473 research outputs found
Maine author Monica Wood rides along with Sergeant Matthew Bard of the Fairfield
No full textMaine author Monica Wood rides along with Sergeant Matthew Bard of the Fairfield Police Department, observing the aftermath of a burglary, the serving of a restraining order, a paintball incident, and other late-shift police calls in the small town
the churches of lalibela: erosion and encrustation as transformative musical processes
No full textThis thesis outlines a new compositional grammar for my recent compositional practice as demonstrated by the collection of original musical work supplied in the accompanying folio of compositions, itself collectively titled the churches of lalibela. The grammar here outlined and explored presents developments in compositional procedure resulting from re-considering acts of musical transformation in terms of erosion and encrustation. Within the terminologies of this thesis, erosion and encrustation are understood as classes of compositional action (applied to musical materials) defined by operations of erasure/removal and addition/accrual respectively. Using examples from the visual arts as a mechanism for discussion, the thesis develops a wider conceptual understanding of these terms, allowing them to be considered no
longer as opposites but as intertwined mechanisms mutually achieving a state of material distortion. A compositional scenario is thus derived in which the sonic surface of a given instance of a composition can be understood as being comprised of the debris resulting from such processes. To develop an understanding of this scenario, the thesis further explores ideas concerning ambiguity of material definition and the role such ambiguity can play in relation to material comparison within the experience of a musical discourse. As such, the grammar here derived can be said to exposit a preoccupation with comparison of material debris of different classes and/or degrees of distortion within the listening experience. The thesis also explores the nature and function of material consistency with regard to definition, illustrating the difference between two terms with a notion of consistency achieved through inconsistency
Dr. James Gillam, Spelman College, September 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. James Gillam. Dr. Gillam talks about his book, "Life and Death in the Central Highlands: An American Sergeant in the Vietnam War 1968-1970". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
The Supply Sergeant
No full textA modern soldier reminisces about his favorite uncle, a career Army supply sergeant and ne\u27er-do-well.
Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit
Frank Lloyd Wright\u27s Usonian Houses: Designs for Moderate Cost One-Family Homes
No full textHow do you build innovative, energy-conscious, low-cost houses that are specifically suited to individual sites and a family\u27s informal life style? Such issues pose complex problems for architects practicing today, yet Frank Lloyd Wright successfully resolved them in the houses he built in the later period of his prolific career. Known as his Usonian houses, these works have a particular relevance today because of the current concern for energy conservation, ecological integrity, and personalized design.
After defining organic architecture, John Sergeant shows how the first Usonian - the Jacobs house built in 1937 - incorporates Wright\u27s techniques. Sergeant then explores how the Usonian design was adapted to meet the special needs of over fifty clients in climates as different as those of the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi basin.
Then the author describes Taliesin - the experimental, creative, cooperative community where Wright and his associates worked and lived - and shows how the Usonian concept was carried out in practice there. Broadacre City, Wright\u27s plan for the nation urbanized, is discussed as the context for the Usonian houses, as well as for Wright\u27s populist social program. Sergeant not only reviews the contemporary criticism of the radical proposal for city planning, but relates it to today\u27s changing social and environmental awareness. He concludes by summarizing the implications of organic design at both the individual level of the Usonian dwelling and the social level of the Broadacre community.
This well-illustrated, serious appraisal of Wright\u27s later period provides a timely approach to solving some of today\u27s most urgent needs.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_flwbooks/1085/thumbnail.jp
Address by Sergeant Ben Kuroki, U.S. Army Air Force
No full textSergeant Ben Kuroki delivers a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California.The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942
Should Psychiatric Patients Be Granted Access to Their Hospital Records?
No full textBeginning in September 1987, the British public will have the right
to consult their computerized medical records and by extension, it is
expected, noncomputerized ones as well. The author analyzed the case notes of
100 consecutive patients admitted under his care to a psychiatric day
hospital. He classified material likely to affect patients adversely as
puzzling or unintelligible, alarming, apparently insulting or objectionable,
or sensitive information from or about others. Sergeant rejects proposals to
omit sensitive material, to keep secret notes, or to grant access only to some
psychiatric patients or to deny access to psychiatric patients as a class.
