745 research outputs found
Islands - objects of representation
No full textGAHGAJ; guest editor: Godfrey Baldacchino.; Theme issue on island studies.; Prince Edward Island: p.250, 304.; Partial contents: Islands - objects of representation / Godfrey Baldacchino -- Insularity, sovereignty and statehood / Philip E. Steinberg -- Of navies and navels / Alex Law -- Tuvalu and climate change / Carol Farbotko -- Fact sheet : the islands of Sweden / Anders K?llg?rd.; Island Studies Program Collection.; 773: 01gVol. 87B no.4 (2005), p. 247-305.Source type: Electronic(1
Juvenile poems on various subjects. With The prince of Parthia, a tragedy. / By the late Mr. Thomas Godfrey, Junr. of Philadelphia. ; To which is prefixed, some account of the author and his writings. ; [One line from Horace]
No full textxxvi, [2], 223, [1] p. ; 23 cm. (4to)"The Prince of Parthia is the earliest dramatic production by a native American author published in the American colonies."--Evans.The account of Godfrey is by Nathaniel Evans.Subscribers' names, p. xxiii-xxvi.Errata, p. [xxviii]."Elegy, to the memory of Mr Thomas Godfrey."--p. 1-4, signed: J. [i.e., John] Green. "Elegy to the memory of the same."--p. 5-7, signed: N. [i.e., Nathaniel] Evans
Abraham Lincoln letter to Godfrey Weitzel
No full textDated April 6, 1865, this is a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to Major General Weitzel in Richmond, Virginia. This letter was written to Weitzel three days after he successfully gained control of Richmond, the Confederacy's capital. Here Lincoln acknowledges that some men who served on the Virginia legislature would like to reside in Richmond in support of the rebellion, and he gives his permission as long as they do not become hostile
Cliff Cottage, Bangor, Maine: 1847-1947
No full textDetails the history of the Kenduskeag Avenue, Bangor, Maine, residence of John Edwards Godfrey. Godfrey, in addition to being a judge, was the author of numerous articles on the history of early Maine. Covers Godfrey\u27s family history as told by his granddaughter, Angela Godfrey Clifford.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1304/thumbnail.jp
Small Islands versus Big Cities: Lessons in the Political Economy of Regional Development from the World’s Small Islands
No full textPopulation, employment and economic capacity continue to concentrate in and around large urban centres. If geography (measured as proximity to large centres of population) increasingly matters in the knowledge economy, then there may be no future for periphery locations. This paper critically reviews and refutes this hypothesis by looking at the world’s small islands. Handicapped by size and distance, they are unable to generate scale dynamics nor to regularly access any neighbouring, large metropolitan centres. Nevertheless, jurisdictional resourcefulness resulting from sovereignty or sub-national autonomy fosters compensatory policy capacity. Demand for niche-technology manufactures and craft-based, labour-intensive or place-specific services is likely to persist. Cyclical migration strategies allow islanders seeking work or education off island to tap the metropole and re-inject resources to reinvigorate the periphery. Remittances, aid, bureaucracy and other “rents” can provide significant fiscal resources necessary for survival. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006innovation, space, knowledge, regions, O11, P16,
Exploring sub-national island jurisdictions
No full textguest editors, Godfrey Baldacchino and David Milne.; Special issue: Sub-national island jurisdictions.; Prince Edward Island:493, 495.; Contents: Exploring sub-national island jurisdictions / Godfrey Baldacchino, David Milne -- Commonwealth update / Derek Ingram -- The Advantages of political affiliation / Jerome L. McElroy, Kara B. Pearce -- In or out / Barry Bartmann -- Island disaster para-diplomacy in the Commonwealth / Ilan Kelman, Megan Davies, Tom Mitchell, Iain Orr, Bob Conrich -- Isolation as disabilitiy and resource / Elaine Stratford -- Unitary state, devolution, autonomy, secession / Yash Ghai, Anthony J. Regan -- Dependence and autonomy in sub-nationa island jurisdictions / Gert Oostindie -- Book review: The line / Ariana Salvo.; Island Studies Program Collection.; 773: 04gVol. 95 no. 386 (September 2006), p. 487-653.Source type: Electronic(1
My Man Godfrey
No full textIn the depths of the Depression, Godfrey, a forgotten man, is rescued from his packing-crate home by ditzy socialite Irene Bullock during the course of a scavenger hunt. Irene offers Godfrey a job as butler to the banking family of Bullocks. Godfrey tolerates their eccentricities, alcoholism and general nuttiness. He cures hangovers, dodges missiles thrown by Irene\u27s jealous sister, Cornelia, and charms matronly Angelica Bullock, who sees pixies every morning. Irene and Molly, the pert Irish maid, both fall in love with Godfrey, but for Irene it\u27s serious—and she\u27s determined to get her man. Falsely accused by Cornelia of stealing the famous Bullock Pearls ( de bullock boils according to the detective on the case), Godfrey uses the opportunity to recover his personal finances—and, when the Bullocks end up going broke, he rescues them by getting them all (gasp!) jobs in The Dump, a new nightclub Godfrey has built to provide work for his friends and for the Bullocks, too. Finally, Irene weds her man Godfrey, and it all works out in the end. First published as a serial in Liberty magazine, the story was later issued as a hugely successful novel, My Man Godfrey. Author Eric S. Hatch was summoned to Hollywood to write the screenplay for the famous 1936 screwball comedy, with help from Morrie Ryskind. The film starred Carol Lombard and William Powell and the script was nominated for an Academy Award. Godfreyhas endured all these years because it has a serious social theme anchoring a wacky screwball comedy. The theme is simple: a job dignifies and provides purpose in life; without it you\u27re a bum on the one hand or an empty socialite on the other. This theme powers the work but never obtrudes, never sets back the romantic screwball comedy that is My Man Godfrey.
https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/my-man-godfreyhttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1907-1958/1067/thumbnail.jp
The place of experimental tasks in geometry teaching: learning from the textbook designs of the early 20th century
No full textThe dual nature of geometry, in that it is a theoretical domain and an area of practical experience, presents mathematics teachers with opportunities and dilemmas. Opportunities exist to link theory with the everyday knowledge of pupils but the dilemmas are that learners very often find the dual nature of geometry a chasm that is very difficult to bridge. With research continuing to focus on understanding the nature of this problem, with a view to developing better pedagogical techniques, this paper examines the place of experimental tasks in the process of learning geometry. In particular, the paper provides some results from an analysis of innovative geometry textbooks designed in the early part of the 20th Century, a time when significant efforts were being made to improve the teaching and learning of geometry. The analysis suggests that experimental tasks have a vital role to play and that a potent tool for informing the design of such tasks, so that they build effectively on pupils’ geometrical intuition, is the notion of the geometrical eye, a term coined by Charles Godfrey in 1910 as “the power of seeing geometrical properties detach themselves from a figure"
Pricing Water to Encourage Conservation
No full textAuthor\u27s biography: Dr. Godfrey Gibbison is an associate professor and director of the School of Economic Development at Georgia Southern. He can be contacted at [email protected]
Introduction
No full textWhat are the strategies, modalities and aspirations of island-based, stateless nationalist and regionalist parties in the twenty-first century? Political independence is now easier to achieve, even by the smallest of territories; yet, it is not so likely to be pursued with any vigour by the world's various persisting sub-national (and mainly island) jurisdictions. Theirs is a pursuit of different expressions of sub-national autonomy, stopping short of independence. And yet, a number of independence referenda are scheduled, including one looming in Scotland in autumn 2014
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