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Morrison, Ron (FA 565)
No full textFinding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 565. Interview conducted by Ron Morrison with Freeman Kitchens at Kitchens Groceries in Drake, Warren County, Kentucky. They discuss the store, Kitchens\u27s phonograph collection and his association with the Carter Family
2023-01-19 Statement by Ron Morrison on PG-23
No full textA statement delivered by Ron Morrison to the Faculty Senate on January 19, 2023
First Smart Spaces
No full textThis document describes the Gloss software currently implemented. The description of the Gloss demonstrator for multi-surface interaction can be found in D17. The ongoing integration activity for the work described in D17and D8 constitutes our development of infrastructure for a first smart space. In this report, the focus is on infrastructure to support the implementation of location aware services. A local architecture provides a framework for constructing Gloss applications, termed assemblies, that run on individual physical nodes. A global architecture defines an overlay network for linking individual assemblies. Both local and global architectures are under active development
Transforming America : Toni Morrison and classical tradition
No full textThis thesis examines a significant but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's
work: her ambivalent engagement with classical tradition. Analysing all eight
novels. it argues that her allusiveness to the cultural practices of Ancient Greece
and Rome is fundamental to her political project. Illuminating hegemonic
America's consistent recourse to the classical world in the construction of its
identity, I expand on prior scholarship by reading Morrison's own revisionary
classicism as a subversion of dominant US culture. My three-part study
examines the way her deployment of Graeco-Roman tradition destabilizes
mythologies of the American Dream, prevailing narratives of America's
history, and national ideologies of purity. Part I shows that Morrison enlists
tragic conventions to problematize the Dream's central tenets of upward
mobility, progress and freedom. It argues that while her engagement with Greek
choric models effects her refutation of individualism, it is her later novels'
rejection of a wholly catastrophic vision that enables her to avoid reinscribing
the Dream. Part II demonstrates that it is through her classical allusiveness that
Morrison rewrites American history. Her multiply-resonant echoes of the epic,
pastoral and tragic traditions that have consistently informed the dominant
culture's justifications for and representations of its actions enable her
reconfiguration of colonization, of the foundation of the new nation, of slavery
and its aftermath and of the Civil Rights Movement. Part III illuminates how
the author uses the discourse of pollution or miasma to challenge
Enlightenment-derived valorizations of racial purity and to expose the practices
of scapegoating and revenge as flawed means to moral purity. Her interest in
the hegemonic fabrication of classical tradition as itself a pure and purifying
force is matched by her insistence on that tradition's African elements, and thus
on its potent impurity. Her own radical classicism, therefore, is central to the
transformation of America that her novels envision
Interview conducted by Ron Morrison with Freeman Kitchens in March 1978 (FA 565)
No full textTranscription of an interview conducted by Ron Morrison with Freeman Kitchens at Kitchens Groceries in Drake, Warren County, Kentucky in March 1978. They discuss the store, Kitchens\u27s phonograph collection and his association with the Carter Family (musical group)
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Music By Julia Morrison
No full textRecital presented at NTSU School of Music Recital Hall
Oral history interview with Ron Wallace
No full textRon Wallace, author and instructor, talks about growing up in Durant, Oklahoma, and having a father on the police force. He recalls his college days and earning a degree in English. He explains how he developed a love of poetry initially and how he began writing poetry. Wallace also shares stories of his grandparents and reads a few of his favorite poems. He has been a Oklahoma Book Award finalist several times.The Deep Roots: Oklahoma Authors Collection is a series of interviews with authors who discuss their lives, work, and creative processes
Best-Selling Author Ron Rash to Visit GWU
No full textGardner-Webb University alumnus and best-selling author Ron Rash is set to visit GWU as he gains worldwide attention for “Serena,” his novel that was adapted into a feature film set to premiere next month. Rash will visit the campus Oct. 3 to give the keynote address at the Appalachian Writers Association’s annual awards banquet, part of the Southern Appalachian Culture Series conference hosted at Gardner-Webb. The 1976 GWU alum, also currently the John Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University, will discuss Appalachian writing and read from some of his works.
WGWG: Catch Up with Ron Rashhttps://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/2320/thumbnail.jp
Distributed ProcessBase: Report on initial experiments
No full textProcessBase is a programming environment designed to support flexible and compliant application development. The Distributed ProcessBase system is a variant on this environment, designed for a distributed context. The initial design of this system defines a range of experiments designed to explore suitable addressing schemes, coherency and distribution models. This document describes the results of our initial experiments in the implementation of this system and further insight into appropriate protocol selection gained during this work.Katrina Falkner, Ron Morrison, Dave Munro, Stuart Norcros
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