201 research outputs found
Rowena Robinson Interview
No full textRowena Robinson was born in Kentucky on March 14, 1914. She was a former elevator operator at Tiedtke's for the periods 1927-1942 and 1952-1971. In this interview, she discusses her first experience of Tiedtke's store as a child buying for her mother and the circumstances of gaining employment at the firm. She also discusses wages, the organ music, operation of the annex, the stand for buying old gold, elevator service, personal experiences, stikes and unionization, sales of Tiedtke's to Davidsons and then to Federals, the reasons for Tiedtke's success, the poplularity of the bargain squares, snack counters, the employment of Afrcian Americans in the store, and the remote radio broadcasts from the store. She died on May 15, 2000, in Toledo
Deception and Britain's road to war in Iraq
No full textEver since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, there has been a widely shared public perception in the UK and beyond that the British government lied in making the case for war. One major theme has been the view that the Blair government lied about the strength of the intelligence about alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the extent of the WMD capabilities claimed by that intelligence. A second theme that has received less attention has been the view that the Blair government lied in claiming that its actions at the United Nations (UN) were aimed at securing peaceful Iraqi compliance with its disarmament obligations. Instead, most think that the UK was actually committed to a policy of regime change by force and did not want the ‘UN route’ to produce a peaceful outcome. The article argues that the conceptual focus of the discussion needs to be broadened from lying to also considering deception by omission and deception by distortion as part of a campaign of organized political persuasion. It argues that, on the WMD intelligence, it is now apparent that a campaign of deceptive organized political persuasion was conducted by UK officials. With respect to the UN route, there is mounting evidence that the Blair government ran a campaign of deception on this issue as well to pave Britain’s road to war in Iraq
Mary Robinson's declaration of climate justice: Climate change, human rights and fossil fuel divestment
No full textIn her biography, Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice, Mary Robinson explained how she became interested in the topic of human rights and climate change, after hearing testimony from African farmers, with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Here be stories: exploring maps in children’s books with medieval cultural treasures and The Stone Feather lighting the way
No full textThrough my creative practice in writing the children’s novel The Stone Feather,inspired by Domesday Book; the creation of my own artworks, including maps of thefictional world I have created; and my research into medieval ‘cultural treasures’ – inparticular manuscripts and mappae mundi – I have discovered a fresh lens throughwhich to explore and illuminate the presence and purpose of maps in children’s books. Ifocus on interlace as a ‘perceptual mode’1 and ideas around the ‘meditativeengagement’2 that interlace design encourages, in relation to the roles that literary mapsplay, as well as its impact on my own process as a writer.My thesis is presented within the context of contemporary publishing and theneed for children to develop a high level of visual literacy in a world dominated byvisual images. My critical commentary includes a review of children’s books thatfeature maps and ‘cultural treasures’ as an integral part of imaginative world buildingand explores the notion of the ‘author as curator’.As an adventure story for 8-12 year olds with an ethical heart, The Stone Featheroffers children the opportunity to reflect on different models of masculinity, compassionand strength – aspects of this original work that are valuable and timely
Character deflations and a generalization of the Murnaghan--Nakayama rule
No full textGiven natural numbers m and n, we define a deflation map from the characters of the symmetric group S_{mn} to the characters of S_n. This map is obtained by first restricting a character of S_{mn} to the wreath product S_m ?S_n, and then taking the sum of the irreducible constituents of the restricted character on which the base group S_m ×?×S_m acts trivially. We prove a combinatorial formula which gives the values of the images of the irreducible characters of S_{mn} under this map. We also prove an analogous result for more general deflation maps in which the base group is not required to act trivially. These results generalize the Murnaghan–Nakayama rule and special cases of the Littlewood–Richardson rule. As a corollary we obtain a new combinatorial formula for the character multiplicities that are the subject of the long-standing Foulkes' Conjecture. Using this formula we verify Foulkes' Conjecture in some new cases
Book Review: Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India
No full textA review of Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India edited by Rowena Robinson and Joseph Marianus Kujur
Book Review: Search for Identities: Dalits and Tribal Christians in India
No full textReview of: Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India, Edited by Rowena Robinson & Joseph Marianus Kunjur; Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010, 295 pages, Rs.695/collection, tribal communities, Christian, Hindus,state, religion
Tremors of violence: Muslim survivors of ethnic strife in western India
No full textReview Article of:
TREMORS OF VIOLENCE: Muslim Survivors of Ethnic Strife in Western India.
By Rowena Robinson. New Delhi. Thousand Oaks. London: Sage Publications.
2005. 261 p. (Tables, maps). US$28.00. paper. ISBN 0-7619-3408-1
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