363 research outputs found
Down but Not Out: Reforming Social Assistance Rules that Punish the Poor for Saving
No full textReform is required for social program rules that prevent the poor from saving in Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs), according to this study. The author says that encouraging asset accumulation, even in small amounts, is crucial in helping to lift people out of poverty. Yet most Canadian welfare, disability and social service programs deny or cancel benefits if applicants or recipients place a modest level of savings in an RRSP or TFSA. Barring a province-led effort at reform, says Stapleton, the federal government should take the lead by calling on provinces and territories to exempt meaningful RRSP and TFSA amounts from their welfare asset rules, leaving individual jurisdictions to decide the appropriate levels.Social Policy, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA), social assistance
Thomas Stapleton
No full textIn 1620, twenty-two years after his death, Thomas Stapleton received the tribute hoped for, I suppose, by many, if not all professors. Four of his friends collected together his works and published them. His Opera Omnia fill four folio volumes: translation, controversy, the fruit of his years of lecturing worked over and set out in lengthy, ordered dissertations, history, biography, moral instruction, panegyric, speeches made on academic occasions, commentaries on the Sunday, feast-day and Lenten gospels. The whole was prefaced by a life of the author written in Latin verse by Henry Holland. The best preserved and best cared-for copy is to be found in Lambeth Palace library.</jats:p
New music compositions and performances of Seamus Heaney’s Station Island and Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger
No full textCommissioned by the Lyric Theatre Belfast: two new music compositions (~1hr each) and performances developed in collaboration with Seamus O’Hara (actor), Rebecca Mairs (dramaturg), Jimmy Fay (theatre director); 1) Seamus Heaney’s Station Island (performed at Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Belaghy, March 2017 and Patrick Kavanagh Resource Centre, Inniskeen, September 2017); 2) Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger (performed at Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Belaghy, October 2017)
Patrick Geddes and the Missing Heart of Modern City Planning
No full textThis thesis examines the meaning of community from a land use planning perspective. What constitutes community in city planning, both from a historical perspective, and as this idea is applied to modern neighborhoods and cities? The theories and planning methods of early city planner and biologist Patrick Geddes will be used to answer this question. Geddes's theory of the city, and his chart, The Notation of Life, provide a holistic definition of the city that includes interconnected physical, social, emotional, and religious elements. Geddes's theory of the city revolves around people's connection to each other and the landscape and as such is also a definition of community. How he applied his theory to his many city and town plans and urban designs will be examined, as well as how some of these ideas can be applied to the Wells Avenue neighborhood's revitalization effort in Reno, Nevada
Marlowe\u27s Ovid: The \u22Elegies\u22 in the Marlowe Canon
No full textThe first book of its kind, Marlowe’s Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe’s translation of Ovid’s Amores-and Marlowe’s own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully considers Marlowe’s Elegies in the context of his seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, Hero and Leander, and offers a different way to read Marlowe. Stapleton employs Marlowe’s rendition of the Amores as a way to read his seven dramatic productions and his narrative poetry while engaging with previous scholarship devoted to the accuracy of the translation and to bibliographical issues. The author focuses on four main principles: the intertextual relationship of the Elegies to the rest of the author’s canon; its reflection of the influence of Erasmian humanist pedagogy, imitatio and aemulatio; its status as the standard English Amores until the Glorious Revolution, part of the larger phenomenon of pan-European Renaissance Ovidianism; its participation in the genre of the sonnet sequence. He explores how translating the Amores into the Elegies profited Marlowe as a writer, a kind of literary archaeology that explains why he may have commenced such an undertaking. Marlowe’s Ovid adds to the body of scholarly work in a number of subfields, including classical influences in English literature, translation, sexuality in literature, early modern poetry and drama, and Marlowe and his milieu
Kristin Stapleton, Fact in Fiction : 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family
No full textThere are few resources amongst contemporary Chinese literary criticism that manage to weave such insightful literary readings and incisive historical research as Kristin Stapleton’s Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family. The book accomplishes three feats, as set out by Stapleton in her introductory chapter, simultaneously incorporating a history of twentieth-century Chengdu (and its relevance to the developments in China during this period, more broadly) alongside the author’s biography of Ba Jin’s formative years in the city and the historiographical context of his novel Family. Such an undertaking by a less skilled author would have, perhaps, produced a work which simplifies the rich historical underpinnings of Ba Jin’s Family to supplementary readings of the novel, coupled with incidental evidence of the political and social machinations of the city in which its author grew up. Not so under Stapleton’s careful guidance. By reading the social and economic development of early twentiethcentury Chengdu as much as its fictional counterpart in Ba Jin’s Turbulent Stream trilogy, Stapleton provides a perceptive reading of Family which invites the reader to consider how fiction can enrich and enliven our understanding of history
Christianity, Patriotism and Nationhood: The England of G.K. Chesterton
