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Enseñanza de la escritura de Max Aub: comprensión y memoria
No full textEste texto analiza a obra testimonial de Max Aub sobre su experiencia en los campos de concentración en Francia desde una perspectiva de discursos comparados. Para destacar las estrategias de la escritura del autor recuperables por otros proyectos discursivos que persigan la sensibilización y la denuncia a través del cruce entre la comunicación y la éticaThis text analyses the testimonial work of Max Aub about his experience in the French concentration camps in France from comparative discourses approach. It emphasizes the writing strategies used by the author useful for other awareness and denounce discourses through the dialogue among communication and ethic
Max Brooks literary reading flier
No full text2012 Bismarck State College Visiting Writers Series and ArtsQuest present: Max Brooks. April 25, 7:30 p.m.; Belle Mehus Auditorium. Max Brooks is the author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and the graphic novel The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
Is religion in Northern Ireland politically significant?
No full textReducing religion to theological fundamentalism has stifled the debate about its political significance in Northern Ireland. This paper develops an integrated theoretical conception of religion as the key to illuminating the multi-dimensional role it plays in social relationships. Based on analysis of interviews conducted in 2000, it finds four main ways in which religion is socially and politically significant in Northern Ireland—as a communal marker, as a community-builder, as ideology and as theology. These roles differ amongst believers and non-believers, churchgoers and non-churchgoers and amongst Catholics and Protestants. Through exploration of religion as a fluid dimension of personal and group identity, the paper concludes that religion does not simply mark out the communal boundary, but often gives it meaning as well.Not applicableti, ab - TS 09/07/1
Max Frisch's novel: Stiller. A study
No full text The attempt is made in the following study to present an interpretation of the novel "Stiller" by the Swiss author, Max Frisch, by tracing through the novel the dominant themes of the graven-image or 'Bildnis' and that of the problem of freedom with reference to the novel's main character. ThesisMaster of Arts (MA
A Transfer Report on the Development of a Framework to Evaluate Search Interfaces for their Support of Different User Types and Search Tactics
No full textAs the understanding of search systems, user needs and seeking strategies is developing, the design of search user interfaces is evolving to support more complicated and exploratory forms of search. With the design of new search features that enable these richer modes of exploration, comes the need to better understand the support they provide. In this report a new evaluation framework is presented that analyses search features for how they a) contribute to an overall interface, b) allow users to carry out different search tactics, and c) support different types of users and their needs. The novel contributions of the framework improve on some of the limitations of typical user studies, and allow search systems to be systematically analysed in much more detail and in much less time. The presented evaluation framework is then validated in three ways. First the validity of the models used as the building blocks of the framework are investigated through related work. Second the method of integrating these building-block models is validated and strengthened by consensus of expert opinion. Third, the overall approach is validated by comparing its analyses to the results of previously carried out user studies. The validation process has shown both the value of the framework and identified areas of future work that should be addressed for the framework to be completed. This report concludes with the set of contributions that the framework makes, and why the remaining work will be challenging, but critical to the final design
Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict
No full textThis thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism
There's a pretty spot in Ireland
No full textvoiceCollected by Max Hunter (H-10) Sung by Mrs. Goldie Schott
For Mary C. Parler Mondell, Arkansas
Transcribed by Frances Majors July 16, 1958
Reel 253-54, Item 7
Pretty Little Spot in Ireland
There's a pretty spot in Ireland
Where a little cottage stands;
. . . whom I cherish with a pride.
'Tis old-fashioned, rough and dingy,
But was built by honest hands,
But what a precious jewel shines inside.
It was not a costly jewel
That the wealth of gold can buy,
But a warm-hearted lass with a lovelight in her eye,
Though my heart it grows impatient
For I have no peace of mind,
For I long to see the girl I left behind.
A little brown spot in the shady, green valley
No happier home do I find,
For my Heart's fairly gone,
For I love only one.
