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Lawrence University Faculty, Students Join International Reading of “Lysistrata” as Protest to Possible War in Iraq
No full textLawrence University faculty and students will participate in a reading Monday, March 3 of Aristophanes’ ancient Greek anti-war comedy “Lysistrata” as part of a worldwide initiative.
Sponsored by the New York-based Lysistrata Project, Lawrence’s reading is expected to be one of more than 620 readings conducted in all 50 states and 38 countries to voice opposition to the possible war in Iraq. Many of the readings will be used as fund-raisers for charities working for peace and humanitarian aid in the Middle East.
Lawrence’s reading of “Lysistrata,” organized by faculty members of the Gender Studies Program, will be conducted at 2 p.m. in the Science Hall atrium. Other readings are scheduled throughout Wisconsin, including UW-Madison and UW-Steven’s Point.
“Lysistrata” tells the story of women from opposing states that unite to end a war by refusing to sleep with their husbands until the men agree to lay down their swords. Powerless in their society and distraught over too many of their children being slaughtered in battle, the women take the only tactic available to them: they withhold sex.
The project grew out of a concept to provide people from around the world a dramatic means to publicly voice their opposition to military intervention in Iraq and the prospect of massive loss of human life — both Iraqi and American.
In New York on Monday, dozens of teams of actors and directors will read “Lysistrata” in public spaces throughout the day. The Lysistrata Project will then present an evening all-star performance of the play featuring Mercedes Ruehl reading the title role. Others scheduled to participate include F. Murray Abraham, Kevin Bacon, Peter Boyle, Kathleen Chalfont, Delphi Harrington, Kyra Sedgwick, Lori Singer and David Strathairn.
On the west coast, Julie Christie, Alfre Woodard, Christine Lahti, Mary McDonnell, Barbara Williams, Eric Stoltz, Ed Begley Jr. and Jose Zuniga will appear in a reading at The Los Angeles Filmmaker Cooperative’s Powerhouse Cultural Space.
In addition to readings in international cities such as London, Berlin, Paris, Beirut and Jerusalem, groups from nearly every state are hosting events as part of this worldwide theatrical act of dissent. Other activities associated with the grassroots project include:
– College students in Texas will hold Lysistrata-reading marathons on a conservative campus;
– Midwestern homemakers will conduct readings with their book clubs;
– Teachers will use the study guide from the Lysistrata Project’s web site in their classes;
– A man in Beirut will put on his own adaptation of the play that incorporates Arabic and English anti-war poetry;
– A woman in California will stage her reading with the patients and staff in the hospital where her partner is undergoing cancer treatment.
The Lysistrata Project was conceived in early January of this year, by New York actors Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower.
“Before we started Lysistrata Project, we could do nothing but sit and watch in horror as the Bush Administration drove us toward a unilateral attack on Iraq,” said Blume. “So we emailed all our friends and put up a web site. The response has been enormous. Our purpose is to make it very clear that President Bush does not speak for all Americans. Our message is simple: If you oppose this war, then speak up!”
Co-founder Bower adds, “Many people have emailed us to say how distraught they feel about the war. Now they feel empowered to do something and foster dialogue in their own communities
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Bertha Muzzy Bower
No full textBertha Muzzy Bower was perhaps the first female author of mass-market Western fiction. In her lifetime, Bower wrote sixty-eight Western novels under an androgynous nom de plume, a mandate made by her early publisher Street & Smith in order to conceal her gender from readers. While it is difficult to accurately assess the massive popularity of these novels, her works—particularly her Flying U novels—attracted the attention of several Hollywood producers and were regularly adapted into films. Her most popular novel, Chip, of the Flying U, seemed to have been a favorite among moviemakers, as it was adapted four times. As most scholarship on Bower focuses on her literary career, information on her work in cinema remains sketchy and indeterminable. Nonetheless, several sources tell us that Bower was attracted to cinema and particularly to the Hollywood Western. According to Orrin Engen, Bower believed that “the early cowboys of the films projected the essential vitality of life on the range” (11). Outside of the film adaptations, her ties to Hollywood seem tangential at best, though she also worked as a scenario writer and screenwriter, collaborating extensively with director Colin Campbell and cowboy actor Tom Mix
Reading the bower: Critical responses to Edmund Spenser\u27s Bower of Bliss in the 1980\u27s
