85 research outputs found
Island Author and Illustrator Biographies
No full textContents of Island Author and Illustrator Biographies album, complied by the Portland Public Library Peaks Island Branch. Includes:Alves, Jeanann.Bohan, Thomas Lynch. Curtis, Wayne.Dutton, Roger.Eaton, Eric.Erickson, Paul.Erikson, Patricia Pierce. Frantz, Don.Greenfield, Robert.Hawkes, Kevin.Hayman,Jim.Hersey, P.R.Hogan, Jamie.Houppert, Karen.Kershaw, Alicia. Kissen, Rita.Loewald, Elizabeth.Minott, Janice.Morse, Eleanor Lincoln.Nash, Scott.O’Brien, Anne Sibley. Richards, Margaret. Sargent-Schneider, Ruth. Schensted, Irene.Shenton, Edward (Ned).Schneller, Walter L.Sruoginis, Laima.Steinberg, Michael K.Swartz, Helene.Webster, Susan Hiester.Wetterau, John Moncure.Whitman, Claudia. Wyman, Lowry.
Also included are notes for the Peaks Island Elementary School children authors of Many Friendshttps://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/peaks_author_biographies/1000/thumbnail.jp
Melt season dynamics in a High Arctic estuarine tidal flat: A microbial perspective
No full textThe substantial influx of freshwater to High Arctic coastal ecosystems influences nutrient, organic matter, and sediment dynamics, stratification, and light availability throughout the melt season. These changes shape pelagic microbial community composition and functioning, though little is known about impacts on nearshore benthic bacteria. Globally, mudflats are hotspots for biogeochemical cycling, and expected climate change driven increases in terrestrial runoff to coastal areas have highlighted a need to understand the influence these inputs from land might have on Arctic estuarine tidal flat bacteria. In this study, I investigated microbial community composition and function in an estuarine tidal flat through a full melt season, using a combined approach of metabarcoding and carbon-source utilization assays under different salinity treatments. I found that bacterial communities varied through both space and time, as environmental conditions shifted due to riverine inputs and local processes, with salinity as a key structuring gradient. Arctic freshwater bacteria demonstrated higher capacities for degrading a wider range of carbon substrates than Arctic marine microbial communities, indicating higher potential for degradation of complex terrestrially derived organic material in freshwater systems. Terrestrial and riverine taxa were transported with melt water and deposited in sediments, composing up to 60% of sequences in downstream communities. However, their unique functional capabilities appear to be inhibited by the high salinities found in subtidal mudflats, and the highest potential for utilization of terrestrially derived organic matter may be limited to areas where sediments are permeated by freshwater. With anticipated increases in riverine discharge and permafrost thaw in a warming Arctic, tidal flats will likely be more frequently inundated with freshwater and the resident bacteria will have increased access to bioavailable terrestrial organic matter, extending the region where terrestrial organic matter can be readily utilized by microbial communities further towards the sea
Learning by living: the interdependence of personal and political influences on Eleanor Roosevelt's civil rights activism
No full textWhile there are many books, articles, and other resources that discuss Eleanor Roosevelt’s life, work, and contributions to the causes of social, economic, and political equality in the United States, few consider at length the impact that her personal relationships with civil rights activists had on her political evolution over the course of her life. Recent biographies have acknowledged these relationships but do not delve deeply into the ways that Roosevelt was influenced over time by the interdependence between the external events of the outside world and the friendships that she formed with activists such as NAACP Executive Director Walter White, stateswoman and educator Mary McLeod Bethune, and most significantly, the lawyer, educator, and writer, Pauli Murray. To this end, this thesis will examine Roosevelt’s political and public writings, her personal correspondence, Pauli Murray’s autobiographies, oral history interviews, and correspondence with others, as well as secondary sources, including books, articles, essays, and other scholarship on Eleanor Roosevelt, her friendships and political relationships, and the same on Murray and her life, work, and identity.M.A.Includes bibliographical reference
The women from Rhodesia: an auto-ethnographic study of immigrant experience and [Re] aggregration in Western Australia
No full textThis thesis examines the positioning of white, English-speaking, immigrant women from Africa to Australia. I explore the effects that minimal differences have on issues of identity. Notions of identity, memory, and belonging are contrasted with white settlement in Rhodesia in the last century. My personal history and the desire to write a thesis relevant to the Australian experience led me to ask, How do women from a privileged background, from Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, understand their experiences as immigrants to Australia? The relevance lies in the perception that Australia is populated by immigrants and this research interrogates at a deeper level some specific issues presented by this sample group and my interpretation of their experiences augments the literature in this area. I questioned (individually) a small group of immigrants using unstructured interviews; the use of my own experiences and 'long/desk drawer' makes the study significantly autobiographical. Notions of migration into Australia from Southern Africa are explored using theories and themes of rites de passage. I interrogate the meanings attributed to assimilation and integration in immigration and connect these to the theory. Identity, memory, and reflection are discussed in the context of separation from Africa and integration into Australia. The similarities and differences and embodied history (habitus) that shape us, interweave the trope of rites de passage, uncovering a multiplicity of identity-attributed, assumed, and self-determined. I examine the ways in which Australians of Anglo-Saxon and British origin tend to position English-speaking immigrants from non-British backgrounds as outsiders and suggest that this attribution has more to do with similarities than differences. Reflection and discussion of other times and places reveals how memories intersect with 'new' lives in Australia and the complexities of time in migration as rites de passage make possible an exploration of present experience shadowing earlier experience. Finally, I discover that identity and belonging as continually negotiated spaces are illuminated by the contrast I drew between assimilation and integration as conceptual tools in understanding the migrant experience
Books on the Pacific northwest for small libraries,
No full textArranged under subjects, with author index.Mode of access: Internet
The invisible artist: Arrangers in popular music (1950-2000): Their contribution and techniques
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University.This thesis is based on the research conducted by the author for the series,
Richard Niles' History of Pop Arranging, seven thirty-minute documentary
programmes for BBC Radio 2, researched, written and presented by the author and
broadcast in 2003. It also draws on interviews conducted by the author (and other
research) between 2002 and 2007 both for the radio series and for this thesis and on
the author's experience as a professional arranger in popular music working with
many of the genre's significant recording artists including Paul McCartney, Ray
Charles, Cher, Tina Turner, Westlife, Tears For Fears, Dusty Springfield, James
Brown, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue and producers including Trevor Hom, Steve
Lipson, Steve Mac and Steve Anderson.