She's the girl that I left behind.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
A theological critique of Christian education, with special reference to developments in Northern Ireland since 1944
No full textThe perspective adopted in this thesis is that of a Northern Irish Catholic Christian, a teacher by profession. The field is that of the theology of education. The thesis has three principal aims; firstly, to provide a justification for a confident Christian education in an increasingly secular and agnostic world; secondly, to evaluate the development and present status of Christian education in Northern Ireland in the light of its sectarian history and current situation of community conflict; thirdly, to consider the remit of Christian education and its role in promoting societal harmony. The thesis consists of eight chapters. Its overall design may be discerned in a general introduction and seven other chapters of which four engage the issue of Christian education in the Northern Ireland context. Of the other three, one chapter criticizes analytical philosophy and positivist influences in contemporary liberal education, especially where these have affected conceptions of religious education. The second attempts a validation of Christian education, and in addition promotes Christian apologetics as both a viable and needed response to relativistic agnosticism. The third consists of the conclusions to be drawn. The scope of the thesis embraces considerations of the assumptions and values of Christian education; the nature of religious education; theistic belief the Christian tradition, the nature of confessionalism; Northern Ireland confessionalism; the influence of ideologies; the separate schools system; the question of integrated education; the historical background to the divided communities; the challenge of the great Christian imperatives of love and forgiveness in respect of community reconciliation and of implementing a Christian education fully alive to its responsibilities. The penultimate chapter confronts practical issues and suggests models and approaches in Christian education with outreach towards reconciliation
The structure and kinematics of the ox mountains, western Ireland: a mid-crustal transcurrent shear-zone
No full textThe stratigraphy, structure and kinematics of the central and southwest Ox Mountains, a major mid-crustal shear zone, are described. The tectono-stratigraphic sequence has been established using a combination of structural and stratigraphic techniques and lithostratigraphic correlation with southern Donegal (the closest area of autl ochonous Dalradian). These data suggest that the Tawneyshane Formation is the equivalent of the Port Askaig Tillite and that the metasediments of the southwest and central Ox Mountains Succession represent part of the Argyll Group of the Middle Dalradian. The coarser grained rocks of the Cloonygowan Formation are tentatively correlated with the turbiditic sediments of the Southern Highland Group on the basis of lithostratigraphic similarity. Structural analysis indicates that the Ox Mountains Succession has experienced a similar structural history to the Cloonygowan Formation although at a deeper structural level. Four distinct kinematic episodes are represented. Initial fold and fabric development (D1-D2, pre 478 Ma) was followed by sinistral transcurrent deformation, synkinematic intrusion of the Ox Mountains Granodiorite (478±12 Ma) and development of a braided system of high strain zones and tectonic slides (D3, Arenig-Llanvirn). The tectonic contact with the granulite facies metasediments of the northeast Ox Mountains is identified as a D3 tectonic slide, which dips gently to the south. This basement-cover interface strongly influences the structural geometry of the central and southwest Ox Mountains. These data suggest that at middle-lower crustal levels strike slip fault zones may be expressed as a series of high strain zones that converge both laterally and vertically. The geometry and kinematic history of the Ox Mountains is consistent with the interpretation of the inlier as the root of a major mid-crustal transpression zone. Following the cessation of transcurrent activity uplift began throughout the inlier, which is reflected by decreasing metamorphic grade and the development of conjugate folds (D4). This was succeeded by renewed sinistral transcurrent deformation of the Lough Easky and Lough Talt Adamellites (401±33 Ma), (D5, Early Devonian).Evidence is presented that the Ox Mountains form part of the northwestern side wall of the Highland Boundary Fault Zone. Deeper levels of this structure are exposed in Ireland than in Scotland. Structural data suggest that in Ireland this structure is expressed as a major mid- crustal transpression zone that developed in response to large sinistral displacements during Arenig-Llanvirn times, followed by smaller sinistral displacements during the Early Devonian. This protracted history of sinistral transcurrent deformation can be related to terrane accretion events along the Highland Boundary Fault Zone and provides information on its early kinematic history not available in the remainder of the British Isles
The subzero microbiome: Microbial activity in frozen and thawing soils
No full textMost of the Earth's biosphere is characterized by low temperatures (<5 °C) and cold-adapted microorganisms are widespread. These psychrophiles have evolved a complex range of adaptations of all cellular constituents to counteract the potentially deleterious effects of low kinetic energy environments and the freezing of water. Microbial life continues into the subzero temperature range, and this activity contributes to carbon and nitrogen flux in and out of ecosystems, ultimately affecting global processes. Microbial responses to climate warming and in particular, thawing of frozen soils are not yet well understood although the threat of microbial contribution to positive feedback of carbon flux is substantial. To date, several studies have examined microbial community dynamics in frozen soils and permafrost due to changing environmental conditions, and some have undertaken the complicated task of characterizing microbial functional groups and how their activity changes with changing conditions, either in situ or by isolating and characterizing macromolecules. With increasing temperature and wetter conditions microbial activity of key microbes and subsequent efflux of greenhouse gases also increase. In this review, we aim to provide an overview of microbial activity in seasonally frozen soils and permafrost. With a more detailed understanding of the microbiological activities in these vulnerable soil ecosystems, we can begin to predict and model future expectations for carbon release and climate change.Peer reviewe
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