Maintaining that there is no dividing line between somatic and psychological
medicine, he concludes that access to personal health data for all patients
should be limited to the disclosure of bare administrative details. Further
information should be supplied within the traditional medical consultation.
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Sergeant Salinger
No full text"J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the first Allied entry into a Bavarian death camp, where corpses were piled like cordwood. After the war, interned in a Nuremberg psychiatric clinic, Salinger was bewitched by a suspected Nazi informant. They married, but not long after he brought her home to New York, the marriage collapsed. Maladjusted to civilian life, he lived like a 'spook', with invisible stripes on his shoulder and the ghosts of the murdered inside his head. Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, this is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind a novel that has marked generations."-
"Sergeant Rutledge", de John Ford, como un mito filosófico
No full textEste trabajo quiere celebrar el cincuenta aniversario del estreno del filme Sergeant Rutledge (El Sargento negro), mostrando cómo se desarrollan las relaciones interpersonales en esta película. Estudia la ontología y la gnoseología del filme, para comprender por qué John Ford es un auténtico poeta clásico desde la perspectiva de Platón y Aristóteles. Además la película es un verdadero mito filosófico, constructor y transmisor de aquello que Aristóteles llama en la Poética (1451b) "lo universal". Por último, esta obra de Ford es crucial como vehículo de una tesis antirracista e integradora de los afroamericanos, en el contexto de sus luchas por los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos en la década de los cincuenta y sesenta del siglo XXAbstract The author of this article wishes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the première of Sergeant Rutledge, showing how interpersonal relation ships are developed in this film. He studies the ontology and gnoseology of the film, to understand how John Ford is a real classical poet from the perspective of Plato and Aristotle. The film is also a true philosophical myth which builds and transmits the so-called Poetics of Aristotle (1451b), "the Universal". This work of Ford is essential as a vehicle of an anti-racist and integrating view of Afro-Americans in USA, in the context of the civil right's figths of 50' and 60' decades of XX centur
Surrealist challenges to colonialism : “The man with the heavy leg” by Jan Rabie and “What happened to sergeant Massuro?” by Harry Mulisch
No full textCITATION: Visagie, A. 2023. Surrealisties teen die kolonialisme : “Die man met die swaar been” van Jan Rabie en “Wat gebeurde er met sergeant Massuro?” van Harry Mulisch. Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, 30(1):68-94.The original publication is available at https://journals.co.za/journal/tnaSurrealist challenges to colonialism: “The man with the heavy leg” by Jan Rabie and “What happened to sergeant Massuro?” by Harry Mulisch This article presents a comparative analysis of two short stories: “Die man met die swaar been” (“The man with the heavy leg”) by Afrikaans author Jan Rabie (1956) and “Wat gebeurde er met sergeant Massuro?” (“What happened to sergeant Massuro”) by Dutch author Harry Mulisch (1957). Both authors use surrealist representations of two conflicted characters whose bodies turn as heavy as stone in their anti-colonial texts. The oppressive colonial practices of the Dutch and French forces in Dutch New Guinea and Indochina, respectively, inform the painful transformations that the protagonists must endure. While it is possible that Mulisch read one of the earlier versions of Rabie's story in the Dutch journal De Gids, it is more likely that both authors were influenced by French existentialist writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Henri Michaux's work also served as inspiration for Rabie, who honed his writing skills during a stay in Paris from 1948 to 1955. This article investigates the possibility that Albert Camus's influential essay “The Myth of Sisyphus” may have provided the basis for both Rabie and Mulisch's stories about increasing bodily weight and apparent petrification. The rock that Sisyphus is doomed to push repeatedly up a hill seems to reappear in a later story by Camus, “La pierre qui pousse” (“The rock that grew”), translated into Afrikaans by Jan Rabie in 1961. The article demonstrates how surrealism and existentialism contributed to the development of anti-colonial writing in Afrikaans and Dutch long before the emergence of postcolonial theory.https://journals.co.za/journal/tnaPublisher's versio
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