15 research outputs found
Migration, friendship ties, and cultural assimilation
No full textWe study migrants’ assimilation by analyzing whether friendship with natives is a measure of cultural assimilation and by investigating the formation of social ties. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without along several important dimensions, including concerns about the economy, interest in politics and a host of policy issues. Turning to friendship acquisition, we find that becoming employed, time spent in the host country, the birth of a child, residential mobility and additional education acquired in the host country are significant drivers of social network variation
Sounds Local, 1995 April 07
No full textConnie Anderson and Greg Watkins give tours of their historical Wrightsville Beach cottages; Interview with actress Jemila Ericson about the play, Lost in Yonkers, produced by Tapestry Theatre Company and on stage at the Scottish Rite Temple; Interview with children's author Eleanora Tate about children's literature and its impact; Interview with director Kevin Scott Warner about the play, The Dancing Spider, based on a West African folk tale, produced by the Thalian Association Children's Theatre; Overview of upcoming events on the cultural calendar
As memórias como construtoras da identidade em Ponciá Vicêncio, de Conceição Evaristo
No full textThe present work intends to show the importance of literature teaching in relation to Afro-Brazilian literature. Therefore, for delimitation of the theme, I first propose a discussion about the concept of literature, seen in two ways: black literature and afro-brazilian literature, based on studies carried out by SANTOS; WIELEWICKI (2005), DUARTE (2008), among other scholars. In this perspective, I talk about the afro-brazilian literature of Minas Gerais writer Conceição Evaristo and her Escrevivência (2012), starting from a biographical analysis of the author, relating it specifically to the romance Ponciá Vicêncio, (2003). Objective to understand how the relationship between memory and identity, from the construction of the life of Ponciá and its relation with Nengua Kainda, an old wise woman from the village where the protagonist lived, through the studies carried out by EVARISTO (2009); DUARTE (2008); BOSI (1987), among others. In this sense of identity inheritance and (re)knowledge of an identity, of the valorization of black and Afrodescendant culture, understand how fundamental is to work literature classes in a stimulus bias, so that the students see the Afro-Brazilian literature as a form of knowing their origins, their culture. In addition to theories and discussions, I present a proposal for classroom intervention, developed from the romance Ponciá Vicêncio (2003) which was carried out in a school in the Santa Rita city, in a high school class of the 3rd year.O presente trabalho pretende mostrar a importância do ensino da literatura, no tocante a literatura afro-brasileira. Sendo assim, para a delimitação do tema, primeiramente, proponho uma discussão acerca do conceito de literatura, vista sob duas vertentes: literatura negra e literatura afro-brasileira, embasada nos estudos realizados por SANTOS; WIELEWICKI (2005), DUARTE (2008), dentre outros estudiosos. Nesta perspectiva, discorro sobre a literatura afro-brasileira da mineira Conceição Evaristo e sua Escrevivência (2012), a partir de uma análise biográfica da autora, relacionando-a, especificamente, com o romance Ponciá Vicêncio (2003). Objetivo compreender como dá-se a relação entre memória e identidade, a partir da construção da vida de Ponciá e sua relação com Nêngua Kainda, uma velha sábia da Vila em que a protagonista morava, através dos estudos realizados por EVARISTO (2009); DUARTE (2008); BOSI (1987), entre outros. Neste sentido de herança identitária e (re)conhecimento de uma identidade, da valorização da cultura negra e afrodescendente, compreendo como fundamental trabalhar as aulas de literatura em um viés de estímulo, para que os alunos enxerguem a literatura afro-brasileira como uma forma de conhecer as suas origens, sua cultura. Além de teorias e discussões, apresento uma proposta de intervenção em sala de aula, desenvolvida a partir do romance Ponciá Vicêncio (2003) a qual foi realizada em uma escola do município de Santa Rita, em uma turma do 3° ano do Ensino Médio
The artist, the explorer, the „initiate”. Spiritual journeys of Maya Deren
No full textThis paper is concerned with the life and oeuvre of Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenowskaia (1917-1961), unquestionably – one of the most intriguing personalities of 20th century art. She was a filmmaker, film theorist, photographer, dancer and most of all – someone that might be called a radical surrealist and a creative „shamaness”. The author seeks to describe the main ideas presented in Divine Horsemen. The Living Gods of Haiti – a book that was originally published in 1953, as a result of Deren's personal research on Haitian voodoo culture
La figura del favorito regio nelle "lettere di Consiglio" e negli "Essayes" di Francis Bacon: riflessi letterari dell' "impeachment" del Lord Chancellor
No full textL�articolo si propone di studiare la ricezione teorica del fenomeno
della privanza nell�Inghilterra giacobita attraverso l�analisi di alcuni scritti politici
di Francesco Bacone (1561-1626), filosofo e Lord Cancelliere della monarchia
inglese. Le due lettere di consiglio che Bacone scrisse, tra il 1616 e il 1619,
indirizzandole a George Villiers, favorito di Giacomo I, nonché futuro Duca di
Buckingham, unitamente ad alcuni saggi, presenti nell�edizione complessiva
degli Essayes del 1625, contengono, infatti, una serie di interessanti
annotazioni in grado di delucidare le dinamiche politiche, istituzionali e
filosofiche che determinarono l�affermazione di tale fenomeno in ambito inglese.