No full textThe Bower of Bliss episode in Edmund Spenser\u27s The Faerie Queene has provoked widely varied interpretations in the 1980\u27s. Though critical controversy is not new to the passage, in the past decade that disagreement has been enunciated in detailed studies for the first time. Some critics have described the Bower episode as a moral allegory that recommends temperance to its readers. Others celebrate its erotic pleasures and portray Guyon\u27s violent destruction of the Bower as evidence that he and the poem\u27s author are cold and sexually repressed. This puzzling disparity has led me to examine criticism on the Bower of Bliss published in the past ten years. My purpose has been to study these readings to examine how they reach their conclusions and to evaluate the reasons for their disagreements. I analyze Spenser\u27s critics using a pattern of interpretation developed by The Faerie Queene itself. The action of the poem constantly parallels the critical enterprise as Spenser\u27s characters are forced to evaluate appearances, solve puzzles, and avoid deceits in the quest to understand reality and to act virtuously. Characters and readers alike must put people and events in proper context to respond to them appropriately. In this sense Spenser builds an allegory of interpretation at the same time that he explores the particular virtue each knight portrays. Using this Spenserian model as a way of approaching both Spenser\u27s poem and his critics\u27 arguments, I find that criticism sometimes reflects its particular assumptions and procedures more than the poem it treats. Aspects of the poem that oppose critical readings are sometimes revalued, restated, or ignored. Hence, critics succeed and err in responding to the poem\u27s images and actions, much as Spenser\u27s characters do. The valuable contributions of historical, psychological, Marxist, and feminist criticism are undercut when method obscures the poem. I find that attention to the details and contexts of The Faerie Queene resolves many of the critical controversies these approaches have spawned
On the making of African literatures
No full textMANUSCRIPTS AND SONGS. LETTERS AND ARCHIVAL SCRAPS. Inscriptions and book collections. Maps, machines, and crude oil. Each of the essays in this special issue looks to get a handle on an author, text, or set of texts by taking hold of something solid, tangible, sensuous. In his essay on Christopher Okigbo, Nathan Suhr-Sytsma attends to the poet’s compositional practice with an ear to his passion for music. Rachel Bower combs through editorial archives and correspondence to examine the ways in which Nigerian poetry has been made by anthologies. Asha Rogers re-reads Richard Rive’s short story ‘The Bench’ after looking into the author’s personal library..
Label-free multiphoton microscopy for imaging transient metabolic dynamics in living cells and tissue
No full textCellular metabolism plays a critical role in human health and homeostasis and is implicated in a large number of pathological conditions. While clinical imaging tools have emerged to probe metabolism at the tissue and organ level, the tools to probe metabolic dynamics at the cellular level have been slow to develop. This thesis represents a step toward realizing one such tool through the use of two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (2P-FLIM) of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH). This autofluorescent co-enzyme is involved in both aerobic and anaerobic metabolic processes which can be differentiated utilizing this advanced imaging approach. This thesis first presents a study of cell death dynamics in vivo, with cellular resolution, with a custom-built microscope utilizing a commercial 2P-FLIM detection system. Motivated by the limitations of this study in observing the early dynamics, a high-speed 2P-FLIM instrument is developed and characterized. This developed system is then directly applied to study the rapid, transient metabolic dynamics of cell death, providing new insight into this dynamic metabolic environment. Finally, this tool is combined with fluorescence calcium imaging to study the metabolic dynamics in neuronal activation, revealing a strong cell-specific response to brain activity in dissociated hippocampal cultures. These studies together demonstrate the potential of dynamic metabolic imaging as a tool for both basic scientific research and potential clinical translation. Through further development of these imaging approaches, the complex relationship between cellular metabolism and human health and disease can be further disentangled, providing potential benefits for both future biomedical research and clinical outcomes.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Andrew Bower, accepted the attached license on 2019-02-10 at 12:42.The student, Andrew Bower, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-02-10 at 12:47.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-02-11 at 11:50.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13381 on 2019-08-22 at 16:19:47Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:44:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 12
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Students outside Oak Lake School, 1894
No full textThe one-room Oak Lake School opened in 1886 near what is now Washelli Cemetery, north of Seattle. For many years Oak Lake was the only school in the northern part of King County. After several moves and additions, the school opened its first permanent building in 1914 at 10040 Aurora Avenue North.Handwritten on verso: First Oak Lake School Built 1886, Picture Taken 1894. Left to Right: Herman Bolt, Mr. Course & Baby, Emma Miller, Martha Denny, Tom McCombs, Clark Dye, Carl Miller, John Bower, Seth Nelson, Retta Denny, Mike Bower, Ida Denny, Paul Stewart, Joe Bower, Harvey Rothweiler, Pearl McCombs, Lawrence Dye, Lara Denny.1 photographic print: b&w; 3 x 4 in
Moral and Spiritual Values in Education: A Challenge to Every American
No full textThis book deals with the multiple problem of education in the public schools as it relates to moral and spiritual values. The author cuts a wide swath through the tangled underbrush of church and state, religion and education, sacred and secular, spiritual and materialistic, “body and soul,” and lets in a lot of light. To these problems the author brings a lifetime of courageous reflection and experience. To them he also brings, as case studies, the actual experiences of actual children and teachers in actual classrooms in Kentucky, where an experimental program of education in moral and spiritual values has been in process for the past several years.
