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ANALOGUES OF FLINT CLAYS IN SOVIET L ITERATURE
No full textAbstract-The term "flint clay " used in USA and several other countries, corresponds very closely to the term "toasted bread (sukhar) clay". In both USA and U.S.S.R., the typical occurences of"toasted clays " are confined to deposits of the lower Carboniferous. In their properties and occurrence the well-studied toasted clays of the Borovichy deposit (Novgorod province) are highly similar to the flint clays of Missouri, differing significantly only in having lower bulk specific gravity and higher porosity than do Missouri flint clays. Varieties with excess free alumina (diaspore, boehmite) are observed both among "toasted " and flint clays. The author suggests he term "toasted complex " (sukharnii kompleks) which corresponds toW. D. Keller's term "flint clay facies". The clays of the "toasted complex " are sediments of ancient swamps and lakes which contained rich vegetation. Their source material was finaly dispersed silicate particles transported from dry land. The structure and properties of toasted clays are explained by the precipitation fkaolinite as colloidal clumps in which crystallization ccur-red with formation of intimate intergrowths and variously oriented segregations. THANKS to the kindness of Professor W. D. Keller, the author had the opportunity to familiarize him-self with the peculiarities and occurrence of clay
The Coronado expedition to Tierra Nueva: the 1540-1542 route across the Southwest
No full textEdited by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint and historiographical chapters by Joseph P. Sánchez.Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Carroll L. Riley -- Ch. 1. A Historiography of the Route of the Expedition of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado: General Comments / Joseph P. Sanchez -- Ch. 2. The Coronado Documents: Their Limitations / Charles W. Polzer -- Ch. 3. Coronado Fought Here: Crossbow Boltheads as Possible Indicators of the 1540-1542 Expedition / Diane Lee Rhodes -- Ch. 4. Armas de la Tierra: The Mexican Indian Component of Coronado Expedition Material Culture / Richard Flint -- Ch. 5. Pathfinder for Coronado: Reevaluating the Mysterious Journey of Marcos de Niza / William K. Hartmann -- Ch. 6. Cibola, from fray Marcos to Coronado / Madeleine Turrell Rodack -- Ch. 7. The Search for Coronado's Contemporary: The Discovery, Excavation, and Interpretation of Hernando de Soto's First Winter Encampment / Charles R. Ewen -- Ch. 8. A Historiography of the Route of the Expedition of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado: Compostela to Cibola / Joseph P. Sanchez -- Ch. 9. Francisco Vazquez de Coronado's Northward Trek Through Sonora / Jerry Gurule -- Ch. 10. The Relevance of Ethnology to the Routing of the Coronado Expedition in Sonora / Daniel T. Reff -- Ch. 11. An Archeological Perspective on the Sonora Entrada / Richard A. Pailes -- Ch. 12. The 76 Ranch Ruin and the Location of Chichilticale / William A. Duffen and William K. Hartmann -- Ch. 13. A Historiography of the Route of the Expedition of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado: Cibola to Rio de Cicuye / Joseph P. Sanchez -- Ch. 14. Zuni on the Day the Men in Metal Arrived / Edmund J. Ladd -- Ch. 15. The Geography of Middle Rio Grande Pueblos Revealed by Spanish Explorers, 1540-1598 / Elinore M. Barrett -- Ch. 16. Let the Dust Settle: A Review of the Coronado Campsite in the Tiguex Province / Bradley J. Vierra and Stanley M. Hordes -- Ch. 17. The Coronado Expedition: Cicuye to the Rio de Cicuye Bridge / Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint -- Ch. 18. A Historiography of the Route of the Expedition of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado: Rio de Cicuye to Quivira / Joseph P. Sanchez -- Ch. 19. Which Barrancas? Narrowing the Possibilities / Donald J. Blakeslee -- Ch. 20. The Teya Indians of the Southwestern Plains / Carroll L. Riley -- Ch. 21. "Por alli no ay losa, ni se hace," Gilded Men and Glazed Pottery on the Southern Plains / David H. Snow -- Ch. 22. A Large Canyon Like Those of Colima / W. Michael Mathes -- Ch. 23. Una a Barranca Grande: Recent Archeological Evidence and a Discussion of Its Place in the Coronado Route / Donald J. Blakeslee, Richard Flint and Jack T. Hughes
Strategic Plan for Fountain of Love, Inc.
