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Being an entrepreneurial journalist
No full textEntrepreneurship is on the rise – and journalism is one of many professions where this is increasingly evident. The combination of an economic downturn and a digital revolution has led to the number of new businesses registered in the UK surging to more than 580,000 a year, with more than half of people aged between 18-30 wanting to start their own company
Painting No. 4 (A Black Horse)
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This painting was bequeathed to the Museum by Alfred Stieglitz, whose "291" gallery in New York was the focus of early modernism in the United States. It was Stieglitz who gave Marsden Hartley his first one-person show in 1909 and helped finance his trip to Europe in 1912. There Hartley came into contact with the works of Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse as well as German Expressionists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Hartley made Painting No. 4 while in Germany at the outbreak of World War I. A part of his "Amerika" series, it combines the bright colors, flattened space, and simplified forms of French and German modern painting with symbols loosely drawn from Native American culture. While conveying Hartley's interest in representing spiritual values, the symbolism--such as the horse in front of the tepee flanked by plant forms--intentionally resists precise interpretation. In the face of his immersion in European modernism, his use of Native American motifs underscored Hartley's own American identity. He also spoke of the Native Americans as a gentle race, a counterbalance to European cultures preparing for a world war. John B. Ravenal, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 311.full vie
Relationship between the molecular structure and properties of polythylene
No full textThe molecular structure of melt crystallized, linear polyethylene has been studied by analysing those features of the-tibrational spectrum which have structural significance. In particular, these are, in the :aman spectrum, the longitudinal acoustic mode, the lattice modes and the region near A%7= 1400cm:1, whilst in the infra-red spectrum the correlation split,CH2 rocking and twisting modes and those bands which arise from vibrations in the disordered regions of polyethylene are of particular interest. The vibrational spectra have been complemented, where appropriate, by data from wide angle X-ray diffraction and differential scanning; calorimetry. Thee assignment of the vibrational spectrum of polyethyier_e is considered. Using a polyethylene sample of single crystal texture, the polarization of bands in the Raman spectrum whose symmetry properties had not been previously unambiguously assigned, were determined. The longitudinal acoustic motion is shown not to couple with the disordered lamellar surface zones, but to be confined, as in the alkanes, to the e all trans sector of the lamellar unit.A study of correlation splitting in the infra-red spectrum of polyethylene allowed the observation of well known structural transitions which had previously only been observed by dynamo-mechanical methods. Tentative suggestions, as to the structural changes which cause such transitions are made. Additionally, bands arising from vibrations which generate a dipole rio,r~ent in the chain axis direction, have been used both as a measure of structural order in, and the thermal expansion of, the lamellar core. Weak bands in the infra-red spectrum, which occur at frequencies more typical of the Raman spectrum of polyethylene are shown to arise from vibrations of all trans sequences within the disordered zones, not from a breakdown of the selection rules of the factor group,, due to the finite dimensions of the lamellar core. The melting and crystallization of polyethylene is studied. The dataa on melting, support the defect model of polymer melting, proposed initially by Reneker, rather than the pre-melting model due to Fischer, Peterlin and coworkers. Melt crystallization of polyethylene has' been investigated by preparing long chain dicarboxy acids by the nitric acid oxidation of polyethylenes of various thermal histories. Using these structures an attempt was made to find the minimum length at which chainfolding occured. Surprisingly, none of these long chain structures folded when melt quenched, but formed non-folded crystallites whose lamellar thickness was identical to that of a 'normal' polyethylene subjected to the same quenching routine. Contrary to the accepted viewpoints, the non-folded lamellar structures exhibited a spherulitic morphology and were readily annealed to regain viii their extended chain form. The deformation of polyethylene by. cold drawing and cold rolling has been investigated. Bands which appear in the infra-red spectrum only after the sample has necked down, are attributed to vibrations on 'tie molecules.'. It is proposed that such molecules have a monoclinic crystalline structure. Structural changes which occur during cold rolling are shown to be qualitatively the same as for cold drawing. It is possible to study lamellar breakdown much more easily on cold rolled samples than on cold drawn samples, as structural changes can be more readily controlled. Annealing has been used to give information on the restraints on. structural re-organization at elevated temperature imposed by the deformation process.The data support, in general terms, the molecular mechanism, for the deformation of polymers proposed by Peterlin_.fI IIt is concluded, that to give a complete insight into structure it is necessary to complement vibrational data with that from other techniques which measure structural order, e.g. X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry.</p
Conversations with Paul Auster
No full textInterviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies.Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Translation -- Interview with Paul Auster -- An Interview with Paul Auster -- Memory's Escape-Inventing the Music of Chance: A Conversation with Paul Auster -- The Making of Smoke -- The Manuscript in the Book: A Conversation -- An Interview with Paul Auster -- The Futurist Radio Hour: An Interview with Paul Auster -- Paul Auster: Writer and Director -- Off the Page: Paul Auster -- Paul Auster: The Art of Fiction -- Jonathan Lethem Talks with Paul Auster -- A Conversation with Paul Auster -- The Making of The Inner Life of Martin Frost -- Interview: Paul Auster -- A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster -- Interview: Paul Auster on His New Novel, Invisible -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZInterviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies.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
Portrait of Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011 /
No full textTitle from nformation supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Podcast photograph of author Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author, Dr. Paul Wehr. c. 1980
No full textDr. Paul Wehr, as he appeared c. 1980. Dr. Wehr was a professor of history at UCF and the author of Like a Mustard Seed: the Slavia Settlement (1982 - Mickler Publishing House), a history of the early years of Slavia and St. Luke\u27s history.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-images/1413/thumbnail.jp
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
The British ‘Bluesman’ Paul Oliver and the Nature of Transatlantic Blues Scholarship
No full textRecent revisionist studies have argued that much of what is known about music known as the blues’ has been 'invented' by the writing of enthusiasts far removed from the African American culture that created the music. Elijah Wald and Marybeth Hamilton in particular have attempted to sift through the clouds of romanticism, and tried to unveil more empirical histories that were previously obscured by the fallacious genre distinctions conjured up during the 1960s blues revival. While this revisionist scholarship has shed light on some previously ignored historical facts, writers have tended to concentrate on the romanticism of blues writing strictly from an American perspective, failing to acknowledge the genesis and influence of transatlantic scholarship, and therefore ignoring the work of the most prolific and influential blues scholar of the twentieth century, British writer Paul Oliver. By examining the core of Oliver’s research and writing during the 1950s and 1960s, this study aims to place Oliver in his rightful place at the centre of blues historiography. His scholarship allows a more detailed appreciation of the manner in which the blues was studied, through lyrics, recordings, oral histories, photography and African American literature. These historical sources were interpreted in accordance with the author’s attitudes to the commercial popular music, which allowed the ‘reconstruction’ of an African American ‘folk’ culture in which the blues became the antithesis of pop. Importantly, this study seeks to transcend dominant discourses of national cultural ownership or ethnocentrism, and demonstrate that representations of African American music and culture were constructed within a transatlantic context. The blues is music with roots in the African American experience within the United States; however, as Paul Oliver’s writing shows, its reception and representation were not limited by the same national, cultural or racial boundaries
[Memo by Paul Tsuneishi, January 19, 1998]
No full textA memo by Paul Tsuneishi offering both humorous and apparently serious explanations of the work of that Friends of Michi (FOM) is doing.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Jersey Homesteads -- A Triple Co-operative
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Title: "Tomorrow a new world: the New Deal communuity program."
Publisher: Ithaca, NY, Published for the American Historical Association (by) Cornell University Press, 1959.
Author; Conkin, Paul Keith
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