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Defending “Something Special”: A Portrait of One School’s Response to Instability
No full textDrawing primarily on interviews with a variety of teachers and other staff at a large urban Title-1 public school in California, Victoria Theisen-Homer paints an ethnographic portrait of how school personnel respond to undesirable changes. Although the school in this study, Skyline High School, had begun to thrive and most of the staff felt their school was “special,” the changes - including increased accountability in preparation for the school’s accreditation audit, turnover and conflicts among school leaders, and crippling budget cuts that removed staff and resources – threatened to compromise the school’s nascent success. While most of the participants in this study complained of the school’s declining culture and attributed this to similar issues, their responses to these factors differed significantly; their differing attempts to improve the situation ultimately served to further divide teachers and leaders in consequential ways. The author concludes with recommendations for educational leaders, policymakers, and teachers who intend to shepherd schools through similar times of change
Victoria Claflin Woodhull portrait
No full textReproduction of a portrait depicting Victoria Claflin Woodhull from Homer, Ohio. Woodhull was one of the most controversial women of the 19th century. Rejecting conventional women's roles, she toured the country speaking on such topics as women's rights and social reform for women. In 1871, she testified before Congress in an attempt to gain women's rights through the citizenship guarantees of the 14th and 15th amendments. When Congress denied her claims, Woodhull decided to run for president of the United States the following year as the Equal Rights Party Candidate. She and her sister Tennessee Claflin became the first women to own and operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, and also published a newspaper titled "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly." Woodhull was at the center of many scandals and eventually even the most radical members of the woman's rights movement tried to distance themselves from her. She moved to England in 1877 and later married an Englishman. She died in 1927
African American Storyteller, Victoria A. Casey McDonald
No full textIn the deep resonance of storyteller Victoria A. Casey McDonald’s voice, you will hear her tell stories about growing up in Western North Carolina, and the kind of Christmas she had as a child. The late Victoria was our friend, a CSA board member, author, and “Stories of Mountain Folk” interviewer
Art Forum - Lynn, Victoria
No full text4 September 2002. -- Victoria Lynn is a distinguished curator and writer who has worked in the field of contemporary and Australian visual arts over the last two decades. She has recently been appointed Director of Creative Development at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, an innovative exhibition venue located at Federation Square in Melbourne, due to open later this year. She is currently Chair of the Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council. From 1991 to 2001 she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the numerous exhibitions she has curated have received substantial critical acclaim. She is the author of many articles, catalogue essays and edited collections, and books on artists Marion Borgelt and Eugene Carchesio. In her lecture she will discuss both Australian and International work, the challenges at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and the different modes and understandings of what the moving image can and might be understood as
Black Fashion Designers Symposium: Dr. Victoria Rovine “Fashion in Africa and Beyond”
No full textDr. Victoria Rovine, “Fashion in Africa and Beyond” at The Museum at FIT's annual fashion symposium, Black Fashion Designers, held on Monday, February 6, 2017. The one-day symposium featured talks by designers, models, journalists, and scholars on African diasporic culture and fashion.Victoria Rovine is an associate professor of art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear
Greek and Roman Perceptions of the Afterlife in Homer’s \u3cem\u3eIliad\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eOdyssey\u3c/em\u3e and Virgil’s \u3cem\u3eAeneid\u3c/em\u3e
Get PDFThis study is a literary analysis of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid. Of specific interest are the interactions of Achilles, Odysseus, and Aeneas with their beloved dead. I focused on what each party, both the living and the dead, wanted and the results of their interaction. Methods included reading passages from the ancient Greek and Latin texts and integrating these with historical evidence of beliefs in the mid-eighth century BC for the Greeks, and in the late first century BC for the Romans. Homer significantly influenced the religious beliefs of the Greeks, while Virgil did not similarly affect Roman religion
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Progress of Victoria : a statistical essay / by William Henry Archer.
No full textAt head of title: Intercolonial Exhibition essays, 1866.; "Intended as an introductory handbook to the annually-published Statistics of Victoria" -- Pref.; Written by author in his capacity as Registrar-General of Victoria.; Includes index.; Ferguson, J.A. Australia, 6085; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2009
Bathing in Homer
No full textBathing and washing are important features of Homeric aristocratic life.
Generally two distinct verbs are used to describe washing and bathing. A number of more specialized words are derived from these basic verbs. All occurrences of these words are listed and studied.
Personal hygiene was not important to a Homeric hero. People did not bathe because they needed to but because they were expected to. Bathing and washing were acts of purification. The washing of hands before meals, prayers, and sacrifices is discussed as is the role of bathing in the requirements of friendship. The use of an elaborate formula to describe the washing of hands before meals suggests it was an important action. While on these occasions water is specifically prepared for the washing this was not always necessary. On two occasions sea water is used for purification.
Very little detail is given in Homer about where and how people bathe. From looking at each instance a general picture can be drawn. The man gets into the bath where he is bathed, anointed and dressed by a woman. He then joins an assembled group for a meal.
People bathe for a variety of reasons. Analysis of these shows that the women who wash or undergo any type of beautification do so for the benefit of a man. The men however bathe for many reasons both religious and customary but never to please any one woman. When people wash for the wrong reasons it reflects very badly on their characters.
This study of bathing in Homer reveals an important link between bathing, social status, civilization, and most importantly the home. This is seen to apply to both mortals and immortals as the bathing of Ares and Aphrodite symbolizes their return and acceptance home. A mark of a civilized man is that he has a home, somewhere he is both respected and loved
Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFThe authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics
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