 15: 32
Caribbean Report 04-10-1999
No full text1. Headlines with anchor Debbie Ransome (00:00 - 00:31)2. The US Virgin Island financially strapped Turnbull administration intends to cut 2, 500 jobs in the government sector. Trade Union leaders threaten strike action if workers are furloughed or sent home. Debbie Ransome discusses the administration’s financial options an economist at the University of Virgin Islands (00: 32 – 05: 24)3. The Venezuelan government rekindled a 100 year old dispute over the ownership of the Essequibo region, rich in mineral resources. Emma Joseph reports on the dispute with neighboring Guyana (05: 25 – 07 :30)4. Trinidad and Tobago government will take part in international trials to combat the AIDS disease. Professor Courtenay Bartholomew discusses and high incidence of AIDS infections in the Caribbean region. Tony Fraser reports (07: 31 – 10:29)train nationals abroad in the area of disaster management. On a visit to the Center of Security and Risk Management in Central England, Douglas discusses the need for training and resources in crisis management in St. Kitts and the positive contribution of the programme to the country (10: 30 - 15:52
Igbesi Aiye Chief Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (The life and times of Chief Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti)
No full textThe entire manuscript is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Hauwa Usman (Local Project Manager), Alhaji Abubakar Maikudi Aishat (General Field Facilitator). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Project Director and the Former Director of African Studies Center), and Eleni Castro (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These collections of Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s Ajami Library.
Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).
Materials in this web edition may be cited as: Kurfi, M. H., Hauwa U., Ngom, F., and Castro, E. (2020). African Ajami Library: Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/41953. For Inquiries: Please Contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Provenance / Custodial history: This manuscript is owned by Sheikh Umar Mustapha Hajji who wrote it in 2019. The manuscript is complete and is in its original form. The writer used the Mashriqi script.This Yoruba Ajami text written in 2020 is a biography of Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian activist, feminist, and the first woman in Abeokuta to drive a car. She is recognized as the first female Nigerian political activist. She is lovingly called as “The Mother of Africa.” Her full name is Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas. Mrs. Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was born on October 25, 1900 to Lucretia Phyllis Omoyeni Adeosulu and Daniel Olumeyuwa Thomas. She attended the Abeokuta Grammar School and completed her education in England. She returned to Nigeria and became a teacher. Chief Funmilayo was then married to Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in 1925. She became the leader of the Nigerian Union of Students and later joined the Nigerian Union of Teachers. This Anjemi text (Ajami in Yoruba) also highlights Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's educational, social, and political struggles as an activist, politician, and educator in Nigeria who fought for gender equality and started a campaign to help Nigerian women obtain the right to drive a car. She created the Commoners' People's Party to challenge the ruling National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC). During the Cold War, Funmilayo Kuti traveled to several countries of the Eastern Bloc, including USSR, China and Hungary. Mao Zedong met with her in 1956. She was one of the most influential people who negotiated for the independence of her country with British authorities. She died at 77 after receiving injuries from a military raid on her family property. Chief Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti is the mother of the renowned Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti (October 15, 1938–August 2, 1997) who championed Afrobeat music.The contents of this collection were developed with support of the Title VI National Resource Center grant # P015A180164 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government
The lioness of Lisabi
No full textReview of: Cheryl Johnson-Odim and Nina Emma Mba. For women and the nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 199
THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON QUORUM SENSING AND COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS IN CORAL-ASSOCIATED BACTERIA
No full textii The coral holobiont contains diverse communities of bacteria that play a role in the maintenance of coral ecosystems, however little is known about the structure and conservation of the host-bacterial relationship. Declines in coral ecosystems have been partly attributed to outbreaks of disease in tropical and sub-tropical regions, which have been linked to increasing temperatures. Bacteria are thought to play a role in some of these diseases, however little is understood about the mechanisms behind disease progression or the series of events involved in the shifts of coral-associated bacteria from conserved, potentially beneficial communities to those including potential pathogens. Investigations into a cold-water gorgonian coral, Eunicella verrucosa, have shown similar bacterial communities to those present in tropical and sub-tropical regions, with high proportions of Spongiobacter and Endozoicomonas genera, suggesting an important role for these associates in the coral holobiont irrespective of location or the presence of zooxanthellae. A shift in bacterial community with diseas
Diversity and drivers of coral reef cryptofauna communities
No full textTropical coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse ecosystems, and many species within reefs remain undiscovered, undescribed or under-studied. This is especially true of organisms living hidden within the cavities and crevices of the reef matrix, the cryptofauna. Cryptofauna, and the cryptobenthic communities they form, make up a significant portion of animal diversity within coral reefs and play functional roles vital for reef productivity and trophodynamics. Globally, coral reefs are experiencing degradation due to climate-change and direct human impacts, and face mass biodiversity loss by the end of the 21st century. To predict the impacts of projected climate change on coral reefs, we must have a comprehensive understanding of the baseline diversity and composition of the communities they harbour. This thesis explores the diversity and drivers of cryptobenthic communities across the remote and protected Chagos Archipelago Marine Protected Area (MPA)(Central Indian Ocean), an important scientific reference site for the wider Indian Ocean due to its near-pristine status and minimal local human impacts. Standardised artificial substrates named Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) were deployed across three reefs in 2018 and retrieved in 2019 and 2021 to collect image and genetic data on cryptobenthic communities.
