548 research outputs found
A Planter success story: Handley Chipman's role in Cornwallis Township 1761-1799
No full textThe New England Planters left an indelible mark on Nova Scotia's history. The migration that saw over 8,000 Planters arrive in what would become the Maritime Provinces of Canada was a major event of the 18th century. Despite being amongst the oldest English settlers in Canada, circumstances have long denied the Planters their rightful place in history. Only recently has scholarship facilitated a Planter revival. One of the more well-known Planters was Handley Chipman, originally from Sandwich, Massachusetts. Chipman was born 7 August 1717, son of influential public official, John Chipman. The elder Chipman
instilled in Handley strong religious morals, as well as a desire to succeed and will to serve his fellow man. After a successful business career in Newport, Rhode Island, Handley Chipman departed for Nova Scotia in 1761 as a part of the overall Planter migration. His reasons were doing so were not entirely clear.
Armed with his father's advice-and significant inheritance -Chipman took up his claim in Cornwallis Township on 7 May 1761, where he would prosper as a public official and storekeeper. Chipman was an influential member of the Cornwallis Township until his death on 27 May 1799. As Handley Chipman left more
literary remains than any other New England Planter, we are able to gain valuable insight into his life in Nova Scotia. Chipman's Memoir, Business Ledger, Last Will & Testament and several documents on religious affairs were central to the discussion. The resulting history of Handley Chipman, a Planter success
story, makes a worthy contribution to the steadily growing field of Planter studies
Theorising disability: Beyond common sense
No full textThis article seeks to introduce the topic of disability to political theory via a discussion of some of the literature produced by disability theorists. The author argues that these more radical approaches conceptualise disability in ways that conflict with ‘common-sense’ notions of disability that tend to underpin political theoretical considerations of the topic. Furthermore, the author suggests that these more radical conceptualisations have profound implications for current debates on social justice, equality and citizenship that highlight the extent to which these notions are also currently underpinned by ‘common-sense’ notions of ‘normality’
Review of George Eliot\u27s Midlands: Passion in Exile
No full textVarious biographies and critical studies argue that Mary Ann or Marian Evans\u27s formative years in the Midlands influenced George Eliot\u27s art. They do so by explaining that memories of Robert Evans contributed to George Eliot\u27s conceptions of Adam Bede and Caleb Garth, that Cheverel Manor is Arbury Hall, that Amos Barton is largely based on the Rev. John Gwyther, the curate of Chilvers Coton whom Mary Ann knew as a child, that a good deal of autobiographical material went into the creation of Maggie Tulliver, and so on.
Is there a need, then, for Graham Handley\u27s George Eliot\u27s Midlands when at least many of these paths linking childhood, adolescence and fiction are so well trodden? The answer is yes, because this study explores those paths thoroughly and in a lively and readable way. In ten chapters, not counting the introduction and brief conclusion, the study analyses when and, more interestingly, how the Midlands of the author\u27s youth is at once projected and altered in all the novels and stories, except, of course, Romola, Daniel Deronda and The Lifted Veil.
