241 research outputs found
Diamond Jim Greene
No full textFrank Matheis\u27s hotel roomhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/bluesphoto_mat/1044/thumbnail.jp
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No full textPhotograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Even Toby Greene, Oklahoma A & m baseball coach, and Jack Baer, University of Oklahoma diamond mentor were in harmony Friday at the Failing dinner.
Sounds Local, 1995 March 17
No full textInterview with artist Claude Howell on his art style, his contributions to the UNC Wilmington art department, and painting Wilmington, North Carolina; Interview with author Phillip Manning on his new book, Palmetto Journal: Walks in the Natural Areas of South Carolina; Interview with director Kristen Graff about the musical, Diamond Studs, about outlaw Jesse James, produced by the Thalian Association Community Theater and on the main stage at Thalian Hall; Jim Trimble discusses composer Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 gaining popularity and recognition ahead of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra's performance at UNC Wilmington's Kenan Auditorium; Overview of upcoming events on the cultural calendar
Sounds Local, 1990 March 16
No full textInterview with UNC Wilmington's Director of Creative Writing Charles Fort and music composer Maxine Warshauer about the premiere of "Born on a River" (a poetic tribute to Wilmington set to music) by the Wilmington Choral Society at Thalian Hall; Interview with author and musician Bland Simpson about his work with Jim Wann before the duo perform numbers from various musicals they have written (including Diamond Studs and King Mackerel & The Blues are Running) at Thalian Hall; Interview with Southeastern Community College art teacher Christa Balash about an exhibit of Czechoslovakian artists that were once banned in the communist country; Interview with various individuals about the first Habitat for Humanity home built in Wilmington at 807 Bladen Street; Interview with director Tony Pender about the plays, Lone Star and Landry and Bourbon, produced by the Opera House Theatre Company and on stage at the Thalian Hall Studio Theater; Hall; Overview of upcoming events on the cultural calendar
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
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The holiday: Britishness and British film
No full textThe representation of the supposed free space of the holiday by a medium of mass entertainment offers a highly condensed image that demands analysis. In my thesis I question the ways in which the holiday film constructs a sense of Britishness based around the idea of community that is shaped and pressured by forces at different historical moments. Modern capitalist society offers us a structure where the holiday is presented to us as the ultimate contrast from work. It is commodified, and we choose to enter into this ideology, take our break, and return to work, refreshed. The holiday also offers a particular type of freedom, which distinguishes it from other forms of leisure. It can be considered as more of an ‘event’ than a weekend break from work, for instance. The emergence of the holiday as a form of mass entertainment for the working class appears to coincide with the birth of cinema in the same respect. By studying the holiday film I try to reveal what it tells us about British culture, the nation and British life, and how cinema audiences may have engaged with and responded to these texts
"Nun's the word": restoring Catholic faith and forming national identity in 19th century Belgium
No full textMy dissertation research proposes a transdisciplinary investigation encompassing historical and literary analyses of religious biographies of nuns that contributed to and participated in the recatholicization of Belgium throughout the 19th century. Specifically, I examine the rhetorical strategies used in early 19th century Belgian biographies of founders and restorers of post-revolutionary congregations and how they were pivotal in the restoration of the Catholic faith contributing toward Belgium's independence in 1830 and toward the political victory of Catholics in Belgium by 1884.
My literary analysis examines how the writing of religious biographies recatholicizes while acknowledging the problematic issues of control and authority in writing. This research reveals a specific Belgian religious rhetorical strategy that promoted Belgian identity as inseparable from being Catholic. As platforms to political and social agendas, the religious biographies reveal an evolution in offensive and defensive rhetorical strategies toward Enlightenment dechristianization by placing emphasis on the reader's intellectual reasoning. As spiritual platforms, the innovative use of images and words produce a devotional text that engages the reader in his spirituality. The results of this research will then question the traditional classification of these religious texts in the genre of 'biography' and ponder whether they should in fact be part of Belgian literature or biographical history canons.
My historical investigation reflects upon the social and political effects of spiritual biographical writing and seeks to analyze what the lives of nuns indicate about the revolutionary, post-revolutionary, and independent period in Belgium from 1789-1933. Specifically, it will reveal how and why congregations flourished following their suppression during the revolution; what changes were implicated in the re-foundation of some pre-revolutionary congregations; what new visions of newly founded post-revolutionary congregations helped redefine the Catholic Church's mission; and lastly why religious women rather than the traditional biographical figure of clergy members became the new muse for Catholic restoration.
In my dissertation I argue that religious biographies were not only used as weapons to counteract the anti-catholic agendas, but also served to incite nationalistic ideals under very discreet, unsuspicious titles such as, The Life of Julie Billiart, Founder of the Institute of Notre-Dame of Namur.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-351)by Natasha Roegier
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
No full textBefore New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Author Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, Gotham\u27s most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city\u27s congested waterways. Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight, from the island hunting ground of the Lenape Indians to the death of the oyster beds and the rise of America\u27s environmentalist movement, here are the stories behind Peter Stuyvesant\u27s peg leg and Robert Fulton\u27s Folly ; the oyster merchant and pioneering African American leader Thomas Downing; the birth of the business lunch at Delmonico\u27s; early feminist Fanny Fern, one of the highest-paid newspaper writers in the city; and even Diamond Jim Brady.--From publisher description.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1051/thumbnail.jp
Know this: today's most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments
No full textToday's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience, psychology, physics, economics, anthropology, climatology, or genetics. And yet amid the flood of information today, it's often difficult to recognize the truly revolutionary ideas that will have lasting impact. In the spirit of identifying the most significant new theories and discoveries, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website" -- The Guardian), asked 198 of the finest minds What do you consider the most interesting recent scientific news? What makes it important? Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond on the best way to understand complex problems * author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli on the mystery of black holes * Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker on the quantification of human progress * TED Talks curator Chris J. Anderson on the growth of the global brain * Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall on the true measure of breakthrough discoveries * Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on why the twenty-first century will be shaped by our mastery of the laws of matter * philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on the underestimation of female genius * music legend Peter Gabriel on tearing down the barriers between imagination and reality * Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson on the surprising ability of small (and cheap) upstarts to compete with billion-dollar projects. Plus Nobel laureate John C. Mather, Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy, Wired founding editor Kevin Kelly, psychologist Alison Gopnik, Genome author Matt Ridley, Harvard geneticist George Church, Why Does the World Exist? author Jim Holt, anthropologist Helen Fisher, and more
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