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Competing models of socially constructed economic man : differentiating Defoe's Crusoe from the Robinson of neoclassical economics
Full text linkDaniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe has seldom been read as an explicitly political text. When it has, it appears that the central character was designed to warn the early eighteenth-century reader against political challenges to the existing economic order. Insofar as Defoe’s Crusoe stands for "economic man", he is a reflection of historically-produced assumptions about the need for social conformity, not the embodiment of any genuinely essential economic characteristics. This insight is used to compare Defoe’s conception of economic man with that of the neoclassical Robinson Crusoe economy. On the most important of the ostensibly generic principles espoused by neoclassical theorists, their "Robinson" has no parallels with Defoe’s Crusoe. Despite the shared name, two quite distinct social constructions serve two equally distinct pedagogical purposes. Defoe’s Crusoe extols the virtues of passive middle-class sobriety for effective social organisation; the neoclassical Robinson champions the establishment of markets for the sake of productive efficiency
Ernest Thompson Seton: an unforgettable personality, by Edgar M. Robinson
No full textThis piece, titled “Ernest Thomas Seton: an unforgettable personality”, gives a first hand interpretation of who Ernest Thompson Seton (it is believed that whoever put the cover on this document spelled his name wrong) was through the eyes of Edgar Robinson. Robinson explains what a strong relationship the two of them had and what a strong mentor Seton was to Robinson. Ernest Thompson Seton was an author and illustrator of more than 50 works, and was largely responsible for the American Indian influence in the Boy Scouts of America that offered young people knowledge of an outdoor life based on Native American Indian customs, legends and beliefs. Seton was Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America from 1910 to 1915. Edgar M. Robinson was a 1901 graduate from the YMCA Training School, now Springfield college, where he later returned to serve on the faculty as the Honorary Director of Boys Work Courses and the Adviser in Methods and Principles in Work with Boys from 1927-1937.For biographical information on Edgar M. Robinson, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/554
For more information on Ernest Thompson Seton, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/553On the bottom of page number 1 there is a rip, which prevents part of the bottom two lines from being read. On that back of page number one appear the numbers "46757" written in pencil
Robinson Crusoe
No full textDaniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) was an English merchant, author, and political pamphleteer best known for the classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe.Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Chapter I-Start in Life -- Chapter II-Slavery and Escape -- Chapter III-Wrecked on a Desert Island -- Chapter IV-First Weeks on the Island -- Chapter V-Builds a House-The Journal -- Chapter VI-Ill and Conscience-Stricken -- Chapter VII-Agricultural Experience -- Chapter VIII-Surveys his Position -- Chapter IX-A Boat -- Chapter X-Tames Goats -- Chapter XI-Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand -- Chapter XII-A Cave Retreat -- Chapter XIII-Wreck of a Spanish Ship -- Chapter XIV-A Dream Realised -- Chapter XV-Friday's Education -- Chapter XVI-Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals -- Chapter XVII-Visit of Mutineers -- Chapter XVIII-The Ship Recovered -- Chapter XIX-Return to England -- Chapter XX-Fight between Friday and a Bear -- Copyright PageDaniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) was an English merchant, author, and political pamphleteer best known for the classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
2011 Commencement Address: Marilynne Robinson
Full text linkNovelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson will receive an honorary degree from the College of the Holy Cross and address this year’s graduates during the College’s Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 27 at 10:30 a.m. on the campus.
The author of three highly acclaimed novels, Robinson has distinguished herself as one of the nation’s most important and influential writers. Interested in the search for meaning and value in life, her work explores themes of faith, forgiveness, hope, and relationships.
Since the publication of her first novel, Housekeeping, in 1980, which earned her the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award for First Fiction, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, Robinson has been honored with many of the publishing industry’s most prestigious awards. Her novel Gilead, the story of an Iowa preacher, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Home, a companion to Gilead, won the 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize for fiction and the 2009 Orange Prize for fiction.
In 1990, Robinson received a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, and in 1998, she earned the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts.
Robinson is also the author of three books of nonfiction, The Death of Adam, Absence of Mind, and Mother Country, an exposé of the environmental damage caused by a nuclear reprocessing plant that was a finalist for the 1989 National Book Award.
A faculty member at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Robinson has also taught at the University of Kent in England, the University of Massachusetts and at Amherst College.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/commence_address/1006/thumbnail.jp
Event Invitation: An Evening with Dr. Ken Robinson
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Guest speaker, Dr. Ken Robinson, author of “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, ” will speak on the importance of arts, the development of creativity, education, and the economy. And, introducing the inaugural DaVinci Scholars Awards program
Author-reader relationship at the site of the work
No full textWithin the format of a critical exegesis and four original works of extended prose fiction, this thesis explores the interaction between the author and reader and argues that literary meaning is the outcome of shifts of power between these two entities. It concludes that because these shifts in power are orchestrated by the author, the author is relevant to understanding how meaning is produced
Thomas Pendleton Robinson Correspondence
Full text linkEntries include brief biographical information with a typographical error, a typed book synopsis and author biography on The Viking Junior Log stationery with a penciled name correction note, a typed letter from Massee on The Viking Press, Inc., Publishers, stationery followed by a handwritten card of presentation from Mrs. Ethel Fay Robinson
Jack Robinson
Full text linkJack Robinson returns from sea looking for his love, Polly Grayhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1577/thumbnail.jp
Mary C. Robinson Correspondence
Full text linkEntries include brief biographical information, a handwritten letter on personal stationery explaining that copies of her book are not for sale and circulate among her friends presented with a biography, and her hopes to gain the attention of author Laura E. Richardson whose daughter Robinson had met at Maine Teachers Conventions
The Development and Use of an Internal Friction Technique for the Study of Radiation Damage
No full textTitle: The Development and Use of an Internal Friction Technique for the Study of Radiation Damage, Author: R. C. Robinson, Location: ThodeThe use of internal friction methods in the
study of radiation damage is briefly reviewed. The
development of an internal friction technique utilizing
a noncontacting optical transducer for detection of
flexural resonant vibrations in a cantilever beam is
described. An account of some preliminary experiments
is given, including examination of the Snoek peak and
the strain amplitude dependence of internal friction
in iron and niobium. Damping measurements were made
in the free-decay mode.ThesisMaster of Engineering (ME
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