67 research outputs found
Parkhurst Letter : July 22, 1865
No full textThis letter was sent to Major General George Thomas in response to a letter Parkhurst sent to President Andrew Johnson in which he requested the authority to employ six citizen clerks at his headquarters. Parkhurst's request was denied by the War Department because there was no way to pay the new clerks. (Note: this document is a copy of the original letter sent by Edward D. Townsend. The author of the copy signed their name illegibly)
Connections
No full textPart of the Simpson Paper Company's "Connections" series. Art by Ken Parkhurst. Image a composite of God's hand from Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" and a painted black hand against torn colored paper
Parkhurst School District No. 2645
No full textPhotograph - A view of the Parkhurst School building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS NE 12-67-21-W
Introduction: A genealogy of medical materialities
No full textThis chapter introduces the theoretical and methodological framework of Medical Materiality. It outlines discussions of medical anthropology and material culture studies as they have engaged with objects and materials in the past, in order to situate the concept of medical materialities within the two sub-disciplinary traditions. It highlights key ways in which medical anthropology has attempted to understand places, practices, methods, and material cultures of healing and how material culture studies has understood the active role of things and objects in society. The chapter presents and expands upon a definition of ‘medical materiality’, namely the social impact of the capacity of often mundane, at times non-clinical, materials within contexts of health and illness, as caused by the properties and affordances of this material. The chapter opens up the discussion of the genre, and outlines how the investigation into medical materialities is a biosocial approach that integrates the biological, physical, ecological insights of medicine into the social analysis of health. Finally, the introduction outlines the diverse ethnographic case studies presented in this volume, and highlights the various ways each contributing author adds to the way cultures of medicine are understood and practiced
Author Correction: Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts
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Correción errata.In the version of this Article originally published, the surname of author Tina Parkhurst was incorrectly written as Schroeder. This has now been corrected.Peer reviewe
An evaluation of commercially prepared modules used in technology education
Get PDFPlan BMany technology education departments are moving from the traditional method of instruction to a modular based type of instruction. There are many modules that are available for schools to implement and many vendors to choose from. The problem for the technology education teacher, who is implementing a modular technology classroom, is deciding what modules meet the standards for technology education. The modular classroom is a relatively new concept in technology education. The introduction of standards is also new to technology education in Wisconsin. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how well commercially prepared modules meet Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for Technology Education, published by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (1998). There are two main reasons this research is important. First, modules are relatively new to technology education. Secondly, academic standards have recently been released for technology education by the Wisconsin DPI. Many technology education departments across the state are implementing modular classrooms. This study will be helpful to those schools in determining which commercially prepared modules best meet the standards for technology education. The Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for Technology Education are broken into four main content standards: Human Ingenuity, Systems, The Nature of Technology, and The Impact of Technology. These categories each contain performance standards that students should meet by the end of the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades. Because of the many vendors of technology modules, only one vendor was selected. Lab-Volt, Inc. was chosen for the study because of their prevalence in Wisconsin. The modules that are used in their middle school course, called tech design, were chosen for this study. The competencies for each module were evaluated as to whether they met the Wisconsin standards
Dr. Edwin Wright Letters: Emma Miller
Get PDFNotes - Ms. Emma Miller discusses her family's travels and early life in Athabasca. She talks of her parent's first jobs (working at Mr. Ike Gagnon's mill) and of living on rabbits and beans in the winter as ""money for meat was scarce. Ms. Miller talks of helping put shingles on Parkhurst school and of being married there to Mr. Peter Miller. Ms. Miller talks of the need and difficulty in recruiting physicians to the far North and how the town finally landed Doctor Meyer (each family agreed to pay twelve dollars per year to the doctor) (2 pages
Protecting Oak Flat: Narratives Of Survivance As Observed Through Digital Activism
Get PDFabstract: American Indians are increasingly using social media/social network platforms as a tool to influence policy through social change. The activist group Apache Stronghold represents a case of American Indians utilising social media tools to protect Oak Flat and influence federal Indian policy. Oak Flat is sacred Apache land located in Superior, Arizona. United States legislators transferred Oak Flat to the mining company Resolution Copper as part of the omnibus National Defense Authorization Act of 2015. Qualitative analysis of social media content and advocacy tactics – specifically through use of timeline and digital ethnography – of Apache Stronghold from 2015-2016 reveal the interrelated nature of on-the-ground efforts, online efforts, solidarity efforts, and legislative support efforts. In sum, these efforts express narratives of survivance, healing, and a future orientation, as a unique dimension of social change.The final version of this article, as published in Australasian Journal of Information Systems, can be viewed online at: http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/156
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Chasing Charley, finding Reed: reaching toward the ghosts of the archive
No full textThe archive consists of memories, documents, and images waiting to be curated into a story. In this article, the author collates archival object encounters into a transgender \u27ghost story\u27 that marks the impossibility of a straightforward history of the subject, relying instead on embodied encounters with archive objects, or the remnants (ghostly and tangible) of archival subjects. Following the materials of Charley Parkhurst and Reed Erickson, the author makes connections where none previously existed, asking: How do we put life back into the materials of the dead? What do the traces and memories of these ghosts offer the living? What do archive objects activate in the eyes that see them, the ears that listen, and the hearts that race or slow with each haptic encounter? Following these questions, this article pieces together a different kind of narrative history and transition story through the unexpected encounters with the archive and its ghosts
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