Due sono gli elementi che l�analisi comparata degli scritti baconiani pone in
luce: da un lato, una sempre maggiore consapevolezza dell�autore in relazione
alle dinamiche costitutive della privanza, intese come monopolio del consiglio
regio e del patronage della monarchia, dall�altro lato, il costituirsi di un giudizio
negativo intorno alla figura del favorito, riconducibile in parte al personale
convincimento politico dell�autore, in parte alle vicende biografiche che
coinvolsero il Lord Cancelliere, a partire dal 1621. La parte conclusiva
dell�articolo si propone, infatti, di ricostruire in maniera sintetica le vicende e i
retroscena dell�impeachement parlamentare che nel 1621 determinò la fine
della carriera politica e cortigiana del filosofo.The present article, through a study of two letter of advice, written by
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) for the English favourite of James I, George Villiers,
first Duke of Buckingham, and some of his Essayes (1625), tries to analyse the
theoretical reception of the figure of the royal favourite and the institutional and
political context of his rising. In these works, infact, Francis Bacon not only
showed an increasing consciousness on the main features of this political
figure, the monopoly of patronage and royal counsel, but also expressed a
negative opinion about a policy based only on a favourite. The view of the
author should be connected with a political conviction, identified with the reign
of Elizabeth I, in which the queen ruled with the Privy Council, and with the
biographical events, who involved Bacon in 1621. Last part of the article, infact,
is focused on the impeachment and the end of the political career of the Lord
Chancellor
Trans-eQTLs Reveal That Independent Genetic Variants Associated with a Complex Phenotype Converge on Intermediate Genes, with a Major Role for the HLA
No full textThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Wage Premia in Employment Clusters: How Important is Worker Heterogeneity?
No full textThis paper tests whether the correlation between wages and the spatial concentration of employment can be explained by unobserved worker productivity differences. Residential location is used as a proxy for a worker's unobserved productivity, and average workplace commute time is used to test whether location-based productivity differences are compensated away by longer commutes. Analyses using confidential data from the 2000 Decennial Census Long Form find that the agglomeration estimates are robust to comparisons within residential location and that the estimates do not persist after controlling for commuting costs suggesting that the productivity differences across locations are not due to productivity differences across individuals.Agglomeration, Wages, Sorting, Locational Equilibrium, Human Capital Externalities
Giving Voice to Griselda: Nineteenth-Century Reinventions of a Medieval Tale
No full textThis article introduces the Victorian writer Eleanora Louisa Hervey and her poetic responses to the Griselda story, including post-medieval editions of Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale that were popular in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Hervey diverges from the mainstream interpretations of Griselda and her story, and presents instead a radical, proto-feminist retelling. As this study shows, although she participates in the Chaucerian branch of Victorian medievalism, she boldly rejects canonical and more widely known versions of the tale. Hervey uniquely reimagines Griselda’s story from a female perspective, and, in doing so, presents a negative view of male authority and patriarchal social structures. She sharply critiques the heavily polarized views of women popular in the Victorian period, that they are either angels or monsters, which recall similar dichotomous views from the medieval period of women as either virgins or whores. This study thus explores how Hervey employs Griselda in texts geared towards adult, female, and child readers, as well as the different media and contexts within which she presents her adaptations of this medieval figure. Further, through its examination of Hervey’s unique and proto-feminist retellings, it provides new perspectives on how writers and audiences in the nineteenth century received, reimagined, and appropriated this medieval figure and her story. Finally, it restores a “forgotten and neglected” female author to the public and academic realms.</p
Giving Voice to Griselda: Nineteenth-Century Reinventions of a Medieval Tale
No full textThis article introduces the Victorian writer Eleanora Louisa Hervey and her poetic responses to the Griselda story, including post-medieval editions of Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale that were popular in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Hervey diverges from the mainstream interpretations of Griselda and her story, and presents instead a radical, proto-feminist retelling. As this study shows, although she participates in the Chaucerian branch of Victorian medievalism, she boldly rejects canonical and more widely known versions of the tale. Hervey uniquely reimagines Griselda’s story from a female perspective, and, in doing so, presents a negative view of male authority and patriarchal social structures. She sharply critiques the heavily polarized views of women popular in the Victorian period, that they are either angels or monsters, which recall similar dichotomous views from the medieval period of women as either virgins or whores. This study thus explores how Hervey employs Griselda in texts geared towards adult, female, and child readers, as well as the different media and contexts within which she presents her adaptations of this medieval figure. Further, through its examination of Hervey’s unique and proto-feminist retellings, it provides new perspectives on how writers and audiences in the nineteenth century received, reimagined, and appropriated this medieval figure and her story. Finally, it restores a “forgotten and neglected” female author to the public and academic realms.</p