Little research has been conducted on cryptobenthic communities in the Chagos Archipelago, and we have a poor understanding of their biodiversity across the MPA in comparison to other reefs of the Indo-Pacific. Here, a rich and highly diverse community of coral reef organisms is recovered using multi-marker (COI, 18S) metabarcoding, and significant spatial and temporal variability in the metazoan community composition of three reefs is observed. However, only 3-4% of the 18,436 COI sequence variants identified are assigned to species level. With high confidence I identify 168 fully described species, but 95% of these are not represented in online museum records which hold specimen collected from the archipelago. This indicates that the archipelago’s reef biodiversity is likely far higher than presently understood. However, less than half of the species known to inhabit the archipelago have representative sequences in this study’s classifier, which is used to assign taxonomy to sequences , highlighting how the current paucity of references databases hinders metabarcoding studies of cryptofauna.
Studies integrating biological and physical components of reef habitats are needed to understand how cryptobenthic communities may respond to shifts in environmental conditions. I show how ocean-facing and lagoonal reefs differ in environmental conditions, using seven in-situ environmental variables, and how this is reflected in the community composition of sessile cryptobenthic organisms. Internal waves are detected across ocean-facing reefs and found to maintain lower temperature conditions, and findings demonstrate the importance of using in-situ data, rather than ex-situ satellite-based data. Calcifying organism abundance significantly correlates with lower temperature profiles of ocean-facing reefs, but fleshy macroalgal abundance is associated with more variable profiles of pH and dissolved oxygen in a lagoonal habitat. Overall, results highlight habitat preferences of sessile invertebrate and algal groups within year-old communities and suggest which may be more resilient to climate-change induced increases in temperature and pH conditions.
All artificial substrates used to study coral reefs have inherent biases, and it is important to determine what those biases are when using them to study natural reefs. I compare sessile communities recovered on ARMS against those on dead tabular Acropora sp. coral, a common species in the archipelago, to help understand these biases. I find similar abundances of sponges, soft-tube worms and ascidians on both substrates, but that ARMS may significantly overestimate natural abundances of calcifying invertebrates and under-estimate those of hard corals, turf and crustose coralline algae. I also compare communities recovered, using metabarcoding, on ARMS versus those from filtered water samples (environmental DNA) collected in the vicinity. I find eDNA sampling may be a poor proxy for studying motile invertebrates, but valuable for studying sponges, as it detects 17 out of 20 most abundant sponge species as well as an additional 9 species not detected on ARMS.
Finally, I explore the use of fluorescence imaging to study ARMS sessile communities, and record 35 hard coral colonies on average per m2 across study sites. I find overall coral abundance is equal between lagoonal and ocean- facing reefs, but that coral abundance in the lagoonal reef is higher on the undersides of ARMS plates than on top of them, a pattern not observed across ocean-facing reefs and potentially driven by higher sedimentation occurring in the lagoon. This study highlights how fluorescence imaging may be a valuable additional method for the study of cryptobenthic assemblages on ARMS and I recommend its integration within the ARMS toolkit.
In summary, this thesis significantly advances the knowledge of cryptobenthic communities of the Chagos Archipelago MPA, highlights its importance as a biodiverse scientific reference site, and furthers our understanding of the ARMS methodology. Whilst further work will be needed to fully characterise cryptofauna biodiversity across these reefs, findings presented in this thesis provide a baseline for future studies of these complex communities across the Indian Ocean region
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