1,183 research outputs found
Contemporary maritime piracy: five obstacles to ending Somali piracy
No full text‘This article argues that five main obstacles stand in the way of effective control of Somali piracy: lack of alternate employment; local corruption; the nature of the victims of piracy; the practices of some shipping companies and insurers; and the fact that enforcement efforts push pirates to innovate, which in turn worsens the problem.’Sarah Percy considers the time for dealing with the root causes of piracy has long since passed. Instead we must now consider how to overcome these specific obstacles
More conversations with Walker Percy
No full textThis collection of interviews supplements Conversations with Walker Percy and occasions an additional two dozen pleasurable encounters with Percy. Primarily from the last ten years of Percy's life, they show how his presence was stimulating thought in much of humanistic America, in literature, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, and in cultural life in general. Although this acclaimed author of The Moviegoer, Lancelot, and Love in the Ruins never overcame his shyness with interviewers, he continued to grant interviews as long as his health permitted. This act of openness illustrates his humility before his ideas and his desire to help others understand them. Although the questions he was asked almost invariably became predictable, he always managed to add an anecdote, an illustration, a topical reference, that would breathe new life into the responses he was making. The interviews in this collection show him at the height when he knew that his illness would not allow him to write any more books, and that the only way to restate his ideas and offer a valediction to the large audience to whom he had always been kind, patient, and appreciative was to speak out. Percy despised the posture of many modern self-proclaimed intellectuals who delight in cloaking ideas in jargon and abstraction. He always tried to express himself clearly and as free of reservations as possible. These interviews reflect that clarity. With this book readers will welcome yet more close encounters with him
A Hundred Fables: Aesop (Cover: Aesop's Fables Coloring Book)
No full textHere is curious 8½" x 11" print-upon-demand paperback book that gives two pages -- one for text and one for illustration -- to 100 fables from Aesop. Outside of the covers, the book is entirely black-and-white. It hurries to begin, with only a page to acknowledge the publisher and a page to declare a title -- one of three -- and a word of explanation about Aesop and Percy Billinghurst. Similarly, at the end there are only two pages of advertisements. I miss rudiments like a T of C or AI. The three titles are "Aesops Fables Coloring Book" (front cover); "A Hundred Fables Aesop" (inside); and Aesops Fables with Illustrations by Percy J. Billinghurst: 100 Fables and Illustrations" (back cover). The texts are taken without acknowledgement from George Fyler Townsend (1867).No Autho
Janes, Percy. Interview with author Percy Janes about his book, House of Hate.
No full textJanes, Percy. William Atkinson interviews author, Percy Janes, about his book, House of Hate. House of Hate was Janes' first novel; strong public reaction to the autobiographical novel; William Atkinson describes the plot and messaging of the book; Janes speaks to the need to address the experiences of his life; the structure of the book as an arch; the reaction of his siblings in Cornerbrook; the wider reference to Newfoundland family life at the time it was written; the right to draw upon life experiences and questions of fair representation; feedback from Robert Colbourne, Fiddlehead Magazine; feedback from Margaret Lawrence and Farley Mowat; inspiration from other writers including Thomas Wolfe, DH Lawrence and Tolstoy; the traditional family system; the ideal life of a writer; Canadian literature and its position in the world; ongoing project, No Cage for Conquerors
Janes, Percy. Interview with author Percy Janes about his book, House of Hate.