Handley\u27s principal argument is that \u27George Eliot\u27s art derives from the personal and intellectual affiliations of her Midland years\u27 (12), and so he necessarily rehearses the sort of biographical information referred to above. He collects the latter from various sources, and makes one or two emendations along the way. For instance, Gordon Haight identified the prototype for Caterina Sarti as Sarah Shilton and said that she was nine years old when Sir Roger Newdigate\u27s nephew, \u27the impossible Captain Wybrow,\u27 married (cf. George Eliot 221). Quoting directly from Lady Newdigate-Newdegate\u27s The Cheverels of Cheverel Manor (1898), Handley quietly corrects Haight by referring to Sally Shilton, adding that she \u27was eleven years old at the time of the story\u27s action\u27 (52-4). And it appears that Haight was also wrong in saying that the Old Hall described in The Mill on the Floss is based on recollections of St. Mary\u27s Hall in Coventry: \u27in fact there was Gainsborough\u27s Old Hall, which George Eliot, despite the brevity of her visit, certainly knew about\u27 (72) - although here (as in a few other places, too) no authority is cited for saying so
Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
No full textHerman Melville begins Moby Dick by noting the way humans seem almost magnetically attracted to water. There is magic in it, he writes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. George Handley would, no doubt, agree with this observation. His Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River is a gentle, slow, and deeply thoughtful book built on this special human relationship with water. Handley uses the Provo River as the locus for a series of contemplations on what it means to be a friend, father, husband, son, brother, grandson, and great-great-grandson in a particular landscape, as well as within a particular religion and community. But in the process of exploring this very specific river from its headwaters to its arrival at Utah Lake, Handley meanders through some unexpected tributaries. In the prologue to the book, Handley writes that whenever I sat down to write about the watershed, I found myself increasingly unable to separate place from story, outdoor recreation from ecological and spiritual restoration, the present from the past, and, even against my will, the historical from the personal. The way those side channels become tangled is both the beauty and the strength of this book.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but like most reminiscences, Home Waters occasionally suffers from a little too much navel-gazing. And like a lot of first books, sometimes it bites off more than it can chew. But these relatively minor problems are a small price to pay for a book that consistently offers refreshing insights and new ways of thinking about the world. Handley does not write the boisterous and strident prose of Edward Abbey, but he is always readable and reasonable. Readers who cherish the works of Wallace Stegner, Terry Tempest Williams, or Wendell Berry will definitely enjoy Home Waters and are likely to find a new author to watch. And readers who want to know what a Mormon environmentalist looks like need look no further
Handley, Peter
No full textSee entry in Sumter County, volume 1, page 61: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter1867/id/428
Speed math for kids: helping children achieve their full potential
No full textPopular Australian author and inspirational teacher, Bill Handley, has developed and, over the years, refined methods of teaching mathematics and learning strategies that have achieved amazing results. His best-selling book, Speed Mathematics convinced readers that people who excel at maths use better strategies and are not necessarily more intelligent. This book contains additional methods and applications based on the strategies taught in Speed Mathematics that make the principles clearer, encourage creative thought, and are just plain fun. The book was written for young people but people of any age will enjoy it. The book has notes throughout for parents and teachers. By following his innovative approach you will have kids playing with numbers, performing lightning quick calculations and, most of all, having fun! Bill claims: 'If you are good at maths, people think you are intelligent. People will treat you like you are a genius. Your teachers and your friends will treat you differently. You will even think differently about yourself'. The emphasis in this book is on playing with mathematics. Enjoy it. Show off what you learn and make mathematics your favourite subject
Use of GFP transformants to study the viability and physiology of Aureobasidium pullulans on plasticised polyvinyl chloride
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'Caught between a rock and a hard place': Anti-discrimination legislation in the Liberal state and the fate of the Australian Disability Discrimination Act
No full textThis article offers a critical analysis of some of the practical implications for disabled people of the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992. Specifically, it raises questions about politics and the role of the law as an instrument of social change taking greater account of the interests of disabled people on the one hand, and of the reliance of the social model of disability on a strategy based upon legal rights on the other. The article also suggests that the constraining effects of Australia's constitutional protections of rights and its federal system of government hinder the mildly progressive elements of the Disability Discrimination Act. To illustrate this, the paper employs empirical evidence to suggest that these effects have been exacerbated by the passage of the Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act in 1999
“But what a place / to put a piano”: Nostalgic Objects in Robert Minhinnick’s "Diary of the Last Man"
No full textIn 2003, Martin Rees referred to the present as “mankind’s final century.” A few years later, Slavoj Žižek wrote that humankind is heading towards “apocalyptic zero-point,” when the ecological crisis will most probably lead to our complete destruction. In his 2017 collection, Diary of the Last Man, Welsh poet Robert Minhinnick offers readers a meditation upon Earth at a liminal moment—on the brink of becoming completely unpopulated.
Imagining a solitary human being, living in the midst of environmental collapse, Minhinnick yet entwines different voices—human and non-human—operating across vast spans of time. The speaker of the poems moves freely through different geographies and cultural contexts, but the voice that starts and ends the journey, seems to be the voice of the poet himself: he is the last man on earth, a survivor of ecological disaster.
The paper discusses Minhinnick’s collection as a projection of the world we now inhabit into a future where it will exist only in the form of nostalgic memories. The analysis focuses on the role of objects in the construction of the world-within-the poem, where the fragments of human civilization are being claimed by forces of the environment—engulfing sand, progressive erosion—forming a retrospective vision of our “now” which will inevitably become our “past.
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