It will be argued that the role of the arranger in popular music has often been
undervalued and that during a critical period of popular music history (1950-2000)
arrangers played a significant part in the evolution of musical content. This thesis is,
to the best of the author's knowledge, the first time (apart from the above mentioned
documentary) the subject has ever been examined. The arranger is "invisible" because musical arrangers are often un-credited on
record liner notes or in books or articles concerning popular music. A considerable
amount of research has been necessary to determine who wrote many of the
arrangements considered herein. Motown's Berry Gordy purposely kept the names of
musicians and arrangers off the records because he feared others might 'poach' the
trademark 'Motown Sound'. Other record labels considered the job of the arranger to
be reminiscent of an earlier era, diluting the Rock 'n' Roll image of emotion and
spontanaeity they wished to promote. Some producers and recording artists disliked
sharing credit for their work. Motown arranger David Van dePitte told the author that
arranging was "thankless and anonymous - a very service-oriented profession where
others often take credit for what you've done." Arranging has therefore remained an
intrinsically unseen art created by 'invisible' artists. By analyzing many recordings,
revealing the techniques and concepts they have used in their work to create popular
records, arrangers and their art will be made more 'visible'
Chronicle (Paterson, NJ) Vol. 29, No. 17, Apr. 28, 1957
No full textLocal information pertaining to Paterson, N.J. and surrounding Passaic County. Issues may include events, government, business, political cartoons, engagement and marriage announcements, and birth announcements. This publication was also known as the Paterson Chronicle (1952) and the Paterson Sunday Chronicle (1951-1952)
Sarah Fielding: Satire and Subversion in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
No full textThis study of Sarah Fielding (1710―68) is an original contribution to Fielding scholarship that has a dual purpose: to support those who are striving to re-introduce her to the modern literary landscape in an effort to restore her eighteenth-century literary standing, and to firmly establish Fielding as an early feminist writer. It is argued here that throughout her oeuvre Fielding challenged prevailing traditions that denied women a choice, particularly in education, employment and marriage. These themes are also considered in the political treatises of Mary Astell (1666―1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759―97), who are now widely recognised as feminist writers.
It is further argued that Fielding’s subversion in fiction of the English patriarchal system is underscored by her unorthodox performance in the literary arena. This is fully explored alongside her use of sentimentalism as a literary tool with which she challenges her seemingly inhumane society. Fielding’s interest in ‘the Labyrinths of the Mind’ (in modern terms, human psychology) will also be addressed as will her placement in the history of feminism and her placement in the sentimental novel tradition. Fielding’s performance as a literary critic will be compared with the few female authors who, like her, dared to publish literary criticism during her writing career. Accordingly, extracts from Fielding’s novels and her two critical pamphlets will be thoroughly examined.
An updated biography of Fielding that is also included here will provide evidence for a further claim, that her fiction is autobiographical in part. A comprehensive account of Fielding’s performance as a literary critic forms the final chapter of this work. It is the first full-length examination of her contribution to the genre and includes an appraisal of her recently unearthed critical pamphlet entitled A Comparison Between the Horace of Corneille and The Roman Father of Mr. Whitehead (1750) that is yet to be formerly attributed to her. Ultimately this study of Fielding will go far beyond what has previously been written about this remarkable eighteenth-century author, particularly regarding her feminist activity
Chronicle (Paterson, NJ), Vol. 24, No. 8, Feb. 24, 1952
No full textLocal information pertaining to Paterson, N.J. and surrounding Passaic County. Issues may include events, government, business, political cartoons, engagement and marriage announcements, and birth announcements. This publication was also known as the Paterson Chronicle (1952) and the Paterson Sunday Chronicle (1951-1952)
Chronicle (Paterson, NJ) Vol. 29, No. 26, July 30, 1957
No full textLocal information pertaining to Paterson, N.J. and surrounding Passaic County. Issues may include events, government, business, political cartoons, engagement and marriage announcements, and birth announcements. This publication was also known as the Paterson Chronicle (1952) and the Paterson Sunday Chronicle (1951-1952)
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