No full textJanes, Percy. William Atkinson interviews author, Percy Janes, about his book, House of Hate. House of Hate was Janes' first novel; strong public reaction to the autobiographical novel; William Atkinson describes the plot and messaging of the book; Janes speaks to the need to address the experiences of his life; the structure of the book as an arch; the reaction of his siblings in Cornerbrook; the wider reference to Newfoundland family life at the time it was written; the right to draw upon life experiences and questions of fair representation; feedback from Robert Colbourne, Fiddlehead Magazine; feedback from Margaret Lawrence and Farley Mowat; inspiration from other writers including Thomas Wolfe, DH Lawrence and Tolstoy; the traditional family system; the ideal life of a writer; Canadian literature and its position in the world; ongoing project, No Cage for Conquerors
Letter to Mrs. Percy Band from Donald E. Loker
No full textLetter (2 typed pages) to Mrs. Percy Band from Donald E. Loker, former American History master
of the DeVeaux School, Niagara Falls, New York. Mr. Loker is enquiring about Maria and Sarah
Woodruff. Samuel DeVeaux was married twice. He married Maria Woodruff, and after her death
in 1815, he married her widowed sister, Sarah Woodruff, 1962
Letter dated 15 Apr 1984 from Percy H. Carr to friends, including Lorenzo and Zilla Richards
No full textLetter dated 15 Apr 1984 from Percy H. Carr to friends, including Lorenzo and Zilla Richards, including details of the death of his wife, Janet Noyes CarrApril !5, 1984 GREETINGS FROM THE CARRS More often than not Janet and I have delayed sending end~of~-year greetings to our friends until we are settled in Arizona for the winter. This year we are even later than usual. The explanation lies in the slightly modified obituary below from the Ames Tribune of April 9. The flood of sympathy notes from Janet\u27s many friends make it almost impossible to reply to you all individually in a reasonable length of time. Please accept as a compromise this brief note of information along with my best wishes for each of you for many happy years of enjoyment on this planet. Janet Noyes Carr,77, 424 Stanton Ave., died April 2 in Peoria AZ where she was spending the winter. She was seriously injured two months ago in an automobile accident and had recovered from these injuries when she suffered a stroke. Her body was willed to medical science. No services are planned. (Sarah) Janet Noyes Carr was born March 26, 1907 in Binghamton NY to Thomas M. and Florence Dessie (Treadwell) Noyes. After graduation from Cornell University in nature study and wildlife she married Percy II. Carr. They moved to Ames in 1930. Mrs. Carr was well-known to many Ames residents for her care of orphanned wild animals. She nursed to health numbers of injured birds and animals, many of which became display creatures at the zoo in the Ledges State Park. She was a member of the United Church of Christ, Congregational. She is survived by her husband, Percy, 10701 N 99 Ave., # 126, Peoria AZ, a son, Robert and two grandsons in Monterey Park CA, and two cousins in New York state. At present I plan to continue the same course of life engaged in the last few years, summers in Iowa, winters in Arizona. I hope to join the robins in Ames the first week in May. \U#2dT YYYS -^AzZrCu •& A& \u27&UytZkyo+Z&v#^ 7/JBAIJ^ /SAT/L/L AU&e-A^, LXJ^y f^^CAAU *-7Lsuyy-YL. 7l-*-*L*cJ **-€_, A^J^^A^y - ^ ^ ir€ALy* A^~Z>~ y ^yufc ^T^^yy ( Af^^y @y4^j^<&^^
Percy Lisk letter, MSS.1935
No full textAbstract: This collection contains a poem by an unknown author sent to Percy Lisk of Conner. The poem is about a doctor and includes a hand drawn image of a doctor.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains a poem by an unknown author sent to Percy Lisk of Conner. The poem is about a doctor and includes a hand drawn image of a doctor.Biographical/Historical Note
Negotiating active citizenship: Young people’s participation in everyday spaces
No full textThis chapter takes a critical look at children and young people’s participation in the context of ideas about citizenship. In particular, counter to assumptions about children’s competence to participate and their ambiguous status as citizens in waiting, the chapter will discuss how, in spite of their marginalization within society, children and young people are in reality already participating de facto as active citizens within the spaces of their everyday lifeworlds. To that extent the central focus of this chapter is to discuss how participation as active citizens can be understood in terms of the cultural geographies of children and young people and the way in which the views and values of different young people arearticulated through their parti ipation within, and in relation to, the wider social contexts in which their lives take place. The chapter will begin by critically reflecting on some of the major issues in the field of children and young people’s participation focusing on some of the contradictions and paradoxes at play in reconciling ideals of participation with realities in practice in the context of adult agenda. The chapter will then rehearse some of the developments in citizenship studies and crucially how the status of childhood and debates about children and citizenship open up possibilities for reconceptualizing participation as active citizenship. Recent contributions to the citizenship literature are discussed focusing on citizenship as a dynamic process of active negotiation in relation to context. The chapter will then draw on empirical findings to discuss how changing trends in children and young people’s participation and citizenship are played out in the everyday spaces of local neighborhood, schools, and local services.</p
Graduate recital, instrumental conducting. Smith, S. E., 1991
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 4, 1991, 8:00 p.m., the 372nd concert of the School of Music's 1990-1991 season.University Concert Band, Sarah E. Smith, conductor.In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Music degree in conducting and performance, Western Michigan University, 1991.Information from performance program.An outdoor overture / Aaron Copland -- (09:57) William Byrd suite. No. 1, The Earle of Oxford's march ; (13:44) No. 3, Jhon come kiss me now ; (15:55) No. 6, The bells / Gordon Jacob -- (21:00) Harvest hymn / Percy Aldridge Grainger -- (26:25) A few words from Sarah E. Smith, conductor --(27:36) Incantation and dance / John Barnes Chance
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