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Interview with Joseph Pollard
No full textJoseph Pollard was inducted into the U.S. Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey in February of 1943. He was assigned to the Army Signal Corps, a branch of the Army Air Corps. He completed basic training at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C. and advanced training at Drew Field in Tampa, Florida. While in the Army, Pollard attended RADAR school, Cryptography and Cryptanalysis schools and Clerk school
Identity and dislocation in Caribbean women's literature: a study of the writings of Velma Pollard
No full textJamaican-born Velma Pollard has been publishing poetry and short stories for nearly
thirty years. Her first poems appeared in the 1970s, her first volume of short stories in
1989, and her first novel in 1994. Despite this considerable literary output, in the evergrowing
critical literature on Caribbean women's writing Pollard's work has not attracted
any of the scholarly treatment accorded to other writers. Given this lack of critical
attention to Pollard's considerable body of work, this thesis aims to provide the first
detailed and contextualised study of her writings (excluding the majority of her poetry
and of her writings on linguistics), and to accord Pollard the recognition her work
deserves.
Chapter 1 of this thesis situates Pollard's writings in the context of Caribbean
(women's) literature, and writings on identity, dislocations and (Caribbean) migration. I
argue that Pollard's principal contribution to Caribbean literature is found in her
engagement with two main subjects, return migration and relationships (male-female and
female-female), within a wider context of debates on identity and dislocation.
Chapter 2 introduces Pollard's work by way of a general discussion of her novella
Karl, which won the Casa de las Americas literary award in 1992. I consider Karl to be
central to Pollard's work, not least because it features many of the themes explored by
her later writings, including her novel, Homestretch, which is the subject of Chapter 3.
Pollard's first novel, Homestretch, which was published in 1994, explores the themes
of identity and dislocation through the experiences of 'return migrants' and 'repeat
migrants' and their comparison of life in England, the United States and Jamaica. The
novel chronicles how these migrants come to reconnect with and accept their cultural
heritage.
In chapters 4 and 5 I discuss selected stories taken from Pollard's two collections
of short stories, Considering Woman ('Cages', 'My Sisters', 'My Mother', and 'Gran') and
from Karl and Other Stories ('A Night's Tale', 'Miss Chandra', 'Betsy Hyde', and 'Altamont
Jones'). In these stories Pollard explores male-female relationships and the lives of
several generations and a wide range of Caribbean women and men. Pollard utilises the
West Indian setting, speech, situations and conflicts in these stories to graphically
describe familiar Caribbean role models and to provide a narrative and literary
examination of the frustrations and conflicting desires of women in the region.
In my conclusion, I address the ethnographic quality and significance of her work,
and its contribution to an understanding of the Caribbean
Letter From T. T. Pollard to Eartha White
No full textCorrespondence: Letter from T. T. Pollard, Community Chest Association Executive Committee Secretary, to Miss E. M. M. White requesting her monthly report. Date: February 10, 193
Screening of Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power + Q&A with Director Sam Pollard
No full textThis spring, Sam Pollard is one of the Center’s visiting documentarians. Pollard is a feature film and television video editor and documentary producer-director. In December 2022, the streaming service Peacock began featuring Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, a film Pollard co-directed with filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir. Through first-person accounts and searing archival footage, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not only for voting rights but also for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama. In the fall of 2023, HBO premiered South to Black Power, which Pollard co-directed with Llewellyn M. Smith. The documentary film stars New York Times columnist Charles Blow and was inspired by his book The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto. This Visiting Documentarian Series is made possible in part by the Berkley Hudson Visiting Documentarian Fund
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Vascular endothelial growth factor restores delayed tumor progression in tumors depleted of macrophages
No full textGenetic depletion of macrophages in Polyoma Middle T oncoprotein (PyMT)-induced mammary tumors in mice delayed the angiogenic switch and the progression to malignancy. To determine whether vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) produced by tumor-associated macrophages regulated the onset of the angiogenic switch, a genetic approach was used to restore expression of VEGF-A into tumors at the benign stages. This stimulated formation of a high-density vessel network and in macrophage-depleted mice, was followed by accelerated tumor progression. The expression of VEGF-A led to a massive infiltration into the tumor of leukocytes that were mostly macrophages. This study suggests that macrophage-produced VEGF regulates malignant progression through stimulating tumor angiogenesis, leukocytic infiltration and tumor cell invasion
TCCON data from Lauder (NZ), Release GGG2014.R0
No full textThe Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) is a network of ground-based Fourier Transform Spectrometers that record direct solar absorption spectra of the atmosphere in the near-infrared. From these spectra, accurate and precise column-averaged abundances of atmospheric constituents including CO2, CH4, N2O, HF, CO, H2O, and HDO, are retrieved. This data set contains observations from the TCCON station at Lauder (NZ).Contact person: Dave Pollard [email protected]
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