No full textFountain of Love, Inc. is an organization that was founded by Tracey L. Fountain, the author of this document. Fountain of Love, Inc. was established to provide supportive and recreational services to the youth of inner city Flint. This area is marked by poverty, dysfunctional families, high crime rates, low education attainment, and limited resources as is the case for other areas of poverty. It is our goal to assist as many of these children as possible in dealing with and overcoming the dismays that are indicative of such an environment. The mission statement of our organization reads as follows: Fountain of Love, Inc. will provide a haven of love, support, and hope for children of need that will help build self-esteem and character, nurture self-empowerment, and provide opportunities to succeed. The information presented here reflects the completed tasks of the applied project to establish a non-profit agency. The tasks that have been completed for the applied project are as follows: Established the charitable purpose of the organization, created mission and vision statements, recruited initial board of directors, drafted and filed Articles of Incorporation, drafted bylaws, filed and obtained Employer Identification Number, and developed Moderate Strategic Plan.Master'sCollege of Arts and Sciences: Public AdministrationUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/118041/1/Fountain.pd
Loyalty and middle class at stake in the General Motors strikes, Flint (Michigan), Summer 1998
No full textIn June and July 1998, the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) engaged Flint General Motors workers in one of the longest strike to take place lately in United States. Officially, the strike was launched on Health and Safety issues, as globalisation and relocation of the company were non strikeable ones in the bargaining contract. Still, the issue of globalisation and the relationships between the firms and their employees, and the firms and the countries in which they are settled, were clearly at the heart of the conflict. This paper is based on the empirical data we collected in Flint (Michigan) at the beginning of August 1998. It is the result of the individual interviews we conducted with the workers and UAW representatives about their own ideas on the situation. It focuses on what workers think by identifying the words and categories they themselves use to analyse the situation. The paper looks at the national contract signed by GM, Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. and UAW in late September 1999 as an attempt to respond to the real issues addressed by the strikers, that neither GM nor the union could face in 1998 because of juridical reasons ruling negotiations agenda. -- Im Juni / Juli 1998 hat die United Auto Workers Union (UAW) die Mitarbeiter von General Motors in Flint in einen Streik geführt, der zu den längsten Konflikten in der jüngsten amerikanischen Arbeiterbewegung gehört. Gesundheit und Sicherheit am Arbeitsplatz galten als offizieller Streikgrund, da laut gültigem Tarifvertrag gegen Globalisierung und Verlagerung der Produktion in Billiglohnländer nicht gestreikt werden durfte. Dennoch standen Fragen wie Globalisierung, die Beziehungen zwischen den Unternehmen und ihren Arbeitnehmern sowie das Verhältnis zwischen den Unternehmen und den Ländern, in denen sie Produktionsstätten haben, eindeutig im Mittelpunkt des Konflikts. Das Papier basiert auf empirischen Daten, die wir in Flint (Michigan) Anfang August 1998 erhoben haben. Die Daten sind das Ergebnis unserer Einzelgespräche mit streikenden ArbeiterInnen und UAW-VertreterInnen über ihre eigene Analyse der Situation. Der Schwerpunkt des Artikels liegt auf den Aussagen der ArbeiterInnen, das heißt, was sie selber denken, in welche Worte sie ihre Gedanken kleiden und welche Kategorien sie verwenden, mit denen sie die Situation begreifen. Ein Jahr nach diesen langen und schwierigen Konflikten, im September 1999, haben UAW, GM und Delphi einen neuen, nationalweit gültigen Vertrag abgeschlossen. In dieser Studie wird er als ein Versuch betrachtet, eine Antwort auf die realen Streitfragen und Probleme des Sommers 1998 zu finden, die die Tarifparteien zu dem damaligen Zeitpunkt aus vertraglichen und juristischen Gründen nicht bewältigen konnten.
