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Historical experiences, collective memory and willingness to fight for one’s country: Comments on Paez et al. (2008)
No full textThis paper considers Paez et al.’s (2008) article ‘“Remembering” World War II and willingness to fight: Sociocultural factors in the social representation of historical warfare across 22 societies.’ Despite the importance of their focus on social representations of history and willingness to fight for one’s country, it is argued that Paez et al.’s paper features a number of methodological flaws. Specifically, the way in which key variables (historical experience, collective memory and willingness to fight for one’s country) are operationalized is especially problematic. The implications of these weaknesses for their conceptual conclusions are discussed briefly, as are the more general limitations of statistical analyses of survey data for addressing these issues
Gibson Girl
No full textFrom Sketches and Cartoons. A Gibson Girl in the full hairstyle of 1898. To cover the forehead, it is drawn to one side. This line is sometimes called a teapot handl
Gibson Girl
No full textFrom Sketches and Cartoons. Women begin to partake in active sports and office work. This Gibson Girl is in the new blouse and skirt combination. The blouse, a copy if the male shirt, is often finished with a tie. By 1898 sleeves are more normally shaped. The skirt is usually of tailored blue serg
Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
Supporting the Troops, Serving the Country: Rhetorical Commonplaces in the Representation of Military Service
No full textWhen Tony Blair announced the beginning of military action in Iraq on 20th March 2003, he concluded his address by saying, ‘As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest’ (BBC News, 2003, my italics). It is one of the basic contentions of this chapter that, in the United Kingdom at least, the representation of military service as ‘serving the country’ – or more broadly as involving some form of ‘patriotic’ sentiment – constitutes a cultural commonplace which can be invoked to perform particular rhetorical functions in relation to military service. Blair’s statement provides a particularly dramatic example of the characterization of military service as ‘serving our country’, coming as it does in the announcement which formally signalled the beginning of British involvement in a controversial war. Yet the dramatic nature of announcing the commencement of military action perhaps belies the more routine glossing of military personnel as ‘serving our country’. Indeed, this was perhaps one of the least controversial passages in this speech
Introduction: Representations of Peace and Conflict
No full textIn one of the most grimly effective depictions of nuclear war, the film Threads (Hines & Jackson, 1984/2005) traces the build-up to and aftermath of a nuclear attack on the United Kingdom. At first barely noticed by the film’s main characters, the media reports of escalating tensions in a distant conflict form a backdrop to the everyday lives and concerns of a young couple and their families in early 1980s Sheffield. The conflict swiftly escalates as the Cold War powers become involved, and when the first nuclear strike occurs one of the most disturbing portrayals of the sheer futility of war begins to unfold. The viewer is left in no doubt that things can never be the same again – not for the film’s principal characters, nor for humanity as a whole. The closing scenes depict a barren and desolate landscape, some 13 years after the war, in which the remaining humans live a brutal husk of a life. In this post-apocalyptic world, communication is reduced to a series of barely recognizable grunts and fragments of words. Language itself has been degraded as all sense of meaningful existence is lost
Correspondence and Enclosure from Stephen B. Bright, June 7, 1994
No full textA letter to Joseph E. Lowery from Stephen Bright, the director for the Southern Center for Human Rights, in which Bright encloses a copy of the commencement address he gave at Yale Law School on May 23, 1994. 9 pages.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
AC-6-U.S. Naval Planes Flying in Formation, Langley Field, VA/Thank-You Card from Stephen Tury to the Hungarian Defense Council.
No full textThis postcard, which depicts U.S. Naval planes flying in formation, was sent to the Hungarian Defense Council by Private Stephen Tury. The Council was organized in New Brunswick by leaders of local Hungarian churches and societies. During the Second World War it sent supplies, such as the carton of cigarettes Tury is thanking it for, to members of the military of Hungarian descent from the New Brunswick area
Architecture in tension: an examination of the position of the architect in the private and public sectors, focusing on the training and careers of Sir Basil Spence (1907-1976) and Sir Donald Gibson (1908-1991)
Full text linkIn the early 1900s tensions began to appear within the architectural profession,
as private practitioners struggled to deal with the implications of professional
colleagues moving into public sector employment. Sir Basil Spence and Sir
Donald Gibson began their architectural training in the mid-1920s and, as
tensions between the sectors intensified, Spence entered private practice and
Gibson chose to enter the public sector. Each became an exemplar of his
chosen sector of the profession and yet both have, until recently, escaped
critical attention. The tensions between the public and private sectors of the
profession have been acknowledged within the historiography, but not received
detailed analysis.
This thesis advances the current historiography by presenting an examination
of the division between the sectors, focusing on the relationship between the
RIBA and the public sector union AASTA and assessing the influence of
AASTA on Gibson's Coventry City Architect's Department.
Through an examination of archival material, contemporary published material,
and buildings, this thesis builds on the work of the Sir Basil Spence Archive
Project, adding detailed accounts of his early life, architectural training, and
RIBA presidency, presenting new information and correcting certain aspects of
the accepted historiography. It likewise presents new information on Gibson's
early life and training and his central role in achieving improved status and
representation for the public sector. An analysis of selected projects provides a
comparative study of their contrasting approaches to architecture: the
technically informed, collaborative team-work of Gibson and the individual
artistry of Spence.
Both men played pivotal roles in reforming the RIBA and in changing public and
professional perceptions of the architect, nevertheless, the long lineage and
complex nature of tensions within the profession meant that the public/private
division was never be bridged and issues of status and representation
remained essentially immutable
Author Stephen Flynn Discusses Resiliency
Full text linkCenter for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESOn September 25, Author Stephen E. Flynn stopped by the Center’s National Capital Region campus to speak with CHDS Master’s degree students about his latest book, answer questions and discuss..
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