763 research outputs found
James Wilson and Arthur A. Ballantine
No full textProfessor Conrad\u27s contribution is a profile of James Wilson, pp. 594-595.
Professor Mehrotra\u27s contribution is a profile of Arthur A. Ballantine pp.27-28.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/1083/thumbnail.jp
The Lord of the Rings” and the World Wars: The Applicability of Allegory
No full text"Lord of the Rings" trilogy, written by John Ronal Reuel Tolkien between 1937 and 1949 is an epic novel, set in the fictional Middle Earth, in which a brotherhood of humans, elves and dwarves battles against a mighty force of evil, Sauron and his minions to protect the free world from destruction and slavery. Although the author denies that the novel is an allegory of war, many people believe that he was influenced greatly by the First and Second World Wars. My research question was "How did the Two World Wars Influence John Ronald Reuel Tolkien During the Creation of “ the Lord of the Rings” Trilogy ?" . I will analyze the similarities between the events in the novel and the events during the two world wars and strive to point out how Tolkien was influenced by these. The most important allegory is the battle between the ultimate evil of Sauron (ie. Nazism and Fascism) and the free peoples of Middle Earth. Although evil is far more powerful and aggressive in the beginning, the determination and valor of a coalition of unlikely allies wins in the end. Several other points exist in the novel that are directly related to the events during the world wars. Nazi Germany, defeated and repressed after the First World War, rises again as an over-industrialized, hostile country, trying to spread its influence around the world. This is similar to Sauron and the forces of evil, defeated in the Second Age by the coalition of elves and humans, rises yet again to threaten Middle Earth and enslave its people. SS soldiers, performing unspeakable deeds during the Holocaust remind us of mindless orcs who carry out the orders of their masters without thinking. The uneasy alliance formed by the democratic capitalist countries with the communist Russians during the Second World War is like the alliance of elves and dwarves; although they are not fond of each other, they unite against a common enemy. Geographical similarities; the role of the Nazgul and V2 rockets; the similarity of Sauron's army with the German war machine; Saruman's resemblance to Mussolini; the likeness of Dead Marshes to the battlefields of Somme are other minor but important points
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
A rational choice theory of midlife crises
No full textThis paper models the midlife crisis as a decision on whether and when to realize a life dream, incorporating the key components of three psychology theories of midlife crises. It explains why a crisis (dream realization) tends to occur in the midlife if it occurs at all. Other results include that one either realizes his dream fully or not at all, that a shorter life expectancy makes a midlife crisis more likely, and that “crazier†dreams tend to be postponed to a later time in life.midlife crisis, dream, aging, death
Characterization of NW Mediterranean Karlodinium spp. (Dinophyceae) strains using morphological, molecular, chemical and physiological methodologies
No full textRecurrent fish kills in the Spanish Alfacs Bay (NW Mediterranean) have been detected during winter seasons since 1994, and were attributed to an unarmored, ichthyotoxic, dinoflagellate, initially identified as Gyrodinium corsicum Paulmier, Berland, Billard, & Nezan. Several strains were isolated from the bay and their clonal cultures were compared by combined techniques, including light and electron microscopy, internal transcribed spacer and 5.8S rDNA nucleotide sequencing, and HPLC pigment analyses, together with studies of their photochemical performance, growth rates, and toxicity. Using phylogenetic analyses, all strains were identified as members of the genus Karlodinium, but they were separated into two genetically distinct groups. These groups, identified as Karlodinium veneficum (Ballantine) J. Larsen and K. armiger Bergholtz, Daugbjerg et. Moestrup, were also supported by the other techniques used. Detailed analyses of fine structural characteristics (including plug-like structures in amphiesma and a possible layer of semi-opaque material beneath the outer membrane) allowed discrimination of the mentioned two species. Specific differences in pigment patterns coincided with that expected for low- (K. veneficum) and high-light (K. armiger) adapted relatives. The higher photosynthetic efficiency of K. veneficum and the longer reactivation times of the PSII reaction centers observed for K. armiger were in agreement with this hypothesis. The two species differed in toxicity, but the strains used always induced mortality when incubated with bivalves, rotifers, and finfish. Compared with K. armiger, strains of K. veneficum yielded higher cell densities, but had lower growth rates
Flash Crowd Detection within the realms of an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
No full textIt is truly a challenge to detect a network phenomenon with an unpredictable persona. Due to the simultaneous dependency on network traffic and end users, events such as Flash Crowds are hard to predict. This paper introduces a Flash Crowd (FC) prediction methodology to operate at the edges of the ISP network hosting the hot-spot (i.e. end-server). Such a methodology would act as the logic unit in the detection architecture that we also propose. The proposed methodology promotes prediction with the use of a mathematical relationship between the request and response rate subject to the assumption that a FC is composed as a linear state model
Real Compactness: Transformation of the North of Antwerp into a compact and sustainable urban area
No full textThe creation of a new sustainable urban area at a brownfield location in the north of Antwerp. Here a very wide programme will be integrated in a coherent way with its context and its qualities.Urban RegenerationUrbanismArchitectur
Architecture-Hybrid Building: Bottom up urbanism
No full textArchitectural design that works at the same time as an urban design.Bottom up urbanismHybrid BuildingArchitectur
Danny : A Case Study
No full text5 p.The author discusses his experience with one student while student teaching high school American history.Catalina High School. Tucson, Arizona
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