4 research outputs found
The Fighting First the untold story of the Big Red One on D-Day
No full text"The Fighting First is the previously untold story of the 1st Infantry Division's part in the D-Day invasion of France at Normandy. Using a variety of primary sources, official records, interviews, and unpublished memoirs by the veterans themselves, author Flint Whitlock has crafted a story of courage under fire. Operation Overlord - the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 - was arguably the most important battle of World War II, and Omaha Beach was the hottest spot in the entire operation. Leading the amphibious assault on the Easy Red and Fox Green sectors of Omaha Beach was the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division - the Big Red One - a battle-hardened outfit with a fine combat record. The saga of the Big Red One, however, did not end with the storming of the beachhead. The author concludes with an account of the 1st in their fight across France and Belgium and into Germany itself, playing pivotal roles in the bloody battles for Aachen, the Huertgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge. The Fighting First is an inspiring, graphic, and often heartbreaking story of young American soldiers performing their D-Day missions with spirit, humor, and determination."--BOOK JACKET
Exploring engineering students’ understanding of their professional responsibility by using living library of case studies
No full textIn a living library, individuals (referred to as "human books") volunteer to share their personal experiences and perspectives with "readers" (other people) through face-to-face conversations. Living libraries were introduced in the 2000 and have become popular as a means to draw attention to sensitive topics, tackle stereotypes and challenge prejudices. In engineering education, ethics is a subject that students show disinterest and resistance, and disengage with (Polmear et al., 2018; Romkey, 2015; Cech, 2014). There is a prejudice of the significance of ethics for engineering work rooted in the depolitisation of the curriculum and a hierarchisation of sciences that sees technical subjects as superior (Martin et al, 2021). To address this prejudice, the author introduced in the course “Decisions Under Risk and Uncertainty” a living library of 4 “human books” recounting in a 1h30min dialogue with students the ethical dilemmas encountered in their practice and the way they pursued their responsibility. These course sessions can be considered live and interactive ethics case studies, featuring Zach Pirtle (NASA), Ben Pauli (author “Flint Fights Back”), Laura Nolan (whistleblower Google Project Maven and volunteer for Stop Killer Robots) and Diana Bairaktarova (Virginia Tech). At the end of the course, students submitted a reflective assignment where they chose one “human book” and were asked to discuss how they view their responsibility as future engineers and how their understanding has changed after the session with their chosen individual. In this study, we analyse student reflections to map how responsibility is articulated upon the exposure to the living library of ethics case studies. The study found that macroethical understanding of responsibility prevail, with each case study highlighting different macroethical issues related to power dynamics, stakeholder engagement, collective action, and epistemic gaps between experts and ‘laypeople’. This finding suggests that having engineering professionals present and discuss with students the ethical dilemmas encountered in practice may be a way to broaden students’ understanding of their professional responsibility, while exposing students to the variety of ethical issues engineers need to consider
A Better and Truer Self: The Harris Brothers in Reconstructed North Carolina
No full textLike many other Southern states recovering from the blows of the Civil War, the 1870s found North Carolina slowly rebuilding its infrastructures and attempting to adjust to post bellum society. The physical and economic effects of slavery were not eradicated during the Reconstruction era (1865 – 1877), and the practices of the former plantations still held the land in a faded southern grandeur. Born in a small town in the heart of tobacco-rich, northeastern North Carolina, the Harris brothers ¾ Osborne Jr. (1850-1932), Scotland (1869-1953), Cicero (1867-1940), Thomas (1873-1929), William (1871-?) Hilliard (1856-1930), and Governor Ellis, known as “G. Ellis” (1861—1933) ¾ were the grandsons of their former slave master, Thomas Whitmell Harris.[1] Raised on the “Sunnyside” plantation, a 100-acre tract of land purchased by their father, Osborne Sr., from his father (and master), each of the brothers received primary-level education in a segregated, one-room school before matriculating at St. Augustine\u27s Normal School, an institution founded by the Episcopal Church in 1867 to train the newly-manumitted slaves as teachers.[2]
These men asserted their rights to equality in the new American nation through their quest for education, land ownership, socio-political activity, and religious freedom. During a time of rising and increased racism, when much of the South was focused on undermining the rights guaranteed by the Reconstruction Amendments, the Harris brothers fought back. While many freedmen were reduced to a state of peonage, the Harris men represent the struggles of a rising black middle class, which would, after many trials, establish itself in America.
For the purposes of this study, I would define members of the black middle class as those who are literate (and encouraged literacy for all black Americans), involved in their communities (particularly in the spiritual sphere), financially independent, politically active, and focused on their families. Black Americans seized these aspects of their identities to claim their independence from the cultural destruction of nearly four centuries of slavery. I would also consider these aspects as vehicles of both personal and community protest.
