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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
Depression and Gender: The Expression and Experience of Melancholy in the Eighteenth Century
No full textThis thesis investigates the life and work of six eighteenth-century writers, two male and four female. It explores their experience of depression through their letters and other autobiographical material, and examines the ways in which they represent melancholy in their poetry and prose. The subject of Chapter Two is Thomas Gray, whose real life persona as the lonely intellectual is also identifiable in his poetry. The Scottish poet Robert Fergusson is studied in Chapter Three. Fergusson’s lively and vigorous mind was shattered in the months leading up to his death, during which time some of his writing became darkly nihilistic. Chapter Four looks at Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, a lifelong depressive who often wrote about her feelings of despair in her poetry. Chapter Five explores Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She was a courageous and controversial figure, but despite her resilience, on occasion in her letters she reveals her vulnerability and susceptibility to low spirits, a mood which is sometimes expressed in her creative writing. Sarah Scott, whose life and work have not yet been considered in relation to the subject of melancholy, is examined in Chapter Six. Her novel includes several low-spirited and depressed female characters who are continually seeking asylum from a hostile world. Chapter Seven analyses Charlotte Smith, a mother of twelve children whose unhappy marriage ended in separation. Smith wrote extensively about her depression in her letters, prefaces, poetry and novels.
This study shows that the women in particular use their writing on melancholy and depression to express their discontent with the confined way in which they are often expected to live out their lives
The Intertextuality of Kurt Vonnegut’s Short Story Harrison Bergeron and Scott Westerfeld’s Novel Uglies (A Comparative Study)
No full textThis research discussed about the intertextuality in Kurt Vonnegut’s short
story Harrison Bergeron and Scott Westerfeld’s novel Uglies, which aimed to
describe the horizontal and vertical axis in the short story and the novel. This
research focused on the horizontal and vertical axis based on Julia Kristeva’s
theory of intertextuality. The data were analyzed using descriptive qualitative
method. The researcher applied note taking as the instrument to get valid data.
This research used note taking as the instrument to get the valid data. This
research was conducted in order to explain the horizontal and vertical axis of the
short story and the novel. The findings revealed the horizontal axis that the
Uglies’s author was influenced by the Harrison Bergeron’s author. Both of the
writer were inspired by what was happened in that time. Then in vertical axis,
relationship of both of the texts were presented the characteristics of dystopia by
Phillip Kendrik Dick. And after revealed the vertical axis, the researcher can
conclude the beauty dystopian issue as the highlight of the genre
McGhee, unidentified man, Jones, Hall, Scott and Williams on train.
No full textBlack-and-white postcard; inscription: Taken at the White City.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/harrison/1179/thumbnail.jp
Managing Key Business-to-Business Relationships
No full textKey account management (KAM) is a rapidly growing area of interest in business-
to-business marketing. However, unnoticed by marketing, a quiet revolution has
taken place in supply chain management (SCM), where the traditional emphasis on
least-cost transactions has given way to a focus on long-term relationships with
a few key suppliers. It is thus apparent that the two disciplines are
converging. This article uses a cross-disciplinary approach to explore whether
these developments from the field of SCM provide insights into key business-to-
business relationships. A detailed case study of a long-term relationship
between a business-to-business services provider and a key customer in the
construction industry suggests there is a definable overlap. The supply chain
model illuminates five important elements of KAM and offers a promising method
for the evaluation of such relationships. As a result of the research, both
supplier and customer companies implemented actions to improve and strengthen
this important relationship
Making Music Work: Sustainable portfolio careers for Australian musicians
No full textThe Australian study Making Music Work: Sustainable Portfolio Careers for Australian Musicians (2016-2019) explored the conditions and strategies needed for musicians to sustain successful portfolio careers. The vast majority of Australian musicians undertake a portfolio career which encompasses a variety of concurrent and often impermanent roles. While this is not a new phenomenon, major shifts in how music is made, paid for and consumed, as well as a changing commercial, funding, educational and policy landscape, all impact how musicians currently develop and sustain their careers. Making Music Work sought to provide a more nuanced and granular understanding of these key sector dynamics and how musicians navigate them. The study included a national survey of 592 musicians and 11 in-depth interviews with a diverse group of musicians. Making Music Work was funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant and led by Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre (QCRC), Griffith University, with industry partners, Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, Creative Victoria, Western Australian Government – Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC), and institutional partner Curtin University. The research team included Professor Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Professor Dawn Bennett, Professor Ruth Bridgstock, Professor Scott Harrison, Professor Paul Draper, Professor Vanessa Tomlinson and Research Fellow Dr Christina Ballico.Full Tex
The state of belonging: Gay and lesbian activism in the German Democratic Republic and beyond, 1949-1989
No full textBy the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, thousands of gay and lesbian East Germans had formed a vibrant, publicly visible gay rights movement in their socialist homeland. I argue—quite in contrast to the existing historiography on the topic—that the movement was geographically diffuse and highly fragmented. Its adherents did not fight to make space in East German society for a Western style, identity-based politics of gay liberation, but rather for their fellow citizens to acknowledge that one could be both a socialist and gay, and that the two were not mutually exclusive. While gay men and lesbians who appropriated socialist notions of wholesomeness and respectability were the movement’s most visible figures, other actors, namely lesbian separatist feminists, jostled for position in a host of activist groups and publications which reached many thousands of ordinary East Germans by the mid-to-late 1980s. In so doing, this motley group of queer actors—whom historians have wrongly categorized as being either wholly thwarted by the state or as anti-statists—publicly expanded the boundaries of socialist citizenship to include those whose life trajectories did not lead down the path of heterosexual reproductive futurity. This study, thus, foregrounds the emotional experience of the post-World War II welfare state and contends that, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, albeit in different ways, public discussions about sexuality formed a crucial arena of civic belonging in which actors chronicled the “free unfolding of their personalities.” In the fall of 1989, as hundreds of thousands of East Germans took to the streets to proclaim that socialism no longer belonged to them—that it was no longer their emotional property—other thousands of queer East Germans had just begun to feel ‘at home’ and orientated in the GDR, as if they finally belonged there.
