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'If I should die tonight' poem
No full textHumorous poem copied by Harrison Kerr and written by Benjamin Franklin King ca. 1890. The poem, titled "If I should die tonight," jokes about money owed to the author and the shock he would experience at being repaid upon his death. It was written as a parody of a serious contemporary poem of the same title.
Harrison Henry Kerr (1839-1901), born in North Georgetown, Ohio, served along with his brother, Ezra, as a private in Company D of the 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, on December 29, 1862., and held for three months before being exchanged and returning to his regiment. He was discharged on January 14, 1865. Following the war, he was married to Elizabeth (Rettig) Kerr. The two lived in Cleveland and had one son, Harrison McKinley Kerr. In 1888, he joined the Memorial Post No. 141, Grand Army of the Republic. He is buried in North Georgetown Cemetery
Viola M. Harrison letter to Lucile Atcherson, August 14, 1914
No full textOn August 14, 1914, the executive secretary of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, Viola M. Harrison, sent this letter to Lucile Atcherson, a suffragist in central Ohio and executive secretary of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. Harrison wrote to Atcherson to confirm that the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association's state banner, which had been on loan with the FCWSA, had arrived safely in Lincoln, Nebraska. Harrison also congratulated Atcherson on a successful petition event in Ohio, and expressed her hopes for both Ohio and Nebraska to achieve equal suffrage for women.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
Tony Harrison : a war poet
No full text"Tony Harrison poeta di guerra contemporaneo" (Tony Harrison: A Contemporary War Poet): come tradurre il linguaggio della guerra, aspetti lessicali e discorsivi
L'intervento all'interno della tavola rotonda ripercorre una selezione di componimenti dell'autore dedicati al conflitto e alla guerra, ed esamina le scelte traduttive nelle versioni in italiano. In particolare, sono esaminati gli aspetti lessicali e discorsivi che emergono sia dagli originali sia dalle traduzioni, in un'ottica comparatistica anglo-italiana. Viene inoltre proposto un confronto con il più famoso gruppo di war poets, quelli che hanno scritto della prima guerra mondiale, i.e. Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Philip Larkin, Rupert Brooke, Herbert Read, W.N. Hodgson, Wilfred Gibson.
L'intervento parte dalla considerazione che, quando si nominano i “war poets” della letteratura inglese, ci si riferisce prettamente a Sassoon e poeti coevi, che hanno descritto la prima guerra mondiale. Tuttavia, ci sono ovviamente state altre guerre dopo quella, così come ci sono stati altri poeti che ne hanno cantato la storia. Successivamente, ci si concentra su Tony Harrison, noto come un poeta di guerra, e si affrontano le seguenti domande di ricerca.
- Di quale guerra è poeta TH?
- come è cambiata la guerra dalla WWI?
- come è cambiato il poeta di guerra?
- come è cambiato il linguaggio del poeta di guerra?
Le risposte a tali domande e le relative considerazioni sono corredate da esempi da confronti di poesie di Tony Harrison e dei poeti della prima guerra mondiale, tratti da entrambe le versioni inglese e italiana e analizzati anche in prospettiva comparatistica
Yan'an (China), Harrison Forman with Chinese communist officials
No full textPrint 1678 c2 and c3: This group photograph was made in Yanan [Yan'an] in 1944. In the front row, from right to left: General Lin Piao [Lin Biao]..General Ho Lung [He Long]..Chou En-lai [Zhou Enlai]..two officials..General Chu Teh [Zhu De] (then Army Commander-in-Chief)..two officials..Harrison Forman..General Wang Chen [Wang Zhen] (bald) one of the most famous of the Red Generals at the time. In the back row are a miscellany of Chinese and European reporters, all but one of them had returned to Chungking [Chongqing] after a two week stay. After an extended sojourn in Yanan [Yan'an], with frequent talks with Mao Tse-tung [Mao Zedong], et al, I then went up to the war fronts where I spent three months in combat operations against the Japanese.GrayscaleForman Nitrate Negatives, Box 3
CANCELLED: Author and Activist Maggie Harrison Lowery to Speak
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2018). CANCELLED: Author and Activist Maggie Harrison Lowery to Speak. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/223946
Scott Harrison: Founder and CEO of Charity: Water and New York Times Best-Selling Author
No full textScott Harrison spent almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia. Returning to New York two years later, he founded the nonprofit organization charity: water in 2006.