No full textThis book links the concepts of patriotism, Christianity, and nationhood in the journalistic writings of G.K. Chesterton and emphasizes their roots within the English attachments that were central to his political and spiritual persona. It further connects Chesterton to the vibrant debate about English national identity in the early years of the twentieth century, which was instrumental in shaping not only his political convictions, but also his religious convictions. Christianity, Patriotism and Nationhood explores his changing conception of the English people from an early, menacing account of their revolutionary potential in the face of plutocracy to the more complex portraits he drew of their character on recognizing their political passivity after the First World War. As Chesterton was above all a journalist, the study considers some of the varied outlets in which he expressed his ideas as a distinctly Edwardian man of letters of a strongly patriotic persuasion. His connection with The Illustrated London News over more than three decades proved pivotal in strengthening his patriotism and discourse of nationhood vilified elsewhere, not least in advanced Liberal organs such asThe Nation. Julia Stapleton shows that he was increasingly distanced by fellow Liberals before 1918, on account of the priority he gave nationhood over the state, and patriotism over citizenship. But she argues that his English loyalties were the last echo of an aspect of Victorian Liberalism that had been progressively eroded by loss of confidence among elites in the democratic aptitude of the English people. Christianity, Patriotism and Nationhood emphasizes that Chesterton upheld a cultural rather than racial conception of national homogeneity, in keeping with the Victorian sources of his thought and the popular patriotism of Edwardian England. It argues that his anti-semitism was ancillary, rather than integral to his understanding of England, and that it was matched by a similar conception of the antithesis between Islam and the patriotic ideal. Stapleton relates his abiding concern for national 'authenticity' to global imperialism, enhanced international co-ordination of states and civil society after 1918, and the increasing role of the British state in defining the nation. This book will be valuable to intellectual and political historians of early-twentieth-century England, as well as to scholars and students of English national identity in the twenty-first century. The author gratefully acknowledges the permission of A.P. Watt Ltd on behalf of the Royal Literary Fund to quote unpublished material in the Chesterton Papers, British Library
From Rome to Zurich, from Ignatius to Vermigli: Essays in Honor of John Patrick Donnelly, S.J.
No full textBook Summary: From Rome to Zurich, between Ignatius and Vermigli brings notable scholars from the fields of Reformation and Early Modern studies to honor their friend, mentor, and colleague, John Patrick Donnelly with essays commensurate with his own broad interests and scholarship. Touching Protestant scholasticism, Reformation era life writing, Reformation polemics – both Protestant and Catholic – and with several on theology proper, inter alia, the essays collected here by a group of international scholars break new ground in Reformation history, thought, and theology, providing fresh insights into current scholarship in both Reformation and Catholic Reformation studies. The essays take in the broad scope of the 16th century, from Thomas More to Martin Bucer, and from Thomas Stapleton to Peter Martyr Vermigli.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/history-facbookshelf/1017/thumbnail.jp
Investigation of transmission of human respiratory pathogens using whole genome sequencing
No full textThis doctoral thesis explores the role of whole genome sequencing in the investigation of transmission of human respiratory pathogens. It is a “PhD thesis by publication” which consists primarily of three published first-author journal articles that describe investigations of the transmission of Mumps virus, Adenovirus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa respectively. The work was undertaken in Toronto, Canada between 2016 and 2019, when the author was a Clinical and Research Fellow in Medical Microbiology at the University of Toronto, the Hospital for Sick Children and the Public Health Ontario Laboratory, as well as a PhD student with University of Galway supervised by Prof. Martin Cormican. The topics of the research were chosen for (1) their relevance to public health or hospital outbreak prevention and infection control and (2) as contexts in which best practices had yet to be established for genomic epidemiology investigations using whole genome sequencing. The majority of infections described occurred in the greater Toronto area. The introduction outlines the development of early generation pathogen typing techniques and the advent of low-cost and widely distributed whole genome sequencing technologies. The strengths and limitations of sequencing technologies that have seen widespread adoption in the field of clinical microbiology are described. An outline of the epidemiological context for each of the three articles is provided, along with rationales for using sequencing to explore transmission. The focus of the publications consists of (1) investigating the community spread of a Mumps virus outbreak in Ontario, (2) investigating a prolonged nosocomial outbreak of human Adenovirus-A31 affecting a paediatric bone marrow transplantation unit over 3 years and (3) the retrospective interrogation of a large collection of P. aeruginosa isolates from children with Cystic Fibrosis to identify cryptic nosocomial transmission. The discussion section that follows the main chapters describes how the findings from all investigations illustrate the need for clinicians to employ an approach to genomic epidemiology that can define thresholds for relatedness between pathogens where this has not already been clearly established, in order to “rule in” or “rule out” transmission as the core finding. The novelty and significance of specific findings from each study are identified and commonalities between them discussed. Finally, a post-script section explores how the lessons learned can be applied to the integration of whole genome sequencing into the routine work of clinical microbiology in hospitals laboratories in Ireland to support outbreak investigation. It briefly describes how initial steps towards this integration taken during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic through the setup of a national laboratory network for whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2
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