In this dissertation, I am centrally concerned with tracking the ways in which modern states—of which East Germany was one—undertook social engineering programs in an attempt to ‘make citizens straight’ whilst simultaneously deploying homophobia as a political tool to mark insiders and outsiders in postwar communities of national belonging. I also narrate the stories of gay and lesbian East Germans who resisted the Socialist Unity Party’s (SED’s) attempts to marshal all popular sexual impulses through the “single groove of heterosexuality.” We know a great deal about how the heterosexual masses lived, loved, and rebelled on both sides of the Iron Curtain after 1945. However, we still know far too little about the lives of those who lived outside the bounds of heterosexuality and to whom the postwar welfare state denied a sense of emotional belonging, particularly in the GDR.
My goal in writing a history of gay rights activism in the GDR is not simply “to add previously silenced voices to the general chorus” of East German history. Rather, I destabilize seemingly natural, ‘set-in-stone’ histories from the vantage point of the queer margins in order to rethink what it meant to be both an East German and a “sexual citizen” in the GDR—an actor who claimed that sexual self-determination was a central aspect of the social contract which linked state and society. This project sits within a burgeoning camp of scholarship that takes seriously that there was such a thing as a “mainstream culture” in the GDR that was shaped by citizens—including gay men and lesbians—across cross-cutting levels of society in complex and often contradictory ways. Therefore, this dissertation allows us to see the West as a place where gay liberation was possible during the 1970s and 1980s, but not the only place. It is time to move beyond asking the now trite question of ‘which postwar Germany had the more liberal sexual culture?’ to posing the more pressing question of ‘why is it that the modern state is so homophobic?’Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Scott Harrison, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-17 at 13:41.The student, Scott Harrison, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-04-17 at 13:49.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-04-17 at 15:55.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13718 on 2019-08-22 at 16:23:04Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:47:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Voicing subjectivity: Artistic Research in the realization of new Vocal Music
No full textThe voice and vocalizing subjects have long been a discussed in philosophical, cultural
and critical studies circles as places in which meaning lives and is conveyed. In recent
years, through developments in musicology, artistic research and autoethnography the
bodies of performers have taken on renewed significance for knowledge production.
The subjectivities involved in the realization of musical works are now being unpacked
and traditional notions of objectivity and concrete meaning as conveyed by musical
texts, have eroded.
Voicing Subjectivity argues for vocal subjectivity as a site for exploration and experiment
in practice-based, artistic research. It queries whether a conscious negotiation of
performer subjectivity makes for stronger practice and realizations in new vocal music?
The thesis presents two projects, realizing five new and recent notated works for voice.
The researcher performs and problematizes her multiple realizations of Helmut
Lachenmann’s Got Lost (2008), Jeanette Little’s Mechanical Bride (2013), Alexander
Garsden’s [ja] Maser (2014), James Rushford’s The fabric of Wind (2014) and Anthony
Pateras’ Prayer for Nil (2014).
Informed by and situated within literature from subjectivity studies, interdisciplinary
voice studies, music-history and professional vocal practice the author describes her
artistic research through three stages: preparation, performance and recording. The
exegesis fleshes out issues of embodiment, the indiscrete subject, technologized voice
and inter-subjectivity through an active performer’s practice in a mixed-methodological
framework that integrates elements from artistic research and auto-ethnography. By
applying a considered methodological structure and actively focusing the lens through
which problem-solving takes place, the author demonstrates how the conscious
negotiation of subjectivity enables better understanding of practice and makes the site
of knowledge production, the living subject of the author, a site that is fit to purpose.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)Queensland ConservatoriumArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Symposium: alcohol and drug use in Australia: a comprehensive policy approach informed by evidence and experts to reduce harms
No full textThe overall aim of the symposium is to present thefindingsfrom a recent study, which provided a critical analysis of alcohol anddrug use in South Australia (SA) based on available data and inputfrom 24 key informants. Key informants worked across the alcoholand other drugs (AOD) sector, or in AOD research in SA and acrossAustralia. The symposium will gather feedback from the audienceon ways to use this research to inform policy in SA and acrossAustralia to reduce harms from AOD use in the general community,and among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.Jacqueline Bowden, Shona Crabb, Scott Wilson, Nathan J. Harrison, Ashlea Bartram, Ian Olver … et al
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