[1] Doris Harris Carroll, interview by author. Flint, MI. January 2013
[2] Carroll, interview by author
Helicopsyche turbida Navas
No full textHelicopsyche turbida Navás (Figs 4–6) Helicopsyche turbida Navás 1923: 200 [Type locality: Argentina, Alta Gracia; MZBS; female]. Schmid 1949: 419 [male, female; redescription]. Flint 1967 [as synonym of H. muelleri]; 1982 [as valid species]. FIGURE. 4. Helicopsyche turbida Navás 1923, adult male: 4 A, habitus, left lateral; 4 B, genitalia, left lateral; 4 C, genitalia, dorsal.; 4 D, inferior appendages, ventral; 4 E, phallic apparatus, left lateral. ix=segment IX; x=segment X; ap=preanal appendages; ai=inferior appendages. The female of this species was described by Navás (1923). The redescription made by Schmid (1949) does not include characters of the male phallic apparatus. Flint (1967) considered this species as a synonym of H. muelleri, a species that is also recorded for the study area, but later the same author (Flint 1982) separated the species again. Helicopsyche turbida is recognizable by the basomesal lobe of the inferior appendage which is round and fused with the internal margin of the inferior appendage, whereas in H. muelleri the lobe is longer and is not fused with the internal margin of the inferior appendage. Adult (Fig. 4). Mean length of each forewing: 6.5 mm (6–7, n= 12). Maxillary palps each two-segmented in male and female. Generally light brown with yellowish spots on legs. Abdominal sternites III–IV with reticulate pattern (Fig. 4 A). Lobe of sternite VI absent. Male genitalia (Fig. 4). Segment IX annular, with posterior margin slightly sinuous; anterior margin broadened medially in lateral view (Fig. 4 B: ix). Tergum X with apex slightly broadened and round in lateral view (Fig. 4 B: x); with short subapicolateral spines and long subapicodorsal setae and with shallow U–shaped apical excision and Y–shaped re-inforcing sclerotization in dorsal view (Fig. 4 C). Preanal appendages small and round (Fig. 4 B: ap). Inferior appendages large, apicodorsally broadened with serrate posteroventral margin bearing setae in lateral view (Fig. 4 B: ai). In ventral view (Fig. 4 D), inferior appendages curved, each with internal margin concave, basal process round and bearing short and strong spines, apex curved mesad and blunt. Phallic apparatus slightly curved, with dorsal apex membranous and internal sclerite oval (Fig. 4 E). FIGURE. 5. Helicopsyche turbida Navás 1923, larva: 5 A, head, dorsal.; 5 B, head, ventral; 5 C, labrum, dorsal; 5 D, mandibles, ventral; 5 E, pronotum, dorsal; 5 F, mesonotum, dorsal; 5 G, metanotum, dorsal; 5 H, right foreleg, right posterolateral; 5 I, right midleg, right posterolateral; 5 J, right hind leg, right posterolateral. 5 th instar larva (Figs. 5–6). Mean total length: 8.0 mm (7.9–8.1, n= 10). Head round in dorsal view with frontoclypeus and adjoining parietal areas nearly flat and margined with semicircular carina (Fig. 5 A). Head generally light brown with pale spots on anterior area of frontoclypeus, around stemmata, and around frontoclypeal excision; posterior area of frontoclypeus and lateral sclerites of head with light brown muscle scars (Fig. 5 A). Head in ventral view (Fig. 5 B) lighter than dorsal area, bearing brown muscle scars (Fig. 5 B). Mandibles as in Fig. 5 D. Labrum translucent, with many short setae on anterior margin and 6 longer setae on mesodorsal area (Fig. 5 C). Pronotum light brown with dark muscle scars and postero–internal angles uncolored; spines of anterior margin yellowish; bearing scarce short setae on anterior area of each pronotal plate (Fig. 5 E). Mesonotum lighter than pronotum with muscle scars in various brown shades; posterior margins angulate (Fig. 5 F). Metanotum with 2 pairs of sclerites, anteromesal one (sa 1) subtriangular and not subdivided, and posterolateral sclerite (fused sa 2 and sa 3 sclerites) irregular and larger than anteromesal one (Fig. 5 G). Thoracic legs with chaetotaxy as in Figs 5 H–J. Anal prolegs each with lateral sclerite curved; anal claw elongate with accessory parallel teeth pectinate, arranged as comb; basal tooth bigger than apical ones (Fig. 6 A). Larval case. Mean anterior diameter: 5.0 mm (n= 10). Similar that of H. obscura sp. nov. Pupa (Fig. 6). Mean body length: 5.0 mm (4.9–5.1, n= 10). Generally light brown. Mandibles with wide bases, each twice as long as basal width, with internal margin serrate (Fig. 6 B). Abdominal tergites II–V each with pair of anterior dorsal hook plates; tergite IV with paired anterior and posterior hook plates. Hook plates of abdominal segment II asymmetrical. Detail of dorsal hook plates in Fig. 6 C. Terminal segment bearing two divergent, digitate processes with wide bases, each process bearing 1 subapical and 3 apical setae (Fig. 6 D). Biological notes. The larvae of H. turbida were collected in environments similar to those of H. obscura sp. nov. The adults were collected during the day, especially at midday when the sun was high. Distribution. Argentina. Material examined. Male Holotype: ARGENTINA: Catamarca: Arroyo El Pintado, Cerca de La Viña, 18.x. 1973, O. S. Flint Jr. col., 1 male (NMNH). Cordoba: Alta Gracia, Sierras de Córdoba, 28.i. 1927, C. Briuch col., 1 male (NMNH). Salta: Metán, Río Las Conchas, 2528 '05''S, 06503'00'' W, 935 m, 9.xi. 2005, Molineri col., 1 male (IBN). Tucumán: Río La Hoyada (Garabatal), 2642 '04''S, 06531' 29 ''W, 1270 m, 12.ix. 2006. E. Domínguez et al. cols., 1 male (IBN); Río Grande, 20.x.05, 15 males (IBN); Río San Javier, 21.iv. 2004, Rueda Martín col., 2 males, 9 larvae (IBN); Río Los Noques, 21.iv. 2009, Rueda Martín col., 2 male metamorphotypes, 29 larvae, 24 pupae (IBN). Compared material. H. muelleri: BRASIL: Santa Catarina: N 18, F. Müller col., 1 male (NMNH).Published as part of Rueda Martín, Paola A. & Miranda, Águeda Verónica Isa, 2015, Association of immature stages of some caddisfly species from northwestern Argentina with description of a new species of Helicopsyche (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae), pp. 203-216 in Zootaxa 3949 (2) on pages 208-211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3949.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/24038