To address the global water crisis and help the world\u27s 663 million people without clean water to drink, charity: water has raised more than $350 million and funded nearly 30,000 water projects in 26 countries. When completed, those projects will provide more than 8.5 million people with safe drinking water.
He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and author of the New York Times bestselling book Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
Harrison Forman Diary China, January-May 1942
No full textThis diary written by Harrison Forman begins on January 10, 1942, just one month after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in the United States, meanwhile, the Second Sino-Japanese War continues in China. On horseback, Forman rides through the deserted streets of Changsha (capital of Hunan province, southeastern China) and reports civilians returning home as the Japanese retreat to the north. Forman travels to Hongshan where he witnessed the cremated remains of Japanese soldiers. On January 11, 1942, Forman interviews Jsueh Yueh (Xue Yue), the Chinese Nationalist General and Commander-in-Chief responsible for the victories over the Japanese at the Second and Third Battles for Changsha. General Xue Yue explained the tactics which contributed to success. Forman then travels the Hsiang River by boat, then by train to Hengyang (south central Hunan province, 110 miles south of Changsha, seat of the Nationalist Party military government) and Kwielin (now Guilin) in the northeastern Zhuang Autonomous region of Guangxi southern China. Forman describes supply trucks arriving from Linchow (now Lanzhou) delivering goods for soldiers and civilians. According to Forman, merchants had begun to stockpile goods after the fall of I-ch’ang (now Yichang, an area heavily bombed and taken by the Japanese Army in 1940) and in fear of fighting in Rangoon (now Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)). Forman mentions Kunming in southwestern China, where the U.S. Major General Claire L. Chennault, founder of the volunteer air squadron the Flying Tigers, were guarding against the Japanese forces. Chinese Nationalist Government officials are mentioned, such as T.S. Tsiang (Tsiang Tingfu, historian and diplomat), Wang Wen-hao (Weng Wen-ho, geologist, educator, and Minister of Economy, 1938-1947), and Wu Ting-chang (Wu Dingchang, Minister of Economic Affairs, 1935). Other notable figures mentioned are, Feng Yachsiang (Feng Yuxiang, Christian General and Chiang Kai-shek supporter), Quo Tai-chi (Dr. Quo Tai-chi, first Chinese representative to Britain, 1932-1940; named foreign minister by Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, 1941), Kenji Doihara (“Lawrence of Manchuria,” general of Imperial Japanese Army who invaded Manchuria), Emily “Mickey” Hahn (journalist and author), and Charles Boxer (local head of the British Army Intelligence). Forman follows Wendell L. Willkie, U.S. Republican presidential candidate (opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt), on his trip to China and mentions a list of notable figures, such as Chu Shao-liang (Zhu Shaoliang, general in the National Revolution Army of the Republic of China), Hu Tsung-nan (Hu Zongnan, trusted general of Chiang Kai-shek), Captain Chiang Wei-kuo, Generals Shi Liang-yu, Li Chen-shen, Chang Tso-lin (Zhang Zuolin, warlord of Manchuria, defeated by the Nationalist Kuomintang in 1928), and Hsu Liang-yo. Forman ends his diary at the close of Willkie’s visit, writing about his press colleagues, Francis Lee and Peter Kiang. He tells of the story “Phanton Legions” in the London Daily Express, written by Tommy Chao.The diaries are part of the Harrison Forman Papers 1931-1974 housed at the Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. UWM Libraries received the dairies on a loan from the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Oregon Libraries and digitized them to accompany the digital collection of Forman's photographs. The diaries were digitized to provide research materials for the Forman’s negatives scanned as part of the NEH grant project "Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images.
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