Librarians
No full textGroup of Librarians seated at table in restaurant. L-R: Lydia Kolomoicev; Kate Manning; Rosemary Harbridge; Crystal Condous; Cathy Flint; Cathy; Rikki Porteous; Leslie Jones; Anne Parrish; Ron Davis.Unknown.Date:198
Singers
No full textTop Half Folk Festival, held at Darwin High School on the Queens Birthday weekend 1986. Singing group performing gospel songs. L-R: Paul Lawler; Kate Harrison; Richenda Bridge (part hidden); Marianne Piercy; Cathy Flint; Vicki Kane; Tony Suttor.Unknown.Date:1986-0
Improving language: Victorian literature and the civilizing process
No full textWhereas “civilization” has often been dismissed in nineteenth-century studies as a rallying cry for empire, this dissertation offers a critical re-evaluation of how the
Victorians understood this concept and its implications for literature’s educational possibilities. Integrating Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilizing process into a critical framework that draws on literary linguistics and rhetorical studies, my first chapter studies nineteenth-century writings from a range of disciplines – including economics, sociology, and linguistics – to show that “civilization” represented a key site for Victorian writers to reflect holistically on wider processes of social change and their linguistic dimensions. The second chapter analyzes the poetics of John Stuart Mill and
Matthew Arnold in the context of this discourse. Arguing that the discourse of civilization provides a crucial framework for understanding how these thinkers conceived literary language as “improving,” I reveal the impact of this discourse on the period’s most influential theories about literature’s educational value. While the first part of the dissertation considers the literary implications of “civilization” on the level of theory, the
second part explores how Victorian poets and novelists addressed these implications in practice by considering classic texts such as Jane Eyre and David Copperfield alongside less canonical female Bildungsromane and children’s adventure tales. Chapter Three begins by demonstrating how a range of Victorian genres dramatize and reflect on the
civilizing process, then focuses specifically on narratives of writers’ Bildung (formation). I argue that these Bildungsromane show particularly clearly how Victorian writers’ creative engagement with the discourse of civilization enables them to construct a model of literary language that facilitates social integration, while fostering a value for individuality and inventiveness essential to active participation in social processes. Turning to narratives of feminine Bildung like Margaret Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, the concluding chapter illustrates how writers imagined how such private pastimes as reading might sustain wider civilizing trends. By exploiting the
links between gender and genre, these texts are able, I suggest, to conceive the possibility of altering Victorian society’s deeply ingrained sexism through the strategic appropriation – rather than outright rejection – of its gendered norms.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Paul L. Yeo
The making of the British early Palaeolithic, 1880-1960
No full textThis historical study explores the character of interpretations of the British Palaeolithic record between c. 1880 and c. 1960, focusing on attempts to classify and order the Early Palaeolithic industries. Interpretations were developed through complex interactions between individuals and groups, who were influenced by a range of aims, expectations and research opportunities. The impact of their contributions was partly dependent upon academic standing and the style of approach taken within the competitive arena of day-to-day research. General expectations of industrial patterning were founded upon the Early Palaeolithic industrial sequence from Western Europe, particularly the chronological succession from the Somme Valley, France, where the hand-axe was the most notable artefact. The assumption of progression and the use of prominent type-fossils such as the hand-axe in classifying and ordering industries coloured interpretations of the British Early Palaeolithic sequence. This is evident even in the approaches to the naturally-fractured stones known as 'eoliths’. The idea of a single, progressive line of industries also fuelled argument over the position and affinities of the flake-rich Clactonian industry in the 1910s and 1920s. In the wake of rising uncertainties, the parallel culture scheme proposed by Henri Breuil achieved great popularity in the 1930s. The value of the Palaeolithic industrial sequence as a relative Quaternary chronology encouraged a complex interdependence between interpretations of the Palaeolithic and of the Quaternary sequence which helped to promote and to reinforce the new range of expectations that had been generated by Breui’s scheme. However, by the mid.l940s, the rigid chronological order of industries proposed by Breuil had been weakened. By the late 1940s, researchers doubtful of the accuracy, scale and value of his scheme, expressed a desire to move away from the constraints of chronology and typology and towards more ecological and anthropological interpretations
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The power of research: an exploration of critical dialogue as a model for the development of professionals
No full textSince Michel Foucault’s pioneering work, the production of new forms of knowledge as a measure of doctoral research has become closely associated with the ubiquity of power practices. In more concrete terms, in the face of a seemingly ineluctable intensification of workload across all professions, some observers have identified a ‘deprofessionalisation’ of many within the workforce, who, almost ironically, perceive themselves to have diminished powers of control and discretion regarding their own decision making. This paper seeks to explore and to critically examine a multi-professional research model of good practice for the professional doctorate. The model for research has been located in the space opened up for critical enquiry between power and the domination of extant power practices, including those associated with the process of research itself. It is a model which lays emphasis upon a dialogical approach to critical hermeneutics and is designed to guide students in ‘making strange the familiar’ in terms of what they experience being reproduced each day in the machinery of identity. Functionally, the model for research is being developed with a strong focus upon reflexivity that permeates every step of the research. Philosophically, the model creates an opening for reflexive self-determination and self-empowerment. At this stage the model is presented as a basis for reflection on both the complex dynamic interplay of power and knowledge and some of the implications for students’ understandings of the production of knowledge through research
Autoworker and acclaimed author Ben Hamper speaks at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textIn an appearance at the Michigan State University Main Library, autoworker and acclaimed author Ben Hamper talks about his career at the General Motors Truck and Bus Plant in Flint, Michigan and reads from various works, including his forward to the book "Working words: punching the clock and kicking out the jams" by M. L. Liebler and from his most famous work, "Rivethead", a cynical and humorous view of life in an auto plant. A question and answer session follows. Hamper is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
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