William Clayton Bower is professor emeritus of The University of Chicago. An ordained minister of the Disciples of Christ Church, he held pastorates in Indiana, New York, and California until 1912, when he joined the faculty of Transylvania College, Lexington. In 1925, after he had become dean both of Transylvania College and College of the Bible, he went to The University of Chicago as professor of religious education.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_social_and_philosophical_foundations_of_education/1001/thumbnail.jp
Clematis occidentalis (Virgen's Bower) : Virgen's Bower
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Access to mental health in primary care: A qualitative meta-synthesis of evidence from the experience of people from 'hard to reach' groups
No full textKnowledge about depression, access and help-seeking has increasingly been influenced from a range of disciplines including clinical and applied social science. A range of interventions can improve outcomes of depression and anxiety. However, many in need do not seek help, or their interaction with care-givers does not address their needs. We carried out a systematic search for qualitative articles focusing on the experiences of eight exemplar groups with exceptional problems in access (the homeless, long-term unemployed, adolescents with eating disorders, depressed elderly people, advanced cancer sufferers, patients with medically unexplained symptoms, asylum seekers and people from black and minority ethnic groups). Twenty articles representing these groups were selected, findings were then developed using qualitative meta-synthesis, this suggested a range of mechanisms accounting for poor access among these groups. Many regarded their mental health problems as rooted in social problems and employed a variety of self-management strategies to maintain function. These strategies could involve social withdrawal, focusing available resources on close family relationships and work roles. Over-investment in these roles could result in a sense of insecurity as wider networks were neglected. Material disadvantage affected both the resources people could bring to performing social roles and influenced help-seeking. A tacit understanding of the material, psychological and social 'costs' of engagement by patients and health professionals could influence decisions to seek and offer help. These costs were felt to be proportionally higher in deprived, marginalized and minority communities, where individual resources are limited and the stigma attached to mental ill-health is high. © The Author(s) 2011
From star‐forming spirals to passive spheroids: integral field spectroscopy of E+A galaxies
No full textWe present three‐dimensional spectroscopy of 11 E+A galaxies at z = 0.06–0.12. These galaxies were selected for their strong Hδ absorption but weak (or non‐existent) [O ii ] λ3727 and Hα emission. This selection suggests that a recent burst of star formation was triggered but subsequently abruptly ended. We probe the spatial and spectral properties of both the young (≲1 Gyr) and old (≳few Gyr) stellar populations. Using the Hδ equivalent widths we estimate that the burst masses must have been at least 10 per cent by mass ( M burst ≳ 10 10 M ⊙ ), which is also consistent with the star formation history inferred from the broad‐band spectral energy distributions. On average the A stars cover ∼33 per cent of the galaxy image, extending over 2–15 kpc 2 , indicating that the characteristic E+A signature is a property of the galaxy as a whole and not due to a heterogeneous mixture of populations. In approximately half of the sample, we find that the A stars, nebular emission and continuum emission are not co‐located, suggesting that the newest stars are forming in a different place than those that formed ≲1 Gyr ago, and that recent star formation has occurred in regions distinct from the oldest stellar populations. At least 10 of the galaxies (91 per cent) have dynamics that class them as ‘fast rotators’ with magnitudes, v /σ, λ R and bulge‐to‐total (B/T) ratio comparable to local, representative ellipticals and S0s. We also find a correlation between the spatial extent of the A stars and the dynamical state of the galaxy such that the fastest rotators tend to have the most compact A star populations, providing new constraints on models that aim to explain the transformation of later type galaxies into early types. Finally, we show that there are no obvious differences between the line extents and kinematics of E+A galaxies detected in the radio (active galactic nucleus, AGN) compared to non‐radio sources, suggesting that AGN feedback does not play a dramatic role in defining their properties, and/or that its effects are short.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90164/1/j.1365-2966.2011.20082.x.pd
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